Comment by actionfromafar
13 days ago
China has no free speech and will start flexing its imperial muscle more now that the US is climbing down from the world stage.
China is alright if you keep your head down and you're not of the wrong ethnicity, locked up in a work camp and not allowed to have kids, or too openly gay or trans and so on.
Ah, so you do have free speech, I take it? Unless you criticise a certain assassinated far right activist, of course.
And don’t even get me started on flexing an imperial muscle. South America and the EU would like a word.
The irony is that you are posting your comment on an American forum.
I don’t see the irony, frankly. I’m pretty sure any journey to the USA would end at the border for everything I have written on this American forum.
The history of civilization over the past 5,000 years proves that China has never been an empire of foreign aggression. On the contrary, look at the 300-year-old modern history of the United States. Take off the tinted glasses of racism and savor it for yourself!
China has literally has been an empire most of it's history. It's like the 3rd biggest country on the planet. Just Tibet itself is huge and was absorbed into China not so long ago.
US is regressing on trans rights, abortion, etc. Free speech is under threat with the president “attacking” media institutions. You have daylight murder by federal agents followed by propaganda campaigns to blame the victims themselves or on the Democratic Party to create more political friction.
No one is saying China is perfect in these threads, we’re just saying the US isn’t necessarily better. Two countries can be shitty simultaneously.
Two countries can be shitty but the US hasn’t yet put a million of its citizens in jail because of ethnicity. Maybe going there in the future. That won’t white wash what China is.
The US, with around 4% of world population, has around 25% of the worlds prisoners, vastly higher in total and percentage wise than China.
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> but the US hasn’t yet put a million of its citizens in jail because of ethnicity
Even current events show this to be false, let alone: Jim Crow, Japanese Internment, Native American reservations, etc ...
It has put like 3 million, a quite a lot due to their social class. Disproportionately impacting a minority ethnicity in the process.
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As the bard said: "You think your living in the land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy."