Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoDo you agree with this implication or did you just explain it to me? Because I would never equate the actions of the government of a nation state with the people who happen to live there
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I would if the people overwhelmingly support that action, yes.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Well, do they ever?
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yes, hence why the CPC has overwhelming support. When they don’t do what the people want, you get protests and elected officials getting unelected.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Protests like in Tiananmen Square?
erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I don’t know how much you can trust the narrative when the media is all state controlled and anti-party speech is at best minimized, at worst censored. Total state control of the narrative is not conducive to free and fair elections, not to mention a police state. Before you whatabout, I’m well aware that the US is a police state and is controlled by two parties of neo-libs. I’m no supporter of the US, but I’m also no supporter of any autocratic regime. Calling the PRC a fair democracy is at best willfully ignoring the extreme state control over information, at worst denying a tyrannic despot twisting socialism into an autocratic, capitalist dictatorship while silencing opposition.