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0 points9rx6mo ago0 comments

> the idea that they are "democratic" is just largely just rhetoric for foreign audiences.

They don't claim to be democratic, only more democratic. The alternatives compared against aren't democratic either, so the hypothetical possibility of the CCP being, on the spectrum, more democratic is theoretically sound. Reality isn't, though. The trouble with the claim is that what makes something more or less democratic in the real world is completely nebulous, allowing anyone to pick arbitrary criteria to make the claim.

> You need to know at least what side you're speaking for

Information can be inaccurate, but it doesn't have a side, fundamentally.

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corimaith6mo ago

>They don't claim to be democratic, only more democratic.

No. As shown in Wang Huning's Neo-Authoritarianism, being more democratic is bad. Ideally they'd be operating on greater homogenization.

>Information can be inaccurate, but it doesn't have a side, fundamentally.

You need to seperate foreign rhetoric from actual political beliefs. Do you understand here what are the implications of Huning's beliefs, and lineage they draw from Schmitt? Or are you going to make the claim that Trump is more "democratic", which is banal it's meaningless.

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