You know, DOGE, fascist president and corporations dictating what people can do, institutions being ruined, laws being ignored. Is there any way out of that or is it over? Is the USA done?

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    Fewer strings also means China doesn’t care about democracy, human rights, and such.

    Neither do Western powers. Their support for the genocide in Gaza proves as much. From sending weapons and ignoring the ICC and ICJ rulings, to crushing protests and arresting journalists. You really can’t come and talk about democracy, human rights, and such as if the West is the good guys after we all witnessed the genocide in Gaza, you can’t. It is hypocritical and racist. You are basically saying “only we are people”, or at a minimum “the Palestinians aren’t people”.

    As for China building some artificial islands, who cares? As far as “crimes” go it is really down at the bottom of the crimelist. You could probably learn about the expulsion of the Chagossians to put things into perspective.

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        It really is illustrative of the absolute depths of westerners complete thoughtless hypocrisy that they think building a few shacks on uninhabited islands is remotely comparable to what the USA does.

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          Countries in East and Southeast Asia are Westerners now? The Koreans, Taiwanese, Japanese, Pinoy, Vietnamese, Malays will be surprised to hear that. All of these countries are afraid of Chinese ambitions.

          Maybe ask the Tibetans if they think the Chinese annexation of their homeland is just Western hypocrisy.

          remotely comparable to what the USA does

          You are aware that China invaded Vietnam after the USA left?

          You are ignorant of the regional policies. Not everything is as Western centric as your limited understanding of geopolitics.

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            he Koreans, Taiwanese, Japanese, Pinoy, Vietnamese, Malays will be surprised to hear that.

            Oh my mistake, I didn’t realize I was talking to the collective lemmy account of the people of Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Pinoy, Vietnam, and Malay.

            Oh wait, I’m not. I’m talking to an arrogant westerner who feels entitled to tell non-westerners what their opinions are, and to tell them that actually they would be no worse off if America was bombing them and taking over.

            You are aware that China invaded Vietnam after the USA left?

            Notice how you have to go back half a century, to an example that is not nearly as bad as what America did.

            You are ignorant of the regional policies.

            No, you’re just a denialist about how brutal western colonialism actually is. You’re not ignorant of it though, you’re an apologist for it, desperately trying to redefine the word so that extermination, violence, conquest, and exploitation in the tens of millions seems no worse than China building some shacks on an island