• Sahwa@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    this is a measure attractive to totalitarian regimes, it won’t be so easily supported by or implemented in Brazil, India, and South Africa.

    And the countries you mentioned are smaller than China economically, and their political stories in the past and present are not good either.

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      1 year ago

      it’s not about being “smaller than”, this is not agar.io. They are ideologically very different than China and Russia. That’s like saying China can buy out English politicians to do whatever they want because they have a larger GDP.