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by xtian 5y ago
Not my entire history, just my history after I learned a little bit about China and realized how many people on this site consider themselves to be intelligent free thinkers but simply regurgitate the pre-packaged US line on anything geopol
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I don’t have any special insight, I’m just pointing out that Amnesty doesn’t have a sterling record in this regard. The story is definitely in the US’ favor geopolitically, though. Look up which countries have condemned China for human righ
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Amnesty International corroborated this congressional testimony which was used to justify the first Gulf War and later revealed to be a complete fabrication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
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Did I dispute that? Of course it’s going to present the Chinese perspective. My point is there’s just as much conflict of interest with US corporate media. As a matter of historical record, there is no hard separation between the US corpora
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> Your journalist sources are from the Global Times, "part of a broader set of Chinese state media outlets that constitute the Chinese government's propaganda apparatus." Right, and the Western claims all stem from people
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> Why then are the compounds, which we can see from the sky, off-limits to human rights observers? Why are these complexes expanding at an alarming rate? Can you prove that this refutation of those satellite images is false? Let's r
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I don't think they scramble jets on Taiwan, no. But every time a news report comes out about Chinese jets representing escalating aggression towards Taiwan, that is the boundary they are actually talking about.
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Right, I was just staying consistent with how the person I responded to was using the term.
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Here’s a map that shows what Taiwan considers its airspace for anyone who’s curious: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/JADIZ_an...
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The CPC does in fact take ecology seriously. You can read about it in this translation of their latest five year plan proposal: https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/t0237_5th_Ple... If you want a concret
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No, I'm an American disappointed in the ignorance of my countrymen. My congressperson has been in office consecutively since 1997 with no serious challenges, and I couldn't name a single thing she's done for me in that time.
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The president of China is elected by the National People's Congress after each term. I'm not sure what you're talking about.
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Xi never declared himself president for life, the National People's Congress simply passed a law removing term limits. Angela Merkel has been chancellor of Germany for twice as long as Xi has been president of China.
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According to this research conducted by the Harvard Kennedy School, the vast majority of people in China do like their system: https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resil...
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> In the Soviet/Chinese/other "communist" style system, they take all the power with the promise of bringing true communism/socialism later, and they keep that power and never fulfill the promise. Of course US le
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Do you know of any historians or academics who base their analysis of politics and economics on the political compass?
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Pardon me for sitting here in the middle of the US and having the intellectual curiosity to wonder why the US’ middle class is shrinking while China’s middle class is growing. Must be because I’m brainwashed or coerced.
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What phone do you use?
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You admit that the Western evaluation of China was wrong, but then persist in describing their system as “capitalism under authoritarianism”. The Chinese call it the early stage of socialism. It might be worth listening at this point. As yo
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Let's say your number for China is accurate (it's not). Why aren't all these free human rights respecting places able to do better on the rate of homelessness than an oppressive authoritarian regime? Let's assume you&#x2
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A Chase survey from January of this year found that 40% of Americans don’t have enough cash on hand to cover a $400 emergency. The NHIS estimated that from 2017-2019 anywhere from 8,500 to 25,000 non-elderly adults died in the US from lack
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Ok got it. So "respecting human rights" means the US should get to decide the form of government and economy of everyone else in the world (which through total happenstance always ends up benefiting the US). At least you admit it.
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Oh ok so how was the human right of private property respected when the US annexed Hawaii?
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Was the US overthrowing Iran’s democratically-elected prime minister in 1953 about human rights then? He was introducing progressive reforms in Iran.
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Wait ten years.
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No one outside of the US or perhaps a minority within NATO takes this kind of ahistorical apologetics seriously. They see the US for what it is. As an American, my most fervent hope is that believing these sorts of stories becomes untenable
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Do you want to talk about facts or do you just want to repeat the bedtime stories you’ve internalized?
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I'm not trying to affect an objective morality to say it's "wrong", I'm just saying the US does it too. So let's not get up in arms about supposed Chinese internet commenters or Russian fake news.
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> What "coercion"? China employs internet commentators to influence online opinion[1] - whereas the US does not (as far as anyone can tell). There are many examples of the US working to influence the internal politics of other
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> How many countries had the US invaded and is still occupying? How many were threatened into extreme exploitation? The people you’re asking couldn’t begin to answer these questions. They don’t know the uncontested grisly facts of the US

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