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@leo @futurebird Majority stake in X is held by Saudis and Russians. They just cloaked it by having Elon be the nominal owner, while they own the debts he "bought" it with.
@dalias @leo @futurebird Even ignoring that, one might say that the republican fascists and Musk are a much bigger threat to the normal US citizen than China is.
@ainmosni @leo @futurebird All of the superpowers have their unique ways of being evil. But Russia is the one that truly wants to throw us back into a premodern world ruled by constant war & territorial aggression, deriving profit & power from destruction and the ability to predict the form it will take. And that makes them (well, specifically, their autocrat) by far the most evil of the three.
@dalias @leo @futurebird Yeah, can't really argue against that, and Russia has indeed already shown that they have been skilled at using normal citizen's data to create discord in a very effective way.
@ainmosni @leo @futurebird The US tech oligarchy, aligned with Putin/Russia, is trying to bring the US into the same program. And this is the greatest threat to the US and the entire world right now.
Short of that, both the US establishment and China are mostly content with the existing extents of their empires, and are happy to wield power through neoliberalism-style economic bs.
@futurebird @dalias @ainmosni @leo hit the nail on the head right there, China does not really have the power to do anything terrible to me, US republicans take actions that directly and negatively impact my family. What’s Xi gonna do with my cat photos anyway?