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I really get extremely tired of this kind of thing. Obviously I mean the CCP when I say 'China'. Why does nobody say this when people criticise other countries?
by barnacled 6y ago
I really get extremely tired of this kind of thing. Obviously I mean the CCP when I say 'China'. Why does nobody say this when people criticise other countries?
In nearly all parlance talking about countries you reference those countries directly 'the US invaded Iraq' for e.g.
It's a shorthand for 'the govt of xxx'.
- ekianjo 6y ago> Why does nobody say this when people criticise other countries? because most other countries we talk about have some kind of representative system where the people actually have a say in who governs them. Of course it's all relative, no representation is ever perfect, but in a dictatorial regime there's no representation at all.
- barnacled 6y agoYeah sure, I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point. Oh wait. Why aren't you saying نظام instead of Iran? Why not 'Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela' instead of Venezuela? Come on man.
- ekianjo 6y ago> , I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point. For Venezuela, people did vote for Chavez in the first place right? Which then made the turn to dictatorship. Which is what you should expect when when you elect a Marxist.
- high_density 6y agoit's to separate 'the Chinese people' from 'the CCP'... the Chinese people are the victims, CCP the perpetuators. A lot of people confuse this distinction, and do racial behaviors thinking they're doing good for the world. And yes, the same should go for Iran and Venezuela. But it's easy for CCP because they officially made the acronyms by themselves...
- CyanBird 6y ago> Oh wait You do realize that Iran is a republic right? They hold legislative and executive branch elections every few years with different political parties and all....