• Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zip
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    40 minutes ago

    … huh.

    man.

    hate to state what some might consider obvious, but this is actually a novel thought for a critter like me–something that has been raised entirely immersed in bullshit propaganda for its entire life…

    but uh, wow, a lot of the propaganda I’ve had shoveled down my gullet all along has just been straight up false, hasn’t it.

    China was never the ‘bad guy’…

    They are literally upstaging the united states in every way. Quite possibly they have been for a long time and I’m only just now capable of seeing it since the illusion of civil rights and humane decency has gone up in smoke here in the US what with the government’s quiet repressive acts now becoming VERY VERY LOUD. >.<

    If China even is sending squads of state sponsored domestic terrorist masked goons to murder their own civilians like the US federal government is, people either aren’t making a lot of noise about it or their media control apparatus has kept a lid on it better than the US has.

    I would’ve been sarcastic about that in the past but now I am honestly and truthfully of an open mind here for possibly the first time in my life. I had believed my mind was open in the past but there are some presuppositions that have just … suddenly stopped holding water.

    If China really is better than the United States in every metric, I sure hope more americans will realize it sooner rather than later. I’m still gathering information, though.

    Damn. I remember a time when I actually believed that ‘social credit system’ horseshit. Now I know that there was only ever ONE municipality that tried to do with it what the anti-china propaganda implied and they were punished for it by the national government because it was a stupid thing to do, and that otherwise ‘social credit’ was only ever proposed as an accountability system for public officials, not for personal individuals just living their every day lives.

    Kinda expecting people will come out of the woodwork on here to dunk on me for my ignorance, though, one way or another ._.

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      16 minutes ago

      So, because the US is regrettably inching toward authoritarianism, the fully authoritarian state was the better one all along?

      Is it because of innumeracy that people seem to have such a hard time grasping the magnitude of evil?

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      21 minutes ago

      You remember tank man? Can you give me any reason to think they wouldn’t do the same today?

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      3 minutes ago

      Nah they’re all the “bad guy” in different ways. I guarantee this is not some altruistic act. There is a political and economic reason.

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      1 hour ago

      Good policy for bad (or at least not principled) reasons. It’s for money. They consider Israel “high risk” because of the war. China doesn’t give a shit about human rights. They send their own Muslims to concentration camps.

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      1 hour ago

      The literal hellscape on earth North Korea is right next door, they just recently got done executing citizens for watching a TV show

      There’s obviously more to this

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        When they finished executing all those people who watched the show, they executed the people who caught them, for having seen the show too. Then they executed the judges for knowing what a TV show was. Then they executed me for posting about it. (I got better)

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                46 minutes ago

                Do all the countries you believe ridiculous things about happen to be enemies of the US that you’ve never been to?

                I was going to add “or met someone from”, but you could probably find a Cuban in Miami who’d say Castro executed their entire family for watching tv.