Yes. I've been to China, daily life for regular people is mostly fine (bad work-life balance notwithstanding, as in other Asian countries). Nothing like the old stories from Russia (written by Russians, mind you) or even the relative material comfort but heavy-handed state control like in the GDR.
Daily life can also be fine in fascism if you don't belong to any "unpopular" groups and don't care about any. Until the customary war starts, that is...
> Until the customary war starts
It's good to know liberal democratic progressive countries such like the US would never start a war.
Perhaps the larger point is that war conditions are worse for everyone in autocratic regimes. Regardless of how common (or rare) wars are for societies of any given kind.
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