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11 months agoIt feels really remarkable how quickly in the late 2010s that top level people in the US government (as well as the media and society generally) pivoted to using annihilationist rhetoric as though China is some sort of anime arch-enemy they have to power up to defeat. I guess this is probably what the red scare years after 1945 felt like when the US and USSR quickly shifted from allies to rivals
irrespective of any other empirical claims you’re making in this thread, you must see how ridiculous it is to claim that news from massive private and state owned corporations is little influenced by money because low level journalists aren’t paid well (if you reflect on it for a moment). it’d be like imagining that Wal Mart’s corporate policies are decided by cashiers and store shelvers