• Z_Poster365 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Israel emerged as the country with the worst global reputation of those included in the poll, especially in the Middle East and South Asia. Israel is unpopular even in European countries that have historically been its allies, such as Germany

    When even Germany is getting squeamish, you know your genocide is really fucking off the rails.

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    China is authoritarian, but if you look only at the material conditions for democracy like prosperity, peace, education they are better than the US. People fundamentally want to exist and raise families in peace without constant terror, confusion and economic hardship. That is because even they are authoritarian, they can still “afford” to have pro-human or pro-national ideology. In the neoliberal countries choosing that over profit gets you fired or sidelined.

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      America is the biggest police state in human history that breaches more other nations’ sovereignty than anyone in history. you are out of your gourd saying “China is authoritarian” compared to the US, the biggest bully of all time with kill counts in the tens of millions

      What you are calling “authoritarianism” in China is actually the power of the proletariat, a radical and unrelenting democracy.

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      11 hours ago

      The US is more authoritarian, if anything, especially if you live in a country that’s been on the receiving end of its foreign policy.

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      if I’m from, say, Ghana, I’m judging China based on how China affects Ghanaian people, not on how China affects Chinese people

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          The Chinese people do not exist in a state of peace with the CCP, that political monstrosity is one of the many reasons why there has been a rush of Chinese citizens leaving the country. The pandemic fully exposed how destructive and nefarious the CCP is. First they denied it started in China, followed by a weak attempt to blame foreigners for covid-19. It ended with the CCP welding people into their homes, caging Chinese citizens and allowing human beings to literally starve to death.

          While the Chinese government pushes a very nationalistic message, It really isn’t pro-human in the slightest. The CCP top brass has been content to exploit the poverty of its populace in order to enrich themselves.

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            Your reply falls in line with my beliefs. Does anyone else reading this have any rebuke?

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    One of these states hasn’t been in a foreign conflict in 45 years, the other drops 45 bombs a day

    The fact that it’s taken this long to cross shows you the power of cultural dominance in distorting objective reality(and that polls methodology can be manipulated to basically make any point those running it want)

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      They aren’t US level of bad in terms of indiscriminate bombings, but they had military conflicts with Vietnam as recently as 1988, they have regular skirmishes with India and basically everyone that shares a sea border with them. They were also part of the UN force in Mali.

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      Being involved in a foreign conflict is pretty unlikely to be a deciding factor.

      It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s, and we used to be good trading partners.

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        It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s

        No, they’ve been worse: more people killed, more people imprisoned, more people abused, the US has been objectively worse.

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        I suppose it’s up to your defintion of ‘deciding factor’ but to think the US’s invasions of sovereign countries resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilians deaths over the past few decades and support for ongoing genocide isn’t tiping the scales is misguided at best

        It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s

        source? I’ve never seen reliable evidence(outside of easily disproven Zenz’s inventions) that China’s rights abuses match those committed by the US in Guantaumo, Abu Ghraib etc in severity

        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/29/abu-zubaydah-cia-torture-waterboarding-guantanamo

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            So no source?

            Facts(UN investigations, photo and video evidence, I can provide sources on request) show that the US has committed far worse rights abuses than china(sexual assault at Abu Ghraib, extreme torture at both and murder and Guantanamo and numerous black-sites, extraordinary rendition etc)

            This proves my point about US cultural dominance distorting objective reality: despite facts showing the US committing far more severe human rights abuses you still believe China has committed worse because that is what media you consume portrays

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            China is pretty bad, but I feel the US never gets called out for this, so he has a good point.