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[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ...

  • Amendment XIII, Section 1.
[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Fuck the US, but saying "lol x is better" is whats silly. Both can be shit at the same time and both can need revolution

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only the US needs a revolution. The vast majority in the PRC support their system and believe it is working in their interests. That makes sense, considering the PRC is socialist, and not under a dictatorship of capital. A revolution in the PRC would only result in the restoration of capitalism, and likely plundering from the US, setting back the global progression to socialism by a century by letting the US Empire last even longer.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the difference here is the uyghur thing is american propaganda while the prison thing is reality.

there's plenty of other things that makes china look REALLY bad, but it's not the uyghurs since it's just the american pot calling the chinese kettle black and; even if it were 100% true; it's not anywhere near as bad american prosecution of SOOOO many groups.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s not silly if it’s true. Both certainly could be shit at the same time, but currently only one is.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation

The PRC is not murdering Uyghurs. It's genuinely a complex situation, but you can absolutely rely on the west to uncritically report their paid propagandist and christian nationalist Adrian Zenz of the "Victims of Communism" state department propaganda outlet.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn, over a decade of propaganda and the what can't even find a single example of China killing a uyghur.

Meanwhile American police kill multiple black Americans a day.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Beyond that, they are beginning to just kill multiple US citizens daily, and that's just police. Policy kills more, it's just slow and easier for them to deny.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's not even getting into the millions killed overseas

[–] cheeso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

eating up that propaganda like you're in a famine

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

NATOpedia is not a source. Also, do you think we haven’t already thoroughly read that page, like this is our first rodeo?

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

haha! Yeah a wikipedia link! Im sure the content anybody can edit isn't being controlled by Western narratives 😂