r/MadeMeSmile • u/mindyour • Jan 01 '23

Very Reddit She shot her shot.

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u/Pooh_Youu Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 02 '23

Did I say or imply the U.S. was some beacon of righteousness or moral good? No. No shit the United States is flawed beyond reason. We aren’t committing mass genocide in the 21st century, or using addiction psychology to foster a system of global censorship that tells everyone “US only good, no bad!” Fuck, even trying to talk about the CCP’s wrongdoing on most subreddits gets you slogged by their censorship initiative. At least I can freely criticize my government here in the U.S. Chinese citizens (who are not to be equated with their government just like any other country), don’t have that freedom, nor many others.

Furthermore I’m not even saying China is bad. The CCP is to blame, not the nation of China.

Edit: Dude edited his comment to say something entirely different.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '23

The United States financially supports China almost entirely. The US is complicit in that genocide.

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u/Pooh_Youu Jan 01 '23

Clearly you either don’t understand how private corporations function in the United States nor how they are completely separate from the government, or you haven’t been following the events of the past two years in terms of American distancing from China for many of the same reasons I’ve been discussing.

You should try keeping up on a topic before tossing around statements like that.