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"cuz, y'know, China bad."
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I don't care if they are against capitalism, I'm not simping for authoritarians.
Thought terminating cliche used by the unintelligent and uninformed to avoid reckoning with reality beyond vibes.
"non authoritarian governments are known to implement mass firewalls and online surveillance"
Every country should be blocking the US surveillance giants, its extremely naive for countries to be letting facebook, twitter, reddit, and google operate unhindered.
There' no such thing as a "non-authoritarian" state or other myths like the tooth-fairy, but even if they existed, then it'd be hard to argue that letting the US surveillance state operate freely within your borders is somehow "non-authoritarian". The US is more likely than any other country to use the intelligence they've gained learned to harm you physically. See the Phoenix Program.
Literally every government with the capability to control information is doing that, and frankly the rise of bleach-injecting covid denialist flat earth tradwife inflluencers has proven China right to do so.
You clearly don't understand the purpose of the firewall and the online surveillance is no more than any other country but at least our government is accountable to us as opposed to owned by capital.
Define authoritarian. The PRC spent decades of anti-colonial struggle defeating British imperialists, Japanese imperialists, feudal reactionaries, and then US imperialists. Do you know more than them about how to defeat vicious empires, "non-authoritarianly"?
What's an authoritarian?
"Simping" here meaning "viewing with anything less than total antipathy"
Aah yes unlike never authoritarian capitalist governments that totally don't break in your house to throw you in the cold bitter streets to die because you couldn't afford rent and made the property "unprofitable". The West has no right lecturing anyone over human rights and liberty, they could just discard them from their dictionary if only it didn't serve as great propaganda against their class enemies.
Expecting others to adhere to your cultural and political norms is authoritarianism. Not willing to learn or tolerate differences is bigotry.