• switchboard_pete@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    The debt they owed to the IMF

    do you understand how money works? you know it’s fungible, right?

    Oh you mean where actual western debt trap was happening?

    even in your cartoon world, china is a member of the imf

    and even if they weren’t, the largest share of single-source debt was from china

    i guess it’s easier to defend a worldview if you just like…make stuff up?

    any sort of intellectual integrity from you here

    said the person who cherry picked like 3 things to respond to, despite spending most of their life accusing others of cherry picking, and responded to them by making stuff up

    sure buddy

    okay let’s pretend it’s relevant

    selling it services and equipment now absolves a country of guilt

    wow, looks like the us is absolved of guilt to a comical degree

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 hours ago

      Unlike you, I do understand how money and debt works. The discussion is about debts issued by China and their long term impact, which every study shows to be positive. I guess it’s easier to make a clown of yourself in public than actually learn about the subject you’re attempting to debate.

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        8 hours ago

        The discussion is about debts issued by China and their long term impact, which every study shows to be positive

        except the ones you just linked, i guess?

        you must have been very unlucky when picking which sources to show me :(

        I guess it’s easier to make a clown of yourself in public than actually learn about the subject you’re attempting to debate

        you know people only keep you off their blocklist because it’s really funny watching the fediverse e-clown ply their trade every day, right?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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          6 hours ago

          The ones I linked provide a contrast between Chinese lending and IMF lending, but clearly that was too complex of an idea for you to grasp.

          you must have been very unlucky when picking which sources to show me :(

          I just vastly overestimated your intellectual capacity.

          you know people only keep you off their blocklist because it’s really funny watching the fediverse e-clown ply their trade every day, right?

          I’d be so insulted by that if I had a shred of respect for you.