In totalitarian USA the racist police run over protestors with impunity and torture you at a blacksite for made up poverty crimes, president Xi please my people yearn for freedom

[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A disfunctional system isn't the same as a totalitarian one. Both are bad, yes, but they're not one and the same.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how when the US does something wrong, it's never a reflection on its essential character, and yet the fucking Four Pests Campaign or whatever is a fundamental reflection of the ideology of Chinese Communism.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Ah whoops we killed a million people in Iraq, but you know, insert Churchill democracy quote while throwing tarp over one billion dead indians

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

us-foreign-policy

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aw lol you think capitalism isn't supposed to function this way

One of the most sobering moments of my life was realizing that our system isn't "broken", it's functioning exactly as intended.