Why only 96%?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The remaining 4% wanted the US summarily declared guilty of crimes against humanity without trial.

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    To be honest the poll is extremely biased with "yes, the US is bad" "yes, but the US will block it" and "Not sure, there's a history of it but nothing will change." To be clear, I think that there should be an investigation into the human rights violations of the US, but I also think that the US will use every possible thing to prevent it and unless the UN is willing to declare war or a complete embargo on the US to enforce human rights, that in the end nothing will happen. It's a neat statistic but ultimately means very little when presented to a critical audience.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      To be clear, I think that there should be an investigation into the human rights violations of the US

      China publishes a yearly human rights report on the US which is actually pretty well put together. They use "trustworthy" lib sources and official US data, so sometimes if you're arguing with a lib about something you can just plagiarize China's homework.

      https://english.news.cn/20220228/3120e00203a94a86a85fd8ee748e1053/c.html

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      2 years ago

      also the readers of Global Times, a chinese left nationalist newspaper, are definitely bigger America haters than most people around the world. still based tho

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      the other option was "Not sure, the US has long been plagued by human right problems and the investigation will not change anything"

          • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'm trying to say that if “Not sure, the US has long been plagued by human right problems and the investigation will not change anything” was the option that 4% of people went for I kind of agree with that one. That last comment really, really needs to be read as part of a back and forth where I started by asking what was wrong with 4% of people, was told what they had actually answered and then kind of agreed. I don't actually think there is anything wrong with people wanting a UN probe into US human rights abuses, but I kind of agree with the 4% that such an investigation would not change anything, so I just turned my earlier comment upside down.