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The term is pointless because it is only used to describe foreign countries.

The mental gymnastics of tankies knows no bounds, you get a gold medal for your disingenuous efforts. There's nothing that you can do to twist the reality. By every single measurable and observable metric, China is an authoritarian country by the purest definition of the word. The word "authoritarian" has a very clear, well defined, and straightforward definition that is objective and is applied universally. If you are really trying to sit here and argue that China of all places is NOT authoritarian then you're either too dishonest or too stupid to have this discussion.

What freedom does someone working for minimum wage, barely able to afford rent, and at the mercy of their employer to even be able to do that much experience? But also it’s impossible to separate any actual freedom in the west from the hyperexploitation of the global south; you are able to buy bananas or coffee with less than 10 minutes of labor because the dictators the US keeps in place in countries that produce them keep the price of labor and resources low

Three things:

1. Everything you said here applies directly to China. Every single word.
2. This analysis has zero basis in reality. It's like you get all your information from idiots on 2013 Tumblr or lefypol and pretend that's how the world actually works. By your logic, Xi Jinping is a American installed dictator since China is America's biggest trading partner.
3. That's not what authoritarianism means in this context. Authoritarianism is a system of government where power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small group, with limited political freedoms, strong state control, and little accountability to the public. It has nothing to do with how countries conduct foreign policy (and your understanding of modern American foreign policy can only be described as false, if you want to understand why then just ask).

You simply cannot argue in good faith that China today, under the rule of the CCP, is not authoritarian or is less authoritarian the US or the rest of the West. Doubling down on this take means that you're arguing against actual facts, and that's when you start crossing into clown territory.

I’m from a country with 2% of its population in prison or homeless. To call any other country (except maybe Saudi Arabia, Iran, some gulf states, and Russia)'s rules disproportionate is laughable.

Are you really that dumb or are you actually going to argue that poverty and crime = authoritarianism? If you don't understand what the word means then look it up and actually try to grasp the concept. I mean I literally spelled out the definition for you multiple times, but if you don't believe me, you can look it up.

It’s like a fish accusing another fish of being wet.

If you hold up a giant sign in the heart of Seoul that says "Lee Jae-myung is a pig", nothing will happen. If you hold up a giant sign in the heart of DC that says "Trump is a pig" nothing will happen. If you hold up a giant sign in the heart of Paris that says "Macron is a pig" nothing will happen. If you hold up a giant sign in the heart of Beijing that says "Xi is a pig" you're going to be arrested and punished. They are not at all the same thing, this is a false equivalency.

Read the wikipedia article.

Did you read the article? Because it doesn't all say what you claim it says, in fact, it's details are pretty in line with I and everybody else have been saying.

the evil communists needing to control everything and sending in troops to murder everyone who tries to ask for freedom

This is exactly what the article you posted says. Adding words to make sound absurd doesn't change what actually happened. It seems like you don't even know what happened.

You see the same short-circuiting of logic when you try to explain to a zionist why Oct 7th happened and they just go “They did it because they’re terrorists!” over and over.

You're using the same moronic logic as them, actually yours is worse because you seem to lack the self awareness to recognize it. What Hamas did on Oct 7th are indeed terrorist attacks that are entirely unjustifiable. With that being said, what Israel is doing now is also unjustifiable. You know what this is called? Consistency. The idiots that try to pretend that the Hamas terrorist attacks were justifiable are evil parasites, and the idiots that say that defend what Israel is doing by saying that all Gazans are terrorists are also evil parasites. Multiple things can be true at once.

In your case, the CCP killed a bunch of people in a massacre in 1989. This is an objective fact that is undeniable. Instead of condemning this event for what it was like a decent human being with the bare minimum level of moral consistency, you choose to repeatedly try to justify it like the idiots described above by repeatedly droning about "MUH CONTEXT"... without actually providing real sourced context that supports your claims. In fact, your own source shows you're full of shit. It's like you don't seem to understand that baseless accusing ignorance doesn't make something wrong or you right, nor does it invalidate the objective facts.

Those facts show that the CCP on June 4th 1989 committed an atrocity against it's own people. You can either be a normal, condemn it, and move on or you can be a scumbag who admits that you just straight up supports the atrocity, at least you'll be honest that way. You can't have it both ways where you pretending you're against the atrocity while defending it.

See, the next step is where you go “well it’s still bad cpp ebil” instead of developing any nuance or researching the political impact within China or doing further research into the various student factions and how it got to lynchings and how the other factions reacted

Ah, there it is. You did the thing again. You made another baseless accusation of ignorance while providing absolutely nothing... you know other than you either showcasing your own ignorance or dishonesty. How can someone take you seriously when you're detached from reality? How can somebody have a meaningful discussion with someone who thinks this atrocity is justified? How can somebody give you the benefit of the doubt that you're arguing in good faith when you're repeatedly dishonest about basic facts? The answer is that you can't, and you're clearly just a troll.