thanks for the slow wifi Xi, i will defend you with my life :soviet-huff:
remember today is movie friday, here is the post about it :long-corbyn:
They only like China because China gives them things instead of carving up their nation like a bunch of a kids at a birthday party arguing over how big their slice of cake should be
The hysteria over the Belt and Road is so absurd. Like, no shit investment in infrastructure is going to look good when the Western alternative is some means tested loan designed to trap your economy in endless neo-liberal exploitation. But rather than question why we aren't teeing up such easy soft-power wins, it's just "China bad".
(Ditto the early days of crowing about "VACCINE DIPLOMACY!!" - which has politely disappeared from the headlines now that it's obviously such an evil take.)
"No way blacks would act any different from the cartoon stereotype I think they all are"
Incidentally, that cartoon stereotype still falls into the hyper-capitalist sellout bucket I've reserved for any black person I haven't identified as a lazy slob or a street thug.
It is easier for a westerner to imagine an army of paid black shills than the end of black capitalism.
Me, a black "tankie" in the U.S. : Wait you guys are getting paid?!
Ah, yes, the most likely explanation. Nothing else going on that could explain that.
I mean it's true, China did give me WiFi. Thanks Xi
:xi-clap: :xinternet:
Not a tankie or black though, sorry to disappoint you Twitter user @ml_oop
I don't get this criticism. "Oh no! The world leader is doing nice things for impoverished parts of the world and expecting very little in return!"
How is that a bad thing? Even cynically just for the sake of building Chinese soft power, would they rather the E.U. / U.S. come in with their historical not-so-soft power?
They either don't know or don't really care about U.S./E.U. not-so-soft power.
The U.S. loves me / this I know / for the TV tells me so
this but it's CIA getting lumpens to do color revolutions
No joke, Hoover was actually seriously concerned about that. He was constantly searching for connections between black radicals and foreign communist adversaries. Right-wingers have never believed that we have the conditions to make our own radicals right here at home.
No doubt! The Red Scare was all about delegitimizing domestic socialists as merely "agents of the Kremlin", conflating concern for your neighbors with anti-communist jingoism.
The black Panthers were very open about their connections to Algeria and the DPRK, he wouldn't have to look very hard
:xinternet: have you tried unplugging the router and plugging it back in?
