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theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So you’re just but hurt your unsourced propaganda gets banned?

How fucking fragile is your world view?

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cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

The PRC officially terms itself as a democracy, using terms such as “socialist consultative democracy”, and “whole-process people’s democracy”. However, the country is commonly described as an authoritarian one-party state and a dictatorship, with among the heaviest restrictions worldwide in many areas, most notably against freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, free formation of social organizations, freedom of religion and free access to the Internet. China has consistently been ranked amongst the lowest as an “authoritarian regime” by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, ranking at 148th out of 167 countries in 2023. Other sources suggest that terming China as “authoritarian” does not sufficiently account for the multiple consultation mechanisms that exist in Chinese government.

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- ping@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wikipedia is my go-to for unbiased cold war facts 👍 Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO
  
  Katherine Maher has since moved on to more prestigious positions of US imperialism:
  
  She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
  
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- theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Wikipedia is not a source , and your ‘source’ does not support your argument. It states some claim it’s not a democracy, mainly it’s military enemies who themselves claim to be a democracy, but less than 10% of the populace gets any power.
  
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  - cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Can you freely criticize the government in China? Is the press in China free and independent? Do the Chinese people have free and open access to the Internet? Are you allowed to protest the government in China?
    
    No, no, no and no. Sound like it fits the definition of an authoritarian government, despite what said government “officially” says they are.
    
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faceula@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Still out here making the world a better place eh Scottie? On a scale of 1 to… well 1, I guess, how often are you seething with impotent rage?

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