• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Lol

      I respect the Chinese people, their modern advancements in science and technology, their industry, their customs, and their rich history and culture.

      I do not respect a hostile dictatorship that rules over them all, and if they were smart they would not, either.

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        I respect the American people, their modern advancements in science and technology, their industry, their customs, and their rich history and culture.

        I do not respect a hostile dictatorship of corporate overlords that rules over them all, and if they were smart they would not, either.

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            “Whataboutism” is a term used to feel righteous while completely ignoring your bias.

            Admitting both contries are bad and then taking a clear stance between them is hypocritical at best.

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              “Whataboutism” is when you dismiss any bad of any one thing because there are other examples of bad things. In fact, you trying to deflect your bias as my bias is actually also whataboutism.

              If you don’t have any logical excuse for the bad thing, then you should stop standing up for the bad thing.

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          15 hours ago

          Vote in 60 dem senators and they’ll overturn Citizens United, limiting political donations, and they’ll tax the rich.

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            5 hours ago

            Not really.

            Dems are primarily sponsored by the rich and have to align with their interests. Out of two major US political parties, neither one is the party of the people.

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              HR 1 For The People Act - written by dems, passed by dems twice, blocked by Republicans.

              Before that the dems wrote the campaign finance laws in 1995 and 2002 which were the core of the Citizens United Lawsuit in 2007 where SCOTUS voted with a partisan split to allow any sized contribution, even Hillary Clinton was a supporter of undoing Citizens United.

              Even if the DNC isn’t your ideal peoples party, they are the party who can give you the option. Vote Dem.

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        They own and rule the dictatorship. It’s a dictatorship of the proletariat, wherein anyone can become a party member and participate. The US has a dictatorship of capital. How’s that working out again having a dozen billionaires writing your laws and controlling the entire executive branch?

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          No it’s a dictatorship by a small group that the rest of them are not in. It’s a dictatorship that demands the common people surrender all beliefs not sanctioned by the state, that demolishes holy sites, a dictatorship that forces minorities into labor camps. It’s a dictatorship that commits hostile takeovers of neighboring nations and allies itself with multiple other dictatorships.

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              China actually vetoed a UN Ceasefire resolution in Gaza in March, so much for peace.

              Not to mention Chinese close friends and allies North Korea is constantly firing missiles into the ocean as a method of stick-waving at demilitarized Japan.

              Honestly weird that you think Uighur Muslims all need to go to rehab and work long unpaid hours until they die. Not how a normal human with empathy thinks, generally.

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                The ceasefire resolution that didn’t free hostages held in Israel, enabled the IDF to indefinitely hold Gaza, and removed all self determination from gazans?

                Yes, even the Arab nations did not want that resolution, China, during the same sessions, called for an unconditional ceasefire.

                Lying about situations makes everything you have to say suspect.

                To your second point, you admit the US is committing genocide in Gaza. Right? We’re blaming countries for things their military allies do now, so the US is genocidal, according to you.

                To your third point less than 5% of the uighur population has ever been arrested, xinjiangs city council is mostly uighur Muslims, and no american gets to tell anthother country how to handle prisoners, given us prisons are worse than pretty much anywhere according to the UN, and the us arrests more minorities as a percentage of each minority population than China is claimed to have, much less the reality.

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                  I’m sure those gazans are really enjoying all the extra freedoms they’ve had in the last 9 months. /sarcasm

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                    Given the resolution would have had the same result, hence why everyone but the US opposed it, sure.

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                Have you never learned literally anything about Tibet? Check out the wikipedia sections for pre 1950s Tibet, or simply Google Tibet given the news stories about the dalai lama tonguing a kid on tv.

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                Because I don’t buy us propaganda? Are you okay little buddy?