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As opposed to what we are doing to Assange? Or carrying out a coup against a democratically elected president in Bolivia ( Yes, I know he legally ran for a 4th

As opposed to what we are doing to Assange? Or carrying out a coup against a democratically elected president in Bolivia ( Yes, I know he legally ran for a 4th time, but then so did angela merkel...). Do you know the largest "worker" population in the US is our prison population? > I just can't live with this kind of intentional defense of authoritarian by making nonsensical and shameless equalization. Okay. How about this. A democracy is responsible for a 100 holocausts in the US with our extermination of the native. A democracy dropped nukes on hundreds of thousands of civilians. A democracy pioneered human experimentation. A democracy instituted racial slavery. A democracy has killed tens of millions of people around the world after ww2. A democracy has stolen the most land and resources around the world. Democracy or authoritarian, both are capable of all kinds of evil. By any objective measure, the most evil nation to have ever exist was a democracy. Now flip it. An authoritarian regime lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Easily the greatest humanitarian achievement in human history. The greatest human good in human history was achieved by those "evil" authoritarians. If we are going to worry about the internet being weaponized, I think we should be worried about it whether "authoritarian" or "democratic".

datashow 7y ago
> An authoritarian regime lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Easily the greatest humanitarian achievement in human history. The greatest human good in human history was achieved by those "evil" authoritarians. What? People lifted themselves out of poverty, not the authoritarian regime. Are you a CCP troll? This talking point is frequently used by CCP propaganda.
- aglavine 7y ago
  It seems he is.
- elfexec 7y ago
  > What? People lifted themselves out of poverty, not the authoritarian regime. So why can't the north koreans lift themselves out of poverty? I love the anti-china rhetoric. The CCP authoritarians has complete control over the brainwashed chinese people and is responsible for everything in china. 800 million chinese people are lifted out of poverty. No, CCP's not responsible for it. I'm sure Deng liberalizing the economy had nothing to do with it. I'm sure the CCP's policies the past 40 years had nothing to do with it. > Are you a CCP troll? Here we go with the silly ad hominems. I am someone who hates bullshit and trolls. The last resort of a propagandist is accusing others of being trolls because you cannot fight facts and truth. Is wikipedia and the world bank CCP trolls too? " According to the World Bank, more than 850 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty; China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity term" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China > This talking point is frequently used by CCP propaganda. Because it is true. It is one of the things the CCP actually did well. Amazing huh? There are some things they do well, there are some things they don't do well. Do you know how I know people are trolls and bots? They accuse other people of being trolls.
aglavine 7y ago
Evo Morales commited fraud.

datashow 7y ago

> An authoritarian regime lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Easily the greatest humanitarian achievement in human history. The greatest human good in human history was achieved by those "evil" authoritarians. What? People lifted themselves out of poverty, not the authoritarian regime. Are you a CCP troll? This talking point is frequently used by CCP propaganda.

aglavine 7y ago
It seems he is.
elfexec 7y ago
> What? People lifted themselves out of poverty, not the authoritarian regime. So why can't the north koreans lift themselves out of poverty? I love the anti-china rhetoric. The CCP authoritarians has complete control over the brainwashed chinese people and is responsible for everything in china. 800 million chinese people are lifted out of poverty. No, CCP's not responsible for it. I'm sure Deng liberalizing the economy had nothing to do with it. I'm sure the CCP's policies the past 40 years had nothing to do with it. > Are you a CCP troll? Here we go with the silly ad hominems. I am someone who hates bullshit and trolls. The last resort of a propagandist is accusing others of being trolls because you cannot fight facts and truth. Is wikipedia and the world bank CCP trolls too? " According to the World Bank, more than 850 million Chinese people have been lifted out of extreme poverty; China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015, as measured by the percentage of people living on the equivalent of US$1.90 or less per day in 2011 purchasing price parity term" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China > This talking point is frequently used by CCP propaganda. Because it is true. It is one of the things the CCP actually did well. Amazing huh? There are some things they do well, there are some things they don't do well. Do you know how I know people are trolls and bots? They accuse other people of being trolls.

aglavine 7y ago

Evo Morales commited fraud.