this is so fucking funny to me

  • AgreeableLandscape☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    So… Remember when the West laughed at the DPRK for building a giant flagpole? In response to a similarly giant one the South built not long before, no less? (And of course the South one was necessary and money well spent.)

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    3 years ago

    They are building big walls around that list every service member that’s every served in the USian Military… How much you wanna bet they’ll put confederate soldiers on it?

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    3 years ago

    No way this thing is going to actually be able to stand up, it would effectively be a village-sized mikado stick. The pipe-dream sector of the US economy is growing out of proportion

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    Instead build bridges,railroads to improve infrastructure or health care for their people.

    Hey let’s build a large flagpole for 1 billion dollars!

    lmao this can’t be true, but i checked myself on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cepn8V5-xE

    God i’m so glad i am born as chinese and have a goverment who cares for their people.

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      3 years ago

      It’s sad but still better then the money going towards Raytheon/Lockheed Martine/Northrop Grumman, therefore, I critically support this hamfisted endeavor of “reminding” Americans that they are FREE and can consume as much grease at McDonalds as their hearts and wallets can handle.

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        3 years ago

        Well 25 years back than i was also not thrilled being chinese. But seeing how our nation developed over the years. Gives me hope and pride.

        I hope one day americans see their wrong doing and get rid off all the warmongers. And build a better future together.

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          3 years ago

          I can testify as an American living in core the that the situation is precisely the opposite here. The city I live near is filled with dilapidated buildings from the 1920s-1950s and used to have a trolley a system which is now completely defunct, all thanks to corruption. Politicians cope with all the discontent and hate by redirecting and channeling it all towards China and it’s very effective sadly. Yesterday I saw an ad for a local politician where all he says is “China, China is the enemy” and that was literally it. I just hope people in China fully aware of just how batshit people over here gotten.

    • The_Monocle_Debacle@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Very likely so, but they’re getting press coverage so who knows. It’ll probably end in a lawsuit and a bunch of missing money but it would almost be funnier if it actually got built.