They’ve eliminated extreme poverty and are on track to eliminate poverty. Given even the poorest citizens don’t worry about rent or medical bills or food costs, their poverty looks incredibly different to that in the US.

…by seeing how shit is lives are in comparison?

I don’t think you understand how many centuries behind China the US is.

Fascism, according to Mussolini, is the combination of state and corporate power, the final stage of capitalism.

That’s, fine, it’s your choice to not use services.

That has nothing to do with anyone else. Simply don’t use the internet.

What is China going to do?

Hell with China’s track record, it’s better that China has it than the US government if you’re in the US.

No, it’s been that way for longer than you’ve been alive, unless you’re in you’re 90s.

The star of David was adopted as a Zionist symbol, not a Jewish symbol. Before ~1850 it would be ridiculous to conflate the two, and until the 1940s it was still incredibly controversial to link it to Judaism. It was ironically the Nazis that popularized the idea a hexagram should be the Jewish symbol.

Id love to leave it back there, except everyone on .world is celebrating the Tiktok ban because ‘those sneaky Chinese were stealing their data’. Half of .world believes China is a dictatorship with xi being a king. This level of propaganda didn’t end in the 1950s.

No, governments can be great. Fantastic even. Not fascist governments.

The United States, having just elected capital to have exclusive state power, is fascist.

You’d think so, but . world’s TOS is a poison that tends to enshittify all its comms eventually. It’s also absolutely not preaching to the choir on e.g. world or news .world.

This is a .world comm, anything that doesn’t repeat CIA introduced facts is usually banned for misinformation, and anything that threatens or challenges the world is that US capitalism is the best thing for humanity is banned and suppressed.

Assuming you’re lgbtq and still in the US, based on you being a blahaj user, those ordinary people are going to remove your right to marry, get medical care, or live openly as a member of the lgbtq.

Ordinary people, not evil people, not ideologues.

You need to recognize those ordinary people you trust were the ones to carry out some of the most evil acts, and all of them believed they were doing the right thing for the greater good. Or don’t and suffer. At this point some of you class traitors deserve what’s coming.

The US government used to take black people, tell them they were getting free medical care, and instead gave them syphilis and purposefully refused to treat it to watch the disease’s progression.

The US government, via the CIA, decided to infiltrate every national news outlet in order to influence what stories were published.

Both of these are proven facts, the last one is from declassified CIA documents.

Yes, there are some normal people in government. But the US government has done some of the worst actions of any group in history.

Bringing up comparators is not deflection. And no, you didn’t refute my claim. Self defense is not offensive wars. You can be peaceful while being forced into war. Peaceful does not mean no violent, simply not seeking violence.

Nixon created the EPA, expanded the national park system as well as explicitly protected the Everglades from development, and worked to transition from coal to nuclear power. He was the last of the conservativism = conservation conservatives.

There are accounts he primarily did all of this to just ensure his reelection and accumulate political capital and good will, but that hardly changes the fact he was one of the best US presidents in terms of environmental policy.

You know most people in China have unrestricted internet access, right? It’s the equivalent of a couple bucks USD a year for a cheap VPN, and it’s not a criminal infraction to bypass the country’s default restrictions.

No, Patrick, not everyone that disagrees with you is a bad faith actor.

That’s part of the problem with modern liberals, you’ve propagandized yourselves into believing you’re the only intelligent creatures and anything or anyone else that doesn’t agree must be subhuman idiots. It’s why you people constantly fail to secure even the easiest of support.

Right, when you choose to be black, people like you give it consequences. Your logic is flawless.

I’m not the person you were arguing with. Based on your argument, your words, there are no consequences for discriminating against black people, and shouldn’t be.

There are, if you include the law, but since we’re ignoring it to make your argument work, there’s no consequences.

When arguing something, trying arguing the opposite to yourself before posting.