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Liberals: "At least we have rule of law in our country!" The rule of law in their country: (www.detroitnews.com)

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Attorney General Dana Nessel's office is ending its pursuit of criminal prosecutions over the Flint water crisis after seven years of no convictions, a decision that came Tuesday after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected an attempt to revive charges against Republican former Gov. Rick Snyder.

If Flint had been a village in China, the offending officials would have gotten the death sentence years ago.

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[-] Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China isn't a dictatorship. Their system roughly works by: you vote for your city council, the city council vote for mayor, the mayors vote for governor, etc etc president*.

You may think that's a better or worse system of democracy than voting for a candidate then having your votes pooled by state then given to the per-state winner then weighted by a goofy per-state amount. I don't have a horse in that race. But it's not a dictatorship.

* I'm abstracting wildly because China is a real country with all the exceptional cases you'd expect, and also a huge country with even more of them.