• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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      2 days ago

      USA has a history of toppling democracies and setting up puppet leaders

      China has a history of toppling democracies and expanding their borders permanently

      USA had massive protests over police brutality

      Chinese police brutally murdered massive protests

      USA detains minorities with minimal due process whenever Republicans get put in power, reverse course whenever Democrats get put in power

      China detains minorities and forces them into labour camps, sometimes sterilizing them, never reverse

      USA promotes democracy in places like North Korea by dropping in media and information about the outside world

      China promotes authoritarianism in places like the USA by feeding in misinformation

      USA often runs deradicalization programs to convert the type of person who tears down a mosque into a person willing to accept others

      Chinese Government mandates the tearing down of temples

      USA is a flawed two party system with first past the post elections

      China is a one party system which evolved from an absolute dictatorship in the 1940s to an absolute dictatorship now.

      The USA has an iron grip on the world’s financial systems and information technology, relying on fair trade, loans, and commerce to empower itself

      China intentionally causes harm with financial markets such as currency manipulation and bans the export of most technologies, heavily subsidizes some exports to try to capture markets, heavily restricts exports of minerals and other goods. China is using finances as if they were just another weapon

      The USA has a startlingly bad civil rights record and history, only guaranteeing equal rights based on protected class including race and ethnicity in the 1960s

      China has a startlingly bad civil rights record and history, never guaranteeing equal rights

      The USA funds and arms Israel who is committing a genocide in Gaza, the USA has been vetoing ceasefire resolutions

      China funds and arms Iran who used Hamas to initiate the genocide in Gaza, China has been vetoing ceasefire resolutions

      The USA convinced Ukraine to give up Nuclear Weapons in exchange for promised protections against the inevitable Russian invasion.

      China is enabling the Russian invasion by keeping their wartime economy afloat while the rest of the world embargoes and tariffs Russia.

      It’s difficult to come up with a single way in which China is not a worse place than the USA, and an active threat to all mankind.

      • bthest@lemmy.world
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        China has a history of toppling democracies and expanding their borders permanently

        So the Mexican cession is only temporary?