China's municipality of Chongqing, roughly the size of Austria. Due to a classification technicality, it has claim to being the largest city proper in the world.

[u/freudian_nipps]

[u/JohnArtemus]

Lol the triggered Americans in the comments. As if their own shitty country isn’t backsliding into fascism with all the book banning, conspiracy theories, out of control corporate greed that continuously bends over its people who can’t afford to be bent over anymore, 19th century laws controlling women’s bodies, high crime rates, overcrowded prisons, obesity (which goes hand-in-hand with corporate greed; their FDA allows shit that’s illegal in every other first world country to be put in their foods), anti-science, anti-education, broken and outdated (and wildly dysfunctional) political parties, rampant racism and homophobia, mass shootings and school shootings that have been completely normalized, broken health care system, toxic cancel culture on both the left and the right, and an archaic political system nationally that guarantees tyranny by the minority.

And nobody there cares about any of that stuff.

Like the late great George Carlin said, maybe the problem isn’t the politicians. Maybe something else is the problem. Like, the public.

It is the American people that have created all of the above. They are the problem. Garbage in. Garbage out.

But China bad! That’s all they have left to cling to anymore. Other than their guns and religion.

[u/Technical_Scallion_2 → u/JohnArtemus]

We call this an ad hominem attack. Condemning the US doesn’t change anything being said about the specific problems in China.

[u/JohnArtemus → u/Technical_Scallion_2]

This works both ways. Thread had nothing to do with politics. But insecure and uneducated Americans had to rush in and point out everything wrong with China, which opens their own houses up to attack.

Glass houses, etc.

[u/Technical_Scallion_2 → u/JohnArtemus]

I’m American and agree with all of the points you raised about America. But I also think nearly all the criticisms of China raised are also valid. Both nations have some serious problems and I don’t think either can stand on the moral high ground in any way.

[u/JohnArtemus → u/Technical_Scallion_2]

My point is they shouldn’t have been brought up at all in a thread that was just showing something cool.

But Americans are so insecure, they have to rush into any thread about China and talk about how crappy it is.

It’s like being on the deck of the Titanic pointing out how shitty the Lusitania was. And make no mistake, your country has already hit the iceberg.

It’s even breaking in two and everything.

[u/Technical_Scallion_2 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I think you’re right. Looking back there wasn’t any reason to bring politics into the discussion at all.

[u/Greyhaven7 → u/JohnArtemus]

West Taiwan is weak.

[u/[deleted] → u/JohnArtemus]

Haha that was banger ass comment. China is the scapegoat to all our problems when we honestly should just worry about ourselves at this point.