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?

  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    What’s wrong is the financing scheme that makes the infrastructure effectively Chinese national property. And when China can decide how and when a country’s infrastructure can be used, China gets a lot of influence in that country’s domestic politics. And it does use that influence.

    Source: The American Burger-freedom foundation for advanced jingoism research. That $1,600,000,000 the US government earmarked for anti-China propaganda definition getting returns.

    USA destroying Iraq doesn’t make China any less colonial.

    No, but it demonstrates there’s a vast, vast difference between actual colonial violence, and the bullshit that American chauvinists try to describe as colonialism.

    China helping rebuild Iraq in a way that will make Iraq a vassal of China… That does make China more colonial.

    “Yes, America destroying an entire country and killing hundreds of thousands of people is bad, but have you considered that China helping to rebuild that country is actually just as bad?”

    Ghoul. You are a ghoul.

    And it will do it much more than before

    And thank God for that: the world doesn’t need amoral monsters who think that building infrastructure is the same thing as mass bombing and murder fucking with the rest of the world.

    • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
      11·
      2 days ago

      I’m sorry but you sound like the people who call DOGE “auditors” who “look for corruption and end it”.

      China has been trying to get into big infrastructure projects in Finland as well, with the precisely same kind of loan arrangements. And it’s very good that we declined the offer. We were a colony of Sweden for 600 years. We don’t need to become one of China’s now.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        I’m sorry but you sound pike the people who call DOGE “auditors” who “look for corruption and end it”

        What the fuck kind of argument is that? “Oh you sound like the people who say [completely unrelated thing with no resemblence].” OK then, well you sound like the people who say that black people should be sterilized.

        China has been trying to get into big infrastructure projects in Finland as wel

        Infrastructure projects? Oh GOD NO! THE HUMANITY! THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE CARPET BOMBING HELSINKI!

        And it’s very good that we declined the offer. We were a colony of Sweden for 600 years. We don’t need to become one of China’s now.

        Yeah, building infrastructure is exactly like invading a country, massacring the natives, and forcibly taking control, definitely.

        You’re fucking disgusting, colonialism apologist.

        • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          2 days ago

          You, my friend, are defending colonialism and I am opposing your view that colonialism is okay as long as it’s done by a country on a list of “countries allowed to behave in a colonialist manner” that you are curating. And somehow that makes me a colonialism apologist?

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Oh, you’re literally reduced to “no u!” now?

            Well I wouldn’t expect a colonialism apologist to be honest. Oh wait, is me calling you dishonest also colonialism? Is it colonialism when I stub my toe too?

            You’re a ghoul.

            • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
              01·
              2 days ago

              You calling me dishonest is not colonialism. You stubbing your toe is not colonialism.

              • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                11·
                2 days ago

                You, my friend, are defending colonialism and I am opposing your view that colonialism is okay