The United States pays interest on approximately $850 billion in debt held by the People’s Republic of China. China, however, is currently in default on its sovereign debt held by American bondholders.

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    1 year ago

    These concepts are perverted into justification for actions that are either entirely irrelevant or only related to these values through a very, very specific lens.

    An example is family values being used as a cudgel against acceptance of LGBTQ individuals/communities for quite some time now. Or how “communism” quickly became a synonym for “not explicitly conservative”.