All governments are authoritarian, some things the Chinese government does is bad and some things are good. They do more for their people than the US government but it's not a paradise by any means.
Xinjiang Ren are definitely persicuted but in Shanghai it felt similar to how black people are treated in the US. Different, but similar. I don't know about genocide so I won't speak to it but I heard they felt they were being heavily survailed.
Living in China has its challenges but there were things to like to. It's fair to say the ccp are better global actors in the past century than the US.
There isn't really free speech in China. With Cia funded color revolutions being a thing I'm beginning to doubt if countries can afford being open and liberal without an existential threat looming, but that's a dialectic for another time.
US is definitely worse. The main reason I moved back is my Chinese sucks and they were becoming more insular so it was harder to find work. Also the pollution and the crowds and abrasive culture were wearing me down. But I got a tooth removed for about $50 there. In the US with insurance I'd be out of pocket a couple hundred. Scam of a country we have.
Corruption in one of the famously most corrupt countries in Europe!? As with most political corruption investigations I'm willing to bet this was a political purge. By whom and for what ends I don't know but I'm sure that'll be clear in due time.
"The Left" Lol. An Obama style politician that might be less neoliberal than Obama, but that is yet to be seen. Still cheering that he took down Cuomo who ran a racist, frothing at the mouth pro genocide campaign, but let's be real. Zohran already said he's keeping Tisch as his police commissioner, I think it's fair to say he's signaled he wont be rocking the boat too much.
Is it the most blatant and ruthless act? I know in other industries union busting has historically been more ruthless, and I kind of imagined there was something more ruthless in gaming too.
I hate to break it to you, but the Nobel Prize was started by a guy who invented military weapons and has always been somewhat of a sham. It'd be like Lockheed Martin peace prize.
Man... I've always dismissed the "jews control the media" as anti-semetic gobbledyremoved, and I'm under the impression that Zionism originated as a British anti-semetic project to get all the jews out but working for them in the middle east... but sometimes with shit like this. I don't know anymore.
Dude! My most unpopular opinion has always been that b track of tetris was more of a banger than the version! I've received dozens of down votes over it!
Is he a just a social democrat? I am reading Techno Feudalism right now and he comes off as a bit further left than that to me.