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This is something that future generations are going to look back at with a lot of shame. It's going to end up being in textbooks as another thing where students

This is something that future generations are going to look back at with a lot of shame. It's going to end up being in textbooks as another thing where students wonder why we were OK with genocide happening under our noses. In the US at least, we are not taking this problem seriously enough. There's a lot of acknowledgement that something bad is happening, but not a lot of clear coordination on an international scale to actually stop it. I am generally a non-interventionist, but this is an area where we need to get more involved and we need to be more forceful about pulling the economic and social levers that we have at our disposal. It still feels like we're just treating this like "problematic" behavior from a contentious ally, rather than a genocide. At least in the US, we are still not really grappling with the gravity of that word.

almost_usual 6y ago
We have no leverage and the global economic system doesn’t care enough. Let’s be real, China is the new world super power. The US is still riding the coattails of prior success. We’re a confused divided country and China has a brutally efficient system of exploitation the US needs.
- steve76 6y ago
  Moral authority over martial or material. Nature wins without effort. Storms and earthquakes go where they want, regardless of who lives or dies. The USA doesn't need the competition. Leave us alone please, for just once in our history. Our entire existence, the world has waged war against us. Imaging black holes. Probes inside the Sun. Ever growing size of matter waves. Find peace please, or I build a horrible weapon of coarse resuscitation, a gravity application of pair production and coherent control that doesn't kill, but keeps people alive.
  - krageon 6y ago
    > Our entire existence, the world has waged war against us. For the most recent part of it, it has rather been the inverse.

almost_usual 6y ago

We have no leverage and the global economic system doesn’t care enough. Let’s be real, China is the new world super power. The US is still riding the coattails of prior success. We’re a confused divided country and China has a brutally efficient system of exploitation the US needs.

steve76 6y ago
Moral authority over martial or material. Nature wins without effort. Storms and earthquakes go where they want, regardless of who lives or dies. The USA doesn't need the competition. Leave us alone please, for just once in our history. Our entire existence, the world has waged war against us. Imaging black holes. Probes inside the Sun. Ever growing size of matter waves. Find peace please, or I build a horrible weapon of coarse resuscitation, a gravity application of pair production and coherent control that doesn't kill, but keeps people alive.
- krageon 6y ago
  > Our entire existence, the world has waged war against us. For the most recent part of it, it has rather been the inverse.