US builds concentration camps for those disappeared by masked secret police, after killing citizens in street.
Masked secret police collecting DNA, face scans, license plates from peaceful protestors, for use in creating a database of “domestic terrorists”.
Trump wishes to imprison additional US citizens in El Salvadoran gulag after sending 280 immigrants.
Police arrest and attack citizens with chemical weapons, batons, and projectiles, injuring over 300,000 people per year.
US bankrolls, supplies, and provides troops to apartheid state conducting genocide.
But China (7000km away) is big meanie and if I can’t have pooh photo (if I ever travel 7000km to China (which I hate because pooh photo)), I will literally die.
Also, nobody here is claiming that america is good. We’re literally here to discuss how drastically things in the US need to change.
The comment you’re replying to was calling out the hypocrisy of someone trying to detract from the protests going on. Denying the authoritarianism of one country doesn’t help oppose authoritarianism in another. Two mutually antagonistic governments can be authoritarians at the same time, and it’s perfectly valid to criticize both.
So your long list of facts, while they would be relevant as a top-level comment had you framed them as “reasons why we’re protesting,” are really just a thinly-veiled red herring that you’re attempting to use to defend someone who’s attempting to derail conversation about the protest movement.
I focus on the devil I know… I mean the left is still on its knees and is yet to learn how to walk. Shorthand: Get your house in order. … israel is commiting a genocide but chynah so mean. 🙁💧 I am so ready to go to CHINA
Necroposting to resurrect a dead argument that was bad-faith derailing from the start?
You’re on a post that’s literally about people protesting the US government, so I don’t see why you feel the need to rush in and defend China.
Multiple state actors can be repressive, by the way. Go ask anyone in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Tibet, Xinjiang, or hell even Vietnam what they think of the PRC.
Maybe your time would be better spent worrying about your own country?
Traveler threatened with jail or fine had phone forcefully searched and was denied entry after bald photo of JD Vance found.
Only state approved journalists allowed in White House press pool.
Pentagon removes internal press media offices.
Protestors charged with terrorism for wearing black clothing and handing out pamphlets.
US builds concentration camps for those disappeared by masked secret police, after killing citizens in street.
Masked secret police collecting DNA, face scans, license plates from peaceful protestors, for use in creating a database of “domestic terrorists”.
Trump wishes to imprison additional US citizens in El Salvadoran gulag after sending 280 immigrants.
Police arrest and attack citizens with chemical weapons, batons, and projectiles, injuring over 300,000 people per year.
US bankrolls, supplies, and provides troops to apartheid state conducting genocide.
But China (7000km away) is big meanie and if I can’t have pooh photo (if I ever travel 7000km to China (which I hate because pooh photo)), I will literally die.
Omgawd you are so smart but these downvote turds don’t think so.
Are you assuming that commenter is american?
Also, nobody here is claiming that america is good. We’re literally here to discuss how drastically things in the US need to change.
The comment you’re replying to was calling out the hypocrisy of someone trying to detract from the protests going on. Denying the authoritarianism of one country doesn’t help oppose authoritarianism in another. Two mutually antagonistic governments can be authoritarians at the same time, and it’s perfectly valid to criticize both.
So your long list of facts, while they would be relevant as a top-level comment had you framed them as “reasons why we’re protesting,” are really just a thinly-veiled red herring that you’re attempting to use to defend someone who’s attempting to derail conversation about the protest movement.
Are you in, or in the way?
I focus on the devil I know… I mean the left is still on its knees and is yet to learn how to walk. Shorthand: Get your house in order. … israel is commiting a genocide but chynah so mean. 🙁💧 I am so ready to go to CHINA
Necroposting to resurrect a dead argument that was bad-faith derailing from the start?
You’re on a post that’s literally about people protesting the US government, so I don’t see why you feel the need to rush in and defend China.
Multiple state actors can be repressive, by the way. Go ask anyone in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Tibet, Xinjiang, or hell even Vietnam what they think of the PRC.