• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I don’t like how you make it seem like the US is the average western country.

    It is one of the worst in terms of everything except money and military.

    If you compare China with an actual average western country, like France or Spain. Then China looks a lot less hospitable. With its giant face tracking infrastructure, the anti-privacy devices and apps, the genocides of Uyghurs and castrations of Muslims.

    I like how China is improving massively, but it still is closer to the US than it is to Finland in terms of population happiness and freedom.

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      1 year ago

      The US is the hegemon of the West, they call the shots. It’s reasonable to talk about US in place of the west.

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      1 year ago

      As a European, we’re definitely leagues ahead of the US, but we also have giant face tracking infrastructure, anti privacy devices and apps, and we just recently did massive invasions resulting in the deaths of millions of innocent civilians in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. And at least hundreds of thousands of those deaths are actually provable and well-documented.