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Democracy is a joke, says China – just look at Donald Trump
“The rise of a racist in the US political area worries the whole world,” the party-controlled Global Times crowed this week ahead of of Trump’s victory in the latest round of primaries. “He has even been called another Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler by some western media.” It added, darkly: “Mussolini and Hitler came to power through elections, a heavy lesson for western democracy.”
Trump, or “Chuanpu” as they call him in China, has been a gift to Communist party spin doctors paid to convince the country’s 1.4 billion citizens that rule of the people is a sure path to chaos and destruction.
“They are relishing this moment,” says Zhou Fengsuo, a US-based democracy activist who fled his native China following the deadly 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. “They are very happy. They are laughing over this. To them [Trump] is a good character to show the deficiencies of the democratic system, that such a person could become president. It is just unbelievable. Beijing is definitely gloating over this.”
[...] Chinese newspapers, which have previously pounced on the Arab Spring and Ukraine’s Maidan revolution as evidence of the dangers of democracy, have wasted no time in hyping the potential turmoil that Trump’s rise could bring.
An editorial in the Chinese-language edition of the Global Times noted with glee that fighting had broken out at Trump rallies in what was supposedly one of the world’s “most developed and mature democratic election systems”.
[...] An editorial on another government-run website claimed Trump had “humiliated” the US political system. “He has turned the election into a prank,” it said.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Gravis on Thursday March 17 2016, @03:53PM
they are right that both Mussolini and Hitler were elected by they left out that they became dictators. they also left out that Ze-Dong Mao is responsible for the worst genocide in history [scaruffi.com] and we don't even know the exact number of how many millions of people he had killed. it's somewhere between 49 and 78 million people which is more than all the other dictators on the list combined.
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Monday March 21 2016, @09:29PM
He beat Stalin? How insulting to the man with the little mustache ;)
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday March 17 2016, @07:20PM
"Hey, that guy ordered a pizza with ananas!!! clearly, the menu is a bad idea"
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 17 2016, @07:38PM
Because pizza choice === "leader of the free world (bought and paid for)"
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday March 18 2016, @05:29PM
You mispelled ">>>"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 18 2016, @08:17PM
leader of the free world
delusions of grandeur.rtf
(Score: 2) by CortoMaltese on Thursday March 17 2016, @11:23PM
whoa whoa whoa, stop this nonsense, Hawaiian pizza is good pizza, all you pineapple haters can go suck on a lemon.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 18 2016, @08:13PM
I'll run for president and have all you damn pineapple pizza lovers deported! It's the only way to MAKE PIZZA GREAT AGAIN
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday March 21 2016, @04:32PM
It's even better with fresh cut pineapple and ham. Had it at a friends house after christmas one year. We ordered a regular pizza uncooked, cut up a fresh pineapple and used the leftover christmas ham. Smoked a bowl and consumed. Awesome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 19 2016, @10:56AM
"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS."
There was a time when TV news was a loss leader.
When it became a profit center, things totally went to shit.
The big problems I see:
Media deregulation (End of the Fairness Doctrine).
Media consolidation.
Thanks, Ronnie Raygun.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday March 19 2016, @11:26AM
The Intercept has had exceptional coverage of this relationship (see related articles at the bottom):
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/16/trump-campaign-ads/ [theintercept.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 19 2016, @07:42PM
I meant to mention that as well.
I will repeat a point I have made here previously:
In USA's History classes, they spend way too much time on really old crap that has little to do with
modern life.
They should jump straight to the short-lived boom of the 1920s and the subsequent bust of 1929 followed by the Great Depression of the 1930s and the worldwide threat of Fascism that that instability brought.
History has the odd characteristic of repeating itself after all the folks who remember the previous misery are all dead.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 21 2016, @09:37PM
What do they spend time on in the history classes of USA then?
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Wednesday March 23 2016, @02:18AM
I just heard that the Republican debates got picked up for a second season.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 22 2016, @08:38PM
In China, television doesn't have to turn a profit. It strives to entertain, instil a sense of national pride, and remind citizens that Japan is still the enemy. Check out the 2016 CCTV Gala if you've got 4:43 to spare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn02Kie0J6o [youtube.com]