• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      not to get all tankie on you, but China has thus far managed to restrain themselves from bombing other countries’ civilian populations.

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        dude spend two min googling ‘Chinese atrocities from 1900’

        like again I really don’t want to frame this like the US is the good guy, the US is not, but as a matter of scale currently China is still worse

        China has been worse than Nazi Germany

        all that said, US is trying real hard to be #1 in something again so yay!

        fuck I hate this

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          dude spend two min googling ‘Chinese atrocities from 1900’

          Ok, I did that exact thing verbatim, and the entire first page of results are things that happened before anyone here was born.

          I’m not about to claim they’re saintly in any way, for sure they have lots of well-documented internal issues with civil liberties, free speech, and oppression of minority groups, but the fact that you’re going so far into the past to make your case just makes it a case in support of the opposite view.

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        17 hours ago

        recency bias and the US outsized reputation makes it seem that I’m sure but lol if you think this is true

        we’re just more free to complain about it, probably not for much longer though

        so if you think it’s bad now buckle up and I say this as a generational casualty of US colonialism

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          Its not receny bias. The US didnt just turn evil in Jan 2025.

          How are are all those black prisoners working in privatised prisons doing by the way?

          China has 4 times the population as the US, yet the US still has the largest prison population on Earth.

          Slavery never ended in america.

          Land of the free my hole. Its literally the least free country on the planet.

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            15 hours ago

            who said anything about 2025? even if you want to peg the US evil starting with Nixon (which isn’t perfectly true as we were war profiteering in ww1/2) that’s recent, the US is a baby nation

            now you’re just throwing strawman arguments, I don’t support any of this shit the US is currently doing, it’s just stupid to think China hasn’t done worse in the last century, isn’t doing equally evil shit now

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      Both are bad, neither is worse than the US.

      Just going by invasions and regime changes alone the US takes the cake. That’s before you get into the spreading crack into black communities, chemical weapons on civilians, drone strikes on children, ecological destruction, genocide enabling, etc etc.

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        15 hours ago

        By numbers US is probably worse but the level of cruelty from Russia is unmatched outside of terrorist organizations

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          Would it really be tho?

          Like the US targets children and social gatherings to attack, tortures/rapes/murders innocent civilians in black sites, keeps a racial based underclass who they hook on drugs, violently assault from childhood, and lock up in record numbers to serve as legal slave labour. That’s pretty fucking cruel stuff.

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            Also invades small countries on whim, votes against the well-being of humankind, meddle in other countries’ affairs, has been in war for more than 90% of it’s existence, never held itself accountable, experiments on its own citizens, and is ruled by a cabal of paedophiles.

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        i hate defending the US because it has had more direct bad impact on my life but by measure of lost life i’d still argue modern Russia is worse, and if we lump current China to not even that long ago China the numbers killed are not even close

        the scale of China’s population just blows it all out of proportion

        Nazi Germany wasn’t even the worst genocide of its time (what a putrid statement though true)

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          by measure of lost life i’d still argue modern Russia is worse

          Idk what lost life you’re counting, because it’s pretty well known that civilian casualties in just the Iraq war most likely dwarf Ukrainian losses.