And in hindsight, not such a great person. Or at least had a lot of negatives to go along with his positives. Probably best to hard code not only a term limit, but an age limit on elected officials. I'm tired of the world being run by geriatrics. Culture seems to be consistently 20 year ahead of government.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Term-limits are blatantly anti-democratic and age limits are clumsy, but a cognitive evaluation and probably an MRI would be good for rooting out cases of cognitive decline.

There is an informal age limit in China and Xi is still below it, though just barely. I'm curious if he'll go for another term after crossing it. I think he understands that he needs to retire sometime -- no one wants to become a late '60s Mao.

[–] YaaAsantewaa@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Unlike in China, the people here actually have the right to vote. That right does not exist in China

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

What are you talking about? Of course the people in China have a right to vote.

Honestly, how did you come to be so confidently incorrect about this? You would have to have done no research at all to think the people of China don't vote, but a normal person who has done no research about a subject will have the humility not to assume they know what they're talking about.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

It's okay to admit you don't know something. Like the other person said, Chinese people can vote

Learn yourself so that you can make informed opinions

It's better to have no knowledge than negative knowledge (knowing "facts" that are completely wrong because of a gut feeling assumption rather than any evidence or research)

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

xi-vote