Comment by wvh
1 year ago
There is some political-philosophical irony that the Chinese prefer their government to do the blocking and take away their freedom, while the US prefers their monopolistic capitalistic corporate world to do it. A rose by any other name. Chose your friends carefully.
To trivialize totalitarian regimes that carry out terror against their own citizens, that can outright kill you and whole your family, by comparing them to capitalistic corporate world where, in the worst case, you can simply choose another, less fancy option, is the height of madness.
Your snide comment might have had some weight if there had been zero instances of the US government [0] or US corporations [1] killing people.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinations_by_the_...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite...
I'd feel a lot safer walking the streets of any city in China late at night than I would in any blue states "zero tolerance" "gun free" zone.
Many roads can lead to that hell. It's not because you take the scenic route that you shouldn't have some sense of awareness about where you might be headed. There is no us and them, just human nature.
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-asthma-medicine-lawsuit...