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The absolutely do not compare!!!! As Canadian I am appalled at the constant CCP apologists in our country and on HN. One is a totalitarian regime devoid of bas
by f430 6y ago
The absolutely do not compare!!!! As Canadian I am appalled at the constant CCP apologists in our country and on HN.
One is a totalitarian regime devoid of basic human morality such as ripping out organs out of people for profit while they are alive , responsible for genocide of Uighurs and suppression of information and many many other stuff that is devoid of any dignity for humanity.
The other is a democratic hyperpower that Canada is also part of under the Five Eyes agreement.
If I had to choose between the CCP, Russia or America, it's America every fucking time.
edit: I took a look at your comment history and when you talk stuff like this I see where you are coming from:
A significant reason why Stalin was able to successfully rise to power and why the Bolsheviks were able to secure total power is because of foreign violence and interference.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013882
the other commentators replying to you are correct. Your ignorance is quite disgusting.
- cambalache 6y ago> If I had to choose between the CCP, Russia or America, it's America every fucking time. Now ask that to the rest of the world.Not only to Five Anglo Eyes
- f430 6y agoMost countries will agree so not sure what your gripe is about.
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoYou are living in a bubble. Whether by racism or political calculus, US authorities do not seem to respect lives of citizens of third world nations. US has kidnapped random people around the world to keep them in jail idefinately with no court or trial. It has killed thousands of people in drone strikes, in violation of international law, airspace and territorial sovereignty. Add to that some invasions, and maybe you will start to realise why people in Russia/India/Vietnam/etc. do not trust US any more than they do anyone else when it comes to upholding international law. As a Britton/German/Canadian you don't have to worry about these things. Additionally, if you consider territorial ambitions, various land disputes of old world nations are usually historical. As in "we will reverse some kind of injustice and get back some lands that belonged to our ancestors". That doesn't justify them, but one benefit of this is that they are predictable - China is not going to wake up one day to invade Somalia, but with USA you never know.
- f430 6y ago> Whether by racism or political calculus, US authorities do not seem to respect lives of citizens of third world nations. and China, Russia, North Korea does? Seems you are not even aware of your own bubble!
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoAre you aware of anyone else bombing random random weddings and civilians in peacetime? Maybe i am missing something. Consider normal countries like India, lets not bring tinpot dictatorships and bana republics into this, unless thats your benchmark.
- Iwan-Zotow 6y ago> and China, Russia, North Korea does? sure a lot less bullshit abroad wars care to tell us what US troops are doing in Afghanistan? "7 October 2001 – present (19 years, 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)"
- Iwan-Zotow 6y agoFive Anglo Eyes, perhaps?
- the-dude 6y agoAre you aware literally any transplant organ is removed while the donor is still alive? Like all over the world?
- f430 6y agoagainst their will and without anesthetics? no.
- onethought 6y agoThat is just plain false. If you transplanted like that your chance Of rejection is way higher because of stress hormone... why would you bother? You’ve been reading a bit too much epoch times my friend. There is evidence of organ harvesting of prisoners on death row, that seems clear. Morally that’s different ballgame to vivisection.
- sudosysgen 6y agoI'm not making any value statements here. The US, democratic as it may be, is a threat to Canadian strategic independence, and has been forever. For this reason, Canada has always strategically hedged. This is the reason why Canada maintained ties with Cuba, a Communist State, and did some limited military training with the USSR in the 1980s. The US is the greatest peace-time threat to Canadian independence. Nations have no friends. Only interests. It's sad, but it is how it is.
- onethought 6y agoI think your view of China is ignorant, not the GP. There othering of a whole nation is only going to make the situation worse. They have different political and cultural values and yes some morally questionable actions... but so do all countries. In terms of Canada/US relations... Canadians were imprisoned (and put to death?) in China because of the very questionable US indictment of Huaweis CFO... how was that good for Canada?
- sudosysgen 6y agoCanadians were indeed imprisoned on bogus charges for which the maximum penalty is death, but they were not sentenced yet (and won't be unless something happens to the CFO). Indeed, it's a situation where Canada won nothing and lost a lot.