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
No, both are bad, you don’t want a social credit system
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.
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
A broken clock something something.
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.)
Germans have corpses in their basement.
I’ve seen that in English as well, as a more empathetic version of skeletons in the closet.
It exists in French too
And now you’re here!
Taiwan #1!
Aka; the rightful government of the entirety of China. May Taipei occupy Beijing once more
Occupy or liberate? I would say liberate, right?
Neither country really has a leg to stand on here. China sucks too.
Taiwan #1!
I think China will.take the Taiwan #1 and use it as an argument that they, in fact, are #1
After “gun violence”, he should’ve added “gun violence against children”.
Populism FIRST. FFY
Wow! What a smackdown.
I think it’s perfectly fair to prioritize yourself first. Politicians should do that.
But why does she want China last? That’s just hatred.
I remember when political news were pictures of people shaking hands and making trade agreements. These days it’s all screenshots of social media posts made from someone hiding in a basement or gated community. Trump refusing to answer a telephone call from Canada while using his phone to tweet out more bullshit is a new low.
American politics might be two sided team game, but international politics are not. Unfortunately for the republicans, they desperately need an opponent to make themselves relevant. They simply don’t have anything else to offer.
Casual racism is very American.
Pot, kettle … a pox on both their houses?
Ok I’m not defending her here but this is a stupid reply because she’s obvuously referring to prioritizing the interests of America, not that America is #1.
He’s not wrong in what he said, it’s just the wrong tweet to dunk on.
When someone doesn’t speak in complete sentences it is likely harder to translate with proper understanding.
Put America’s priorities first and America comes in first can be shortened to the same two words. What we know for sure is we don’t put education first.
When has the US been anything but USA first, everyone else last in the last 70 years?
Burned.
Stefanik is so dumb - it’s America Second.
Israel is first.
*Third after number one, Elon’s self-esteem.
Prison population tho?
Not sure if dead people (that israel genocided) count as “prisoner”
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
It is easy calling out genocides from other nations.
Call me when they talk about their own genocides.
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?
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.
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
Legally murdering it’s own citizens in droves in capitalist confidence schemes like Healthcare Insurance to increase private stockholder profit?
🇺🇸 We’re number one! 🇺🇸
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 their it on their sleeves, sometimes literally.
I’m so tired of people making everything political and wearing it on their sleeves, sometimes literally.
I prefer my Nazis out in the open. Uniformed combatants are fair game
