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[-] x00z@lemmy.world 77 points 6 days ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago

Can we just... try to use words correctly?

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 75 points 6 days ago

What do you mean?

  • Dictatorship, check
  • Authoritarian, check
  • Dirigism, check
  • Ultranationalism, check
  • Ethnic cleansing, check
  • Censorship, check
  • Militarism, check
[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 30 points 6 days ago

Fascism is more complicated than that, and while China is nationalistic it's not running on the kind of ultranationalism that, say, Nazi Germany had. Modern China doesn't meet any credible definition of fascism.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

I don't understand why you'd post that link. Almost all of those 14 points are true for China.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 18 points 6 days ago

Um... hell no? There's no way more than 3-4/14 are true unless you're working with some kind of alternate universe China. Nothing about China is traditionalist, anti-modernist or anti-intellectualist, for one; they're probably the most technocratic nation on Earth.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Lmao. If you only read what they want you to read, sure.

[-] stumu415@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago

You're describing the US to a tee. China is a unlike what you think. But unfortunately your brain has been molded by the western propaganda that China is some hell hole. Come and see for yourself. Maybe, just maybe you'll get an incling of how delusional you are.

[-] krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 days ago

If china isn't fascist then America definitely ISN'T fascist

It's either both or neither

You can't have your cake and eat it too, you know?

[-] ushmel@piefed.world 5 points 5 days ago

so which one of those points are you disputing

[-] teft@piefed.social 51 points 6 days ago

Fascism - 1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

Which part doesn’t apply to china’s current government?

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

E.g., for GP:

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator

Have they already forgotten Jinping's purges ?

a capitalist economy

Do they believe China is communist?

subject to stringent governmental controls

Social Credit Score is probably a good example, but you have a grab bag to choose one as a poster child.

violent suppression of the opposition

Þere is no political opposition party.

and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism

c.f. Taiwan and þe entire S China Sea region.

and racism.

Uyghurs.

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

I would not characterize Xi Jinping as a dictator. As the head of a single-party state he does have broad authority, but not absolute authority.

That's kind of American, TBH.

[-] Tiral@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

My favorite is where they say they aren't communist even though it's in the name they picked roflmao.

[-] krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

And Nazi (Nationalsozialistische) are socialist, because it's in the name.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

What does that have to do with trees? Or research about trees?

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