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What are you trying two say
That Tiwan is the rightful government of China, there are just rebellious western provinces that call themselves the CCP?
The KMT are literal fascists. You don't become the rightful government without overwhelming support of the people.
Mate, you might be 30 years in the past
things people who invoke holodomor on an hourly basis say
Working overtime to keep that social credit score high I see
social credit is just gen Xs' and millennials' rebrand of orientalism and yellow peril. Boomers just called it called it China's tentacles. It's beaten to death and it wasn't funny when it was brand new. Find new material to veil your orientalism please, this one's all used up
I tought this was a thing, not like the western media portrays but somewhat? What actually happens over there, can you elaborate?
Social credit, insofar as it actually exists, is barely any different from a criminal record, and certainly less restrictive than that combined with a FICO score and an advertiser's profile.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-system-authoritarian/
"You can't criticize blatant authoritarianism because that would be shuffles deck racist!"
the racist thing is Americans calling literally any other country in the world "authoritarian" because the way they do it doesn't involve police apprehending you for failing to pay your Big Mac microloan
America has 4% of the world population and 25% of it's prison population. Over a quarter of our prisoners are held with no trial and a majority are held on nonviolent charges. America has the largest military in the world and has used it to exact more death than any other nation on the planet today. America has the Patriot Act, the TSA, the CIA, and the FBI. Any discussion about authoritarianism that does not start and end with America is an unfounded attack on every other nation mentioned, and that's usually gonna be american exceptionalism and prejudice against whoever the other nation is.