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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by jariel on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:44PM (#26244000)
" dictatorship mostly see people in democracies as hypocrite imperialists who lie to themselves about who truly rules."

Han China is the most Imperial place on earth, and possibly has been since antiquity. 100x more ethnocentric and classically Imperial that America ever remotely was for example.

Isn't it interesting that someone could contemplate even writing such a thing?

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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by eunos on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:46PM (#26244026)
forget manifest destiny ?
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Re:I built ByteDance's censorship machine by jariel on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @06:02PM (#26244197)
Go ahead and compare 'Manifest Destiny' to Han Chinese Imperialism of the last 2000 years, that exercise will enlighten us all.

As part of 'Manifest Destiny', make sure sure to include the dozens of major states like Korea, Japan, Germany, France, Italy that the US liberated from other conquerors at great cost, and others it provides support for at some cost. Like Taiwan.

If the US were an Imperial Power, all the Oil in Iraq and in Saudi Arabia would belong to it.

Ironically, as the US 5th Fleet today provides protection for all merchant craft in the Gulf at this very moment, so that that everyone is free to move, buy and sell from/with whom they please - considerably more of that Oil goes to China than the US.

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