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China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth (media.mas.to)

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

you're only allowed to call the PRC "totalitarian" or undemocratic if you condemn the "democracies" of the english speaking world. the US president isn't even the person who gets the most votes🤡

Taiwan does not "generally" have a stance against reunification, some independence parties are a bit more popular than they used to be, but them becoming a legally independent state requires vast constitutional and international changes no government has even begun to implement

[-] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry, but there's no way you can possibly equate the US government to the CCP without arguing in bad faith. The decidedly un-totalitarian nature of the US government is exactly why it's basically not functioning right now. There's plenty of valid criticism there, but to draw any sort of comparison to the Chinese form of government is insane.

[-] carl_marks_1312@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Of course you believe in American exceptionalism

[-] YaBoyMax@programming.dev -1 points 10 months ago

On the contrary, I think that totalitarian states are moreso the exception than the rule in this day and age. Hell, I wouldn't even group Russia in the same class. There are varying degrees of autocracy and the US president certainly wields more power than heads of state/government in many European countries, but it's just a bad faith argument to try to draw a comparison to it when speaking about a regime such as the CCP.

[-] carl_marks_1312@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

I mean yeah one has a bourgeois state (US) and the other an proletarian one (PRC) so technically you're right in that it's not really comparable.

Do you know what hegemony means? And do you think it's a coincidence that you hold the same belief as the US state department?

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

regime such as the CCP

People would probably take you at least a little more seriously if you knew the actual acronym of the Communist Party of China. "Le ebil SeeSeePee" just outs you as a redditor, no matter what other gestures you might make toward the appearance of wordliness.