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The USA has one of the highest percentages of their population in prison. Even for minor stuff like beeing addicted to drugs. Looks pretty totalitarian to me.

thesmtsolver2 5mo ago
Do you really trust China’s stats on prison population? Note: you can have this conversation criticizing the US on a US website. Try criticizing Xi or the CCP or calling him Pooh on a Chinese website. You think China doesn’t imprison drug users? China recently executed a low level drug trafficker https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/05/china-s-execution-of-a-frenchman-convicted-of-drug-trafficking-casts-a-chill-on-relations-with-paris_6752134_4.html https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/05/c... China is one of the top executioners. China executes more than rest of the world combined https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-come-clean-about-capital-punishment/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-co... You think China is honest about political prisoners in Tibet and Xinjiang? Criticize the US all you want but I can’t understand the whitewashing of a real totalitarian and genocidal state like mainland China.
- chronc6393 5mo ago
  mic drop
- randomNumber7 5mo ago
  Both can be totalitarian. Both are shit imho. I just don't buy the argument that China is worse because of it. But if we start nitpicking the US also executes people all over the world without trial and has secret prisons worldwide where they put people (guess what) without trial.
bdamm 5mo ago
And in China the state can harvest your organs for political crimes or even just being the wrong religion. Not quite the same.
- GordonS 5mo ago
  I think you're going to need to provide sources for such an outrageous and unbelievable claim.
  - rhubarbtree 5mo ago
    I was curious as this is something commonly mentioned in all sorts of western media. Quick google top link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_F...
  - MiiMe19 5mo ago
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    - GordonS 5mo ago
      For asking questions, on Hacker News? I think not.
- zrn900 5mo ago
  Yes and the Chinese president personally performs the operation. ... Holy crap...
FuckButtons 5mo ago
I’ll be sure to pick up my copy of the peoples daily to read about those statistics in the morning.

thesmtsolver2 5mo ago

Do you really trust China’s stats on prison population? Note: you can have this conversation criticizing the US on a US website. Try criticizing Xi or the CCP or calling him Pooh on a Chinese website. You think China doesn’t imprison drug users? China recently executed a low level drug trafficker https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/05/china-s-execution-of-a-frenchman-convicted-of-drug-trafficking-casts-a-chill-on-relations-with-paris_6752134_4.html https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/04/05/c... China is one of the top executioners. China executes more than rest of the world combined https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-come-clean-about-capital-punishment/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-co... You think China is honest about political prisoners in Tibet and Xinjiang? Criticize the US all you want but I can’t understand the whitewashing of a real totalitarian and genocidal state like mainland China.

chronc6393 5mo ago
mic drop
randomNumber7 5mo ago
Both can be totalitarian. Both are shit imho. I just don't buy the argument that China is worse because of it. But if we start nitpicking the US also executes people all over the world without trial and has secret prisons worldwide where they put people (guess what) without trial.

bdamm 5mo ago

And in China the state can harvest your organs for political crimes or even just being the wrong religion. Not quite the same.

GordonS 5mo ago
I think you're going to need to provide sources for such an outrageous and unbelievable claim.
- rhubarbtree 5mo ago
  I was curious as this is something commonly mentioned in all sorts of western media. Quick google top link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_organ_harvesting_from_F...
- MiiMe19 5mo ago
  [flagged]
  - GordonS 5mo ago
    For asking questions, on Hacker News? I think not.
zrn900 5mo ago
Yes and the Chinese president personally performs the operation. ... Holy crap...

FuckButtons 5mo ago

I’ll be sure to pick up my copy of the peoples daily to read about those statistics in the morning.