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If it's jingoism to support Western enlightenment values, liberal democracy, and basic human rights, then yeah I guess I'm a jingo.



There's a patriot in China talking about you and your government in exactly the same way. And his government has a quarter of the incarceration rate the US does, and bases its governance on the work of one of Hegel's students.


The difference is he's objectively and provably wrong about the comparative evil of his own government.

You've fallen for one of the most obvious and silly propaganda techniques there are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

You believe CCP furnished statistics?


What open forum is he able to freely discuss ideology, philosophy, and types of government again?


none of which are exclusive to 'western' countries and even less demonstrated by the actions of the big corporations and governments

zuckerberg pelosi liz truss elon musk et al are not paragons of virtue and they are the people being defended here




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