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You are wrong: I am familiar with the CS Lewis quote 1) In this case the nation working behind the scenes is China. American imperialism I concede is bad. Howe
by kp98 7y ago
You are wrong:
I am familiar with the CS Lewis quote
1) In this case the nation working behind the scenes is China. American imperialism I concede is bad. However, the Chinese have quietly been breaking over 50 international regulations and laws from the WTO and universal declaration of human rights.
2) The Chinese do care what you do. Just last week the Swedish government was going to give an award to an activist in Sweden, and the CCP threatened the entire country - pathetic. The Australians said they do not agree with Chinese human rights violations, so they were denied entry (clearly they care). I also question how one can determine what is "challenging" the CCP when it is a mercantilist nation with hands in every basket.
3) Enforcing the war on drugs all over the world? Like asking China not to ship fentanyl? Sure.
4) America is pushing the war on financial privacy? Hello, have you seen Alipay and Wechat before? Do you realize cash is still a major way that some people get paid in America? Perhaps in swift you could argue undue transparency, but wire transfers are a different subject.
5) American intellectual property infringement? ...do you mean like the Chinese forced intellectual property transfer?
Lastly, on the CS Lewis quote. America is constantly at odds with its conscience. Half the country is constantly calling out the other half. In China if you don't tow the imperial / mercantilist line your social credit goes down and your freedoms are limited.
- yourbandsucks 7y agoIt's been like a week since the last US-backed Latin American coup.
- thanatropism 7y agoYeah, but US-backed != US-hatched. The proximal cause is that Bolivia had fallen into a state of utter chaos (therefore a power vacuum); the proximal cause of that is that the president tried to pull off a Xi Jingping but this didn't play even with much of the population that initially backed him. It's the difference between setting a house on fire to acquire the land, and buying a land lot where a house used to be.
- yourbandsucks 7y agoThat's certainly the official US line on the matter. How has the official US line held up, historically, when it comes to coups vs socialists in Latin America? Why should it be different this time?
- lucideer 7y agoI don't think the above commenter was defending China, so much as pointing out that the US does much worse. Each one of your bullets is true, and more extremely applicable to the US.
- magashna 7y agoChinese organ harvesting is surely beyond what the US is doing.
- throw964563 7y agoI think drone stickes where civilian deaths are acceptable is comparable.
- jariel 7y agoNo, it's not. The state purposefully murdering people for organs is very different than accidents during the application of force for some reasonable objective. People die all the time in accidents, that doesn't make the state evil, unless there's complete negligence.
- bananabreakfast 7y agoThey were absolutely defending china and mischaracterizing the US at the same time, as are you
- whycombinater 7y agoWe're already China at your last sentence. I dare you to loudly say "Jew" at your office. Not as part of a sentence, not as an accusation, not like Hitler, literally just a random scat-syllable that happens to sound exactly like the J-word. There's maybe a 30% chance you'll get fired. Or, if you want to raise the percentage with a more realistic example, say "WOMEN HAVE TITS!" I'm going with 75%+ now. I have no evidence of this. But I'd be terrified of saying those things at my office. I don't particularly _need_ to say them, but as a standard male, there's just tiniest urge to say "fuck authority" and also be childish and exclaim how happy I am that, indeed, women have tits. But it wouldn't work. And then I wouldn't have a job. And then I would starve to death. So you see, saying girls have girl parts is now punishable by death. DOES THAT SEEM SLIGHTLY WEIRD TO ANYONE?????????????????????????????? (Also, why is authority mostly concerned with disarming me of the notion that women have tits? Why do women no longer have tits? Where did they go?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dulGdlC6hs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dulGdlC6hs edit: The flagger proves the point.