jicko

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   by jicko 5mo ago

   Yeah because obviously the US-Europe relationship is one way, isn't it? NATO exists because the US won't allow any other global hegemon to exist. US backing of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are for that same reason. I meant that
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   by jicko 5mo ago

   I don't think people pointing out American hypocrisy are under a delusion that China is a saint. They're just pointing out the hypocrisy. It's also a delusion to think that the world is free under US hegemony. It's mostl
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   by jicko 5mo ago

   there weren't a lot of democracies in the world until recently. And even a good many of them are effectively oligarchies. if you want a good path to true improvement in civil rights (not a useless piece of paper or declaration) just tr
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   by jicko 5mo ago

   People are literally talking about tiananmen square upthread like it's the biggest problem ever with China. Both Taiwan and South Korea had their own version of tiananmen square. I don't think you realise that much of the world wa
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   by jicko 5mo ago

   China hasn't been communist for a really long time. It didn't truly stay communist for a long time either, it was more of an authoritarian autarky run by a nutjob. What is is today is state sponsored capitalism. You have cronyism,