This comic is about clowns (nominally) combining murderous hateful ideologies with ideologies concerned with improving people's lives; no part of it is concerned with what happens if you tolerate hateful murderous ideologies.
First, this is a non-sequitur as there's no direct relation between how China governs its territory and the kind of conditions it imposes/would impose on imperial vassals; by this logic Western (neo)colonialism must be "nice" and democratic because Western countries were until 2024 all democratic (hint: It fucking isn't). Second, despite the authoritarianism Hong Kong has one of the highest standards of living in the world, higher even than mainland China. What exactly is your point here?
I hate to be pedantic, and I don't mean to diminish the scale of injustice being committed against Cuba, but I can name quite a few worse crimes the US has committed.
I mean Chinese and Mexican people have been in America for almost two centuries. I'm usually the first one to shit on Americans, but at this point Chinese-American stuff and Tex-Mex are theirs.
Data theft? Data should be a public good where authors are guaranteed a dignified life (decoupled from the sale of their labor).
I've seen it said somewhere that, with the advent of AI, society has to embrace UBI or perish, and while that's an exaggeration it does basically get the point across.
Nah those guys hate (gen)AI because it's (gen)AI, or for other reasons that are ultimately intrinsic to the tech such as the intellectual property aspect.
Thats only a good if Authoritarians don't step into that gap
No, it's good even if authoritarians (thinking of China here) step into the gap. It's hard for Europeans to properly appreciate how absurdly evil US hegemony is and has been, and how much blood is on their hands for supporting it/kowtowing to it over the years. I'd rather have China as the world hegemon than, say, France frankly, and that's not out of my love for China; the EU has a lot of introspection to do if it wants to avoid America's fate, and I find this narrative of the EU as the innocent victim unfairly bullied by big brother America/last bastion of human rights to be very counterproductive towards that end.
I know that's not what you're asking, but if you decide you want to watch more good anime without unreasonable amounts of jiggling tits, you should try Apothecary Diaries and Frieren: Beyond Journey's end.
However, without that context, both the top left and bottom right (as well as bottom left) are patriarchal religions controlling the women's beliefs and we cannot truely know if any of them, sans the native person on the top right, wanted where they are from if religious people hadnt insisted it upon them.
Sure but I can say the exact same thing about, say, makeup. There's no society in the world, secular or religious, that doesn't control how its women dress, so while bottom left is more subtle it's ultimately the same dynamic.
I mean to be fair to MAGAts, libs pull off some legitimately impressive mental gymnastics when you criticise Obama, so it works 100% of the time 75% of the time.
I think we all know what happens to declining empires, but is anyone clear on whether that's supposed to happen to their vassals too?