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Re:China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton by tirrex on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:59PM (#26607828)
Nobody cares what you call it whether dictatorship, authoritarian or most democratic country ever.

Parent says “you get dissappeared if you say anything about government”. When that is true, we call it dictatorship. Terminology does not matter. We are talking about practical results of it.

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Re:China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton by endisneigh on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:03AM (#26607841)
So any country that can disappear critics is a dictatorship?
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Re:China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton by labster on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:18AM (#26607907)
In practice, usually yes. I suppose there are a few counterexamples like Aristotle, though he was disliked for anti-democratic views. But even in the feudal era, kings couldn’t just go murder lords who opposed them. Not without an army.
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