• Justice
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    Imagine these surveys after 4 years of Trump. We were extremely lucky during the last Trump Administration that Xi made massive foreign policy missteps right, but he seems to have pivoted and replaced most of the Wolf Warrior people.

    Huh?

    I wish these weirdos would elaborate. For my entertainment.

    What PRECISE missteps did he make? Xi/China aren’t perfect, so seriously, I would like them to say wtf they’re talking about from approximately 2016-2020

    Very likely the popular, although debunked and discounted by neoliberal economists, bullshit about “colonizing African” via fair loans. Unlike the IMF which definitely doesn’t use financial power to coerce and manipulate with horribly destructive loans.

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          Lmao.

          Oh yeah those protests that were very organic and that we still talk about all the time…

          You’re probably right though. It’s just hilarious they think anyone remembers that except politics freaks cough and… that’s about it

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          What’s so interesting is that I was a huge lib during those protests and was cheering on their fight against the cops

          It wasn’t until they started calling for the UK to re-colonize them while calling China colonizers that I realized I was cheering on fucking idiots and pawns, and my newly found liberalism almost immediately crumbled, and COVID was the second plane that hit the remaining tower of liberalism shortly after and completely destroyed it

          If Russia invaded Ukraine back in 2019-2020, it would’ve had the same effect on me because the western media was telling me the country was full of nazis and corruption only to be democratic all of a sudden

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            For me it was the Trump flags and people defending them by saying “they don’t know what those flags mean.” I’d never really thought about the liberal condescension and infantilisation of others before that, but it was so obvious during those protests (and barely a step above 19th century talk about “savages” as well)