I get a feeling that a lot of Americans are just utterly ignorant of what their government is doing. The reality of the situation is that China is nowhere close to US when it comes to atrocities and human rights abuses. Let's start with the fact that they have the highest prison population per capita in the world, and that population is disproportionately formed of minorities. The prisoners are also often used for slave labor [1]. US has a long track record of oppressing minorities domestically, even Nazi Germany took direct inspiration from US racism and segregation [2]. US also has the most militarized police force in the world that regularly kills innocent people without provocation. And really, it's hard to think of a better measure of authoritarianism than the percentage of the population that a regime keeps behind bars.

US also tortures dissidents [3] like Chelsea Manning, and uses companies like Google and Facebook to conduct mass surveillance on the population as we now know thanks to Snowden leaks.

US has concentration camps on the border where children are left to die screaming [4], and a literal torture camp in Guantanamo where they're occupying Cuban sovereign land. US experimented on the population of Bikini Islands[5] seeing what effects radiation exposure would have on people and their children.

Meanwhile, the citizens in US have very little say in regards to how their government is run or what happens to them. For example, here's what a Cambridge study analyzing decades of US policy has to say:

> What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.[6]

On the world stage, US killed millions of people around the globe in wars of aggression [7]. After WW2, US weaponized nationalism in Europe as part of American foreign policy strategy [8]. They killed over half a million [9] in Iraq alone by conservative estimates. They also used depleted uranium, which is banned by international law, that's still resulting [10] in horrific birth [11] defects to this day. They horrifically tortured people in Abu Ghriab [12]. They killed countless people in Afghanistan based on complete lies[13], and where US heavily used drone strikes resulting in mass civilian casualities[14]. Over 800,000 people have been murdered in the war on terror so far[15]. They're responsible for destroying Libya that went from being one of the richest nations in the region to a hellhole with slave markets [16]. They overthrew a secular and democratic government in Iran [17] resulting in the current theocracy. And that's just around Middle East. Go read up on Vietnam, Korea, the contras, and Pinochet. All of this is well documented publicly available information.

US is currently involved in Syria, Afghanistan, Maghreb, Horn of Africa, North-West Pakistan, Somalia, and Libya[18]. US is actively participating in a literal genocide in Yemen [19] with their best buds Saudi Arabia. US is still occupying Iraq despite the Iraqi government that they themselves installed having formally asked them to leave [20].

The list of US atrocities spans over half a century [21], and they're ongoing today. China might do a lot of terrible things, but thinking that their government is the worst in terms of oppression, censorship, and subjugation of minority groups is just ignorant.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/prison...)

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/what-am...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/chelsea-mann...

[4] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-cell-where-a-s...

[5] https://theconversation.com/bikini-islanders-still-deal-with...

[6] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

[7] http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Imperialism/usmurder....

[8] https://yasha.substack.com/p/weaponizing-fascism-for-democra...

[9] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-iraq-...

[10] https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/21/new-study-do...

[11] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/o...

[12] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/05/10/torture-at-abu...

[13] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...

[14] https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

[15] https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/13/so-called-war-t...

[16] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-s...

[17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_involv...

[19] https://www.genocidewatch.com/yemen

[20] https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/were-staying-us...

[21] https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti...