• 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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          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.

          This is the vaguest description ever and it’s not even correct with the vague points. There are multiple parties, and given that there are multiple parties the candidates certainly aren’t chosen by one party.

          How are candidates chosen? Who elects them? When are elections held? What is the structure of the elections?

          Do you know any of these things? Serious question. Have you ever investigated and learned this topic thoroughly? You know how the US system works I assume, I bet you vaguely understand some other systems too, like parliamentary ones such as the UK (or not, could be wrong). Have you ever actually investigated the topic or have you just passively repeated vague statements made by other people who are also passively repeating vague statements about it?

          If you want me to I can in fact give you a fairly good summary of how the Chinese system actually works. But do you even want to know? Are you actually open to learning?

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

          I much prefer all those two or three party states where the candidates are chosen by their respective parties on the marching orders of the capitalist class

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          lmao dog you shoulda just said “i don’t know anything about that, why don’t you tell me?”

          it still would have taken you zero effort and you’d have avoided embarrassing yourself

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          According to their respective peoples, China has an infinitely more vibrant and responsive democracy than the United States.

          I’d hate to think you’d be so blind to the irony of saying such a thing as ‘wearing the skin of democracy’ if you were living in the west.

          Either way I’d be ashamed to act like you have and speak despite having such ignorance about the Chinese system of democracy.