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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not nearly as authoritarian as people like to claim. Chinese citizens hold tens of thousands of protests each year against a wide variety of topics, and the government is legally required to respond to them. As a consequence, the Chinese government is orders of magnitude more responsive to local corruption or abuses of power than almost any western country.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It absolutely is. Have a look at the definition of authoritarianism, China checks all the boxes.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So does the US at this point.

[–] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago

Not fully yet, but heading there head first, yep

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Literally all governments are definitionally authoritarian, it's a stupid criticism

[–] iglou@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Absolutely not! I encourage you to re-read the definition of authoritarianism and research a bit more about the governments all around the world!

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] iglou@programming.dev 0 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

Ah! So you consider that every single restriction a country applies makes it authoritarian. Yeah, I don't think you understand authoritarianism, and in today's context, that's dangerous.

But I won't lose sleep over it!

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 29 minutes ago

Whichever western shithole nation you're from is complicit in more atrocities and crimes against humanity in the past decade than China has been in a fucking century, you're either an incurable moron or a fed, embarassing either way