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Jesus lol, is this sarcasm? I thought the first part was a bit unhinged but then I read the second one.
by ericmcer 10mo ago
Jesus lol, is this sarcasm? I thought the first part was a bit unhinged but then I read the second one.
- newspaper1 10mo ago[flagged]
- SauntSolaire 10mo agoIf you don't like "war, freeways, genocide, propaganda", it's a bit incoherent to be backing China.
- newspaper1 10mo agoWhy? We’re significantly worse on all of that than China.
- SauntSolaire 10mo agoI would argue no on genocide, but mixed on war (if you include China's occupations) - I can see the argument for it though. I'm not clear where you stand on freeways, but it seems like a weird one to sandwich between 'war' and 'genocide'. As for propaganda, that can go unmentioned.
- newspaper1 10mo agoOur entire country was formed via genocide and we’ve killed millions of innocent people in the past 80 years alone.
- SauntSolaire 10mo agoIf that's your main contention, I have bad news about Chinese history. Toss in the current treatment of the Uyghur population and I think you've got a good argument against China on this one.
- newspaper1 10mo agoChina is not murdering millions of people halfway across the globe on a regular basis. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, everything Israel touches with our bombs...
- SauntSolaire 10mo agoIf you wanted to conflate war with genocide, you shouldn't have listed them separately.
- newspaper1 10mo ago"War" is what we call genocide when we commit it.
- SauntSolaire 10mo agoWhat does China call it when they do it?
- throwaway-11-1 10mo agoHow many counties has China invaded in the last 50 years? How many miles of train tracks has the US laid in the last 50? Which county has directly fueled the horrors in Gaza? Like what world are you living in?
- 8note 10mo agowhy focus on invasions rather than occupations? china hasnt pulled out of tibet, or xinjiang, and its pretty clearly an occupying force there in the same way the the US was in iraq/Afghanistan, israel in gaza, or russia in ukraine. china been continuously doing the bad behaviour that the US is only sometimes doing
- saubeidl 10mo agoIt's an occupying force there the same way the US is in Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
- burntbridge 10mo agolol when is the US going to withdraw from Texas, New Mexico and California
- baobun 10mo agoYou don't like war and propaganda but are "also 100% fine with China taking back Taiwan, that's only fair"? Not compatible. Aside: This reminds me that pro-CCP astroturfing has been increasingly prevalent and visible on the fediverse recently...
- newspaper1 10mo agoAs a US citizen, it's absolutely none of my business.
- baobun 10mo agoAnd yet you chose to highlight it, unprompted, in a conversation where it is off-topic. Besides, military invasion of an independent non-aggressive country is a global concern. Like Russia invading Ukraine was or a hypothetical US invasion of Venezuela would be.
- newspaper1 10mo agoI was responding to the parent comment that brought it up.