Oh so the fact we have actual elections though, that’s not worth talking about? Always nice to see who the CCP shills are, will add to ignore list
again I’m not saying our government is great and certainly has a ton of problems, but whitewashing an authoritarian state that literally doesn’t have elections , commits religious genocide on the scale of millions and strips away basically all personal freedoms, that’s a very interesting choice
It is incredible. Kinda scary too that a sizable chunk of the country is this easily influenced by TikTok and CNN propaganda portraying China as some glorious bastion of freedom and America as some totalitarian hellhole.
This thread is completely ridiculous on LHer’s part because if I or about 3-5 others chimed in on the overt political posts above it would be as follows for us:
Shadow flagging
Complaints about “politics in the thread”
Warnings from “mods” that were not moderating in the first instance
More warnings from those “mods”
The TCO/Anti-Lease King demanding an immediate ban
DM warnings from “mods”
DM message from Michael and Victoria
Thread lock
Ban
Once again, the LHer double-standard reigns supreme.
China invests in infrastructure, the US invests in bombing other countries to fuel a war machine. China built out their entire high speed rail system for about what we spend on the military budget every year. They spent a trillion over 10 years to build it out, US military budget is like $800billion, this year will be well over a trillion. We don’t have a two party system, it’s a one party system, top vs bottom aka corporate dictatorship.
For sure we will be eating Chinas dust in the future. Like one of BMW’s top brass said a few years ago, The US can’t move forward because they spend their time arguing about abortion and guns. I would add spend disproportionately huge amounts of money on military and war. What other country is poor due to war spending? Russia.