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    Oh yes the Chinese Communist Party, the cake and eat it too party, where it somehow is able to access global markets and benefit from international trade rules, freely able to meddle in international affairs while embellishing its own interests.

    It’s mind blowing how the desperation of late stage capitalism allows the CCP to operate within these frameworks.

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      In this specific case, Apple axed the show because Stewart was going to talk about China’s less savory behavior.

      The show had been announced to have a third season, and then suddenly when Stewart was gearing up to tackle some of the issues around China, Stewart was instantly fired.

      And this isn’t the first time China had demanded the firing, or public apology, of a prominent American who is even slightly critical of their government.

      https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hollywood-corporations-apologize-to-china

      https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-brief-history-of-corporate-apologies-to-china-2019-10-09

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          John Cena makes a ton of money from China and so does the WWE. Not to mention the toys are made in China. Vince and Cena weren’t about to lose that manufacturing deal over some dumb shit.

          Calling the Chinese mainland West Taiwan is like calling the northern US “The North Confederate States of America.” They lost a civil war and saying that is just silly. As for One China, that’s a current battle of internal politics. The current ruling democratic party supports cutting ties with China and joining the West. The nationalist party agrees that the mainland and China are one country. It’s not like it’s just China imposing it’s military might on Taiwan, it’s much more complicated than that.

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            I don’t do it because it’s accurate, but because it pisses off the CCP. About the same time as John Cena showed his lack of spine, I was forced to figure out how to remove the flag of Taiwan from software because just seeing that flag makes them butthurt. Just a tiny icon of a flag of a nation they don’t think is real.

            That sort of vehement denial of reality is pathetic and hilarious, and I will continue to call them West Taiwan until they stop acting like whiny bitches. But in reality, they’ll attempt to invade and throw a generation of their children into a meat grinder in the Taiwan Strait because of their ridiculous nationalism.

            And they didn’t resolve the civil war. If they had, the CCP wouldn’t have zero authority there. And they wouldn’t be complain so much about a flag.

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              I don’t think they’ll invade. I think they’re stalling until they can get their microchip tech up to speed and then they’ll turn Taiwan into the next Cuba and just embargo the fuck out of Taiwan. Invading would be incredibly stupid.

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      Corporations would do literally anything for their “mah quarterly profits and mah shareholders”.

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        Seriously, people need to keep this in their mind at all times. Every single publicly traded company in the world would happily throw a bus full of children into a volcano if it got them a fraction of a point in next quarter’s numbers.

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          Yet people still defend the system that enables these greedy fucks, as if greedy fucks don’t exist and corporations will toootally work in a logical manner…

          Peoples’ hubris toward the evils of their neighbors will be the death of humanity. Someone who fires a bunch of people to save money isn’t a “boss making hard decisions” They’re an asshole throwing people away to protect profit.

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      This is an amateur take a best, but a strong unified China has historically always been the economic power house of the world. They’re so big they can trade with everyone, and since everyone wants to trade with them, everyone has an interest in not starting conflicts. When china prospers it’s usually a pretty good time for the wold. I, for one, welcome our Chinese overlords.

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      I’m confused, you use the term late stage capitalism, but you don’t see that China is clearly not the worst offender of meddling in intl. affairs to suit their own interests. Like, America has even more access to global markets than China does, and also meddles way harder. Literally overthrowing governments, rewriting laws, or just straight up bombing to dust levels of meddling.

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          Explain why it’s bad argument in this situation. To me it seems nonsensical to criticize a country that isn’t remotely as bad as the worst people doing what you accuse them of.

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              It’s not whataboutism if the what about subject is literally worse on this specific topic. In order to be deflection, you need to be changing the subject.

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                It is exactly whataboutism. You are shifting the focus of the discussion by saying “what about america? They are worse.” The subject was not america being shit (it is) it was about China.

                You are aware that more than one country is capable of being shit at the same time?

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                  Say some country was denying Jews the right to vote, and we were living in 1940-1945. If you were criticizing that country, would it be whataboutism for me to tell you to shut up about them, because Germany is a far bigger problem for Jews? No, because in comparison to Nazi Germany, denying the right to vote is irrelevant. In terms of level of meddling in intl affairs, I do not think China is a relevant player in the arena when considering the top offender.

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                    X doesn’t matter because Y, so we can’t waste effort on X.

                    It’s not about what’s right it’s about not saying mean things about the people you like and instead saying mean things about the people you don’t like.

                    More than one thing can be bad at the same time and that’s no reason to disregard one issue because there is a worse version of it somewhere. Instead of arguing with me on an obscure corner of the internet why don’t you go do something about those issues that bother you?