

I befriended a guy from China recently, he’s kinda gusano, calls himself a democratic socialist, wants to work in america for the money before going back to China, etc.
We started talking politics and it was weird to see him criticizing China, and me saying “yeah but that’s better than the alternative here in the US” and he was like “yeah but the US is shit why would anybody use their policies”
Was kinda refreshing? I’m so used to hearing people shitting on China with the view that America was better in whatever way they were arguing, really made me understand I’m still a euro-centric POS




Precisely! Americans feel like they’re better than isntrealis but they’re one and the same.
It’s a hot take but the big backlash those comedians had for performing at the Riyadh festival was foolish to me. Your country does so much worse and you never call it out!
I understand they do deserve criticism for it, but the most libbed-up “support our troops” type of people hopped on the bandwagon too and it was so frustrating to see in real time.