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Hofmaimaier @feddit.org

4d ago

EU_irl

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Fyi, China is not in that crowd. China is at least as bad as the US. It just knows it can't afford to pull the same stunts. They are still an imperialistic shithole.
- Honestly in what way would China be considered better?
  They check all the boxes:
  Malicious Trade and Finance shenanigans
  Dictatorship
  Militant Expansionists
  Constant Psyops
  Supporting horrible militant factions across the globe
  Run by racial supremacists
  Cracks down on non-official religions
  Massive polluters (used to have the excuse of low emissions per capita until they started reversing policies meant to limit capita)
  Every bad thing you can say about the USA goes for China and then some.
- Yeah I guess we’re gonna get bombarded more with Chinese propaganda soon as they’ll try to replace the US as our new daddy

I've seen a lot of individuals like this in my life.... "I don't want to play, so the game is over". No dude, you're welcome to not participate, but you're not the life of this group.
- It's also anoying when the oposite happens. You can't join? Then we will cancel. Just fkin do it. You don't need me every time.
  
  Isn't it beatiful how none of us do or could ever matter? But why does orange man get to have such influence. No one should matter in this world, that's the point!

The "Christians" who take the Bible literally actually do believe that globalism is evil. But that's what happens when your religious texts were written first by nomads, then by a civilization that regularly got conquered, and finally a cult that was persecuted by the Romans.
- No, the "Christians" who oppose trade clearly have never even read the Bible, or even just the New Testament. Jesus spent a lot of time telling people to love the stranger, the traveler, and the alien. To treat a foreigner in your land as kindly as you would your brother. Modern Republicans have completely abandoned the teaching of the actual historical Jesus.
- Globalism IS evil. The rightards just care about it as much as the nazis cared about socialism.
  
  Explain please? I'm uncertain about the heart of where you're coming from
  
  Explain please? I’m uncertain about the heart of where you’re coming from
  Globalism is such a weasel word. Esperanto-speaking cosmopolitans and tax-dodging capitalists are usually not the same. Then again, the far-right demonized even Esperanto back in the past century and might do it again if people took it seriously.

Fuck China too
- We (the west) helped them become who they are. We relocated all our production there because they were cheap and didn't mind throwing a bunch of poor people into the grinder. Arguably, the fastest and most efficient way for them to get out from under our thumb was authoritarian rule. Democratic rule would've been torpedoed by the US or one of its European vassals in favour of an authoritarian one we installed.
  The world could've looked very different had the US not meddled in a lot of countries. Here's an entire list that probably has about 70 countries on it.
  
  had the US not meddled in a lot of countries
  Hold on a sec, you can't get off the hook that easy, Europe
- Sadly a better partner than the USA currently.
  
  No. Just because the US has become worse than before and China didn't, even if the US closed in on how bad China is, that doesn't make China better than the US. More reliable, yes, but not better.

In the 80s, 90s and early 00s the left was against globalism, so it's extremely weird to see things being reversed...
- “The left” is not a monolith.
  
  The left was very much all anti globalization. Globalization was implemented by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan to save on salaries, the left was pro workers.
- „Hoch die Internationale Solidarität!“ (Cheers to international solidarity)

One of those things, does not belong with the others lol.

Yay! Canada's included in the joke!

Will be interesting to see how long globalism lasts once everyone involved has to start paying to maintain it.

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