Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989

• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, do they ever?

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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Protests like in Tiananmen Square?

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      • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Deng Xiaoping literally stepped down after this.

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    • erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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