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Discount_gentleman t1_j2lc65s wrote

Yup. And Americans will say the difference is because of other countries' propaganda, and never look in the mirror, or even imagine that a mirror could exist.

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Freschledditor t1_j2ltxid wrote

The difference is that you are much more likely to get the full picture in a democracy, not a dictatorship.

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Discount_gentleman t1_j2n1y0p wrote

The problem, of course, is that words like "democracy" and "dictatorship" are such poor categorizations of countries as a whole. The US is not "a democracy" by any objective standard, nor is the category of "dictatorship" (exclusively used for countries on the official enemies list) particularly clarifying or helpful in this context. Our media is EXTREMELY concentrated and they all have extremely similar views, especially on international events. Again, your comment is an example of people who cannot look into the mirror.

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Lmitation t1_j2m4jcc wrote

Every mention of China on Reddit people bring up the forced labor camps of Uyghurs which I agree are terrible, but not a single American has taken a look at American incarceration rates vs rest of the world and the forced for profit prison labor that goes into running them. It's frankly disgusting how quick they are to be ready to sanction war on another country while having by far the largest volume of questionable human rights treatment of its prisoners in the world. Stop falling for government propaganda. It's what sucked the USA into Vietnam war and the same tactics are being used to support war against China.

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