There are no words to describe how much I loathe this man

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    3 months ago

    What is the Chinese response to this? Doesn't seem like something you can just roll over on

    • huf [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      if i were them, i'd have the talks with blinken but ban all translators and insist on conducting the whole thing in mandarin

      • Egon [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        Insist you have the talks in one of the United States many concentration camps prisons that just so happen to house a disproportionate amount of minorities in well-documented conditions that have been critiqued by the UN several times, as they are worked to the bone as free labour paid 0.01 $ an hour. Or Guantanamo.

        • huf [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          it'd be amazing if china sent a diplomatic mission to the US that did nothing but look at prisons, and complain that they werent allowed to inspect the CIA blacksites...

          • Egon [they/them]
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            3 months ago

            The UN kinda did something akin to that in '15 or '16. They sent someone to investigate the quality of life in the US. The guy who was in charge straight up said that "the US is always quick to point the finger at other countries, so we figured it was about time we looked in their backyard". The report itself is kinda what you'd expect: It concludes that by (almost) all measurements the US should have been classified as a "developing country" and it only didn't because it was the US. Kinda damning

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I think they just accept that the US is doing this stupid posturing for a domestic and western audience