Summary
China condemned JD Vance on Tuesday for calling Chinese people “peasants” in a Fox News interview, where he said, “To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry labeled the remarks “ignorant and disrespectful.”
The backlash exploded on Chinese social media, garnering 140 million Weibo views.
Critics mocked Vance’s own “hillbilly” background and pointed to China’s advanced tech and infrastructure, highlighting rising tensions amid Trump’s trade war.
I’d say it’s ironic since vance literally became famous by celebrating American peasants, but for him it’s probably less about them being peasants and more about them being Chinese.
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What the fuck is wrong with the GOP that this is who we have as VP?
The same thing that is wrong to allow the orange menace to be president.
This is who they’ve always been. Trump just made it acceptable to say in public, again, after 100 years.
If it makes you feel any better, Dick Cheney is still the worst sack of shit to be VP.
Cheney had the decency to keep his head down, and mouth shut most of the time.
Decency isn’t a word I associate with him at all
How about decorum minus gun etiquette.
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No. Considering present-day America and China, one of those nations is far more reliable and far more stable.
ML, grad and hexbear are patiently waiting for your apologies. Sad that the line the US had to cross wasn’t imperialism and genocide, but losing decorum and imposing tariffs on treats…
I’m an anarchist. I have always been at odds with the American state. I have been arguing against genocide apologists since the Palestinian genocide began. China is not a perfect state. They are authoritarian. They are at odds with me ideologically, and I have many criticisms of their past and present state. It’s possible to both acknowledge the extent of anti-china propaganda output by the American state, and also that China is a country that has its own history past and present of human rights abuses and workers rights abuses.
Sure, you just mentioned “present-day”, and I thought maybe you referred that things have changed somehow. The US has always been imperialist and genocidal in nature, that’s why I got triggered by the “present-day” part of your initial comment and to what I was responding.
I had a longer comment typed up initially but opted for something shorter since it was likely falling on deaf ears anyway. Yes, America was founded by genocidal colonialists. Genocide and Western imperialism are foundational American institutions.
Cool, good to see that we’re on the same page, sorry for the aggressive tone in my first comment.
This is basically 1:1 with my thoughts, would it be cool if I paraphrased/copy paste this for future use?
Sure, by all means.
Thank you, I wanted to at least ask first.
They don’t say thank you and they do not wear suits! Send them directly to Venezuela.
JD Vance is such a little bitch.
Hopefully china will sanction JD Vancer.
“ignorant and disrespectful.”
Well, that’s the synonym of MAGA so 🤷🏻♂️
They are so laughably bad at this stong man act. They talk politics like either a particularly stupid playground bully or a guffawing British colonial moron from the time of the empire.
They’re WWE grads
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they don’t even have good entrance in music
They tried but the artists keep suing to make them stop using it.
Linda MacMahon is literally the Secretary of Education.
I feel like it’s due to American privilege. They don’t understand the real world and authentic humanity.
Only Democrats seem to find their act intimidating.
Here it is again, a desperate attempt to blame Democrats.
“Please stop capitulating to Trump and signing off of his bills, they’re fascists and you’re enabling them.”
“Whats with the blame for Democrats? You must hate them for no reason.”
The budget bill? Things were going to be worse if there was a shutdown that hands more power to the executive.
If they wanted a shutdown, Republicans would have voted no and shut it down.
Instead they voted yes along with 11 Democrats.
They’re not blameless. They’re not entirely to blame, but they could’ve regulated social media to dampen disinformation when they had the chance.
holy shit these fucking libs
“They should have cracked down on how we’re allowed to communicate with each other”
and not
“They shouldn’t have committed a genocide” or “They shouldn’t have taken tens of millions of people off medicaid and doubled child poverty”
And now that would be the reason they didn’t get elected.
You can’t tame the beast anymore. It’s in control and it’s bigger than governments. It’s more of poltergeist than something physical. Humanity is dying and the lifeboats that were government and religion have been overtaken.
This is a whole new war beyond law and order.
Natural law prevails, but many of us have been taught to not live by natural law. In turn we are losing the battle by being submissive to man-made law while the evil side of humanity thrives as it has never followed the law of man. They know the laws are for the poor and easily controlled and not meant for them.
Or something?
Example?
You could look into it yourself, but here’s a general overview on the US response to disinformation:
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/disinformation-governance-board/
The Democrats could’ve been pushing harder to address such a serious problem, but they didn’t. And here we are.
Like I said, they’re not entirely to blame, but they’re not blameless.
The answer is never censorship. Look at who would be in charge of your ‘regulated’ social media now… It would be all of it instead of just the now hyper-regulated X.
I didn’t say censorship. They could’ve regulated social media as actual Media outlets, which puts them on the hook for libel lawsuits if blatantly fake disinformation is advertised on their platforms. In other words, they have to follow the same rules as traditional media outlets.
Social media isn’t a news source. Perhaps forcing them to remove all the ‘algorithms’ might be the answer. Keep the echo chamber effect to a minimum. Excluding people from being able to speak based on the current administration’s definition of blatantly fake disinformation is a bad idea. Once again, look who is now in charge of what is ‘blatantly fake’… They’d be suing the crap out of Lemmy under that law… Europe is all in on censorship, so we can only hope the Nazis don’t take over there again or we’ll be boxed in from every direction.
It may not be their fault but what exactly, other than Cory Booker’s stunt or bringing cardboard signs have they done since the fashes took power?
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Like they were elected to do. I sure hope they’re doing more than the people trying to balance rent and food as they worry about if their senator is going to vote yes on Trump’s wants.
Thank fuck i would say. It literally their fucking job isn’t it? I have to card in every morning at 9am till 5. Their equivalent of card in is to oppose this shit, and to be perfectly honest, if I put as much effort as they did so far, my manager would have fired my ass for being a slacker
Yeah. Fucking Schumer it’s really leading the opposition. /s
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Not voted Yes on anything Republicans want, for starters.
No cabinet picks. No poison pills. No sneaking in expansions of power in yearly budgets. No tax cuts for the rich.
It costs as much energy to vote no as it does yes. But it doesn’t look good for the lobbyists’ bank accounts when they pay for Trump’s demands, so why even bother fighting for what’s right?
I haven’t voted to confirm Trump’s nominees
Can you be any more specific?
What the fuck have you done other than echo the right wing spin?
The right wing spin of “Please stop doing what Trump wants you to do”?
Or the right wing spin of “Stand up for the people who voted you in to stop Trump”?
Vance is a piss baby peasant
Yeah, that’s sounds like the kind of thing a wormy, little sleazy fuck like Vance would say .
He still doesn’t understand that no matter how smart he is, or how much ass he kisses, he’ll never be one of Them.
Lee Atwater made the same mistake.
So China, how does wolfwarrior diplomacy taste?
What?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy
I was trying to say that this is what Trump and Vance are imitating.
Poor man’s idea of a rich man,
Stupid man’s idea of a smart man,
Weak man’s idea of a strong man,
Coward’s idea of a brave man,
And a moronic voter’s idea of a President (or Vice-president in this case).
He’s the future president of the United States. Be careful, China!
That’s fresh, coming from a guy that thinks getting a couch pregnant is the only way to repopulate IKEA’s inventory.
Thanks JD
Vance – that’s the hillbilly guy, yeah?
These people are so stupid, I cannot. I wish I was as blitzed as they were so I didn’t have to pay attention either.
