• cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    arrow-down
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    23 days ago

    The lemmy.ml instance is known to have admins, mods and users that spread the promotion, praise and propaganda of dictatorships and other authoritarian governments, bigotry, racism and transphobia. Even when there are hard facts against them.

      • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        23 days ago

        How about China is, in fact, a dictatorship for starters. The Communist in “Chinese Communist Party” is just there for show.

        • supercriticalcheese@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          22 days ago

          China is a capitalistic country with a state guidance in their industrial policy and a dictator in the helm.

          They don’t really even have anything in regards to a national health care.

        • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          22 days ago

          How about China is, in fact, a dictatorship for starters

          That could be true. But I wonder, in general, what is the process for determining whether a country is a dictatorship or not, from the outside? China claims to be a democracy and holds elections, like just about every other country under the sun. Of course, not every country with elections is actually a democracy, but if we’re talking “hard facts” I think we need to be able to point to specific, objective things.

          The Communist in “Chinese Communist Party” is just there for show.

          Isn’t the Chinese Communist Party the single largest self-identifying communist party in the world? Shouldn’t that factor in, like, at least a little bit into our standards for what defines a communist party? Regardless, this is kind of just your subjective opinion, isn’t it? Again, what specific, objective standards are you looking at to distinguish between “real” communism and “fake” communism?