• finderscult@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    If you think China is fascist, you’re brainwashed. There isnt another explanation for thinking the most democratic nation currently on the planet is fascist.

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      2 years ago

      the most democratic nation currently on the planet

      Sorry, but I didn’t see anyone mention Denmark or Norway anywhere in this thread.

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        2 years ago

        Why would anyone mention racist petrocountries that are essentially Saudi Arabia but white?

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          2 years ago

          Sorry, I thought we were talking about democratic countries. Didn’t realise it was “make up whatever shit makes you feel good” time.

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          2 years ago

          Oh, so you did! I missed that.

          I’ll just say, having lived in Vietnam for quite some time, it certainly is a much better country than China, but describing it as “mixed” and “partially socialist” understates its issues. Corruption is rampant and open, and is the way of things in both the private and public sectors.

          As just one example, the Saigon Metro project began construction not long before I stopped living there in 2012, and was scheduled to finish in 2018. Rampant corruption with that project has meant multiple times it’s just stalled with seemingly no progress made for years, and the Japanese construction company hired to do some of the work threatened to pull out over cost overruns caused by the corruption. It’s a lovely country in so many ways, and its government is so much better than those that tankies usually love to praise in terms of the degrees of gross authoritarian bs, but it’s got a long it could improve in many regards.