Ah, pingveno’s here to fight again
pulls out the popcorn
Honestly I just hope they pay him well to do this.
CEO of internet downvote magnets
What Chinese state media doesn’t realize is that looks badass.
looks like something that needs to be put down
Still looks badass. It really doesn’t go well with their mantra of the US as weak.
It certainly does. US spends over half of its industrial output on the military while its infrastructure is collapsing and social unrest is rising. Spending all your money on weapons to fight fictional enemies while your people starve is weak as shit.
US spends over half of its industrial output on the military while its infrastructure is collapsing and social unrest is rising.
LOL, no one measures defense spending by just comparing industrial output and defense spending. That’s assuming defense spending comes totally out of industrial output, which is just not true. Some of the spending is from industry output when a country manufactures weapons, equipment, and such. But a lot of that is personnel costs like salaries and veteran benefits. Instead, the universal comparison is against total GDP.
And yet, infrastructure is indeed collapsing while social tensions continue to rise as lots of recent studies show. Ukraine war alone has cost US untold billions that are going down a black hole instead being spent on fixing the country.
The infrastructure issue has a lot more to do with the building patterns in the US. Suburbs are built with expensive to maintain amenities at very low densities. That makes it so that land values (and therefore property taxes) cannot support the municipal’s maintenance costs. No amount of dialing down defense spending would solve the infrastructure issue.
It’s not just the suburbs that are failing. It’s bridges, power plants, roads, city infrastructure. While asinine suburb culture certainly makes things worse, it’s clearly not the only issue. It’s obvious that if all the resources US spends to fuck over people in other countries were devoted to improving the lives of people in US then the situation would be different. US regime spent literal trillions on projects like Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and other atrocities. All of that comes directly at a cost of investing in domestic infrastructure.
We can compare with China to see what could be done differently. China used more concrete in 3 years than US in all of 20th century, they built 27,000km of high speed rail in a decade. This is what a government that cares about serving its people as opposed to playing imperial games looks like.
So your argument is that nuclear aggression from the largest empire in the world “looks badass”
and you say you’re a leftist
the guy probably thinks that nazis look badass too
What nuclear aggression? Just because a China state mouthpiece publishes an accusation doesn’t mean it’s true.
Remember when China dropped the first, second, and so far only nukes in combat on Japan?
Remember when General Ma Ka Fer of the Chinese People’s Liberstion Army suggested nuking the United States during the Korean war?
Yep, China’s the true nuclear threat! They’re totally and utterly in the wrong for even suggesting that wholesome, fuzzy wuzzy US is one!
Also, have you not just committed whataboutism? The mist classic example of it liberals cite is when the US accuses the USSR or something and the USSR accuses the US right back, right? Well China accused the US of something and you accused China right back.
Also, everything west accuses antiimperialists of, is always projection.
I don’t remember anyone nuking anyone else, because it’s been 77 years since Nagasaki and Hiroshima. And how does the Korean War enter into it? China didn’t have nukes then. Overall point, I don’t see what the message of this cartoon is even supposed to be. The US has no intentions on attacking China, let alone nuking it. Or is China just fear mongering?
Serious question: Why are you still on lemmy.ml at this point? No seriously, you seem to viciously disagree with literally everything on here and hate the opinions of almost everyone here. I genuinely get the impression that you hate it here and I think a different instance like Wolfballs, Beehaw, or Sopuli would be better suited to your interests. Or maybe just unsubscribe from or block the political instances? You don’t have to interact with posts you clearly hate, you know.
He exists solely to sow chaos and create rifts in leftist infighting style. See how old his account is and number of comments.
I came here from the Rust community, if you care to know. And why no criticism of yagthos? They not only made several times more comments, but they also have 8% of all of the posts on this instance.
Because you are wrong almost everytime consistently, and he happens to be correct in his takes, with ample sources that are not corrupted by superimperialism/capitalism.
Mostly because it was the first one I landed on, since when I registered in the early days of Lemmy it was the only one of any significant size. If there was a way to transfer accounts without loosing history, I already would have. But is anyone here suffering that much from having their views questioned?
