Why Donald Trump’s Policy on China is So Fucking Stupid
Ok, now that the clickbait title is out of the way, please read:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-10/what-trump-s-odd-comment-on-china-trade-reveals
Honestly though, why do people:
1) Advocate for a return to zero-sum foreign policy when it completely destroys any hope of developing lasting alliances and maintaining our influence and power?
2) Believe that “fairness” matters in a zero-sum world, a point which the author points out in the article?
3) Think that we can actually compete with China in manufacturing–a country with a population four times the size of our own which is unbridled by labor & safety regulations?
4) Believe that using what leverage we have to demand policy changes “on our own terms” won’t seriously undermine the power that we already have?
Tagging the more conservative folks on here ( @friendly-neighborhood-patriarch @siryouarebeingmocked, @ad-hominem-sappies, @nyc-conservative and anyone else who wants to get in on this) so I can actually get a conversation going. If you’ve been tagged, please respond to this. I get tired of seeing the same stupid debates over SJWs and the “regressive left.” It’s time to focus on pertinent issues which will actually affect our society for years to come in more direct, meaningful ways.
-S3NATOR
I’m “conservative”?
well, you constantly take right wing positions, and attack the left… sooooooo
And apparently he lacks self-awareness as well.
@siryouarebeingmocked. Yes. You are. Or if you aren’t, then you hold conservative positions on this website so you might as well be for all the interaction that most people have with you.
I hold “conservative” positions on a fairly small number of issues. Positions which are shared by many liberals too.
You’re a centrist if I’ve ever seen one, and not the annoying kind. Good to know these two gentlemen know more about your own politics than you do, though.
So much for nuance, huh @thenuanceddebater?
“Left-wing people deserve to be driven over by cars if they protest on the street”
“if you dont agree with me on foreign civil law, you agree with child rape”
Yeah… Just common positions shared by many people around the political spectrum I guess… Nothing unusual at all…
Get a grip man, SYABM has become a tooting horn for hardcore right-wing articles under the guise of being “against the left/liberal bias” and the completely unhinged new right on tumblr blows his epeen for it.
He doesnt even respond or even react anymore when someone points out he spread something completely fabricated and debunked as factual, no matter how thorough or polite the response, as long as the misinformation pleases his right-wing follower base.
Tagging @siryouarebeingmocked so he can see this and add his word if he wants to. In the future, when you want to trash him, reblog directly from him.
Real nice job posting those quotations with no links to whatever posts you’re referencing. I’m sure you haven’t embellished or fabricated the viewpoints behind them in any way. In fact I KNOW you’ve falsified that first one, because I’ve seen those posts and SYABM has never, to my knowledge, expressed that he thinks protesters should get run over by cars if they block traffic (let alone “left wing protesters” as you so conveniently framed it to please your narrative).
Literally the most right-wing thing I’ve seen him ever post is his opinions on gun control. Everything else he’s fairly centered on. You just wanna paint him as some kind of right-wing lunatic because otherwise you’d have to admit that conservatives might actually be right sometimes.
He doesnt even respond or even react anymore when someone points out he spread something completely fabricated and debunked as factual, no matter how thorough or polite the response, as long as the misinformation pleases his right-wing follower base.
This is both veritably false or incredibly misleading. He’s regularly reblogged counter-arguments without reading or responding so his followers can actually see the opposing argument. He doesn’t continue the conversation for long because he knows long posts on people’s dashboards are really fucking annoying, especially when it’s multiples of the same long post. That, or he just doesn’t have the time but still wants to respond in a timely manner so he doesn’t forget or look like he’s misinforming his followers.
I’m not sure, it’d really help if you ASKED him about it instead of trashing him behind his back and making assumptions, while also forcing him to adopt a political extreme because he disrupts your narrative that you can’t be reasonable while holding some conservative viewpoints.
An absolutely last post because this will not stand. Zombie magic.
In the future, when you want to trash him, reblog directly from him.
I have reblogged directly from him, tagged him, messaged him in private via the IM, messaged him via asks. Offered him any way possible to respond, in any timeframe, via any medium of his choice. I’m even available for him via skype if he wants.
He has not reacted once. Not even said “No”. Just nothing. Ask him if you don’t believe me. I can provide some screenshots of the messages insofar I can still find them, since this went on over months.
expressed that he thinks protesters should get run over by cars if they block traffic
http://siryouarebeingmocked.tumblr.com/post/156688377745/blackoutcatharsis-cisnowflake
"beep beep motherfucker”
This is what SYBAM endorses, reblogs without criticism or any call for moderation - if the victims are not of the political persuasion SYBM likes.
If a neo-nazi gets hit in the nose with a fist - “this is a sign that political violence on the left is getting out of hand”.
If so-called anti-fa protesters (who are not even really identified in the gif) get run over by an accelerating car - “it’s the law of physics”.
And now imagine if this was the alt-right or neo-nazis protesting and someone had hit them with a car. SYBAM would have declared it an act of terrorism, a crime against humanity, the evidence of the absolute evil of anti-fa and how a vast societal conspiracy enables antifa to act like that and how this is what can be expected to happen a hundred times more often in the future because the evil left is acting on a vast conspiracy to label nice, fine, slightly conservative people as “neo-nazis”.
http://siryouarebeingmocked.tumblr.com/post/151574681007/eu-split-on-whether-or-not-to-allow-refugees-to
Now look at this. A fairily tpyical right-wing propaganda article about “the EU is about to legalise child marriage”.
So far, so misleading.
Not only does SYABM endorse the sort of misinforming articles the OP represents - a parallel information world of racist and semi-racist nutjobs which has nothing to do with reality - he also accused me of something pretty disgusting: “Did Elimiativism just defend child rape?” <- although police and forensic psychologists found no sign of psychological issues or abuse happening and there is no mention of rape, whether of children or otherwise.
Obviously his sycophantic right-wing followers did not care about any facts about the case and only read from SYBAM that I was defending child rape.
At that point, SYBAM had already slid into the cowardly idiocy that is now his modus operandi, but this degree of disgusting behaviour was still surprising SYABM and I messaged him:
Never got a peep, in any way.
you just wanna paint him as some kind of right-wing lunatic because otherwise you’d have to admit that conservatives might actually be right sometimes.
I am a centrist. I have some conservative positions myself. Your attempt to paint me as a leftist ideologue because you cannot stop sucking SYABM’s cock is a tactic that can be fairly easily defeated.
What your problem is that you think far-right wingnut positions are conservative, maybe because you are used to American politics or related discourse, which is shifted
Ask me for my positions.
Ask SYBAM for his positions.
Check the facts and put them into perspective (and no, the american right and left is not what political science classically understand under “right” and “left”)
And then decide, instead of relying on your sympathy for someone.
Don't get me wrong - I liked SYABM’s blog too in the past. I agreed with stuff he posted. But there was a point at which the good stuff (criticism of feminist hypocrisy and misinformation) began to be outweight by the bad stuff - and there seems to be no self-reflection on SYABM’s part. Everyone who disagrees is an anti-fa shill.
This is both veritably false or incredibly misleading.
Check, for example the blog @thenuanceddebater who meticulously and politely debunked stuff @siryouarebeingmocked paraded in front of his followers several times and how often the response appears on siryouarebeingmocked’s blog.
SYABM has become a dishonest coward, who does not want to reblog dissent. Who does not allow dissent. Who does not care about facts. Who cares more about the praise from his followers than about truth. And because he was originally a feminist-critical blog, a lot of right-wing filth has accumulated in his follower base. The moderate anti-feminists have been pushed away - just ask around. Who reblogs when he is proven wrong with a funny gif and then let’s his follower base send hate messages to the person he disagrees with.Open your eyes, man.
Everyone who has been part of the community for the last years agrees about the severe change in atmosphere that has occurred. And that was, by the way, to a degree a planned effort by far-right activists. SYABM has fallen for it, and because most of his followers agree, he thinks he’s still the same old person.
I’m not sure, it’d really help if you ASKED him about it instead of trashing him behind his back and making assumptions,
You presumptive child. Again, I have reblogged directly from him, tagged him, messaged him in private via the IM, messaged him via asks. Over the course months. I did not do it too often, since I didn’t want to be annoying. Maybe his response would take time. But nothing came.
he disrupts your narrative that you can’t be reasonable while holding some conservative viewpoints
Reblogging far right-wing propaganda articles as factual and without comment is not “holding some conservative viewpoints”, it’s spreading dangerous extremist misinformation in an already polarised and idiotic community.
You do not know me - I have extensive knowledge of politics, anregular discourse with people who have different views than me, whether to the right or to the lest - including classic conservatives, and not what you try to sell as conservatism or actually consider conservatism due to your young age and ignorance. They are reasonable people because we share a care for facts and objective truth. Because regardless of your political interpreations or preferences, facts and objective truth is something that is the foundation for decisions.
Not “the EU is about to introduce sharia law tomorrow” or “anti-fa the most dangeorus organisaton of the US and no one talks about it” or “all people smeared by the violent left as neo-nazis are actually innocent, mild conservatives - prepare for the TRump revolution my fellow patriotic americans!” and similar headlines - that’s not conservatism, that is propaganda with intent, and without any base in reality.
I have, in the meantime, quit posting on tumblr. This blog can be considered dead and this single post a zombie post.
You, and any other interested parties, especially SYABM, can still reach me via the IM to clear things up, to present their viewpoints, to ask questions and give explanations. Because I actually care about the truth. And I actually allow different viewpoints, under the condition they are supported by facts and arguments. I am not pretending to be logical and interested in facts and then reblog meme pictures and right-wing tabloid articles to pwn the stupid leftists.


















