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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

More Chinese people living in China believe their government is democratic compared to Americans living in the US

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because they've been brainwashed by a consistently rising standard of living, they don't have free press like us to tell them how they should really feel about things

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

"Sir, their government has brainwashed them by... running the country well enough to consistently raise the standard of living!"

"Those dastardly Chinese!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, but can they support that with facts? Average Joes think a lot of weird stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

White people in Apartheid-South Africa believed Apartheid-South Africa was a democracy, too.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference is that everyone in China can vote.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Their government.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any citizen with at least two endorsements from other citizens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gee... if the Tiananmen Square protestors only knew that, eh?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they did. Until some alphabet agency agent co opt the protest, when it's about inflation and economic crisis. Many Chinese peoples still piss at them till this days, at least learn about the country first before spouting shite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Riiiight... the country that the CIA had famously failed to penetrate - right until it became convenient for tankies to pretend they actually did, eh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For their peer, they vote for the most competent to run the govt, not some snake oil sales man or senile old man that rely on pr popularity to run the damn country. Look at Nigeria, a drug lord successfully make peoples vote for him and now they're in the brink of war even though peoples don't like it,

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

For their peer,

Riiiight... I'm pretty sure Xi Jinping hangs with the over-worked factory people every night and does his share of the sewing.

Tell me another fairy tale, tankie.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I have never looked it up but for them it probably was. That isn't the reason people were upset about the situation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Nice, very tasteful comparison

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Turning a dial labeled racism because it makes weak leftists angry for some reason.

(Cowards)

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No one in China is ever asked what they want or what they believe in because the CCP doesn't care. China is ruled by a military dictatorship, and under that form of government the people have 0 rights and 0 say in any government policy

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No one in China is ever asked what they want or what they believe in

Thousands in China were asked every single year from 2003 to 2016 by Harvard in an intensive study that they've described themselves as "nothing comparable done on this scale, over such a long period of time, and over a large geographic area"

The conclusion they found is that 95%+ of Chinese citizens are satisfied with the government

If you tell me Harvard is a Chinese propaganda institution I'll take your word for it though

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do you care about the Uyghur people China is currently trying to genocide?

Also The ban was for calling out Chinese racism against black people in Africa, so no, I don't care quite frankly

It's amazing how you people put on this fake act about caring about racism and bigotry, it's really astonishing

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how you people put on this fake act about caring about racism and bigotry, it's really astonishing

This is very ironic coming from someone parroting Adrian Zenz's cynical atrocity propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

currently trying to genocide

This piqued my interest, since a lot of the Uyghur genocide narrative collapsed years ago to the point that even the journalists that were reporting it began walking it back.

Taking a look at who is currently reporting on "Uyghur genocide" in 2023, and it's all organisations like Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, United States Institute of Peace - basically (literal) US government propaganda agencies reporting on the US congress proceedings.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is infact holocaust denial you are doing and it is a bad look.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Eternally mad the UN report sided with the tankies (the entire UN is tankies as well you see)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

we care so much we checked the claim ! its bullshit

zenz

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Least propagandized shitlib.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

China is ruled by a military dictatorship, and under that form of government the people have 0 rights and 0 say in any government policy

Not even the most devoted ideologue for the US state department would claim something this ludicrous. How do "leftists" arrive at this conclusion?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

No one in China is ever asked what they want or what they believe in

I thought this was a joke at first