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Re:The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT by smsm42 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:56AM (#37722697)
It is the objective fact. China is ruled by a fascist totalitarian dictatorship (who for historical reasons call themselves "communist" but it doesn't have any meaning anymore), America, with all its faults, isn't yet. The former is objectively much worse than the latter.
Re:The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT by Aeolun on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:11AM (#37723187)
Objective here is subjective. From the point of view of the CCP I’m sure everything is going swimmingly.
Re:The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT by smsm42 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:49AM (#37723719)
Existence of "point of view" does not make it subjective. You can think the moon is made of Swiss cheese, that doesn't make its composition subjective, it just makes you wrong.
Re:The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT by Aeolun on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:10AM (#37725162)
Yeah, I’m fairly certain that does not apply to ‘Is my country doing well’, since the measures used are human defined.

If you put zero value on personal freedom (which isn’t objectively better, that’s just pure opinion) the equation changes.

Re:The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT by smsm42 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:15PM (#37732848)
Criteria like "not starving", "not being murdered", "not being raped", "not being put into concentration camp for following your own religion", "not being imprisoned for criticizing the government" is pretty objective, and I have yet to see a culture where being raped and murdered is praised and desired by people. I am sure whatever are the cultural differences in China, they like starvation, rape, murder and imprisonment as little as we do. So the country which does such things to its citizens, massively, is not "doing well", even if its citizens aren't allowed to say so aloud (and that's another sign it's not doing well - "I can't complain" can mean two things, and in China it means you'd be in prison if you do).
Re:The Tron Project: How Japan Almost Ruled IT by helpfulContrib on Sunday October 01, 2023 @04:06AM (#37723814)
America is ruled by a fascist, totalitarian-authoritarian military junta, masquerading as a republic, in control of both political parties, using the revolving door between the CFR and Joint Chiefs of Staff to camouflage their activities.

This military junta has demolished countless other sovereign states around the world, deemed inferior by the oligarchic ruling classes that use that revolving door to enact evil deeds across the worlds' horizons.

This isn't a conspiracy theory - its how a significant percentage of the worlds population actually views the US empire, and its minion, puppet states.

You see? This kind of hatespew is equally applicable, and just as useless to those of us interested in peace.