• whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    it’s funny how people just think that if someone disagree with them, the go-to attack is to say they don’t really care. I do believe you really care about your stupid job and prices of video games consoles and cars or whatever lol

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      9 months ago

      Yeah I get it.

      You don’t give a shit about our 70 year friendship with Taiwan. To the point you couldn’t even acknowledge it in your most recent post to me. That’s cool, you’re the kind of guy who wants us to give up on our long-term friendships because of “imperialism”.

      You got your chance, and you took it. You ignored the most important part of my argument yet again, the long-running friendship between our countries. Whoever reads these posts in the future: that’s the threat our country faces. Apathy, Nihilism, ignorance of history, betrayal of friends. And these people will offer fake crocodile tears and fake-care about imperialism.

      I think I’ve pushed this discussion far enough to prove my point. Not to you of course, but for everyone else in the future. Thanks for the discussion.

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        9 months ago

        You’re trying to appeal to patriotism to support a war abroad, that’s like textbook imperialism lmao

        But anyway, I was just using the word imperialism because that’s how you were justifying the war with China. I don’t think it matters which evil global superpower has control over a particular region. The US and China are both imperialist countries, so it’s a useless argument to say we should fight China to stop an imperialist power. For what? So we can be the stronger imperialist power? If you want to send your kids off to war for that, idk maybe sign them up for football instead.

        Why should I care about “friendship”? Literally why does that matter. We’re also “friends” with Israel.

        You’re just giving up on the discussion because you don’t want to have to admit that you are willing to send people to DIE for your cheap computer parts.

        If you’re someone who truly cares about imperialism, maybe stop advocating for wars abroad with our hugely inflated military, and start advocating for Native American land back.

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          9 months ago

          Yet another post talking about abstract issues and nothing substantial about Taiwan. Got it.

          Proudly display that ignorance. Its fitting for you.

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              Yarr yarr Imperialism. I’m 15 and this is deep.

              Long standing relationships between countries, people, defense, economic ties don’t matter. All that matters is imperialism. But not the kind that Chinese would do if they attacked other countries. That imperialism we should just let happen because other imperialism happening elsewhere is a bigger deal.

              Its silly to care about other countries. Except when you care about Gaza, that is more important than huge economic, societal, political, and military relationships that have lasted decades across the pacific. Yaaarrrr, Israel bad.

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                9 months ago

                You’re making fun of caring about imperialism, but the whole reason you said it was important to go to war with China (aside from the computer chips) was that you said China is imperialist.

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                  9 months ago

                  caring about imperialism

                  You don’t care about Chinese expansionism (aka Imperialism). So don’t give me that bullshit.

                  Look, you can pretend to care, or you can pretend to not care. When you pretend to do both, its… kind of hilarious and I like making fun of it.

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                    I don’t like either one, but why should the US be the world police for imperialism when the US is one of the most successful empires in history? Kind of amazing the amount of cognitive dissonance. You flipped out when I dared say anything about your job, but you’ve been continually mocking and insulting me the entire time.

                    You don’t care about stopping imperialism, you just want your country to have the stronger empire so you can keep your dumb job.