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jmcgough | 10 days ago

The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government. Half of what you've been told is propaganda, like the "social credit score" story.

In China they put people to death for corruption, here they just get a well-paid lobbying job.

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Terr_|10 days ago

Speaking as an American with some personal history in Hong Kong (on both sides of the PRC handover), saying "is now" is not accurate.

That said, I would agree to "may soon become if we don't stop it." We aren't there yet, but we're on a bad trajectory.

s3r3nity|10 days ago

> The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government

Nah we’re not playing this game.

Try asking the CCP officials in person about Uyghur internment camps, or Tiananmen Square, and see if your family isn’t all arrested.

Ask Olympian Alysa Liu how the CCP targeted her father to try to coerce her to skate for China.

tekno45|10 days ago

they shot unarmed protestors in US streets.

leptons|10 days ago

I think the next 3 or so years in the US are going to be a real awakening for you, if the last year hasn't. It's going to become more and more difficult to shove your head deeper into the sand.

temp8830|10 days ago

Oh but this game is fun! I see your Uyghurs and raise the Falun Gong. A religious cult that is against pretty much anything liberal, but because they are a thorn in China's side they get US support and are oh-so-persecuted. They even have an anti-Communist acrobatics show called Shen Yun. Yes, that one, the one that spams your mailbox with flyers, and abuses kids.