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[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So... a couple of tomahawk missiles and a container of uniforms. Taiwan secured.

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[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We've had one, yes, but what about second proxy war?

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (67 children)

Imagine instead of complete surrender the confederacy retreated and held Texas, and China was selling them advanced weaponry. That’s what this is

[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is like if the Confederacy retreated to Catalina Island, massacred everyone there, and continued calling itself the rightful government of the entire continent afterward.

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[–] ineedaunion@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Money should go towards the poor and not the capitalist war machine.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

“Think of how many jobs building an aircraft carrier provides.” -An actual dog brained take, said to me IRL

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

I hate to quote fucking Eisenhower but even broken clocks etc etc...

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

Even he was warning us about the MIC, and now people say "what about those employed making bombers? Surely that's the only job they're capable of! What else would they do?"

[–] SnAgCu@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mfw they close down the dog-kicking factory, destroying thousands of honest jobs

:deeper-sadness:deeper-sadness

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[–] Bnova@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (74 children)

I got into an argument with a guy on Reddit because he kept insisting that Taiwan was a sovereign nation and I kept telling him that Taiwan does not view Taiwan as a sovereign nation. At one point he asked me if we sold weapons to China and when I said definitionally yes he lost his shit.

[–] NotErisma@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Im legit crying with how bad things have spiraled out in my end

IM FUCiKInfg DrOWNBING IN DEBT

HEALTHcARE??

FOOD ??????????

SOMETHING!!?!?!

PUHLEASE?!!?!?!?!?

[no you get slava ukraine and a bazillion guns to Taipei]

kitty-cri-screm

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[–] Fuckass@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

We will fight the Chinese to the last TSCM engineer

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can’t WAIT for Taiwan to turn into the next Ukraine 😍! The final victory of liberal democracy over the global 99% is imminent!

[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmitors: "if you're not anti-MIC at 15 you have no heart, but if you're not pro-MIC at 25 you have no brain"

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interesting paraphrase of the famous Churchill nonsense, which should give some of so called "leftists" here a pause, but alas, they only press the down arrow.

Lockheed left

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Lockheed left

War crimes with pink washed LGBT characteristics.

[–] rubpoll@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Democracies all over the world are ready to fight to the last Taiwanese child soldier!

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