• PugJesus@kbin.social
    538·
    1 year ago

    “Trump is easily manipulated, but Biden isn’t an insane manchild who will start economic turmoil because he shat his diaper that morning. Who will be better for extending anti-democratic ideology and Chinese imperialism in our ‘sphere of influence’?”

  • aew360@lemm.eeEnglish
    244·
    1 year ago

    China would rather have Trump because I doubt he would defend Taiwan. He just wants to end trade with China, while simultaneously praising Xi as brilliant. Biden also wouldn’t pose for a dumbass photo-op with Kim Jong-un. China very clearly has a favorite because they know Trump would maximize domestic turmoil

  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    233·
    1 year ago

    Hmm, I just can’t tell the difference between this normal US President and this psychotic shrieking banshee. I guess they’re just bowls of poison. Oh well.

  • PanoptiDon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    174·
    1 year ago

    The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

    David Sedaris

    • Copernican@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      But in this scenario does China want America to eat the shit platter and broken glass?

  • theodewere@kbin.social
    104·
    1 year ago

    China needs to worry about its own problems, their economy is in the shitter and headed down

  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    117·
    1 year ago

    ???

    The orange wiggler actively started a trade war against China, encourages asian hate among his deplorables, and wants to do everything to hurt China.

    Biden is willing to work with China, and Obama was pro-China.

    They can’t figure it out? Really?

    • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
      182·
      1 year ago

      The orange wiggler actively started a trade war against China

      No he didn’t, he just put some tariffs in place. Tariffs Biden has left in place. Trump was more aggressive against Canadian trade than he was China.

      encourages asian hate among his deplorables

      They don’t care about Asian hate in the US; they may even support it so their most valuable people aren’t tempted to immigrate to the US.

      wants to do everything to hurt China.

      China is one of the many, many issues on which Trump talks a big game but didn’t actually do much about.

      With Trump, the CCP knows they can bribe him with personal things (like trademarks) that don’t cost them anything to get what they want in foreign policy; as they, the Saudis, Russians, and everyone quickly figured out Trump is more than willing to undermine America’s interests for his own gain.

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      102·
      1 year ago

      Obama wasn’t pro-China. You see, that’s the problem - NOT being a frothing-at-the-mouth loon is actually bad for China, because China looks like a pretty unappealing alternative to aligning with the US in South-East Asia right now. If America looks racist, moronic, and on the brink of collapse, China looks more appealing to SEA nations by comparison.

      • DdCno1@kbin.social
        62·
        1 year ago

        I think you would have been right with this analysis a couple of years ago, before Xi’s moronic “wolf warrior diplomacy” really took off. He managed to so thoroughly ruin China’s standing with almost every one of its neighbors (and beyond) that even a USA under Trump is considered a far more pleasant alternative right now.

        You can see this wolf warrior mentality even in how their online trolls and the loyal part of their diaspora (often indistinguishable from one another) are behaving online.

    • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
      66·
      1 year ago

      For decades many voters in Western nations have collectively held their noses and voted for the person who they believed would do the least amount of damage.

      This isn’t democracy in action. It’s simply having nobody to vote for.

      • aew360@lemm.eeEnglish
        55·
        1 year ago

        This is very much a millennial perspective. Looking at a demographic table, it’s overwhelmingly obvious that most Americans are boomers. And older people vote more often than younger people.

        We may see Trump and Biden as weak candidates, but this is literally what they want. It is democracy in action. We just don’t outnumber the older Americans lol. It’s obviously changing. Otherwise Sanders wouldn’t have made it as far as he did in 2016 and 2020.

          • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I’m not American, but whenever I talk to my young friends out there they tell me about impossible they’ve made it to go vote. Not being near a bus route, their employers cutting their hours for going out, just a huge hassle for them in general.

            • nicetriangle@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Definitely true, but it doesn’t account for everyone under 40 who doesn’t make it out to the polls. A lot of that is apathy or laziness.

        • girlfreddy@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          I was born in the early 60’s so nowhere close to a millenial.

          • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Then you’re bucking the trend of your generation!

            Punk rock!