• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      It's especially funny when the US is a much bigger example of a country that loves to flaunt displays of power while making blunders all the time.

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Americans justify their horrible government by assuming every other nation on earth functions the same way but worse

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          If this is America, the Exceptional, then imagine how much worse all the other places are

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      this same paper published like 3 opinion pieces crying bloody murder over protests at the homes of christofascist supreme court justices

    • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Translate:

      “Lol Xi is such a whimpy little despot — he had to respond with measures and policies and solutions just because people protest? Here we don’t give a shit when people protest!” :capitalist-laugh:

  • mittens [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    /r/bitcoin is worried about this while every fucking week another funbucks exchange freezes everyone's accounts indefinitely as they negotiate bankruptcy with their dumb investors

    • bloop [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      tbf they get excited about that too. And inflation. They really believe that bitcoin is the future of money and will solve the worlds problems

      • mittens [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        i don't think they get excited about that as much as they use the opportunity to repeat the "not your keys, not your crypto" slogan as a means of coping because like 1% of crypto investors actually know how to use a bitcoin wallet.

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    What’s up with that?

    Are Chinese banks really stopping people withdrawing their savings and is the PLA really rolling out the tanks to crush protests about it?

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      a private bank tried to illegally freeze people's money, which triggered a protest, and the local government broke it up with riot police. Nobody looks good in this story, but Western news outlets have reported it as though the CPC stole their citizens' money, which is definitely not what happened.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        5 million bad things happen in Amerishartia:

        oh that's just florida/mississippi/alabama/geogria/NC/SC/any other fucking state in the union, no big deal

        something bad happens in one bank in Henan

        the DARNED HONEY BEAR PERSONALLY did this