Now I'm confused, what do you mean? I never said they didn't have a great high speed rail network. I think they've done a great job and I've got no problem acknowledging that. I was just poking fun at the implication of the meme.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, China, a participatory democracy with a 95 percent approval rating according to a Harvard study, is in the meme building high speed rail, and you're claiming you have to be an authoritarian dictatorship to build high speed rail?

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh right I see what you mean. If you pretend China is a democracy my point is automatically disproven, that is true.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why would I pretend China is a democracy when it empirically is according to any useful measure?

High government approval

Bottom up representation

Policies benefit the masses

Wide range of public opinion represented in government

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That all may be true, but have you considered the fact that they're savage mongoloids who need enlightened white people to come and bring democracy to them?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Looks at downvotes

sees number of called out liberals