China:
Total Cases: 94,472
Deaths: 4,636
7-Day Average for New Cases Last Week: 113
USA:
Total Cases: 37.3 Million
Death: 624,000
7-Day Average for New Cases Last Week: 140,000
Where do they get this victim complex from? I hear this all the time about how Reddit is so left-leaning and Anti-American while posts like his get about several thousand upvotes and awards.
Reddit is liberal, chuds think liberalism = leftism, ergo reddit is leftist.
Yeah, I am afraid it is really this simple. To most American chuds (and quite a few liberals), anyone left of Reagan is indistinguishable from a legitimate communist because of how trash political education and discourse are here
Where do they get this victim complex from?
American Protestantism
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E: Just in case people think this is me being an edgy internet atheist (which I certainly am not,) Christian Persecution Complex is a real and studied phenomena among American Protestants and certain other Biblical cults in Europe.
"If we assume the opposite of reality is true, then it would vindicate my beliefs, and we can mock imagined opponents for acting like how I am right now"
If China made vaccines and then refused to share the recipe with the rest of the world, all while their own population refuses to take them, then yes I would criticize them.
China's covid response has got to be one of the most successful governmental projects in history :some-controversy:
we're talking about the most populous country, most densely peopled places on earth & they've run laps around "cities" containing mostly parking lots :amerikkka-clap:
Miami-Dade county has had about 50% more covid deaths than all of China
This isn't even the opposite though, lol? This is an "imagine if Capitalism worked and communism didn't" scenario.
Any case: the thing that needs to be ground into these people's skulls over and over again until they finally get it is this:
Even if Covid-19 came from a lab leak in China, or hell even if we're gonna go super conspiratorial and say the Chinese released it intentionally:
The Death toll and the fallout from Covid-19 in the United States is and forever will be the fault of our own government. They didn't have to end the lockdown, or open up the schools, or short change their stimulus payments. ALL of that was by choice, plain and simple. Our leaders and owners made a decision that it was more important that the market be sated then our lives be protected. Those deaths are on capitalism hands, the end.
Dragging my dirty, broken body into an abandoned house. Pulling out a little baggie that I guard with my life. Trying to keep my fingers from shaking while I boil the copium in a spoon. Searching for a vein, any vein to inject one more beautiful hit of the American Dream. Settling for muscle. I don't care. China pisses my pants as I nod off.
[Imagine if] COVID started in the US and some evidence (though not necessarily conclusive) indicated that it came from a biological weapons lab.
:agony: "What's Fort Detrick?"
I actually think it would be funny if it came from a factory farm. Really put American's eating habits and food production under a microscope. Watch Americans get all defensive about "muh bacon!"
No no it was a Chinese wet market you see. Much worse than a factory farm clearly
Lmao, weapons-grade :cope: thread.
Also, everyone with a brain knows COVID prolly came from the USchina took swift and decisive action that reduced the need for vaccines
Lol, the projection.
To entertain it, if the media were exactly the same, you wouldn't hear any of this "evidence". China is "the enemy" in the current situation, so they have to put the boot in.
Also, they're forgetting that there already is an example of this: the 1918 flu, the earliest documented case being in Kansas. As we all know, tens of millions died and Spain got the blame for it. I am unaware what the discourse was like back then, but I suspect the US came out pretty well (reputationally). It's hard to say how it would have been with social media, although without the mainstream media putting the boot in, it wouldn't have had much to feed off.
To entertain it, if the media were exactly the same, you wouldn’t hear any of this “evidence”. China is “the enemy” in the current situation, so they have to put the boot in.
Thing is, we don't have to entertain it. The scenario this person laid out in the first paragraph already largely exists and this is exactly how it has played out in the media. They can't even praise the country. When the news talks about East Asia's success, they omit the PRC. When a country in East Asia besides PRC falters, they act like the whole region has faltered. This person is wrapped up in a little bubble reality.
I assumed this was sarcastic for a minute. You'd never know Sinovac exists, nevermind Fort Detrick or a very westernized pandemic.
Then all the leaning in on "Can you imagine what they'd be saying about capitalism?!!!" Like, this had to be a bit, right?
:cope:
Yea so in this case does America have a handle on COVID or not? America went all in on vaccinating themselves at the expense of everyone else, and then didnt even reach anything close to herd immunity
