• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Why the hell is the Dominican Republic so worried about Russia?

    Spain doesn’t even think Russia is the world’s greatest threat.

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    And all of them are right, except Israel (I’m assuming they’re the ones who said Iran).

    Any country with nuclear weapons can end the world at the press of a button, or even just with a momentary slip-up.

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    They are right; The United states followed by Israel are the biggest existential threat to the world, and something has to be urgently done about these rogue nazi states that are armed to the teeth and actively trying to spiral the world into self extintion.

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    ‘Respondents are asked in an open-text answer which country they see as the greatest threat to the world. This gives people the chance to choose whichever country comes to mind. 32,133 responses are then classified with large language models to identify each country named.’

    So instead of an actual menu with the actual countries??

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      I’ve talked to plenty of Americans who do not know the difference between a country and its capital.

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    Surprised India and Pakistan didn’t say eachother. Also surprised South Korea didn’t say North Korea. And is Taiwan treated as a separate state in this data set or not?

    I can’t find the original data set but these results don’t match what I found in a quick google search.

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    I’m a bit surprised about Philippines because they are very Americanphile, and also having a spat with China on South China Sea.

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        Although China is squatting in a shoal within 200 nautical mile from Philippine coast and bullying Filipino fishermen.

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            Tell that to Filipino fishermen deprived of their livelihood. I bet you never heard of their complaints, let alone actually listen to them. But what do I know, from a poc point of view, you are just a racist, middle class suburban white knight actually living comfortably in the West, professing faux concerns on people who actually has to live amongst communists. Because you want to get that dopamine hit from larping as a whiteknightclown 🤡🤡

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          Kay

          The US murdered over a million people in the Philippines during its turn at colonization after the Spanish.

          China shouldn’t deprive fishermen of their livelihood, but since we’re comparing them to the US it’s clear which is worse.

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            You can appreciate which event is more recent given this is a contemporary poll and the amount of propaganda the US would have fed the Phillipines since then.

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              But, this poll still shows that people in the Philippines still see the US as the greater threat? Despite China’s more recent spat in the South China Sea, despite the propaganda, the Philippines still sees the US as the greatest threat to the world. Japan is the only country that sees China as a threat, which mostly stems from imperial humiliation at China defeating Japanese occupation.

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                  It’s not logical, though, it actually reveals an illogical bias. Local disputes over fishing and territory simply aren’t as big a threat to the world as the warmongering empire that killed a million Filipinos and is currently plunging the world into an energy crisis.

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            China is already squatting in Philippines’ sovereign waters, and you think China won’t do anything in the future? Of course, you would not, because you are cheerleading your own team regardless of your own team being guilty of the same imperialism that you pretend to be against.

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              China is already squatting in Philippines’ sovereign waters, and you think China won’t do anything in the future?

              I think this conflict will be resolved peacefully because neither country benefits from open conflict. China doesn’t really do war.

              Besides, the US-caused energy crisis is going to do more to deprive Philippine fishermen of their livelihoods than China ever has.

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                I think this conflict will be resolved peacefully because neither country benefits from open conflict. China doesn’t really do war.

                They are squatting, with the Chinese warships within Philippine territory without permission.

                Besides, the US-caused energy crisis is going to do more to deprive Philippine fishermen of their livelihoods than China ever has.

                Typical cope.

                Sure, as if being water-hosed by Chinese navy to prevent you from fishing is caused by oil supply restrictions!

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                  They are squatting, with the Chinese warships within Philippine territory without permission.

                  has not much to do with The Philippines per se , it’s mostly because of the US Navies ties with The Philippines

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                  They are squatting, with the Chinese warships within Philippine territory without permission.

                  Okay, and I think this will be resolved peacefully. This hardly makes China the biggest threat to the world.

                  Sure, as if being water-hosed by Chinese navy to prevent you from fishing is caused by oil supply restrictions!

                  No, but being unable to fuel vessels and trucks after the pumps run dry will cause systemic problems that everyone will feel. An energy crisis hurts all fishers in all of their territorial waters, and then on top of that hurts literally every single person in the country. It’s not just that there are going to be boats that can’t even go out to sea because they aren’t able to get fuel, there are going to be people that can’t do any of their jobs in any part of the country. This is the prelude to an economic collapse.

                  The US is the biggest threat to the world and everyone in the world knows it, including people in the Philippines.

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      Israel is a vassal state of the US Empire, not the other way around. China isn’t an imperial power nor does it desire to become one.

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        Israel was intended to be a vassal state but their intelligent operation was really successful and they have incredible influence on the US and can flex whenever they need something. Look at the whole Epstein situation.

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      Do you know the etymology of (history of the word) “slave”? Think about it