https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1602849606034915331

Written by another white dude in Canada talking about “authoritarianism”

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they have the right to vote, wtf lmao

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No but you see, if voting doesn’t work exactly like it does in western “democracies” it just doesn’t count sweaty

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America doesn’t even have an election system that works exactly like western democracies

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No, no, they’re demanding an “end to COVID testing/quarantine AND freedom of speech/right to vote”.

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Chinese and DPRK citizens vote in the same party for half a century: bad, undemocratic, authoritarian

Japanese and Singaporean citizens both in the same party for half a century: good, democratic, free

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Those poor people don’t have the freedom to drown in their own lung fluid and force other people to drown in their own lung fluid :cri:

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they are demanding an end to their democratic rights?

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Don’t they select representatives? Like how is that not identical to what we do?

Also lol it’s like 4 people in this pic, guess we really are in a recession :fed-sad-kelly:

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Afaik you need be a party member, which isn’t easy

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You don’t.

Any Chinese citizen can run for the National People’s Congress and most members aren’t in the CPC to the extent it’s problematic. The average net worth of an NPC member is in the hundreds of millions of USD.

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Yeah, but the difference is when I ask my family back in China how they’re doing there’s always a noticeable trend of improvement. It’s very refreshing when I talk to them and they actually have hope for the future while I’m just waiting for the day I have to grab my SKS and run off into the forest to avoid the anti Chinese lynch mobs.

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Why are they still harping on this? It’s already ended

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Gotta spread that sweat us propaganda

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Western media started covering the protests two weeks after the protests started and are still covering them after the protests have already ended. It goes to show how out of touch they are with China on top of just being imperialist stenographers.

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