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Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide by api on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:07AM (#26225345)
Maybe, maybe not, but our psychopaths are restrained by a government designed to be inefficient and to frustrate tyrants.

We just had an attempted fascist coup in the USA and it failed hilariously. The swamp is a good thing. It’s there to bog down tyrants in mud. Efficient government is dangerous.

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Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide by yellowcake0 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:59AM (#26260163)
My intention was to point out the irony of Chinese nationals wanting to immigrate to the US, ostensibly because China is ruled by a bunch of "crazy psychopaths". When the reality is that the US is also run, at least in part, by a bunch of crazy psychopaths.

But my point was not well taken.

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Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide by m0rti on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:24PM (#26243771)
Even though I agree with what you said in terms of internal politics, I think when it comes to geopolitics, things start to get much uglier and multiple times more cruel. And since this topic is about foreign politics, I don’t think the US is any better than China. An American might think different, but I’m not one.
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Re:Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide by api on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:30AM (#26250901)
The US is better than China internally, but I mostly agree that China is not substantially worse than the US in terms of foreign policy.
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