"China stole the f-35 plans!" So? Who care? Like literally who cares? What are they going to do, build air defense systems to counter america's strategic baby murdering capabilities?

"China is going to invade taiwan!" Again, whocares? Why do you give a single fuck about taiwan? And why do you think china is going to invade when y'all constantly talk about how china doesn't have the capacity to invade and taiwan would just blow the chip fabs anyway? And china has it's own mature chip technology? So why do you think they're poised to invade when you ourright say they cannot do that and have no incentive to, they're not producing military gear capable of invasion, and their publicly stated goal of peaceful integration has been consistent with their praxis for, what, fifty goddamn years?

"China is spying on us through tiktok!" One, no they're not, and no credible source believes they are, or even that they could. Two, senior us officials have openly stated they are trying to seize control of tiktok because it exposes kids to information outside of us control. Three, who care? What the fuck is china going to do to harm you? Why are you worried about china enough to talk about it constantly, but you're totally dismissive of five eyes very real and publicly proven surveillance of your lives, which five eyes does use to cause you real material harm?

How can people this fucking smart be this fucking stupid when the state department sprinkles a little racism on their propaganda? Oh, and also, i was told today that wikipedia says china is doing uighurcide and they don't need to read the un report because they skimmed it and then they start moving the goalposts from genocide to human rights vioations and bitching about prison labor which, again, you fuckers never talk about the us prison slave system that actually effects your life and that you could actually do something about? Fuck's sake this shit is so goddamn frustrating. These people are smart as hell but as soon as they see an epicathic fold they turn in to the fucking john birch society.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    they will drag the rest of us into war with them, because the US feels obligated to defend Taiwan.

    The US is the one dragging everyone towards war. They're not going to "defend" Taiwan. They're going to make sure as many Chinese people (on either side of the straight) die. While continuing to make weapon profits by indebting Taiwan (like with Ukraine, obviously).

    I'm sure I'm not the only one tired of the US roaming around helping places like Israel, South Korea, and Taiwan

    The only nation here they're helping is Israel, since it's a white settler colonial state that serves US interests just being the way it is. They're absolutely not helping anyone in South Korea or Taiwan.

    while we could have health care

    It isn't either/or and American imperialism makes money for the US. Of course the labor of Americans that goes towards designing and manufacturing weapons could go towards something else, but that stuff ultimately makes money for the US (and Americans) in the form of imperial power and subjugation around the world.

    Plus you should care about American militarism because it's evil and hurts people in other countries, not because it takes away from making someone on the aggressor's side's life easier.