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> move to Shanghai and live the rest of your days there and tell me you feel just as free as in New York City. In what ways would your freedom be impacted in S
by pastacacioepepe 3y ago
> move to Shanghai and live the rest of your days there and tell me you feel just as free as in New York City.
In what ways would your freedom be impacted in Shangai vs NYC?
Because I know or a fact I'd able to live a normal life in Shangai. Work, grow kids, go out and enjoy entertainment, have good healthcare and so on.
Is it the ability to vote your president that makes or break "freedom" for you? Well apparently ~40% of USAmericans have given that up as the average voter turnout in the US is ~60%. The vote you are offered in the US is a Hobson's choice, it's a choice between bad and worse.
- kranke155 3y ago> In what ways would your freedom be impacted in Shangai vs NYC? if that's actually what you believe in, no difference. To most people the differences are obvious.
- pastacacioepepe 3y ago> To most people the differences are obvious. Hence no argument that you can actually explain, just a gut feeling driven by ignorance of what life in China is.
- kranke155 3y agoI'm sure whatever I write, you will find a straw man to vindicate your own feelings.
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoIt must be hard to have opinions so fragile that they can't stand a discussion.
- kranke155 3y agoThere you go. You have way too much time, reply to every comment. Typical.
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoPersonal attacks. Typical. If you mean that I have 1 minute every few hours to come check here if you answered me, yes I do. The same is true of you.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoWhat a doomer outlook. Living in one of the best places run by a brutal, genocidal autocracy isn't so bad you guys (assuming you're in the ingroup, stay in line, ignore meatfisted policy implications, etc.)!
- pastacacioepepe 3y agoDoomer? Hundreds of millions getting out of poverty in China is all the hope I need. Being afforded the opportunity to choose between a bad and a worse government gives me no hope, and apparently many feel the same in the so-called liberal democracies. Just check this graph[0] at page 27. Am I the doomer or are about 40% of the world voters feeling doomed? > brutal, genocidal autocracy Brutal how? Genocidal is false as the whole Uyghur genocide has been proven over and over to be bullshit. > assuming you're in the ingroup, stay in line, ignore meatfisted policy implications lol, try to be openly communist in the USA and see what happens to your career. .0: https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/voter-turnout-trends-around-the-world.pdf https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/publications/voter-...