These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,… whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    People outside the US have always been terrified of what the US president might do. Imagine if China had military bases all over the world.

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      6 hours ago

      The Kenyan Ambassador to the UN once addressed criticism of his country’s relationship with China thusly:

      “Every time the English visit Kenya, they bring a lecture. Every time the Chinese visit Kenyan, they build a hospital”

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        59 minutes ago

        Which is exactly why China is going to win. They play the long game where we only care about the next quarterly report. We drop bombs, they build schools and hospitals and install water wells. We trap countries into IMF loan scams, they give interest free loans.

        We make mass graves. China makes friends.