Re:How Hong Kong became a police state
by pphysch on Friday July 01, 2022 @03:27PM
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This supports my thesis that America's primary value is anti-authoritarianism and doesn't actually care about human rights.
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The diminishment of authoritarianism is a necessary precondition for human rights.
Complete nonsense. Authority is necessary to guarantee human rights when you are dealing with groups of more than ~1000 people. Anarchy at that scale leads to massive human rights violations.
Americans/Anglos are historically inept at governance and concluded that all governments are inept and evil.
I believe we’re facing a language barrier, not a core philosophical disagreement.
Authoritarianism is government by absolute (or near absolute) control of a single body. North Korea, China, Russia being prime examples.
De facto or de jure?
If de jure, than neither USA nor PRC are authoritarian because both have multiple political parties.
If de facto, than both USA and PRC or authoritarian. USA in particular is governed by an unelected establishment of NatSec/Finance/Oil elites; an oligarchy in the purest sense. Who elected Victoria Nuland and Jake Sullivan to orchestrate the Ukraine wedge?