I’m not trying to bait you, I’m mocking you for being exactly like every other lost lib who wanders in here.
I’m saying that you’re not the creative freethinker that you think you are. This is an argument I have heard hundreds of times from people who say they are against the status quo and say they do not like the US, but will blindly accept whatever the US feeds them on the US’s enemies.
How do you know China “crushes dissent” with “surveillance?” Because “everyone says it?” because “The BBC (or whoever) keeps publishing reports about it?” I would challenge you to actually question whether you know anything about the topic at all, because I can assure you, your thoughts on the matter are not your own.
Surveillance isn’t the only way governments control people. I know you think everyone in China who approves of their government is “brainwashed” but maybe they aren’t, maybe it’s people in the west who are lied to by their governments and media and one of the ways they do that is by insisting that “everyone does it.” A thief thinks everyone else is out to steal from them, and a controlling and manipulative ruling class will insist every other country’s ruling class is exactly the same.
I hope you will stick around and learn more, because I don’t think you’re a bad person, but will also understand if you don’t want to after I was such an asshole to you.
I’m not trying to bait you, I’m mocking you for being exactly like every other lost lib who wanders in here.
I’m saying that you’re not the creative freethinker that you think you are. This is an argument I have heard hundreds of times from people who say they are against the status quo and say they do not like the US, but will blindly accept whatever the US feeds them on the US’s enemies.
How do you know China “crushes dissent” with “surveillance?” Because “everyone says it?” because “The BBC (or whoever) keeps publishing reports about it?” I would challenge you to actually question whether you know anything about the topic at all, because I can assure you, your thoughts on the matter are not your own.
Surveillance isn’t the only way governments control people. I know you think everyone in China who approves of their government is “brainwashed” but maybe they aren’t, maybe it’s people in the west who are lied to by their governments and media and one of the ways they do that is by insisting that “everyone does it.” A thief thinks everyone else is out to steal from them, and a controlling and manipulative ruling class will insist every other country’s ruling class is exactly the same.
I hope you will stick around and learn more, because I don’t think you’re a bad person, but will also understand if you don’t want to after I was such an asshole to you.