Oh yes the Chinese Communist Party, the cake and eat it too party, where it somehow is able to access global markets and benefit from international trade rules, freely able to meddle in international affairs while embellishing its own interests.
It’s mind blowing how the desperation of late stage capitalism allows the CCP to operate within these frameworks.
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This guy gets it.
Businesses didn’t start pretending to care about civil rights until it was profitable.
It only became profitable because the ones saying no had their factories burned down.
Corporations would do literally anything for their “mah quarterly profits and mah shareholders”.
Seriously, people need to keep this in their mind at all times. Every single publicly traded company in the world would happily throw a bus full of children into a volcano if it got them a fraction of a point in next quarter’s numbers.
Yet people still defend the system that enables these greedy fucks, as if greedy fucks don’t exist and corporations will toootally work in a logical manner…
Peoples’ hubris toward the evils of their neighbors will be the death of humanity. Someone who fires a bunch of people to save money isn’t a “boss making hard decisions” They’re an asshole throwing people away to protect profit.
Sounds like you described every superpower.
I’m confused, you use the term late stage capitalism, but you don’t see that China is clearly not the worst offender of meddling in intl. affairs to suit their own interests. Like, America has even more access to global markets than China does, and also meddles way harder. Literally overthrowing governments, rewriting laws, or just straight up bombing to dust levels of meddling.
Ah yes, the ol’ “but america worse” argument.
Explain why it’s bad argument in this situation. To me it seems nonsensical to criticize a country that isn’t remotely as bad as the worst people doing what you accuse them of.
It’s whataboutism.
It’s not whataboutism if the what about subject is literally worse on this specific topic. In order to be deflection, you need to be changing the subject.
It is exactly whataboutism. You are shifting the focus of the discussion by saying “what about america? They are worse.” The subject was not america being shit (it is) it was about China.
You are aware that more than one country is capable of being shit at the same time?
Say some country was denying Jews the right to vote, and we were living in 1940-1945. If you were criticizing that country, would it be whataboutism for me to tell you to shut up about them, because Germany is a far bigger problem for Jews? No, because in comparison to Nazi Germany, denying the right to vote is irrelevant. In terms of level of meddling in intl affairs, I do not think China is a relevant player in the arena when considering the top offender.
I’m just surprised it was the Republicans to back Stewart up.
There’s an aspect to Jon they like… Or at least use to their own advantage.
Jon tends to be pretty hard on China. Remember the controversy over his off-the-cuff comments as Colbert’s guest about covid and China?
I’d be more impressed if Congress was under scrutiny for their ties to China. And Russia. And Saudi Arabia.
China makes the hardware, I thought this was common knowledge. Of course they have Apple by the balls
Apple manufacturing moved a lot out of China. China still has a lot of the raw materials they need, and in quantities they need them, but recently Apple knows it needs to be faborable to them especially right now, if for nothing else to preserve the Chinese market share they currently have and try and keep relationships amicable post manufacturing move.
Free market go brrrrrr
There’s no such thing as a few market, never was. they fooled you
Not anymore.
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I was a fool like many, but no more.
The key question to ask when some exclaims in favor of free markets is always “free for who?”.
Free for who?
When I say a sandwich is free, who is it free for? There’s no such thing as a free sandwich. Someone bears the cost.
How do lawmakers demand something that isn’t a law?
Anyone can demand anything
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I demand you take that back!
The bigger story to me is that there is a House Select Committee on competition with the Chinese communist party.
I would hope China has an equivalent. Competition like this in science and arts only elevates humanity. It’s military competition we have to be careful of.
This would be a bigger deal if anyone had actually watched the first 2 seasons.
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If you really want to get serious about Chinese interference, this is a discouraging sign. An example of doing the bare minimum for the lowest of stakes.
Maybe start with Tik Tok and go from there?
You’re allowed to criticize China on TikTok.
As an aside, your name is weirdly relevant. I read it and thought for a second that you made the account specifically for this comment, but nope, it seems to be a coincidence.
lol. Nah, someone told me not to make my username Tim.
