No we are not, thank God. Would hate to have to pay 1000 dollarios a month for my insuline.

hexshits

c’mon, you can do better than this

Even if that were true, the content of Hexbear isn’t. Any time spent in thr news mega thread will show that we have comrades from the Balkans, South America, Africa, and from across thr world. And more importantly their perspectives and insights are valued and their posts are appreciated. So even if 80% of Hexbear’s casual readership was American, isn’t that a good dynamic - a site where the population of one of the most insular and propagandised countries on the planet is exposed to a truly international and diverse range of information and perspectives?

Which is irrelevant, because I’m not

So, all the neoliberal western countries that largely believe their democracies are also democracies?

I honestly don’t care if western neoliberal countries see themselves as democracies or not, or if they are democracies or not, since that’s not really my grievance with them anyway. However, in China the idea of democracy that is promoted by the Xi himself is one of majority rule, the same way nearly everybody uses the term. That’s the standard that Chinese people are going to be inclined to measure their government against, especially since their government has actively invited them to think of democracy in those terms.

Quoting Xi: “Whether a country is a democracy or not depends on whether its people are really the masters of the country. Democracy is not an ornament to be used for decoration; it is to be used to solve the problems the people want to solve.” (from a central conference speech he made in 2021, you can probably find the whole thing if you look)

That doesn’t sound far off from “western” notions of democracy, does it? That’s the idea of democracy that they’re being “indoctrinated” with over there, and what the vast majority of Chinese citizens believe their government lives up to.