The post brings it up in the context of a particular candidate's opinions on China's mode of government and civil liberties

A western lib (or bombie)'s propagandized opinion on China's civil liberties, degree of democracy or mode of government are worthless if this person is not informed. I only focused the conversation on the public transit part because that's what's relevant to this community, but if you want to discuss how democratic China is in comparison to Europe, we can discuss the Podemos party in my homeland being destroyed by a state apparatus + private media manufactured plot of lawfare, we could discuss Alexis Tsipras not being allowed to enact the Democratic will of Greek people under threat of the Troika, we could discuss Berlin's popular referenda of rent control being struck down by the highest court in Germany, or we could discuss Macron using emergency constitutional powers to raise the retirement age in France against the Democratic will of the people.