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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 21 days ago

Noah Smith on "China's strategy"

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Noah Smith on "China's strategy"

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  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    The fact Iran and the US didn’t share a region really exposes this bullshit for what it is

    • Trying2KnowMyself [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      They do though? Iran is in the US.

      • ThermonuclearHoxha [comrade/them, mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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        Wait, are people saying it’s not? I checked Wikipedia and found this though?

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

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

        • Trying2KnowMyself [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          it’s not?

          I’m confused. This is, like, the exact opposite of what I said? You even added more evidence?

          E: oh damn, you edited with quickness.

          • ThermonuclearHoxha [comrade/them, mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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            Sorry for the ninja edit and glad we’re on the same page

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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          Tehrangeles

          It is a shopping, eating and gathering place for the large number (estimates range from 500,000–600,000) of Iranian-Americans and their descendants residing in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the largest such community outside of Iran.

          • ThermonuclearHoxha [comrade/them, mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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            Exactly, Tehrangeles is the capital of Iranistan, and it was moved around the time of the Iranian Revolution to be farther away from CIA headquarters on the East Coast to make it harder for them to do another coup like the one in 1953. Now the Americans suddenly realized they don’t like that the Iranians put their capital so close to all those military bases in California and that’s what the war’s about.

  • DasRav [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    Iran and the USA, famously in the same region.

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      actually earth is a region

  • save_vs_death [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    china keeps sabotaging us and all we have to do to stop this is to stop randomly attacking foreign countries, which is impossible for us to do

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    projection

    Imagine if he actually believes this though. Like entirely possible.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Noah must’ve recently read up on how MLs interpret the world today because this is just a perversion of the ML theory that the US has Ukraine for Europe, Israel for the Middle East, ROK/Taiwan for Asia, etc etc.

  • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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    China’s actual strategy vis-a-vis the USA:

    1. do nothing
    2. win
    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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      headline "CIA Uncovers Chinese Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States" with dateline 4/15/14 11:40AM, above an image with the caption "A recent photo of CPC president Xi Jinping actively engaged in the aggressive observation of American decay."

      (based on The Onion’s original version)

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    These people always project this shit so hard that I always expect that they’re setting up for a:

    Aha, you all thought it was bad for China to do it, but it’s actually the USA!

    But that part never comes…vegeta-pain

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    I’ll leave this here in case you missed this gem.

    Economic possibilities for Gaza - by Noah Smith

    It doesn’t hurt to dream of better days.

    NOAH SMITH

    OCT 19, 2023

    A sampling - he has a section called “Easy wins: tourism, tax haven, and natural gas”.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m tied down because a Chinese agent keeps shitting my pants

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Would be nice if this guy actually had noahpinions

    • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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      Daaaaaamn dragem

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    “CHINA MADE THE US ATTACK IRAN”

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    “China’s secret plan is to get all the countries the West has been antagonizing to combat the West!”

    Wow, what a brilliant and unique plan! Making alliances with people who share the same enemy.

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    He don’t Noah anything

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    If this were satire, it would be a banger

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Doesn’t that make all of those places the US’ attack dogs?

    And Iran and US aren’t in the same global region, WTF?

    • ThermonuclearHoxha [comrade/them, mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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      And Iran and US aren’t in the same global region, WTF?

      Then how is Iran destroying billions of dollars in US military equipment? Checkmate, tankies

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