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[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The difference is that everyone in China can vote.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Their government.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any citizen with at least two endorsements from other citizens.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gee... if the Tiananmen Square protestors only knew that, eh?

[–] anoncpc@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, they did. Until some alphabet agency agent co opt the protest, when it's about inflation and economic crisis. Many Chinese peoples still piss at them till this days, at least learn about the country first before spouting shite

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Riiiight... the country that the CIA had famously failed to penetrate - right until it became convenient for tankies to pretend they actually did, eh?

[–] anoncpc@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For their peer, they vote for the most competent to run the govt, not some snake oil sales man or senile old man that rely on pr popularity to run the damn country. Look at Nigeria, a drug lord successfully make peoples vote for him and now they're in the brink of war even though peoples don't like it,

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

For their peer,

Riiiight... I'm pretty sure Xi Jinping hangs with the over-worked factory people every night and does his share of the sewing.

Tell me another fairy tale, tankie.