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China on track to complete the building of 1000 schools in Iraq (english.almayadeen.net)
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[–] vehicom@lemmygrad.ml 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

but at what cost

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Liberals unironically will and do believe this is bad because obviously those schools will teach CPC propaganda about how the school was build by the CPC after the US blew up all the other schools.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

maybe you could get the libs to build schools, too. let the free marketplace of schools sort it out. school cold war. every child a school

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I laughed reading this because it reminded me about how bad the US was at building anything in Iraq and Afghanistan. At one point US contractors charged almost 50 million dollars to build a single gas station and it never actually got completed. To be fair, US contractors are just as bad when hired to build infrastructure in the US.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

I remember some german army fat cat going "Our job is to destroy things and kill people" when they asked him as to why they failed so hard in afghanistan and he got ousted for that shit and it was whole big controversy

I genuinely could never shake the feeling they fired the one guy who was aware of what their actual job was

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

The school voucher system is exactly that. It's destroying public education in the US already.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The exa(r)ms race.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

propaganda is when you recite a sequence of events that actually happened

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In promoting mutually beneficial cooperation, we should raise awareness about human beings sharing a community of common destiny. A country should accommodate the legitimate concerns of others when pursuing its own interests; and it should promote common development of all countries when advancing its own development. Countries should establish a new type of global development partnership that is more equitable and balanced, stick together in times of difficulty, both share rights and shoulder obligations, and boost the common interests of mankind.

is-this insidious CEE CEE PEE propaganda?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

I don't see anything about white man's burden to civilize savage Iraqis by bombing them, so yes, clearly SISIPI brainwashing.

[–] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pick one to write your western media article about today!

A) Schools will be used to teach Chinese Propaganda

B) Schools will be used to house political prisoners and/or cheap labour.

C) Secret Debt Trap!

D) All of the Above

[–] AmerikaLosesWW3@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Debt trap huh, Amerikkka wished they were in the position to debt trap and exploit the hell out of Iraq. They can't project any harder.