My brain had to do a hard reset after reading that. Thanks, I hate it, lol

Depends on the application. It’s a tool that has necessary use cases, but just like you don’t need a sledgehammer for a nail, you can certainly make things worse by using it, or slip into excess. I support the right of the oppressed to use violence to liberate themselves, and the right of those to use violence to free the oppressed.

You can read the chart: incarceration rate per 100,000.

Yes, I already told you that you can add or subtract variables, but the underlying metrics are valid nonetheless as the metrics themselves. “Do you approve of your government? Yes, or no?” Is a question that you can ask in many different countries, and collect data on. The numbers are not “invalid” because you disagree with the implications.

As for the Economist, it’s measuring freedom for capital to flow, not democracy. The Economist is a bourgeois liberal rag so old and consistent that Lenin described it accurately a century ago as a “journal that speaks for British millionaires.” Some things don’t change.

Again, what are you hoping to gain, here?

The numbers are measures of physical reality. You can expand the degrees tested, but that doesn’t mean the numbers were pulled out of thin air or were made up. There’s no such thing as a “coefficient of freedom,” you can certainly fudge numbers however you want to by adding or subtracting variables, but the raw data is very much valid data.

Again, this entire time you seem to be playing the contrarion for the sake of being a contrarion, you complain about Socialists and refuse to engage with Socialist theory. What are you trying to gain?

Elaborate. A measure of responses is a measure of responses, and these can be quantitatively compared.

They’re just a western chauvanist trying to absolve themselves of guilt by inventing reasons to bring others down to their level, regardless of bearing on reality.

It provided multiple studies and recorded responses to various questions, and the data is consistent across studies. In what manner is this not “even scientifically measurable?” Is a response not a response?

Genuinely, you’ve only served as a contrarion.

“Critical thinking” doesn’t mean test results aren’t test results, nor does it mean refusing to engage with Socialist critique on the basis of it being “propaganda.” You can certainly think of new tests that might shed new dimensions on the test results, but the test results are the test results, they exist and are valid for existing.

It isn’t, though. You have a hypothesis, so you need to test that hypothesis, not assume your hypothesis existing invalidates the test results. This is statistics 101.

You didn’t explain how Brazil is Imperialist, you just made fun of the person asking you to elaborate. You’re deeply unserious.

They are very confused.

Yea, I’m hoping they realize they are tripping over themselves just to be a contrarion, but I think that’s a lost cause now.

China is Socialist, again, as I said public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy. Can you elaborate on why you think this isn’t the case, or why you have a different definition of Socialism from Socialists, just like you did Imperialism? Did you invent your definition of Socialism too?

I also fail to see how rejecting Socialism as Socialism makes you a “better Socialist.” Is this some kind of purity thing, or are you just confused?

This should be improved with adding more countries, like Russia, then comparing with other important data, like freedom of expression, to be somehow relevant to any discussion

These would expand the data and make it more useful. There’s no missing data, though, the data as it exists stands on its own, it’s a comparison of different countries and approval, which is backed up in other studies on CPC approval rates among others.

You’re talking to a Marxist-Leninist, who knows what he’s talking about because he spends a good deal of time reading Marxist theory and studying the various Marxist countries and their histories so as to better understand how to bring about Socialism in the US. Whining about Marxists on a Socialist comm using the hammer and sickle as an icon is silly behavior, you’re going to find Socialists on a Socialist comm.

You played semantical games with Imperialism and Socialism. Your claims about the data having “literally no validity” weren’t semantics, they were just wrong, the data itself is good even if we can get more data elsewhere.

I genuinely don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. You call Socialist theory “propaganda” and then you ask how I earn money? What’s going on?

You gave suggestions for improvement then said as it stands it isn’t relevant at all, which I would say goes far too far. It’s useful, and accurate. I don’t know why you’re trying to play semantical games and try to snarkily avoid discussing Socialist theory on a Socialist comm.

What on Earth are you talking about? I live in the US, not the PRC, the US is Capitalist. What point are you trying to make?