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It's one sided. One side has 800 military bases in 70 countries and routinely threatens to invade countries, and just did a coup in Latin America last November
by kristopolous 7y ago
It's one sided. One side has 800 military bases in 70 countries and routinely threatens to invade countries, and just did a coup in Latin America last November and the other is where all their factories are.
So no, don't buy it. It's the global thug being thuggish
- hutzlibu 7y agoYeah, but the other side would like to have that much bases, too. And is increasing influence wherever they can. (big in africa and increasingly in south america, too). Also there are still some other sides, who probably join forces, if the US pushes too much.
- kristopolous 7y agoNot every culture values brash thuggish belligerency as a social good. Most counties are trying to work collaboratively and collectively on these things. US is the wacky outlier and they think everyone is like them. We're talking about a country too arrogant to adopt the metric system, meters are just too much for them. The optics of possibly using international standards is too high of a political cost because then they'd use the same thing as everyone else. The Horror! America is like an executive who insists on having their own private elevator. Basic things remain completely unadopted because that would look too much like collaboration. There's clearly an insane actor here, like some pearl clutching out of touch aristocracy riding around in town thinking the peasants love us as we argue how generous we should be wording a letter of forgiveness for wanting a revolution.
- CamperBob2 7y agoWe're talking about a country too arrogant to adopt the metric system, meters are just too much for them. Sorry, can't hear you from all the way up here on the moon.
- kristopolous 7y agoSorry, I don't value your response with brash thuggish belligerency as a social good. I think it's actually destructive and creates a hostile dysfunctional unhappy society of depressed people who turn to pain medicine and isolation because they can no longer turn to their neighbor.
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- CamperBob2 7y agoGotta say, that got dark in a hurry. Hope you're doing OK, in all seriousness.
- kristopolous 7y agoThanks for your concern. I'm fine. The systemic consequences of the cultural norms we choose are very real. We do it all the time without noticing and it's really unhealthy for us and others.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. It just makes things even worse. We've had to ask you about this many times in the past. If you'd make a point of reviewing the site guidelines and not backsliding like this, we'd be grateful. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- CamperBob2 7y agoSo, OK, the person who starts the off-topic flamefest gets voted up for it, while I... never mind.
- dang 7y agoI don't see what you're referring to, but either way, isn't this kind of complaint just a little childish?
- hutzlibu 7y agoIf the US is so bad at everything, then why did they become power number 1? Just by military force? Well, even if you think so, military requires collaboration, too. I mean, you could write big books about things, they do bad, no doubt (and people do). But ... I could write books about what goes wrong here in germany as well. And as for china: well, they are about to implement a social karma system, because in the great socialist country, corruption(aka selfishness) is very, very common. And for some mysterious reasons, also the leaders of the party have all become very rich. So I am curious, if they will implement the karma system (which says, whether you get a job, university, tax deduction ...) for themself in an equal manner.