https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforestation-and-forest-growth-by-country/

  • Dolores [love/loves]18•8 months ago

    you're only allowed to call the PRC "totalitarian" or undemocratic if you condemn the "democracies" of the english speaking world. the US president isn't even the person who gets the most votes🤡

    Taiwan does not "generally" have a stance against reunification, some independence parties are a bit more popular than they used to be, but them becoming a legally independent state requires vast constitutional and international changes no government has even begun to implement

    • @YaBoyMax@programming.dev1•8 months ago

      I'm sorry, but there's no way you can possibly equate the US government to the CCP without arguing in bad faith. The decidedly un-totalitarian nature of the US government is exactly why it's basically not functioning right now. There's plenty of valid criticism there, but to draw any sort of comparison to the Chinese form of government is insane.

        • @YaBoyMax@programming.dev1•7 months ago

          On the contrary, I think that totalitarian states are moreso the exception than the rule in this day and age. Hell, I wouldn't even group Russia in the same class. There are varying degrees of autocracy and the US president certainly wields more power than heads of state/government in many European countries, but it's just a bad faith argument to try to draw a comparison to it when speaking about a regime such as the CCP.

          • carl_marks_1312 [comrade/them]8•7 months ago

            I mean yeah one has a bourgeois state (US) and the other an proletarian one (PRC) so technically you're right in that it's not really comparable.

            Do you know what hegemony means? And do you think it's a coincidence that you hold the same belief as the US state department?

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]5•7 months ago

            regime such as the CCP

            People would probably take you at least a little more seriously if you knew the actual acronym of the Communist Party of China. "Le ebil SeeSeePee" just outs you as a redditor, no matter what other gestures you might make toward the appearance of wordliness.

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]6•7 months ago

        I'm sorry, but there's no way you can possibly equate the US government to the CCP without arguing in bad faith.

        "You have to agree with me or you're the one arguing in bad faith!"

        • A person with no sense of irony.