Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    They're being a bit antisocial and I don't defend that, but they're referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes , an intelligence agreement among the anglosphere, and then saying you're from a vassal state of that alliance (really just a vassal of the US).

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            8 months ago

            As a member of a vassal state, it makes sense to thereby call the citizens vassals.

            • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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              8 months ago

              Ah yes, as we all know, family, friends, and poverty doesn't exist. So everyone is either complicit or will immediately move to whatever perfect country you think exists.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                8 months ago

                Vassalage is a term describing social position, not a moralism. Your indignation at this has no bearing on the fact and you sound just like the morons who say white privilege doesn't exist because poor white people exist.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Socialists should seek to be pro-social in all contexts. Being bitter won't help you do anything but preach to the choir.