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I don't respect any authoritarian but I appreciate that China at least has some leverage over their billionaires
We need a state with a certain amount of authority if we want to prevent those billionaires to become the authoritarians, though.
If you want no government criticism and freedom of speech, sure.
Oh yes, very. Like what happened to people at Tianamen Square in 1989.
Literally the first sentence of your first comment on this thread
America is the poster child of liberal democracies. The very first in history, the one which inapired the others, the most powerful existing liberal empire. You are the one that started the comparison.
You realise that's exactly what you did, right? 😅
You misspelled capitalist dictatorship
No, letting people "choose" between two genocidal imperialists every few years isn't "democracy". China has far more of an actual democracy than western countries.