Nah you’re right. Sorry

deleted by creator

Do you apply the same scrutiny to whatever western country you twerk for?

Yes ofc. Keep moving the goal posts :D

“at what cost” lol

I understand. My question was: why can’t Americans NOT involve Russia, china or whichever other superpower to make themselves seem better? It’s ok to just admit that you suck and leave it at that.

Thanks for the insight! That’s my idea of things, too. I’ve been here for a week now lol and it’s far from whichever evil reddit thinks it is.

I need to read more and learn more, but so far I find myself preferring China to western oligarchy.

Yeah. I haven’t seen a single person actually praise Putin, because he has not achieved a single thing worth of defense and praise in all of the years he’s been Russia’s leader.

Xi however is a different case. His country is doing very well on many metrics and is threatening to overtake the US hegemony on the world stage. Around the time when China seemed to start catching up to the West, you started reading about how China literally was 1984 irl.

Outfits connected to the same US that is the single biggest reason for everything bad in the middle East and the Islamic world started condemning China for islamophobia. These same US based outfits also condemned China for worker abuses, despite the fact that their country was built on the backs of slaves, and still utilities the labour of millions of undocumented immigrants. That’s not to speak about how prisoners are used as cheap workforce in America.

The US and its propaganda arm has spewed so many lies and destabilized so many regions that I simply cannot trust anything they say about any other country – especially not a well-positioned rival. Why is China the eternal Big Bad? The same atrocities the Chinese are accused for have been committed by many allies to the yanks, with comparatively non-existent backlash and critique. The US lies to accomplish its strategy goals, something that even the blindest US shill can’t deny. Is it that unbelievable that they would lie about China?

Then you look at China and see a nation that isn’t only threatening the US position as the world leader, but also doing much more in service of its people than all American presidents since Reagan combined. You notice how narratives about “social credit scores” are exaggerated beyond parody without any criticism in Western media, and your trust to the West’s judgement of other nations starts to falter.

Why would I believe the US and its rhetoric about China? I know they don’t give a single fuck about human rights, they just want to “win”. To me, it’s more likely that the majority of whatever China is accused of doing is exaggerated or simply untrue.

That’s what leads me to “defend” the country. I’m not Chinese, I don’t live there and I gain nothing by being positive to them. However, westerners talk about China with such racism that I simply refuse to partake in. Westerners are also guilty of far uglier crimes and should therefore just zip it.

I also love to see that there exists a government that can jail billionaires and force them to pay their fair share to the people from which these leeches get their riches. In the US, you’re supposed to eat a rich man’s shit with a grin.

No irony here. The way people in general on reddit and adjacent platforms (not you necessarily, just the way Chinese politics is spoken about) you’d think that the CPC can do whatever it pleases without care for anything. So which is it? And why are you so cynical about the genuineness of laws stating that all Chinese are equal, regardless of ethnicity?

Holy based

But they’re an oppressive evil dictatorship, why would they need to save face? Maybe just accept that you’ve drunk the Koolaid.

I remember smug Americans scolding third worlders for having dictators run their countries, proudly claiming that they themselves were just better, more democratically inclined, which ofc led them to living in democracies. The third worlders just didn’t want democracy hard enough.

Now Trump is president and they just lay down and take it.

Jesus Christ can you at least write like a normal person? Why can’t Americans just admit that their country suck and leave it at that?

This but unironically