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grindy 08-01-2020 04:16 AM

America is far ahead of China. China needs to suppress stuff and censor the internet and whatever. The American people are so ****ing brainwashed there isn't even any need for that.

Lucem Ferre 08-01-2020 04:37 AM

Are you calling my country retarded?

grindy 08-01-2020 05:14 AM

No, because retards are often quite nice. Americans are meantarded.

Anteater 08-01-2020 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2128854)
Obviously I think America is far worse but I’d be happy to hear people admit that both countries are equally insidious.

Didn't China elect Xi for life? The closest equivalents we have to that here are Pelosi, McConnell and Biden. :laughing:

jwb 08-01-2020 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 2128855)
America is far ahead of China. China needs to suppress stuff and censor the internet and whatever. The American people are so ****ing brainwashed there isn't even any need for that.

Nah, this is giving the American govt too much credit. Look at the coronavirus response for a perfect example. Americans have to fight over every little thing. We're brainwashed, but in conflicting directions that makes us not even function as a cohesive whole. Where as in China they act as the perfect 1 billion member ant colony. Filled with docile, robotic Asian ants.

SGR 08-01-2020 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 2128861)
Didn't China elect Xi for life? The closest equivalents we have to that here are Pelosi, McConnell and Biden. :laughing:

Well, sort of. It was a legislative body that voted to change the country's consitution, not the Chinese people.

SGR 08-01-2020 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2128852)
You know, because America is free but China suppresses the Internet and the Chinese aren’t free and in China one man can control what millions of others can see. Because China no freedom but America is freedom.

They aren't banning TikTok in the US.

Trump's been using the bully pulpit to pressure ByteDance. They're going to divest and Microsoft is going to take over TikTok in the US.

Bytedance offers to forgo stake in TikTok to clinch US deal

Lucem Ferre 08-01-2020 01:13 PM

A couple of people started burning bibles at a protest and now the Trumptards are calling "the left" fascist ignoring the plethora of right wing groups doing organized book burnings including the most heinous one of all, the Harry Potter burnings.

jwb 08-01-2020 06:47 PM

Book burning is just dumb and outdated in general

The guy who shouted a spoiler about Harry Potter to people camped out waiting in line for the book too come out was a much better way to **** on Harry Potter fans

The Batlord 08-01-2020 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb (Post 2129052)
Book burning is just dumb and outdated in general

The guy who shouted a spoiler about Harry Potter to people camped out waiting in line for the book too come out was a much better way to **** on Harry Potter fans

And he sold shirts with "Snape killed Dumbledore" with the page number on it. That's just pure delicious evil.


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