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Good one...

Goodbye

Stop trying to sell me China

I'm not comparing it to anything, I'm judging it at face value, and it doesn't pass the smell test. It leads to countries with a one-party system getting scored +5 on pluralism. That 'does not track'.

You can look into their methodology

I did, my opinion is that obviously that's not a very smart way of conducting the questionnaire.

Thanks for the link, my point was that posting random pictures without context/methodology/sources is not very helpful.

So the questionnaire asks people how positive/negative they perceive the categories in their own country, I'm not really sure that methodology works very well for oppressive countries.

cool... cool...

Did you read my dictionary link?

That's your context, I brought mine. That's what happens when context is missing (and that was OP's point).

Linus Torvalds is a BDFL. dictator can have many meanings: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dictator

Not all different meanings have to do with 'me having my rights taken away'

You're just missing context.