Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: “when you tell white people they can’t do imperialism”.
Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition:
That doesn’t mean the Chinese government and Chinese oligarchs aren’t also exercising an unjust degree of control over their own citizens. The Chinese government surveilling its citizens and tightly controlling the flow of information is not being done out of benevolence.
Just vague, unsourced orientalism. You only feel this “in your gut”, because your are propagandized by western media to hate the enemies of the US.
Like a solid 4th of trek episodes involve some sort of transporter malfunction. I’m not getting in one either.
Spain’s government only recently started turning against the US, and this vote was in 2022.
As for Ireland, can’t say.
I used photoprism for many years, and while its great, immich ended up being much better.
Oof yeah, this chart needs updated.
many human rights violations happening in China
The PRC is a mixed economy, with the state-planned, socialist sector commanding the heights of the economy, and a smaller sector for capitalist development.
The Great Firewall is unequivocally authoritarian
Like the tooth fairy, there’s no such thing as “authoritarianism”, but even if there was, you’d have a difficult time making the case that allowing the US surveillance state to operate within your borders, is “anti-authoritarian”.
The US is more likely than any other country to harm you psychologically (or physically), coup your government, misinform you, or push far-right propaganda, all based on the information they gain about you and your peers through their spying platforms. India’s most popular social network for example, is Facebook, meaning the US controls nearly the entire social media and information landscape of a country many times larger than itself.
You can watch a vid here on why the PRC is not naive enough to do this.
Not just China, no country on earth should be naive enough to let the US surveillance corporations operate within their borders. Here’s a good video on why the PRC keeps them out.
But all these experiences tell me Chinese society is not accepting of even apparent criticism, which does not look like a free society to me.
The PRC doesn’t just allow criticism and freedom of speech, it acts on it, unlike western countries where everyone (arguably) has the freedom to shout into the void and change nothing. The CPC is the world’s biggest pollster, which constantly gets feedback from its citizens, and acts on them.
There’s nothing wrong with thinking highly of a country, especially one on an upward trajectory in so many ways: working to end world poverty, end dependence on fossil fuels via a green energy revolution, and put a stop to the low-wage trap that US imperialism has imposed on the global south.
The only reason these seem offensive to you, is that you’re propagandized to hate the geopolitical enemies of the US police state (and its vassals), so anyone saying something positive about them must be heresy that demands a public condemnation.
If I spoke highly of any other US enemy (like Cuba or Venezuela or the DPRK), it’d likely evoke the same reaction, but if I spoke highly of a neutral country like Tanzania, Malaysia, or Switzerland, it wouldn’t need the same condemnation.
Another badass version of this is from Omar Mukhtar:
I have this going continually.
Fill a quart mason jar with 15g of hibiscus flowers, add water, put it in the fridge, and wait till morning or evening. Filter it out into a water bottle, and repeat by adding more flowers.
Then once the jar is full after a week or so, make jamaica tacos with them.
Good of course, as long as the torrents stay seeded (at least to a certain ratio). I haven’t kept up with all these sonarr advances over the years.
Torrenters : Communitarian / communist, sharing to strangers for the communal good.
Service-enjoyers : Individualist consumers, paying to rent data (not own it) from capitalist media companies, shares nothing to the community.
After nazi germany defeated poland and their government collapsed and fled, the USSR either had the choice to let the nazis continue unhindered eastward, or to move forward. This action saved millions of lives from the nazi’s scorched earth campaign which included mass rapes. You can read more about this here.
Most countries of the world are capitalist. Most of them are poor or middle income.
Only a tiny number of them are in the imperial core, and fit most modern definitions of imperialist. Russia is not among them.