Message from @Dig
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It's a similar trick the Jews pulled when they conquered Israel, although in their case it was more relatable, but still immoral.
The moment China stops trying to gobble up other nations, that's when we can maybe start considering it nationalist. Until then it's not a fitting label.
China had been planning military bases around India, also been invading Bhutan to build roads to India, it obviously wants to invade India. They have the debit generating belt and road that many developing African countries have falling into, also they have been kinda planning an invasion of Taiwan.
So why would they do that? Power of course.
Yep
Slow and methodical these days, slow and methodical. Subversion over time, not brutal regime change.
It's the core of China's whole policy, both nationally and internationally
If you take babysteps, people will eventually either forget, or get tired, or just get replaced by a new generation that doesn't remember
A painless conquest
aye, i was becoming complacent in the idea to start buying things from China, its so cheap! but reality is they want to specialize in manufacture make it impossible for competitors and then they can jack the price up, also in doing this they are racking up a massive debit for them selves. Hopefully that debit pops. And the party falls.
that might be a bit incoherent of me, 2 am bed time.
i fail to see how expanding means not nationalist
Well alright, I ready some more about it and apparently the term expansionist nationalism exists
Not a term that I've ever heard being used before, but I'll have to learn about it before I can say if I consider it valid or not. So I concede, you have a point.
China is nationalist, but it's a different kind of nationalism than we're used to. It's an assimilationist nationalism - absorb everything, make it chinese. Plus old school imperial and strategic planning (take stuff over and make it serve the state)
One China is not about "everything within these borders should be unified".
One China is about "Everything will become China"
"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
SHATTAP USA BOI NOT CHINESE ENOUGH YOU NEED USE MOAR SWOGANS
AHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHA
But seriously...
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Chile needs the 2nd amendment
LeBron be like
https://i.redd.it/v9ngkcwzi5t31.jpg
We should be in the debate channel actually
I don't think this is debate worthy.
It isn't heated enough.
I don't usually post in here but I was just having a shower thought and figured I'd share - just how many of the social, political, economic and cultural problems that humanity is having (and has had for the past 100 years) can be traced back to Karl Marx?
Seems like damn near every single one.
What do you fellas think?
Eh, maybe, a lot of issues are caused by human nature as well.
Fractional reserve banking seems to have caused a lot as well
Yeah, I suppose if ol' Karl had never existed, there'd still be bad ideas from another source
That too, Silent.
Just boggles my mind a little bit how influential on the course of human history Marx has been
I dont know id say that. Communism is at its root plutocracy, and those have been around forever.
All Marx did was put a rational/humanitarian veneer over it.
But plutocracy is highly unequal in all regards
The mighty and the wealthy rule over the rest to maintain their power, and the common man has either legally no voting rights, or effectively, since democracy gets undermined