Arguably worse. Tl;dw he chooses to live like he’ll die at any moment, i.e. spends all his money on dumb things, but then complains about not having money and his audience not giving him enough. He also abused his wife until she left him, then started dating a 20 year old (hes in his mid 50s as a reminder). Oh he also completely reversed course on his nice moderate guy persona.
US is not party to the ICC and has a standing policy to invade the Hague and end the eu if the icc detains or tries a single american citizen for any crime.
When building fascism one must have an eternal enemy. One that is contradictorily infinitely strong and weak. One that you can never actually eliminate, but one you can always dangle as an absolute visage of fear. Even better if you yourself, as the one building fascism, can create and control said enemy.
The problem with picking an actual race, is you run out of them eventually. If you pick an ideology, well, you cant control its effects or the number of members effectively.
But drugs? And drug ‘dealers’? And countries that ‘make drugs’? That’s an enemy infinitely strong and infinitely weak, one that can be taken out by a drone strike but that will worm its way in anyway, one that you can control just by invading a country and making its farmers grow poppies(afghanistan) or by funding cartels to do it themselves (Colombian gangs still receive cia funding).
And best of all you can get people to blame the victims and whoever you uphold as the source of these drugs, so no one can actually speak out against your regime.
The lower tiers vote for the higher tiers, and anyone can join government.
As far as your concern, there’s a reason the government in china actually works, vs the US that stagnates for decades.
Only actually qualified people have power. You prove yourself over years. Xi, for example, has a doctorate and decades of proven experience; and that was after winning his external elections.
to compare to to western democracy, you don’t vote for prime minister, the people you voted for votes for prime minister. Just add a few layers with publicly auditable and contestable elections.
Its run by the communist party, whose purpose is guiding the country to communism and self dissolution; which has necessitated not skipping over the industrial and consumer revolutions, both of which likely require capitalism, but in any case have been done with capitalism so that path is easier and known, allowing them to benefit from the waste from less competent countries.
Or in other words, they’re the only country in history to execute billionaires, whatever they are is objectively better than the US or EU.
You have to agree communism is the goal, that’s the party. Within that party are hundreds of factions that are all striving for votes so china gets to communism in the way they think is best. That’s the democracy.
Its like if the US formalized an oath to continue being loyal to the US into a single party that you have to join in order to be in politics; and from there split into dem/rep parties. You’d still vote for factions and reps, but all of them would be required to at least have the same ending goal in mind.
It prevents people like trump from getting far, as keeping up appearances isn’t really possible the longer you spend in the party.
There are of course downsides to this approach, but a lack of choice isn’t really one of them; you just don’t get to vote for the destruction of the government or country.
That’s primarily why most people on lemmy that critically support the CCP post; to get people to realize their reflexive EvIlCHiNaMeNcOmMiEs bad is influenced by the propaganda they’ve been consuming for decades.
Its a democratic state made up of more people than the entirety of North America and Europe combined. There is no magic brainwashing power that exists in any version of our reality that affects 1.4 billion humans perfectly. So either they’re not people or maybe most of them genuinely enjoy their country and the good it’s managed to do for them.
Oh and since this is ml and facts can be said; the uighur population isn’t under going genocide. We know what a 21st century genocide looks like in a fascist state. The few thousand (out of tens of millions) arrested and allowed reeducation for legitimately going to Afghanistan and becoming terrorists does not a genocide make.
Ukraine wasn’t an ally until Russia invaded. We did that after the war started.
Its a golden shower. A billion years ago a spy paid by Republicans and the Clinton campaign claimed Donald Trump was comprised by Russia via recordings of himself being urinated on by underage Russian hookers. This sex act is frequently referred to as golden showers. A side note is that despite the allegation being children pissing on trump, many late night hosts wanted the pee tapes released to the public; proving yet again no one you see on tv is a good person now that Mr Rogers is dead.
No one is successfully a billionaire.
After the train run on you by democrats…
No, we don’t. Apple proprietary nonsense isn’t worth the metal it’s made of.
And yet the religion itself isn’t the reason for that and most religious people don’t support that. They outnumber you, and most people you have ever interacted with or looked up to were religious, just statistically speaking.
I’m sorry you’re still at the edgy teen phase of your understanding of the world, but you’ll get it when you get past puberty.
Its a woman’s choice in most non westernized Muslim countries, those countries, incidentally, containing a minority of Muslims.
Incidentally westernized Muslims countries tend to have the harshest restrictions, like Saudi Arabia.
As far as gay communities it, like it always does, depends on local culture. Pakistan officially recognizes transgender women; Saudi, the West’s darling, stones gay people. Iran has multiple gay organizations that are recognized by the state, and Sudan was influenced by Christians so they really hate the gays. As it turns out different people and cultures believe different things regardless of religion.
Almost like people are people, you bigoted fuck.
Islam is a religion of peace, and does explicitly promote protecting the weak and doing charity. Its a large reason why Jews were safe in Palestine for centuries before zionist decided to hijack the region.
If bigots like you didn’t exist, maybe we could move on from demonizing 1/8th of humanity and start to deal with the actual problems you mentioned.
Sorry, bigot, your talking points from October 2001 don’t really fly in the rest of the world.
I do forget there are Americans from the dark ages here sometimes.
Many have, but that’s the thing Israel is still committing genocide if Palestinians leave their home.
Defending the weak and oppressed is a core pillar of Islam. Its not hypocritical .
Used cars have been 10k+ since covid.