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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml [S] 31 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

we need this as an emoji! @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml

the most unrealistic part of that image is the idea that Americans could actually point China out on a map

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I mean, come on, if I had to spin a globe and guess I'd be more likely to guess right about China or Russia than anywhere else in the world.

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml [S] 14 points 2 years ago

lmao

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4476745

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml [S] 9 points 2 years ago

👏

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[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

since when do crackers think about garlic (mario doesn't count)

also, since when do any of then visualize an actual globe and not a fake mercator "map" where europe is thrice the size of china

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[+] TRexBear@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

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[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

>fertilized with human sewage

I like to hear a source for that>

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[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This has led the U.S. government and American politicians to pursue policies grounded in repression and exclusion, mirroring the authoritarian system that they seek to combat.

american sees something american happening americanly in america: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

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[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But collectively they are yielding a United States that is fundamentally more closed — and more like China in meaningful ways.

How about you stop worrying about how much we are literally doing 1984 and build some high speed rail? Or some new housing? Now that would be more like China in a "meaningful way."

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[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

My standards are getting lower every year.

I'll settle for regular rail and decriminalizing homelessness at this point.

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[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

My standards are getting lower for which neoliberals deserve to be put in the ground during/after the revolution.

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[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Could we be the “authoritarian” ones? No, we’re just being defensive.

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[–] AmerikaLosesWW3@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

It's never our fault, it's always their fault.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

China lives rent free...

... because I ain't no stinkin' landloard!

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Dr. Truex is an associate professor at Princeton University whose research focuses on Chinese authoritarianism.

Lmao

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

It's like some made up title that they use for "experts" on the history channel. Sino Authoritarianologist.

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[–] JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

>Anxiety about China is making American policymakers react in paranoid, repressive ways.

What fearmongering does to mfs

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

https://archive.is/6RhUG

[+] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 1 point 2 years ago

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