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0 pointscabaalis6y ago0 comments

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the Chinese don't know that.

It's long been my opinion that you simply cannot destroy the west without mutually assured destruction, so nukes are out. You can't invade and subsequently operate because Americans will never acquiesce to foreign rule, and we are individually armed.

The only way to undo the US/west is to have it undo itself. Seed dissent and promote divisions and hatred among its people. Maybe I was shielded from this as a kid, but it seems these divisions are hatred are sharply on the rise as of late, and it's not outside the realm of possibility this is due to foreign influence via social networks.

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wil4216y ago

Agreed. Authoritarian governments with morally questionable methods were and are better than the West at Humanint and propaganda. Russia and China are two good examples. I recently saw a documentary about North Korea. It was talking about the Clinton talks, NK would study everyone they would speak to. They also knew with an election would change guards and wait to get what they wanted.

Foreign adversaries must be loving the divide America has at the moment with our 2 party system. They are also trying to divide us by race, economic class, and create a divide with the police.

vkou6y ago

> Agreed. Authoritarian governments with morally questionable methods were and are better than the West at Humanint and propaganda. Russia and China are two good examples. I recently saw a documentary about North Korea. It was talking about the Clinton talks, NK would study everyone they would speak to. They also knew with an election would change guards and wait to get what they wanted.

Do you think that the US Department of State, or the foreign ministries of any other country of note don't do this sort of thing?

wil4216y ago

> Authoritarian governments with morally questionable methods were and are better than the West at Humanint and propaganda.

Better than implies they are doing the same thing as the West but are more effective.

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outuiorew6y ago

I used to agree until I read Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent.”

What Russia and China are doing is child’s play compared to what corporate mass media can do.

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0 pointscabaalis6y ago0 comments

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the Chinese don't know that.

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wil4216y ago

Foreign adversaries must be loving the divide America has at the moment with our 2 party system. They are also trying to divide us by race, economic class, and create a divide with the police.

vkou6y ago

Do you think that the US Department of State, or the foreign ministries of any other country of note don't do this sort of thing?

wil4216y ago

> Authoritarian governments with morally questionable methods were and are better than the West at Humanint and propaganda.

Better than implies they are doing the same thing as the West but are more effective.

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outuiorew6y ago

I used to agree until I read Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent.”

What Russia and China are doing is child’s play compared to what corporate mass media can do.

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