• go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    By “trustworthiness” do you mean continuing to try to vote our way into policy which benefits the American people? Because that hasn’t worked in 40+ years.

    Yeah I’ll take a “dictatorship” like China if it means we get socialized Healthcare, 25,000 miles of high speed rail, affordable housing and nationalization of corporations who have received billions if not trillions in subsidies. American “democracy” certainly hasn’t delivered on any of that.

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      45 minutes ago

      Then move to China, because the chances of a dictatorship running your way are next to zero. Dictatorship means no accountability, so once it’s set up, they do as they please no matter what you say.

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        12 minutes ago

        Then move to China

        If I spoke mandarin fluently and had a solid support network of friends and family i would. 🤷‍♂️

        Dictatorship means no accountability, so once it’s set up, they do as they please no matter what you say.

        Show me all this accountability here in the United States. A known pedophile is in office and the previous guy in office spent four years giving a huge number of his voters the finger.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        13 minutes ago

        From the recent Perceptions of Democracy survey:

        China is one of the more comprehensively democratic countries on the list, with some of the fewest glaring weaknesses.