I’m surprised libs are upset that the DPRK got nukes to be honest, I would’ve thought they’d be happy about that; they get to badmouth and hate on the DPRK all they want, and the DPRK gets to not be invaded; it’s a win-win situation; do libs just HAVE to be the only people winning in all this? Do they really hate a situation where everyone’s a winner?
I don’t even know what these people want any more.
Libs: I have lost faith in the government and media! They are ALL monsters and liars!
Normal people: What about our government’s enemies?
Libs: They’re monsters, our government and media says so.
Over the last couple of years I’ve begun watching content coming out of African countries and I’m seeing the ridiculous stance of America and Euro countries where they expect African nations not to have positive relations with China or Russia but Europe and America instead; like what an absolute joke; if ANY part of the world should be cutting ties with Europe and America it would be Africa. Forget that historically the relationship between colonial countries and Africa has been poison to African nations, even currently Western powers are a poison to them, and they’re surprised African countries would rather work with Russia and China? Heck, the Soviet Union literally helped in anti-colonial struggles, and the people these African nations needed help against? Western nations.
Literally the only appropriate response to Europeans and Americans getting uppity about working with them instead of China is to laugh in their face and say no.
Just look at the disgusting comments coming from Macron towards countries in Africa to get an example of why the global South should turn their back on all these countries who built their nations on their wealth, countries that would all fail very quickly if the free lunch was stopped. Libs have the audacity to criticize countries in Africa when it’s literally Western powers tearing African countries down again and again and poaching any talent from their countries for themselves; doctors and nurses who leave African countries add to the pool of medical professionals in Euro nations but take away from the pool in the countries they left behind. Western governments are the reason these countries are struggling, and also robbing them of their wealth, and then they turn around and say it’s some failing on the part of African countries.
Global South countries should just laugh in these people’s faces and pivot to China; China’s not overthrowing governments or bombing any countries, let alone African, Middle Eastern or South American countries.
A Qatari I know who games with Europeans got into an argument with them about why he’d rather his country work with China and Russia, and they legit thought saying awful actions on their part was from ten years ago and doesn’t count was some kind of solid argument; they also said America led the war against Iraq and that makes it America’s fault, not any Euro country, and they also point to any meager resistance on the part of Euro governments to Israel proves their countries aren’t in bed with Israel (yes, they actually think their governments are blameless in the Gaza genocide); he said they were Eurocentric and racist and they blew a fuse, lol
Silly Billy, it doesn’t matter if the people in a non-Western country like their government, it only matters if we like their government (or to be more specific if our government likes their government; if our government doesn’t like their government and decides to go to war with them, we will also conveniently not like their government and it will be because we came to that position independently, not because we’ll feel we’re supposed to)
I think the joke is that there are stupid people who believe either are true
You’ve found it, the literal worst post on the internet
I definitely do not want honey from ‘sweat’ bees
a role model in weathering Iranian oil shocks
A very niche skill to be sure; the real, persistently useful skill is in weathering the consequences of America’s wars; would literally only become irrelevant when America swears off all wars (which, like, come on)
I wonder if China’s population is more or less ethnically and culturally homogeneous than that of the USA
Far, FAR from it; China is gigantic with many different cultures and ethnicities, much like the Soviet Union was. One of the reasons why they both made it work easily is because they focused on what made them the same rather than capitalism melting their brains and telling them to be as divided as possible. We have a huge cultural problem where people are beginning to fall for this stupidity about ethnic and cultural homogeneity being cornerstones in a peaceful society, forgetting entirely that WW2 is what happens when the only ethnicity and culture is white and some imagined white culture.
Different regions in China have their own cultural differences but you don’t have a Chen Xiaopiro or similar crying about how this region or that celebrates that festival while most of China celebrates this other festival. I think even the government itself doesn’t allow divisive rhetoric in the first place, which, you know, good; freedom of speech shouldn’t be allowed to be a double edged sword.
Heck, Xinjiang maintains their own Uyghur language which is not only protected, but exists in their signs and apparently even the currency they use there has their (Arabic?) text on it as well. Tibet suffered unfortunately from some horrific cultural genocide during Mao’s time, wherein slaves were given their freedom and slave owners were made to be equal to everyone else, and unfortunately modern day Tibetans no longer recall or value the glory days of slavery, but their unique Tibetic languages are still alive and spoken there, and there hasn’t been this cultural erasure (short of ending slavery) that you got with Native Americans. I recall a discussion between a Uyghur and a guy in the states where he pointed out that Native American languages, many of them, were killed off and official institutions in regions where Native Americans live operate in English, whereas in the many different regions of China their unique dialects and languages are still alive and well.
Like I mentioned, the Chinese government itself also does what it can to stamp out divisive rhetoric, and honestly good; if we went a year with divisive rhetoric being stamped out, the division in our country would disintegrate. No more divisive rhetoric in the news, no more bigoted losers on youtube, straight up bans on all social media of people trying to divide the country, and the people grow closer again. The division that does exist however is entirely artificial; literally what cultural differences exist that would cause hostility? One group celebrates Christmas while another doesn’t? One group likes mostly Mexican food while the other doesn’t? The news and social media losers literally keep harping on and on and on about this nonsense and dividing people entirely artificially for political purposes, and they convince you that you came to your conclusions entirely on your own when in reality they never stop going on and on and on about this nonsense and trying to make you think this way of thinking is normal.
Don’t forget selling land in the West Bank (illegally, but saying it is redundant)
I used to work with a lib and I remember trying to explain to him just why people in China revolted, just how bad, just how dire their circumstances were; he never did seem to understand why workers should exist as a unified party or why all workers should have solidarity with one another
She’s being ratio’d hard, lol
It probably includes Western immigrants as well (or quasi-Western like Ukrainians); the breakdown could go a little more in-depth
I recall Shaun skull having a video on this where he mentioned there’s some weird reporting on who is or isn’t a foreigner in some statistics, for example non-white citizens/non-ethnically German citizens being counted as foreigners instead of as Germans, to inflate foreigner crime stats
“What Nazi Germany are you referring too, by showing 2023 data?”
even if though the foreign state has never contemplated this potential advantage
So any time your imagination runs away with you, you need to treat others as your enemies?
carrying items identifying them as Jewish, including an Israeli flag
But I thought there were non-Jewish Israelis too, isn’t that we keep being told?
reacted angrily to the Jewish symbols
Ah yes, the Spanish inquisition famously went after people bearing the Israeli flag, which was an impressive feat given it’s younger than Donald Trump
Ah, thanks
What does wumao mean? I’ve read twitter posts by Chinese users who use it against…I think anti-China Asian Americans?
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