What the fuvk is all this? Don’t answer, I’m afraid you’ll get stuck in another loop.

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Okay true.

Chinese citizens BELIEVE they’re democratic and all equal. Not that they actually are.

I agree with that, yeah.

India being listed as a democracy doesn’t help this point. India being above China and New Zealand is wild.

Your belief that China is an authoritarian oppressive regime seems to be unfalsifiable. If approval ratings are high it’s because the people are being silenced and secretly hate their government. If approval is low it’s because they hate their government. If the approval ratings are real then they’ve been brainwashed by nationalism.

Like everything indicates the approval ratings are real, there were studies conducted by Western universities that didn’t have stake in the matter and most Chinese citizens had a positive opinion of the PRC. There’s no way to fake this kind of stuff as well as you’re describing for decades.

There are various reasons for why I can understand Chinese citizens like China. They’re entering the golden age of their economy right now and legitimately have competitive quality of life when compared to Americans. Their country is becoming a superpower and that could be a source of national pride for some Chinese citizens. I think those reasons can explain the results without adding in coercion.

In South Carolina the Democrats are doing the opposite messaging and talking about bipartisan politics, “protecting girls sports,” and “securing the border.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL2tkObnoro

They’re unprincipled. Now, to be fair, the Democrats have a few key issues they actually take a stance on, believe in, and will not budge, like committing genocide, but most of their positions are all just completely unprincipled people-pleasing, like “whatever political position will give us the most support in whatever area that’s the one we claim to have.” That’s why some places they say they support trans people and other places they say transphobic stuff. They will just be whatever is popular.

That is true.

Yeah, that is the functional equivalence of the voot argument.

Russian agents are not supporting the Republican party. Stop pretending there is some conspiracy to make America like this. They did it themselves. Trump is like the most American American to ever American.

No, you see, the trick you’re pulling is blaming the global South for supposed barbarism when it is the West that profits off of those horrors and maintains them via it’s monopolistic control over finance, oil, and other essential commodities required for development, and this system of extraction from poor countries into the rich countries that you consider to have superior cultures is enforced by imperialist militaries and comprador oppressive governments.

You cannot say that Arab culture is worse than Western culture when you are dependent on oil being parasitically extracted from Arab countries with nearly zero profits from it actually improving the lives of the people there. You cannot say that Indian culture is worse, when you literally benefit off of workers there living in worse conditions because that means the agricultural / chemical / industrial products produced there can be cheaper and it means you can have a higher quality of life because everyday consumer goods are cheaper.

Iran is a great example: If one country of the supposed lesser cultures stops exporting oil, then your precious Western Civilization starts shriveling up like a leech.

This is exactly what a fascist would say.

“traitor to the West” sounds exactly like something a fascist would say, but since it’s about Ukraine everyone ignores it, cheers it on, even.

“Overtly negative on anything from the West” lol.