• Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    your name, face, age, money in your bank account

    Every developed country has this info on it’s citizenry, heck most developing countries these days do to. You’re arguing basic bureaucracy is totalitarian.

    where you spend your time, where you have been to, etc.

    And most countries have some means of keeping track of this too if they suspect you’re guilty of a crime. Again, describing this as some unique “evil” makes no sense, any sort of state administration does this, you have to prove it’s frequently being deployed in a extremely malicious way before you can argue any state is more “authoritarian” or whatever than any other.

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        Okay I take it you’re an anarchist then.

        Fine, but then you really shouldn’t be focusing on China. The US is just as guilty of this, more so I’d argue, especially if we’re not just arguing domestically. Whatever country you’re from is also guilty of this. Every country is.

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            The things you listed are so mundane it seems totally asinine to focus your criticism on China. You can literally say this about fucking Andorra 🇦🇩

            It’s like if you said you hated Bob but when I asked you why you listened a bunch of flaws most humans have and when I point that out to you, you retort “well I hate most people”. Okay, why are we discussing Bob then?