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DarthOne
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The Federal bank for starters…
Seconded!
Don't think china would win that one
mrttao
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it doesn't actually say that china wins WW3.
it says china conquers taiwan.
and switch their money from being backed by dollars to backed by gold.
which is rather believable. there have been talks about them doing the gold switch for years now.
and the west is over spending itself on ukraine.
which leaves china with a good opportunity for taiwan.
although due to the sheer magnitude of corruption in their military they might manage to flab it up despite numerical superiority.
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
The image literally says 'World War 3 triggered by a chinese invasion of Taiwan.'
And given that it includes common tankie fantasies like casually sinking carriers, it's pretty clear what's meant.
mrttao
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Yes, triggered by the invasion of taiwan.
not ended with the invasion of taiwan.
It says China invades taiwan and conquers it, which starts world war 3.
Who actually wins WW3 afterwards (if anyone) is left unsaid.
Compare this to WW2.
WW2 started when Germany invaded poland (and immediately conquered it).
Would you say that Germany won WW2 because it conquered poland?
no, this was only the start of the war
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
No, the results depicted in the various parts of the image very clearly indicate a triumphant China.
Domination of global markets, control of the Indian and West Pacific oceans, sinking US carrier groups, not getting choked out by having trade cut off, forcing NZ and AUS out of alliance with the rest of the anglosphere, Vietnam being forced into vassal status, this is very clearly tankie fantasy BS where China wins instead of collapsing like a house of cards.
Circle of Willis
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Looks like a salty tankie's knockoff of the non-tankie original. The latter was posted to r/PCM two days before the 'Dark Tankie' version, which while still overly optimistic & wanky in the other direction in some regards (Korea unifying peacefully & not being stuck in dire straits as the South now has to uplift the North to a non-hellhole standard of living???), I still consider much likelier than the Red Chinese being able to win despite all the self-inflicted disadvantages saddling them (demographic time bomb, crippling reliance on foreign imports just to feed itself, the Three Gorges Dam being built on two fault lines despite there being so many population & manufacturing centers downriver which would get swept away if it breaks for any reason, etc...):
Anyway, some other memes/Tweet screencaps (I don't think I'll ever get used to calling it 'Xeet', heh) more relevant to the present than the future:
I feel like being called "cis" or "cishet" is a slur, but they keep doing it. Most straight men I know feel this way. It's a slur. I'm just a straight man.
That doesn't stop them. So I don't give a fuck.
DarthOne
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I confess I’ve been using that slur as an opportunity to be a nuisance by playing dumb (mostly online, as that’s pretty much the only place I’ve encountered it in real life) and pretend that I’m confused as to why they’re suddenly talking about Star Wars, whenever that’s thrown at me.
And/or pretend to be suprised that they know I’m a fan of the Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) from the same franchise.
Stupid and petty, I know.