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There's lots of demand for protest in China, protest just happens to be among the few illegal acts successfully suppressed in China. The two countries are abso
by microcolonel 7y ago
There's lots of demand for protest in China, protest just happens to be among the few illegal acts successfully suppressed in China.
The two countries are absolutely incomparable on these particular points. Prosperity alone does not quell protests, most protests in the U.S. are decidedly bourgeois.
- resters 7y ago> most protests in the U.S. are decidedly bourgeois. Exactly. The US population is a model of complacency, so the US Government does not have to project much authoritarian force domestically. The narrative that there is a culture of dissent in the US is false and gets more false every day.
- microcolonel 7y agoThe U.S. is a massive country. You tell me: what class are people who can afford to take time off work, and pay to travel to other cities to complain about society?