Take that, China!

5 days ago by حمید پیام عباسی to c/memes

carotte 127 points 5 days ago

hey usa, china is building tons of high-speed rail. they're the leaders in decarbonizing their energy mix. they're building tons of housing to handle population growth. they're financing infrastructure projects in the global south. why not try beating them at all that?

no? just wars again? okay.

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Malyca 52 points 4 days ago

Chinese people own their homes too

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Zerush 34 points 4 days ago

Even with more property rights. If you own a house and you don't want to sell it when they want to build a new highway, they build the highway surrounding your house, instead of expropriating you like in western countries.

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carotte 30 points 4 days ago

tbh living there in the middle of a highway would be hell

it is disappointing how despite how ahead china is in terms of public transit, they still build car-centric infrastructure like this. at least, unlike north america, shitty car-centric infrastructure is not all there is lol

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Nonconfrontational 5 points 3 days ago

If you'll notice, it's a 4 lane highway, which is medium level traffic, because most people take the train or electric scooters. In America this would be an 8 lane highway or bigger.

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anotherspinelessdem 22 points 4 days ago

I've never had to use the term 'Passive-Aggressive Infrastructure' before but I'm here for it and loving it

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tpyo 12 points 4 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_house

Spite houses, but I like yours, too

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axx 10 points 4 days ago

Fascinating as it may be, that's a pretty horrible picture.

Imagine living that house. It's a pretty stark demonstration of the state gets what it wants, one way or another.

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Nonconfrontational 5 points 3 days ago

Should have taken the settlement.

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Cowbee 1 point 14 hours ago

That's why it's important to recognize that the state serves its ruling class, which in China's case is the proletariat. That's why they are far more leniant and even allowed this situation in the first place.

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NigelFrobisher 3 points 4 days ago

Tell that to the farmhouse in the middle of the M62.

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cowboykermit 3 points 4 days ago

Not quite the same as it was to do with the landscape, but one of my personal favourites:

Stott Hall Farm

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UnderpantsWeevil 73 points 5 days ago

It is absolutely maddening to see American pundits defend every dumbshit, ruinous, genocidal policy over the last twenty years by pointing at China and claiming, "We had to show them we were the boss".

From AI to A-bombs, there's nothing you can't get away with by insisting "China Bad! This will stop them!"

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ZombiFrancis 16 points 5 days ago

We are operating from a position of strength!

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NaoPb 11 points 4 days ago

They can't admit the only reason has been "Money!"

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anotherspinelessdem 7 points 4 days ago

And not even the country's, just that of a few old pedophiles trying to rape some life out of children in a vain attempt to feel youth again before the grave takes them

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axx 9 points 4 days ago

It's a very convenient go-to excuse. And as long as the American public keeps lapping it up, those in power will keep counting on it.

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dessalines 49 points 4 days ago

The US is basically a "this is good for bitcoin", but as a country.

Its slow, humiliating, public suicide is even more pathetic than great britain's.

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Nonconfrontational 7 points 3 days ago

I, for one, think it's funny.

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HiddenLayer555 47 points 4 days ago

China: "Wow they're a lot less tough than we thought"

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PhoenixDog 5 points 4 days ago

They lost how many soldiers in that?

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dessalines 19 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure how many US imperial troops died, but they did lose a good amount of aircraft:

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PhoenixDog 12 points 4 days ago

So glad that American's voted for the "No more wars" president while hoping for a better cost of living.

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dessalines 17 points 4 days ago

The US is not a democracy, its a one-party capitalist empire, and even its controlled opposition wing wanted to go to war with Iran for a long time. The democrats under Biden also massively increased funding to Israel to help destroy palestine:

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BottleBoardBakon 38 points 5 days ago

I'd put money on China being able to pwn the USA with the click of a button. We know about salt typhoon, and there's been documented backdoors in IoT devices and some Unitree bots. Imagine all the things we don't know about. Especially regarding power generation and general aging infrastructure.

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Nonconfrontational 28 points 4 days ago

Buddy, I could tell you that based on the fact that they've lost every single war they've been in since WWII.

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spacesatan -6 points 4 days ago

Tell that to Saddam and Gaddafi.

lol the downvote. Did those governments that no longer exist actually win the wars that caused them to cease existing?

*this doesn't mean they were good or justified. If anyone thinks I implied or said that you need to learn how to read.

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Nonconfrontational 9 points 4 days ago

No, but the resulting insurgency forced America out in retreat? Do you think America won't he Iraq war lmao?

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PolandIsAStateOfMind 5 points 4 days ago

1st Iraq was a clear win, both militarily and strategically. 2nd Iraq and Libya were strategic victories because the real purpose was to maintain the petrodollar, which was attained.

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spacesatan -2 points 3 days ago

Do you think Saddam's government won? The US won the war with Iraq if not the war with the insurgency.

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pticrix 34 points 4 days ago

I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they're only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.

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sangeteria 15 points 4 days ago

Americans should consider doing mathematical convolution instead. Very important for functional analysis with deep connections to the Laplace, and thus Fourier, transforms.

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 9 points 4 days ago

rimshot

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subverted_per 8 points 4 days ago

Oh no, debate clubs are actually very good at teaching kids how to discern good information from bad, and how to make proper arguments with supporting evidence. Right wing media teaches gish gallop and never be wrong, it's these two ideas that have taken over discourse.

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pticrix 7 points 4 days ago

I will have to take your word on that. Got to admit my opinion is based on a limited set of people I had the displeasure of interacting with.

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djsoren19 1 point 3 days ago

Really depends on the debate club, there are plenty in conservative areas that are basically just right-wing influencer spawning grounds

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mfed1122 7 points 4 days ago

Unironically many debate clubs practice and teach this

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mecen 31 points 5 days ago

I thing losing $400b will greatly help to put china in its place

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panda_abyss 22 points 5 days ago

China and Iran are allies.

If the US and China go to war Iran will close the strait to their enemies. And we’ve seen the US is impotent to that and overly reliant on oil.

I think China just has to deal with a first strike from the US and then wait for an impotent United States to fall apart and starve.

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axx 16 points 4 days ago

How can people be so delusional?

"When their salary depends on it" is a decent first answer.

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Tiger666 13 points 4 days ago

Whoever wrote this is an idiot.

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sudo 8 points 3 days ago

That would be Henry Gao.

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Tiger666 1 point 3 days ago

Is that the person who publishes the Epoch times in Canada? Or is it the Falun gong nut cases? Someone entirely different who I havent heard of yet? Please I need to know what propaganda machine published this.

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sudo 1 point 3 days ago

No just some Singaporean Professor. His twitter handle is in the image. https://x.com/henrygao

Oh no his account has been suspended.

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musicjunkie 4 points 3 days ago

Not an idiot they are an intelligence asset. When all the evidence shows America couldn’t have and isn’t winning the war, anyone pushing the war agenda isn’t just a retard they are probably knowingly pushing the psyop. Any blue check claiming America has done anything but blunder this entire conflict probably gets paid by the CIA

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MonkderVierte 1 point 3 days ago

The operation you mean?

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Ardha 9 points 3 days ago

Yeah giving away the weakness of all our equipments iranians hurt to china is such a huge deterrant bruv

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ICastFist 7 points 5 days ago

Remember folks, the guy is a master of the deal

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SnarkoPolo 6 points 4 days ago

And as His Orangeness has said, Ghina is expensive.

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Mangoholic 6 points 3 days ago

The war was a shit show by a shitty government.

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Athena5898 1 point 2 days ago

By a shitty country*

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Bloomcole 5 points 4 days ago

China couldn't give a shit about supposed US deterrence.
Henry knows that, he also knows that China receives the largest share of oil exports passing through the Strait of Hormuz, accounting for 37.7% of the trade route's total volume.
That is why they had their own blockade.

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marxismtomorrow 7 points 4 days ago

And yet oil prices in China did not move once during the entirety of the US' bitchfit.

So...

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Bloomcole 6 points 4 days ago

So China compensated from other sources?
Used alternative energy sources?
Used reserves?

It proves only that the US plan failed.
That doesn't negate their motives

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Nonconfrontational 3 points 3 days ago

The US didn't have a plan, lmao. Israel convinced them that Iran would fall in days or weeks. Israel is a bloodthirsty settler colonial project and Americans are removed. A match made in heaven.

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Bloomcole 1 point 3 days ago

naive and simplistic

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garbage_world -1 points 3 days ago

I find that hard to believe, since the prices rose everywhere in the world, proof?

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marxismtomorrow 2 points 3 days ago

Literally any news source. Here's one. But every one has wrote about how "China has confounded analysts"

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garbage_world -3 points 3 days ago

Okay, fine, but this report says nothing about prices for consumers.

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Gates9 5 points 3 days ago

🎶We’ve only just beguuuuuun🎶

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Smeef 5 points 3 days ago

LMAO

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spicehoarder 9 points 3 days ago

Love your instance name

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bloviate 2 points 3 days ago

Oh no, not 2 summer holidays!

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CoolSouthpaw 0 points 3 days ago

Ah yes, Henry Gao the race traitor. Heh.

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LovableSidekick -15 points 4 days ago

So you're saying distracting Americans from the Epstein files had nothing to do with it? LOLOL

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ZeroHora 13 points 4 days ago

Americans famously can't hold more than one idea at time, if Trump shit his pants tomorrow the entire investigation of Epstein is gone.

Please president, hold your shit!!!

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S 15 points 4 days ago

Americans famously can't hold more than one idea at time

This but unironically. AmeriKKKan liberals are perpetually born-yesterday.

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Nioxic -19 points 5 days ago

Show china youre the boss by taking hong kong back and making it independent

And protecting them and taiwan

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Objection 37 points 5 days ago

Yeah, sometimes I feel like we should just get it over with and start global thermonuclear war for no reason too. Just end it all, you know?

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Darkenfolk 12 points 4 days ago

We had a good run, it's time for the mole people to have a chance.

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Nonconfrontational 8 points 4 days ago

We've got enough C.H.U.D's on the surface already, lol

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Nonconfrontational 24 points 5 days ago

Hong Kong, the city that Britain commandeered from the Chinese?

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dessalines 17 points 4 days ago

by taking hong kong back

And returning it to British imperial rule?

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Transform2942 12 points 5 days ago

This plan is around 100 years out of date

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ZeroHora 8 points 4 days ago

Drop the cheese is not doing you well.

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marxismtomorrow 8 points 4 days ago

Rhodesia is that way → ....oops, too soon?

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Cowbee 1 point 14 hours ago

Why are you arguing for recolonization of Hong Kong and Taiwan?

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