Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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      I’m not here to defend the Chinese government or anything, but there is an argument to be made that the US has an equivalency to each one of these things.

      CCP officials at tech companies - NSA backdoors

      Uyghur slaves - Prison labor aka war on drugs

      Taiwan - Gaza/Literally any “3rd world” nation with oil

      Censorship - Right wing media empires/red state bills targeted to downplay US atrocities taught in schools

      Retaliation against protestors - Police brutality Social media censorship - Oligarchs owned social media

      I think a lot of people are less falling for Chinese propaganda and more overcoming US propaganda.

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      ’d love to be wrong.

      No you wouldn’t. If you were, you’d have listen to the many people that probably have corrected you on all those State Department talking points

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        That’s never happened. And being that you haven’t either, I think it’s a fair guess that it won’t anytime soon.