https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1602849606034915331

Written by another white dude in Canada talking about "authoritarianism"

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Don't they select representatives? Like how is that not identical to what we do?

    Also lol it's like 4 people in this pic, guess we really are in a recession :fed-sad-kelly:

      • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, but the difference is when I ask my family back in China how they're doing there's always a noticeable trend of improvement. It's very refreshing when I talk to them and they actually have hope for the future while I'm just waiting for the day I have to grab my SKS and run off into the forest to avoid the anti Chinese lynch mobs.

          • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            There's also the fact that it feels like western "democracy" is especially oriented to the theater of democracy in which abstractive talking points create spectacular ratings but the outcome is damn near 80-90% the same minus whether or not the elected official is regular racist/homophobic/transphobic or a super mega phobe towards anyone not :lmayo:

      • Civility [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        You don’t.

        Any Chinese citizen can run for the National People’s Congress and most members aren’t in the CPC to the extent it’s problematic. The average net worth of an NPC member is in the hundreds of millions of USD.

          • Civility [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Here you go.

            The combined net worth is around 500 billion USD (or at least it was in 2019, it’s probably higher now, the pandemic was a feast for billionaires and the US has had worse inflation than China) and there are just under 3000 members.

          • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Not a surprise. The Shanghai cliche from Jiang and communist youth leagues faction from Hu own quite amount of real estate, which is why Xi purge them and don’t lets them hold much importance position from recent Congress