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[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yeah sure, unless you hold a picture of Winnie the Pooh in public. You'll be arrested and imprisoned/disappeared for life... Or say anything about tiananmen square. You'll get 7 years but for sure will be disappeared shortly before release. That's the quality of life Lemmy users crave 😂😂😂

Edit: BRING ON THE DOWNVOTES YOU HYPOCRITICAL AUTHORITARIAN WORSHIPPING TANKIES

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can’t it be both? Can’t it be that there is higher life quality and also the regime can be bad? I mean I feel like there’s room to criticize both. And then reflect back on one’s own country.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

Yes, of course. But it's very important for some reasons to strongly associate better quality of life with poor political freedom.

You know: just so that no one asks to take the good parts only.

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] noxypaws@pawb.social -1 points 1 day ago

Dude. that is not the preferred nomenclature.

[–] blackberry28@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well yeah sure China is not a utopia, but at least they have universal healthcare. I'd rather not be able to talk about certain things than not being able to afford medical bills. Imagine going into generational debt just for calling an ambulance. Just recently I read an article here on Lemmy where 92% of all US-Americans postpone going to the doctor because they can't afford the bills. If this is not textbook sh*thole country, then I don't know what is lol.

And no, I am not glorifying China, I just think the comparison between the US and China is very interesting, because of how China is portrayed by Western Media often as a development country and how they lag far behind the Western World in terms of quality of living. Meanwhile the quality of living in the US is rapidly declining, although it is such a rich country and could easily afford at least the same standard of living you can see in Western Europe.

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So if Trump introduced universal healthcare in exchange for not being allowed to criticize his regime YOU'D BE ALL FOR IT? WOW