I think any discussion about China being a democracy or a dictatorship can’t work at all if you can’t figure out the definitions communists use.

Like “China says they are a dictatorship, so they can’t be a democracy”, but communists define every single government as a dictatorship, only changing what social class is in power, so what even is the point on nitpicking a word that for them just means “well, there is a government here”?

As for “democracy”, I don’t know if communists have another definition for it, but if you want a government where “power is held by the people” and you believe that every government is a dictatorship, then the only option of a democratic government you get is a “dictatorship of the people”.

Even if we reach the day when AI could replicate everything perfectly, I imagine people will still get annoyed at being showered with sneaky Turing tests everytime they wanted to interact with other people.

And I say that as someone who doesn’t hate AI.