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An edited meme image featuring two stills from MegaMind. The top still shows Titan speaking to a the mayor, who is labelled “TikTokers getting censored by China” and saying “You have freed us!” overlaid. Titan has a US flag as a label, and is saying “Oh, I wouldn’t say freed, more like under new management.”

      • Chill Dude 69@lemmynsfw.com
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        8 months ago

        Oh, I’m judging. I wonder if this guy you’re replying to pretended to care about the Uyghur people, a few years ago. That was pretty fashionable. Weird how everyone stopped giving a shit about them, right?

        Not surprising, though. Because now we’re back to “pffft, all sides are the same. Both parties are the same. All the countries are the same. Everything’s the same.” That’s the fashionable sentiment, among certain political quarters.

        But no, goddammit, it’s not all the same. The way we’re headed, maybe we’ll eventually have the kind of constant state surveillance and trips to reeducation camps that the PRC furnishes to its people, BUT WE ACTUALLY DON’T HAVE THAT SHIT, RIGHT NOW.

        That matters. We’re waaaaaay far from perfect and we’re definitely headed in a shitload of wrong directions, but we’re not actually a totalitarian goddamn dictatorship, yet. We have a de facto oligarchy. And a corporate klepto-state. That needs to be fixed.

        But I’m fed up with this “nah, the USA is the worst” attitude. I see our country as a shitty old Ford Fiesta, with no air conditioning and a transmission that keeps making weird noises. Sure, it sucks, and it’s gonna cost an arm and a leg to fix…but it’s the only car we’ve got. So there’s no sense in ignoring the problems until the transmission blows up on the highway, and it’s catastrophic.

        That’s basically what jokers like the guy you’re replying to are advocating, though. Not only do they resist taking our shitty car into the shop while it’s still fixable, they’re looking over at guy in the Yugo with the bald tires and the potentially deadly exhaust leak, and saying “we’re no better off than him.”