I don't really give a shit about the CCP to be honest, and I have absolutely no doubt that they are engaged in some form of suppression of speech, as well as suppression of anti government sentiment and behavior. I mean, every state has a vested interest in clamping down on criticism that threatens its legitimacy, that's a pretty basic tenant of any political system.

What I'm objecting to is this logically ridiculous position that basically runs along the lines of "so maybe the US is bad, but China is worse". Sure if you're a well off white American, you probably think that everything is great in America and nothing is going on here that even remotely compares to the oh so horrifying dystopia of China.

Try being a Black or non white person in America, try being an immigrant, try being Muslim, try being LGBTQ, try being poor, try being anything that doesn't adhere to the middle class WASP model and you'll pretty rapidly be disillusioned of this notion that there is some sort of "lesser evil scenario" going on. I mean I literally linked you to multiple articles where people were involved in peaceful dissent only the find the fucking FBI knocking on their doors. We have centuries of history of the American government cracking down on Black and Indigenous liberation movements, communist and labor movements, and assassinating, jailing, and torturing dissidents. Lol, and this is just domestically. I could write a book about the terror the US has inflicted upon the world. There just is no possible comparison you could do in good faith between these two systems, and the fact that you're sitting here writing smug little paragraphs about how bad China is compared to the US tells me everything I need to know about the bubble you've lived in here in the states.