• Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago

    Critical support for china, I always oppose the death penalty but if you’re gonna use it this is when you should. This kind of thing is also the point I use when people argue over whether China is socialist: yes they have a mixed economy, but! People in positions of power, including the ultra wealthy (although I appreciate this guy is a politician, not a capitalist) are actually held to account at least part of the time. This shit never, ever happens in the capitalist countries because these corrupt elites are who the system is designed to serve. Yes, these powerful people still get away with it in china, because they are actually powerful, but there is at least some will to do something about it in a way that there isn’t in our liberal democracies.