• @RandAlThorOP
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    So Chinese bots are on lemmy too now. You obviously didn’t read the article - “Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone, or ADIZ.”

    In international relations, militaries have defined and at times unspoken rules of engagement. This was NOT routine flight over mainland China that you are making out to be, but was a clear breach of said protocols. Thus Taiwan sent its fighter jets to observe the Chinese military aircraft.

    • GarbageShoot [none/use name]
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      I literally quoted the part that you just also quoted, which specifies that some of the craft were merely in the ADIZ, the one thing I was talking about in my comment

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m so tired of the notion that anyone not being in line with certain narratives is automatically considered a drone.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        Like 6ish years ago we all, liberals and leftists together, were creeped out by the right’s sudden proliferation of “NPC” memes, correctly pointing out how dehumanizing it is and conjecturing darkly about what exactly this kind of rhetoric was priming these people for. Now, the overton window’s so fucked that the we’ve normalized deploying the exact same invective against anyone who speaks up on behalf of humanity and against a US-dominated world. I’ve driven past the ruins of the Japanese concentration camps out in the miserable desert, and to know that so many people around me who act self-righteous but stand for nothing would rebuild those camps at the snap of a finger, or the running of an op-ed, or a scary news story…well, these people may haughtily object to being called blue MAGA, but that sure doesn’t stop them from doing absolutely fucking everything they can to earn the label.

        • @[email protected]
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          Waving the Japanese internment camps in our faces isn’t some sort of gotcha. We acknowledge their existence and try to do better.

          Meanwhile your type denies that Uyghur camps exist, or claim that they’re some sort of benign summer camp

    • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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      9 months ago

      You both quoted the same exact piece of text. You said they didn’t read the article but you didn’t even bother to read their comment?

      You are calling a human being a bot, literally dehumanizing them, because they don’t have the same hatred of China as you. You should really check yourself. You are full of hatred and ideological poison. It is clear from your comment that you have limited literacy skills and understanding, you should check out some other perspectives and try to broaden your horizons. Here is one. This is also another incredible resource with a lot of essays and information with a different perspective

    • panopticon [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      So Chinese bots are on lemmy too now.

      Amazing how comfortable you are being racist on a public forum.

      Anyway, people should look at this map and take note of how far Taiwan’s ADIZ extends into Fujian province of mainland China and the open ocean (which is the southwest corner the PRC’s airplanes were supposedly encroaching on). These articles are obviously published to make China seem more aggressive than it really is. Meanwhile the US, with the most powerful navy in the world, parades its warships through the Taiwan strait, which for some reason is not seen as a threat or provocation. Also Taiwan claims the mainland as its own territory. Oh, poor little Taiwan. Lol, get off it.

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes, the ADIZ includes part of China, but this article is mainly about jets crossing the median line of Taiwan Strait. Also I don’t think Taiwan gets mad over any jets intruding the “overclaimed” part of the ADIZ.

        • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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          559 months ago

          but this article is mainly about jets crossing the median line of Taiwan Strait

          It says the jets did that OR were in the southwest zone. It is intentionally vague alarmism.

      • @RandAlThorOP
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        How is calling out a Chinese bot or Russian bot racist? You are obviously pro-China and you didn’t read the article. That makes you a Chinese bot.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          869 months ago

          You are obviously pro-China (…). That makes you a Chinese bot.

          At long last, we’ve reached the molten core of psychotic liberal solipsism

        • DoiDoi [comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          “How am I being racist? I’m just assuming anyone who disagrees with me must be a certain ethnicity and/or bot.”

          This really isn’t too complicated. Stop using Chinese as a pejorative and “bot” as a thought terminating cliche. It prevents any meaningful discussion, and yes, it’s also very racist.

        • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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          689 months ago

          You are obviously pro-China . . . That makes you a Chinese bot.

          you, oh enlightened reddit-logo one, could you perhaps explain to us what the word ‘bot’ means?

        • panopticon [comrade/them]
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          Sir or Ma’am, I am a US citizen of Chinese descent and I assure you that you are being a cracker, and you can stop any time.

          My bias is towards peace and against interfering in other countries’ internal affairs. Taiwan is part of China, this was settled in 1972. It’s only in recent years that the US has taken a hostile stance against the PRC since its peaceful economic rise has started to threaten US hegemony. This is not my fight, it’s not your fight, it is the fight of the US ruling class—its political establishment and its financial oligarchs. China and the US should be allies, and we should be putting our combined labor into decarbonization, healing the ecosphere, reparations for the global south, and preparing communities for the effects of climate change.

          Also, my family immigrated from Hong Kong before it was released from British rule, so ~by your logic~ I should be against China, which I’m not, because I’m capable of critical thinking.

          Oh, and one more thing: countdown

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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          509 months ago

          That’s precisely the sort of argument one would expect from a NAFO bot. Hope you earned enough FICO credit points to buy food tonight.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Everyone who disagrees with me must be a bot.

      I bet your response will contain one of more of the following: Winnie the Pooh, social credit, comrade, Uyghurs. Yet you call others bots, lmao.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        509 months ago

        Uhhh, that’s obviously different, America is a white western country and so it owns the world

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        419 months ago

        Beep boop I have been programmed to make really fucking cool historical dramas beep boop (This is my stereotype about China idk what else happens there I just really like Three Kingdoms adaptations did y’all see 2008’s Red Cliff it was dope af! John Woo directing!)

        • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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          219 months ago

          MUST MAKE DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF TOM AND JERRY SHITPOSTS

          MUST POST MEMES OF AN AD FOR MIXUE ICE CITY

          MUST UPLOAD 12 GB FOLDER OF BIAOQING IMAGES

    • @zephyreks
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      “or”

      not “and”, “or”.

      The southwestern quadrant of Taiwan’s ADIZ overlaps with China’s ADIZ. If anything, Taiwan is overclaiming their ADIZ.