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supersnoop said:

Reminds me of my favourite American media quotes:
“The Chinese military is a clear and present threat to peace and freedom.”

And

“We have nothing to fear from the Chinese military because they have no experience fighting wars”

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The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

Passage from Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism (1995)

Petrolicious88 said:

There is some unfortunate truth to what she said. Some of the biggest slave merchants were kings and businessmen from Africa, especially those from West African nations. They were complicit and sold their own people for profit.
There were African businessmen that rounded up slaves for white merchants, they were those that acted as middlemen, and those that loaded and offloaded and supplied European ships with food and provisions. They negotiated prices for salves from the hinterlands, and collected royalties from both buyers and sellers.
Their legacy is just as dirty as the British.

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Without British demand there would have been no market... This is the true beginning of the chain.

A SCO Free Trade Zone with Xinjiang as a hub? This will surely drive the hawks in the U.S. nuts.

U.S. military's psychop bots spreading disinformation on social media, such as the Iranian government harvests human organs - sounds familiar?

What Europeans can do this winter besides using firewood and coal stoves? Right, importing a lot of electric blankets from China - 1,290,000 pieces in July.

They can also shower together, which will surely increase monkeypox!

AUKUS' real treat to China and ASEAN is their imperial hubris.

Aukus’ real threat to Asean is not nuclear-powered submarines, but dreams of Western empire​

• Contrary to regional concerns, the US and UK helping Australia build nuclear-powered submarines does not pose a material threat
• What is dangerous, amid US, UK and European naval operations in the South China Sea, is the imperial longing that drives Aukus

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Taking away the vetoing power of individual EU members will be the end of EU.

tygyg1111 said:

Without British demand there would have been no market... This is the true beginning of the chain.

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Someone here once said it takes two to tango.

Petrolicious88 said:

Someone here once said it takes two to tango.

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Spanish and Portuguese were importing slaves to their American colonies long before England did. Also it is true that UK was the first great power to stop slavery in its Empire in 1834 and used the RN to stop the transatlantic slave trade. In fact in the case of England itself slavery was found to be illegal as early as 1772:


And if you believe the 1619 Project, this was the real reason for the American Revolution.

China bad. For not being subservient to the West.

China very bad. For not bailing out the world economy and the US.

daifo said:

Mental illness is a serious issue that I hope the central government can and new administration can help fix.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hong_Kong/comments/xive9i

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Was she even born during the previous admin?

siegecrossbow said:

Was she even born during the previous admin?

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Hard to tell with the facemask and grainy image. She can either be a crazed auntie dressing young or a younger girl :/

daifo said:

Hard to tell with the facemask and grainy image. She can either be a crazed auntie dressing young or a younger girl :/

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Or a paid professional Mourner.

KYli said:

China very bad. For not bailing out the world economy and the US.

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Looks gone are the days were people understand economics. If they put money too soon and the global economy keeps dropping then they just wasted money, they will have to keep printing money never end.