> and by extension the West, there is nothing comparable to this going on.

Maybe today (we don't know now, we will know in the following 20 years), and maybe not in US soil (even if you said "by extension the west") but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_state_terror...

Etcetera...

Pretty much FU stuff for "Western plural democracy".

You're right, total false equivalence. Plain clothes thugs hired or forced to show up in person, and you can assume plain clothes users are hired or forced to comment online too.

It's how they stay in power, a living army ready to deploy for anything that makes them look bad.

Sure I'd do the same for my country, but the difference is I am not forced to do it. I choose to defend our values while earning a decent living.