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Lokarin posted...

how many foreign movies are in your theatre?

After reflecting on your shitpost some more, I was thinking about the fact that so many movies we don't even realize are foreign because the US is an open, free market. At any given moment, there are a LOT of foreign-made films in American theaters. It's as natural as walking down the streets of NYC and seeing a mix of races. Compare that to China where their system makes it as difficult as possible for non-Asians to immigrate so, outside of tourist areas, there's next to no racial diversity. Meanwhile, in the US when you find a place with low racial diversity, it often feels odd or unnatural

adjl posted...

Your criterion for "capitalist" was "has an actual free market." You're the one who came in here with binary criteria, not me. I just called you out on it, and now you are moving the goalposts to try and pretend you were making a more nuanced comparison (while also bringing in a non sequitur strawman for even more fallacious goodness). You should know that you look terribly silly when you project like that.

The US has about as free of a market as you can find in the developed world. China's market isn't even free by developing-world standards. You can play around with words all you like, but China's market is less free than Canada's and Canada's is far more restrictive than the US's. (And, like China, Canada enforces protectionist media laws to limit how much foreign culture reaches their population (via things like CRTC requirements))