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China condemned JD Vance on Tuesday for calling Chinese people “peasants” in a Fox News interview, where he said, “To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry labeled the remarks “ignorant and disrespectful.”

The backlash exploded on Chinese social media, garnering 140 million Weibo views.

Critics mocked Vance’s own “hillbilly” background and pointed to China’s advanced tech and infrastructure, highlighting rising tensions amid Trump’s trade war.

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[–] [email protected] 272 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (29 children)

They are so laughably bad at this stong man act. They talk politics like either a particularly stupid playground bully or a guffawing British colonial moron from the time of the empire.

Also, I suppose it would help if your opponents found you even the least bit intimidating

[–] Doubleohdonut 90 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

they don’t even have good entrance music

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago

They tried but the artists keep suing to make them stop using it.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Big talk from hillbilly white trash.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

"China lashes out"

Did they also "slam" home the fact that this is quite literally a world leader directly insulting the people of their closest rival? The bad news writing mixing with clown world politics is why all this seems so unreal to people, we are talking about a collapse of global world order but this reads like a TMZ piece.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wonder how my friend who's a Chinese immigrant who supports Trump and wanted to move to Singapore if Kamala won, feels about this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You should ask them if you haven't already. In a kind way of course.

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 5 days ago

Poor man's idea of a rich man,

Stupid man's idea of a smart man,

Weak man's idea of a strong man,

Coward's idea of a brave man,

And a moronic voter's idea of a President (or Vice-president in this case).

[–] skozzii 121 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Does he have to be an asshole to everybody? Even the way he speaks is like he talks down to people, it's just so cringe.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I mean he was an asshole to his mum, wife and kids. (His mum is Appalachian American and in his book he said all Appalachian Americans are drug addicts. His wife is of Indian descent and so are his kids. He still defended the doge douche who was racist towards Indians.). So he pretty much has no assholeness filter and know no boundries.

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[–] Rentlar 29 points 4 days ago

You haven't even said thank you, once!!!!!!

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

JD Vance is such a little bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Does anyone believe he does not see American citizens as peasants, too?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Not just American citizens. The people he grew up with. His own community. He even wrote a book to exploit it. The guy is all sleaze.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

...I hate laughing at the downfall of my own country, but we definitely had it coming. I guess Chinese is the new lingua franca. Anyway, can someone help me understand why "Ma" in Mandarin means both weed and mom? How do I buy weed in Beijing?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Mandarin has 4 (technically 5) tones so "ma" could be any one of those 4 different pronunciations. Furthermore, there are many completely different words that have the same tone/pronunciation. You just learn through context (same way as you do with English homophones)

Mom in mandarin is 媽 (mā) whereas weed is 麻 (má). Colloquially you can also say 大麻 (dàmá) for weed.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

English is too engrained. Even if the US falls down to some impoverished dictatorship. English will remain. The cost of switching now is just too great.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Rising tensions with China? I was told that's what the Democrats were going to do if they won. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maga said that Biden was under CCP control.

Now looks who is under Kremlin control.

Projection.

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[–] Showroom7561 34 points 4 days ago (2 children)

At some point, The Onion is going to have to close up shop. Because the absurdity of reality goes way beyond any satire they could dream up.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 days ago (10 children)

One of the most frustrating things about the current US administration, is I keep having to side with China. wtf is going on when we can no longer even get together to hate on an external trading partner? When the enemies are not at the gate but in the keep? When I have to agree with actions to punish my own country as well earned and expected?

[–] avidamoeba 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Maybe the enemies aren't the ones we've been made to believe. Our homegrown capitalists export jobs to the "peasants" then they turn around and say to the jobless - look, the peasants took your job!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (13 children)

The enemies have never been the Chinese proletariat who toil and slave for scraps to feed the demands of a capitalist, consumerist society and always the greedy, totalitarian faux-socialists with a love for concentration camps that form the ruling party.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 5 days ago (10 children)

There goes the already remotely slim chance of any tariff negotiations. There is now a negative chance of China giving in.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 days ago

Yep. China is not gonna lose face by negotiating. They're gonna go all in to fuck the US over now.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago (15 children)

China wins this war in a landslide.
USA needs China: walk into any American home, and it'll be minimum 50% China-related goods.
The reverse situation, American goods in Chinese homes, would have a tough time approaching 10%.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In over 50 years, I have never seen a worst accounting of ourselves.

Our leaders, elected officials, are absolutely corrupt, inept, and eaten up with greed . They are diseased in their souls.

They need to be jailed , now.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Hey, China, call Vance "White Trash." He really likes that."

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 days ago (32 children)

Those “peasants” are going to weather a tariff war far better than the “peasants” in the United States who are not used to the hardship and scarcity that will result.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago (15 children)

I knew a girl from China and this is a huge insult to them. Being seen or labeled as rural is very embarrassing in their culture. She was ashamed because she grew up on her uncle's pig farm.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

Farmers should be respected like other workers, they are feeding the world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But then they vote republican...

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Don't take it personally, China. He feels the same way about the majority of Americans including his own family. He's got a chip on his shoulder bc he grew up among the peasant class, made it to the Ivy Leagues and has desperately been trying to claw his way into a social level he'll never be accepted to bc he wasn't born into it.

From his POV you're either a peasant, or you're an elitist. Unless you're part of the 1% of billionaires and generational wealth. Somehow that makes you an average Joe, and that's why you benefit the most from Vance's policies and "beliefs" (whatever he may need them to be in the moment).

Vance is not dumb, but he certainly acts like a useful idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Beyond him being an idiot and a racist and evil, who the fuck talks like this?

He called the UK and France "random countries" when dismissing their importance to mutual security agreements.

He talks like a 4chan dipshit. Which he probably was. Even if he is completely blocked from power for the next four years, just having this moron one heartbeat away from the Presidency has done truly horrific damage to the respect and prestige of the Office.

If by some miracle Trump steps back from the tariffs and the concentration camps and the blatant authoritarianism and the wholesale destruction of the federal government, the damage to America as an idea is something that none of us will live to see undone.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (8 children)

What the fuck is wrong with the GOP that this is who we have as VP? We have had guys who owned slaves in that gig who knew not to refer to other nation’s people as “peasants”.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's fresh, coming from a guy that thinks getting a couch pregnant is the only way to repopulate IKEA's inventory.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Fuck that racist asshat clown.

There are plenty of things wrong with China and they couldn't find one. These guys make tween student councils look advanced.

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