[Peace-discuss] A pregnant snippet?

[Brussel, Morton K]

Q: What is China?

A: China is a large Asiatic nation which westerners use as an emotional punching bag for their capitalism-induced rage, propaganda-induced confusion, and fears about the death of the US empire.

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Believing China wants to take over your country, censor your internet and give you a social credit score is exactly the same sort of foam-brained othering which told previous generations that black men want to take over your neighborhood so they can have sex with your wives.

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"I guess you don't realize this Caitlin, but it's actually possible to be critical of the US government and mindlessly regurgitate CIA narratives about China," said the Smart Internet Person. "It's called being fair and balanced."

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US conservatives whose precious religion admonishes them to "remove the plank from thine own eye" are obsessed with China, a nation on the other side of the planet whose alleged misdeeds are far less egregious than those of their own country.

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If a foreign government is authoritarian toward its own people and your government is authoritarian toward the entire world, then yours is the more authoritarian government.

If your attempts to fight tyranny help advance the planet-dominating agendas of the most powerful government on earth, then you're not fighting tyranny. You're facilitating it.



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