• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          176 months ago

          So people like you can have the illusion of freedom. Speech that cannot be translated into tangible action is not freedom. The people in the west have the freedom to scream into the void, but not the freedom to change their conditions. Anybody who can’t tell the difference between the two is so very lost.

          • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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            -96 months ago

            Than that’s a different freedom than freedom of expression.

            Do you think Chinese media outlets are able to effectively criticize the government?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              126 months ago

              Yes I do, and the fact that Chinese system has shown itself to be flexible and adaptable is proof of that. A system can only evolve effectively when it can be criticized in a way that lead to action. That’s how change happens. Western systems are the ones where effective free expression is forbidden, and that’s why they’ve ossified and the ruling class no longer even pretends to care about public opinion.

    • @pancake@lemmygrad.ml
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      96 months ago

      Nah we are basically immersed in a housing crisis, so no right to that. And every time an actual leftist party succeeds, our media basically unite against it while pretending to accept them. You can call it a “lesser evil”, but I would even doubt that, since China is probably talking about us the same way we talk about them.

      • @vfreire85@lemmy.ml
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        66 months ago

        And every time an actual leftist party succeeds, our media basically unite against it while pretending to accept them.

        you’re having it so good. here in the periphery of the capitalism we are just putsched whenever a marginally leftist party gets elected, with active help from the department of state.