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China condemned JD Vance on Tuesday for calling Chinese people “peasants” in a Fox News interview, where he said, “To make it a little more crystal clear, we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry labeled the remarks “ignorant and disrespectful.”

The backlash exploded on Chinese social media, garnering 140 million Weibo views.

Critics mocked Vance’s own “hillbilly” background and pointed to China’s advanced tech and infrastructure, highlighting rising tensions amid Trump’s trade war.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Just Dumb is a fucking numbnut.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

JD Vance is such a little bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Coming from the hick from Appalachia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The stereotype at that. A dumb hick from Appalachia. Which isn't really fare to the people from there anymore. I've met serveral people from there who were fair minded and of reasonable intelligence. Just not that waste of breath.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I knew a girl from China and this is a huge insult to them. Being seen or labeled as rural is very embarrassing in their culture. She was ashamed because she grew up on her uncle's pig farm.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Rising tensions with China? I was told that's what the Democrats were going to do if they won. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Don't take it personally, China. He feels the same way about the majority of Americans including his own family. He's got a chip on his shoulder bc he grew up among the peasant class, made it to the Ivy Leagues and has desperately been trying to claw his way into a social level he'll never be accepted to bc he wasn't born into it.

From his POV you're either a peasant, or you're an elitist. Unless you're part of the 1% of billionaires and generational wealth. Somehow that makes you an average Joe, and that's why you benefit the most from Vance's policies and "beliefs" (whatever he may need them to be in the moment).

Vance is not dumb, but he certainly acts like a useful idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck that racist asshat clown.

There are plenty of things wrong with China and they couldn't find one. These guys make tween student councils look advanced.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We are walking straight into a fucking COD campaign aren't we...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been thinking I might replay Fallout 3, for some reason been thinking about Operation: Anchorage lately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I've been thinking a lot about the Black Ops 2 and MW3 campaigns personally. I wonder which we're gonna see first, The LA drone assault from BO2 or the Eiffel Tower falling from MW3.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He needs several hundred lashes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Happy cake day!

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