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Nov 19, 2019 11:15 AM
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juniorjim
Beware or be next
jennym123
Jokes on you. Russia have already invaded our government!
JohnnyGrog
U.S. college campuses, welcome it with open arms.
soundhound86
I deliver machines to building sites around Manchester uk all the sites I’ve been to today are Chinese owned, even British steel is Chinese
soundhound86
Now
DanOrtega
China went into cahoots with the most violent mexican cartel, in order to get cheap iron from the mines and the ports they control here.
Shmeadicus
I thought this was a Left 4 Dead safehouse at first.
waxlyrical
Be aware or be next......to repost
mas0chist
Fuckin' ChiComs.
Tjitso
? Be prepaaaaaared! ?
MehEdits
We're aware, just won't do shit about it.
Trentski
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right; and here we are...
MehEdits
Well until it's knocked down the front door at least. *
Todd21
Yes if china wants to bully the bigger countries but they wont. So no one else will be next invalid argument from them.
mni905
Mene Mene tekel
Dyslexicbirch
China has bought most of my country
TehAccountant
they own most of us too. in USA
senseicombs
Sounds like a really good time to get rid of China to me.
Monfreid
Where is that? Canada? Australia? Cambodia? Pakistan? South Africa? Philippines? ...?
Dyslexicbirch
Australia mate
gronterrino
So what? Majority of the world is under control of few countries anyway. Russia had huge influence in 20th century. USA has it now.
gronterrino
Don't even start with "we good, they bad" I'm sure many of Chinese citizens told by their media how "China numba wan" too.
ShimmerinStrider
I don't know about the rest of you, but I can see the writing on the wall.
insongwhang
Don't dead open inside?
Sekai
But can you see why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
SanchoVilla
Ccplease
bubblesuit24601
I see whoever writes the Dr Bronner's bottles also does graffiti now.
PassionateIndifference
Dumb question but is that the rorshach symbol on the right?
MachineInterface
Chinese economy can barely hold itself together but sure, they're going to take over the world any minute now.
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
They own much of Australia, Africa, and Canada.
MachineInterface
And England once owned 24% of all landmasses on Earth, in a far more real and systemic sense of "owning".
JamesBluntThatSmartassCunt
And yet they didn’t have the technology we have today. Please keep digging yourself a hole.
MachineInterface
100% of predictions about how country X is going to take over the world and ruin our civilization have turned false so far, but I'm sure>
MachineInterface
this time it's totally different!
Applepotamus
Politicians:
GhostofCain
People: We like cheap stuff and convenience though.
Applepotamus
People:
SplendidoSplendente
So it's like the USA but with an Asian flavour.
CluelessGribble
Isn't it the other way around?
CommonGodDamnSense
I agree with the message but for some reason it looks photshopped on that wall and i dont fully know why.
WhereDoesThePoopGo
Here in the US, they have to push the Russians out first.
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
China already controls a good bit of the world through its business acquisitions and is putting a ton of money into Africa for influence.
Evenmorehorrifying
Look at the number of things Tencent alone is involved with.
lenonymes
Fun fact: Tencent is almost six times smaller than Berkshire Hathaway, and it's majority owner is actually a South African company.
NursePaulFlowers
Silk road and building ports through loans they know countries can't pay so they just reclaim.
jlofromtheblock
They keep buying up our land, our properties and our real estates using money they made from our corrupted politicians
AntiProtonBoy
Yeap. I pretty much put such politicians right up there with the rest of the traitors that sell out our country (Australia in my case).
Aimanfire
political parties in Africa are being founded explicitly to keep Chinese influence out. Hopefully they succeed.
Doubleadaptor
Yeah it’s not working. I’ve travelled my fair share of sub Sahara Africa and see China being the new coloniser of Africa.
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Doubleadaptor
China doesn’t invest without something in return. Usually it comes with access to lucrative ore deposits. It’s all about profits
AntiProtonBoy
Happens in Australia too. And we just let it happen.
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
We should be if not scared, cautious as to what we allow in our own countries
krissypoojackets
Ya its way too late.
rmsrmsrms38
And Latin America.
TheMellowPeril
Isn’t it already too late?
Jagerbeast
If you let them continue, then yes
Jester8088
Don’t they own a working-class factory in middle America too?
Tr1gg3rH4ppy
Lol they own a lot of American factories, and several power plants
onthe6ball
China holds a huge portion of the US national debt.
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
China holds about $1 Trillion in US Treasure Bonds -set interest & set maturation dates. US Social Security holds most of the US debt.
johnnyshitknucklez
A world power buying up Africa you say hmmmmmmmmm sounds familiar
senseicombs
Sounds like a really good time to get rid of China to me.
RonnieHubbard
Iirc China bailed out the world. Pretty certain the US and UK owe billions to China. And if China demands it all back we're fucked. Which
RonnieHubbard
Is probably why they've been flexing their power more recently. No fear of repercussions
senseicombs
Really we could easily go to war with them under the guise Chinas crimes against humanity, rally a Nato coalition and be debt free.
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
China holds around $1 Trillion in US Treasure Bonds -set interest & set maturation dates. US Social Security holds most of the US debt./
UglyHorribleGrouchyOldMan
2/ Anyone can buy up US Treasury Bonds (most countries do) but it gives them no leverage.
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
On a global level, our influence isn't better or worse than the Chinese. Centuries ignored Africa's needs for decades but exploit their
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
ressources. It is only natural they ally themselves with a power large enough to support them. China greases its gears with blood. But to a
PackedCatMeowingPowerDensity
foreigner it is all the same money.
IRegisteredToLaughAtYou
"Support them," "our," "foreigner" sure thing there 网络水军
SoberAndBored
The UK government blocked an EU-wide tax on imported Chinese steel, resulting in the loss of the UK steel industry's last major production
SoberAndBored
facility, and has agreed to let China install our next communications network despite all of her allies and her own security services saying
SoberAndBored
this will allow China to spy on us on an unparalleled scale. China has bought my government.
grandestgrandeur
Isn't this kinda what they did with Hitler? Ignore him/his ppl as they grew stronger and richer until it actually affected them personally?
alazyamerican
Nope. Completely different scenario.
grandestgrandeur
The "So not" concentration camps and organ harvesting of ppl they don't like, say otherwise tho....
LuftMeister
Why is the “n” in ChiNa capitalized?
xKaraKx
ChiNazi
coconutlover17
I’m Tongan and the influence and control they have in my tiny South Pacific island is huge and worrying. Plus we owe them millions
coconutlover17
Now NZ and Australia are worried because strategically islands in the South Pacific are seen as great locations for navy bases
coconutlover17
Because everyone knows Now that China’s naval force is growing at an incredible rate that could possibly match USA soon. It’s frightening
lenonymes
China's Navy may have a larger fleet numerically, but it's still vastly undersized and underpowered compared to the US Navy.
lenonymes
Not to mention the fact that the US has dozens of military allies, whereas China has literally only one...North Korea lol.
RelatablyPassive
Don't mean to be paranoid. But this is why the right fight so hard for us to keep our guns. And I'm on the left. But I am packing.
DanFendi
China isn't going to fight you with guns. They're gonna fight you with contracts, money, and bills.
RelatablyPassive
They'll degrade democracy until we become Hong Kong. Guns will be nice should it come to that.
DanFendi
And they'll respond with UAVs that kill us from a mile up.
ShutTheFrontDoors
“First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist...”
someonetookmysweetrollqq
Then they came for the trade unionists and i did not speak out, because i was not a trade unionist
cgimw
"Then they came for the people who put pinapple on their pizza, and tbh I just let then do it because who the fuck puts pineapple on pizza."
Rex83ll4t0r
Its called Hawaiian. Its damn delicious. Who the fuck puts anchovies on?
someonetookmysweetrollqq
Then they came for jews and i did not speak out. Because i was not a jew.
someonetookmysweetrollqq
Then they came for Me... And there was no one left to speak for me
NeverConfusedForNaught
tactical comment for my memoire
dumblastname
They came for the III percenters who said “fuck it.... don’t mind if I does”. And then shit was wild.
nosoupforoldmen
China is communist
ShutTheFrontDoors
It’s a pretty famous poem. Google it.
meowseedong
Ironic, China is socialist you idiot
faken820
Socialist =/= communist (which is what China is) but ok go off
ShutTheFrontDoors
It’s a pretty famous poem. Socialist is not the message I was trying to get across. Read the whole poem. You’ll get the message.
LoganCreed42
First they put away the dealers. Keep markets safe and off the streets.
NotABadLookingNarcissist
People often forget that this quote was originally said because...they came for the socialists.
chrishallett83
Yep! "But the nazis were called the national socialists" "why then did they round up and murder all the socialists?" "incoherent gibberish"
Maraxus
First they came for the Uyghurs and I spoke out. Then they came for the Tibetans and I spoke out. Then they came for the Hongkongers and ...
Maraxus
...again I spoke out. They just keep coming, no matter how much you speak. At some point I have to stop speaking and DO something. Violent
Rex83ll4t0r
Gotta take the power back.
ShutTheFrontDoors
This might be an interpretation thing, but to me the “spoke out” in this poem doesn’t literally mean “said something” or “posted on imgur”1/
ShutTheFrontDoors
To me it means DO something, attempt to make a difference. 2/2
Maraxus
Yeah, I guess. But what besides Social media, protest and vandalizing Huwei posters can a foreigner do? The CCP don't care for any of this.
ShutTheFrontDoors
Honestly I think that’s all we can do. Protest / write to government might be the key one. If the government knows the people care then 1/
MrSticklerMeeseeks
Chairman MAO said that the PRC is socialist so... what are you implying? That they’re Nazis?
Asgarus
Wow.
Deathwing777
You missed the point
PeteThePerv
Dang, that is a real famous quote by Martin Niemöller about Germany descending into totalitarianism. You should know it.
MrSticklerMeeseeks
So the PRC is authoritarian, totalitarian, and socialist... by MAO himself (read his books), I know the poem just disagree using it here.
SirPercy
Socialism is even worse lol
faken820
Socialism =/= communism (it's what the second "C" in "CCP" stands for) but ok go off
ShutTheFrontDoors
It’s from a poem. The point is not socialism.
SirPercy
Yes yes I know
155DangerClose
It is because its Imgur. Socialist haven
CodeChimpin
It’s because everyone who believes in even a tad bit of gun reform or affordable healthcare/college is automatically a socialist.
155DangerClose
No. its actual socialists. Wanting single payer healthcare doesnt make you a socialist
peppermintgal
What's so scary about workplace democracy? You're not confusing socialism and command economy like all Americans do, are you?
SirPercy
Wow everyone hated this. You all must want handouts and no incentive to work! Shame.
chrishallett83
Oh look, another idiot decrying socialism when they have ZERO idea what socialism is...
SirPercy
Lmao. Explain to me how I’m wrong please.
chrishallett83
Socailism is when the workers own the means of production, e.g. the car plant workers own the plant, and each get a share of the profits.
155DangerClose
Oh fuck off. Who's coming for the Socialists?
WussupVoltage
It's a quote from someone who lived in Germany as Hitler was taking over. Talking about ignoring other group's plights until it's too late.
WussupVoltage
Or to be exact, it's the opening for a poem that paraphrased the original statements of the individual.
peppermintgal
The fascists marching the streets in Portland, that's who. Also, that was in the original poem, since the Nazis sold their policy to
peppermintgal
centrists by scaremongering about Communism, which they claimed was "a subversive, Jewish plot."
ShutTheFrontDoors
It’s a decently famous poem. Might want to google it. It’s not about socialism exactly.
155DangerClose
I'm aware. But if it's not referring to socialists, who then is the commenter implying that the "they" is coming for?
ShutTheFrontDoors
Yes, that is exactly what it says, thanks. The point is that it goes on to talk about other groups. The message is that if you don’t 1/
ShutTheFrontDoors
Stand up for others then there might be no one to stand up for YOU. Who, exactly, the groups are does NOT matter to the message of the poem.