• @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.

    • @[email protected]
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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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          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

          • ☆ 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?