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The CCP: -- Put a million Uighurs in camps -- Persecutes followers of pretty much all religions --- Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Falun Gong, etc -- Flat-o
by roca 4y ago
The CCP:
-- Put a million Uighurs in camps
-- Persecutes followers of pretty much all religions --- Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Falun Gong, etc
-- Flat-out censors anything that offends them in the slightest
-- Puts whoever they want into detention with no kind of due process, from
small-time activists to billionaires
-- Harvests the organs of (not previously dead) prisoners
-- Had drones peering into apartment windows during the latest COVID lockdown, broadcasting the literal message "control your soul's desire for freedom"
-- and of course is an autocracy in which Xi Jinping has absolute power
The USA is far from perfect but one thing we learned from Trump in 2016 and Bloomberg in 2020 is that money isn't everything in American politics. The parties do have major differences and bad actors can be held accountable.
I'm not American, but this equivalence that some people like to draw between the governments of China and the USA drives me crazy.
- akho 4y agoI was speaking strictly about access of differing view / value systems to the voting ballot, not judging the systems a whole. China sucks more. (Though viewing China as a full autocracy with absolute power of a single individual is extremely simplistic)
- roca 4y agoPolitical representation of different view/value systems is much better in the USA than in China. > (Though viewing China as a full autocracy with absolute power of a single individual is extremely simplistic) It's overly simplistic, but less "overly" than it was 10 years ago.