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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by rayiner on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:17AM (#43075794)
What “democratic system?” American are checked by anti-democratic forces at every turn, from a judiciary that overturns duly enacted laws based on “emanations from penumbras” to an executive branch that is run by the same people regardless of who wins the election to institutions that are captured by people that abuse their positions to peddle their fringe ideologies.

At least China’s unelected bureaucrats are competent and actually focused on what’s good for the public: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-sur...

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by insane_dreamer on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:08PM (#43081064)
To paraphrase Churchill, "democracy is the worst system, except for all the others".

There's a lot you don't know about how things actually work in China. The levels of autocracy, corruption and lack of true legal framework, make the US look like a democratic haven.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by throaway89 on Monday February 17, 2025 @12:24PM (#43081252)
The US is a paragon of (domestic) democracy and (domestic) human rights next to China, and I say that as a HARSH critic of the West.
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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by emchammer on Monday February 17, 2025 @02:47PM (#43082651)
Would this be the same China where jaywalkers' portaits are automatically shamed on electronic billboards and fined social credits? Is that a worthwhile trade for universal single-payer healthcare?
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