For the record, every major country is enagaged in Political Warfare against their enemies so I’ve said nothing controversial. Secondly, China is not inherantly bad or inherantly virtuous. They participate on the global stage just like everyone else, so you should ask yourself why you immediately dismiss China’s agency here. Finally, and most importantly, China’s approach to Political Warfare is laid out in the Three Warfares doctine, and has been well-documented. You can read more about it here if you’re really interested acting in good faith: https://sci-hub.ru/10.1080/01402390.2013.870071

If not, you can continue to label people who say things you don’t like as conspiracy theorists. Oh and I’m not a Democrat, I’m probably further to the left than most people on this app but I don’t worship or apologise for vast and powerful nation states. Whether that’s China or anyone else.

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Their comment history is literally just Fox News. Covers the full gamut from trans athletes to Hunter Biden conspiracies. I didn’t know these people existed on Lemmy

I think it’s important to make such arguments without neglecting to point out that some very real, very desperate people are counting on the assistance USAID currently provides. People will die because of this.

A much less evil way to handle this is to reroute the funds to some benign organisation who will carry out the existing functions of USAID. But that’s not what Musk is doing. There’s no nuance. Much like his first month at Twitter, he’s just taking a wrecking ball to the government and seeing what’s left standing. Unfortunately the largest imperialist arms of the US government (State Department, DoD) are still left standing, while the one that is currently relied upon by some of the most desperate souls on the planet has been destroyed.

It was no secret that USAID was an arm of the State Department and used as a smokescreen for CIA business. But that won’t matter to all the mothers who will watch their infants die because Musk pulled the plug with no warning

That’s literally what USAID was for. For spreading anti-communist, pro-capitalist, sentiment by feeding the needy. Until the world’s evilest richest man got rid of it and showed how nakedly corrupt the US political system is

Let’s not forget that China is actively engaged in political and information warfare against the West. Any hypocrisy they can point out will just contribute to the fracturing of alliances between the West and the rest of the world. So it very much benefits them, strategically and financially, to point out stuff like this. Not that I think the people of Gaza will care about the selfish reasons a superpower might have for speaking up for them

It’s pretty insane that choosing the default instance is seen as being indicative of your politics

It was a quid pro quo with the Trump transition team. He gave them a big win and made Biden look ineffectual on the way out. Then Trump got into office and rewarded Bibi with a very very favourable outcome

The red flag was when Trump learned it was called the gaza strip and started talking about how it was a ‘beautiful’ piece of real estate

The North American mind can’t comprehend cities where there’s no split between residential/urban areas, and every mode of public transportation goes from your house to anywhere you want. Even the next town or country

Read it so you don’t have to: It’s a troll.

Block and move on.

Pretty sure that’s an easter egg that Google put in. Like when you search ‘Alex Trebek’ and it says ‘Did you mean: who is alex trebek’

He was also cornered on this since Chrystia Freeland was so loud about Ottawa needing to take action

Except he’s staking the country’s future on being an ‘AI superpower’, so there’s no chance he does anything to piss off big tech

No but I’d like to. I’d unironically join a supportive Linux noob community. One where we can also complain without fear of reprisals

This is actually hilarious. It looks like the entire sub is just people posting anti-Linux memes and being downvoted to death

Neuralink beaming unskippable ads into your head

For Lemmy just replace racism with unsolicited Linux advice

It’s not weird but please consider therapy, friend

Disappointing but understandable since the reports are saying other government officials, including his foreign secretary had to step in. I’m sure the argument that his personal reputation or issues with Trump destroying the Colombian economy was compelling enough