[transcriptase]

Do you remember that Sesame Street segment where they played a game and sang “One of these things is not like the others”?

I’ll give you a hint: In this case it’s the one-party unitary authoritarian political system with an increasingly aggressive pursuit of global influence.

[nyrikki]

One is disappearing citizens for political speech or the crime of being born to active duty parents, who happened to be stationed over seas.

Anyone in the US should be very concerned, no matter if it is the current administration's thought police, or the next who treats it as precident.

As I am not actively involved in something the Chinese government would view as a huge risk, but being put on a plane without due process to be sent to a labor camp based on trumped up charges by my own government is far more likely.

[transcriptase]

And if you were a Chinese citizen would you post the same thing about your government while living in China? Would the things you’re referencing be covered in non-stop Chinese news coverage that’s critical of the government?

You know of these things due to the domestic free press holding the government accountable and being able to speak freely about it as you’re doing here. Seeing the two as remotely comparable is beyond belief. You don’t fear the U.S. government but it’s fun to pretend you live under an authoritarian dictatorship because your concept of it is purely academic.

[habinero]

My dude, I know multiple white people in LA who are terrified their Hispanic spouses might not come home one day, because masked agents are grabbing people and disappearing them.

The president threatened to deport a legal citizen who won the primary for mayor in NYC. He's tried to send the military after civilians.

He's sued and extracted payment from media companies who said things he didn't like. We do not have a free press.

We're fully as bad as China. I don't know what your criteria for "authoritarian dictatorship" is but it doesn't appear to be reality based.

[ceejayoz]

> I’ll give you a hint: In this case it’s the one-party unitary authoritarian political system with an increasingly aggressive pursuit of global influence.

Gonna need a more specific hint to narrow it down.

[immibis]

> In this case it’s the one-party unitary authoritarian political system with an increasingly aggressive pursuit of global influence.

This could describe any of the countries involved.

[standardly]

> one-party unitary authoritarian political system with an increasingly aggressive pursuit of global influence.

The United States?

[wombatpm]

Global Bully maybe. The current administration has no concept of soft power, otherwise they would have kept USAID