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Democracy is always superior to authoritarianism, long term. Regulated capitalism is always superior to state owned and directed business.

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As ever, “authoritarianism” just means when non- white countries elect people that white people don’t want them too.

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When was Xi Jinping last elected by the people?

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March of this year.

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Democracy is always superior to authoritarianism, long term.

That’s why people’s democracies are rapidly developing while western dictatorships of the bourgeoisie are in crisis.

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Muray Rothbard called but it’s just incoherent screaming because he’s in hell for the sin of ideology.

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Where is this regulated capitalism? Is that when the politicians are financed and then hired by the industries they’re supposed to be regulating?

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On the other hand you have Great Chinese Famine, Tiananmen Square massacre and more recently Uyghurs concentration camps and most likely genocide and that’s only China.

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Good thing there have never been famines, political violence, or persecution of minorities in “democratic” countries…

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Yes, I too subscribe to popular fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Death_toll - I would like to point out that as much as they try to obfuscate it even the wiki admits that ~300 is the only credible number, and most of that was street fighting when insurgents attacked PLA troops with molotovs and firearms, with the death toll including unarmed PLA troops burned alive in their trucks

I know literacy is a lot to ask of anyone these days but you can in fact just read the UN report here - https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ohchr-assessment-human-rights-concerns-xinjiang-uyghur-autonomous-region

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You mean the Last Chinese Famine? The famine that took place in a country with a multimillennial history of devastating rice famines? The famine that was less bad than other, contemporaneous famines in capitalist countries? The famine that marked the last instance of food insecurity for about half a billion people?

What might have caused that?

Guess we’ll never know.

The ‘Tiananmen Square massacre’ is a psyop and not a single government claims it’s what actually happened.

And haven’t you got the last update? We’re not doing Uyghurs any more, just ask your state-controlled media:

The deradicalisation program was a success and has now finished, and all these guys:

Are now plumbers or electricians (or doing lucrative speaking tours through US “”““intelligence””“” circles)

Shame about all those horrible crimes that were comitted by the Chinese government though:

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