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They do realize that salty Guardian articles aren't going to create a Sino-Russian split, right?
The chain of command goes :xi-gun: > :putin-wink: > :thicc-trump: , apparently
I just love how America not doing a lot of war crimes this year = isolationism. Sure, we killed a million people in Iraq and created ISIS as a result, but that was good policy because it wasn't isolationism. And isolationism is the worst thing you can do.
Isolationism has just been redefined to mean anything that isn't imperialism.
Isolationism is when you have bases all over the world, air strike Syrians and Iranians, send billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, and constantly escalate tensions in China
Satan couldn't have invented something as stupidly infuriating as a Guardian journalist.
It's nice of the US/UK intelligence services to pivot from barging into the Guardian offices to smash up their hard drives to barging into the Guardian offices to pre-load their hard drives with articles.
In Xi’s brave new world, subservience and surveillance replace shock and awe.
No fuckin' wayyy!
Just imagine the hellish dystopia if all the drones :amerikkka: uses for terror bombing were used to monitor people without blowing up them and everyone else who happens to be in the blast radius :scared:
I love how he is implying that Xi would be a good guy if only he chose a random country to do shock and awe to.
Using drones for something other than turning the 'target' and a nearby playground into ash? Sounds pretty totalitarian to me
This is genuinely more frightening to the average liberal, privacy being one of the paramount ideals. Which is why things like Snowden's stuff on five eyes had to be supressed fast.
These dumbasses live in 1970 and don't realise modern surveillance in the west is already so pervasive the Stasi would find it overkill and ask if they could wind it back a bit.
If the government wants to track you, they can and will. It's just not worth their time to pay attention.
The US "quitting the job" would likely lead to a global collapse of capitalism. It isn't going to happen.
The US becoming unable to do it's "job" however, is becoming more and more likely.
for as much as i shrug about CTH and the various hot takes of so-called online leftists.... one of the things i can credit CTH [the podcast] with is getting me to consider that legacy media contributors are often some of the dumbest people on the planet.
i used to casually assume these people thought critically about the state of the world and offered up analysis based on knowledge, information, and experience. and while i didn't agree with them, i assumed their positions were based on information i lacked.
but the pod pointing out how absolutely stupid their takes and backgrounds are.... and how there is never a reckoning for these people and their awful, wrongheaded and easily dismantled positions. they just keep pushing garbage out, getting paid very well, and they keep appearing on screens saying things that are objectively false.
Some exceptionally bazinga gen-Xers watched Team America World Police and really liked the main song, even citing its blue curtained glory years later during actual colonialism and military adventurism atrocities done around the world. :joker-amerikkklap:
It didn't help that that same movie supposedly was mocking the US being the world's police but had an Enlightened Centrist take at the end that was suitably edgy and gross about how it's bad but necessary, actually, because :kim-peace:
At the risk of yet another :wall-talk: session by affirming my agreement, yes, I fully agree with you.
It didn't singlehandedly make the core of its consumer base into apathetic status quo warriors, but it normalized and propagandized what they likely already wanted to hear and reinforced that.
even Trumps success probably has at least some degree of reliance on an irony-poisoned population, or at least it originally did.
"WE ELECTED A MEME!" :soypoint-1: :trump-anguish: :soypoint-2: was the moderate centrist side of 2016's election victory.
Ah yes Simon Tisdall, a regular contributor to the Kyiv Post which conspicuously began in 2015.
