• minorkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    He invented a threat to which the only solution is giving him more power.

    You don’t have to even look at the details.

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    Pretty sure China wouldn’t mind an utter imbecile as US president every single time.

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      That is a careful what you wish for.

      Not so smart as to challenge competitively, but not so dumb as to think they can go bombing whoever they feel like to get their way.

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        I’m not wishing anything, just stating the obvious. And if anything, Trump has made it much much more likely that other countries will use force to fulfill their perceived interests. You’d have to be asleep not to realize it.

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          Perhaps I should have put it in quotes, “careful what you wish for” intended as the expression and “you” being China.

          An imbecile is desirable in some ways to have the USA act against it’s own best interests making competitive interests easier, however when the imbecile goes and bombs Iran, that is a problem. And who knows what bone head move to screw things up for everyone comes next.

          In some ways an imbecile is harder to predict and negotiate with.

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    Yes that was the goal. And if he doesn’t get that bill passed (and frankly even it goes through) then Americans will be saying hello to his private army dragging people off at the polls. This has been predicted since day 1. The only thing this speech did was start getting his troops in motion. Everyone knows there was no proof of anything except the opposite of what he said in those documents, but that wasn’t the point because his cultists don’t read.

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    Good thing this is paywalled.

    Guess the end of democracy isn’t enough of a crisis for a f*ing newspaper to let people find out about it without a subscription fee.

    America may be dying but at least it’s dying doing what it loves - playing chicken with disaster for a quick buck while pretending nobody has any responsibility to anybody else.

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      Do you expect these journalists to work for free? Sure they could make the site ad supported but then you have to deal with that.

      Edit: since you didn’t respond to me and just downvoted, I’ll take your answer as “yes”.

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    Ah, so we’re into the paranoid delusional phase of the dementia onset now. What fun!

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    The CCP and PLA knew MAGA would weaken the USA and that is what they want. There are enough dumbfuck voters in the USA that will continue to guzzle down the shit from Moscow and Beijing.

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    I remember when all this came out. Came out with the stuff about the Russian’s doing the same thing. Which if they called that the Russia hoax, and Russia was shown to be much more effective at it, what do we call this?

    The research showed that the Chinese propoganda machine was super ineffective on American politics, but very effective on ethnically and nationally Chinese people, which is why they now have police stations all over the world which can capture and extradite Chinese people and Chinese national Uighars around the world.

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        On which, that the Chinese effort wasn’t as effective on the general American populace as the Russian campaign, or the Chinese police stations? For the latter it’s related to the Safeguard report release in 2016 of which multiple governments confirmed the grand diaspora government program had created hundreds of non embassy 'service stations" that just happened to be related to credible reports of tracking and intimidation. Of which a dude was just convicted in the US for, when they went after him, him and his partner started burning shit like they were a Russian embassy.

        Or the ineffective but present propoganda efforts by the prc that resulted in multiple news agencies being required to register as foreign agents in 2018 and an increase in IRA style social media campaigns around the covid pandemic.

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            Always take it with a grain of salt! Don’t gotta trust us American pig dogs too much, you got French, English, German, Dutch. Man you name it they got it on the creepy NGO Chinese police “service stations”.

            None of this is to say the Americans don’t do the same shit and worse, the American government mad at foreign interference by Chinese and Russians is like the fucking Spiderman meme.

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          In Montreal, not New York City, or France:

          https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/two-arrested-operating-illegal-overseas-police-station-chinese-government

          As alleged in the complaint, Lu and Chen are charged with conspiring to act as agents of the PRC government as well as obstructing justice by destroying evidence of their communications with an MPS official. The defendants worked together to establish the first overseas police station in the United States on behalf of the Fuzhou branch of the MPS. The police station – which closed in the fall of 2022 after those operating it became aware of the FBI’s investigation – occupied a floor in an office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown. While acting under the direction and control of an MPS Official, Lu and Chen helped open and operate the clandestine police station. None of the participants in the scheme informed the U.S. government that they were helping the PRC government surreptitiously open and operate an illegal MPS police station on U.S. soil.

          “The PRC, through its repressive security apparatus, established a secret physical presence in New York City to monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical of its government,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “The PRC’s actions go far beyond the bounds of acceptable nation-state conduct. We will resolutely defend the freedoms of all those living in our country from the threat of authoritarian repression.”

          https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/06/18/france-shuts-down-clandestine-chinese-police-stations-operating-on-its-territory_6754608_7.html

          “Since early 2026, French counterintelligence services have dismantled nine clandestine structures operating in France under the direction of China’s Ministry of Public Security. The sites were notably used to track down dissidents.”

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              “Monday, April 17, 2023”

              Who was President in 2023? 😉

              Citing the arrest documents of Chinese nationals operating an illegal police station to intimidate dissidents, thoroughly disproving your “debunked” link from a different city and country.

              Take the “L”, move on, and don’t report comments you disagree with when they are materially factual.

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                  No, it’s proof you think Trump was President a year before he was re-elected and 2 years before he was actually President.

                  Have you considered changing your username to “confidentlywrong” instead of “Nonconfrontational”?

                  DEFINITELY more on brand.

                  Again, you lose sir, I award you no points.