Politics_Observer wrote:@Crantag
Come on man, you said it, "America's a fascist state." Look at China man. Always trying to censor or stop VPN usage so they can prevent people from exercising their right to privacy and freedom on the internet. This guy @late showed in the video complaining about the lack of freedom in China. The CCP always trying to cover up the truth of what is happening in their society and always trying to paint this false rosy picture of "everything is just fine!" You get the idea.
The annoying habit of 'Westerners' to judge China (and other societies) by the idealized (though far from actualized) mainstream aspirations (and fantastical but false perceptions) of their own 'Western' societies is not a genuinely productive exercise. It is a blinder.
China has to be understood on its own terms.
On the matter of freedom though, what China doesn't have, which the US does is an industrial system of locking people up.
For instance, when relatively minor crimes happen, such as property damage or fights, the preferred way that it is handled is the interested parties are taken to the police station, and the police mediate an arrangement whereby a compensation agreement is met, and both sides go on their way. None of the American bullshit; and the American euphemistically termed 'criminal justice system' is utterly horrible. The US has a gulag system, it is just referred to euphemistically by kinder terms (euphemisms being major building blocks of 'American' socio-political experience, of course).
In many ways, I feel freer in China. People just get on with whatever they are on about, and are typically not concerning themselves with sticking their noses in others' business. There is a sort of mass derangement which tends to permeate so-called 'advanced countries'. In so-called 'less developed' or 'developing' countries, there is an element of true human tendency being less obfuscated. So-called 'citizens' of these 'advanced countries' delude themselves into thinking their societies have achieved some kind of 'human progress', and that they have license to look down on those lessers across the boarders. The reality is it is the 'advanced' countries which live by the more artificial standards of society, and it is the 'advanced' countries in which the greater portions of society, are fucking nuts.
I would class China as maybe somewhere in the middle. Sure, China has it's fair share of social engineering, etc., but it is nothing on the level which the pot-calling-the-kettle-black 'Westerners' typically delude themselves into thinking it is.
The main recourse 'Westerners' seem to have vis-a-vis China is to bitch and complain, as if their birth right as the 'exceptional people' has been undercut by China, and as if blaming their lot on a healthy scapegoat in China is some kind of productive undertaking.
Meanwhile, in China, people continue to go on about their days, working and studying their asses off, whilst China and ever growing numbers of Chinese are laughing all the way to the bank.
In the case of Americans, this couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.