"One Painful Debate Is Not Evidence of America’s Decline

Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline."

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  • Ideology [she/her]
    hexagon
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    3 months ago

    Russia’s state-owned Channel One covered the debate in depth, describing President Biden and Donald Trump as “small children from the nursery.” As Russian viewers were treated to replays of the candidates bickering over who was the better golfer, the presenter predicted that life itself in America would become “one never-ending game of golf,” with the United States lurching “from one big hole to the next.”

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    What NYT thinks Russia-China-Iran are doing: amerikkkaqin-shi-huangdi-fireball

    what they are actually doing: amerikkka sit-back-and-enjoy

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    they're doing it. they're really doing the "biden and trump's debate performance is ruzzian/seeseepee disinformation" bit.

    michael-laugh

    don't believe your lying eyes, yankoids

  • healthkick
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    3 months ago

    Huh maybe it was a mistake to have so many adversaries

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    This asshole is at John Hopkins. They're part of the class that created this problem, that they're now crying about.

    • ButtBidet [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

      advanced, unlike those other programs which are really basic

      nerd

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 months ago

    "This is all part of the long game for Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi, who for years have sought to counter accusations that their regimes are tyrannies by attacking American democracy."

    This is just hilarious the amount of laced up soda their propagandists drink before writing these masterpiece of a dogshit.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    God, I guess Amerika needs a more democratic political system, else Russia will win.

  • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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    3 months ago

    The central pillar of capitalism will crumble. Shits going to get even worse here for a while, but I'm happy that other countries are going to thrive.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Beijing’s Global Times mouthpiece quoted an anonymous American voter saying, “There must be something wrong with the system,” and another claiming that the U.S. democracy was failing.

    So the Global Times does a better job of reporting the state of mind of the American voter than the NYT.

    They have tried to plant the idea among their own people and their sympathizers in the West and developing nations that the United States is not a democracy at all but a dysfunctional oligarchy in terminal decline.

    So if Trump wins, will they accuse anyone saying he’s destroying democracy and turning America into a fascist oligarchy of being a Putin stooge?

    What matters is to demonstrate that the American elections in November will be a farce, in which voters are being duped into choosing between two equally unpalatable options.

    So reflecting reality, got it.

    Mr. Xi’s disastrous Covid policies that sapped business confidence and lengthened China’s recovery

    Shall we compare the death tolls?

    America, by contrast, has so far managed to bounce back from its deepest crises.

    Line on chart went up!