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> China has much lower crime, cheaper healthcare and is making progress in other aspects. It is also a totalitarian regime where criticising the state can get
by dwroberts 7mo ago
> China has much lower crime, cheaper healthcare and is making progress in other aspects.
It is also a totalitarian regime where criticising the state can get you, and possibly your family, ‘disappeared’
- 999900000999 7mo agoSure it is, luckily we’re catching up! > For Indigenous Americans it’s unthinkable, but true. ICE is arresting, detaining Native Americans. https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/for-indigenous-americans-its-unthinkable-but-true-ice-is-arresting-detaining-native-americans/ https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/10/for-indigenous-americ... Detain first , ask pesky questions about citizenship and civil rights later.
- dwroberts 7mo agoI’m not in the US but yeah the country has always had a strange relationship with law and order, at least from an outside PoV. The Kent State massacre is always one that sticks with me as particularly messed up. I don’t think the USA is necessarily changing at all, this is what it has always been the whole time
- jimz 7mo agoIt used to want to keep up appearances, it no longer does.