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TIL: About the 2007 Chinese slave scandal (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/til@lemmy.ca

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Party officials and police worked to protect the slavers and stop the rescue of slaves from out of the province.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The top down nature of the authoritarian system allows corruption to flourish at all levels. One cannot pick and choose what parts are true Scotsmen.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You're not wrong.
But it's looking like the alternatives are also fertile ground for corruption, so this doesn't really render an effective criticism.

I don't like a 1-party system. I'd like a 0-party system, but I suspect in practice it'd either behave like a 1 party system or a typical western partisan system where people form voting blocks.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Such a youngster take

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Ad hominems are for kiddos

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 1 month ago

You are a disgrace to the name Makhno.