ODGreen

joined 6 months ago
[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah that's the thing. USA and China are both bad, sometimes due to the same thing (imperialism, capitalism, cronies running things etc), sometimes for unique things. Saying one country is good doesn't make the other bad in the same domain. And vice versa.

However it is extremely important and necessary to compare things. Like you have compared military spending between different countries. The USA's manifest destiny CAN be compared to the Han supremacy in China especially in Tibet and Xinjiang. But of course there are marked differences.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nice genocide denial.

Also I'm not American nor pro-American.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Whataboutism.

China is #2 in military spending after the USA.

As for harassing brown people: well there's the whole Uyghur thing. And the simmering fight with other countries over islands in the South China sea.

Two things can be bad. These are not sports teams where one side wins and the other loses.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I mean, China does also spend on their military and harass brown countries.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

You can say "suicide", it's fucking fine to use dirty words on the internet.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

"It" meaning Crimea? It was never ceded. Still part of Ukraine officially.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They didn't cede land back then either, it got taken over.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Hell yeah. Carbon steel pans are great. Gonna get a carbon steel wok soon and then home deep frying is gonna be a breeze.

[–] ODGreen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Would be surprised how many people used scratched Teflon pans. I watched one friend of mine put the empty non-stick pan with no oil or anything on maximum heat to "pre heat the pan" before adding oil. Very sketchy.