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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (40 children)

The US killed a million innocent people in Iraq just a few years ago, and is *currently * drone bombing several countries in ME and north africa, and is currently supporting the apartheid state of israel with billions of dollars in military aid.

The PRC has not been in a war since its skirmish with Vietnam in 1979.

The US has a network of > 800 military bases across the globe, and has been involved in regime change in nearly every country.

Which one is authoritarian?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    "They can both be authoritarian"

    "WELL USA INVADED IRAQ"

    Lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    you couped my country and made it undemocratic to this day and you can't even tell where i'm from.

    You can't either it seems since I'm not American. What's with assuming everyone online is American lol

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    What a ridiculous assumption, most of the world can speak English you know. Shame on this America centrism and people who perpetuate it. Shame especially on you since you accused me over your baseless assumption. Shame, shame

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I just dislike people assuming shit, especially dislike the America centrism. You can do better

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

    Pretty funny expecting everyone else to behave in a different way or speak some other lantuage to deflect your America centrism. Could just learn that other countries exist too, nah too hard

    Do better, friend

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    Not going around assuming stuff about people is sorta just basic good manners. It's 2025 my friend. You put youself in some pretty interesting company by demanding to be allowed to assume stuff about people. Smdh.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm against that in general and against US defaultism more specifically, which is assuming everyone is American. I just think the particular term is strained. Yank is much better for example

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    I just think it's a bit strained, it sounds clunky

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    I'm not a native English speaker, if that's what you mean

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't you be bothered if I incorrectly assumer you were a Yank?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wouldn't someone making that assumption bother you?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Uighurs

    Tibet

    Supporting Russia in Ukraine

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    Which one is currently genociding Uhygurs? Which one illegally annexed Tibet and Hong Kong? Both countries are authoritarian shit-holes.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    illegally annexed... Hong Kong

    what

    Like I can get not agreeing with it but illegally annexed how do you expect to be taken even a little seriously

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Nope, only one of them is a shithole.

    Which one illegally annexed Tibet

    I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs and slaves, suffering depredation under a god-king. I doubt many of them are sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is in exile. [1] [2]

    and Hong Kong?

    Entirely legal. In fact it would have been illegal for the UK not to hand it over.

    The UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate Hong Kong ended. A lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion. The last minute, US-backed attempt at color revolution failed.

    Which one is currently genociding Uhygurs?

    Neither, but one of them trained, funded, and organized terrorists in the region, and then made up a genocide narrative, and then imposed illegal sanctions on it using the fabricated genocide narrative as a pretext. Previously.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Idk if it's just me, but it's insane to bring up Uhygur genocide, which has not been in the news or mentioned at all for years, while we watch US funded Israel blowing up starving children on a daily basis.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There is evidence that China was oppressive to Ughyurs, but currently enacting an active genocide is a stretch.

    If you want an overview of someone cutting through the bullshit: https://youtu.be/cz9ICFDk8Js

    TLDW:

    • Likely cultural genocide
    • Philosophies that would make Westerner's mouth water - Forced assimilation / "Taming" the natives type shit
    • Western sources/"journalists" are dubious, twisting stories out of proportion or making shit up entirely
    • However there are plenty of testimonies from the Uyghurs themselves -- the sheer volume of which cannot be ignored

    Anyways, from what I've heard, China's dialed this shit back when they were first put on the spotlight. For whatever oppression China may have taken part of, it is not even a tenth of what the oppression the United States and other Western nations have been dishing out for the past few centuries.

    US genocided Natives to be born, and historically oppressed its own population (slavery, internment camps, etc) and has continually oppressed others (overthrowing democracies, genocide, crimes against humanity, etc)

    UK, Germany, France and other Western nations also love aiding genociders while also oppressing anti-genociders.

    France also has an obsession with trying to force Muslim women to undress in public, dictate how they dress. Lmao

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Look up the definition of authoritarianism. Bombing other countries is not the defining feature of an authoritarian government.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Terms like Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism were defined or entrenched by a lot of western supremacist authors, who needed to twist terminology in such a way that excluded the US (capitalism's worldwide enforcer and the cause of so much death and destruction) from any wrongdoing, while demonizing the colonial world who fought back against the US for their own sovereignty as "authoritarian".

    I highly suggest reading Losurdo's - Western Marxism, for an in-depth analysis of some of these white supremacist authors, and how they demonize the anti-colonial struggle.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We don't need anti-American propaganda, we already hate America, my guy

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You mean temporarily until Trump is gone so they can bomb brown people democratically

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I don't know you, you could've been a US dem or som EU 'social democrat' or whatever calls themselves lefties.
    I formulated the general sentiment of that group, overly represented on .world and crying about Trump's america.
    I'm not antagonistic to lefties, only the pseudo-lefties.
    If you're not one of then don't feel targeted.
    You would be part of a small minority here tho.

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