• lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    the US in its totality still is better

    Partly because protests are still possible, big business is still accountable for everything they do, and politicians can still be taken down.

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      2 hours ago

      big business is still accountable for everything they do

      In USA? Gosh, I can’t laugh harder.

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      12 hours ago

      It might surprise you, but the one thing the CCP is afraid of, are the people. There are protests and demonstrations in China. And often they are successful in reversing a policy or getting a government official who thought of some crazy shit, fired.

      These things obviously do not get reported in the west. Only the bad things because that affirms the view of China.

      I personally witnessed the protests during the covid period in Shanghai. Not long after, all covid restrictions where lifted.

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        9 hours ago

        but the one thing the CCP is afraid of, are the people.

        There are two kinds of people in China: those who are literally marginalized, and those who are on the take within the government and love doing all that wolf-warrior garbage.