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  • TheLastHero [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    from my admittedly limited conversations with irl Chinese people I think they have been ready to rumble for a few years now, I think America is severely underestimating their will and drive to avenge past humiliations. I keep thinking about this event that happened a couple years ago:

    The incident happened Saturday at Lujiang Middle School in Anhui province, some 400km west of Shanghai. A video clip posted on social media shows a student walking onto the stage, taking a microphone from a professor and shouting, “He only has money in his eyes, thinks learning is just for money, worships the West and panders to overseas powers.”

    “For what purpose do we study hard? It’s for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!” he added, echoing a phrase popularized by President Xi Jinping. “Do not cross-breed with Americans!” the student also said.

    Libs will say Xi is just brainwashing the children or whatever but we know better. They know their own history, and these really want this next fight to show the world just how far they’ve come.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      14 days ago

      Thinking about the opening to the blowback ep in the Korea season where the Americans are just crushing turkey dinner at Thanksgiving and the hardened PLA fighters are hiding in the hills with a small bag of oats and sneakers on in subzero weather.

      That revolutionary spirit is still very much alive. We would get our asses handed to us just by virtue of the fact that they own the means of production even if we were equally treat brained. But Trump is also dramatically underestimating the human will to sacrifice for a noble cause, which this very much is. They dont only have the means they also have solidarity, and a state that would be willing and incentivized to act with tools like price controls or direct subsidies. US doesn’t stand a chance.