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  • Carl@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIt really is like this
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    19 hours ago

    What makes you think Xi is a dictator? If your answer is “because that’s the vibe I get from American Government propaganda”, then you should reassess the things you think you know about the world. The truth is that China has a very vibrant and active democracy that is much more responsive to the demands of its people than that of most other nations, and Xi is merely the one currently at the top of that democratic system.



  • Carl@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldIt really is like this
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    20 hours ago

    I think China would have to do a lot more for the avg person before they could be considered socialist or communist again

    Within the last five years China completely eliminated the worst category of poverty in their borders. I’d say they are currently actively engaged in doing a lot more for the average person than most countries.




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    20 hours ago

    Naw the same shit happens on Reddit and Facebook and every other place that isn’t TikTok or XHS. There’s a chart that shows Americans’ opinion of China being more or less 50/50 until 2015ish and then turning sharply negative after the trade war/propaganda blitz against them that started during Trump’s first term.


  • Americans have the most individualist “fuck you I got mine” ladder-pulling-upist culture in the entire world. Maybe someday we’ll have a cultural revolution and come out the other side less anti-social, but in the meantime if you want anything done in this country you’ve got to convince people that there’s something in it for them.


  • Carl@lemm.eetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldthings are definitely different
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    21 hours ago

    politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

    Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country’s otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.