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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You don’t give a fuck about the wrongdoings of any country but the ones you were told are “enemies”

Cops in the US murder thousands of people every year, bet you don’t even spare a thought for it, is my point

State violence only bad when it’s not my state

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

*State violence is only bad when my ruling class tells me it is

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do care about wrongdoings of any country. The issues with police violence, racial discrimination and gun violence in the US are not a secret. You are not the first one talking about that. Everyone in the west talks about that, it's now the first thing most people think of when talking about the US in the west.

That being said, I don't understand why, when anyone even tries to say "China bad" the answer is always "but America is also bad". Why does that make it right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

because we're in a contrived thread that twists over backwards to shit on china, not a thread about the legitimate issues with china. Its frustrating to see, even when I agree that china is pretty bad in a lot of ways, seeing that drumbeat of "enemy state bad" as an army of mindless brainwashed western redditors marches by throwing out half truths and outright lies (its almost never real criticisms, like with north korea its just miles long lists of shit westerners were taught to think like its illegal to not have the kim haircut) it just makes my head pop