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[–] iglou@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Scaring scientists away is a good thing? Or do you mean that's more scientists for the rest of the world? Or are you simply a bigot implying that chinese-descent scientists surely are spies?

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're happy about US decline because it means less power to murder people abroad

[–] iglou@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If that is the idea then I'm behind it! Unfortunately too many bigots out there for me to assume that.

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, if I hadn't seen that user comment before I might have been unable to tell too

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is lemmy.ml.
Chances are high that يا ليتني means that Chinese-Americans are wising up
on what the US currently stands for.

It would have been better if they called for separatism though.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Almost everyone else understood what I meant. But I could have phrased it better, sorry.

Weakening the US is the good thing and Trump's accidental win. It goes without saying that Sinophobia and other forms of racism and bigotry is not a good thing.

[–] CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gtfo of usa if you can. This applies to anyone except the bourgeois (the epstein class and its defenders)

[–] iglou@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Oh I'm neither american nor in the US and I am not planning to go there anytime soon!