by “i’m going to call this one here” i meant “i’m ending this particular post right here.” in other words, i had more i wanted to say, but was extremely tired and stopped there.

you can tell me if i am misrepresenting you in some way, but here is what i’m getting from your post.

i’d like to turn this around a bit and ask you this: what pro-china evidence *will* you accept? given that you have now openly stated that there is ‘no point’ in addressing anything i say, i really want to know what evidence could be provided to you by *anyone* that you wouldn’t simply dismiss out of hand.

oh ya ya i know you’re not saying that, it’s just when i see surface-level criticisms that maybe aren’t ideal, my instinct is to go “ok but why does this criticism exist and what value can we get out of it” if that makes any sense. anyway i get what youre saying for sure!

imo criticism of the federal reserve is really about recognizing the depravity of the system it exists to help maintain. that the federal reserve is simply operating as it is supposed to is exactly the point; it is objectively silly that we live under a system whose successful maintenance “requires” intentional…

certainly libertarians have a terrible analysis, but it’s useful to point out that regular people have seemingly no control over the fact that the government can just decide that more people “must” suffer from unemployment. meanwhile rich people dont suffer at all, to say the least. i dont think the government needs…

i don’t understand what you mean by that being a dog whistle? 

this is what often happens. I point out that china is being singled out, people go “we’re not singling out china,” but then in the same breath they indeed come out and say something like “well it’s clearly worse than the united states,” or at the very least “the united states is clearly not worse than china.” this is…

this is really well-worded and idk how kinja works so i’m replying to it on the off-chance that it helps get it out of the greys

so you’ve looked through my posts, you’ve seen yourself that like 80-90% of the comments i make are specifically on the topic of china. you may have therefore seen my multiple extended conversations with people where i am painstakingly trying to explain various misconceptions about china to them. if youve seen enough…

this is not one stopped clock though. this is huge huge number of stopped clocks from far right extremists to ‘centrists’ and ‘progressives’ in the west. somehow, all of these stopped clocks are perfectly coordinated when it comes to one specific thing, which is that china cannot be trusted, is dangerous to americans…

would they be saying “twitter is an american spyware app,” specifying the country like that? if it were british, would they be saying “british spy app”? i would say probably not.

i assume you are talking about the united states there?

okay, so if tucker carlson, who is extremely popular, does not count, here is msnbc: https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/inside-a-real-life-war-game-china-and-u-s-square-off-over-taiwan-139871301745

where are you that china is pointing weapons at you? it’s the united states that is intentionally provoking china. they are doing this because china is becoming more powerful and independent, and they do not want this. there are many cases where we can see this idea being pushed. for example there was a guest on…

people here have literally linked to sources that quote people like ted cruz who are specifically using the tik tok thing as an intentional anti-china racist thing. it’s nothing that’s being imagined at all. i recommend reading some of my other posts so you can see my points. im in middle of work so cant go beyond…

you should read some of my other comments in order to understand this. there isn’t a whole lot i can say in this one that would add on to what i’ve already said to other people.

i remember seeing a clip 60 minutes interview where they were acting like china intentionally sent us an ‘opium version’ of tiktok and it was so enraging!

so i want to clarify the point of my initial comment because i 100% get why you’re reacting in this way, and i have a couple other people who have made similar remarks.

sounds good to me