Fisting for Freedom

This comment managed to age poorly really fast.

Shorts and crocs. All he needed was a cigarette in his mouth while he did it.

It’s 100 guys, I don’t think anyone is especially concerned.

China’s system led to invasions, wars, and mass murder. China’s system has no way for the citizens to do anything about it. The US system does, and citizens have forced change repeatedly throughout US history.

And to reiterate, the US government is not perfect and still does bad things. But it’s entirely better than China’s.

The US didn’t take over Tibet and resettle Han Chinese there (that’s genocide, deliberately destroying a culture ). The US isn’t committing a genocide on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The US isn’t imprisoning and executing Falun Dafa adherents.

The US allows us to make changes for the better. We can stand for office and become ta source of change, we can band together as citizens to make change. Our system isn’t perfect, but it is dramatically better than China’s, all your cynicism aside.

I have free speech rights under the constitution. That’s not the case in China.

Don’t shift the goal posts - there’s a huge difference between the countries, and China is strictly worse.

I’m interested to see how they react if Putin doesn’t resume the grain deal, or undermines it by “accidentally” hitting grain storage and/or cargo ships.

As an American, I can say that my government sucks for invading Iraq and Afghanistan and face no repercussions. I did so before those wars and have done so repeatedly since.

As a Chinese citizen, I can be arrested for singing a song about Hong Kong. Or saying that Tibet isn’t China, or that Taiwan should be left alone. God forbid I ask about what’s happening in Xinjiang. Or what happened in Beijing in 1989, or why the Great Leap Forward resulted in so many deaths of my countrymen. Or practicing Flaun Dafa, or whatever else.

Nobody is saying the US is perfect: the US has its problems, we can and should be better. But China is never honest about their shit and punishes people who are. China’s markedly worse than the US.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

China is markedly worse than the US, though.

I assumed it was downvoted by people who see China as being largely a state capitalist economy with a nominally socialist/communist government, whom I would guess are primarily lefties. Contrary to seeing it as western propaganda, they’d see it as Chinese propaganda as it pretends that the country is something it really isn’t.

This is only a possible view, of course.

He announced the rebranding in a tweet sent last Saturday in the middle of the night. You know, like any competent business person would.

They’d benefit by letting Russia get stomped to death, then taking Siberia for themselves.

A Reddit spokesperson declined to comment about this year’s edition of r/Place, telling Polygon via email “redditors are going to reddit.”

Honestly, that’s probably the best response he could’ve given.

The US is part of the world.

The reactor is actually full of Nazis, so Russia has no choice but to blow it up.

This new multipolar world they’re building looks amazing, ngl.

grimes

Oh, sorry. Ignore me, then.

Why does Russia hate the Global South?