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I mean, that is a hyperbolic statement on your part right? You can't actually believe I would have a hard time naming at least one place more fucked up on earth than China. More nations are worse than China than are better than it, try booking a "nice" hotel in Somalia and tell me all about how wonderful your trip was.
That said, the US clearly has a better standard of living than China. My point wasn't that China was better than the US, it was that most of the stuff China gets ragged on for we could also get ragged on for. China doesn't get lambasted for having poverty or pollution (well not any more than every other country with poverty and pollution issues - like India) but for "human rights violations". That and they are not the enemy our propaganda makes them out to be.
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Somalia is fucked up because of niggers, but at least they have far more freedom. The amount of political corruption is on par with China, often hand in hand with China. But that's another story and what I said is to an extent hyperbolic.
As for them being our enemy. Yes they are, and the easiest way to destroy them would be to decouple completely.
What makes them our enemy? What are they doing to us that our own allies (cough Israel cough) don't also do to us? Tech thievery? We steal shit, they steal shit, everyone steals shit. Most of their tech thievery isn't even really that, it is our corporations and politicians being greedy enough that they give them the technology just so they do business in China. That says a LOT more about our businesses being traitors than China being our enemy. We would do the same if the shoe was on the other foot, but we aren't really behind in any technological area so we have no need to. Give us a few years though and I am sure we will fall behind with a renewed focus on social justice rather than space exploration.
Us breaking away from them in terms of trade would hurt us in the long road more than them. Yes it would initially be harder on them but they are willing to do what it takes to weather the storm while we will just give more and more money to "marginalized" people until we become basically Venezuela. They have shown they can recover from extreme poverty and famine in modern times, we have not. Their Belt and Road Initiative is also working to shore up that weakness of theirs so if we were going to do it, the time to do it would have been before Biden. After Biden they may have gotten far enough along for them to be able to weather a break better.
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[–] LuciusAM ago (edited ago)
I mean, that is a hyperbolic statement on your part right? You can't actually believe I would have a hard time naming at least one place more fucked up on earth than China. More nations are worse than China than are better than it, try booking a "nice" hotel in Somalia and tell me all about how wonderful your trip was.
That said, the US clearly has a better standard of living than China. My point wasn't that China was better than the US, it was that most of the stuff China gets ragged on for we could also get ragged on for. China doesn't get lambasted for having poverty or pollution (well not any more than every other country with poverty and pollution issues - like India) but for "human rights violations". That and they are not the enemy our propaganda makes them out to be.
[–] boredTech ago
Somalia is fucked up because of niggers, but at least they have far more freedom. The amount of political corruption is on par with China, often hand in hand with China. But that's another story and what I said is to an extent hyperbolic.
As for them being our enemy. Yes they are, and the easiest way to destroy them would be to decouple completely.
[–] LuciusAM 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
What makes them our enemy? What are they doing to us that our own allies (cough Israel cough) don't also do to us? Tech thievery? We steal shit, they steal shit, everyone steals shit. Most of their tech thievery isn't even really that, it is our corporations and politicians being greedy enough that they give them the technology just so they do business in China. That says a LOT more about our businesses being traitors than China being our enemy. We would do the same if the shoe was on the other foot, but we aren't really behind in any technological area so we have no need to. Give us a few years though and I am sure we will fall behind with a renewed focus on social justice rather than space exploration.
Us breaking away from them in terms of trade would hurt us in the long road more than them. Yes it would initially be harder on them but they are willing to do what it takes to weather the storm while we will just give more and more money to "marginalized" people until we become basically Venezuela. They have shown they can recover from extreme poverty and famine in modern times, we have not. Their Belt and Road Initiative is also working to shore up that weakness of theirs so if we were going to do it, the time to do it would have been before Biden. After Biden they may have gotten far enough along for them to be able to weather a break better.