• Cptn_Slow@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Right? Like “Screw America!” And then promptly pull your pants down and bend over for China.

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      22 hours ago

      Are you serious? Even ignoring the fact that doing deals with China is not “pulling our pants down and bending over”, the fact is we, as a non-superpower, need to sometimes choose the lesser of two evils and only one of the two countries is repeatedly insulting and threatening our sovereignty. Your reduction of our work on diversifying our economy in the face of (active) economic and (potential) military invasion by the USA is so maddening

      edit: I assume you’re American?

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      22 hours ago

      One of these countries isn’t arresting indigenous people for the crime of being insufficiently white.

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          22 hours ago

          I literally just came from Xinjiang. Yeah no I’ll trust my own eyes and the Uhigurs I’m still in contact with over some article sourcing people who literally have never been there.

          This is some “Portland is a warzone”-level shit.

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            22 hours ago

            Yeah no I’ll trust some rando on social media over actually seeing multiple news threads from several trusted sources and has been widely known globally for the last few decades.

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          22 hours ago

          Regarding your first link, lmao.

          I am in China right now, I spent a couple months in Xinjiang and left earlier this week

          Literally anyone can go there, there’s no travel restrictions. Theres also a significant Uhigur population in Kazakhstan, whom anybody can talk to.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah, go ahead and do a Google search of Canada’s treatment of indigenous people. I’ll wait.

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          22 hours ago

          I like how everyone in this thread is pretending that there are good guys somewhere when in the entire history of humanity there have never been good guys.

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            15 hours ago

            Of course there have been good guys.

            Has everyone in a given nation always done only good things for its entire history? Of course not.

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          22 hours ago

          Did you mean to respond to someone else? I’m vaguely aware of the schools, starlight tours, and Trudou letting oil companies poison first nations water supplies, but I don’t see where Canada comes into opposing support for America.