Originally Posted by
73qanda
Would you still choose it if the location was somebody else’s choice and you could end up in one of the Uyghur camps? Would you be able to sleep at night knowing all those children are being ‘re-educated’ in the camps? Do you support crimes like this?
Would it bother you that they’ve just made new rules about displaying religious symbols like a cross? ( hint....it doesn’t end well when you dictate what your citizens can and can’t display on the walls of their own lounge) .
Would it bother you that you might be able to drink beer into the wee hours on Wednesday but on Thursday and forever more it may be a crime punishable by imprisonment? Surely that lack of freedom and basic rights would make you uneasy about spending the rest of your life there.
Would you choose the US knowing if you’re black or latino there’s a good chance you could spend years in prison for possessing something as minor as a wacky plant? (5x imprisoned per capita USA vs China)
Would you sleep at night knowing your government lied about the reasons for instigating a war which killed half a million Iraqis?
Doesn’t it concern you that the murder rate is almost 9x higher in the USA with the added bonus of a populace armed to the teeth? Would you feel safe sending your kids to a school where they make them walk through a metal detector to start the day?
Given Australia’s status as America’s lackey you could ask if any Australian should feel proud about living in a nation that follows without question America on their disastrous “wars for freedom” across the globe that’ve killed millions? Yet here we all are?
China’s just joining America in the games of superpowers. America is afraid of losing it’s place. That’s the propaganda you’re hearing.
you would choose China over the States to spend the rest of your life then that says quite a lot
What does it say? I’ve spent time in both countries (that are the 1st and 3rd largest in the world and incredibly varied amongst their own regions), and assessed that I could probably live in some specific regions in both countries quite happily, but I’ll go for the nation who’s women don’t get fed at Burger King as the deciding factor. Maybe if you have a desire to eat copious amounts of fast food and own an AR-15 the US would be your preference. Great.
Originally Posted by
73qanda
If any power, anywhere, doesn’t allow for the people to oust the leadership then eventually, once the wrong person is in charge, atrocities will occur on a large scale. The Ausi SAS goings on are not on the same scale as the problems that may be emerging.
Ask an Iraqi, an Afghani, a Syrian, a Libyan, an Iranian etc if it gives them comfort that that the SAS soldier who put a bullet in their father’s head/the Apache pilot who obliterated their brother with a 30mm cannon/the diplomat who instituted sanctions on medical supplies that their mother needed came from a democratic country? Though it really doesn’t matter because regardless of which party is in control in America or Australia the foreign policy is the same, we definitely don’t have a choice on that.