• entwine413@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    Being involved in a foreign conflict is pretty unlikely to be a deciding factor.

    It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s, and we used to be good trading partners.

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      18 hours ago

      I suppose it’s up to your defintion of ‘deciding factor’ but to think the US’s invasions of sovereign countries resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilians deaths over the past few decades and support for ongoing genocide isn’t tiping the scales is misguided at best

      It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s

      source? I’ve never seen reliable evidence(outside of easily disproven Zenz’s inventions) that China’s rights abuses match those committed by the US in Guantaumo, Abu Graib etc in scale and severity

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/29/abu-zubaydah-cia-torture-waterboarding-guantanamo

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          11 hours ago

          So no source?

          Facts(UN investigations, photo and video evidence, I can provide sources on request) show that the US has committed far worse rights abuses than china(sexual assault at Abu Ghraib, extreme torture at both and murder and Guantanamo and numerous black-sites, extraordinary rendition etc)

          This proves my point about US cultural dominance distorting objective reality: despite facts showing the US committing far more severe human rights abuses you still believe China has committed worse because that is what media you consume portrays

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            10 hours ago

            Did I ever say the US government didn’t commit human rights violations? Don’t put words in my mouth.

            Also, China has had organ harvesting concentration camps for a while now. They also allow working conditions that are so shitty factories have to install anti-suicide nets.

            China is by no means the good guy just because the US is a bad guy.

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          17 hours ago

          China is pretty bad, but I feel the US never gets called out for this, so he has a good point.