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[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

I wasn't talking about people in countries that have been bribed.

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

lmao this is so dumb. Every campaign promise in every democracy is a bribe then?

[–] happyandhappy@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

dirty browns bribed by the dirty yellows

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You live in the US, how are you not being bribed to think the way you do?

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

They do it for free! They don't even get paid to spout US State Department propaganda lmao.

At least we get Xi-bucks.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

In fairness the statement is consistent. The US government does it's damndest to do nothing what so ever for the citizens of the us.

[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

What makes you so sure of that?

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The nefarious Chinese are tricking people into supporting them by checks notes improving their material conditions.

Thank God I live in America where I'll never have to worry about the government doing that.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe the US should try bribing people instead of bombing them

[–] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe the US should start "bribing" with infrastructure projects then, I thought they were all about their soft power or whatever

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You know the US is upstanding because it won't even bribe its own citizens by giving them anything that would improve their lives no matter how hard they vote. True democracy!

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] CatholicSocialist@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Most POC do not like China either, it's only a few countries.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

China ~~helped other counties improve the material conditions of their people~~ bribed the dumb dark folk.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

"I only want a government that doesn't do good things for me!"

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

[laughs in IMF loans]