When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. ... according to capitalist ideology and propaganda
Finished that for you....
The truth is: neither is perfect -- each has strengths and weaknesses. And, to be successful over time, both rely on intelligent leadership who puts the interests of the country and its people first -- and is not bound by either ideology or theology. Instead, they just do the right thing for country and its people.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Ok, I'm going to ignore the rstuff about Canada, the UK, and the Nordic countries because you clearly have your own hard-formed opinions and think a handful of extreme outlier right-wing news stories are in some way symptomatic of big problems, when in reality they're outliers. The fact that you've inserted Black Lives Matter into the chat completely unprovoked tells me that we're not going to have a useful conversation there.
I will say that the people who demand the freedom to make their own decisions are very often those who make the wrong ones, and other people are made to suffer the consequences of their actions. And yes, I think on matters of national consequence there is a role for central authority in managing crises, which can involve temporary or permanent curtailing of some freedoms, and I'm ok with that. If I never see a handgun in my life I'll be all the happier for it.
Socialism and the study off it has always been an academic pursuit, and little that I've said is particularly new. If all socialisms were equal and tyrannical then there wouldn't have been so many schisms.
I know you've said nothing new. It is just that you are looking at it from a purely or mostly academic perspective, and I am looking at socialism as it actually exists.
The definition of words, which you are hanging much of your argument on, is an academic matter. The way they are used in the real world, which you also seem to take issue with, is a real world matter. I'm not really sure what angle you think you have here; your single definition of socialism is the one that is incorrect, from both perspectives.
But bringing this back to somewhere recognisable what even is the point of your argument here? Democrats are going around saying ("ignorant or lying. Maybe both") that the USA would be better off with a system more like Scandinavian Democratic-Socialism, and you're simultaneously screaming that socialism is tyranny, but also that Scandinavia doesn't have socialism. Why scream at all? The Democrats aren't suggesting that the USA have the socialism that you hate, they're suggesting something more like the Scandinavian model, which in your view isn't socialism. You seem very angry about a relatively minor misuse (in your eyes) of a word. Just call it the Nordic model then.
First, I'm not "screaming" anything, nor am I angry. When I state that "Democrats are ignorant or lying," I'm referring to the labeling of Scandinavian-style social programs and structures as "Democratic Socialism." Either they don't know what their systems really are, or they are lying. I suspect a little of both. As for the policies themselves, that's a separate and complicated issue. I tend to be more of a small-government conservative/libertarian, so I'm skeptical. On the other hand, there are obvious benefits to what some nations do, though I have my doubts many of the policies would work in the U.S.
Ok, maybe you're not screaming, but you aren't making a particularly cogent argument and you are saying things like "Tyranny, period" and saying that people are lying which isn't exactly a meditative stance. And the crux of the point seems to be that they understand what Democratic Socialism is, and you understand what Democratic Socialism is too, only you take issue with it being labelled as Socialism, despite it being called that by described Democratic Socialists. It seems a very academic issue.
You may be right that socially interventionist policies would not work as well in the US, I'll make no comment on that.
But again, the UK isn't even socialist by your definition, so what are you arguing against? This is a thread about China!
It's not socialist, though many of its policies are not ones I'd like to see here. As for the thread, there was little to no concern shown about government power. At the same time, government power and scope is growing rapidly in the U.S., as are calls for Socialism. When the political Left in this country makes socialism into a harmless, warm-and-fuzzy term that means "more free stuff," that worries me. Those political figures who really do want authoritarian government control ("the liars") take advantage of those who just don't know any better ("the ignorant"). It's a surefire way to lose our nation. What am I arguing against? Tyranny.
Ok, well this is just regular cornbread paranoia. A public option for healthcare is not tyranny, nor is a national living wage, or background checks on gun control, or any of the other things that get called both socialism and tyranny routinely by members of the Republican Party and right wing media (it's not just the Democrats who are liars, or ignoramuses, in your terms). You're extrapolating from government forming a slightly bigger society to a societal takeover, and that's just not how these things have ever worked. And as you already said, I doubt a totalitarian socialism would even be workable in the USA. In the unlikely event it ever did happen it'd collapse in a year or two.
I don't really understand why so much of the USA, the richest, most powerful country in the world is so afraid so much of the time. I sometimes wonder if it's because you guys were born in glorious revolution, that you'll always be scarred with the memories of revolution, or if the American Dream is really just a delusional positive spin on a much deeper American Fear that you're paralysed to do anything about. Other western countries seem to have a much better grounding of their place in the world, and don't indulge in nearly as much of this hysteria. I don't think I even heard the word tyranny outside of a historical context until I started being interested in American politics, and it's absolutely everywhere. It's nuts.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
I am with George. "The truth is: neither is perfect -- each has strengths and weaknesses. And, to be successful over time, both rely on intelligent leadership who puts the interests of the country and its people first -- and is not bound by either ideology or theology. Instead, they just do the right thing for country and its people."
I don't really understand why so much of the USA, the richest, most powerful country in the world is so afraid so much of the time.
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It's because FauxNews and its clones constantly stoke fear and hatred. It's their primary product. Maybe their only product.
The U.S. prides itself on a "free press" but has not come to terms with the power of propaganda and how its supposedly free press can be used to propagate ideological extremism. Generally, it does that not by telling out right lies, but by only telling one side of the story or twisting the dial just enough that a lie appears to be true.
And, all the while it pushes fear and hate: "The world is filled with evil and bad guys and only we can save you, the good guys!"
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
Saudi Arabia did 9/11 and everyone knows it. Let's see that redacted that chunk of the 9/11 report that was hidden for "national security" because they're our "allies".
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You failed to defend this abortion law is not authoritative. Texas Republicans got control of the legislation by maybe 55% or 60% margin. Yet they are able to pass a law that is objected to by 40% or 45% of the population. And you think this is not authoritative. I cannot imagine majority of Texas women is for this law that infringes on their freedom.
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You failed to defend this abortion law is not authoritative. Texas Republicans got control of the legislation by maybe 55% or 60% margin. Yet they are able to pass a law that is objected to by 40% or 45% of the population. And you think this is not authoritative. I cannot imagine majority of Texas women is for this law that infringes on their freedom.
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
You fail to understand; pro choice supporters do have options to change Texas law in the future, and while it will certainly be difficult, it won't be impossible.
I doubt that Xi Jinping has concerns about maintaining his power; the benefit of being a dictator:
After five years of relentless political purges and arrests, few harbour any illusions about Xi’s authoritarian inclinations. China’s 64-year-old leader has waged war on dissenters, both inside and outside the Communist party, in a drive to establish total control, crushing civil society and jailing rivals to ensure his coronation as China’s most powerful leader since Mao at last year’s party congress.
Even so, for those who witnessed and suffered the excesses of Mao’s megalomania, Xi’s power grab – which paves the way for him to lead China well into the 2030s – has proved a step too far, leaving them fearful their country is slipping back towards its tumultuous past.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You failed to defend this abortion law is not authoritative. Texas Republicans got control of the legislation by maybe 55% or 60% margin. Yet they are able to pass a law that is objected to by 40% or 45% of the population. And you think this is not authoritative. I cannot imagine majority of Texas women is for this law that infringes on their freedom.
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
You fail to understand; pro choice supporters do have options to change Texas law in the future, and while it will certainly be difficult, it won't be impossible.
I doubt that Xi Jinping has concerns about maintaining his power; the benefit of being a dictator:
After five years of relentless political purges and arrests, few harbour any illusions about Xi’s authoritarian inclinations. China’s 64-year-old leader has waged war on dissenters, both inside and outside the Communist party, in a drive to establish total control, crushing civil society and jailing rivals to ensure his coronation as China’s most powerful leader since Mao at last year’s party congress.
Even so, for those who witnessed and suffered the excesses of Mao’s megalomania, Xi’s power grab – which paves the way for him to lead China well into the 2030s – has proved a step too far, leaving them fearful their country is slipping back towards its tumultuous past.
Feel free to defend Xi...
My biggest question is you are an American, I do not live in China, why do you care what Xi did to Chinese people?
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You failed to defend this abortion law is not authoritative. Texas Republicans got control of the legislation by maybe 55% or 60% margin. Yet they are able to pass a law that is objected to by 40% or 45% of the population. And you think this is not authoritative. I cannot imagine majority of Texas women is for this law that infringes on their freedom.
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
You fail to understand; pro choice supporters do have options to change Texas law in the future, and while it will certainly be difficult, it won't be impossible.
I doubt that Xi Jinping has concerns about maintaining his power; the benefit of being a dictator:
After five years of relentless political purges and arrests, few harbour any illusions about Xi’s authoritarian inclinations. China’s 64-year-old leader has waged war on dissenters, both inside and outside the Communist party, in a drive to establish total control, crushing civil society and jailing rivals to ensure his coronation as China’s most powerful leader since Mao at last year’s party congress.
Even so, for those who witnessed and suffered the excesses of Mao’s megalomania, Xi’s power grab – which paves the way for him to lead China well into the 2030s – has proved a step too far, leaving them fearful their country is slipping back towards its tumultuous past.
Feel free to defend Xi...
My biggest question is you are an American, I do not live in China, why do you care what Xi did to Chinese people?
Simple.
The PRC's authoritarianism is a threat to the world's rules of order. That authoritarianism should be resisted by the West.
News at 11:00.
The U.S. public is solidly in support of U.S. forces defending Taiwan.
The American public supports a range of US policies in support of Taiwan. Majorities favor US recognition of Taiwan as an independent country (69%), supporting its inclusion in international organizations (65%), and signing a US-Taiwan free trade agreement (57%).
A slimmer majority (53%) support the United States' signing a formal alliance with Taiwan, and a plurality (46%) favor explicitly committing to defend Taiwan if China invades.
When asked about a range of potential scenarios, just over half of Americans (52%) favor using US troops to defend if China were to invade the island. This is the highest level ever recorded in the Council’s surveys dating back to 1982, when the question was first asked.
Republicans (60%) are more likely to support sending US troops to Taiwan’s defense than Democrats (50%) or Independents (49%) – see appendix for more information on partisan divides and Taiwan.
At the same time, Americans are divided over whether the United States should (50%) or should not (47%) sell arms and military equipment to Taiwan.
Distrust of China is a significant factor in US public support for Taiwan: while most Americans see Taiwan as an ally (30%) or necessary partner (30%), most see China as a rival (32%) or an adversary (29%).
I'm guessing that the U.S. public is not a fan of Xi Jinping's authoritarianism, excepting George of course.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
It is very equivalent if you live in Texas -- or to your ancestors if you're native American. That's not theoretical or unverified accusations. That's real oppression and genocide.
Essentially you are claiming that oppression and genocide are OK if you're a democracy. But Communism should be condemned for the mere possibility that they MIGHT do it!
It is YOU ignoring the equivalency claiming Communism is always bad simply because its communism.
That makes no sense... It makes you look like a radicalized stooge.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
The U.S. Navy is a remnant of western colonial days -- protecting colonies from independence or other colonists rather than protecting the homeland. While post WW-II we were locked in global struggle with communist Russia that does not exist today -- at least not in that form.
As was pointed out in Apple's 9/11 show this week, wars have moved on to a different form. But we continue with the colonial mentality -- which only serves to promote those other struggles against us.
As for Bin Laden, I agree with you: not only did the U.S. never show any evidence that he was the organizer but we even shielded his family after the event and secretly hustled them out of the U.S. to safety. It was when Bin Laden said: "I learned of the attack and rejoiced" that I really started doubting that we were hunting the right person.
But, regardless, we just killed hundreds of thousands of people while seeking revenge against him -- in a country that he didn't live in!
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You failed to defend this abortion law is not authoritative. Texas Republicans got control of the legislation by maybe 55% or 60% margin. Yet they are able to pass a law that is objected to by 40% or 45% of the population. And you think this is not authoritative. I cannot imagine majority of Texas women is for this law that infringes on their freedom.
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
You fail to understand; pro choice supporters do have options to change Texas law in the future, and while it will certainly be difficult, it won't be impossible.
I doubt that Xi Jinping has concerns about maintaining his power; the benefit of being a dictator:
After five years of relentless political purges and arrests, few harbour any illusions about Xi’s authoritarian inclinations. China’s 64-year-old leader has waged war on dissenters, both inside and outside the Communist party, in a drive to establish total control, crushing civil society and jailing rivals to ensure his coronation as China’s most powerful leader since Mao at last year’s party congress.
Even so, for those who witnessed and suffered the excesses of Mao’s megalomania, Xi’s power grab – which paves the way for him to lead China well into the 2030s – has proved a step too far, leaving them fearful their country is slipping back towards its tumultuous past.
Feel free to defend Xi...
My biggest question is you are an American, I do not live in China, why do you care what Xi did to Chinese people?
Simple.
The PRC's authoritarianism is a threat to the world's rules of order. That authoritarianism should be resisted by the West.
News at 11:00.
The U.S. public is solidly in support of U.S. forces defending Taiwan.
The American public supports a range of US policies in support of Taiwan. Majorities favor US recognition of Taiwan as an independent country (69%), supporting its inclusion in international organizations (65%), and signing a US-Taiwan free trade agreement (57%).
A slimmer majority (53%) support the United States' signing a formal alliance with Taiwan, and a plurality (46%) favor explicitly committing to defend Taiwan if China invades.
When asked about a range of potential scenarios, just over half of Americans (52%) favor using US troops to defend if China were to invade the island. This is the highest level ever recorded in the Council’s surveys dating back to 1982, when the question was first asked.
Republicans (60%) are more likely to support sending US troops to Taiwan’s defense than Democrats (50%) or Independents (49%) – see appendix for more information on partisan divides and Taiwan.
At the same time, Americans are divided over whether the United States should (50%) or should not (47%) sell arms and military equipment to Taiwan.
Distrust of China is a significant factor in US public support for Taiwan: while most Americans see Taiwan as an ally (30%) or necessary partner (30%), most see China as a rival (32%) or an adversary (29%).
I'm guessing that the U.S. public is not a fan of Xi Jinping's authoritarianism, excepting George of course.
I'm a fan of doing the right thing. You advocate hatred other cultures.
The only threat to "world order" is your hatred of other cultures. The threat is not Xi -- but you and your hatred. It is the same kind of irrational hatred that caused us to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
When I was young we were locked in an ideologic battle with the Soviet Union where they were trying to propagate their system and we were trying to propagate ours. And we were inundated with pro-democracy/capitalist propaganda -- and a ton of anti-communist propaganda.
And I believed every word of it.
But, what confused me was why so many countries (especially poor ones) chose Communism -- Cuba is the most obvious example but far from the only one.
Later, it dawned on me that Communism simply met their particular needs better.
Many had been abused by colonialists and unscrupulous capitalists taking advantage of a poor people with a corrupt government. Eventually, we even passed laws (like anti-bribery) against our own corporations while operating overseas.
Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
This is western propaganda. You cannot explain why CCP tried so hard that no single domestic covid infection and no one died in one year. China haters branded this as CCP lying as a conveniently excuse to look at the facts. My thesis of what are communism, socialism, and capitalism explains this perfectly.
Chinese pupils are returning to school with new textbooks peppered with "Xi Jinping thought", as the Communist Party aims to extend his personality cult to children as young as seven and rear a new generation of patriots.
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
And here we want to teach Critical Race Theory -- or, its opposite and white wash over the truth of our genocides and racial oppression -- and paint ourselves as the "Good Guys in the white hat".
We condemn the Taliban the for imposing their religion on women -- while Texas so called "Christians" just did the same -- and our Supreme Court just looked the other way.
So what part of Xi Jinping, authoritarian, are you unable or unwilling to understand?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
George and your vocabulary don't have militarism. This news explains it very well. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary. "Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week. "We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You failed to defend this abortion law is not authoritative. Texas Republicans got control of the legislation by maybe 55% or 60% margin. Yet they are able to pass a law that is objected to by 40% or 45% of the population. And you think this is not authoritative. I cannot imagine majority of Texas women is for this law that infringes on their freedom.
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
You fail to understand; pro choice supporters do have options to change Texas law in the future, and while it will certainly be difficult, it won't be impossible.
I doubt that Xi Jinping has concerns about maintaining his power; the benefit of being a dictator:
After five years of relentless political purges and arrests, few harbour any illusions about Xi’s authoritarian inclinations. China’s 64-year-old leader has waged war on dissenters, both inside and outside the Communist party, in a drive to establish total control, crushing civil society and jailing rivals to ensure his coronation as China’s most powerful leader since Mao at last year’s party congress.
Even so, for those who witnessed and suffered the excesses of Mao’s megalomania, Xi’s power grab – which paves the way for him to lead China well into the 2030s – has proved a step too far, leaving them fearful their country is slipping back towards its tumultuous past.
Feel free to defend Xi...
My biggest question is you are an American, I do not live in China, why do you care what Xi did to Chinese people?
Simple.
The PRC's authoritarianism is a threat to the world's rules of order. That authoritarianism should be resisted by the West.
News at 11:00.
The U.S. public is solidly in support of U.S. forces defending Taiwan.
The American public supports a range of US policies in support of Taiwan. Majorities favor US recognition of Taiwan as an independent country (69%), supporting its inclusion in international organizations (65%), and signing a US-Taiwan free trade agreement (57%).
A slimmer majority (53%) support the United States' signing a formal alliance with Taiwan, and a plurality (46%) favor explicitly committing to defend Taiwan if China invades.
When asked about a range of potential scenarios, just over half of Americans (52%) favor using US troops to defend if China were to invade the island. This is the highest level ever recorded in the Council’s surveys dating back to 1982, when the question was first asked.
Republicans (60%) are more likely to support sending US troops to Taiwan’s defense than Democrats (50%) or Independents (49%) – see appendix for more information on partisan divides and Taiwan.
At the same time, Americans are divided over whether the United States should (50%) or should not (47%) sell arms and military equipment to Taiwan.
Distrust of China is a significant factor in US public support for Taiwan: while most Americans see Taiwan as an ally (30%) or necessary partner (30%), most see China as a rival (32%) or an adversary (29%).
I'm guessing that the U.S. public is not a fan of Xi Jinping's authoritarianism, excepting George of course.
I'm a fan of doing the right thing. You advocate hatred other cultures.
The only threat to "world order" is your hatred of other cultures. The threat is not Xi -- but you and your hatred. It is the same kind of irrational hatred that caused us to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
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Oh boy. Tell me...did it occur to you that Communists are tyrants who seize power, murder their opposition and brutally oppress the population? People don't "choose" to live under tyranny. Cuba isn't a Communist shithole because Exxon Mobile bribed people.
I will say that the people who demand the freedom to make their own decisions are very often those who make the wrong ones, and other people are made to suffer the consequences of their actions. And yes, I think on matters of national consequence there is a role for central authority in managing crises, which can involve temporary or permanent curtailing of some freedoms, and I'm ok with that. If I never see a handgun in my life I'll be all the happier for it.
The definition of words, which you are hanging much of your argument on, is an academic matter. The way they are used in the real world, which you also seem to take issue with, is a real world matter. I'm not really sure what angle you think you have here; your single definition of socialism is the one that is incorrect, from both perspectives.Ok, maybe you're not screaming, but you aren't making a particularly cogent argument and you are saying things like "Tyranny, period" and saying that people are lying which isn't exactly a meditative stance. And the crux of the point seems to be that they understand what Democratic Socialism is, and you understand what Democratic Socialism is too, only you take issue with it being labelled as Socialism, despite it being called that by described Democratic Socialists. It seems a very academic issue.
You may be right that socially interventionist policies would not work as well in the US, I'll make no comment on that.
Ok, well this is just regular cornbread paranoia. A public option for healthcare is not tyranny, nor is a national living wage, or background checks on gun control, or any of the other things that get called both socialism and tyranny routinely by members of the Republican Party and right wing media (it's not just the Democrats who are liars, or ignoramuses, in your terms). You're extrapolating from government forming a slightly bigger society to a societal takeover, and that's just not how these things have ever worked. And as you already said, I doubt a totalitarian socialism would even be workable in the USA. In the unlikely event it ever did happen it'd collapse in a year or two.
I don't really understand why so much of the USA, the richest, most powerful country in the world is so afraid so much of the time. I sometimes wonder if it's because you guys were born in glorious revolution, that you'll always be scarred with the memories of revolution, or if the American Dream is really just a delusional positive spin on a much deeper American Fear that you're paralysed to do anything about. Other western countries seem to have a much better grounding of their place in the world, and don't indulge in nearly as much of this hysteria. I don't think I even heard the word tyranny outside of a historical context until I started being interested in American politics, and it's absolutely everywhere. It's nuts.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-01/china-children-get-schooled-in-xi-jinping-education-begins-early/100427062
How about you, waveparticle, are you keeping up with your Xi Jinping thought studies?
Comparing an array of expressions by U.S. citizens, groups, and parties, as you have done, is not in any way equivalent to the singular power of an authoritarian, Xi Jinping, in control of the PRC, CPC, and PLA.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ranks-gop-increase-defense-spending
Americans have long been brainwashed with the vocabulary of adversary.
"Without additional resources, we will lose another generation of shipbuilding in this country, and we will be less prepared to defend both the U.S. and our allies’ interests," House Armed Services Committee vice chair Elaine Luria, a Democrat who voted in favor of the amendment, said earlier this week.
"We cannot afford to cut corners and play politics with our national security," Rogers said about his amendment earlier this week. "President Biden’s proposed defense budget for FY22 was wholly inadequate — leaving our men in women in uniform in a vulnerable position and projected weakness to our adversaries."
This is how brainwashing works. Taliban has long been accused of being terrorists for harboring Bin Laden. Last week a NBC in an interview of the Taliban leader, he denies Bin Laden plotted the 911 attack. After 20 years? I watched Bin Laden talks right after the 911 attack. He denied he plotted the attack. Yet this video and NBC interview have been ignored by the people who have influence of American public opinion.
BTW, back to the debate of authoritarian, can anyone defend this as not authoritarian?
https://theweek.com/republicans/1004443/texas-abortion-ban-is-all-about-minority-control
Keep on trucking...in the PRC...
For the record, Texan's voted for the same legislators that wrote and signed that legislation. I may disagree with that, and the constitutionality of it, and the gerrymandering that allowed it, and the voter suppression efforts involved, but none of that is comparable to Xi Jinping's singular control of the PRC.
"White House is concerned about imminent mortar attacks or suicide bombers targeting north-facing gates at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport during the massive airlift of women out of Texas, sources say." /s
The rest of the U.S., and the world, have some economic power over the State of Texas, to pressure legislators to reverse the legislation. Whether this happens at a large scale, is unknown. It may have the same effect as trade bans based on the PRC's human rights violations, which is to say, nothing, but there surely will be economic impacts, short and long term, either way.
BOYCOTT Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022!!
You are not Chinese and I don't live in China, why do you care so much of what Xi did that has no effect on Americans?
I doubt that Xi Jinping has concerns about maintaining his power; the benefit of being a dictator:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/04/xi-jinping-from-president-to-china-new-dictator
Feel free to defend Xi...
The PRC's authoritarianism is a threat to the world's rules of order. That authoritarianism should be resisted by the West.
News at 11:00.
The U.S. public is solidly in support of U.S. forces defending Taiwan.
https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/research/public-opinion-survey/first-time-half-americans-favor-defending-taiwan-if-china-invades
I'm guessing that the U.S. public is not a fan of Xi Jinping's authoritarianism, excepting George of course.
Back to your "hatred" meme again.
Tiresome.