Is this a joke???? You are aware that the death toll in China vs other states is not the sole or even biggest reason their government is criticized right? And that for the first, most critical year of the pandemic, America had a president that liberals hated and was HEAVILY criticized. Especially how he handled COVID at literally every step of the way and anyone else who agreed with it. Because you know, it lead to so many deaths.

Ugh can't we go back to the old school edgelords who think they are vampires and wanna drink blood instead of making excuses for fascist governments and movements?

[+] queermunist@lemmy.ml -21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biden's policies were just as bad! The majority of the deaths occurred after Trump left office!

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What policies specifically did biden implement that caused public health saftey? And keep in mind ALL of 2019 trump spent it downplaying the virus in every way conceivable and that other republican lead states and citizens listened to and adopted this. If the start runner does a terrible job it really doesn't matter how well the next person does, they have hurdles no one else has to jump over. Including people believing that the virus is a hoax, masks don't work, vaccines are dangerous, and even more. That's an uphill battle. Context matters. And like China literally boarded up or even welding peoples homes shut without consent to keep them from breaking quarantine.

So yeah I get a little fucking pissed off when some comfortable westerner tries to play devils advocate that an authoritarian state that impacts people I love is some sort of intellectual thought experiment of how could it be better than the very bad USA (which also sucks but for completely different reasons!!!!!!) I noticed you completely skipped over someone else's point that we are free to speak out in America and not really face any consequences but nitpicking some other quotes.

Fuck this shit. I'm seeing so much more pro CCP shit on Lemmy and it is squicking me out. I'm not making this comment to convince you because you have made up your mind and have your own motives for sharing. Here is my movitve for repsoding... anyone reading this don't believe what this person is saying without some critical thought. All the major governments suck right now to some degree. Be wary of anyone telling you that a government that has historically been horrible TO ITS OWN PEOPLE is for some arbitrary reason better than the west (and oh my gosh did everyone collectively forget HK protests and the human rights violations that happend there ?!!)

[–] Addfwyn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Be wary of anyone telling you that a government that has historically been horrible TO ITS OWN PEOPLE is for some arbitrary reason better than the west

The government that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other government in the world? How dare they not imprison people and force them into slave labour. There's a reason that the CPC is overwhemingly popular amongst the people.

The government that hasn't been at war with another country in over forty years, and builds railroads and hospitals instead of bombing them? Ask Laos whether the US or China has been better to work with.

It's not really arbitrary reasons, there are a lot of concrete reasons. It's not perfect, they are still working on a lot of things, but most things are constantly improving and it isn't hard to see why people might prefer it.

If you are advocating others use critical thought, I would argue the same. Step outside the "China bad" propaganda for just a second.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biden had a majority in the House and Senate and he didn't do anything with it to mandate vaccines or masks or social distancing or remote work or anything - worse, he didn't even try. He just continued the same Trump-era policies and waited for the vaccine to fix everything.

I can certainly say it's not all his fault! America is becoming ungovernable and essentially Balkanizing, with fascists passing all sorts of laws to force minorities to flee to other states. Biden isn't superhuman and there's no way he could force this shithole country to stop killing itself.

I'm only saying China is the lesser evil. How can you uncritically bring up Hong Kong protests and not the BLM uprising? Or the fact that America's prison population is comparable to China's despite being dwarfed in size?! America oppresses its own people, think critically!

EDIT Like, fuck, I'm trans in a red state. Am I going to end up in a fucking camp after Trump steals the election?