• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Lol

    I respect the Chinese people, their modern advancements in science and technology, their industry, their customs, and their rich history and culture.

    I do not respect a hostile dictatorship that rules over them all, and if they were smart they would not, either.

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      I respect the American people, their modern advancements in science and technology, their industry, their customs, and their rich history and culture.

      I do not respect a hostile dictatorship of corporate overlords that rules over them all, and if they were smart they would not, either.

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          5 days ago

          I was kinda making a similar argument because of “if they were smart”. They are smart. Americans are smart too. But being smart doesn’t trivialize the very complicated problems with overthrowing a dictatorship/oligarchy, because neither government is currently democratic in practice — so voting will not work.

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          6 days ago

          “Whataboutism” is a term used to feel righteous while completely ignoring your bias.

          Admitting both contries are bad and then taking a clear stance between them is hypocritical at best.

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            “Whataboutism” is when you dismiss any bad of any one thing because there are other examples of bad things. In fact, you trying to deflect your bias as my bias is actually also whataboutism.

            If you don’t have any logical excuse for the bad thing, then you should stop standing up for the bad thing.

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        6 days ago

        Vote in 60 dem senators and they’ll overturn Citizens United, limiting political donations, and they’ll tax the rich.

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          6 days ago

          Not really.

          Dems are primarily sponsored by the rich and have to align with their interests. Out of two major US political parties, neither one is the party of the people.

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            6 days ago

            HR 1 For The People Act - written by dems, passed by dems twice, blocked by Republicans.

            Before that the dems wrote the campaign finance laws in 1995 and 2002 which were the core of the Citizens United Lawsuit in 2007 where SCOTUS voted with a partisan split to allow any sized contribution, even Hillary Clinton was a supporter of undoing Citizens United.

            Even if the DNC isn’t your ideal peoples party, they are the party who can give you the option. Vote Dem.

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      6 days ago

      They own and rule the dictatorship. It’s a dictatorship of the proletariat, wherein anyone can become a party member and participate. The US has a dictatorship of capital. How’s that working out again having a dozen billionaires writing your laws and controlling the entire executive branch?

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        No it’s a dictatorship by a small group that the rest of them are not in. It’s a dictatorship that demands the common people surrender all beliefs not sanctioned by the state, that demolishes holy sites, a dictatorship that forces minorities into labor camps. It’s a dictatorship that commits hostile takeovers of neighboring nations and allies itself with multiple other dictatorships.