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When will Westerners realize that the common characture of the brainwashed, thought controlled, information controlled, constantly surveiled citizen that we attribute to China/The USSR/etc... IS US?! You clutch your pearls at people in other countries potentially being treated like that but are inclined to do nothing about OUR countries treating US like that.
Snowden showed they realized but didn't care
and the epstien files have shown us how little americans care about anything besides themselves.
They seemingly don't even care about themselves, considering how Trump even acts against them. Just a brainwashed propaganda apparatus these people. It's sad...
Fear would help here if it would be rational (considering climate change, loss of freedom etc.), but unfortunately it isn't...
You can be against US and Chinese fascism simultaneously.
In what way is China fascist? It's a socialist country, public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes control the state.
Authoritarianism, violent oppression of minorites and dissenting movements, deeply ingrained surveillance state with state censorship.
China does not violently oppress minorities, and wielding state authority, censorship, and surveilance against capitalists and fascists is necessary for a socialist state, and doesn't make it fascist. Fascism is capitalism violently defending itself from decay and solidifying bourgeois control, not proletarian.
But enough about the US.
But those are actions of the US empire. Projecting them onto China isn't a good thing
Just say you don't know what you're talking about.