I would imagine that LIMs becoming more popular could lead to further improvements in that regard, which might actually make more tailored solutions possible at some point. At least KDE already seems to be working on upstreaming this feature in this merge request, so I’m quite excited to see what might be possible in the future :)

Most of the points you made were about lack of individual freedoms, which I agree is bad, but doesn’t come close to actually killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people during the past decades like the US did. And why do you keep bringing up Trump? I didn’t mention him even once in my comments. I don’t care about him, he is a symptom of a much larger issue, not the cause. I’m not just talking about the oppression and killings of people within US borders, but also outside of them, and that’s where China doesn’t even compare to the US.

If “Trump” and “welfare system” are the only relevant points you got from everything I listed, I’m not sure that I’m the one acting in bad faith. It seems like you purposefully don’t even consider all the atrocities of the US outside of their own borders, but why should you, after all they’re just some stupid foreigners, right?

Everyone who is even slightly critical of the Western world is a Russian troll, I know. I don’t think I’m the one who is acting in bad faith and divorced from reality.

[Addendum]: Something I think you didn’t mention yet is the amount of people executed by the Chinese state, even for the simplest “crimes” like possession of drugs. That’s about the worst I can think of about China, and it’s one aspect that I would actually call a real atrocity that is worse than in the US. But the death penalty shouldn’t exist at all, so the US doesn’t gain any sympathy points from me in this case either.

because they enable the titlebar to contain useful things instead of being a gigantic waste of pixels

Which can also be achieved with locally integrated menus on SSDs. I use this for example. It may not give you the same flexibility as CSDs, but it does reduce the aspect of wasted space.

Tiananmen Square was not simply a violent escalation of the Chinese state, so not sure if I’d wanna count that, and the “Xianjang Internment camps” still seem like made up bullshit by Adrian Zenz and the likes. But I didn’t simply ask what makes China bad, because I’m well aware of that, I asked what makes it worse than the US. Key words here:

Literally every president the US ever had in the past decades

War for almost the entire existence of the country

ICE and their camps

Pretty much daily school shootings and overall gun culture for that matter

Women’s rights in the US

Police violence

Horrible healthcare system causing thousands of deaths every year

Increasingly limited LGBTQ rights

War on Drugs

War on Terror

Support of or direct involvement in multiple genocides

Massive surveillance network, not just in the US, but globally

Hundreds of military bases all across the world

Guantanamo Bay

Human rights violations

Preventing people in certain countries from accessing certain much needed medications and extortion of pharmaceutical companies in other countries

Meddling in other countries’ political environment and even killing or kidnapping democratically elected heads of states

Creation and funding of terrorist groups and states

Bombing mostly innocent countries to ashes and committing countless war crimes, including the use of nuclear and chemical weapons

I’m probably still missing things…

China overall has bad track record when it comes to everything related to all kinds of individual freedoms, but considering that the US is actually deliberately killing and torturing people to no end (at least on a much, much larger scale than China), I’d say that they are way worse than China. And again, this is no excuse for China, I just think they don’t match the cruelty of the American empire.

What exactly makes China worse than the US?