• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t see what this has to do with the fact that China utilises slave labour from a religious minority group they are currently genociding to aid in their construction and manufacturing sector.

    To my knowledge, you go to prison in the US when you commit a crime, as opposed to a labour camp where you are sterilised then made to build Fords under threat of death.

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      2 months ago

      you go to prison in the US when you commit a crime

      Gotta keep’em prisons profitable…

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      2 months ago

      America also uses slave prison labour

      And America has more incarcerated people than China, despite China having way more people.

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        2 months ago

        Ok, putting aside for a moment China’s totally honest and not at all fudged number of incarcerated people…

        The US allowing prison labour is something I’m disgusted by.

        But it’s still a far cry from abducting people based on their religion, sometimes sterilising them so they can’t have kids, threatening them with their life, threatening their family, and forcing them to work in factories or in construction, then using that slave labour to undercut and kill foreign competition.

        Don’t try to twist this into a “you’re complaining about China therefore you think the US is great”. I’m saying China is far worse. Because they are, and only a complete muppet would think otherwise.

        Maybe you’re ok with what China does (slavery and genocide), but I am not.

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          2 months ago

          Everything you accuse China of, the US is guilty of the same or worse. How many people in the US are in jail for the crime of being black?

          I never said China is great. They are horrible. The US is just worse.

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              2 months ago

              this is how most americans react to being told that they are an authoritarian country.

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                2 months ago

                Not American. You’d think my spelling would’ve made that obvious.

                And lmao at thinking China isn’t hugely more authoritarian.

                Stop with this tankie nonsense. Genocide is bad. Stop defending it.

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                  2 months ago

                  I never said it wasn’t. But America has killed more people in my liftime than China has. In the evil overlords olympics, America wins the gold medal.

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                    2 months ago

                    You’re here throughout the entire comment section pretending the US is worse (fucking LMAO), and minimising the genocide and slavery that China is engaged in.

                    Enjoy your car built by slaves from a community being genocided I guess.

                    I bet if you were around in the 40s you’d be clamouring on getting your hands on a vehicle built in Nazi labour camps.