Got the one-two punch of anti-Chinese nonsense and eugenics adjacent fetishization of IQ. It’s literally 
edit: I’m sorry I’m such a chronic abuser of rules one and two :(
The Western brainpan cannot fathom doing something beneficial for another without trying to extract a profit
I mean they probably are trying to build core infrastructure so that they can reap profits once the area has a higher standard of living, but obviously that's mutually beneficial
Sure, but it's done very differently and it reflects a different manner of thinking
China's 'investment' is lifting a country up so that they can engage in additional dealings further down the line, which also helps build goodwill (which will no doubt help with such dealings)
Western 'investment' is trying to rip out everything down to the studs while giving as little back as possible
To add, it isn't simply due to a different mindset, but due to a different mode of production. Western imperialism and China's socialist market economy express clear, demonstrable differences when it comes to foreign policy like this.
that hospitals are Hamas
The US and China are the same!
So you'll oppose the one that rules over you, currently causes most of the suffering in the world and that you have an actual chance of ever having an impact on, instead of supporting it blindly and antagonizing everyone who does not support it?
Wow, had to block another tankie
Chinese "imperialism": "As agreed, we have built a railway in your country. We won't charge interest on the debt, and we might just forgive it entirely."
American imperialism: Bombs schools, drone strikes weddings, assassinates leaders, blockades countries for decades
As everyone knows, imperialism is when you have a civil war and win but the opposing side manages to keep an island and you want that island back.
Imperialism is when a country puts military bases in all of your neighboring countries, including an island that was once part of your country, and constantly threatens you, and so you build ships to defend yourself.
You're all being so disingenuous. Imperialism is when you get colonized and partitioned so you lose control of your peripheral mountainous areas, and then you come back and liberate the slaves but make a weird monk sad because he lost all his slaves.
Liberals being so illiterate they think imperialism is when country does stuff outside it's borders.
-Kautsky about Lenin, 1916
Too many marxists take a kautskyite position on imperialism (its a set of policies a state can decide to choose or not choose) instead of lenin's position (its a whole era of capitalism predicated on monopolies and exporting capital)
Somehow that doesn't apply to the US according to the same liberals.
outside it’s borders.
That's very generous of you. Most of what they call "imperialism" is stuff that China does within its own borders.
We don't know what bad thing China did because they're hiding it from us.
And it MUST be worse because they feel the need to hide it
Soviet Union: researches psychic phenomenon, realizes it's bullshit and stops after a few years.
USA: Learns about the Soviet experiments, does MKULTRA in response.
MEN WITH HIGH IQ SMELL OWN FARTS, STUDY FINDS
My brain must be massive
All the water in it means I look like 
irl.
GUYS IQ IS ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD MEASURE FOR INTELLECT, TOTALLY DISREGARD MATERIAL CONDITIONS!!!!!
The really funny part is that the whole "lesser evil" is completely throw out of the window when they speak about China.
Okay let's assume China is doing imperialism. How choose China is different them voting for Kamala shitlibs?
Person1: "Do you want Trump genociding more or Kamala trying to end genocide(heh)?"
Based person: "I want no genocide"
Person1: "TANKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Person1: "Do you want America imperialism or China imperialism?"
Person2: "I want China imperialism"
Person1: "TANKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
You must support the lesser evil
No not like that, not with those untrustworthy asians
Nobody really believes in lesser evilism, it's just that people are willing to compromise as long as it's not crossing a line.
Genocide isn't a moral line for them. Defending a rival state is.
ot, but I don't think this post is worth discussing anyway: Do other instances just don't have any emojis?
Lemmygrad had a few until someone shot their pictrs server 
, now they have almost none.
Beehaw has some bees 
Blahaj has more than I remember seeing last time I logged in 
oh wow, blahaj actually has a lot. Btw, lemmy-emojies can be used to check what emojies an instance has without an account.
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I forget about your extension because I’m almost always on mobile 
It’s definitely a lot more than I remember them having! I know db0 has some too, but don’t have an account there to check which, and the only computer I have handy right now is a work laptop that’s not about to 
It... uh... "works" on android firefox too if need be, but it was never made with android in mind.
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Unfortunately, I can’t even get “works” 
Nope, it's a Hexbear thing
Must be a joyless existence
What even is the point supposed to be? That 'bad imperialism' is NATO doing genocides in your country, while 'good imperialism' is China building railways and hospitals in your country? You can mess up the semantics if you want but it doesn't exactly make me think China evil.
Big “stop hitting yourself” energy to their IQ fetish this time around.
:glasses-off: Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds
:glasses-on: DON'T THINK
:glasses-off: Bad Imperialism / Good Imperialism
:glasses-on: STAY IGNORANT
“I know you are but what am I?” final boss.
While it isn't tue. It be cool if it was.
What is the manner and methodology with which they calculate IQ? Why did they focus only on men to study conservatism? What about women with higher IQ? Does men include transmen too? NBs? Also, what do they mean by conservatism?
Trot org near me considers China an imperialist, capitalist state. Please recommend me anti-trot literature
This account is permanently on my block list. Very frustratingly annoying lib who pretends to be an anarchist because liberal sounds wack.
For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can't post anywhere else.
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