Is anyone actually surprised by this?

  • Ulrich
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    -332 days ago

    The CCP is significantly more oppressive, gives zero shits about human rights or trademarks or really anyone at all. The US at least pretends to care.

    • @[email protected]
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      The US is in the process of deporting all its migrants and threatening invasions on half the world.

      I get that gringos don’t want to own up to their complicity by inaction but you oughta stop pontificating about how other governments are worse. Unless they’re called Israel, they weren’t before and they sure as fuck aren’t now.

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          Lmaooo hurting gringos feelings is being racist? Y’all have had concentration camps for longer than you’ve been without them, you know their fucking addresses and they’re still there.

          Do forgive me for throwing y’all’s opinions on racism in the dustbin.

        • @TheTetrapod
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          You cannot be a serious leftist and pretend to be offended by a little “anti-white” rhetoric.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 day ago

      Based on what? The US imprisons more people, kills more people, tortures more people. The only way to argue that China is more oppressive is basically to start with the assumption they are and then work backwards to justify it.

      • Ulrich
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        -51 day ago

        I listed a handful of reasons above, of which no one has denied or refuted. Just downvoted.

        • @[email protected]
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          Actually you didn’t. You listed a bunch of accusations against China (which were refuted, you just ignored that), but you didn’t even try to explain how that’s more oppressive than the USA. Even if all your accusations were true, the US is still more oppressive.

          • Ulrich
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            -61 day ago

            I see you are sticking with the pack here and going with generic denial and ignoring my arguments rather than actually refuting them.

            • @[email protected]
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              31 day ago

              Lol, everyone can see that both I and others have refuted your arguments. You pretending you can’t see that only makes you look like a sore loser.

              • Ulrich
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                -31 day ago

                I’m not pretending. I actually can’t see them.

                • @[email protected]
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                  21 day ago

                  I’d say that your client must be broken, but you’re managing to reply to me, despite claiming you can’t see my posts.

      • @[email protected]
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        The truth is out now.

        What truth? Who talks like this and thinks it means something?

        • @[email protected]
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          132 days ago

          For the past week the people of China and the United States, as well as other countries have been comparing notes. Debunking propaganda on both sides. Realizing that much of what we’ve all been told for years/decades, has been lies.

            • @[email protected]
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              142 days ago

              For starters, that the Uyghur genocide is yet another piece of atrocity propaganda from the US. We know what a genocide looks like and how it’s impossible to hide in the modern world, as Gaza showed.

              Blurry satellite pictures of buildings and a German fascist swearing it for ten pages (financed by Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin) isn’t proof.

                • @[email protected]
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                  41 day ago

                  Because there are some functional governments in the world that don’t allow US misinformation to spread without challenge.

                  They also suppress Falun Gong, are you telling me that’s in and of itself proof that their cultist shit is one hundred percent true? If so tell me so I can laugh my ass off

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -216 hours ago

                    So according to you it’s the job of a functional government to select which topics are missinformation and can be seen or not by it’s citizens?

                • @[email protected]
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                  Lmao. Mehdi Hasan is an opportunist. You can check Uyghurs living in China rather than ones deliberately selected by a known ally of the US, Qatar. Extraordinary claims require proof and I haven’t seen anything other than hearsay, which is the first weapon of the CIA as with Saddam’s WMDs and Park Yeonmi’s claims of the DPRK making people pull trains by hand lmao.

                  If you have any evidence that isn’t “I swear they do it”, I’ll be waiting. Though not holding my breath.

                  • @Eldritch
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                    Oh believe me I have. Medhi Hasan is just a quick easy link to see if you were being genuine or not. Not. One of my favorite YouTubers lived in shenzhen. She doesn’t post anymore. Because she and her partner who happens to be a trans Uyghur we’re physically threatened and called out by the government for mild criticisms. Which is extremely sad since she was very good representation for people in China in general. And would have shown that the government of China isn’t as bigoted and racist as it obviously is had they simply not been so insecure that they couldn’t take such mild criticism.

                    Oh by the way congratulations on your fallacy. Attacking the messenger. You didn’t refute anything from the segment. I mean I would have been surprised. Let me tell you floored if you had. But we know better than that.

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          I’m not here to defend the Chinese government or anything, but there is an argument to be made that the US has an equivalency to each one of these things.

          CCP officials at tech companies - NSA backdoors

          Uyghur slaves - Prison labor aka war on drugs

          Taiwan - Gaza/Literally any “3rd world” nation with oil

          Censorship - Right wing media empires/red state bills targeted to downplay US atrocities taught in schools

          Retaliation against protestors - Police brutality Social media censorship - Oligarchs owned social media

          I think a lot of people are less falling for Chinese propaganda and more overcoming US propaganda.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 days ago

            With the caveat that we have tons of actual evidence for the US equivalent, whereas the claims that China does those things are usually “We absolutely swear they do bro” from the people who swore Hamas was raping babies or whatever.

          • Ulrich
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            -132 days ago

            If you think any of those are remotely the same, you’re simply delusional.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 days ago

          ’d love to be wrong.

          No you wouldn’t. If you were, you’d have listen to the many people that probably have corrected you on all those State Department talking points

          • Ulrich
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            -72 days ago

            That’s never happened. And being that you haven’t either, I think it’s a fair guess that it won’t anytime soon.