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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by rayiner on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:54PM (#43143653)
“Soft power” as a term of art used by liberal internationalists is bullshit. It’s just a way to proselytize foreign countries in a way that makes them resentful.

E.g. Biden’s “human rights” push in Bangladesh. How did it help America to undermine the government’s ability to kill Islamists? It didn’t. It simply was ideologically captured Americans wanting to export their value system and use public dollars to do so.

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Re:DOGE's Only Public Ledger Is Riddled with Mistakes by alienthrowaway on Saturday February 22, 2025 @06:21PM (#43144327)
> Americans wanting to export their value system and use public dollars to do so

This is a cynical, but accurate definition of soft power: exerting your will using words.

Your argument is all over the place - you call soft power a "fake concept", and then "bullshit", and here, you seem to suggest that it works, but you don't agree with Biden ideologically? So which is it?

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