Better in every metric? Try being Chinese and criticizing the government online, and see what happens to you. That’s a pretty scary metric. The US is fucked right now, but at least there is hope in a democracy, while it lasts. If we ever become a full on totalitarian dystopia like China, it’s over. It makes me sad to think that, with modern surveillance technology, there is probably no way for them to dig themselves out of it at this point.

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[–] huf@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Why is China purging their generals?

US armed forces retired everyone they didnt like pre ww2 as preparation for ww2. are they purging their generals or are they just you know, firing/retiring people who are no longer the best choice for what's on the horizon? do we know? do we know anything at all or are we just immediately going oh, the greco-romano-judeo-christian culture in me tells me this is sinister?

the world may never know.

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

The best time to clean house of your general staff is before the fascists are marching over your borderposts. There was, like, a whole thing about why you don't do what the USSR did and wait until it's too late

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

their tyrannical purges vs our pragmatic restructuring

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

The funny bit about that is that the new Trump admin has gotten rid of a lot of people in the military he didn't like. And even just normal bureaucrats.

Biden fired ("purged") a number of Trump people as well. He left way too many, though, it was kinda shocking.