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[–] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 70 points 1 year ago

Bro I know I know it's the Wall Street Journal. But trust me fam. This time it's different. Trust me. I pay money to read it, you know it's good.

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But what if the person, whos always been wrong without fail and always lies about everything, is actually right this time?

god I want to shove liberals in a gulag

[–] Giyuu@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if you put them in a gulag they wouldnt be smart enough to get any good work done anyway

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't worry: From each according to his ability

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

What if my wishful thinking is true

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's generally a good thing that libs think China is collapsing since that means US will continue to underestimate China and make strategic mistakes.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea maybe we'll have another round of everybody agreeing China is lying about their military capabilities again.

Unrelated, anybody seen my F-35 there's a light sprinkle in the forecast so I gotta get it covered up.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago
[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Sorry, we had to take it before the US military found it, and put some fake alien crap there to fool them

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure these people who believe this stuff are in positions of power though. I would imagine the US ruling class are more acutely aware of what is really going on.

On the other hand, some of their actions only make sense if they believe their own bullshit, so I really have no idea.

[–] StugStig@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Being given access to accurate intel is no guarantee that they actually leverage it to form their own views.

There are anecdotes of US officials using mainstream media to spoonfeed them their positions on issues as they can't be assed to do anything resembling actual work.

[–] StugStig@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pretty funny that all the self-hating liberals they funded ended up tricking their handlers themselves lol.

In their fanatic bid to become honorary aryans they instead became the strategic fool you agency. 🐶

[–] esportairbud@kolektiva.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@yogthos @Trudge

There are liberals who vote and then there are liberals who are elected or own significant capital and actually make decisions. Some of them even have assets that are very dependent on the Chinese economy, company stocks in various exported consumer goods and technology. I doubt they are consuming their own propaganda with respect to China.

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[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least this person seems a little sensible. I feel they believe it because a "reputable" outlet like WSJ is the publisher.

[–] judgeholden@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

do people not know WSJ is owned by Murdoch? lol

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people don't know who Rupert Murdoch is

[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

honestly my secret pick for "worst (non-military, non-politician) human alive"

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I didn't know that lol. It did seem mildly fishy.

[–] luchuan@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 1 year ago

The self awareness into faceplanting into the propaganda lmfao

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Most important election of our lives!!

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

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[–] SweaterWeather@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Oh well if the Wall Street Journal said it

[–] StugStig@lemmygrad.ml 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

US mainstream media isn't even trustworthy for predicting the US economy.

They downplayed if not outright denied the potential causes of the Great Recession until well after it had already occurred. They then portrayed the Great Recession "from the perspective of the Obama Administration and big business" manipulating the empathy of their audience in order to serve the interests of their true masters.

[–] Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Conditions in America are currently worse than the Great Depression by pretty much every metric related to working people. And the media is blatantly pretending it's not happening.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Least gullible liberal

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

americans are the most propagandized people on earth

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It's easier to believe in something you want to happen. The "hope people will be ok" part is just so no one realizes they are a piece of shit.

[–] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually just enrichment for them. Kind of like a cat knows that they won't catch a laser pointer if they chase it, they just want to exercise their natural hunting instinct.

[–] notceps@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cat actually doesn't know and if that's the only form of enrichment they can get incredibly stressed out because they are never able to catch anything, so people should give their cats something real to chase after using a laser pointer.

[–] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? That's sad, my kitty loves the laser pointer. I need to get her one of those string toys to play with after now.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure how true that is.

Cats don't literally think they're hunting when you play with them, since cats don't pur when they're hunting.

I've two cats, the more sociable cat that can play with people/animals without hurting them shows excitement as soon as I pick up the laser pen.

The one that can only play with toys ignores the laser pen.

They both understand they're not going to catch anything, and the one that only enjoys catching things doesn't engage.

[–] olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

chinas economy is tankieing.

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[–] reazonozaer@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

poking with a stick meme come on collapse already

[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m obviously not suggesting that they’re gonna collapse or anything stupid like that, but are they in a deflation or not because the media is talking about it a lot. At this point I don’t even know if they’re taking facts and twisting them to suit their narrative or if they’re just making it the fuck up

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mfers be like 'china has too many houses this is bad'

I FUCKING WISH WE HAD TOO MANY HOUSES

[–] Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Had a friend today give me a "whatabout China's real estate crisis?"

This was in a conversation about American police brutality... JFC

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago

whats next?

too many doctors?

too much food?

fucking liberals

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

I've been reading about China's real estate crisis since I was a child. I suspect that I will be reading about it until the day I die.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

An american talking about a real estate crisis about other country is funny af. DUDE YOU LIVE IN A REAL ESTATE CRISIS!!!

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deflation is actually a good thing lol.

[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is what I’m very confused about. I read before that deflation is a sign of a slowdown/recession in the economy but like also having your current worth more/prices going down sounds objectively good to me? Is there any good Devil’s advocate position that can put forth any negatives for deflation because China certainly doesn’t seem like a slowing economy to me.

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