• Egon [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Well sweetie at least we don't live under an authoritarian regime.
    Define authoritarianism? Well it's... Well you see the thing is any definition would also describe our country, so that's wrong... Really it's actually rude of you to ask me to define authoritarianism

    • itappearsthat [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      One poll I haven't seen is what proportion of Chinese people think they're living in a democracy vs. what proportion of USians. That would be interesting.

      • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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        4 months ago

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        Chinese people both feel that their country is more democratic and that democracy is more important than USians do

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Im not sure if I’ve seen that as one poll done by the same group across both countries, but I’ve definitely seen those numbers and it was like 70%+ of Chinese and much lower for the U.S.

        Edit: here’s one, it’s higher than I remembered for China, 83% of respondents to a poll in 2022 said the PRC is a democracy with 91% saying that democracy is important to them.