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[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I wasn't talking about people in countries that have been bribed.

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lmao this is so dumb. Every campaign promise in every democracy is a bribe then?

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

No.... because they never fulfill their promises. geordi-yes

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The nefarious Chinese are tricking people into supporting them by checks notes improving their material conditions.

Thank God I live in America where I'll never have to worry about the government doing that.

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You live in the US, how are you not being bribed to think the way you do?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

In fairness the statement is consistent. The US government does it's damndest to do nothing what so ever for the citizens of the us.

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They do it for free! They don't even get paid to spout US State Department propaganda lmao.

At least we get Xi-bucks.

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

What makes you so sure of that?

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe the US should try bribing people instead of bombing them

[–] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe the US should start "bribing" with infrastructure projects then, I thought they were all about their soft power or whatever

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know the US is upstanding because it won't even bribe its own citizens by giving them anything that would improve their lives no matter how hard they vote. True democracy!

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

"I only want a government that doesn't do good things for me!"

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China ~~helped other counties improve the material conditions of their people~~ bribed the dumb dark folk.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

[laughs in IMF loans]

[–] happyandhappy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

dirty browns bribed by the dirty yellows

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most POC do not like China either, it's only a few countries.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Today I learned I'm a PoC lmao