“In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different," one student said.
Chinese students say they’re questioning their decision to study in the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the federal government will attempt to “aggressively” revoke their visas.
Rubio said Wednesday that Chinese students “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” would be targeted.
Chinese students who spoke to NBC News on Thursday said that they came to the U.S. for freedoms they felt they did not have back in China but that now the Trump administration is starting to resemble the strict regime they left behind.
Yes, but China is forward looking while doing shitty things. The US is putting it in reverse gear while doing shitty things.
This is what MAGA means.
Sacrificing the untold lives of the desperate and innocent for numbers on a spreadsheet and power is something both countries do very well.
The US speedrunning towards shithole status.
Turns out a lot of Americans just wanted to live in a shit hole this whole time.
Americans live in a country where people die on the regular because they cannot go to a doctor.
They regularly have go fund me’s to pay for medical treatment.
They live in a country that has no guaranteed paternity, sick, or vacation time.
America is a shit hole country with the veneer of being rich.
To sum it up America is a third world country with a Gucci belt. It has been that way for a while
America is a playground for the rich and a sweatshop for everyone else.
To sum it up America is a third world country with a fake Gucci belt. It has been that way for a while.
Fixed that for you.
Americans are drowning in propaganda. They’re constantly being sold expensive inferior replacements for any kind of public good or service.
Nobody wants to live in a shit hole, but when every TV and radio is screaming “Don’t trust the government! Privatize! Privatize! Privatize!” that’s what people ultimately believe.
Incidentally, the same news media selling privatization of every aspect of life is the one screaming “People in China are miserable! Everything is awful! Don’t be like the gross, stupid, evil Communists!”
are we tired of all this freedom yet Republicans you fucking idiots?
Republicans are like those people that step on the accelerator instead of the break pedal. Then when things start to go horribly wrong, they press harder on that pedal.
When they say they want freedom, they mean freedom to be openly racist and such. They’re not really interested in freedom in general, they want a strict regime.
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in an American flag.”
If you just say you believe something enough times, people will start to believe you, even if you haven’t done anything to show that you believe it.
A good example is all of those right wing “free speech warriors” like Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro who only believe in freedom of speech for people they agree with.
Insert image of US and China and “they’re the same picture” here.
It’s pretty much true, all the US needs now is to match Tienanmen Square next time some peaceful protesters happen :/
all the US needs now is to match Tienanmen Square
Honest to god, when this happened I expected helicopters with machine guns overhead within 15 min. I watched the whole thing expecting to see a sudden blood bath. I had been to the White House and been told stories about how there were snipers on the roof, how crazy people had jumped the fence and been taken down. When the police barricade fell, people with tactical gear were swarming the halls of congress, and congress members were taking shelter in bunkers I was certain that we were going to see a radical military response unseen before.
Instead there was nothing. The USA died 1/20/2021.
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The Chinese students in Tiananmen Square protested for progress
These maga terrorists advocate for regression and bigotry
Don’t even compare these.
Hegseth said war is imminent. I have no idea is that’s true bit this is the sort of thing you do when you expect war is near.
That would presume that they have any kind of plan.
Have you forgotten project 2025?
I must have missed the War With China chapter. Where was it?
https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SAH-Project-2025-Analysis-PDF.pdf
It pretty explicitly includes language around id-ing, segregating, and deporting everyone of East Asian descent, starting with Han Chinese residents.
This is followed by a strategy of isolation and encirclement, intended to cut China off from the natural resources of Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim.
Finally, the US planned mass domestic agitation combined with proxy wars along the periphery in order to destabilize and eventually topple the Federal government in the same way the US cracked up Yugoslavia and the USSR.
Full Balkanization of China is the stated goal.
