Way too spicy for .world. They still think Stalin killed 10 gazillion innocent Ukrainian children for absolutely no reason.

Remember the weather underground? About then

Well yeah you finally have the knowledge that this earth isn’t worth living in and finally overcame your body’s built in instinct to not die, and some assholes literally force you to stay alive by grabbing onto you like nearly every depiction of hell or hades that has ever existed including tying you to the bridge with ropes.

The lower tiers vote for the higher tiers, and anyone can join government.

As far as your concern, there’s a reason the government in china actually works, vs the US that stagnates for decades.

Only actually qualified people have power. You prove yourself over years. Xi, for example, has a doctorate and decades of proven experience; and that was after winning his external elections.

to compare to to western democracy, you don’t vote for prime minister, the people you voted for votes for prime minister. Just add a few layers with publicly auditable and contestable elections.

You have to agree communism is the goal, that’s the party. Within that party are hundreds of factions that are all striving for votes so china gets to communism in the way they think is best. That’s the democracy.

Its like if the US formalized an oath to continue being loyal to the US into a single party that you have to join in order to be in politics; and from there split into dem/rep parties. You’d still vote for factions and reps, but all of them would be required to at least have the same ending goal in mind.

It prevents people like trump from getting far, as keeping up appearances isn’t really possible the longer you spend in the party.

There are of course downsides to this approach, but a lack of choice isn’t really one of them; you just don’t get to vote for the destruction of the government or country.

That’s primarily why most people on lemmy that critically support the CCP post; to get people to realize their reflexive EvIlCHiNaMeNcOmMiEs bad is influenced by the propaganda they’ve been consuming for decades.

Its a democratic state made up of more people than the entirety of North America and Europe combined. There is no magic brainwashing power that exists in any version of our reality that affects 1.4 billion humans perfectly. So either they’re not people or maybe most of them genuinely enjoy their country and the good it’s managed to do for them.

Oh and since this is ml and facts can be said; the uighur population isn’t under going genocide. We know what a 21st century genocide looks like in a fascist state. The few thousand (out of tens of millions) arrested and allowed reeducation for legitimately going to Afghanistan and becoming terrorists does not a genocide make.

According to Pew, around 63% of men under 30 are single, with 32% of all men being single (and about half are married.). Around 57% of all US single adults surveyed (with about equal distribution of men and women) say they’re not looking to date at all. That’s a majority of men that are simply not on the market. Only 42% of single people are looking for romance at all. And the reason I single out men is because between men and women, men who ARE looking to date are looking for serious relationships, where as women are not. (based on majority responses.)

I’m sorry you are so sheltered that everyone that doesn’t conform to your narrow set of experiences is an incel, but the truth is most men aren’t dating.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valentines-day-5-facts-about-single-americans/

Its a lot more than the tiny incel community that is having trouble dating. The truth is most men don’t date anymore, they don’t even attempt to date. Its not about their expectations but the result of lived experiences as well as the culture they find themselves in.

There’s no pain from rejection if you never try, and without family members encouraging them to date or friends setting them up on blind dates there’s no actual reason to try. Relationships simply aren’t worth the risk or pain. Instead just hang out, watch porn to take care of basic needs, and never admit loneliness is a feeling; it probably won’t work out well for humanity but it works out well enough individually.