• Empathy [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.

    I’m particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:

    • They are not a democratic country.
    • They do not have freedom of speech like most countries
    • As far as I perceive, they are generally enemies of well-intentioned countries.

    I might have a different perspective though. I’m a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.

    Edit: I’d like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I’m just trying to understand people’s overall perspective and whether mine is different, I’m not trying to argue and I’m not upset at you nor any of the commenters I’ve seen on similar posts.

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      8 months ago

      They are not a democratic country.

      Why would you say that? Meanwhile, Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Which isn’t surprising since capitalist democracy is a sham democracy.

      They do not have freedom of speech like most countries

      I can only say that they are freer than Anglosphere propaganda claim. Meanwhile Julian Assange has been a political prisoner for 12 years and counting, despite even the major Global North corporate media pleading for his exoneration.

      As far as I perceive, they are generally enemies of well-intentioned countries.

      I’m not sure which countries you’re referring to, but maybe you mean the other imperial core countries. As neocolonizers, they are no more well-intentioned than the US is, from the perspective of the periphery countries they plunder.

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      8 months ago

      You’re getting hit by a some bad faith willful misunderstander comments

      It’s true that Russia or China aren’t well-intentioned nor democracies AND the USA belongs to that same group.

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        8 months ago

        I was wondering whether what felt like common sense to me was the same as what felt like common sense for others, and I see that between us it’s not.

        I’m not gonna bother trying to argue with you, I doubt it would be productive in any way, I’m not gonna change your mind. Additionally, you’ve put a lot of words into my mouth and inferred that I believe a lot of things that I really don’t believe, which is a bit upsetting.