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Re:Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of ... by JumpCrisscross on Monday July 09, 2018 @12:18AM (#17487943)
> China doesn't have (and never really had?) these features

It used to, sort of. An immortal Party ruled over the state. Now it's devolved into a dictatorship, with the predictable pitfalls thereof.

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Re:Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of ... by forapurpose on Monday July 09, 2018 @01:01AM (#17488074)
> Now it's devolved into a dictatorship

It's never been otherwise. It's returned to a hard dictatorship from a soft dictatorship, and appears to be shifting from authoritarian to totalitarian. I'm not sure if Mao's rule is properly termed 'totalitarian'.

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