Politically Correct OTD

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    • paging mono!hotroddy
    • lol... 'ticked off'.

      Well said, Bill.      PonyBoy
    • This needs to be said.Chimp
    • He's right but china and wuhan specifically were the starting points of more than one virus so eventually it'll look like our file names chinavirus-v3.pdc_niko
    • lol viruses come from china like shortstops come from the dominican republic_niko
    • This is spot on!
      Fuck you China!      utopian
    • Well Bill Maher is a fairly xenophobic person, so this isn't really a surprise.wordssssss
    • he may want to educate himself on Spanish flufadein11
    • Kill all chinesedrgs
    • https://media.tumblr…pango
    • this might be the first post I've ever up voted from robotron3kfooler
    • He’s a tired old dolt, but he’s not wrong.ben_
    • I love Bill but naming it the Chinese Virus started with Trump as an intentional act of racism. It should have been mentioned.CyBrainX
    • @hotroddy, troll on troll. Effort level weak as fuck though since it makes no fucking sense (well, maybe it does to fucknut trolls like you?)monospaced
    • Remind me, because you hardly blip on my radar, you’re a conservative right?monospaced
    • "cuz its how it has always been done, there's nothing wrong with it"
      we definitely have never done anything wrong in the past      pango
    • https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
    • I would have called it the pango virus personally_niko
    • https://www.youtube.…pango
    • im fine with you calling it pango virus.
      +1      pango
    • It's a pointless debate because everyone is already calling it coronavirus or COVID-19.yuekit
    • You're not going to convince the media to suddenly start referring to it as the "Wuhan I hate China foreverandever virus" or whatever the latest proposal is :)yuekit
    • in south america they call it chinese virus "virus chino". But political correctness seems to be a first world problemhotroddy
    • Then go cry about it hotroddy. Seriously who cares?yuekit
    • cry about whathotroddy
    • racist dotard.neverscared
    • Ppl need to stop being so offended about everything.NBQ00
    • Spanish flu started in the US, that's whyscruffics
    • anyone but Bill Meyer would get fired for saying this.hotroddy
    • Just call it the CCP Virus and be done with it. Not racist. Very accurate. We are in this mess because the CCP covered up and fucked it up.shapesalad
    • Let’s not forget Dr Li Wenliang arrested by the CCP for raising the alarm about the CCP virus. The vaccine should be named in his honor.shapesalad
    • I'm fine with that. Fuck CCPpango
    • Still trying to work out if he was being ironic regarding Spanish flu? If not it's a useless rant if he doesn't even grasp basic history taught in school.fadein11
    • You have one example out of many that is off, fade... that's not a lack of a grasp of history. An error? yes... However, His point is still solid.PonyBoy
    • Possibly yep. The virus may be the least of our problems soon.fadein11
    • What's next, fade? (not calling you out either...I genuinely disagree that one example cancels out his point—however I'm curious as to what u think is next)PonyBoy
    • I am worried a major war is on the horizon. Some would say it's been planned for a long time. Agree his point is not invalidated, my bad, just loses somefadein11
    • credibility. Amazed people are still arguing over the name of the virus over there. I guess Trump is partially to blame due to his general rhetoric.fadein11
    • fadein doesn't get it. China's ideals are the antithesis of western democracy. They are the enemy and should be treated like an enemy.hotroddy
    • Nonsense...many of the USA's biggest allies in the world are not Western democracies. For that matter, questionable whether the USA itself even respectsyuekit
    • democracy. Iraq's parliament voted a couple months ago to kick us out, guess what we are still there.yuekit
    • yeah Iraq wants to expel US troops to implement an islamic state. basically using democracy to turn into an autocracyhotroddy
    • the only other 'big' ally that isn't democratic is Saudia Arabia and that's because they know a democracy would never work therehotroddy
    • China on the other hand exports Authoritarianism. Hong Kong, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuela are all case studieshotroddy
    • Not at all true about Iraq. It was a clean vote to tell US troops to leave. You're just making stuff up.yuekit
    • The only other ally that isn't democratic is Saudi Arabia...uh huh.
      https://i.imgur.com/…      yuekit
    • The US established a democratic gov't in Iraq. In a region people say isn't possible. Can't you give them credit for that?hotroddy
    • oh the irony of Vietnam being on the list.hotroddy
    • China and Russia are disruptive authoritarian forces in the world. It's a world view the west doesn't embrace whenever possible.hotroddy
    • America's ideals fall in line with western democracy and will align itself to pluralism whenever possible.hotroddy
    • China and Russia on the other hand couldn't give a shit about western principleshotroddy
    • I'm supposed to give the US credit for an invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of people and that almost everyone now admits was a mistake?yuekit
    • yes, they believe in democracy to a fault.hotroddy
    • Same with Vietnam. Terrible war, millions dead for nothing. The communists beat us and stayed in charge, no one views them as a threat these days.yuekit
    • but no one mentions when it goes right (ie. panama, japan, south korea, germany),hotroddy
    • You honestly believe the USA went to war in Iraq for democracy? lol.yuekit
    • Do you think Trump believes in liberal democracy? He doesn't even give lip service to it.yuekit
    • Yes, Bush was stupid enough to think a western gov't would have a domino effect in the middle east. and he thought the oil would pay for the it.hotroddy
    • I think history shows the opposite. The USA does not care about democracy, they care about control.yuekit
    • Having the military base in Iraq is clearly more important than having democracy as that recent vote proves.yuekit
    • Getting back to the point though...if we can coexist peacefully with communist Vietnam, a government we were at war with just a few decades ago, why does Chinayuekit
    • have to be our enemy?yuekit
    • Because china is a bigger influence in the world with a lot of $$$ threat to be a threat to democracies. Ask venezuelans, ask the Hong Kongese.hotroddy
    • they don't value western liberties.. on the contrary they frown upon ithotroddy
    • and ur right. Trump doesn't give a shit about democracy but we have strong institutions to keep him in check.hotroddy
    • but these institutions are fragile and china doesn't give a rats ass about checks and balanceshotroddy
    • China isn't running around the world trying to overthrow democracies. The fact that you're using Hong Kong as an example sort of proves the point...yuekit
    • This isn't some foreign country China invaded. It's part of China that was handed back to them by a Western democracy, the UK, that had previously colonized it.yuekit
    • Also, I do think things in China will change. The current generation isn't going to be in power forever.yuekit
    • Hong Kong is an example what china is doing to it's own people. Venezuela is an example how they fund dictatorships and promote anti US rhetorichotroddy
    • criticizing US foreign policy is fine but defending the CCP is too much for mehotroddy
    • It's not going to change. it's going to get WORSE! Democracies will be a thing of the past very soon and china will have a big roll in it.hotroddy
    • democracies are fragile. authoritarian political systems have always been standard throughout history.hotroddy
    • The only threat to democracies I see is populist authoritarianism. I see zero chance of China influencing Western democratic systems or even caring about that.yuekit
    • populist militant authoritarianism like china? Like MAO?hotroddy
    • China is already influencing western democracies like Venezuela.hotroddy
    • No I mean the current trend of electing shitty authoritarian leaders. USA and Europe did that all on their own, China had nothing to do with it.yuekit
    • As long as USA democratic institutions stay strong it will continue to police the world even if it's out of self interesthotroddy
    • just for the record as not sure if it was aimed at me hotroddy, at no point have I defended the CCP. Oh and what didn't I get, you may want to re-read myfadein11
    • comments.fadein11
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