That’s not what the survey shows. The survey shows that, actually, propaganda and recency bias aren’t enough. People can access news from around the world these days and they remember their nation’s history. If anything, my beliefs are vindicated.

It’s not logical, though, it actually reveals an illogical bias. Local disputes over fishing and territory simply aren’t as big a threat to the world as the warmongering empire that killed a million Filipinos and is currently plunging the world into an energy crisis.

I only ever defended China as not being as bad as the US. I clearly didn’t say China is flawless and immaculate - I literally said “China shouldn’t deprive fishermen of their livelihood” - and even if I think the conflict will be resolved peacefully (China doesn’t do war) it’s still bad. This is a local territorial dispute, though, and it’s simply not as big a threat to the world as the US.

Yet you seem to somehow believe China is worse than the US, which is absurd.

Oh yeah, they could actually use a fuel subsidy to justify more austerity! “We need to help consumers at the pump, so we’re defunding [vitally important government program] to fund fuel rebate checks.” I wasn’t thinking neoliberal enough.

I wonder what will be sacrificed on the alter of fuel subsidies?

The OP is about Filipinos seeing the US as a bigger threat than China. They’re literally telling us that, in the survey.

You’re the one that seems intent on ignoring what they have to say, here.

They are squatting, with the Chinese warships within Philippine territory without permission.

Okay, and I think this will be resolved peacefully. This hardly makes China the biggest threat to the world.

Sure, as if being water-hosed by Chinese navy to prevent you from fishing is caused by oil supply restrictions!

No, but being unable to fuel vessels and trucks after the pumps run dry will cause systemic problems that everyone will feel. An energy crisis hurts all fishers in all of their territorial waters, and then on top of that hurts literally every single person in the country. It’s not just that there are going to be boats that can’t even go out to sea because they aren’t able to get fuel, there are going to be people that can’t do any of their jobs in any part of the country. This is the prelude to an economic collapse.

The US is the biggest threat to the world and everyone in the world knows it, including people in the Philippines.

I’ve had the same thought. It took months for Israel to kill that many people in Gaza, and they were obviously trying to exterminate the population. They had to make Gaza look like the fucking Moon to kill that many people in that short amount of time.

Everyone has a camera in their pocket these days, in both Gaza and Iran, and hiding this level of mass death is impossible. Israel tried, but information always got out regardless because it isn’t possible to actually hide violence on this scale.

But, this poll still shows that people in the Philippines still see the US as the greater threat? Despite China’s more recent spat in the South China Sea, despite the propaganda, the Philippines still sees the US as the greatest threat to the world. Japan is the only country that sees China as a threat, which mostly stems from imperial humiliation at China defeating Japanese occupation.

China is already squatting in Philippines’ sovereign waters, and you think China won’t do anything in the future?

I think this conflict will be resolved peacefully because neither country benefits from open conflict. China doesn’t really do war.

Besides, the US-caused energy crisis is going to do more to deprive Philippine fishermen of their livelihoods than China ever has.

Since the article doesn’t mention it, the obvious reason is the energy crisis changing the conditions for negotiation. Supply disruptions will strangle Europe in the coming weeks, putting immense pressure on their coalition to make territorial concessions.

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The US murdered over a million people in the Philippines during its turn at colonization after the Spanish.

China shouldn’t deprive fishermen of their livelihood, but since we’re comparing them to the US it’s clear which is worse.

Plastic is a hard problem to solve since meaningfully recycling most of it requires a expensive energy and chemical inputs.

Also, I’m running into some weird math. Doing some light searching, China’s plastic consumption demand will reach a peak at 119 million tons in 2030. That means their recycling target will be able to meet 16% of total plastic demand in China, but for comparison, China recycles 17% of it’s plastic today. I doubt China is aiming for plastic recycling to remain about the same if it’s supposed to be a new national target - I guess they might not be looking to increase the percentage of recycled plastic and are only interested in keeping up with demand? Or, probably likely, something is wrong with my sources because I can’t get behind paywalls. 🤷‍♀️

18 cents isn’t nothing, but that doesn’t even bring the average gas price below $4.

They’d have to either start subsidizing fuel or banning exports to meaningfully lower prices, and both seem unlikely. Banning exports would obviously displease the oil industry so that’s basically a non-starter, but if prices get high enough they’ll start to cause demand destruction so maybe we could see a gas subsidy being implemented even if it goes against the dominant austerity ideology.

That’s kind of like saying that your untreated cancer was fine a year ago because you were healthy for the most part.

Can’t. Wind power is woke.

A ton of these “proposed” data centers are basically fraud - part of a confidence game.

They’re never actually getting built, they’re just lying to get people to give them money.

Or the solar system orbits Hell, which maybe implies the Sun is Hell?

Loneliness epidemic. They’re not really being recruited, they’re just going to the last non-commodified social space left.

It’s not like you need to believe in gods to pray, sing, or attend service. It’s just a place to be welcomed by other people.

Unlike the internet, which is a place to feel lonely. Just enough social interaction to remember what you’re missing, never enough to satisfy.

Wouldn’t this essentially eliminate burner phones?

Now I want to see someone recreate this scene with one of the hallucination machines.