• @figaro@lemdro.id
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    136 months ago

    Let’s say both then. Both the US and China are surveillance states, and that makes them both bad.

    Btw just so you are aware, there is some underlying animosity toward people who defend China here. Usually people who defend China are just trying to deflect and try to say things like “BUT America does bad things!” While trying to make it seem like that somehow absolves China of genocide and mass surveillance.

    The hard part for those people to grasp is that Americans are usually happy to say yes, America sucks. Any country that engages in those actions sucks. Diehard tankies on the other hand are incapable of seeing flaws in China/Russia/whatever country they feel the need to defend.

    • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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      146 months ago

      Let’s say both then. Both the US and China are surveillance states, and that makes them both bad.

      /signed

      But also: all five-eyes states, and then a couple more. With western European countries trying hard to compete in the “who can fuck their citizens the mostest the bestest”