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Re:Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform... by mjr00 on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:06PM (#35572687)
> There are some people the world is objectively better off without... I was quite relieved when Rush Limbaugh died, for example. I will feel a great deal of relief when Putin and Xi eventually kick the bucket.

There's nothing "objective" about this at all--this is an extremely Western/US-centric view of the world. Most of China does not consider Xi Jinping an evil person who the world would objectively be better off without.

Re:Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform... by UncleOxidant on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:24PM (#35572963)
> Most of China does not consider Xi Jinping an evil person who the world would objectively be better off without.

I'm not sure we have any data on this either way. Most of China doesn't feel like they have the freedom to say anything negative about Xi in any sort of public or recorded way so taking a poll on Xi in China isn't likely to give you a true picture of how people there actually feel about him.

Re:Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform... by mjr00 on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:35PM (#35573094)
You could just, you know... talk to people. I've spent a lot of time in Korea/Japan and in both of those countries Xi is not hyped up to be evil despot that Western media makes him out to be. There's a very good reason why American media specifically tries to make China seem like an evil empire, and it has to do more with data collection from undersea cables than it does good or evil.

If Xi is pure evil, you should be worried about how much investment American companies are receiving from evil CCP-affiliated entities, as well as how much money gets America is spending on evil CCP-sponsored manufacturing...

Re:Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform... by letmevoteplease on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:51PM (#35573266)
Pew found that, as of 2020, 84% of Japanese respondents and 83% of South Korean respondents have "no confidence in Xi to do the right thing regarding world affairs," compared to 77% of US respondents.[1]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi...

Re:Parler shuts down as new owner says conservative platform... by mjr00 on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:53PM (#35573301)
Does that make him objectively evil?