But, imagine, if my government is evil, how evil the barbaric hordes must be 🤯
Yes, China is an AUthOriTaRiAn country, but the US don’t have even a 10% of civilian rights as Chinese people have, in education, healthcare, culture, housing, etc…
Example of civil rights in China
To say nothing of the fact that the US has a massively higher rate of both imprisonment and execution.
Every form of government is authoritarian by definition
Some of those are wild to see.
That shit would be forcibly taken from them so fast here in the US, thanks to eminent domain and the worship of corporations exploiting resources to the fullest. I think they’d get paid, just not y’know, have freedom and property rights and shit.
Renea Gamble was found by a municipal judge to be not guilty of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and providing a false name to law enforcement. (The allegedly false name was “Aunt Tifa,” which is hilarious).
She has filed a civil claim seeking monetary damages of $2 million and attorneys fees.
Still. A civilized society doesn’t give every single person in a uniform the licence to tackle, kill and assault whomever without facing any real consequences. Sure, the money’s nice, but not getting tackled would’ve surely been much more civilized.
Aunt Tifa is lucky to be alive. She pretty much hit a jackpot with the damages. She’s also white, which might have more causal relationships with her getting said jackpot than should be the case in a civilized society.
The problem is that not everyone has her luck or complexion.
Every police in a civilized country has a professional training for several years, including psychology, laws. In the US the police only a training of some month, mainly self defence, no schoolgrade needed to access. ICE agents not even this.
This video is required viewing for all the downvoters.
Also, I need to know… The guy who was toppled by the police, and fell on his head and wasn’t moving at all while bleeding from his head… Do you have any information if he survived?
Those cops should be publicly executed.
Thank you mate! The whole story makes me even more sick, but really needed to know how it ended up… Can’t believe that times and times again the same shit is happening… Glad I live in Europe, but some countries here are also taking dangerous inspiration from the US
“whataboutism”
This was tough to watch… But it is the unfortunate, dark reality of the world we live in
And they all lived happily ever after
Thats how American police treat a 62 year old woman in a costume.
They wouldn’t call China authoritarian if it were Anglo, European and Judeochristian. It has always been very thinly veiled Yellow-perilism.
American police be like :
The authoritarianism is exercised differently in both countries. Mainly, the US state is openly more physically violent. In China, surveillance, media control, censorship, and control of their population in general is stronger (but the US is rapidly trying to catch up). As one example, the US wouldn’t have been able to effectively silence Naomi Wu and presumably remove her way of making a living at the time, if she was a US citizen in the US.
surveillance, media control, censorship, and control of their population in general is stronger
Bullshit
Says the person replying to me in a platform that’s blocked by China’s Great Firewall?
Did that make sense in your head?
He was arrested for enjoying a succulent Chinese meal.
Forget the dick, what is the dude in the background dressed as? The one with the beard
One in red on the right of the Chinese side? Think depressed thor from endgame?
Two things can be bad.
Lol a meme should be easy to dismiss or respond to but I have never once seen libs have a counter to this specific one.
liberals not explaining the excruciatingly obvious to us challenge: impossible
Did you know that also:
- Only one thing can be bad.
- Only the other thing can be bad.
- Neither thing can be bad.
If you don’t have an argument, then don’t pretend to make one.
Maybe I’m not using enough words, as I know your kind prefers extraneous verbosity.
My argument is that not liking China does not imply liking the US.
Now make like June 4th and go away.
Now make like January 6th and go away.
fixed it for you. lol
That was a good one.
then i hope you’ll enjoy the next one too. lol
We shall see
you wiill see; i’m fully expecting it and trying to plan around it.
your kind
Angry 12 year old phrasing detected
My argument is that not liking China does not imply liking the US.
No claims it does, so who are you arguing with?
Then this meme makes no sense.
I think you’ve missed the point entirely.
It’s a way to highlight American exceptionalism that paints an orientalist picture of China passed through a very Western oriented lens and pretends it’s the objective truth, while ignoring that they’re entirely projecting the failures of their own system on China with absolutely no evidence
Hope this helps xoxo
Supporting US authoritarianism and believing US propaganda about its adversaries from said US authoritarian media can indeed both be bad.
They can but they aren’t
Two things can be authoritarian.
Yep, the US Empire and it’s vassal states all use authority for the imperialists.
They can be but aren’t
China already is where Bannon wants to be.
Real talk: Why is my silly memes feed clogged up with unfunny propaganda trash?
Have you considered going back to reddit? They maintain the kind of pro-western echo chamber you sound like you prefer
gringos when they see beyond the wall
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Its lemmy.ml memes if you dont like them perhaps unsubacribe.
If authoritarianism & the violence it brings (which there is a ton of) in the USA correctly upsets you, then authoritarianism everywhere else (for which there is a ton in China, as well as across most of the rest of the globe) should upset you as well. Trying to make excuses for it in one place or another for ones “team” is pathetic. Fuck all the “whataboutism” - it’s all counter productive.
“Don’t you mean all lives matter?”
More like “statists gonna state” ;)
But yeah, optimally every person’s human rights should be honored, regardless of what side of imaginary lines they were born in, but I’m not holding my breath to see that happen, or thinking that we just need to join in a round of “kumbaya” to get there.
