Comments by "Daniel M" (@danielm5161) on "Ian Bremmer: The US No Longer Wants To Be the World’s Policeman | Quick Take | GZERO Media" video.

I doubt Russia ever will. They don't have a large or diverse enough economy.
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@camerongunn7906 I agree I prefer U.S. western values, imperfect as we may be is overall the closest thing to a force for good in my opinion.
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@camerongunn7906 sure but that isn't anything close to filling the global role that America currently has. To fill the global role you have to have a diverse globalized economy like U.S., Europe, Japan and China. Nobody drives Russian Cars, watches Russian movies, uses Russian software, phones, clothes, music or anything else. All russia has is military equipment and hackers.
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@2KSnSLifestyle Muslims and China all know “Western” music, movies, sports, cars and games. Muslims listen to Tupac, Saudi Arabia drives Ferrari, China loves Fortnite, Lebron James and Super Mario. Western culture has global reach. Nobody in America can name Chinese actors, a Olympic athletes, or Muslim anything and frankly nobody cares.
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@2KSnSLifestyle Western Culture and Western Values go hand in hand. Japan adopted liberal democracy roughly 60 years ago and now the small island of Japan has one of the highest gdp and a global culture that extends across the world (Toyota, Nintendo, Sony, Dragonball Z, Sushi, Karate, Pokemon etc.). China's culture has global reach too just not as predominantly as Japan, Europe or the U.S. I love Chinese food so you got no argument from me there.
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@2KSnSLifestyle I don't necessarily disagree with much of what your saying. To my initial point, I prefer western "Culture" and "Freedom of Expression" (I will let other people argue about whether that is a "Value" or not).
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@2KSnSLifestyle China hasn't pushed it's model on Hong Kong and aims for Taiwan next? You can't criticize the CCP without being silenced? Didn't Winnie the Pooh get banned? Isn't South Park banned on Chinese internet services? Can you play Grand Theft Auto 5 in China? How about Marijuana ever becoming legal? I could go on and on. Claiming the CCP values freedom is a bad joke. One of the reasons western culture and art is global is precisely because it isn't censored or needs to be APPROVED by the government. In America if you want to make a cartoon of Xi and Biden giving each hand jobs we just do it. If the government sais take it down a citizen can take the government to court. That is Freedom of Expression.
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@2KSnSLifestyle Dude where do you live? Your points 2-5 are just wrong. I live in Las Vegas, drinking is allowed on the streets. 3. My Aunt is a democrat, husband a republican. 4 and 5 don't even make sense. Most neighborhoods are a melting pot of races, there isn't many neighborhoods of all one race anymore and to the extent there is nobody "walks to neighborhoods". We have these things called cars in America. In the case of Trump, I agree thats debatable but the fact is a private company banned a politician, not a politician banning a private company. "China never pushed it's model onto Hong Kong". Are you fucking serious man? Tell that to this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjrxEhpQas
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@2KSnSLifestyle By the way I really like Chinese culture, art, food etc. So I am not demeaning that aspect but it's ridiculous to claim the CCP "values freedom" which you initially stated.
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@billinsf88 Why was Hong Kong rioting again?
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@2KSnSLifestyle The fact is Hong Kong used to enjoy the freedom of speech the West has and now they won't. Hong Kong used to be able to watch South Park and play GTA 5, but now they can be treated like little kids by their daddy Xi. Xi sais GTA 5 is too naughty so nobody gets to play GTA 5. What an awesome freedom loving place.
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@billinsf88 We have the Freedom to debate and protest. That's the point. As stupid as I think anti-vax people are, they have the freedom to be stupid and ultimately that sharpens up our vaccines to be truly safe and effective. Hong Kong doesn't have the freedom to debate and protest anymore. They do what the CCP sais or go to jail. The thing that would bother me most about living in China though would be the censorship of entertainment. I love my South Park and GTA, the idea the government can ban that is the definition of a shitty place to live in my view.
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@billinsf88 I don't consider wiping a cartoon like South Park from the internet and a mask mandate when you walk into a grocery store on the same footing. I don't consider banning a person from Twitter on the same footing as the banning of entire categories of content. Start a political youtube channel critiquing democrats or republicans and your fine. Start a youtube channel critquing the CCP on a chinese ip address see what happens. You are pretending the two are identical but they are not. I do agree the capital riot is a shame and a stain on America.
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@billinsf88 We didn't go to Afghanistan to spread freedom to them we went after 9/11 to snuff out terrorism. And I don't live in China or have a chinese ip address so I don't have to worry. Chinese government approval poles is irrelevant to my point, China can govern how they want. I said I personally don't want to live in a place that censors basic entertainment content and am skeptical it will ever have the global reach western entertainment and culture has. But I don't live in China so what do I care.
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@2KSnSLifestyle Yes if you live in China and get tired of having basic entertainment censored you can just go to Thailand! What a compelling sales pitch to move to China.
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@billinsf88 Afghanistan is a whole topic in and of itself. That isn't what we were talking about. This all started with me criticizing Russia to an extent, I pointed out Russia doesn't have a large or diverse enough economy to have a global presence. I included China in the list of countries I felt were relatively successful on the world stage. But yeah I think a government that bans cartoons and games is a huge red flag (no pun intended).
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@billinsf88 The triviality of a cartoon or video game is precisely why I am so alarmed of it's banning. I agree that Covid related policy is far more important then South Park and Call Of Duty. That is why the mandates on Covid don't bother me the way censoring a cartoon does. When the comedians start getting censored is when you know your in a dictatorship. China has mandated vaccines but I didn't mention that as something I considered an overstep precisely because of how important it is. Like wise it's exactly the visceral nature of the Hong Kong riots that distinguish it from what we had here in the states. The Hong Kong people did not want to be over ruled by the CCP for whom they did not vote for in the past and will have no voting right to change in the future. Too bad for them, they are owned by the CCP now.
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 @2KSnSLifestyle Democracy is complicated. Thats for sure.
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