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  • Leah Rowe is not a Rowebotlibreleah@mas.to
    May 5, 2025, 12:09 PM

    I say scrap all tariffs with all the democratic nations, the friendly ones, and just slap it on all the dictatorships. 300% tax.

    But do this only if those countries also tariff China heavily. Use tax as a means to destabilise dictatorships, so that their economies shut down.

    Tell all their citizens that if they overthrow their government and install democracy, the tariffs will be lifted.

    Use tax to unseat dictators. That's how dictatorships fall; people have nothing left to lose so they coup.

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  • Leah Rowe is not a Rowebotlibreleah@mas.to
    May 5, 2025, 12:15 PM

    And the weaker countries that have dictators heavily rely on friendship with China. A lot of them anyway. E.g. Vietnam and North Korea.

    Destroy the Chinese Communist Party and the rest of the dominoes will fall.

    And like, as soon as China gets democracy, the rest of the world can help it grow further. That promise is what Chinese must be told.

    Chinagov would probably shut down the internet in panic. If our leaders had any guts they would have done this in the 1990s before China got any worse.

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  • Chip Buttyotfrom@functional.cafe
    May 5, 2025, 12:26 PM

    @libreleah I think the problem with this plan is that often countries go to war as a result of restricted trade rather than have a coup. Certainly the theory in the 1980s and onwards was that liberal trade programs would bring about democracy in USSR and PRC.

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