• MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.

    However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.

    The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.

    Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.

    There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.

    I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.

    We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know