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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hehe.. Go go China !! Crush those scamming mofo's from the US controlled sphere of influence..

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Competition is good. Two spheres of influence.

Chinese sphere of influence is not good. Theirs includes the worst countries in the world, like North Korea, and Russia.

[–] j_overgrens@feddit.nl 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

spheres of influence

Let's aim for a world without spheres of influence, shall we?

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

So you mean a power vacuum?

How well did that go for Iraq?

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Production of basic necessities and planning an economy is good. China build so many apartments they now have 90% home ownership instead of treating housing as a speculative asset. Now they caught up in high tech and in will be producing highest tech computer chips. And they are building nuclear power plants so you can actually buy AI tokens that do not contribute to the destruction of our world.

Also North Korea is far less dire than depicted these days. I wouldn't want to live there but life expectancy is something like 74 years so overall it's probably far from the worst country on earth.

You shouldn't trust the mainsteam western media or institutions about any of this.

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

US Sphere of influence includes Israel, not exactly great TBH.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, pulling the "America are good guys, China are bad guys" card at a time when America are unwavering allies and supporters of the nation who is openly doing in the XXI century the same kind of thing as the Nazis did, with equal levels of inhumanity and ultra-racist violence, doesn't have quite the same power as it did even a decade ago (though even then the whole Iraq invasion thing had already showed the American "moral high ground" as being mainly a tall pile of mainly middle eastern corpses).

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep. At the current rate neither the Chinese nor American states will save us. Neither want democracy or liberty for the average person and value control over any other moral principle.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

Different performative elements and mechanisms for determing the subset of people who are priviledged elites, same operating principles.