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==The CCP certainly makes this distinction.== Growing up in the US, I’m 36, we used to celebrate how we didn’t do un-democratic things like the CCP. Now, we se
by take_a_breath 6y ago
==The CCP certainly makes this distinction.==
Growing up in the US, I’m 36, we used to celebrate how we didn’t do un-democratic things like the CCP. Now, we seem to use them as an excuse to justify un-democratic actions.
- biddit 6y agoThat the USA doesn’t do undemocratic things is a bit of primary-school brainwashing if you look our international policy, interventionism, and decidedly undemocratic laws that have been created and enforced in this country since its very inception. (Voting rights, regulations, asset forfeiture, racist zoning laws, etc)
- microcolonel 6y agoAmerican progress invented the vocabulary you are using to denounce it.
- take_a_breath 6y agoThe US has surely done undemocratic things, that’s not my point. I never remember hearing the justification that “they are just as bad.”
- bassman9000 6y agoThat's a pretty big brush. Explain what is undemocratic on defending the US from a CCP dragnet.
- take_a_breath 6y agoIt’s more about the pliable reasoning than the actual action. That said, in this case, it is the government actively manipulating the “free market” through regulations.
- bassman9000 6y agoThe RNC and DNC warn against it https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/dnc-warning-tiktok/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/dnc-warning-tiktok/i... The House voted a 336-71 to bar usage on government-issued devices https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/house-tiktok-federal-phones-374315 https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/20/house-tiktok-federa... Seems to me there's strong, bipartisan backing.
- take_a_breath 6y agoIs warning about using a product or blocking government officials from using it the same as the President unilaterally forcing them to be sold?