• VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      17 hours ago

      Yeah! Why would China spend that money on their people when they could spend it on their military and use their military to harass brown countries?

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        8 hours ago

        I mean, China does also spend on their military and harass brown countries.

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            4 hours ago

            Whataboutism.

            China is #2 in military spending after the USA.

            As for harassing brown people: well there’s the whole Uyghur thing. And the simmering fight with other countries over islands in the South China sea.

            Two things can be bad. These are not sports teams where one side wins and the other loses.

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              China is #2 in military spending after the USA.

              China plus the next 13 countries on the list can’t total US military spending. And I don’t even know if Israel + Ukraine should count, given how much of their military budget is just US foreign aid.

              As for harassing brown people: well there’s the whole Uyghur thing.

              The original “evidence” of 1 million Uyghurs in concentration camps stems from US propaganda outlets and far-right “researchers” like Adrian Zenz. These numbers could not be independently verified, and other media sources that repeat these claims merely cite each other or this original, US-backed research. Zenz himself is a known antisemitic conspiracy theorist, far-right evangelical, and Islamophobe who has written that the Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will be wiped out by God in a “fiery furnace”. Why would a German with such hateful views toward Jews and Muslims be such a champion of Uyghur rights? It was later found that Zenz had received $625,000 from Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon to help him fabricate the story of Uyghur genocide.

              Brother, you are sucking from the tailpipe of propaganda while your country is drowning in the blood of native peoples.

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                  2 hours ago

                  genocide denial

                  Brother, get your ass to Afghanistan and say that to any of the survivors of the US occupation.

                  You don’t care what genocide is. You just want some foreigner to eat your sins.

                  Also I’m not American

                  Did you clap for Yaroslav Hunka with the rest of your ilk?