You and your red scare. All he did was remove the term limit “up to 2”, with the party’s consent, but he still has to be re-elected after every term. I also don’t understand what so “dictator” about it, you had Merkel “in power” for way more than 10 years. Maybe it is useful to keep the most qualified guy with already having 10 years of experience in that position for longer than just 2011-2021, and let him continue when the country experienced the largest economic growth in their history?
Also, to me it seems that you think if you change your politicians every 8 years without any difference but the lobby stays for eternity, makes it suddenly a democratic state and totally not a dictatorship?
You keep your definition, but I don’t see how being able to be re-elected more than 1 time is making you “ruling in absolute unlimited never-ending complete autocratic unrestricted autocratic oppressive fascist (ah have I mentioned absolute already?) power” (just put in more into the word salad and you start to sound smart).
This is what bothers me the most. China has genuine problems, but all people are doing is putting up strawmen and attacking them. It makes conversation impossible and no one can see what China is actually doing. And in some ways that’s far more dangerous.
This is what bothers me the most. China has genuine problems, but all people are doing is putting up strawmen and attacking them. It makes conversation impossible and no one can see what China is actually doing. And in some ways that’s far more dangerous.
This. Hard agree. How can we ever talk about China genuinely if all we do is calling their policies with strawmen and can’t actually discuss what their society and politics is about
At this point is it even correct to call criticism of Beijing to be “red scare”?
The so-called “Communist Party of China” has a lot of billionaires in it’s membership.
There seems to be a lot of capitalism going on in the “People’s Republic of China” these days.
Labour Unions are illegal in China.
Given all the allegations of sexual assault levied the leadership and how that’s handled, I think it’s fair to characterize them as misogynistic.
China regularly uses a narrative about righting the wrongs from past national humiliations in it’s propaganda.
When you actually describe the government of China these days does it actually sound Communist? Or does it sound like some other form of authoritarian government? Fascism, maybe?
Of course that’s ridiculous. Fascists would never call themselves socialist. They’re always super honest about things like that, aren’t they? The National Socialist Party of Germany must have actually been socialist, because no fascist ever makes false claim about being socialist.
Yeah I hate that whole left/right political spectrum thing. It’s a construct that may sometimes be useful as quick shorthand to describe moderate politics. But it’s just a construct and doesn’t really apply to authoritarian extremists.
People feel like it’s impossible for a government to go from the “far left” to the “far right” without there being a revolution of some sort. So they fail to recognize that China could be fascist. Because that spectrum makes them think that’s not possible.
But if you remove the labels and symbols, the Beijing regime is very obviously fascist.
Bruh of course the PRC is not fascist (if this word has any meaning nowadays) - they removed them 70 years ago, however ironically the ROC fits your description
You and your red scare. All he did was remove the term limit “up to 2”, with the party’s consent, but he still has to be re-elected after every term. I also don’t understand what so “dictator” about it, you had Merkel “in power” for way more than 10 years. Maybe it is useful to keep the most qualified guy with already having 10 years of experience in that position for longer than just 2011-2021, and let him continue when the country experienced the largest economic growth in their history?
Also, to me it seems that you think if you change your politicians every 8 years without any difference but the lobby stays for eternity, makes it suddenly a democratic state and totally not a dictatorship?
You keep your definition, but I don’t see how being able to be re-elected more than 1 time is making you “ruling in absolute unlimited never-ending complete autocratic unrestricted autocratic oppressive fascist (ah have I mentioned absolute already?) power” (just put in more into the word salad and you start to sound smart).
This is what bothers me the most. China has genuine problems, but all people are doing is putting up strawmen and attacking them. It makes conversation impossible and no one can see what China is actually doing. And in some ways that’s far more dangerous.
This. Hard agree. How can we ever talk about China genuinely if all we do is calling their policies with strawmen and can’t actually discuss what their society and politics is about
Xi being called a dictator is what “bothers you the most”?
What are you, some Xi bootlicker?
There are so many things to be “bothered” about and you chose a (for you a wrongfully applied) label.
Smh
That’s not what I said at all. I’m not even sure what you’re on about.
At this point is it even correct to call criticism of Beijing to be “red scare”?
The so-called “Communist Party of China” has a lot of billionaires in it’s membership.
There seems to be a lot of capitalism going on in the “People’s Republic of China” these days.
Labour Unions are illegal in China.
Given all the allegations of sexual assault levied the leadership and how that’s handled, I think it’s fair to characterize them as misogynistic.
China regularly uses a narrative about righting the wrongs from past national humiliations in it’s propaganda.
When you actually describe the government of China these days does it actually sound Communist? Or does it sound like some other form of authoritarian government? Fascism, maybe?
Of course that’s ridiculous. Fascists would never call themselves socialist. They’re always super honest about things like that, aren’t they? The National Socialist Party of Germany must have actually been socialist, because no fascist ever makes false claim about being socialist.
I agree, these points fully describe China - Republic of China & their DPP in Taiwan. Every point hits the nail on the head lmao
Yeah I hate that whole left/right political spectrum thing. It’s a construct that may sometimes be useful as quick shorthand to describe moderate politics. But it’s just a construct and doesn’t really apply to authoritarian extremists.
People feel like it’s impossible for a government to go from the “far left” to the “far right” without there being a revolution of some sort. So they fail to recognize that China could be fascist. Because that spectrum makes them think that’s not possible.
But if you remove the labels and symbols, the Beijing regime is very obviously fascist.
Bruh of course the PRC is not fascist (if this word has any meaning nowadays) - they removed them 70 years ago, however ironically the ROC fits your description