It doesn’t matter if we consider China capable of solving our crises and absolving us of our sins. Painting China as complicit in Israel’s genocide is still completely unfair. You can argue that they have not done enough to stop the bleeding, but to say they’ve made no attempts, diplomatic or otherwise, to disrupt Israel’s genocide is simply untrue. It’s also not the job of the Chinese people or their government to clean up after our messes in the first place, especially at risk to their own national security and economic development.

This kind of thinking, where major powers are culpable for all the evils of the entire world over, is rooted in the Anglo-American imperialist mindset. It makes sense for the Brits or the Yanks to feel responsible for all the suffering in the world. We are! But are Chinese people also meant to feel this way? If so, why?

I like the implication that they are, in fact, pawns, just not discarded yet.

Fifty paid steps, of course. First the Atomic Age, then the Information Age, and now we’re in the Dongle Age.

The goal post basically never stops moving on that one. “Commies can’t innovate!” points out that they do “Yeah well not as good as Usonia!” and the one up they offer is a shitty consumerist product designed to break in two years so you buy the next model, but I can play fucking flappy bird on it or something.

You know how people will say “having ‘democratic’ in the name doesn’t make it so bc look at the 'D’PRK”?

I’m gonna start saying this about the 'D’NC.

They’re thinking “my boss is gonna be impressed when they see this.”

The “I love capitalism because it makes consumer products and tools more efficient, useful, and affordable” crowd is going to have a hard time explaining this one.

Google “atrocity propaganda” and revise your position of there being “ample evidence of genocide on both sides.” Palestinian genocide is livestreamed every day. Meanwhile, I have not ever, ever heard of “Uighur genocide” from anyone who is more than three steps removed from the CIA.

21st century relevance

Bernie and AOC have lost what little relevancy their base once afforded them. About ninety percent of their former supporters have fallen into the Communist camp or are riding with Biden/Harris. The remainder which still attend their rallies boo them over their genocide apologia, and that’s the only thing I’ve heard about either of them in literal years. “Relevance” to liberals literally means being absorbed into the Borg and forgotten. How frightfully bleak.

…many in the US and elsewhere alleged that the work was intended as propaganda against the US military.

Oh so he’s based? Okay cool

He was voicing a concern shared across Taiwan since President Trump pulled back on America’s strong support for Ukraine and added insult to injury by humiliating its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, at the White House in late February. Now people in Taiwan are wondering: If the United States could do that to Ukraine to cozy up to Russia, will it do the same to us to cozy up to China?

If I was Taiwanese I’d be far more worried about being used in the first place, rather than being betrayed after being used.

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Am I supposed to know who this is?

“He deserves special gratitude from the Ukrainian and European establishments for telling the truth before things go way too far.”

Before??

I thought he pardoned Hunter for buying a gun as a crack addict. Surely that wasn’t on the laptop.

The Democrats’ “strategy” has been scolding people not even for voting for Trump, but just not voting for whichever gelatinous pig they coughed up and threw out on the debate stage. I have been seeing this for a decade now. “Vote D or you’re a literal demon nazi fascist misogynist xenophobe loser moron.” No one feels especially enthusiastic about making friends with them or heeding their instructions, so they lose elections, reinforcing these ideas in their tiny minds. It’s a hell of a feedback loop. Whatever, guys. Keep rolling over on command like a well-trained dog, vote for whoever your favorite late-night “comedian” told you to, and continue to wonder why things keep getting worse in four-year increments. They have this coming.

“I don’t need Trump’s appeal expained to me, sweaty.” Yes, you really do.

I’m having a little trouble with the ISIS-US connection. Got any references so I can read more?

“And the Titanic is an international symbol. It’s a symbol of love and peace, really. I mean, the movie, everyone knows the Jack and Rose story. All of us have a Jack and Rose story of our own.”

Did this guy even watch Titanic?

That makes sense, even so we shouldn’t have any delusions about who he is and what he stands for.

This is all hypothetical and speculative. What is actually happening right now? We can’t just assume without evidence that it would be the same.