Point systems that prevent you from air travel or entering other provinces because you dared criticize the almighty government

That’s… just not real… Your understanding of Chinese policy comes from curated western sources with vested interests in putting a dystopian and totalitarian understanding of China and its government in our countries’ people (we’re both westerners). There are systems in place to prevent certain convicted criminals from freely moving around there country, but that has little to do with criticising the party.

Regardless, big data on traffic doesn’t imply knowledge about the particular vehicles and drivers inside said vehicles. You’re just going ahead and assuming “dystopian control of people” because it’s China.

So let’s push for ramping up the military industrial complex in Europe instead?

The horrible and dystopian part for the comment above yours is the fact that it happens in China, which is ontologically bad and oppressive

Your take is that changing traffic management is a violation of human rights?

What’s your solution to that

And yet. All of this feels like a seismic shit prefacing going to war

And what’s the solution to that? Further militarization of the US and Europe? Or diplomacy and negotiations?

China’s government isn’t exactly known for beating people to death. The cops murdering a given ethnicity at astonishing rates is an american thing.

You see what you’re doning though? You’re starting from the assumption that the Chinese government is murderous and genocidal, and any evidence presented to you simply can be disregarded.

People don’t claim that they forcibly placed 1 million Americans in Area 51 though

Everyone in China has a smartphone, as you probably known people pay 90% of the time using QR codes with WeChat or Alipay. It’s not believable that there isn’t footage of the “horrendous concentration camps” plastered all over western media, if there was any footage, we’d be exposed to it nonstop

That was enough to find a link to the poll. Thanks!

Thing is: kinda? With Palestine you were able to find new footage every day of innocents being exterminated, there’s never been even remotely anything compared to that in Xinjiang

1 in 5 black men in the US above 35 have been in jail, the numbers aren’t even close in Xinjiang, no matter the source you use. Reeducation camps in a (so far very successful) war against terrorism =/= genocide. Go watch Little Chinese Everywhere (Chinese travel vlogger) videos on Xinjiang, especially in Kashgar, judge for yourself whether a genocide is going on there.

Countries with more parties such as those in Western Europe are also electing fascists. The answer doesn’t lie in more parties. China has a majority party and it doesn’t get people doing the Sieg Heil

Could you spare a link to that 29%? I’m curious

“Diplomacy dies”

What diplomacy has there been for the past 3 years of war?

We are workers as a class, not consumers, we work way more than the wealthy whereas they consume more. Our power resides in labor organising, unionisation, and mutual aid, not in consumption.

Neither of those were consumer boycotts though

Bottom 60% of earners in the US represent less than 25% of total consumption. The power is in labor and labor only, there’s a reason why we have plenty of historical examples of successful labor movements, not so much of consumer movements.

“Espouses but fails to uphold” sounds more like negligence to me. Negligence would be allowing fascism through inaction (like democrat administration). But the US does far worse than that (funding genocide and propping up fascism elsewhere)

While I agree, the discussion in other instances like .ml or hexbear is much more nuanced IMO (plenty of critical voices against Russia too, just not based on US State Dept. propaganda)