• TheLastHero [none/use name]
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    1 day ago

    What country has the PRC defeated and turned into a tributary exactly? Not Tibet, Vietnam, India or Korea, and that's all I can think of for military conflicts. Only one of these flags pursues foreign conquest. Does the stupid meme maker think China is still run by the Ming Dynasty? Or is being a tributary when you sign voluntary trade agreements that disadvantage western powers?

  • Rom [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    Reminder that two thirds of developing nations have been sanctioned by the United States.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      Though not the entire country in a lot of those cases, but officials or other individuals within those countries, so it's not exactly true.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        1 day ago

        Remember that "targeted sanctions" don't exist. When a leader or industry in a country is sanctioned, that sanction applies to the whole supply chain.

        "Targeted sanctions" are about as harmless as pulling just a single link out of a bike chain.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 day ago

          I'm just saying it's not the whole country, not that it isn't harmful or even that it doesn't impact a lot of the country (and its trading partners)

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 day ago

      Wait im so confused by this. How do they think it works? I know how it works but can't figure out how they think it works.

    • Rom [he/him]
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      1 day ago

      This looks like a leftist meme with the flags swapped by an angry lib

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 days ago

    amerikkka: Congratulations Puerto Rico, we have defeated the vile Spanish and freed you from their vile tyranny!

    anakin-padme-2: So we're free to be an independent nation right?

    amerikkka: anakin-padme-3

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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    2 days ago

    If you believe in something hard enough, it becomes real, right? Isn't that that whole Idealism thing we are trying to harness? yeah-buddy

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Also: don’t look at Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria or anywhere where America has waged war, because you won’t see a prosperous trading partner.