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US Authoritarianism

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And if you find yourself wanting to defend china, I ask; have you been there? Have you spent time there beyond being a tourist? Because if you have like me then there is no defending the dystopian nightmare that it is and no supporting or the nightmare that the US is becoming

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have been there, lived in Shanghai for a year working for a design company. It's easy for an outsider to write it off as a dystopian nightmare but the people that live there wouldn't agree. They've been thru worse and most generations would have only seen growth and progress. We see infringements on American ideals but they never had those ideals in their entire history.

Currently the people are fed, they have employment, they drive cars or ride their amazing public transport system, it's safe nearly anywhere you go at any time. They could easily look at our situation and think we are the ones living the nightmare. An inept government that fights itself, pathetic transportation, dangerous cities, school shootings. It just depends on what you started with and in 30 years their quality of life has dramatically improved while ours seems to have reached a plateau.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For more than a quarter century there's no plateau in the USA unless one is so rich that more money doesn't increase their quality of life. The overwhelming majority of everyone suffers a nose dive.

When you say "ours" which country are you referring to?

[–] Nastybutler 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, the authoritarianism is very effective. Now try speaking your mind, or criticizing the government, or better yet, be an ethnic minority, and see how that works out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Those things look like a prison tower or panopticon. Police are too eager to treat ordinary citizens like inmates it seems.