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my views aren’t informed by “propaganda” but by the simple observations that 1) the PRC is a totalitarian regime,

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Just because you agree with it doesn’t mean it isn’t propaganda

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Do you disagree with either of those observations? They seem fairly indisputable to me.

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In totalitarian USA the racist police run over protestors with impunity and torture you at a blacksite for made up poverty crimes, president Xi please my people yearn for freedom

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A disfunctional system isn’t the same as a totalitarian one. Both are bad, yes, but they’re not one and the same.

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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

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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.

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“Totalitarian” is a buzzword with a hazy definition at best. Go ahead and substantiate it.

But my point is that using such a buzzword with no further explanation is a somewhat comical display of how propagandized you are for how thought-terminating your use of the word is.

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