I think one would be more likely to be shot to death in the street in the US than Russia or China. Especially if I was darker than a paper bag. (edit: when considering being shot by a police officer or other government employee, not any shooting).
The area where it does become a discussion is in terms of political prisoners. in the US, political dissent is punished in a decentralised way; people lose their bank accounts, access to payment providers, are erased from social media, etc. This is framed in the idea that large corporations have the 'freedom' to not do business with you. in russia or china, it is certainly more direct.
In specific cases we have different social constructs due to propaganda. Edward Snowden or Julian Assange are of course traitors, but Navalny is a the hero of the hour. the US state department will criticise any third world country, but they run secret CIA prisons in places like guatanemo bay, kandahar .
Why does Guantanamo bay exist? It is totally illegal under both US and international law. Why does the CIA arrest people from third party countries and put them in infinite detention? What about that plane that was forced to land in Belarus, a tragedy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
My central point is that a lot of your ideas here are US centric, perhaps Eurocentric. Most other countries are not actually that bad relative to USA or Europe, it is just that there is immense propaganda to erase any wrongdoing of USA/EU from public memory.
> in the US, political dissent is punished in a decentralised way; people lose their bank accounts, access to payment providers, are erased from social media, etc
Did Biden suffer any of this when he was challenging Trump?
Biden is however the establishment. Trump is the outsider which has had these things occur. This is really not within the sphere of 'dissent' in any case, as we discuss here major politicians.
Ok so are anti-establishment politicians in the US targetted? Such as someone from who wants to deconstruct the establishment like Sanders? Oh he's treated with relative respect and allowed to campaign? Oh ok... so that's unlike China and Russia then?
But that's a private party deciding their own internal party issues. That's private individuals, not the state. I don't really mind or care what a private party does within their own systems.
That's not even remotely similar to, for example, the state arresting him.
The area where it does become a discussion is in terms of political prisoners. in the US, political dissent is punished in a decentralised way; people lose their bank accounts, access to payment providers, are erased from social media, etc. This is framed in the idea that large corporations have the 'freedom' to not do business with you. in russia or china, it is certainly more direct.
In specific cases we have different social constructs due to propaganda. Edward Snowden or Julian Assange are of course traitors, but Navalny is a the hero of the hour. the US state department will criticise any third world country, but they run secret CIA prisons in places like guatanemo bay, kandahar .
Why does Guantanamo bay exist? It is totally illegal under both US and international law. Why does the CIA arrest people from third party countries and put them in infinite detention? What about that plane that was forced to land in Belarus, a tragedy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
My central point is that a lot of your ideas here are US centric, perhaps Eurocentric. Most other countries are not actually that bad relative to USA or Europe, it is just that there is immense propaganda to erase any wrongdoing of USA/EU from public memory.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/12/russia.israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812 for instance, you can't even find above article on google if you google "ukraine shoot down russian plane"