• olbaidiablo @lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    While I think this is far too simplistic of a comparison. I will agree that the US is like nazi Germany if it was entirely run by barely functional idiots. The turd reich.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
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    So is which one is Winnie?

    Technically he has a degree in chemical engineering, can’t find any info on him ever actually doing anything in that field with it, so not really fair to call him a scientist or engineer, and he only got that through on a program designed to basically reward loyalty, not for any actual academic achievement.

    And he didn’t earn his law degree until after he’d been heavily involved in politics for decades.

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    5 days ago

    I’m neither American nor a liberal, but I suspect that American liberals agree wholeheartedly about your assessment about America.

  • audrbox@beehaw.org
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    May I propose: China is probably better for many of its citizens compared to the U.S. and is objectively run by more competent people. The western world is built on mountains of anti-communist and anti-Chinese propaganda that makes discerning the truth about the reality of living there hard for the average westerner who hasn’t actually spent time there. At the same time, absolute power corrupts, and any system that concentrates power into centralized structures is at very high risk of that power being co-opted and abused by counter-revolutionary, power-hungry assholes. Regardless of whether that has happened in China (or any other socialist state), the risk is there, and the way to mitigate it is to dismantle the structures that allow it to happen.

  • entropiclyclaude@lemmy.wtf
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    These posts. I’m pro China, don’t get me wrong. I can see the advances chinas made I can see the historical patterns of the US.

    Chinas living our ass in industry and tech, but China is still run by a dictator and a despot.

    Don throw the baby out with the bath water. Two things can be true at the same time: both countries have politicians that should eat a dick and choke to death on it.