• volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    “China has good railways because China bad” is one hell of a bad take.

    China isn’t an autocracy any more than the US is, getting to vote which party gets to erode your rights and enact genocide on your behalf isn’t democracy

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        7 days ago

        A democracy would be voting for a party promising not to erode your rights and getting your rights not eroded. That’s not what you get in the ol’ US of A, anywhere in the west for that master