The UK’s 99 year imperialist lease was up, thus marking the end of the century of humiliation for the people of Hong Kong. Just yesterday I explained six ways to Sunday how misguided it is to call China autocratic/authoritarian/totalitarian, and why our governments and corporate media consistently tell us that it is that https://lemmy.ml/post/14407407

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a one-party state.

If the majority of the island taking to the streets doesn't count for anything, pick a better lie.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere

Whether a bourgeois democracy has two parties or a thousand, it’s still a democracy of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.

BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite.

So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.

This is not news, you say.

Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here's how they explain it:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ignore what words mean, pound the table.

Attack is not defense.