• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I don’t know, man. This sounds like some “the enemy is both strong and weak” BS to me. When they can’t build a HSR in California they are an unplanned economy but when I point out the cost of China’s flavour of government suddenly the US is a dictatorship?

    I’ve got no issues acknowledging when China does some good things but come on. I was rightfully making fun of the implication of your meme here and you come back with doublespeak. There’s really no need to pick a side and defend it at all costs, we can acknowledge the positive and negative things.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      4 months ago

      but when I point out the cost of China’s flavour of government suddenly the US is a dictatorship?

      I mean I linked you a whole bunch of western studies showing that people living in China see their country as being more democratic than people living in US see theirs. Furthermore, a study analyzing decades of US policy has found the following:

      That certainly does sound like US is a dictatorship of capital to me where regular working class people have little say in the running of the system.

      My argument is based on the empirical evidence available, meanwhile I have no idea what you base your position on.