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US operates secret prisons, overthrows governments they don't agree with, and murders innocent people.

Yes, and? Are you under the impression those other regimes wouldn't be doing those things after they had gained superpower status?

Because if they would, then this point isn’t relevant to which is preferable, is it?

i was just wondering why the US is a preferable superpower like you said.

edit: the > a

All the other contenders that I'm aware of do these things, except much worse, and then on top of it, hide it much better (because that's possible to do if you're a one-party system)

https://reason.com/2014/05/15/be-antigovernment-and-proud/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

Democratic, capitalist states commit the least democide.

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