False. The US prison population (relative to total population) is more than five times superior to China's. US prisons are for-profit and lease prisioners to perform slave labor for other companies.

China is not only freer than Trump's US, it is freer than Obama's or Clinton's US.

By the way, US elections have only two viable parties by design. Billionaires control the media and campaing funding. The system allows two choices for the people:

Republicans: the entire world, including its natural resources and its people, is the private property of 100 persons.
Democrats: Agreed! But we impose gender quotas on this 100-persons elite. This makes us democratic (TM).

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Shit redditors say 😂

If the US acted more like China y'all could actually be the best country in the world like your delusional population believes.

Rising standards of living, life expectancy, housing for everyone, affordable healthcare and fresh produce. What horrors, they don't even poison themselves with hormone burgers bro.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What on earth do you mean by "totalitarian?" China's a democratic country, if the US was acting more like China we'd actually have good infrastructure, manufacturing, democracy, and a coherent plan for the future. Sadly, the US isn't a socialist country.

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world -5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

China's a democratic country

You know how America's two party system is bad and really just a shadow of democracy?

China has a one-party system.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 hours ago

Democracy doesn't mean "the ability to vote between parties," it means the ability for the people to dictate policy. Socialist democracy cares far more about the latter than the former, while capitalists sell the lie that the former is what democracy even means to begin with.