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The US isn't rounding thousands (millions actually?) of civil, political, religious, and other kinds of dissenters and imprisoning, reeducating, or killing them
by Xeoncross 4y ago
The US isn't rounding thousands (millions actually?) of civil, political, religious, and other kinds of dissenters and imprisoning, reeducating, or killing them.
That's kind of a big difference here.
The CCP has mandatory seats on the bytedance board and wants a copy of all the data so they can target people.
Spying is bad, murder is next-level bad.
Stop it all, but start with the bigger issues first.
- okasaki 4y agoDoes the US have dissidents?
- Xeoncross 4y agoHalf the US seems to be dissidents depending on who you ask - but they aren't being rounded up and sent to reeducation camps or having their organs harvested. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
- okasaki 4y agoWow, half of the US population are dissidents. Is that what they call themselves? Is that what the government calls them? Or did you just make it up and it's a word reserved for people in nations you hate?
- Xeoncross 4y agoWhat an odd reply, suddenly I'm the bad person and I 'hate' people because I want to save them? Dissidents = "Disagreeing, as in opinion or belief" The government in power decides who this is and then acts against them according. The CCP just happens to use lethal force on a massive scale in this regard.
- negus 4y agoEdward Snowden?
- yucky 4y agoThe Chinese government can't do anything to me though, while the US government can... So who should I fear more?
- Xeoncross 4y agoBoth, but protect the most vulnerable first Speak up for those who can't
- yucky 4y agoSaying I should fear both is like saying I should fear dying in a car accident and being mauled by kangaroos. The Chinese Government can't do anything to me unless I go there. Meanwhile my own government here presents an ever-present real life danger on multiple fronts. I still don't exactly fear it, but at least I know which is more likely to do me harm. Or for that matter, to do harm to others with my tax dollars.
- monocasa 4y agoSure they are. > The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did. ~ John Erlichman, Nixon's Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs And decades of those policies have left the US with close to eight times the prisoners per capita of China. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Prisoners/Per-capita https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Prison... And the US has no problem executing prisoners, and in fact unlike China has no problem executing someone for crimes committed while a minor (only the US, Iran, Pakistan, and Somalia do this). And that's before even getting into the extrajudicial politically motivated killings like Fred Hampton's murder, the MOVE bombing, or the recent odd proclivity of Ferguson and BLM protest organizers to "kill themselves" by hanging in a public tree, or "shooting themselves" in the head and then torching the car that they were in.
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