The angle is that the Overton window shifted so far right that the disagreement is now which foreigners (and secret, domestic foreigners) are to blame for the country’s decline.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Frankly, it’skind of the opposite: the slavery part of the argument is obvious, simply because IIRC the model of chattel slavery the US south operated on was only viable through the constant flow of new people to feed into the meatgrinder. The “better off” part is kinda dubious.

Don’t bother. People here would rather have Putin as god-emperor than face the reality of institutional failure that got them here. Twice.

“Whatever happened to the non-aligned movement?”

“He’s over there.”

Clown-on-clown violence

Of course they do, but why waste a chance to appear as doing something?

Oh, sure, especially if it’s the same few users. It’s just mildly surprising to not even run into them.

That’s actually a very interesting map! I didn’t know the gulf is just large enough to not be entirely divvied up!

Really? You never ran into the endless “…furthermore, .ml must be defederated” posts?

CNN is just a bystander in this conflict

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…I miss r/aneurysmposting.

Oh, that’s as expected. What’s interesting, though, is the same exact argument pattern to other recent debacles. Like, “How dare TikTok/Progressives/Arabs side against us? Could it be they resent that we openly despise them and very recently fucked them over? No, that never happened, also Trump did it too! The only possible explanation for their hostility is that they’re ontologically evil, and we therefore have no choice but to continue openly despising them and trying to fuck them over!” Like, if this were a book, it would be panned for it’s heavy-handed hubris allegory.

It was not only bipartisan, it was, in fact, Trump’s idea initially.

And yet, the Democrats did run the campaign, and Biden was the one to actually sign the ban.

The resposes here are amazing. It’s stunning how quickly the memoryholing is kicking in.

Because otherwise they’d have to consider blaming someone not to their left.

I mean, there’s also that the Democrats ran a campaign to ban Tiktok.

If the healthcare is shit?

You’re overthinking it. It’s just a synonym for “Russian”, or maybe “enemy”.