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Based on the population size and school system, I'd conjecture there's more... though there is brain drain and emigration to consider.

by prussia 9mo ago

immibis 9mo ago
I'd rather be in China than the USA right now.
- jimmaswell 9mo ago
  Are you being facetious or are you ignorant of what it's actually like over there? https://reclaimthenet.org/china-man-chair-interrogation-social-credit https://reclaimthenet.org/china-man-chair-interrogation-soci... Or even worse, do you actually support their views on human rights?
  - heavyset_go 9mo ago
    The US disappeared a local business owner down the street from me in a sleepy suburb because he happened to be walking to his business one morning while brown. ICE/BP was looking for someone else, but saw another brown person while waiting, and took the opportunity to grab him, too. He was imprisoned for more than a month and shuffled around the country before anyone bothered to look at his identification or acknowledge their validity. Are you aware of what's going on in the US right now? NYT: Those Deported to El Salvador Were Shackled, Beaten, and Sexually Assaulted[1] And if you're saying to yourself, "what do I have to worry about, I'm not brown", well, do you have kids who you don't want to have abducted and zip-tied naked in the middle of the night by paramilitaries using grenades and rappelling from helicopters into your home[2][3]? > Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs. > "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'fuck them kids.'" > “It was heartbreaking to watch,” she said. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.” > "They just treated us like we were nothing," Fisher said. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvador-prison-migrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.djrY.A074L2dbgfcn https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvado... [2] https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-heartbreaking-naked-zip-tied-children-dragged-from-homes-in-surreal-ice-raid/ https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-heartbreaking-naked-zip-tied... [3] https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surr...
  - immibis 9mo ago
    In China you don't criticise the dictatorship and don't be a Muslim and your quality of life improves every year and you get many cool products and services. In the USA they are disappearing people at random and they are banning the import of products and services from the places that are producing them (mostly China).

Based on the population size and school system, I'd conjecture there's more... though there is brain drain and emigration to consider.

by prussia 9mo ago

Based on the population size and school system, I'd conjecture there's more... though there is brain drain and emigration to consider.

immibis 9mo ago

I'd rather be in China than the USA right now.

jimmaswell 9mo ago
Are you being facetious or are you ignorant of what it's actually like over there? https://reclaimthenet.org/china-man-chair-interrogation-social-credit https://reclaimthenet.org/china-man-chair-interrogation-soci... Or even worse, do you actually support their views on human rights?
- heavyset_go 9mo ago
  The US disappeared a local business owner down the street from me in a sleepy suburb because he happened to be walking to his business one morning while brown. ICE/BP was looking for someone else, but saw another brown person while waiting, and took the opportunity to grab him, too. He was imprisoned for more than a month and shuffled around the country before anyone bothered to look at his identification or acknowledge their validity. Are you aware of what's going on in the US right now? NYT: Those Deported to El Salvador Were Shackled, Beaten, and Sexually Assaulted[1] And if you're saying to yourself, "what do I have to worry about, I'm not brown", well, do you have kids who you don't want to have abducted and zip-tied naked in the middle of the night by paramilitaries using grenades and rappelling from helicopters into your home[2][3]? > Neighbors like Eboni Watson say they ducked for cover as they heard several flash bangs. > "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'fuck them kids.'" > “It was heartbreaking to watch,” she said. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.” > "They just treated us like we were nothing," Fisher said. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvador-prison-migrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.djrY.A074L2dbgfcn https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvado... [2] https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-heartbreaking-naked-zip-tied-children-dragged-from-homes-in-surreal-ice-raid/ https://www.rawstory.com/it-was-heartbreaking-naked-zip-tied... [3] https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surround-south-shore-apartment-building-dhs-requests-military-deployment-illinois/17908911/ https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-surr...
- immibis 9mo ago
  In China you don't criticise the dictatorship and don't be a Muslim and your quality of life improves every year and you get many cool products and services. In the USA they are disappearing people at random and they are banning the import of products and services from the places that are producing them (mostly China).