So do I add a Trigger Warning? This post seems to have upset some people.

Or is Edward Snowden now the enemy? I thought he and Julian Assange were alright.

As the name suggests China actually has shores on the South China Sea

This is so laughably hilarious. I guess because American Somoa or North/South America is in the name, the United States of America gets to lay claim.

“What Latin American coups? You mean the domestic ones?”

This is where the tankie dorks go, “If America gets to have bases in the Pacific, then so does China!”

Yeah, but do they need to bully other island nations out of their domestic open waters?

“Hahaha moron, those countries are allied with the US so they deserve to be trampled!”

They increasingly own a lot of media and exert influence around the world. Tencent, Huawei, partnerships with Disney, etc. These things don’t happen in a bubble.

By the way, side question: what’s the difference between a Marxist-Leninist and a tankie? I’ve heard some say they’re interchangeable and others strongly object to the comparison.

My thing is, why is it always China lol. No one comes into these spaces with scorching hot takes about the LGBTQ rights in Laos or the economic systems of Cuba.

Because China’s economic and LGBTQ+ circumstances will have a much, much, much more appreciable impact on my life in the coming years than Cuba or Laos.

And what do you mean by “brigading”? That implies that it’s being coordinated.

nods

Unless it’s one or two overzealous chapos with several sockpuppets, there’s some disturbing fluctuations in comment scores.