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You don't like war and propaganda but are "also 100% fine with China taking back Taiwan, that's only fair"? Not compatible.

Aside: This reminds me that pro-CCP astroturfing has been increasingly prevalent and visible on the fediverse recently...

As a US citizen, it's absolutely none of my business.

And yet you chose to highlight it, unprompted, in a conversation where it is off-topic.

Besides, military invasion of an independent non-aggressive country is a global concern. Like Russia invading Ukraine was or a hypothetical US invasion of Venezuela would be.

I was responding to the parent comment that brought it up.

If you don't like "war, freeways, genocide, propaganda", it's a bit incoherent to be backing China.

Why? We’re significantly worse on all of that than China.

I would argue no on genocide, but mixed on war (if you include China's occupations) - I can see the argument for it though. I'm not clear where you stand on freeways, but it seems like a weird one to sandwich between 'war' and 'genocide'. As for propaganda, that can go unmentioned.

Our entire country was formed via genocide and we’ve killed millions of innocent people in the past 80 years alone.

If that's your main contention, I have bad news about Chinese history.

Toss in the current treatment of the Uyghur population and I think you've got a good argument against China on this one.

China is not murdering millions of people halfway across the globe on a regular basis. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, everything Israel touches with our bombs...

If you wanted to conflate war with genocide, you shouldn't have listed them separately.

"War" is what we call genocide when we commit it.

What does China call it when they do it?

How many counties has China invaded in the last 50 years? How many miles of train tracks has the US laid in the last 50? Which county has directly fueled the horrors in Gaza? Like what world are you living in?

why focus on invasions rather than occupations?

china hasnt pulled out of tibet, or xinjiang, and its pretty clearly an occupying force there in the same way the the US was in iraq/Afghanistan, israel in gaza, or russia in ukraine.

china been continuously doing the bad behaviour that the US is only sometimes doing

It's an occupying force there the same way the US is in Puerto Rico and Hawaii.

lol when is the US going to withdraw from Texas, New Mexico and California

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