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[+] 69 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago*

    Yeah, I know they were wrong the last 187 times about China, but this time they’re totally right and China will collapse any day now!

    It's the same process they use to justify whatever war the United States currently happens to be waging. "Sure, the US government lied to us about Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc., but this time is different, I swear!"

    Like the old proverb goes: Fool me once, shame on you fool me a hundred times, and I just might be a lib.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I always tell myself people will wake up when they realize how much better their lives get while ours get worse and worse, but even when I talk about their poverty alleviation, growing middle class, green energy initiatives etc. people just kind of blank and don't say much. The truth is already so far distant from what people are taught it's like they think I'm lying or being lied to.

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