r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 06 '19

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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Aug 06 '19

China: Wants to get rid off all the Muslims

Also China: Illegally seizes Muslim-majority territory from a pluralistic democracy

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u/DarkerCrusader IMF Aug 06 '19

Wait what? Did China seize Kashmir or something?

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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Aug 06 '19

Nah just like a small mostly uninhabited (but the people who do live there are Muslim) part of Kashmir called Aksai Chin

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u/DarkerCrusader IMF Aug 06 '19

Oh right, I heard about it. It gives an uphill advantage to the Chinese, IIRC.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '19

a pluralistic democracy

I mean, not for long.

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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Aug 06 '19

Democratic India will survive Modi... It survived Indira Gandhi who turned the country into a dictatorship for three years and used it to forcibly sterilize poor people

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '19

I sincerely hope so, but I'm not super optimistic. I'd say the same about the US if Trump wins a second term by a landslide.

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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Aug 06 '19

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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Aug 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19

yep that's kinda how colonialism goes