As much as I despise the Chinese government and its policies, it does have one thing going for it:
We can do a complete 180 every 4 years, whereas they have a dictator. That stability is looking pretty appealing these days.
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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
U.S. or China… It’s a tough choice.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The dictator thing doesn’t mean much - the Chinese dictator seems to have the best interest of China, it’s economy and it’s people at the top of his priorities as far as I can tell, whereas the US’s wanna be dictator cares about nothing but to enrich himself and his rich friends - not the long term success of the US or it’s citizens.
I would happily resurrect Augustus and have his as the dictator of the US - but the problem with dictators isn’t exactly the fact it’s a dictator (assuming it’s not a bad one), it’s more of the fact that succession doesn’t really work and you never know what you get next.
After Augustus, Rome had to deal with Tiberius and Caligula, then after Cladius, Rome had to deal with Nero. And so on and so on.
If the Republican/Conservative party wasn’t so utterly broken and filled with the absolutely worst fucking people, maybe this democracy thing would work better, but here we are
RubicTopaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You have a dictatorship; it’s called a dictatorship of capitalists. China’s state, even after Deng’s reforms, has managed to stave off complete takeover by capitalists.
Your elections don’t matter much; it’ll always slide to the right so long as capitalists control the state.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You don’t have to be friends with them to use them both for leverage
yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
How is that even remotely a tough choice. China acts rationally and it has a stable government. Meanwhile, US is disintegrating in real time and unless Canada diversifies its trade then it will be going down with the ship.