• MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    It is though. You can look at so many measures from perception of democracy among the citizens, the degree to which power is devolved to the local level most answerable to the community, and the turnover of elected officials being far higher than western democracies which usually feature politicians with what amounts to lifelong tenure.

    People actually think China is still run the way it was back in the 1960s because their world view is formed from memes. It’s a democracy and a more vibrant one than what we usually see in the west.

    But someone will reply to this with a meme about social credit without realizing they don’t earn Reddit gold here.

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      11 months ago

      This. The US has been doing social credit for decades. We just call it regular credit because we don’t care about your antisocial personality tendencies as long as you can keep a job and spend the money you earn. Just a question of priorities.

      Social credit is a terrible system. But we have similar stuff - job references, landlords checking your history, etc. The US often has the things we deride others for - we just obfuscat and abstract it. Bread lines -> EBT, etc.