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Right, the countries that invaded the USSR in its nascent years, constantly tried to assassinate leaders of progressive movements, couped most countries on Earth.
The projection lol
As that joke goes, a CIA and KGB officer meet at a bar. The CIA officer says to the KGB officer "You've got a good propaganda machine!", the KGB officer replies "Well, yours is unbeatable."
The CIA agent responds with "What propaganda? In the West we don't have propaganda."
Keep crying, tankie
Your shitty dictatorships failed because they were orders of magnitude more corrupt and dysfunctional than capitalism, and even more oppressive towards the general public.
Because the Tsar and the Chinese warlords and Battista and Imperial Japanese occupation where pillars of democracy before those countries' revolutions. Also like 90% of Chinese citizens are happy with their government, vs a sad 20% of Americans.
Odd how people in a country where it's illegal to not be happy with the government report being happy with the government
Westerners hate their government so much that they cannot see beyond their own parochial worldview to even entertain the idea that some people would feel generally supportive of their government.
Those sneaky Orientals must be lying in order to trick is good, honest, non-perfidious enlightened westerners again.
Easterners who hate their government disappear or learn to hide it. Westerners get to piss and moan.
Ah yes, that's very true. You must be something a field anthropologist.
People in the East wouldn't ever protest and get away with it.
Meanwhile, westerners who hate their government would never be brought up on charges for the crime of "posessing books, black clothes, fabric, and paint" and then get disappeared into solitary confinement for exercising their constitutional rights.
That's a very valid contribution that you made to the discussion. Nice work.
If it's illegal then why didn't the last 10ish% also say they approve?
Shh don’t ask that
Personal bravery? Idk.
God you are ignorant
Let's try a different tack then - if it's illegal to disapprove of the government and you'll be locked up for it, and 10% of the population voice disapproval, why are only 0.12% of the population imprisoned? Do you actually understand the logistical undertaking disappearing or imprisoning over 140 million people would be? Do you not think it's more likely that it's just not illegal to disapprove, and that they really do generally approve of their government?
I believe in your ability to figure it out. Hint: it's the same reason Putin has consistently high approvals in surveys
The 90% figure comes from the Harvard Kennedy School ASH Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation. There is no fucking possible way you are suggesting that Harvard University is distributing CPC propaganda.
Mm hmmm
Read the Harvard study, it directly refutes this point of view and even charts some problems Chinese citizens said they have with the government. I cannot imagine being as ignorant as you lmao