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Hey, tankies, decent countries don't have to violently suppress their populations and then lie about it. Oh, and socialism is worker ownership of the means of production, not whatever the fuck they're doing in China.
(inb4 people assuming I must support the US since I hate China)
All states are fundamentally violent, what are you imagining to be a "decent" country where there is no violence by the state?
There's a difference between a country that has a monopoly on violence and can use that for enforcement, compared to a state that responds to people just making their voices heard with cannons and guns. A cat nipping my fingers is annoying. A lion gnawing my head off is deadly.
And that's where the difficulty lies.