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I read that as The Americans, The Russians, or The Chinese with their current leaders written in as stand-ins.

The false moral equivalence of american government with the totalitarian dictatorships of China and Russia is extremely misguided.

Domestically, yes. Internationally, no. The US has a long history, comparable to if not more extensive than either China or Russia, of supporting totalitarian regimes in other countries.

When accessing the potential danger of a new technology, for a large number of ordinary people in a lot of places around the world the chances of it being misused by the US against them is as likely as it being misused by Russia or China against them, and so lumping those three together is not unreasonable.

China is quite literally imprisoning their own citizens based on their faith and harvesting their organs for buyers while they are still alive. That's in addition to their Orwellian social credit system. That's in addition to their less recent massacres and abuses of totalitarian power. Please just stop. There is literally no comparison. If you asked me to die by a gas chamber or by being paralyzed, but still aware, and have my kidneys taken out, I'd take the gas chamber.

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