The source for that claim is entirely from the US state department. Not to mention some expert disputed that claim

“The estimated all-time high for opium production was set in 2017 at 9,900 tons worth some $1.4 billion in sales by farmers or roughly 7% of Afghanistan’s GDP, the UNODC reported.”

“Mansfield says his field studies show the most the Taliban can earn from illicit opiates is about $40 million annually”

So the Taliban made at most 40 million per year while the entire country (under US occupation and control) made over 1 billion per year

America dominates the world in almost everything 🦅, it makes sense that there’s more news happening here than anywhere else

They’re mentally healthy for a westerner

Which is so rabidly racist and xenophobic that they’re calling out random memes for being Russian as an insult

What’s wrong with Russian memes lmao

Are you scared of their memes?

It’s okay to admit you don’t know something. Like the other person said, Chinese people can vote

Learn yourself so that you can make informed opinions

It’s better to have no knowledge than negative knowledge (knowing “facts” that are completely wrong because of a gut feeling assumption rather than any evidence or research)

No one in China is ever asked what they want or what they believe in

Thousands in China were asked every single year from 2003 to 2016 by Harvard in an intensive study that they’ve described themselves as “nothing comparable done on this scale, over such a long period of time, and over a large geographic area”

The conclusion they found is that 95%+ of Chinese citizens are satisfied with the government

If you tell me Harvard is a Chinese propaganda institution I’ll take your word for it though

Most of the world is friendly with China cope harder

UN Voting Patterns Compared to China’s

Even more impressive when you consider the economy of China (18 trillion GDP) vs USA + European Union (who are always against China with 41 trillion GDP) and military (China has 2 overseas bases, USA has 800+ all surrounding and missiles pointed at China and Russia)

we know what you are

He’s a tankieeeeeee 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

Nice! I managed to get my social credit score over 4000 for the first time ever since federation happened

I’m so happy I can finally stop being shamed by my family for being a sorry excuse of a Maoist

Easy to admit their country is shit. Harder to admit their country is worse than the Asians’

Fascist states famously sold off large amounts of state assets to capitalists. Nazi Germany even inspired a new word for this, called “privatization” because they did it so much

It’s okay to not have opinions on things you don’t know. Learn so that you can create informed opinions

Muh face

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party

What if they hate/cut off fascists though?

I know a lot of people who are close friends with BJP fans and I always thought that was fucking weird

Yep, I also feel like many people have inserted their own reality of history where all the anti war protests and fraggings were because the Americans wanted to stop killing others

But if you actually read the sentiment from people back then, the seemingly strongest sentiment was to stop the war because too many Americans were coming back in body bags and American soldiers were heavily demoralized from the nightmarish conditions of guerilla warfare against the Vietnamese

They just didn’t want more Americans to die for a reason they’ve never been told about

That was clearly a joke

The Great Firewall was to protect their own citizens from being data mined from foreign companies and propagandized by hostile state actors that want to put the Chinese in mines to extract resources for dirt cheap like they’ve done to many other nations in Africa, South America, and Asia

It was absolutely not obvious at all to Americans back then. Or more accurately, they wanted to believe the lies so they did

73% of Americans were in favor of invading Iraq

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