• @Aurenkin
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      11 month ago

      Now I’m confused, what do you mean? I never said they didn’t have a great high speed rail network. I think they’ve done a great job and I’ve got no problem acknowledging that. I was just poking fun at the implication of the meme.

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        41 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?

        • @Aurenkin
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          -41 month ago

          Oh right I see what you mean. If you pretend China is a democracy my point is automatically disproven, that is true.

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            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

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              31 month ago

              That all may be true, but have you considered the fact that they’re savage mongoloids who need enlightened white people to come and bring democracy to them?