r/worldnews - China protests US willingness to"use force"to defend Taiwan
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(Dumbass) redditors idiotically hating on china… again.

Then just don’t attack. Easy as that.

How about telling the U.S to not attack… did the U.S stop their imperialism yet? /j

(The comment got 2 awards. LMAO!)

<a href=‘https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/uvxdqi/china_protests_us_willingness_touse_forceto/i9pdw4k/?context=3’><blockquote>I love the fact that chinese investors own part of reddit because it it shows just how explicitly we and the rest of the world simply don’t give as big a fuck about their money as purported.

Fuck Xi Jing Ping.</blockquote></a>

Racism at it’s finest!

How is a Chinese investor owning a share of Reddit any different from ‘American’ investors owning Reddit?

Not sure what you mean? Russia not communist, more nazi. China communist.

Ah, yes. Russia is (indeed) not communist. <sarcasm> They are totally nazis though; they invaded wholesome (100) Ukraine! </sarcasm>

(Someone tell them about the Azov and Aidar Battalions.)

The west needs to stop providing authoritarian regimes with trade related [wealth]. It makes no sense to strengthen your enemies.

Yes! You can’t let your enemy get more power! Especially when your empire is getting back-watered and struggling to beat China on it’s own. /s

Yes. American politicians constantly bash Europe for buying Russian oil and gas, while they created this communist cancer and allowed it to grow and metastasize.

I’m pretty sure the U.S did their best to disallow China from becoming socialist. (Too bad their ‘best’ isn’t working!)

<a href=‘https://libreddit.silkky.cloud/r/worldnews/comments/uvxdqi/china_protests_us_willingness_touse_forceto/i9pyi04/?context=3’><blockquote>I gotta say, I thought Biden might not be up to the challenge but he’s really nailing in the eyes of myself and fellow pragmatists.

✔️Left Afghanistan (despite taking infinite criticism from the pro-war media for it)

✔️Continued pause in student loan debt, said he would sign a bill to cancel student loan debt if it passed

✔️Standing up to Putin

✔️Strengthening our bonds to NATO

✔️First black woman SCOTUS (Somehow the media called him racist for it)

✔️Brought back the EPA

✔️Rejoined Paris Climate Accord

✔️Increased Union growth due to his executive order, task force and unprecedented support for unions

Maybe we should start supporting him so that progressives have a shot during the mid term election? Food for thought.</blockquote></a>

“✔️Left Afghanistan (despite taking infinite criticism from the pro-war media for it)”

Now can Biden make the U.S leave Iraq, Iran, Israel, Syria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, and Djibouti (alone)? They don’t seem keen on doing that.

“✔️Strengthening our bonds to NATO”

Like as if NATO wasn’t already bonded to the U.S empire.

“✔️First black woman SCOTUS (Somehow the media called him racist for it)”

Apparently, getting a black woman on the supreme court is ‘progressive’. (Imagine the surprise when the [dark-skinned] woman inevitably becomes corrupt.)

“Increased Union growth due to his executive order, task force and unprecedented support for unions”

Pretty sure that’s because U.S unions have been recuperated into another variant of a capitalist corporation. Also I don’t think Biden specifically increased Union growth… (Psst. It’s the workers!)

“Maybe we should start supporting him so that progressives have a shot during the mid term election? Food for thought.”

Maybe the workers should overthrow the U.S empire and form a socialist country. Food for thought.

Fucking ridiculous comments…

  • comfy
    10·
    2 years ago

    I mean, the Chinese friend in that anecdote has a point. A person made an extreme symbol of protest, standing in front of a lethal weapon.

    Quote Wikipedia (certainly not pro-CCP):

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    After repeatedly attempting to go around, the lead tank stopped its engines, and the armored vehicles behind it followed suit. There was a short pause with the man and the tanks having reached a quiet, still impasse.

    Having successfully brought the column to a halt, the man climbed onto the hull of the buttoned-up lead tank and, after briefly stopping at the driver’s hatch, appeared in video footage of the incident to call into various ports in the tank’s turret. He then climbed atop the turret and seemed to have a short conversation with a crew member at the gunner’s hatch. After ending the conversation, the man descended from the tank. The tank commander briefly emerged from his hatch, and the tanks restarted their engines, ready to continue on. At that point, the man, who was still standing within a meter or two from the side of the lead tank, leapt in front of the vehicle once again and quickly re-established the man–tank standoff.

    Video footage shows two figures in blue pulling the man away and disappearing with him into a nearby crowd; the tanks continued on their way.

    That is pretty much the least violent outcome possible. Hundreds of non-violent BLM protestors and media personel were treated with more official violence and injury than the ‘Tank Man’. I can’t speak for the rest of what happened at Tiananmen Square (I’m not well-read on the conflicting accounts and I won’t pretend I am) but he’s a pretty poor symbol of the event beyond an impressive photo depicting anti-violent bravery.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      131·
      2 years ago

      A person made an extreme symbol of protest, standing in front of a lethal weapon.

      Except we did not know why he did it. Also, the tanks were leaving the square, it could as well be interpreted as him saying “where are you going, you have more work here”.

      • CritiGalDesist∞@lemmygrad.ml
        7·
        2 years ago

        the tanks were leaving the square, it could as well be interpreted as him saying “where are you going, you have more work here”.

        This ^^
        This needs to spread more

        • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          2 years ago

          I doubt it will convince most libs, when something is ambiguous, in this case tank man’s motivations, they will refuse to see any nuance and project their own narrative onto it.