Legally murdering it’s own citizens in droves in capitalist confidence schemes like the Healthcare Insurance scam industry to increase private stockholder profit?
🇺🇸 We’re number one! 🇺🇸
I came here to write “Elise Stefanik is a moron”, but then I noticed Chen already called her an idiot. What an embarrassment to NY-21 congressional district (thankfully not mine). I love going up to the Adirondacks, but man is it MAGA country now.
Last summer, I noticed the print on demand t-shirt shop in Old Forge that has been there since at least the 80s is now run by magats. They had a row of anti-LGBTQ shirts and the usual Joe Biden hatred crap on display and I just walked out. I’m so tired of people making everything political and wearing it on their sleeves, sometimes literally.
I do not like this meme much. I grew tired of stock photos for “r/clevercomebacks”.
Wow! What a smackdown.
The “wolf warriors” used to come in hot a.f.
Ok I’m not defending her here but this is a stupid reply because she’s obvuously referring to prioritizing the interests of America, not that America is #1.
He’s not wrong in what he said, it’s just the wrong tweet to dunk on.
When has the US been anything but USA first, everyone else last in the last 70 years?
When someone doesn’t speak in complete sentences it is likely harder to translate with proper understanding.
Put America’s priorities first and America comes in first can be shortened to the same two words. What we know for sure is we don’t put education first.
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She’s talking about the population density of fascists. America is first and China is last
Wtf are you talking about? China is also fascist, although in different ways.
No they aren’t and you should go read some of Robert Paxton’s books on fascism if you think they are.
China is indeed not fascist.
It is just an authoritarian police state with a smidge of genocide.
No arguments here. They are an authoritarian police state. Fascism is a specific ideology and thet aren’t pursuing it yet
You’re right, it’s missing some elements of fascism, while maintaining others. If you’d like to split hairs, I guess it matters. Either way, both nations are Fascist-Light
I’d argue America is going to be fascist soon but China isn’t attempting it.
It’s sad how few people understand fascism compared to how many think they do.
Taiwan #1!
Aka; the rightful government of the entirety of China. May Taipei occupy Beijing once more
Occupy or liberate? I would say liberate, right?
Populism FIRST. FFY
To be fair, we have no idea how many COVID infections or deaths China had or how many prisoners they have. It isn’t like they are the most transparent with either matter.
Everything else he said checks out. 🇺🇲
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Who told you that the US government?
We have 2 million prisoners for 330 million people.
They claim 1.6 million prisoners for their 1.4 billion people.
Even if it were double what China claims, per capita we keep far more of our people in bondage, because we found and disgustingly prioritize the private profit in it. More prisoners for private for profit prisons, and more slave labor leased out to for profit corporations.
We put people in cages using any excuse to increase quarterly earnings expectations for our sociopath class. “Land of the free,” Lo fucking L.
It would be flatly unsurprising if china had well over double what they claim.
At this point I trust their government and our government equally.
As an American, I would take the word of any single European union member nation over the word of both China and the US claiming anything in unison.
At least China has the guts to call out the West for supporting the genocide in Gaza, something out own Democratic party seems wholly incapable of.
Ignore their own genocide against muslims, focus on the Jews.
Even in that regard, reeducation camps are better than for-profit prisons. They have different goals in mind.
Forced labor and indoctrination compared to just forced labor. If we start calling for profit prisons time-out zones with chores will that placate you?
It is easy calling out genocides from other nations.
Call me when they talk about their own genocides.
Orbán likes this post.
The fucks in the republic party literally invited Orbán to have a speech and how to get shit done, US is not even first at effectively controlling state media and politicians bleeding it’s country dry
Sometimes I forget that Hungary is part of the EU. And that Hungary and Turkey are part of NATO. It’s the kind of thing I don’t like remembering.
The number of imprisoned is the point he made, not the per capita.
Yeah, everyone knows the US has more people per capita
It’s “Land of the fee”
We’ve been saying it wrong the whole time.
Would you like to buy the R? That will be one soul please
All the R have been bought and paid for. So have most of the D, for that matter.
“Lan_ of the f_ee”
Oh… Oh! That makes sense.
Why are repubs so freakin divisive? Like, why not we lift one another up? Dumbasses
Be like China. Make up your own statistics.
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You’re always best if you put your finger on the scale.
This is something I see frequently, but have been unable to substantiate.
How do we know they’re making up statistics? Can you verify that claim with evidence? That would be very useful for me. If anyone can, i’d appreciate it.
Burned.
I may not like the CCP, but you have to give credit to where it is due. The government is run by pragmatic technocrats with long term vision. These are the characteristics that America has lost long ago. It is so ironic and funny that it is China who is the promoter now of international free trade.
Holy shit no.
The CCP is mostly controlled by Xi Jinping, and he’s happy to purge anyone who gets in his way, since 2012 and continuing today. He’s also forcing compliance at every level — from disappearing Jack Ma for the mildest of CCP criticism to enforcing a blackout of tianamen square in their ai models. He is much closer to Putin than Trump.
This same control-freak policy applies to their trade. Want to do business in china? Be prepared to set up a 50/50 joint stock company. Want to move money out of the country? Good luck, 50k/year max. This is why so many Chinese buy foreign property, they are trying to move assets outside the reach of the CCP. It’s also why China turns a blind eye to the fent trade — it weakens the US and provides a valuable source of hard (ie cash) currency for China.
Don’t get it twisted, the CCP is run by authoritarians with little tolerance for dissent, not wise technocrats building a better China.
Chinese belt and road initivate can nearly be called free trade.
Just because you will be purged for making Winnie the Pooh references, doesn’t mean you are not allowed to make suggestions to improve China, or that Xi is Idi Amin taking all wealth of the country for himself. There exists an intellectual party that is capable of removing him if they thought he was acting inappropriately. Sure, capital controls is a restriction on the rich in China, but that doesn’t make it a shithole country pillaged by oligarchs, like some.
Yes, CCP is authoritarian, but the party has long term vision for the country. Because they don’t want to revert back to the so-called century of humiliation when China became technologically behind and had been carrion feeds for outside powers. The country had been isolationist which made Imperial China weak, but the CCP decided to open up and use international free trade to assert their own influence, instead of being controlled by it like before. Much of CCP’s decision making is influenced by historical trauma, as well as from Confucian idea of mandate of heaven-- that the ruling government is only legitimate so long as they can deliver for the people.
So even though Xi cracks down on dissent, he is open to ideas when it comes to technological advancements and pushes his subordinates to keep up. And as we can see, Deep Seek had beaten Western AI development at a fraction of the cost, and China is leading in manufacturing electric vehicles and battery and other renewable technologies. Millions of Chinese had been lifted out of poverty, and the older generations still remember the hardship and the war so many Chinese feel grateful. Xi wants the CCP to prove to the population that only they can deliver progress. But as you pointed out, there is a cost to all of this.
The CCP long term vision isn’t for China and Chinese citizens, it is entirely for the CCP.
Just being pedantic regarding the AI models; they’re only censored on the publicly hosted versions. Like any other model if you run it locally you’re only restricted by the model’s training
Nope, running locally still has censorship issues, just not as much
Your article literally proves my point
FWIW, I HATE the CCP. Though they do keep China from being all it could be which could be bad for other countries.
Dont forget them avoiding war for however many decades, while america fabricates them for profit.
I guess taking over Tibet and the ongoing Uyghur genocide just don’t matter.
Well I’ll just have to take your word for it won’t I?
After “gun violence”, he should’ve added “gun violence against children”.
