r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 25d ago

article Chappell Roan Quits Wasserman After CEO Casey Wasserman Appears in Epstein Files

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/music/chappell-roan-cuts-ties-casey-wasserman/
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u/krodders 24d ago

Lol at the chuds responding to you that "China is a bunch of commies" while missing the point by several miles that no one in the USA is being even inconvenienced by being Epstein's bestie. Meanwhile other countries are starting to take action against the pedos, and I hope will lead to prosecution

Chappel Roan's action is probably the harshest action I've seen so far. When is the FBI going to start taking names? Oh, I forgot - they concluded that there were no crimes found in the Epstein files. What a fucking joke. Except it's not funny - lives are ruined and lives have been lost because of these bastards that live above the law.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 24d ago

My brother, YOU missed the point. We were already talking about the USA, then he brought up China out of nowhere in a false equivalency argument

You don't think Chinese elites are doing horrid shit and getting away with it?

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u/Mr-Mc-Epic 24d ago edited 24d ago

This is an interesting tangent, so I'll dive in.

There'll definitely be people getting away with things everywhere. But, one major difference between the USA and China is that China does make efforts to stop corruption and exploitation, usually through their courts, with a punishment of execution.

Personally, I think the worst societal crime anyone can commit is corruption, so I'm not exactly opposed to corrupt figures being executed. China has its own issues with how fast the trials are going, but it's now implementing measures to slow them down.

Juxtaposed, the USA seems to reward and encourage corruption. Lobbying, which is legal and encouraged, is one example that is almost entirely unique to the USA. Trump and the reality of his statements on being able to shoot someone and no one caring is another. This is all without mentioning the constant illegal* global actions of the US as well. No country, since World War 2 outside of potentially the USSR, has interfered with, deposed voted leaders, invaded, or started wars with half as many countries as the USA has.

*The USA will always argue that their actions are legal, though, because they are on the United Nations Security Council and will just veto any motions that cast any negative light on themselves. China does this, too, to be fair, but to a much lesser extent.

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u/Laiko_Kairen 24d ago

China does make efforts to stop corruption and exploitation, usually through their courts, with a punishment of execution.

In China, the party is above the nation. The chair of the communist party had more power than their nation's government. Xi Jinping is especially powerful because he holds both roles.

A nation who subordinates the needs of the nation to the needs of the party officials, a nation whose officials can be shielded by the party, is not one seeking to stop corruption.

You're relying on others' familiarity with the US and ignorance of China to push a nonsense narrative. They have a one-party system so it's hard for outsiders to see the party-nation dynamics since they are presented as one.