TikTok IS spying on you.

1. No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.

2. Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.

3. See the thing about boosting what the state department wanted boosted and censoring what they told them to censo. Tiktok isn't Chinese propaganda, it's American propaganda.

But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.

The CPC's tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they've raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn't even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.

I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.

Imagine getting swerved by the Taylor Swift Fan Page lmfao.

The Nazis had a draft.... With damn near 100% draft rate

Do you think that made it ok because under German law they had to?

Because during much of the war, if they objected they were just shot.

So surely, if jail is an excuse, your logic dictates that you also excuse every Nazi from what they did and you don't judge any of them...

Unless there's an inconsistency with your logic for some reason

Most people tho, think jail for a couple months is better than participating in a genocide. But everyone's personal values are different.

She is not a terrorist as national militaries do not commit acts of terrorism. National militaries commit war crimes thus she is a war criminal not a terrorist. Terrorists might have some degree of legitimacy behind their actions which war criminals do not have.

The difference is China is making an attemt to improve things for most people and Western “democracies” have abandoned this.

If "national militaries do not commit acts of terrorism" (source?), the IDF, by that definition, is not a national military. There is no definition of terrorism that excludes the IDF's actions during the last 75 years

Go look up what defines “terrorism” it’s non-nation states engaging in political violence.

Armies commit war crimes. This is entry level IR stuff.

I hope you find comfort outside of bullshit semantic arguments

I think we agree on a more substantial level so I’m happy to leave it at that

This isn’t a matter of semantics. You cannot charge IDF soldiers with terrorism you can and should push for their prosecution for crimes against humanity and/or war crimes. It is important to make the right claims as to what laws are violated so you appear informed when making these demands.

I’m not charging them, but you’re right