Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
by barnacled on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:28AM
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Yeah sure, I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point. Oh wait.
Why aren't you saying نظام instead of Iran? Why not 'Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela' instead of Venezuela?
Come on man.
Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
by CyanBird on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:45AM
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> Oh wait
You do realize that Iran is a republic right?
They hold legislative and executive branch elections every few years with different political parties and all....
Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
by ekianjo on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:36AM
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> , I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point.
For Venezuela, people did vote for Chavez in the first place right? Which then made the turn to dictatorship. Which is what you should expect when when you elect a Marxist.
Re:What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
by high_density on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:42AM
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it's to separate 'the Chinese people' from 'the CCP'... the Chinese people are the victims, CCP the perpetuators.
A lot of people confuse this distinction, and do racial behaviors thinking they're doing good for the world.
And yes, the same should go for Iran and Venezuela. But it's easy for CCP because they officially made the acronyms by themselves...
because most other countries we talk about have some kind of representative system where the people actually have a say in who governs them. Of course it's all relative, no representation is ever perfect, but in a dictatorial regime there's no representation at all.