The US has a constitution that is bad (slavery is legal). That's also why it was amended many times. Via a democratic process by the way.
Other democraties also have constitutions which they amend and revise regularly to expand rights and guide legislation.
I guess if we can't deradicalize our own extremists, why do we expect we can deradicalize the immigrants that are islamic extremists.
Meanwhile these people say the same thing about immigrants.
Don't you get it? This one was one of the good ones. /s
Keeping these friendships going could combat their radicalization, but I'm not faulting you, I also cancelled friendships over this.
Damn.. belligerent is an understatment at this point. They're outright thugs, encouraged by the protection by the US.
They only logged the IP. That's metadata. IIRC Apple refused backdooring its phone encryption. That's a lot more invasive.
Really? I'm not convinced the Chinese government acts in the interests of its people at all. That's probably the biggest reason I can't call it Socialism. Just because government influence is stronger than in the West, the economic system isn't completely different.
But isn't the means of production still mostly controlled by capital owners? Sure, some industries are influenced by the government, but that is also the case in the West. The plan is certainly more detailed for China, but to me Socialism always meant labor is controlling the means of production. How's that the case when an elitist single-party government influences the capital owners?
Enlighten me then. Means of production doesn't seem to be controled by the party alone. Most of China's economy still follows capitalist principles. Rich Chinese and owners of businesses are still private citizens. Sure, some influenced by the government, some industries very heavily regulated, but China still follows capitalist principles in most cases.
I always thought Socialism means that means of production is controlled by labor directly, not capital owners or an elists single-party government.
You don't even know the difference between a republic and a democracy. Why do you think you know anything better?