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  • bigboismith@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The US isn’t the great Satan, they are quite contemporary satan. Russia, China and Iran are all imperialist, anti democratic and have even worse human rights violations.

    You don’t have to pick a side, these are all asshats, some more than other though.

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      Yup. America isn’t great by any means but at least America has things like Pride, Black History Month, and civil rights. A lot of countries couldn’t care less.

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        I lived in China for years. I think half the idiots who say this shit don’t even realize the internet is censored there. Like good luck with porn, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, and the entire western internet. And yes the Chinese govt can stop your VPN from working when they feel like it, usually during national holidays or when big events happen.

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          At first, I agreed. Then you just kept listing awful sites…like Reddit, and it sounded more and more enticing.

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            Yeah, I thought about that too when I wrote Facebook, so that’s why I just added the western internet. Cause none of it works. Major pain in the ass if you have to do US banking.

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        in the real world? yeah, on lemmy however, it’s very controversial as there is a large and vocal contingent of leftists who think socialism/communism is awesome and the USA is pure evil, who tend to see think mass violence and oppresion on a populace is a necessary evil for a better future and who think the USA population has it far worse than the population of Russia and China.

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      3 days ago

      This is either American cope, pure misinformation, or both. Certainly not an opinion, and easily verifiable nonsense (do you want to do it by number of foreign interventions, coups, murders? You name it and, if it’s in the last century, the answers won’t be surprising at all). USA #1, right? And yes, no serious person “picks sides”, this isn’t football, this is geopolitics.