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Maybe by the US thug of a government?
by tomp 11y ago
Maybe by the US thug of a government?
- it_learnses 11y agoThe two thugs are not equivalent. And yes. I would have US govt. over Chinese govt. any day.
- 1stop 11y ago... Let me guess, you are not Chinese.
- it_learnses 11y agoI am not american either.
- stingraycharles 11y agoThe internet tells me you're Canadian. That is close enough to have a bias. Look at the world from a different point of view, and you would understand that corruption is everywhere, not just in China. Some people are just better at hiding it.
- tossaway1 11y agoWell, saying you'd prefer one government over another isn't the same as the preferred government doesn't have flaws.
- vinay427 11y agoI don't think you need to look at the US from a different point of view to understand that it has corruption. Just browse comments on one of the more popular Reddit subreddits and the top comments are regularly about politicians supposedly not taking their constituents ' interests to heart.
- golergka 11y ago> corruption is everywhere, not just in China If the famous US corruption cases, like Flint, have taught me anything, it's that corruption in US is on much lower level than in countries like Russia or China, and people and media are much, much less tolerant to it. Basically, Flint scandal could never happen in Russia because no one would ever give a fuck.
- knowaveragejoe 11y agoCorruption in Russia and China are a matter of policy. They are bold-faced and completely open about it. Corruption certainly exists in the US, but it is much less overt and much less common. There is significant precedence in the US of politicians being caught in the act and prosecuted as a manner of policy, rather than the sacrificial examples in RU and CH where it is more about politics and/or making an example of someone. Just look up the lists of American Federal/State/Local politicians convicted of crimes, there are a number of lists on Wikipedia.
- golergka 11y ago> Corruption in Russia and China are a matter of policy. They are bold-faced and completely open about it. From my personal experience, you're mistaken: the corruption is not a matter of policy. Rather, the policy is a matter of corruption.
- ionised 11y agoFlint is pretty damn low on the charts in terms of US corruption.
- tomp 11y agoRight, US treats their own citizens marginally better, but they're pretty much equally thugish with their foreign affairs.
- knowaveragejoe 11y ago"Marginally" would be a severe understatement.
- pavlov 11y agoChina has started detaining foreign citizens and making them give forced confessions on national TV: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/20/swedish-activist-peter-dahlin-paraded-on-china-state-tv-for-scripted-confession http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/20/swedish-activis... Can you imagine the United States doing this to a Swedish citizen? Chinese lawyers specializing in human rights risk life in prison: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/14/chinas-pursuit-of-human-rights-lawyers-signals-aggressive-push-against-subversion http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/14/chinas-pursuit-... Can you imagine the United States prosecuting ACLU lawyers like this?
- melling 11y agoDoubtful. Our little wars cost us too much. China already has the second most powerful economy in the world, and they've greatly increased military spending. http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/asia/china-military-spending/ http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/asia/china-military-spending/
- knowaveragejoe 11y agoComparing nominal dollars spent on the world's militaries is a totally flawed analysis of their capabilities with respect to each other.
- melling 11y agoNo where did I provide an analysis of their capabilities. I simply stated that they are the second largest economy in the world and they are greatly expanding their military. This would indicate that any military conflict would be costly, thus best avoided.
- bobby_9x 11y agoYes, a thug that has to spend all of its military money defending other countries..so they can throw it back in their face that they don't spend as much on the military. Without the US, the world would be fucked.
- mineshaftgap 11y agoEveryone knows that but they would rather pretend that China and the US are equally bad for political correctness.
- ionised 11y agoGotta love that American exceptionalism. I wonder what people did before the US existed? I imagine they were all hurtling towards some political, moral and cultural black hole.