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Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by jimmaswell on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:16AM (#23320288)
> people in the US kind of have them sometimes, assuming they’re the right color or have enough money

Complete hyperbole. Squint as hard as you can but the poorest minority in America is still better off than almost anyone in China. Yes we have a racial profiling problem but on the whole we have our rights much more than "kind of sometimes."

Yeah, we have an incompetent administration this time around. At least we have real elections with more than one real candidate.

Last part is a total non sequitur and would make as much sense flipped around.

Re:China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers by bildung on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @03:46AM (#23320490)
> At least we have real elections with more than one real candidate.

For some definition of "real elections" - the voting suppression techniques employed in the US are study material in politics courses in other democracies.

* gerrymandering

* not allowing for remote votes by letter

* having votes on days that are not free for working people - this is interesting because many other democracies used that to discourage working class people to vote, e.g. Germany in the late 19th century. But most countries now mandate that votes have to fall on either sundays or national holidays.

* (Edit:) Felony disenfranchisement - this in combination with the war on drugs is a very effective way to strip voting rights from minorities, e.g. this isn't even visible in voting turnout comparisons between countries.

And the techniques work: The US has one of the lowest voting participation rates of all OECD countries.