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A 21-year-old tourist has described the horrendous treatment he allegedly received after being denied entry to the USA due to a meme depicting JD Vance as bald being found on his phone

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 57 points 17 hours ago (4 children)
[–] TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone 28 points 16 hours ago

I have never had my phone searched for memes (or at all, for that matter) when entering China.

[–] mofreak@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 13 hours ago

what are we, a bunch of asians?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Tankies? They are looking for red kind of fascism, not fascist kind of fascism.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 16 hours ago

That's what the Heritage Foundation says too!

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

China also has horrific human rights abuse and rampant organ farming/trafficking.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 13 hours ago

So it's the same, but they have healthcare.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Uh huh, because there's no genocide happening in or helped by America.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Whataboutism is not an argument. Also two things can be bad at once, this is not a zero sum game.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

1: Whataboutism is a disputed fallacy specifically because dorks like you will screech about pointing out any form of hypocrisy even in discussions on comparative morality and ethics. It is in this manner its own form of thought terminating cliche.

2: What nation is this post about?

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure how that's relevant, but I disagree.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

So you've got two genocidal states, one has healthcare (that actually does apply to Uyghurs because it's a cultural genocide/slavery thing not an extermination) and the other wants to start WW3.

Why is the first a shit hole comparable to America? They're clearly different tiers of fascist states. Everyone not a fascist state>China>Shitholes like America

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad you thoroughly understand the concept of "the lesser evil"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

There's no such thing as a lesser evil, just priorities.

When there's an evil I can do something about and see firsthand and evil I can't, I don't spend a whole lot of personal effort virtue signaling about the second type when the first is happening down the street.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 25 minutes ago

If you don't believe in lesser evil like you just said, and you think China is fascist like you just implied, why say "at least ~~the trains run on time~~ they have healthcare"?

It sounds like the kind of virtue signaling you disapprove of.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Organ harvesting doesn't count as healthcare

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Someday you'll figure out what it means that even the Uyghurs hearing about what American healthcare is actually like are shocked that it isn't propaganda.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"My dad's genocide is more moral than your dad's genocide!"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That's why they have to put "cultural" in front of it, yeah.

Feel free to explain to a deliberately starved to death Gazan child who saw their dad killed in the street for his property by Israeli soldiers who posted it to YouTube why their situation is just as bad as a Uyghur kid going to a state run propaganda farm I guess.