[santiago-pl]

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Just because I have a knife doesn't mean it affects the stability of my neighborhood. Even if I use my knife to kill a killer, that doesn't necessarily affect the stability of my neighborhood. It could even improve it.

All in all, I would rather live in a somewhat free America than in communist China.

[danny_codes]

War and militarization is a failure of leadership. It’s what you get when you elect weak, simple-minded men. See the current US administration as an example.

[Herring]

> All in all, I would rather live in a somewhat free America than in communist China.

The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart

Let's see how the next 15 goes.

[cushychicken]

The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter.

I’m gonna need to see some immigration statistics on influx of foreigners into the PRC to believe that claim.

[monkaiju]

Might have more to do with language than anything else TBH

[cryptonector]

Ok, but what is China's immigration policy like?

They could be importing young people from nearby India, yet they're not. Why?

[monkaiju]

I mean, theres still a language barrier there no? I dont know much about their immigration policies though.

[lm28469]

Get yourself a plane ticket from your """free""" America to visit """communist""" China one day, you might be surprised by what you see

[PeterHolzwarth]

I've done so. I saw a country that is a mix of third and first, full of wonderful people who the government fear so much they have to cut them off from the rest of the world and run the place as a police state.