• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    4 months ago

    Oh ASPI?, yeah this is just rightwing paid for garbage.

    It was started by a right wing PM, and is funded by the defence department and foreign companies, and has offices in New York. Its purpose is to make a report saying whatever the people paying them to make the report want it too.

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      4 months ago

      Hah, I thought this was the usual r/sino post, but it’s funny that it is right-wing propaganda. “The soviets are beating us to space” was what got the US to invest so heavily in STEM research in the 60s that it lasted until the 2000s. If this were all the propaganda they did, it would actually be healthy.

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      4 months ago

      is funded by the defence department and foreign companies,

      OK, I’d suspect they’d want accurate data, so what is your argument that the report is bad?
      Your claim is akin to: We can’t trust the report, because they are either left or right wing…

      That’s not a good argument.