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They're always a bit "unhinged" over there
Just saw the other thread, will post there if anything of note happens...
Just saw the other thread, will post there if anything of note happens...
Yep, let's recap :Can't work on reading things you're only obtusely referring to. Let's recap, eh?
No they're not1 - A number of people are trying to paint how USA treat dissent (which is admitedly not perfect) on a comparable footing with how China treat dissent (which is by far even less perfect).
Please do recall that the start of this tangent was you barging in and throwing barbs at people based on opinions they don't hold and you still haven't quoted (if you even can).You then barge in and throw a lot of barbs about reading comprehension and assigning to people opinions they haven't held.
Their major backers are the US and I doubt this was even noticed by most ppl there. It certainly didn't show up here in Oz.Opening up a conflict with the west/christians is just so opposite to Israel's interests currently that it still amazes how reckless they are. If they wanted to arrest that guard so much, they could have waited for the ceremony to be over and do it outside (Resurrection is analogous to Christmas).
That's what the internet is for - decisions by local media no longer cut (double meaning) it.Their major backers are the US and I doubt this was even noticed by most ppl there. It certainly didn't show up here in Oz.
You’ve read a lot of Chinese history - written in English, though, right?I've read a lot of Chinese history, not spoken to many people in China about their government, I did speak to one YouTuber in China about it and he carefully changed the subject
Have you spoken to many?
I speak English so yes, your point?You’ve read a lot of Chinese history - written in English, though, right?
They got a president for life, usually a telltale sign...cannot give even a single argument why China is authoritarian
Perhaps.I speak English
It means you’ve got a secondhand historical resource and the onus is on you to determine who translated it and for what purpose. Or in this case, the onus is on you to understand that the histories of China you’ve read were written by western men. If that’s not true, then by all means share with us your taste in historical literature.If I read German Jews accounts of the holocaust but translated to English does that mean it didn't happen?
Ah like Angela Merkel, or the Japanese LDP.They got a president for life, usually a telltale sign...
Damn, that's crazy. How many years of Tory rule has the UK gotten to now? 14 I think.They got a president for life, usually a telltale sign...
I could believe that China is the perfect, ideal implementation of Socialism (I don't) and it wouldn't change my argument. Narz's assertion that "At least you have the freedom to moan all day about your government without being taken away." is just demonstrably false. Look at all the students who have gotten arrested on the most flimsy charges. Look at all the BLM protest leaders who have died or disappeared under suspicious circumstances. The level of delusion and disconnect to not acknowledge that things aren't as peachy in the Land of the Free as some would wish to imply...The level of delusion and disconnect shown by people who put on the same level a flawed democracy with an authoritarian state, kinda says a lot about the subject and the problem with mindless ideological fanaticism.
I hope you never have to be in a situation that will show you just how inane that comparison isDamn, that's crazy. How many years of Tory rule has the UK gotten to now? 14 I think.
This is all kinda pointless, because you believe the comparison is meant to put them on the same level, instead of exposing how comfortable our politicians have gotten with being "better".I hope you never have to be in a situation that will show you just how inane that comparison is
From what I've read the BLM organizers got pretty rich of the movement, gotta love free enterpriseLook at all the BLM protest leaders who have died or disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
Quote me saying "we're ok".but if we keep saying "we're okay because we're not as bad as them" things are going to continue to get worse until hey, one day, we are
It affects me. No country is an island.I mean, you'd assume not, because China is bad, and Iran is bad, and you can bravely say those things with confidence. Nothing either of those countries do affects you.
Give yourself a break, it must get tiring arguing with phantoms.So why the blindness to the creeping badness of Western nations? Just because somewhere else is worse? Give me a break.
Can you read Chinese? This is not a tu quoque.You’ve read a lot of Chinese history - written in English, though, right?