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
Media and politicians: “Israel is America, they ARE us”
Oh THIS blockade they want to do something about; not the sanctions on Venezuela, Iran, etc or the embargo on Cuba, or the blockade on Gaza, no THIS is the blockade they want to do something about.
Asleep for decades, awake only long enough to be worse than useless, and then back to sleep again. Utterly worthless, useless countries. Trump was literally making fools of you only a month or two ago, and now it’s back to being America’s vassals, and to the regime that was just talking about whether you should be allowed to be a country.
Cool, Iran’s getting a fertilizer donation!
Eh, I don’t know, I feel given the context that he only just recently considered taking Greenland, NATO may be thinking just give him what he wants; none of them (except maybe Turkey) like brown people anyway.
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.
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
I have a theory they’re being conservative in how they handle this because they don’t want to give other Western powers justification for joining the war (justification, not reason); America and Israel are extremely unpopular right now, and joining a war of aggression on their side (one with zero plausibly deniable excuses) is the end of your political career. They’re trying to normalize the idea that they may have to join the army and fight Russia and that’s already unpopular enough, this has zero chance of being widely accepted.
Reminds me of when during a DnD session my monk attempts a…I don’t even know what check I used, I don’t think 5e has handle animal; my monk does a check against a dire wolf (it had normal wolves with it as well) while we were up against a cliff, rolling to throw a stick off the edge pretending to play fetch with it; I roll a 20 and the DM has the dire wolf jump off the cliff
I still remember the deep confusion a lib I know got when I told him Taiwan supports Israel, lol
Sure, and both parties in the war between America and Afghanistan don’t deserve support and yet only one side lost hundreds of thousands if not a million people
And both parties in the war between America and Iraq don’t deserve support and yet only one side lost hundreds of thousands if not a million people (on top of the million murdered via sanctions)
And both parties in the government overthrow of Libya by America don’t deserve support and yet only one side had their infrastructure bombed, and went from being the most successful country in their continent to a failed state
I’m about forty and have no idea if you’re older than me but clearly age doesn’t guarantee wisdom
Also the people the Iranian government killed were literally armed, there’s literally footage of them shooting people; I have zero faith in the sources claiming those numbers and the Iranian government is 100% justified in taking out violent, armed traitors, which even our own government said had mossad embedded between them
I’ll absolutely talk smack about the Iranian government when their country is safe, like I would with comprador states, but in a time when Iran is fighting for its life I’ll offer critical (only slightly critical) support; even the anti-government Iranians began seeking national unity after Israel literally bombed five hospitals and apartment buildings in the 12 day war; they’re not stupid, they know what their enemies are going to do to them. You AREN’T supporting the Iranian people if you aren’t supporting the ones fighting back and keeping the country safe; if not the Iranian government, who else in Iran is fighting Israel and America?
Go to hell
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