• Yliaster@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I did make one, that you can oppose two things at the same time.

    I could explain, but wait, you already said that authoritarianism was meaningless to you. If it doesn’t matter to you, well, seems pointless to try to convince that it is actually fascist.

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      4 hours ago

      You have to be a troll.

      You can appose 2 things

      Sure not what I took issue with. I took issue with you calling China fascist which is just an untrue statement.

      Authoritarian is a pejorative. All countries and states in class society are “authoritarian” by necessity. Fascism is a specific thing arising from the tendency for the rate of profit to decline in capitalist society.

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        4 hours ago

        You can keep insisting I’m a troll if it helps you deal with not being able to engage with arguments.

        China is authoritarian, but authoritarianism doesn’t matter to you, so that shouldn’t matter to you. Consistency, please.

        And no, countries aren’t “authoritarian” by necessity. Even if some amount of policies etc that would be considered such exist everywhere, you have countries that are freer and countries that have more political suppression, censorship of media outlets, etc etc.

        China does censor it’s media—political and entertainment— heavily. Just one small example.

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          4 hours ago

          How much Chinese media do you watch? How much time have you spent on Chinese social media? How fluent are you in Chinese? Or did you just get told this by other white people and decided to just go along with it because it confirms your biases.