they can but usually don’t, when tiktok was pretty new I became a nazi because of it and I stayed that until I saw how the government (any and every government) is a corrupt force that lies to you amd hurts you in other ways

on lemmy you are usually provided sources tho

something a lot of people miss is, that some people have to shop for more than 3 or 4 people, when I grew up we were 5 plus a somewhat big dog, you can’t really do weekly shopping without some kind of help under these circumstances

I use public transport to get everywhere I can, which is pretty easy where I live, but having 4 full shopping bags on a tram sounds like a horrible experience

china isn’t honest about labour camps for muslim minorities, why would they be about the incarceration rate?

> Both countries are authoritarian to me.

lmao, explain to me please how any state can be not authoritarian

I do give a fuck about china tho, since it’s even worse than the us imo and people on lemmy try to glorify it constantly

don’t know about the dangerous work conditions, but the existance of private prisons scares me enough

yeah, ik and I hate both the us and china, I just can’t stand it when people claim that the us is the worse than china, which isn’t true since in the us you at least get free speach and the right to own a gun

> Because we can’t speak Chinese and China publishes such stuff in Chinese language maybe?

a lot of eu countries publish theirs in english too for the sake of transparancy, but ok

> Chinese people feel differently about that, they consistently rate their country as a democracy much more than, say, US citizens do.

funny, when was the last (fair) election in china? also the reason chinese people don’t tell journalists how shitty their lives are is because they could get into a concentration camp reeducation camp for saying that and don’t forget that all of that is for nothing since china got the highest millionair density in the world and thus can’t be really communist imo and don’t start me on holy xi trying to hide homelessness

only found this

and guess why I couldn’t find an official and transparent statistic…

because china is very authoritarian and has a lot to hide

oh, like uyghurs?

at least the us doesn’t have concentration camps ig

> the us is authoritarian (which is bad)

> I’m not authoritarian (which is good)

> if you disagree, we’ll ban you

let me guess… your logic was made in china too, damn tankie

no, I’ve got a right to free speach and if I dare think your holy communist china is actually a very shitty and authoritarian nation, I should be able to say so politely

never said the us wasn’t authoritarian, I was just making fun of the ptb

> The US is is an authoritarian state.

> If you disagree too loudly I will instaban you.

lmao

is this issue also on in the bios?

yes = hardware error

no = software error

Categorically, 100%, the US puppeted Ukraine provoked the war

ever thought about why ukraine is fine with being a “us puppet”?

also how did they start the war? russia anexed krimea in 2014, so they started it

Even if you have a different false opinion, Russia agrees with my statement

“everyone disagreeing with me is wrong”

also: russia investigates russia and finds out russia did nothing wrong

It is stupid to wage war on Russia

so if they’re gonna be destroyed anyway why not fight? also: should russia not fight back if let’s say sibiria was anexed by the us? I mean the us got the largest military in the world and the most allies, so why bother?

Inflation, and a Russian economic shift to support its own existence while casually pretending our own economies are fine.

the west may be doing badly, but we didn’t have to close the banks

Nuclear strikes on any US global base, or Air carrier fleet is not a missile headed for US that requires launching 1000s in return.

ok, what do you want to tell me with that? should russia be allowed to attack any country only because they allow the us to have military installations on their territory?

Cheering on the US escallation, that was not used for any Ukrainian strategic advantage/survival such as a Kursk withdrawal, is cheering for your rulers to suicide you.

war is always suicide for the individual, and you can’t really say they do strategic nonsense, because if they did ukraine wouldn’t exist anymore

US economy is on the edge of collapse

please elaborate, I’d like to know your basis for that assumption

Forcing Russia to destroy US economy/sustainability

you clearly overestimate russia my friend, also before that happens the us would either pull out, or send troops to russia, which would be the end of russia, not the us

I don’t think russia is that much more advanced than north korea xD