• Reality Suit@lemmy.one
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, any non native government is a fraud. Everything the US does, China and any other “super power” has committed as well.

    I’m not anywhere near an expert on history, but when one regime is held up higher than another regime, we forget that they got there through blood and murder. Yes, I know the article was on infrastructure, but there is a whole intricate world where everything is connected in one way or another. Uyghurs are just one population that have existed on this planet. And yes, I’m sure there are some ethnic Uyghurs who are doing just fine.

    You can easily find a video where a north Korean defector is claiming how much better north Korea is compared to the US.

    • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, any non native government is a fraud. Everything the US does, China and any other “super power” has committed as well.

      Lifting over 800-million people out of abject poverty and all but eliminating homelessness is fraud?

      I’m not anywhere near an expert on history,

      That is very apparent.

      but when one regime is held up higher than another regime,

      Yes, all governments, no matter whether they’re fuedal monarchies, capitalist “democracies” that funnel all wealth directly to the bourgeosie while millions starve, or socialist revolutionaries employing the mass line consistently proving they are made up of and represent the working class with 95% approval of the population… all of those are “regimes” and everyone knows that “regimes” are equally bad.

      we forget that they got there through blood and murder.

      If a people rises up and kills the landlords brutally holding them in de facto slavery, then the blood and “murder” of those landlords is good actually, and so is the resulting government formed by those people. (And just so we’re clear, that is not sarcasm. My previous sentence about “regimes” was.)

      Yes, I know the article was on infrastructure, but there is a whole intricate world where everything is connected in one way or another.

      It’s almost as if you have to have an understanding of the material circumstances of a given country to have a fucking clue what you’re talking about regarding them!

      Uyghurs are just one population that have existed on this planet.

      You don’t say!

      And yes, I’m sure there are some ethnic Uyghurs who are doing just fine.

      Not just “some.” The Uigher population as a whole is thriving in China.

      You can easily find a video where a north Korean defector is claiming how much better north Korea is compared to the US.

      And they would be right. North Korea is substantially better than the US in almost every way.