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[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 5 months ago

"making unfounded claims" is a charitable way of describing deliberately lying to manufacture consent for an imperial war of aggression

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

His level of political literacy is not even deserving of these low ranking officials.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lol yeah should've just sent a taxi and called it a day

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Poor driver. Just tell him to take the bus.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

tell him to take the hyper speed rail

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago

And make precious infrastructure suffer his presence? Show him in which direction his hotel is and let him walk.

[–] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine being the unfortunate low ranking schmuck who has to pretend to make nice with this ghoul

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 5 months ago

I hope whoever it is just spends the time fucking with him.

[–] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 5 months ago
[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you’re going to intentionally sabotage your trip then why bother going at all?

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's to "look tough on China" and to pretend they care about diplomacy.

They do this to appear "diplomatic" with other nations, so they can pretend they tried diplomacy before threatening them later.

[–] Soul_Greatsword@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Exactly this. He's already acknowledged China has no interest in the current set of demands.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 5 months ago

lol right, it's just such a clown show

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 5 months ago

😂😂😂💀💀💀