holo

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[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Except homeownership rates, poverty rates, homelessness, illiteracy, class mobility, workers rights, prisoners prisoners per capita...

The US is one of the worst countries given it's comical amount of wealth, usually coming in at rank 40 or lower by pretty much any stat you choose... Except gross GDP, the number of prisoners, the number of proper capita, the number of slaves working for private corporations, and maternal mortality rates. That's where the US excels that China simple can't compete in, arresting people, forcing them to work for profit for companies, and killing women in child birth.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The US is a tiny market compared to the rest of users, why would they ever sell?

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 1 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

You want to know how to turn an American against the US government? Tell them, without exaggeration, what their government is doing to them; and tell them, without exaggeration, what other governments do for their citizens.

It's that simple. No lies needed. No american with an IQ above a glass of undrinkable tap water likes their government or thinks their country is worth anything.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 4 points 13 hours ago

Well luckily the straw man you're assigning to China only exists in your head.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 8 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

They've eliminated extreme poverty and are on track to eliminate poverty. Given even the poorest citizens don't worry about rent or medical bills or food costs, their poverty looks incredibly different to that in the US.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 15 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

...by seeing how shit is lives are in comparison?

I don't think you understand how many centuries behind China the US is.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fascism, according to Mussolini, is the combination of state and corporate power, the final stage of capitalism.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

That's, fine, it's your choice to not use services.

That has nothing to do with anyone else. Simply don't use the internet.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What is China going to do?

Hell with China's track record, it's better that China has it than the US government if you're in the US.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

No, it's been that way for longer than you've been alive, unless you're in you're 90s.

[–] holo@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 days ago

The star of David was adopted as a Zionist symbol, not a Jewish symbol. Before ~1850 it would be ridiculous to conflate the two, and until the 1940s it was still incredibly controversial to link it to Judaism. It was ironically the Nazis that popularized the idea a hexagram should be the Jewish symbol.

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