China is half a world away and isn’t directly involved in my day to day. The harms that China can do to me are significantly less than those American businesses.

It’s not about trust, it’s about accurate threat modeling.

Homicide rate is far less than other countries.

People are jailed and murdered in the US over “speech” all the time.

It seems like your “us is far better” is based purely on vibes… Unless you’ve got some numbers you’d like to share?

I used to have that issue, the secret for me was that I needed to explicitly look for wide shoes (Xw as in 10.5w) my current shoes are going on 2 years now :D

The USA has the highest incarcerated population in the world. Per capita it’s about 2-4x the list of “authoritarian” states that usually get referenced.

Do you want to do a quick compare on the rates of extrajudicial killings as well?

I don’t know what better quantitative measurement for “authoritarian” are than life and liberty. Do you have better ones?