He’s currently the only popular quasi left wing political commentator in the united states. Period. Like there’s a few others that average a thousand viewers, but realistically they have no power or influence; whereas Hasan has actually helped elect people and has fundraised more than most other independent campaigns.

Yeah, he could be more left wing, and yeah being just a step on the left wing pipe line is annoying, but he has more influence among under 35’s than any and all cable and network news hosts.

Given the boomers are gone (for the most part) by the end of the decade this is the demographic people need to court if they want any hope of being elected.

As in education? Yes. Yes I did.

If a news source posts something so incredibly stupidly, unwaveringly blindly evil and suggests that a country that happens to be your country’s rival is doing it, maybe stop. Check out the ‘news’ source, who created it and its motivations, and then maybe check to see how much logical sense something makes.

The most “evil” people on Earth still operate purely and solely logically. It is their own logic, but they still operate rationally. Non-rational people cannot keep nor really attain power, much less power over 1.6 billion people.

So if something seems completely illogical, then maybe the people reporting it aren’t good at reporting (best case scenario) or are trying to get you to believe a narrative and don’t care if it makes sense since their target audience is the most gullible (worst case scenario.)

With 1.6 billion people, 1.6 billion sets of eyes who have been trained since birth to overthrow corrupt governments and have been taught explicitly how to recognize corruption… maybe there’s some reason why their government has 80+% support out of that group. Maybe there’s a reason why one of the most educated populaces on Earth choose to support an ‘autocratic’ government.

But that just might be crazy propaganda and definitely the people that say Mao ate babies and Dr. Xi Jinping definitely was just a billionaire nepo baby that barged into the people’s congress one day and shot anyone that disagreed with his declaration of making himself omniking… maybe those people are right.

Your friend in Germany who hasn’t been in Iran for decades is definitely more up to date than the President of the United states… how exactly?

Child what the fuck are you talking about.

“Maybe people who have the most experience and expertise should be able to discuss those opinions openly so as to reach consensus as to what the “BEST” outcome could be for literally anything imaginable.”

This is Chinese democracy.

This is explicitly and exactly how the entire Chinese government is set up.

This is literally a distillation of the wikipedia about the chinese government.

I’m sorry you’re too blinded by hate and xenophobia to realize China is exactly the system you are wanting.

Get some mental health help.

You can just say you have no idea what you’re talking about.

1. China, by no possible definition of autocratic, is not an autocratic government. This is easily verifiable on which ever source of knowledge you like to view.

2. No, Rednote is not controlled by the government. Can they break chinese law? No. but that’s not any more being ‘controlled by the government’ than lemmy.world is controlled by the US, being a US hosted instance. Given the US has actually publicly started disappearing US citizens and started much more openly killing US citizens that are unwanted ‘minorities.’

3a) China has a rule, arrested people do not get to talk to the press while they’re arrested. This is to prevent public corruption and swaying public opinion before it can be determined whether a jury is needed and if so jury can be found.

And yes, China has jury trials.

This does not mean China ‘disappears’ people, unlike certain RFA propagandists tend to say (which is where you got this idea, a CIA propaganda outlet, this is the only place that has ever made this claim). It does mean when you ask Chinese police to let you speak with xyz, they’re going to say no.

Once the person has been convicted or released, you get to speak to them, as they can no longer influence potential jury members or judges.

3b) ‘Brutal oppression’ is pretty insane a term for what can only ever be described as ‘stopping literal US-backed terrorists from causing harm.’

The only possible incident you could possibly mean by this was the Xinjiang terror crackdown after terrorists from Turkey radicalized a dozen Muslim Chinese which resulted in the stabbing deaths of more than 40 police and civilians.

Along side this ‘brutal oppression’ (i.e. tracking everyone that had contact with the terrorists, having militarized border patrols along the entire western border, denying overland travel out from the western border without special court-reviewed permits) was also a massive investment in Xinjiang bringing it to a much higher HDI than Turkey. Hence why further radicalization attempts have failed in China.

Terrorists can only really form from disenfranchised oppressed peoples. By increasing their economic and material conditions, you eliminate terrorism at its roots.

Talk to a single chinese citizen.

You can download Rednote and do so right now. You used to be able to do so on tiktok but ironically most Chinese creators were banned from US feeds when Oracle took over moderation and algorithmic modifications after the backdoor deal.

A) No, No one has ever stated the number of arrests or executions are a state secret. It’s public information. There are actually few things that are ‘state secrets’ (which isn’t a term used by the CPC or NPC); convictions which are public information are not one of them. For obvious reasons. I don’t know where you even got confused here, because as far as I know even the most deranged RFA posts only suggest secret arrests as ‘off books’ arrests which are left off of the public record that all chinese citizens have access to. Like you are outdoing the CIA outlet in your delusional claims here little buddy.

B) The National Endowment of Democracy, an NGO formed by ‘former’ CIA collaborators, funded by an act of congress after a hearing with the then CIA director, and who has largely taken all public roles from the CIA since the Reagan administration (especially after Iran-Contra spoiled the CIA internationally) is an NGO that primarily funds pro israeli, pro US, anti communist, anti US enemy propaganda (in that order) internationally and domestically, allowing CIA operations to happen on US soil even before neutrality rules and domestic intelligence restrictions were officially removed in the 1990s and 2010s respectively.

Asking for a source that is not literally US state propaganda in order to verify your claims seems like it would be fair game. You choose to distrust Chinese state propaganda, but for some reason have fully based your entire identity on US state propaganda; even if it is so hilariously, obviously false.

When the ‘kurds’ (aka mossad) admit they received and distributed the arms Trump accidentally revealed they were sent, sure.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/6/trump-says-us-armed-iranian-dissidents-via-kurds-kurdish-groups-deny-claim

WHY DO YOU THINK CHINA DOESN’T HAVE DEMOCRACY?

It does.

And what’s ‘best’ is easy to determine. You get the corpus of people doing the job, all of whom have interest in not colluding on who’s best for at the job because they all want that spot, and they decide who is best at the job.

That is democracy manifest.

That is just not UNIVERSAL DEMOCRACY, because SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT KNOW A BALLCOCK FROM HIS COCK AND BALLS DOES NOT NEED TO VOTE ON WHO IS THE BEST PLUMBER.

Your incredibly terrible analogy only describes what is the best business to shop from, which makes sense that consumers of that business should vote for that.

But people that have never ordered a plumber SHOULDN’T VOTE ON WHO THE BEST PLUMBER IS.

In your own analogy you argue AGAINST UNIVERSAL DEMOCRACY AS NONE OF YOUR EXAMPLES HAVE IT.

You shouldn’t rely on people that know absolutely nothing about what they’re voting on to vote for those things. That SHOULD BE FUCKING OBVIOUS.

How do you determine the best etc? CONSENSUS BY PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAINED TO KNOW WHAT’S BEST.

There is an objective way to measure effectiveness at any job, period. If there isn’t, it’s not a job. It’s a hobby.

Pick the best, and when it’s unclear, you vote.

Hence Chinese Meritocracy, every union that has ever existed, and why China has better democracy than the west where every idiot votes on everything despite not knowing anything about the thing they’re voting on.

In short, THANKS FOR AGREEING THE CHINESE WAY IS BEST.

Edit: To be clear:

"Oh shit, looks like you need additional input to determine what the BEST even is in literally every single interpretation of it imaginable. Maybe you should hire a panel of experts to figure out who THE BEST IS at that moment. "

THIS IS THE THING YOU ARE ARGUING AGAINST. THIS IS THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AT ALL LEVELS AND LAYERS. THIS IS LITERALLY HOW THE ENTIRETY OF CHINESE SOCIETY WORKS. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU GAVE CHINA’S DEMOCRACY AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT CHINA SHOULD BE.

The “protests” that Trump accidentally leaked were started by armed agents of the US and Israel?

The “protests” that Trump explicitly stated he sent arms to?

The “protests” wherein armed militias attacked IRGC police, civilians, and in one instance a power station?

Those “protests?”

Maybe read before posting.

You entirely made this up btw

You are the one making outrageous claims, ones that are not reflected in a single legitimate source not funded by the NED.

Literally every single thing you’ve said here was wrong.

The majority of Party arrests in the last 5 years have been Xi’s appointees and supporters. (which isn’t surprising given he’s had majority support)

Also no, they don’t ‘reclassify’ anyone. They do not magically give people millions of dollars just to execute them, do you actually hear yourself when you have these thoughts or are you just a complete blank inside?

I still see ZERO SOURCES supporting your beliefs, and they are BELIEFS, by the way. Come on, just one single non-NED backed source and I’ll admit I’m wrong. Just one. One single one.

Victims are always the good guys.

Iran did nothing to provoke this war, and Iran has only targeted the infrastructure that has been targeted by the US and Israel.

They have allowed the Amerisraeli Empire to dictate the legal targets of war, and the escalation path of war.

He’s president for life. He no longer faces election.

This isn’t true.

He faces election every five years.

The change you’re confusing is there are no term limits, so he can be elected again in 2028, should the NPC so choose (which they won’t since he’ll be retired by then.)

The bourgeoisie can come from anywhere and any class. There is no background that makes you immune from becoming part of the bourgeoisie. But in the future I’ve got this handy trick you can use to identify bourgeoisie. I call it the “definition”.

Cool, Xi, and the entirety of the people’s congress falls outside that definition.

So what definition are you using that is entirely different from Marx’s?

China regularly murders all those who cross the party. Any sources to back up this claim?

Bourgeoisie and proletariat alike.

Except the death penalty specifically targets the Bourgeoisie, as it in was originally only envisioned for it and besides murder and treason there are no crimes a proletariat can perform to get a death sentence, period.

It’s not a virtue. That the party allows and supports the existence of such a petit bourgeoisie in any capacity is damning to anyone who isn’t a hypocrite campist. That you think the wealthy and powerful have no purchase or influence over themselves is cute though.

Everything here is unsubstantiated nonsense, I do hope you look into any independent sources to try to back this up though.

I’ve met people who themselves or their family been targeted by chinas government for oppression

Got any names or sources? I very much doubt it was ‘oppression,’ and not ‘they committed a crime that’s a crime everywhere and gave you a sob story.’

If you want to dismiss every non Chinese government source, that’s willfully ignorant, but consistent. Just like the liberals so many that glaze China claim hate while behaving so similar.

Give me a non-NED source for any of your claims.

Period.

Change my mind. Every single time I have asked this of a sinophobe, they have only provided NED sources.

So if you have non-NED sources, give me them.

Who do you think is the bourgeoisie in China and why do you think Xi, who has to win reelection every time and started as a farm boy in rural China is somehow an unanswerable dictator?

Like you understand China regularly executes billionaires, strips companies of their power and wealth, including and especially all executives, nationalizes the resources of the rich on a VERY consistent basis, and has no function for rich people to influence government, right?

Like you have actually researched how China’s government works from Chinese sources and come to your own conclusion and not just listened to NED (cia) funded organizations like RFA who regularly just make shit up with no sources specifically to create a negative view of China in order to justify sanctions and military action while demonizing the most successful example of actual democratic socialism to have every existed, right?

Only a complete ninnyhammer would just accept the conclusions drawn for them by the CIA and it’s leaf companies and not actually research how things work.

All things all governments release or effect, and all things produced to generate or provoke thought are propaganda.

Just this time the propaganda happens to be from the good guys in a conflict against one of the most evil empires in world history.

Hows that liberal democracy working out for you? I don’t think any leader in a western liberal democracy has had more than 60% support, and they’ve all been universally disliked by the time they’ve left office.

Almost like you objectively cannot determine the capability of someone based on a popularity contest with no actual rules.

Almost like you should have strict rigid standards and only have those with years of experience in a field vote for the best one amongst them.

Yes that’s generally how democracies are supposed to work. After filtering out the unqualified candidates there should only be one obvious choice.

There’s no question on who the best plumber or carpenter is, why should that be any different for political work?