China’s official objection is probably more of a matter of politics and policy. At a technical level, China doesn’t need to have someone close to Jensen to learn about chip design (they’d want someone deeper in the organization at a more technical role) Blurring the lines between a honeypot relationship with leadership only to achieve something as limited as smuggling chips would totally undermine the intelligence operation potential. In any case, reconciling every detail in every incentive is probably not needed to see through the simplistic story of her as a spy and him as an easily manipulated sex feind.

Imagine if the leather jacket man had not been fellating Trump in between his female escapades. The story would be that HE was the Chinese spy.

I guess that leaves me unsure what your point was. If you see that the spy part is propaganda then you more or less agree with the main thrust of the article right? Ie, the spy shit is propaganda and the real story is about illegal sales? (and by extension whether they should be illegal at all.)

US taxpayers fund bombs to commit genocide in Israel and trip over themselves to cowtow to corrupt interests, but selling computer chips to China is a criminal act.

Is China a perfect country? No, but they have far higher educational standards than the rest of the world and put far fewer of their citizens in prison compared to the USA. They export far less violence. Their society slowly becomes more free while western societies succumb to capitalist funded fascistic corporate surveillance and control.

So, does it matter that western press used a caricature of “Chinese spy” to cover up Jenson and his girlfriend violating the monopolistic export controls of the US to sell (GASP!) computer chips to a paying buyer? Mostly used to make memes and chat bots?

There’s nothing weird about this story. What’s weird is how blind western populations are to their domestic propaganda.

Probably true and I do remember reading about “the trail of tears” but what is missing seems to be any real attempt to connect the past to the present. Red hat parents would be protesting and taking their kids out of school if you tried to frame it as we may be the bad guys. Then, and now…

Very true, though Germans do struggle with overcoming their past and can’t seem to reconcile the facts that exterminating Jews was wrong yet supporting Zionists in exterminating the Palestinians is also wrong.

The US was founded on genocide and slavery and both are treated as something you can cover in a couple chapters of 5th grade history without ever doing any real examination of the culture that was built from this.

Iran has been fucked over by the US/UK since the 50s. They are what they are now because of the US. They’re absolutely the victims of oppression. The argument about people not wanting to be perceived as pro-iran is real, but doesn’t fully explain it because zionists and US media have painted Palestinians and “hamas” with that same brush and fear of being perceived as being pro “terrorist” has also played a role there for decades.

In both cases, they’re simply defending themselves. They’re not doing anything the US wouldn’t do if it was being attacked and invaded. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.

As far as why Americans suddenly care about ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine and are willing to be identified as supporting that struggle, despite it having been ongoing even longer than US meddling in Iran, is mostly due to decades of independent media strategies employed to force Americans to look at it. Famous mainstream people are finally behind it. It’s hip now.

Also Gaza is tiny so the concentration of crimes against humanity is denser. Iran being able to defend itself presents a real cost to attacking them, leading to this mostly being a stand-off, and 150 school girls getting blown up is a far cry from 20000 children in Gaza.

Hopefully he’ll be the one wearing a blindfold.

You know, if he’s willing to take a bullet for it I say give him the Kennedy center.

https://ethics.house.gov/publications/code-official-conduct/

It’s a violation of house ethics rules. Hypocrisy aside, its just simply against the rules of a body who’s purpose is to make the laws that govern the rest of us. No tolerance or excuses for that.

A long time ago, maybe just after he was elected gov after being SF mayor, Bill Maher suggested to Gavin that he should run for president some day. Gavin said strenuously that he never would. He said “who wants that, that’s the worst job in the world” (I’m paraphrasing slightly from 15 years ago when I still watched that piece of shit.)

I can’t find the clip anywhere, it’s been completely scrubbed from the internet, but I remember it clearly as I had lived in SF while he was Mayor. Kamala was DA then and was a nasty one. Both of them need to STFU.

If this young man was in a rational state of mind he wouldn’t have thrown himself under a semi. It’s fine and correct to recognize the driver was a victim, but pointless to critique someone having a literally suicidal mental crisis.

Value and price are not the same thing. The president of the US is one of the biggest losers on the planet, yet he’s successful if you measure him only by vapid qualities such as his title and success as a Grifter. Elon Musk, literally the richest person alive, is also a major creep. Are people who don’t support them losers because they failed at fighting the good fight?

Lol getting moderated on the fediverse for paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson is pretty special.

Say what you want about Roger, but he didn’t want to be an American. He left, he didn’t come back, and the rules for dealing with people who leave are very arguably unfair and unreasonable. The fact that the Trump regime is corrupt isn’t really his fault. He actually is a true believer in non-violence. If I were him, I’d have used the money to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants.

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Good riddance.

Trump whitewashed the President’s House site so thoroughly that he had to slap forced-labor tariffs on Switzerland just to balance the books. Looks like Barron’s lanky ass is spending his summer in Geneva, doing 14-hour shifts in the Swiss chocolate mines.

Bad news for you. USA has always been genocidal maniacs. Israel is simply the forward base of operations.

Trump suddenly a fan of birthright citizenship?

The whole US team should be shamed and this player should decline to play. Any wins they have will now be tainted by Trump stank and his corruption.