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TikTok was run by a fascist regime: China. It's just, most Americans are not of much interest to Beijing. Their intelligence probably wants to know what is trendy in America so it can better appeal to us and influence our elections to serve their interests, but Beijing is probably not concerned at all with you or I as individuals. But if they can get us to vote for a candidate they support by showing us the parts of that candidate that we agree with, we can be used as a tool by Beijing. Now Washington wants that power.
I don't like it either way.
At least China builds infrastructure. At least China has near universal healthcare. China seems to actually give a shit about its people to at least some extent.
Doesn’t America also have near universal healthcare then? The system is pretty similar, get insurance through work unless old or poor
Edit: lol downvotes. Both systems cost money and neither is universal. Stop simping the hypercapitalist republic of China, it’s not that much better than the US.
no.
I think you’re unfamiliar with at least one of the two systems then because they're described as pretty similar by people who have lived in both countries. Both are pay 2 play, American one is just more expensive.
you're really piling on the bullshit here.... im just gonna block you. bye.
Lol ok. Fact is, they have nearly the same coverage and both achieve it through private insurance usually paid by the employer - China just has a few more extra groups that get their equivalent of Medicare and Medicaid, but that’s it.