• @OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    61 month ago

    Well, China, a participatory democracy with a 95 percent approval rating according to a Harvard study, is in the meme building high speed rail, and you’re claiming you have to be an authoritarian dictatorship to build high speed rail?

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        1 month ago

        Why would I pretend China is a democracy when it empirically is according to any useful measure?

        High government approval

        Bottom up representation

        Policies benefit the masses

        Wide range of public opinion represented in government