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Hence the mention of some pretty clear historic problems we have to address. I also don’t fully support some of our recent wars, and I don’t pretend to say we’r
by entee 6y ago
Hence the mention of some pretty clear historic problems we have to address. I also don’t fully support some of our recent wars, and I don’t pretend to say we’re perfect. We’ve pretty clearly done some bad things even quite recently.
What I love about this country is that we talk about it, we struggle with it, we do so publicly, and eventually we try to do the right thing. Our ideals are pretty good, just really hard to live up to, and the real world is complicated. We support dictators abroad, we have a racially unequal (though improving, albeit too slowly) society, there are no saints among great nations.
The point is in trying to live up to the ideals. If we compare to other great powers, I think we do better than most historically. As long as we keep moving toward universal human rights and freedom, however imperfectly, I’m on board.
- leafboi 6y agoChina's goal is to build a cohesive economic powerhouse that functions as a unified whole. Unification at the cost of less individual freedoms. Given the current pandemic no doubt China is handling it better than the US as a result of their centralized control. The US on the other hand values more individual freedoms at the cost of less cohesion and greater division. No doubt this is what's causing the current influx of Karen's refusing to wear masks. The hatred you see towards these people on YouTube is literally enforced in china. You don't wear a mask in china, you're fucked, nobody dares do such a thing. Rather then fighting some patriotic flamewar I'd prefer HN viewers to have a more logical nonbiased view point and call it apples and oranges, but alas this is not the case. America has to be the best, especially when compared to China.