Hmm, remind me again which government blocks images of Winnie the Pooh? Hint: It's not America.
Really? There are plenty of examples where an election is won by a relative small number of votes, where the subsequent changes in policy and legislation resulted by change of government is no less than fundamental. Voting matters.
In your subjective opinion
There is no objective truth here. You dislike his answer, I think he said the correct thing. That's what I meant when I said that we should drop it.This. Voting is the single most important power we have. For some examples from the past few years in America we can take a look at how razor thin the winning margins for DeSantis's first election were, or Boebert's most recent one. Apathy is the greatest threat.
Might not. Pro-china parties are partnering up, and their candidate will be decided by upcoming polls. This is going to be a 50-50 election.
I'm not necessarily saying this election, because you're right, the pro-Chinese parties are forming a coalition. The point is they never had to do that before - independence wasn't even close to popular until the 2010s. But the younger generation, plus the ongoing excesses of Communist China, are moving opinions. I'd be shocked if it wasn't done by 2035.
Oh the US supresses its fair share of speech. Just because it doesn't bother with cartoon characters it doesn't mean it isn't obssessed with the flow of information as much as China or Russia
But Ukraine only requires money and ammunition for older weapons, and Israel only requires money and military posturing from U.S. forces that are already in the region. U.S. military readiness has been defined since WWII as being able to fight full wars on two fronts simultaneously. Even if you counted Israel as one of those U.S. fronts (and I don't think it even remotely qualifies at this point, and probably still wouldn't even with a full-on Hezbollah assault), the U.S.'s position in the Pacific would be unaffected.
Sadly I think you're right about that. The silence re: China shitting all over the Joint Declaration decades early was deafening. Trump was willing to play economic hardball with them, but he couldn't care less about human rights.
Sure, but it isn't even close to how China (or Russia for that matter) operates. They are on entirely different levels.
No, it's worse. Russia and China at least are honest about it. The US pontificates on how it's a beacon of "Freedom" and then secretly, gathers all your data, disappears people, also violates human rights, etc. All major players (I don't think "superpowers" applies anymore) do the exact same thing as the others. It's naive to think that one is better than the other because of x, y or z. So China doesn't let you use google and uses "Social Credit Scores" to limit it's citizens movements. The US doesn't let you use TikTok and uses Financial credit scores to limit every aspect of your life including housing. China uses child labor, that child labor is in Apple and Nike factories, etc. They literally are the same shit, different smell.
This is an incredibly childish and naive view devoid of any nuance. Yes, the US is bad, but to claim that it is on the same level as Russia and China is beyond absurd.
The Black Lives Matter folks would like a word...
There's no point in this discussion. We've made our points clear.
