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Do you disagree with either of those observations? They seem fairly indisputable to me.

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In totalitarian USA the racist police run over protestors with impunity and torture you at a blacksite for made up poverty crimes, president Xi please my people yearn for freedom

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A disfunctional system isn’t the same as a totalitarian one. Both are bad, yes, but they’re not one and the same.

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It’s funny how when the US does something wrong, it’s never a reflection on its essential character, and yet the fucking Four Pests Campaign or whatever is a fundamental reflection of the ideology of Chinese Communism.

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Aw lol you think capitalism isn’t supposed to function this way

One of the most sobering moments of my life was realizing that our system isn’t “broken”, it’s functioning exactly as intended.

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you’re only allowed to call the PRC “totalitarian” or undemocratic if you condemn the “democracies” of the english speaking world. the US president isn’t even the person who gets the most votes🤡

Taiwan does not “generally” have a stance against reunification, some independence parties are a bit more popular than they used to be, but them becoming a legally independent state requires vast constitutional and international changes no government has even begun to implement

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I’m sorry, but there’s no way you can possibly equate the US government to the CCP without arguing in bad faith. The decidedly un-totalitarian nature of the US government is exactly why it’s basically not functioning right now. There’s plenty of valid criticism there, but to draw any sort of comparison to the Chinese form of government is insane.

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Of course you believe in American exceptionalism

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I’m sorry, but there’s no way you can possibly equate the US government to the CCP without arguing in bad faith.

“You have to agree with me or you’re the one arguing in bad faith!”

  • A person with no sense of irony.
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How does democracy in China work

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“Totalitarian” is a buzzword with a hazy definition at best. Go ahead and substantiate it.

But my point is that using such a buzzword with no further explanation is a somewhat comical display of how propagandized you are for how thought-terminating your use of the word is.

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