one is an (admittedly hugely influential) private company and the other is the actual single-party government
The US has been governed by public-private partnerships for centuries. Trying to draw a line between the industry administrators that get promoted into every crevice of public sector bureaucracy and the elected politicians who depart office to serve as lobbyists and board members of private firms is a foolās errand.
Do we celebrate Chris Dodd the Senator and denounce Chris Dodd the chairman of and chief lobbyist for the MPAA? Do we applaud Hank Paulson the Treasury Secretary and denounce Hank Paulson the CEO of Goldman Sachs?
Americans seem to have no trouble drawing a straight line between Singapore-incorporated ByteDance and the Chinese Communist Party. Why canāt they see the connection between Howard Lutnick or Linda McMahon or Betsy DeVos or Elaine Chao and the businesses they own and operate?
Hey youāll get no argument from me. Iām on Lemmy for a reason. But itās still not the same as just straight up āthe government decides what is thoughtcrimeā
āthe government decides what is thoughtcrimeā
the owner class decides and they control both the corporation and the state.
You find this arrangement superior to Chinaman daddy modelā¦ which is fine, that is your opinion. But at the end of day, there is no much difference beyond who gets oppressed and for what reason.
You are appear to accept economic oppression as preferable because chinaman bad.
I think Iām about done here. This is why no one likes spaces like Lemmy. The absolutely condescending āUnlike you I understand the world, but youāre entitled to your worthless little opinion of courseā. Holy hell. Not to mention the repeated casual racism which Iām guessing youāre trying to project on me? Try to do better dude.