Comment by teiferer
1 month ago
> Who should you be worried about?
For Americans the answer is obvious since they are biased in this.
For everybody else, your question is valid.
1 month ago
> Who should you be worried about?
For Americans the answer is obvious since they are biased in this.
For everybody else, your question is valid.
Dont pretend americans dont need to be afraid of american government. look at the state of the place. A lot of them arent exactly thrilled with their current environment, job market, education, prisonsystem, gun laws, food industry, healthcare etc. etc.
the question is valid for anyone who cares for more than their own ass
I'm an American, but I do not think the American government being strong helps me or my fellow Americans. The less America can project its cultural and military power on the rest of the world, the better.
There are different kinds of strengths. There was a past American government that was strong enough to stamp out inequality and fight for civil rights. To overturn oppression and give everyone an equal opportunity to succeed. That's a strong American government I could get behind.
Economic inequality is higher than it's ever been in the US. The reforms you're talking about largely happened in the single term of LBJ, I don't think it can be extrapolated to the "US government"
> There was a past American government that was strong enough to stamp out inequality and fight for civil rights.
this is a hilariously naive rewriting of history, the government was very reluctant to make those changes. It's thanks to popular movements that those changes were made.
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That is quite a take, but I guess it's the perspective that the American education system indoctrinates.
Considering who has been their president for 2 terms, and most likely a third one, I really wonder.
All my life I heard American boasting their constitutions but now it's as worthy of my toilet papers.
Turns out the whole system is quite fragile when faced with people who have no interest in anyone besides themselves
The American government has caused the death of a lot more Americans than China has.
Cultural revolution?
How many Americans were killed during the Cultural revolution?
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After all of these years, no link between China and CoV2 virus was found[1][2]. Evidence points out that virus was originated few months earlier (September-October 2019) and outside of China. Wuhan was first city where CoV2 meet Swine Flu, which raised both infection rate and death rate (from 1.1% for CoV2 and 0.1% for Swine Flu to 5.4%).
Evidence points to Russia, where major incident happen at Sep 16, 2019[3] "Vector" BSL4 lab in Koltsovo (Novosibirsk), where unprotected first responders entered BSL4 lab and stole lab equipment. Then virus transferred to Wuhan by Chinese military police after joint training with Russian military in Koltsovo few weeks later after the incident.
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03982-2
[2]: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00353-8
[3]: https://thebulletin.org/2019/09/an-explosion-rocked-a-russia...
Ironically funded by US taxes, if you believe this hypothesis to be true.
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Please reconsider this comment. Calling one side superior and the other side insects really doesn't help with the discussion, and dehumanizing a whole swath of people really has dark consequences.
Yeah, sorry for being edgy. But remember the understanding of universal human dignity your comment is stemming from is not shared globally.
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Speak for yourself, in Italy we are also closer to US "culture", but I do see the US as a bigger threat than China, simply because it's closer and it directly affects our politics.
This sounds like you are urging people not to disregard racism when comparing superpower regimes.