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Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Americans are the best

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0cGt5-69k

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Raskolnikov38 posted:

there is no fixing afghanistan without spending hundreds of billions of dollars on aid and bribes and guess which half the republicans will never do

America actually did spend billions of dollars on aid to Afghanistan.

It just happened to disappear into a black hole of contractor kickbacks and failed projects because no one was interested in using the aid in ways that integrated well into Afghan society.

Rand alPaul posted:

Yeah I think they are exploiting the rare mineral wealth.

Yes. There are Chinese construction crews "everywhere" as they try to build a logistics chain from Central Africa out to eastern coast to facilitate carting off Africa's wealth and ship it on a "string of pearls" back to Beijing.

This is also why there's a new Chinese military base in Djibouti, right across from the Camp Lemmonier

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Love seeing the gringo get mad about China being good at capitalism

Grondoth
Feb 18, 2011

Frijolero posted:

Love seeing the gringo get mad about China being good at capitalism

colonialism is evil no matter who does it

also it is extra hilarious considering that Maoism was explicitly about the first world exploiting the third world

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Frijolero posted:

Love seeing the gringo get mad about China being good at capitalism

Grondoth posted:

colonialism is evil no matter who does it

SKULL.GIF
Jan 20, 2017


Frijolero posted:

Love seeing the gringo get mad about China being good at capitalism

basically you're stupid if A. you think overpopulation isn't a problem B. you think chinese hegemony won't be a problem

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

SKULL.GIF posted:

basically you're stupid if A. you think overpopulation isn't a problem B. you think chinese hegemony won't be a problem

guess we have to keep being an empire then

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

there is no fixing afghanistan without spending hundreds of billions of dollars on aid and bribes and guess which half the republicans will never do

did you forget when we were shipping cargo planes full of pallets of cash over there, and then quietly looking the other way when the cash went "missing", often in the form of bribes?

we can't "fix" Afghanistan, and even if we could, that's not really what we're there to do

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

SKULL.GIF posted:

basically you're stupid if A. you think overpopulation isn't a problem B. you think chinese hegemony won't be a problem

So one child policy good? wow problematic

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Frijolero posted:

Love seeing the gringo get mad about China being good at capitalism

What really stings them is that China is exploiting strategic resources that the Global North was reserving for decades. And they can only do it because of a global trade network guaranteed by the US Military lmao

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Pener Kropoopkin posted:

What really stings them is that China is exploiting strategic resources that the Global North was reserving for decades. And they can only do it because of a global trade network guaranteed by the US Military lmao

the CPC made sure to cut enough western elites and multinationals in on the action of enlisting the chinese population as slave labor so that governments wouldn't do anythibg

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
All exploitation is bad, but you can gently caress off right if you're "actually very concerned" when the chinese do it.

Take that sinophobic bullshit to the gbs thread

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
China is making the world safe for overpriced iPhones.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Anyway, this is why a communist revolution in the First World is necessary.

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Rand alPaul posted:

I agree but it should be nothing but thinly-veiled posts about China in the C&C Generals universe.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/dwdavison9318/status/899780853508833280

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



he has a point in that 400000 troops would be a proper conquering and subjugating force instead of one where the objective is ?????

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

In the span of 24 hours they went from mocking leftists for calling Hillary a warmongerer to praising Trump bombing Syria after Hillary said she would have done the same.

They love war and sheetcakes.

punk rebel ecks
Dec 11, 2010

A shitty post? This calls for a dance of deduction.
Didn't Maoism fail miserably?

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool

Rand alPaul posted:

In the span of 24 hours they went from mocking leftists for calling Hillary a warmongerer to praising Trump bombing Syria after Hillary said she would have done the same.

They love war and sheetcakes.

thats the issue, this is the status quo to them. this is good. how can it be warmongering if its good? hillary isnt a warmonger to them because she's exactly what they loving want lol

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
it sounds like they're serious about drafting the incels

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Rand alPaul posted:

In the span of 24 hours they went from mocking leftists for calling Hillary a warmongerer to praising Trump bombing Syria after Hillary said she would have done the same.

They love war and sheetcakes.

bad dems have internalized the neoliberal ideal of an eternal present so thoroughly that the past doesn't exist, and all they can do is react to immediate stimuli

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
https://twitter.com/andsat/status/899762876662988800

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

punk rebel ecks posted:

Didn't Maoism fail miserably?

China had mass starvations every generation like clockwork until the great leap forward. There have been no further famines as their population exploded.

The Ol Spicy Keychain
Jan 17, 2013

I MEPHISTO MY OWN ASSHOLE
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/899802981280993280

eat the rich

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006


*Faintly in the distance hears what almost sounds like Jamie Foxx covering Ray Charles' "I got a woman"*

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


it's cool that Kamala Harris refused to prosecute their bank for foreclosure fraud

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

it's cool that Kamala Harris refused to prosecute their bank for foreclosure fraud

Hey now, Obama had a hand in it too

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

I remember back when, if you wanted to even offer the slightest criticism of the Iraq War, you had to consider the war in Afghanistan to be "the good war" to be taken seriously even by other criticizers of the Iraq War

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Reminds me it is almost time to go back to TFF

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/899802706625167360

MaxxBot
Oct 6, 2003

you could have clapped

you should have clapped!!
https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/899788698044301312

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Frijolero posted:

Love seeing the gringo get mad about China being good at capitalism
it has all of the bad things about capitalism and none of the good things about liberalism

galenanorth
May 19, 2016

Frijolero posted:

All exploitation is bad, but you can gently caress off right if you're "actually very concerned" when the chinese do it.

Take that sinophobic bullshit to the gbs thread

lol if you're looking for hypocrites who only think exploitation is bad when China does it in the suck zone thread

Imperialist democratic Western countries with free speech, imperialist dystopian oligarchies without free speech, I guess they're both the same right

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006

galenanorth posted:

lol if you're looking for hypocrites who only think exploitation is bad when China does it in the suck zone thread

Imperialist democratic Western countries with free speech, imperialist dystopian oligarchies without free speech, I guess they're both the same right

Free speech is the favorite tool of the fascist

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

galenanorth posted:

lol if you're looking for hypocrites who only think exploitation is bad when China does it in the suck zone thread

Imperialist democratic Western countries with free speech, imperialist dystopian oligarchies without free speech, I guess they're both the same right

Both describe America so...

The Muppets On PCP
Nov 13, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkPadFK34o

habers gonna habe

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Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

zegermans posted:

Free speech is the favorite tool of the fascist

That is incorrect and you know it.

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