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That’s supposed to be worse than the government controlling everything like in China?

it gets fun when you raise "government" is a variable that can be substituted with values that are not necessarily "Congress" or "the president"

China calls its government a State Council, Russia calls theirs a Duma, and the USA calls its one Microsoft. (Or Oracle, or Disney, or S&P 500...)

> China calls its government a State Council, Russia calls theirs a Duma,

Going with your example, the State Council or CCP only exists in name only. Xi, the emperor, is the government now just like Putin is the government for Russia. We might be puppeteered by corporations, but at least it's still a group of people who need consensus vs one flawed, megalomaniacal dictator - at least for now

That's a bold claim. Do you really think that the Chinese government has such capacity?

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