Third world societies are not "brainwashed" one way or another with respect to that.
We just see those governments throwing shade at each other. And bullying us ina similar way.
You said "for me they are the same". Not in reply to someone saying "to me they're different", but to someone saying they're very different in nature, which they are. That's not a perspective, that's changing the subject and making it about you.
> They are not what they are to you, they are not just whatever you care about, they are what they actually are.
You wrote that. It's a useless comment, adds nothing to the discussion and reads like you are trying to be clever and failing at it. Learn to articulate.
You are arguing with another user; it was I who said it.
They have some differences, yet they are the same in a lot of ways. Some people cannot see it because they have been educated a certain way. Lots of people in China really believe they are right and the US is wrong. Same in Korea, Same in Rusia. Similary, a lot of people in the US are educated to believe the US is "the best country in the world", "the good guys", "always right"; they are not.
I can agree to to it with the qualifier "in a lot of ways", just not without. We learn about a lot of US crimes by the reporting of US citizens and journalists, a lot of which is available to buy and re-print within the US. Meanwhile, people in China still cannot simply remember Tiananmen, much less publish books about it.
Love the arguments btw. Your position is so cut and dry that you can’t even support it with evidence.
China has zero independent media and has the largest and most sophisticated censorship and surveillance state in the world.
Trump would love to have the absolute power that Xi has, but thankfully doesn’t.
Tired of this lazy whataboutism.
Trump kicked and banned major news orgs from the White House just now. You’d have to be will fully ignorant or really naive to believe we have fair and just media.
That’s what I thought. There is a reason independent journalists on YT are having great success right now because legacy media is trash, bought and paid for.
Why do you think journalists are creating shows like “Mehdi Hasan unfiltered”?
You can’t in goodwill with a straight face say American media is just. Western media overall is bought and paid for.
>That’s what I thought.
Wow, you got me with your nonsequitur strawman argument that you answered yourself and isn't even true. It's easy to identify sophists with how quickly the bring up Israel out of nowhere.
Also at the end of the day what matters is whether the government serves the people and the peoples quality of life.
Quality of life for the Chinese people has steadily increased. Quality of life for the American people has steadily decreased.