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  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    holy fucking shit

    Yup, don’t know how that’s not obvious to everyone at this point. They just shit on anything western/American to be contrarians. China is good cuz MURICA bad. I’m not a fan of imperialistic western behavior either but that doesn’t make China a positive influence on the world stage.

    I really thought more liberals-leaning-left had become more aware after 2020. I guess if you can’t abide the anti-capitalist perspective, it’s quite impossible to fight against the propaganda currents.

    • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      shitting on the global hegemonic imperialist power into which the exploited labor of billions feeds is “contrarian”. of course.

      I’m not a fan of imperialistic western behavior either

      oh no, they better not follow it up with a b–

      but

      lmfao.

      doesn’t make China a positive influence on the world stage

      I’m a little confused by what metric China isn’t a positive influence on the world stage. sure, call them 1985 george ornell aminal farm authoritaritarians all you want inside their country, continue to make social credit score jokes like a dipshit, whatever, but China hasn’t declared war on a country in decades and they’ve actively pumped one trillion dollars into infrastructure projects in developing countries, forgiving debts as often as not. meanwhile, the US pumps trillions of dollars into murdering civilians into several of those same countries.

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Iraqi who saw the US turn their family, friends, and neighbors into bloody puddles and their homes into rubble: You know what, I’m thinking the US is kinda bad.

      Hexbears: I have solidarity for this person.

      Lemmy.shitlib: CONTRARIAN