brain_in_a_box [he/him]

Foreign powers unilaterally divided the country in half, and the actual country itself just has to accept it?

As ever, actual Jewish Holocaust scholars agree with us

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

Not by “assigning a slightly different definition”, just by applying the definition consistently, rather than using the standard.

But you’re still moving the goal posts. They didn’t post the AP article because it’s a credible source on events in Xinjiang (it isn’t). They posted it to demonstrate that even sources extremely biased against China weren’t going as far as making accusations of killings.

So where does it talk about killings in Xinjiang? Or are you trying to move the goal posts.

If we can’t agree that millions of people in the USSR were killed, sent to gulags, and died of famine during Stalin’s leadership

Can we agree that millions of people in the USA were killed, sent to gulags, and died of famine during FDR’s leadership?

I suspect you don’t think that many people died as a result of the great depression

And do you think that people died during the Holodomor?

Is that from the same anime as your last line?

Like trying to reframe my argument as “rich country good, poor country bad”?

No reframing needed, that was just your argument.

You’ve tried to dismiss my argument by misrepresenting it.

So what exactly is your argument?

This level of insecurity shows how shallow your beliefs are.

Lol, what anime did you crib this line from?

No, it’s that saying one place is worse doesn’t make it so.

Correct, you saying Cuba is worse doesn’t make it so.

Human development index and quality of life studies put the US ahead of Cuba

“Rich country good, poor country bad”

Cuba has better healthcare and lower cost of living, but Americans aren’t on rafts to Cuba.

“Rich country good, poor country bad”

One of the problems with enacting good and lasting change in the western world is that life is pretty darn good on the whole.

Yes, because the West ruthlessly exploits the global south to prop of it’s own standards of living. This is why serious socialist revolutions have mostly only occurred in the Global South.

It could be a lot better, but just shouting that the US is bad is mindless propagada. Be better than that.

Real bad faith framing of your opponents argument there; be better than that.

“I have no argument that you can’t refute, so I’m just going to behave in bad faith”

So once again, your argument is “rich country good, poor country bad”

“Rich country good, poor country bad!”

Very astute political analysis there