gots to be honest with yourselves
2026-07-15 22:23 UTC
Replies (11)
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@SirSmoothAES@lemmygrad.ml 2026-07-15 22:45
Literally any country that enforces its laws is “authoritarian”. It doesn’t mean anything.
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@StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 2026-07-15 23:05
www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd959q11g54o
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@thepig@lemmy.zip 2026-07-15 23:18
Based 💪🇨🇳. I encourage everyone who believes the crap they say about China to go there for themselves and talk with the people, you find people who disagree with the government and they speak out loud about it, also people who remember the very bad times China went through and are gratefully for the amazing increase in quality of life they’ve got.
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@ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2026-07-16 00:10
Obviously China is going to look bad if you consider western liberal democracy and free market capitalism to be objectively good things and have them as the standards by which you judge the political-economic systems of global south countries. If you’re judging China based on how similar it is to Western European countries then you’re not going to like it.
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@jobbies@lemmy.zip 2026-07-16 08:19
Umm I’m a woke lefty but China still isn’t great.
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@Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2026-07-16 09:22
Xi Jinping is on his third five-year term as China’s president. I’m not even gonna say anything bad about that, upvote or downvote as you please, and don’t forget to put words in my mouth for the sake of your argument while you’re at it.
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@deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 2026-07-16 11:37
I met a white American guy that lives in China over the weekend, he was awesome. No real story about it, yes he can speak mandarin and he had the friggin cutest little half Chinese baby with his wife. Shoutout Paul
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@caboose2006@lemmy.world 2026-07-16 23:13
I lived in china for 4 years, got out of the expat bubble, lived in smaller cities and I gotta say, for people that have never been to china or actually been friends with Chinese people, y’all are pretty allergic to any criticism, no matter how legitimate, of china. Maybe take a step back from YOUR OWN biases and be a little objective. There are great things about china. There are bad things about china. No country’s perfect
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@belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2026-07-17 01:01
“The country i like is flawless” Authoritarianism brain rot
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@sangeteria@lemmy.ml 2026-07-17 03:44
Finally, a half-decent meme about something I agree with. Thank you for making a not dogshit meme like half of the communists on this forum lmao
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@Hundun@beehaw.org 2026-07-17 06:48
“No, China has free speech, we just don’t talk about 1989 that much.” “No, having 1 ruler for 15 years straight is actually OK, you’re just racist”. Next time on Lemmy: soup is actually a kind of a tea.