• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    Could the OP not think of any reason this would be a bad thing other than China? Not the slave labor? Not the support for autocracies? Not the crimes against humanity? Fucking yanks man.

    That said, I have no particular opinion on the China thing, let Trump destroy Western military supremacy; I’ll happily watch.

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      Needed to appeal to American supremacists by mentioning China at least once. It can’t be truly evil unless CHINA!!!

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      10 hours ago

      *Other than China being able to reverse-engineer our military tech? I mean, they probably have our building schematics through other means, but isn’t that the main faux pas?

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        Other than China being able to reverse-engineer our military tech?

        I mean, that’s good, isn’t it? Or are you in favour of world dominance of the American military industrial complex? American weapons are primarily used to bomb brown children, the more they’re reverse-engineered the better

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        7 hours ago

        Didn’t China already hack the DoD, or some other contractor, and steal the F-22 or F-35 plans? I swear I read this a few years ago.

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        10 hours ago

        but isn’t that the main faux pas?

        No, that’s the main faux pas if you’re a US liberal with no care for human life that doesn’t meet a property minimum or resides outside your borders, and not being that I don’t give a shit about China getting access to US military tech. Arming Saudi Arabia is bad because Saudi Arabia is an autocratic imperialist slaver state.

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          I don’t think anyone is arguing that governments are good, only that he should be in prison.

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        Yeah but F-35 is a NATO-wide program if I understand this stuff right. The F-35 and F-22 are also the only fifth-gen fighters the West has, so the effects of this, if there are any, wouldn’t only be felt by America.