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Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by lukeify on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:16PM (#50066172)
Political polarisation is also at a point where it's become sports team-esque. People are willing to go to further extremes to dunk on the other side, even if it means the stadium is becoming increasingly messy.
Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by mapontosevenths on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:06AM (#50066553)
How to defeat America: Wait.
Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by elcritch on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:46AM (#50067263)
More than that, China funds polarization and disinformation projects in the west. Recently they've been seemingly funding anti-AI rhetoric in the US (1). There's allegations they're funding pro-Palestine protests in the UK (2).

Makes sense to sow discord among your rivals. The US certainly does the same.

1: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/china-ai-data-center-backla... 2: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/13/china-funding-pr...

Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by yahthatsart on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:34AM (#50099183)
Pro Palestine protests come from people looking at Genocide and going, "I don't like genocide. We should not support genocide."

It's not particularly complicated. Anyone looking for a more complicated geopolitical actor here is ignoring the very, very obvious root cause -- genocide is bad.

Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D... by mapontosevenths on Thursday October 15, 2026 @02:04PM (#50107644)
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." - The 1988 Hamas Covenant

Israel is fighting a war for it's very existence against an enemy whose very founding documents encode the idea that there can never be peace until Israel is destroyed. After October 7th Hamas doubled down and said they would not rest as long as they lived. Still they insist, even after all the destruction.

What choice does Israel have except to grant them their wish and fight until none of them live? They will not accept surrender, and they will never rest until Israel has been annihilated. They have insisted on that point since the 80's and on October 7th they proved that they are still dedicated to that principle. How could anyone doubt their convictions? Hamas means what they say, and what they say is that as long as they live they will continue to attack Israel.

Do you honestly believe there can ever be peace with someone who has sworn to their God that there can never be peace?

I don't have any personal stake in this, and I'm sorry if you do. It's just that from an outside perspective I can't understand yours at all.