• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Do you not know what the structure of China is?

      Serious question, do you? When I criticise the US I do so from a position of knowing how power works between its three branches of government, how the senate works, how local governance works, how elections work, how the courts work. Do you know how China conducts any of these? Do you know how they govern 1.6billion people?

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        It’s a one-party state with all candidates chosen by the party.

        It may wear the skin of a democracy, but it is not a democracy.

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          the representatives are chosen by their parties in most countries, including the US. the difference is that in western “democracies” there’s two or more parties all representing the same interests - those of the capitalist class - posing the electorate with a false choice. how is this improvement?

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            Let’s topple all fake democracies. China’s red-blue man owns US’s red and blue men anyway.

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              11 months ago

              Two Jews meet on the U-Bahn in 1935. One is reading a Nazi newspaper. His friend asks him “how can you read those outrageous lies about us?!” He replies “If I read a real newspaper, its persecution this and deportation that. But in this paper? We own all the banks, the movies, the government!”

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                11 months ago

                Classic but red flag (lol) conspiracy theory vibes in this context. Jewish people owning China or vice versa? Either way fits more in line with qanonists

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                  11 months ago

                  God could the point go over your head harder. That user wasn’t engaging in a conspiracy theory that Jews on all the banks movies and government, they were comparing your apparent belief that the Chinese government controls the American government to those antisemitic conspiracy theories.

                  Also zero points in an argument with a bunch of people who can’t downvote farquaad-point

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                    11 months ago

                    Whooooosh lol 😉

                    Would someone actually create a “your apparent belief” in their mind from that

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              11 months ago

              Though, in fairness, red man is actively hostile to LGBT people, migrants, and women whereas blue man is content to let LGBT people, migrants, and women suffer via apathetic neglect instead.

              Truly a vibrant political system.