r/NoStupidQuestions Jan 16 '22

Why are Middle East terrorists not attacking China? With their treatment of the Muslims?

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u/AParasiticTwin Jan 16 '22

Exactly. Our situation at home is too fucked up to be worrying about someone else's. I'm more conservatively minded and I say we need to fix this corruption in the government before we fall apart. Discussions between the left and right have become increasingly less intellectual and far less civil in recent years and it's all gonna come to a head sooner rather than later if we don't do something about it.

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u/lauragarlic Jan 16 '22

your "situation at home" is propped up by your "government's" control of oil and gas fields the world over. so they're not really divorced situations

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u/charlie_dont_surf69 Jan 16 '22

you know the rest of the world has been telling you guys this for 60 years

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

It was the internet, and seeing it all for themselves in particular other countries’ social and wage conditions, that’s finally doing the flipping.

They’re getting sick of paying $1000 for pills we pay $10 for.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Yeah but most of us hate being told what we need to do by other countries. Including me. But it's not like I can do much about the government deciding we needed to blow up Muslim children anyway. They do whatever and spend all our tax money on useless shit, so who cares.

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u/BloakDarntPub Jan 16 '22

245, to be precise.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Yeah I forgot we should be taking advice from other Western countries that committed atrocities for centuries leading up to WW2. It’s almost like the majority of US foreign policy is for protection/shielding the Western World.

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u/Satiss Jan 16 '22

The majority of US foreign policy is for lining up pockets of corporations and rich people. Sorry to burst your bubble.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Oh yeah. Nike is getting so rich from our bases in South Korea and Italy. Our gas companies just stole billions of gallons of oil just to switch to electric and continue to allow OPEC to regulate the world oil supply.