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This is a good article on why pacifism has not helped us overturn injustice historically, and won't in the future.

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Is China Imperialist?

• Debunking the claim that "China is Imperialist"
• The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West. Full video here
• An African leader on the hypocrisy of those saying China is imperialist.
• China africa panel: if you want actual infrastructure, you go to China, not the west.
• Is China really imperialist? What's the difference between what Europe did to Africa, and what China is doing?
• Five imperialist myths about China's role in Africa.
• Evo Morales - Why China and Russia aren't imperialist, but the US is.
• US air force veteran Bill Brown breaks down the history of anti-chinese propaganda, and why China is not colonialist like the west.
• Yanis Varoufakis on China's foreign policy dealings with Greece and Africa.
• Vijay Prashad and Qiao Collective - Is China imperializing Africa?
• Danny Haiphong from BlackAgenaReport interview with Anya Parampil from thegrayzone: on the new cold war, and a myriad of lies about China.
• The Belt and Road Initiative: the antithesis of Colonialism.
• The war on China : and geopolitical significance of the belt and road initiative.
• China has forgiven over $10B in debt, over half to Cuba, but also including > 20 African nations, Pakistan, and Cambodia.
• After covid, China suspends debt repayment for 77 countries, promises > $2B USD and medical supplies as aid to help developing countries fight covid.
• President Xi pledges coronavirus vaccine to Africa first, helps fund African CDC headquarters.
• The chinese debt trap is a myth.
• China writes off $6M in debt to rwanda, provides another $60M in grants.
• China forgives over $78M in Cameroon debt.
• China writes off $36m Mozambican debt.
• China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.
• After a group of Guangdong landlords evicted a group of Africans, the CPC arrested them, apologized to the African Union, paid for hotels for the migrants, passed a series of anti-discrimination laws, and spent weeks going to all the restaurants, landlords, and taxis to warn them of the law.
• Nato's new enemy: the CPC.
• The western media's China hysteria.

Its more that you have internalized an pessimistic imperialist talking-point: your own country is run by sociopaths, and they tell you that every other country is too (whether they justify it being the natural order of things, realpolitik, or anything else. You should be even more skeptical when US leaders point at all their enemies and call them psychopaths, considering how many innocent people the US has and continues to murder. Essentially this meme:

In reality there are very few countries that exploit others, most want to work together politically and economically to better the lives of their people. Even the poorer capitalist countries, which are the majority, often have earnest leaders who are trying their best to escape the low-wage trap the imperialist countries have forced on them.

Here's an excellent comment by @davel on this.

Yeah colonizers are bad, but do you know who's worse? The people fighting back. /s

I banned that one now too.

Some common threads I'm seeing with these troll accounts:

• lemmings.world
• new account
• claim to be or know the creators
• make claims about the insecurity of an open source app
• blame china in some way

So you trust what the ppl bombing arabs have to say, over the arab countries themselves? Why?

No she doesn't, she voted abstain, not no, on Iron Dome: https://www.timesofisrael.com/aoc-seen-visibly-shaken-after-casting-vote-to-abstain-on-iron-dome-funding-bill/

They say that every time, and people are fooled each new election. The US system is not a democracy, but it's really good at convincing it's citizens that they live in one.

I'd recommend doing a search on lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, or hexbear on that. The only countries that have been pushing this line, are the countries that bomb muslims, and refuse to visit the region.

Muslim countries themselves, and the rest of the world, all of whom have sent delegations, deny that a genocide is occurring.

The major-policy shift: Not supporting an apartheid state that's killing thousands of innocent civilians.

The US can't even build high speed rail from LA to San Francisco, and they're no closer to even starting it than they were when they started talking about it 20 years ago. It's cooked.