Why do they keep doing this just before visiting? Is it some sort of power play?
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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And this time in the middle of an actual genocide they're enthusiastically supporting
Jesus fuck
on one hand shipwreck tells a compelling story that biden and his circle are exceedingly competent political operators playing a 5D chess game to ensure dollar supremacy. On the other hand they constantly do deranged shit like this.
They're the pawl to the republicans ratchet. They exist to prevent a shift to the left. They might not get elected this time, but that's ok, the ratchet will turn and all those ungrateful protestors will come crawling back just to make it stop. Then they get to cement the republicans gains while threatening further harm if not re-elected.
Idk, they do keep doing the unexpected thing and it keeps kind of working out for them
if they keep things off-balance no one really knows what the fuck is going to happen
Tbh Biden does have a lot of foreign policy experience, as does his cabinet. So a lot of what’s happening isn’t really all that surprising when the US is in the geopolitical situation it’s in and throwing its weight around more frantically than before.
What loses me is when things like Argentina going the way it has or Israel instigating Iran is somehow Biden pulling the strings and not just him taking advantage of a situation.
I believe its to not seem weak on "the china issue" to the local audience. Like "We're going to try diplomatic means with the chinese (again), because we're the good guys who don't want a war, but don't you worry we see them for what they really are."
Then any concessions the US makes to the evil chinese "regime" are reasonable realpolitik necessities because of very complex diplomatic issues with a country thats notoriously tough to reason with and at the same time any concessions the chinese make are not good enough because it didn't bring that evil "regime" to its knees.
Empire flails as it goes down
Core of the state is rotten through, their ideology is hollow and meaningless and endlessly self-referential, the president is someone whose brain is mush and would have been dead a decade ago if he wasn't incredibly rich and powerful, etc. etc. 
That claim by Blinken requires some audacity… It’s crazy to me that people are still tolerating the bullshit. But here we are. There is no limit to what the average American lib will take.
Your average American lib actually believes in this shit
No doubt conservatives believe it too. This entire country is just feral hogs
America is a rabid hog, it should be 
'Yes there is a genocide in Xinjiang, even though every actual attempt to prove this has resulted in a debunking'
'Also, Israel has a right to defend itself'
This fucking guy
And yet so many Western leftists still believe this shit.
Of course they do, they're all liberals
🤡
Bro is contractually obligated to say this lmao
incredible diplomacy, truly
What is the Chinese response to this? Doesn't seem like something you can just roll over on
if i were them, i'd have the talks with blinken but ban all translators and insist on conducting the whole thing in mandarin
Insist you have the talks in one of the United States many ~~concentration camps~~ prisons that just so happen to house a disproportionate amount of minorities in well-documented conditions that have been critiqued by the UN several times, as they are worked to the bone ~~as free labour~~ paid 0.01 $ an hour. Or Guantanamo.
it'd be amazing if china sent a diplomatic mission to the US that did nothing but look at prisons, and complain that they werent allowed to inspect the CIA blacksites...
The UN kinda did something akin to that in '15 or '16. They sent someone to investigate the quality of life in the US. The guy who was in charge straight up said that "the US is always quick to point the finger at other countries, so we figured it was about time we looked in their backyard". The report itself is kinda what you'd expect: It concludes that by (almost) all measurements the US should have been classified as a "developing country" and it only didn't because it was the US. Kinda damning
holy fuck lmao
Bro hasn't blinken read the wikipedia article??? It says persecution not genocide.
I wonder where this bozo gets his sources?
The frustrating part is how this works not just on westerns, but non-westerners too. Wasn’t that South African advocating for Palestine also throwing in China for Xinjiang?
It’s even more frustrating when people see what’s happening in Gaza and deny it’s genocide while claiming what’s going on in Xinjiang is.
South Africa is weird, you have extremes on both ends. You have people spouting the most insane pro capitalist, pro western and pro israel talking points. These are usually the wealthier people living somewhat comfortably. But you also have a lot of people who deeply understand the need to resist western hegemony and neo liberalism.
The problem is also the desperate conditions that the majority live in. You're so utterly exhausted, mentally and physically, at the end of the day that you don't have energy to think about other things.
What a fucking idiot
Unlimited “it’s so joever” on the first world
Oh lordy we're about to get more articles on "sLaVE laBoUr" and "gEnOcIdE oF mUsLiMs" for the next four years.
Blinken: “No, Gaza is not a genocide. Why do you ask?”
Yi must be stopped! That madman's slashing carbon emissions all over the country!
How dare he!