Lemmy libs "ChInA iS AUthOriTaRiAn" meanwhile... : memes

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Forget the dick, what is the dude in the background dressed as? The one with the beard

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 month ago

One in red on the right of the Chinese side? Think depressed thor from endgame?

[–] AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

He was arrested for enjoying a succulent Chinese meal.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The authoritarianism is exercised differently in both countries. Mainly, the US state is openly more physically violent. In China, surveillance, media control, censorship, and control of their population in general is stronger (but the US is rapidly trying to catch up). As one example, the US wouldn't have been able to effectively silence Naomi Wu and presumably remove her way of making a living at the time, if she was a US citizen in the US.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

surveillance, media control, censorship, and control of their population in general is stronger

Bullshit

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Says the person replying to me in a platform that's blocked by China's Great Firewall?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago

Did that make sense in your head?

[–] kshade@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

China already is where Bannon wants to be.

[+] TotalSonic@lemmy.world -6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If authoritarianism & the violence it brings (which there is a ton of) in the USA correctly upsets you, then authoritarianism everywhere else (for which there is a ton in China, as well as across most of the rest of the globe) should upset you as well. Trying to make excuses for it in one place or another for ones "team" is pathetic. Fuck all the "whataboutism" - it's all counter productive.

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