America first

A broken clock something something.

Yo very unrelated, but thank you for mentioning that phrase "skeletons in their own closet"! I've been listening to a song for a few months which uses that metaphor and I couldn't exactly figure out what it meant (it's in Greek and didnt expect that phrase to exist in english too). (This is the song if you care, lol.)

Yeah, while I agree with some of his jabs - it is immensely ironic that China is #1 in two of mentioned anti-US criticisms.

Go figure two assholes in a room and no one smells good

And now you're here!

It's "Land of the fee"

We've been saying it wrong the whole time.

It would be flatly unsurprising if china had well over double what they claim.

The number of imprisoned is the point he made, not the per capita.

Occupy or liberate? I would say liberate, right?

Nowhere close lol

No, both are bad, you don't want a social credit system

Yes, CCP is authoritarian, but the party has long term vision for the country. Because they don't want to revert back to the so-called century of humiliation when China became technologically behind and had been carrion feeds for outside powers. The country had been isolationist which made Imperial China weak, but the CCP decided to open up and use international free trade to assert their own influence, instead of being controlled by it like before. Much of CCP's decision making is influenced by historical trauma, as well as from Confucian idea of mandate of heaven-- that the ruling government is only legitimate so long as they can deliver for the people.

So even though Xi cracks down on dissent, he is open to ideas when it comes to technological advancements and pushes his subordinates to keep up. And as we can see, Deep Seek had beaten Western AI development at a fraction of the cost, and China is leading in manufacturing electric vehicles and battery and other renewable technologies. Millions of Chinese had been lifted out of poverty, and the older generations still remember the hardship and the war so many Chinese feel grateful. Xi wants the CCP to prove to the population that only they can deliver progress. But as you pointed out, there is a cost to all of this.

Just being pedantic regarding the AI models; they're only censored on the publicly hosted versions. Like any other model if you run it locally you're only restricted by the model's training

https://ollama.com/

Just because you will be purged for making Winnie the Pooh references, doesn't mean you are not allowed to make suggestions to improve China, or that Xi is Idi Amin taking all wealth of the country for himself. There exists an intellectual party that is capable of removing him if they thought he was acting inappropriately. Sure, capital controls is a restriction on the rich in China, but that doesn't make it a shithole country pillaged by oligarchs, like some.

I guess taking over Tibet and the ongoing Uyghur genocide just don't matter.

Compared to the West, China has very little appetite for expansionism. Except for South China Sea, China only wants to conquer areas they deemed to be historically theirs. For the most part, China's current foreign policy is to recreate the tributary system for the modern era to make foreign nations beholden to them.

Haha well to Chen’s point, I’m sure America has a far greater percentage of its own population incarcerated than most other nations…looks like it isn’t quite number 1 there but close enough to be disgusted with this stat.

My point is that due to the open bribery system of American politics through “campaign finance donations,” America’s politicians are completely bought by Israel. They get everything before us, and we pay for it.

Nationalized healthcare, paid family leave, subsidized or free college, significant investment in infrastructure like roads and bridges - Israel enjoys all of these amenities, while Americans are left out to dry and die by our own government. It’s incredibly sad what this level of corruption has done to the US, and it only seems to be accelerating from here.

Ok guessing 50-70 million psycho racist MAGA rednecks might have a factor in that

Yes, but let’s stop pretending that all other countries are angelic heavens with leaders who have nothing but the best intentions for all people, everywhere. Every country has its issues, and it’s really easy to blame them on “imperialists”.

Because we have far too many hate blinded citizens who are ready and willing to drop to their knees and open wide for the bukkake of anti-America propaganda?

You guys are celebrating the "comeback" from a person who works for the Chinese government and is LITERALLY labeled as "China state-affiliated media".......

In fairness, all countries play the destabilization games against each other. That’s the core of realpolitiks.

No they aren’t and you should go read some of Robert Paxton’s books on fascism if you think they are.