>US President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) into law Thursday, completing the passage of the largest military
spending bill in US history—$901 billion, or over $1 trillion when combined with
supplemental funding passed earlier this year. >The Senate voted 77-20 on
Wednesday to pass the bill. The Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer of New York and Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, voted for
the bill. They were joined by Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin
of Michigan, both of whom released a video last month calling on military
personnel to disobey illegal orders—as Trump was sending the US military on a
murder spree off the coast of Latin America. >Citing Trump’s statements about
using troops to shoot protesters in America, Slotkin invoked the legacy of the
Nuremberg tribunals, which convicted Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes
against peace. But when it came time to vote, this invocation was revealed to be
completely meaningless. Slotkin voted to hand Trump the resources to pursue his
military adventure against Venezuela…
User who’s post history is full, to the point of appearing completely like a propagandists troll, is upset people post links from gasp a place that isn’t 100% critical of China to rightfully bash democratic senators for voting to increase the military budget.
People pointing out hypocrisy are called uninformed or told it’s okay because China has to be bad so any source saying that is fair game.
Calling the CCP leftists is amusing. They’re totalitarian state capitalists, Han nationalists and imperialists.
My friend, you are american. China has 5x your country’s population and has a lower absolute TOTAL prison population, 90% home ownership rate, higher literacy rate, lower homelessness rate, better education,
healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt people, fucking hell this list could go on…
Just based on prison population alone you should re-evaluate what your “totalitarian” and “authoritarian” bs actually means in practice, because the big ebil Chinese are clearly less evil and achieving far better social outcomes for people than the “free” country you never use the same words to describe. Freedom for who? Not people clearly. Freedom for capital however…
You are incredibly, deeply propagandised. The most right wing members of the CPC are further left than every democrat you call left wing and yet you parrot this nonsense that they’re not leftist. Don’t get me started on “imperialist”, the country that hasn’t been in a war for over 50 years. You are an imbecile.
More importantly the comment they’re responding to doesn’t assert anything about China being leftist. The point of the comment they’re replying to is that WSWS doesn’t stop being a good source because it’s leftist. There’s no relation between WSWS and China.
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My friend, you are american. China has 5x your country’s population and has a lower absolute TOTAL prison population, 90% home ownership rate, higher literacy rate, lower homelessness rate, better education, healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt people, fucking hell this list could go on…
Just based on prison population alone you should re-evaluate what your “totalitarian” and “authoritarian” bs actually means in practice, because the big ebil Chinese are clearly less evil and achieving far better social outcomes for people than the “free” country you never use the same words to describe. Freedom for who? Not people clearly. Freedom for capital however…
You are incredibly, deeply propagandised. The most right wing members of the CPC are further left than every democrat you call left wing and yet you parrot this nonsense that they’re not leftist. Don’t get me started on “imperialist”, the country that hasn’t been in a war for over 50 years. You are an imbecile.
More importantly the comment they’re responding to doesn’t assert anything about China being leftist. The point of the comment they’re replying to is that WSWS doesn’t stop being a good source because it’s leftist. There’s no relation between WSWS and China.