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China isn't democratic
https://www.newsweek.com/most-china-call-their-nation-democracy-most-us-say-america-isnt-1711176
Ya I will take the people of china's word on this one.
yes and North Korea is democratic because it says they are.
More democratic than the US. The US has an electoral college system explicitly designed to make electing a president undemocratic. In Korea they vote for each equivalent of a cabinet position instead of letting the president just appoint all of them. https://www.ncnk.org/sites/default/files/DPRK%20constitution%20%282019%29.pdf
If this shocks you, remember that Americans are the most propagandized people in the history of the world
Way to compare one of the least free countries with... one of the least free countries.
now do Japan.
To the degree that Korea isn't free, it's is because they've spent their entire existence at war with the largest and most powerful global empire in history and have been cut off from international trade.
The US isn't free because it's a fascist state. The Korean peninsula isn't free also because the US is a fascist state.
Now let's hear your next vapid quip that's supposed to mean more than objective facts and inarguable history, redditor.
So the US is fascist, but China isn't fascist? How's that lil' diddie work?
Lol you did the vapid quip thing
How is the country that inspired Hitler's entire ideology fascist? How is a state run by a communist party not fascist?
Wow really dealing with the reddit brain trust here, aren't I?
The US inspired Hitler? Really now? How's that one work?
He cites Manifest Destiny as what the German people should do to eastern Europe and allegedly based the brownshirts on the KKK.
Do you have a source?
Original brainchild for Lebensraum explicitly points to Manifest Destiny: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum. You can slap "lebensraum" and "manifest destiny" into google and also see the results for yourself. I admit say I'm not a well of primary nazi sources if that doesn't satisfy you.
Oh, interesting, thank you!
This would have the content of an actually valuable conversation if you could figure out how to ask questions without making their purpose to come off as incredulous and incurious as you are right now.
It's literally in Mein Kampf. Lebensraum is explicitly intended to be a mirroring of the US doing westward expansion into land held by native tribes. In his writings he made the comparison all the time. It's not a secret unless you had an American education.
They even had illustrated children's books writing a new national mythos along the same lines as cowboys and indians. The United States is Nazi Germany 200 years after Hitler won the war.
China is not North Korea.
It took less then 2 minutes from my post for you to reply. You clearly didn't even open the link. You just instantly changed the subject matter. Lol
Ah, hexbear users still struggling with federation, so cute!
Post times are different per instance, my he/him, I looked through your article, and it didn't really wow me.
China is authoritarian, filled with mass propaganda and nationalism, of course they're going to think they're great.
I literally got a notification when they reply.. in real time...
I know when I made my comment... less then 2 minutes before I got a notification...
Tell me more about how the lemmy works. I have only been here 4 years.
Good bye, agent.
Yo we got that too in America.
Oh every country has it!
So why is that what makes China so bad? Like most things China is accused doing of the US has done worse.
Good thing you're immune to it!
The citation wasn't the state, it was the people, or are you going to take such an immensely condescending attitude towards the approximately 1 billion people represented in that survey as believing they live in a democracy?
Oh man if only we could interact with these 1 billion people. If only there wasn't a firewall keeping them all contained where all their media is run by the state.
150 million tourists visit China yearly...
Anyone can download a VPN it's literally free on the App store. 👍
Aw sweet!
now why do we need a VPN to access Chinese Internet? 🤔
of course, why would we ever take those asiatic bugpeople at their word, they could never know what democracy is. I'm sad that they will never experience TRUE democracy, where 9 unelected appointed-for-life justices make life-altering decisions with 0 citizen input, THATs the path to Freedom
That's a bit of a non-sequitur in this instance don't you think? We're not talking about what the name of a place is, but rather how the two countries' citizenry feel about their respective governments.
So isn't it good that the US people don't trust their government?
I wish that US people didn't trust their government, especially when their government tells them that other countries are pure evil and need bombing.
Whataboutism
oh you not gonna whataboutism mentioning the US?
Also whataboutism
thanks pal
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