Joke’s on this guy, US is first at all of those!
After “gun violence”, he should’ve added “gun violence against children”.
The truth is that the U.S. contributes the most to foreign aid funds, and still gets zero to little political good will.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_sovereign_state_donors
It’s the American way to destabilize a country than pay for aid.
No wonder it doesn’t end up with net positive political good will.
In fairness, all countries play the destabilization games against each other. That’s the core of realpolitiks.
Yet few do it as openly as the states.
So, you are saying doing it covertly is better?
No, what I said was ‘Yet few do it as openly as the states.’.
Any reason you can think of why that might be the case?
Yes, but let’s stop pretending that all other countries are angelic heavens with leaders who have nothing but the best intentions for all people, everywhere. Every country has its issues, and it’s really easy to blame them on “imperialists”.
I fail to see how one would get the idea that someone is saying other countries are “angelic heavens with leaders who have nothing but the best intentions for all people” from this discussion.
Why create the “yeah but” space?. If someone points out that there is a problem with gun violence in America the response should be “yeah, that’s not good, we should try and figure out some sort of solution” not “yeah but we donate the most in foreign aid”.
I’m sincerely not taking the piss. I feel like creating that sort of space is dangerous not only because it avoids accountability but also because it feels nice and its easy to do.
But nothing you said is wrong, I don’t think ill of you, not trying to catch you out, I agree with what you are saying. Was just trying to help you follow the thought you were on to see where it would get you.
I agree, the Chinese poster is on point about all their statements.
In this particular post. Remember, propaganda has to include some truth or it won’t work very well. That post is true. Whereas one would be pretty stupid to trust as true most of what the CCP-controlled media says.
Ok guessing 50-70 million psycho racist MAGA rednecks might have a factor in that
Because we have far too many hate blinded citizens who are ready and willing to drop to their knees and open wide for the bukkake of anti-America propaganda?
You guys are celebrating the “comeback” from a person who works for the Chinese government and is LITERALLY labeled as “China state-affiliated media”…
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while. Just because CCP-governed/owned media says something, doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Especially since propaganda doesn’t work very well if it’s ALL lies. Mixing in some truth makes propaganda work much better.
A better statistic with which to make comparisons between nations is the % of GDP or budget of said nations devoted to aid. The US is first in the actual amount given, but our budgetary % is pretty low compared to other nations. Not to mention the aid figures given include military aid and similar that ends up coming back to US companies.
To be fair, we have no idea how many COVID infections or deaths China had or how many prisoners they have. It isn’t like they are the most transparent with either matter.
Everything else he said checks out. 🇺🇲
Who told you that the US government?
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We have 2 million prisoners for 330 million people.
They claim 1.6 million prisoners for their 1.4 billion people.
Even if it were double what China claims, per capita we keep far more of our people in bondage, because we found and disgustingly prioritize the private profit in it. More prisoners for private for profit prisons, and more slave labor leased out to for profit corporations.
We put people in cages using any excuse to increase quarterly earnings expectations for our sociopath class. “Land of the free,” Lo fucking L.
It’s “Land of the fee”
We’ve been saying it wrong the whole time.
Oh… Oh! That makes sense.
Would you like to buy the R? That will be one soul please
All the R have been bought and paid for. So have most of the D, for that matter.
“Lan_ of the f_ee”
The number of imprisoned is the point he made, not the per capita.
Yeah, everyone knows the US has more people per capita
It would be flatly unsurprising if china had well over double what they claim.
At this point I trust their government and our government equally.
As an American, I would take the word of any single European union member nation over the word of both China and the US claiming anything in unison.
At least China has the guts to call out the West for supporting the genocide in Gaza, something out own Democratic party seems wholly incapable of.
Ignore their own genocide against muslims, focus on the Jews.
Even in that regard, reeducation camps are better than for-profit prisons. They have different goals in mind.
Forced labor and indoctrination compared to just forced labor. If we start calling for profit prisons time-out zones with chores will that placate you?
It is easy calling out genocides from other nations.
Call me when they talk about their own genocides.
Orbán likes this post.
The fucks in the republic party literally invited Orbán to have a speech and how to get shit done, US is not even first at effectively controlling state media and politicians bleeding it’s country dry
Sometimes I forget that Hungary is part of the EU. And that Hungary and Turkey are part of NATO. It’s the kind of thing I don’t like remembering.
They had robots spraying disinfectant on streets. They would test and barricade people in homes who were positive. They would also feed them though. Whole city quarantines. They did not fuck around on Covid. It’s reasonable that not fucking around achieved a low death rate. It shows how much richer they really are compared to west in being able to afford such measures.
It’s also a bit rich that the Chinese dude gets labeled by X as ‘state affiliated media’ (which it probably is) but X itself apparently not? Which it definitely is.
This whole screenshot is basically one state’s propaganda machine vs. another.
Just because the Chinese propaganda machine is acting the straight man in this particular interaction, doesn’t mean they don’t have skeletons in their own closet
Yeah, while I agree with some of his jabs - it is immensely ironic that China is #1 in two of mentioned anti-US criticisms.
Go figure two assholes in a room and no one smells good
Yo very unrelated, but thank you for mentioning that phrase “skeletons in their own closet”! I’ve been listening to a song for a few months which uses that metaphor and I couldn’t exactly figure out what it meant (it’s in Greek and didnt expect that phrase to exist in english too). (This is the song if you care, lol.)
It exists in French too
Germans have corpses in their basement.
I’ve seen that in English as well, as a more empathetic version of skeletons in the closet.
A broken clock something something.
And now you’re here!
Why are repubs so freakin divisive? Like, why not we lift one another up? Dumbasses
Legally murdering it’s own citizens in droves in capitalist confidence schemes like the Healthcare Insurance scam industry to increase private stockholder profit?
🇺🇸 We’re number one! 🇺🇸
Be like China. Make up your own statistics.
You’re always best if you put your finger on the scale.
This is something I see frequently, but have been unable to substantiate.
How do we know they’re making up statistics? Can you verify that claim with evidence? That would be very useful for me. If anyone can, i’d appreciate it.
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I came here to write “Elise Stefanik is a moron”, but then I noticed Chen already called her an idiot. What an embarrassment to NY-21 congressional district (thankfully not mine). I love going up to the Adirondacks, but man is it MAGA country now.
Last summer, I noticed the print on demand t-shirt shop in Old Forge that has been there since at least the 80s is now run by magats. They had a row of anti-LGBTQ shirts and the usual Joe Biden hatred crap on display and I just walked out. I’m so tired of people making everything political and wearing it on their sleeves, sometimes literally.
Burned.
The circus is in town! Two clowns duking it out in the digital colosseum: one’s waving a flag, the other’s throwing shit. Meanwhile, we’re all fucked sideways by the system they represent. But sure, keep tweeting your little hearts out while Rome burns. At least the engagement’s good, right? Christ, we’re so far down the rabbit hole, Alice would need a fucking space shuttle to find us… Pass the soma, I’m checking out.
China’s system is better than the US’s
Nowhere close lol
Give some examples of how Americas system is better?
China is a paper tiger economy built upon slave labor, fast consumerism, and environmental destruction. If and when such cultural habits change the consumer economy will collapse, and that’s with believing the fake numbers the Chinese government releases. Along with population decline and the top heavy population caused by the one child policy, the economy will stagnate even further.
China is 15-20 years behind on the technology curve for domestic research and production. Their current technology base is literally copied from the rest of the world.
Politically, massive degradation of rights and freedoms for citizens, civil rights violations against minorities, the religious, and the political opposition. They have actual concentration camps, not just detainment centers in the US people bring up.
China has one leg up on the US with a comprehensive health coverage… if you avoid being a forced organ donor for the elite.
Lol a lot of the stuff you said describing China is also describing the US. The real difference is the US has a better marketing department. Remember when the kindly pilgrims became best friends with the Indians in America?
Not a lot of that accurately describes America currently. And if we want to reach into history, China has a history or destroying a group of people to replace them with Han Chinese, and it is still currently happening.
I have a theory that America already was the “Nazis” back when they committed a genocide on native americans, except America never got stopped like the Nazis did.
No, both are bad, you don’t want a social credit system
Populism FIRST. FFY
as a canadian, i think it’s pretty safe to say the US is not first in much these days.
things have changed. a lot.
Have you seen our defense budget?
What are you talking about? He literally listed a bunch of things we’re first at!
Stefanik is so dumb - it’s America Second.
Israel is first.
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Haha well to Chen’s point, I’m sure America has a far greater percentage of its own population incarcerated than most other nations…looks like it isn’t quite number 1 there but close enough to be disgusted with this stat.
My point is that due to the open bribery system of American politics through “campaign finance donations,” America’s politicians are completely bought by Israel. They get everything before us, and we pay for it.
Nationalized healthcare, paid family leave, subsidized or free college, significant investment in infrastructure like roads and bridges - Israel enjoys all of these amenities, while Americans are left out to dry and die by our own government. It’s incredibly sad what this level of corruption has done to the US, and it only seems to be accelerating from here.
*Third after number one, Elon’s self-esteem.
