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To the citizens of nations that are being bullied by those organisations it's NOT a feature.
by Nemcue 11y ago
To the citizens of nations that are being bullied by those organisations it's NOT a feature.
- hguant 11y agoRight, but the concerns of those citizens quite frankly aren't a primary concern of the United States.
- nitrogen 11y agoGovernments that maintain such shortsighted positions will eventually find themselves superseded on the world stage.
- 001sky 11y agoOdd comment, in this context. Have you read the article?
- vinceguidry 11y agoI'm curious, do you have any examples to point to?
- nitrogen 11y agoIt's based on intuition and is only a response to the direct parent comment. If the US of .3 billion people ignores the needs of 6.7 billion people, eventually those people will find a way to escape the needs of the US. I'll note that the HN article title used to be significantly different, so some of the conversation makes less sense without the "accused of lying to the president" in the title.
- CamperBob2 11y agoThe US itself?
- Nemcue 11y agoThat's an incredibly dehumanising way of viewing the world. A view I guess is shared by the ones who conducts your tortures and carries out your murders. Shame on you.
- oh_sigh 11y agoCan you point me to any government in the world that cares more about non-citizens than it does about its own citizens?
- nitrogen 11y agoThat's not what the comment said. The word "more" wasn't used.
- oh_sigh 11y agoThe original comment was "the concerns of those citizens quite frankly aren't a primary concern of the United States".
- nitrogen 11y agoRight, that's basically saying that the US should care about other countries' citizens, not that they should care more about other countries' citizens.
- oh_sigh 11y agoI guess we just disagree on what that sentence is saying then. To me it says not that the US should care about non-citizens, but that, as a baseline, it cares about its own citizens more than it does about non-citizens.
- striking 11y ago> on you Many Americans did not choose their burden and instead were born into it. Shame should be placed somewhere, but I think this person's got nothing to do with it.
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