You're forgetting the most important part. The reason adversaries prevail in other countries & that we have a large number of refugees is because of American terrorism & regime change, colonialism & imperialism. Furthermore, the reason drug cartels even exist is because of the absolute failure in America to treat substance abuse & addiction as an education/health issue, and instead criminalizing & even lying about many substances for decades. Instead, they used it to fill for-profit prisons with non-violent individuals, mostly black people, while subsidizing & assisting pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma to get richer. At the same time, if you're rich & white, you're almost completely immune from equal punishment. If you kill one person, and aren't rich, you're a murderer. If you're rich & powerful though & kill thousands or millions, it's considered business. Fuck America's lies & the fact that most people are complacent instead of drafting up succession documents, says all you need to know about how people here support America's tyranny. I absolutely despise what MAGA did on Jan 6, but maybe in some ironic way they deserve some credit for actually being willing to do something rather than sit around watching Netflix.
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Yeah that, imperialism
Although, in my case (China) it really more of the imperialism of the british and the japanese. WW2 japanese invasion really fucked up my homeland. Wonder how advanced and democraric China could be had that never happened. I mean we just overthrew the monarchy and was on the path of republicanism... then... you know... everything changed when the fire nation attacked
Edit: Technically not a "refugee" in the strictest form of the definition, but like... I might as well be considered one since the situation back home is kinda fucked...
Absolutely, and China is far from perfect. America though will throw trillions to try to maintain a failed economic system while socializing the rich & blaming the "socialists" & "communists."
When you copyright & privatize everything including the most prominent technology, people can't innovate & collaborate, nor would they want to. At least in China and I actually give them credit for this, is they don't have to give a shit about American patents. Whenever most politicians talk about this they act like it is a bad thing. What they're protecting is actually what is substantially slowing innovation in America, and may actually give China the advantage necessary to win the AI race among others, therefore potentially surpassing America as a superpower & proving that this capitalist agenda everyone is always talking about protecting, is what caused it to fail.
Anyone else getting tired of everything being turned into a discussion of the US vs China? You're not wrong, but OP came out and clarified this was a comment more spawned from Japanese and British imperialism and you went right back to talking about America vs China. The world is bigger than that one topic, why do we have to bring it up everywhere?
It is a bit strange to not fit in either or
In 1943 Hanna Ardent weote a small essay called "We Refugees"