Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial

Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by bryanlarsen on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:49PM (#46278619)

> when the Western media is no better than them

better is a continuum across many dimensions. Therefore when you say "no better than" you're saying "worse than".

I'm not saying Western media is good, but it's really hard to argue that it's worse than the Chinese media, given the headline story above and our freedom to discuss it here and elsewhere.

Both can be bad, but one is more bad than the other.

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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by calf on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:55PM (#46278697)

Sure but this was prompted by the absurdly self-congratulatory "city on a hill" comment which shows how out of touch the West is with critical thought from the global south.

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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by bryanlarsen on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:12PM (#46279887)

You're misreading the original comment.

As originally used, the city on a hill comment was about aspirations, not achievements. IOW, the US was aspiring to be the city on the hill, not that it was.

And then JumpCrissCross's comment says that the US has stopped even aspiring to be the city on the hill.

It's a comment saying the US has fallen. How is that absurdly self-congratulatory?

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