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US kills and tortures its own citizens if they are labeled 'criminals' or 'terrorists', or just lets cops murder activists without being charged. US has heavy
by cwkoss 4y ago
US kills and tortures its own citizens if they are labeled 'criminals' or 'terrorists', or just lets cops murder activists without being charged.
US has heavy surveillance infrastructure, and a kafkaesque 'private' credit system that I have no doubt the TLAs can manipulate with their banking partners.
US politicians are currently working to ban the histories of racism and genocide from public schools when they make the country look bad. US media frequently participates in disinformation campaigns coordinated with state intelligence.
US has done more successful election manipulation/coups than any other country on the planet.
As a US citizen, I am vastly more afraid of of the US government than I am the CCP.
- moistly 4y agoOn a personal level, sure, you’re right. On the longer, broader timespan, you are wrong. Democracy, human rights, personal freedom: That’s what’s on the line, and it is foolish to be cavalier about the situation.
- cwkoss 4y agoI think you're overly discounting the chance of the US devolving into overt authoritarian fascism. We paint a thin veneer of democracy over political actions today, but our rights and protections in the US are disappearing rapidly already.
- moistly 4y agoI fully agree. And that doesn’t discount at all my assertion that anti-Democratic foreign intelligence agencies pose an existential threat to our Democracies. A lot of what threatens your personal safety has been exacerbated by foreign influence. Are names of political systems to be capitalized or not? It feels to me that a word like Authoritarian should be capitalized, but then it would demand that, while democracy cowers in lowercase.