Democracy without the rest of Enlightenment Liberalism is just another kind of of tyranny.
E: typo
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
31 points (63.7% liked)
Ask Lemmy
27620 readers
1387 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I don't understand why you would connect these two things. Since when does any power's foreign policy treat those in the rest of the world as if they have any of the rights afforded to their own citizens? The US certainly doesn't.
I think the main thing which I would have problems with would be the collectivism and confucionism which I really can't stand. I don't think it's necessary to replace English, it's not American anyway. The rest sounds ok to me, as long as they don't kill my normal Linux.
collectivism
I mean, Covid would probably be handled better. Look at the democratic Asian countries, they did much better than the US.
I get what you're saying here, But there are like 3-5 democratic countries in Asia, and even they didn't fair the best with covid. I think it's the US that was exceptionally bad, not the countries that handled it greatly.
As for the rest i'd rather live in a flawed liberal democracy than an efficient autocratic dictatorship.
Not worth it in my opinion.
What do you dislike about collectivism?
I can't stand that everyone is forced by sociaty to be the same.
I'm not like you, I have my own thinking, my own style, by own taste in music, my own taste in food, etc. etc.
I really like diversity. Let's look at the music from mainly collectivist countries like China or Korea. There is K-pop and uhm I guess that's all I know (and I live in Korea). Then let's compare it to the a individualistic country I lived before like Sweden:
- Electronic Body Music
- Metal (with all it's subgenres)
- Rock
- Pop
- Electronic Dance Music
And each of them have their own subculture. Yeah you get the point.
Wait, you think collectivism is when everyone is forced to listen to the same music? And eat the same things? And dress the same way?
Those seem to be some of the long term results of the parts of conformism like conformity, group priority and social harmony.
Lol okay then
Just a "Lol" no more explanation?
I donβt think we have a choice, and the US having the largest military in the world doesnβt really mean anything unless we just want to kill everyone.
I mean having to learn Chinese would be pain in the ass but probably good for me and my country's main character syndrome is annoying as hell so sure
it'll take a huge and lucky shift to have this happen, but still interesting on your choices of pop culture changes.
anyways, i believe a more short term thing is each region will have economic areas of influence and may or may not have bits and pieces of what you described here.
Considering they use Uyghur slave labour for Xinjiang cotton, the answer is a no from me.
Man cotton just attracts slaves across every part of the globe. Good thing america diddnt have slaves picking cotton at any point in history /s
But seriously ukraine used slave child labour. Cotton for some reason requires slaves I have no idea why.
load more comments
(1 replies)
I wouldn't be okay with any country being global super power except maybe Albania.
dont forget kuwait π‘
That depends on how they act. China right now is on a path where I'd oppose them replacing the US. However the EU has the ability to replace the US as the global superpower - they don't because despite some significant differences overall the US and EU get along well and so they don't see any point. By cooperating the EU gains the things they want from being a global superpower without the disadvantages. Part of that cooperation is the EU is in NATO (mostly?) and so they are paying some of the military costs of the US being a global super power.
The US isn't perfect by any means, but we have done much better in many ways vs previous global superpowers. Right now I'd predict China would be worse so I oppose it. However who knows how things will change in the future.
It wouldn't be any different, the US is NOT a democracy either and is a global superpower π€·ββοΈ
Theyβve had a bunch of mass attacks by knife and vehicles. Guess what the CCP does?
Improve quality of life? No. Make chef knives harder to obtain? Yes Profile childless men and monitor them? Yes
You confused China with the UK. There are no such restrictions on chefs knives.
load more comments
(1 replies)
No.
China will never be democratic. English is there because it's easy. There is no default search engine (but there would be one if "democratic" China controlled everything...), same for your Linux crap, who would install this without being forced when there are already a thousand better alternatives.
Sounds boring, you described what would happen if a dictatorship ruled the world (and no whataboutism with the USA, I'm also immune to what they are doing).
load more comments
(2 replies)