• entwine413@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Being involved in a foreign conflict is pretty unlikely to be a deciding factor.

    It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s, and we used to be good trading partners.

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      I suppose it’s up to your defintion of ‘deciding factor’ but to think the US’s invasions of sovereign countries resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilians deaths over the past few decades and support for ongoing genocide isn’t tiping the scales is misguided at best

      It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s

      source? I’ve never seen reliable evidence(outside of easily disproven Zenz’s inventions) that China’s rights abuses match those committed by the US in Guantaumo, Abu Ghraib etc in severity

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/29/abu-zubaydah-cia-torture-waterboarding-guantanamo

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        5 months ago

        Oh shit, I didn’t see your instance. This is a pointless conversation.

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          So no source?

          Facts(UN investigations, photo and video evidence, I can provide sources on request) show that the US has committed far worse rights abuses than china(sexual assault at Abu Ghraib, extreme torture at both and murder and Guantanamo and numerous black-sites, extraordinary rendition etc)

          This proves my point about US cultural dominance distorting objective reality: despite facts showing the US committing far more severe human rights abuses you still believe China has committed worse because that is what media you consume portrays

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          5 months ago

          China is pretty bad, but I feel the US never gets called out for this, so he has a good point.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      explain to me how Iraq invasion is a less worse human rights violation than whatever China has done?

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      5 months ago

      It’s taken this long because the US’s human rights violations haven’t been as bad as China’s

      No, they’ve been worse: more people killed, more people imprisoned, more people abused, the US has been objectively worse.