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[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I mean, certainly one could pick out a few test cases to indicate a democracy. Do the citizens have the apparent right to...

  • criticize the government freely
  • due process and unpartial justice
  • fair treatment of minority groups
  • run for office when qualified
  • free press

The US has a lot of headwinds on this short list but at least I am aware of the atrocities it has committed, can ask questions without being disappeared, and can theoretically run for office without being shot. Our democracy is ugly as hell, but at least I can see it. I question all governments that claim some higher ground.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

criticize the government freely

How many peaceful protesters got bagged in unmarked vans in 2020?

Also the Chicago PD have black sites where they would disappear people without cause and their families would not be notified.

due process and unpartial justice

Yeah it would really suck to be locked up for years without a trial.

fair treatment of minority groups

Yeah that's definitely not a thing in the US I'm not even sure how you could possibly think that it is unless you got kicked in the head by a donkey.

run for office

Okay...

when qualified

Who determines this qualification?

free press

It's really easy for the press to be free when the same multinational corporations that the US works on behalf of also own the "free" press.

It's really interesting that you didn't mention the one thing that I think a democracy actually has to have: representation/reflection of the will of the citizenry.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

How many peaceful protesters got bagged in unmarked vans in 2020? Also the Chicago PD have black sites where they would disappear people without cause and their families would not be notified

"Heh, don't you know, hexchanner, that not all cops are bad and a few bad apples don't condemn our great system of burgerland freedom?" smuglord

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yes, in China, you can do these things.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

why do you think you know what youre talking about? what have you read or watched that makes you so certain of your opinions on China? can you read Chinese? have you ever spoken to someone from China?

Death to America

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They watched and read the Western MSM, China Uncensored and laowhy86 and concluded that China is very very bad and evil.

Endless anti-communist, racist anti-Chinese propaganda infests the mind with brainworms.

I'm surprised they haven't called us all wumao 50 cent army bots yet. I always get that one.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

China has a democracy; America doesn't

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

due process and unpartial justice

fair treatment of minority groups

The US

michael-laugh

I question all governments that claim some higher ground.

Wow, such insight. I'm glad we have such an enlightened person in our midst to tell us that what if, like, all governments are bad, man? smuglord (and by that I mean China bad)

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