That's 2 words non US people usually don't think when they think US. Democracy is literally the last thing that would come to my mind right now.

Lol, you can shitpost anything about any politician in the USA. Hang any flag on your car, house etc. and you will be fine. Try the same in China.

You can shitpost but the algorithm will make sure it doesn't get read :)

Huh? Does that negate the missing democracy, the political distrust and the political censorship within your country?

I am happy for you and your flags.

However I didn't claim that china is more "free" just that the US definitely isn't seen as that from the outside anymore. It's not always a direct competition

> Edit:// "In principle" chinas gov stands for stability, economic development and national unity...

As did Stalin, Mussolini, Hirohito and the National Socialist Party. It's the "how" that matters.

Exactly. What's the big idea to be strong and stable when you have no respect whatsoever for human lives? You can just kill the competition!

Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator is a piece of art that demonstrates this absurdity in the best possible way.

No, Mussolini openly despised democracy.

Please don't be teaching history without having spent even 5 minutes learning it :)

Perhaps you might spend 5 minutes reading the quoted comment again and note the absence of "democracy".

Given the last few days, As a EU citizen I'm not so sure such distinction is fully accurate anymore. And I'm pretty sure in 2 to 3 years from today the distinction will be even less noticeable.

I wouldn't trust a US data company to not capitulate to... "personal requests" by Musk or Trump any more than I trust it not happening in an hungarian, russian, turkish or chinese one with their respective leadership (official or otherwise).

You mean the one where the nazi is in charge? The one that bankrolled all the right wing terrorism and mass killing of farmers in my country? Is that the one I should be trusting more?

> at least in principle one of those foreign nations stands for free speech and democracy

Only of of them is hypocritical, that's it.

That's actually funny.. considering that the main reason TikTok ban was proposed was the lack of censorship of sensitive topics like a certain genocide