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Food protests in China spill into Rioting

29 points by abledon 5y ago

incomingpain 5y ago
- robbedpeter 5y ago
  - himinlomax 5y ago
    For hunting house cats?
  - incomingpain 5y ago
    >This is an excellent example of good reasons for gun ownership. The common argument against 2nd amendment is that the government has nukes. You cant overthrow the government with hunting rifles anymore. It's a valid point, you should only ever need guns to overthrow your government in times it has gotten too tyrannical. Said tyrannical government would likely freely nuke their own people. An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground….to rule over the ashes. -sun tzu Did you see what Biden had to say?: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57590483 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57590483 I'm not even American, but I know what the 2nd amendment says. Biden was not right there. Sure you need a license and some reasonable exceptions exist for your right to build bombs in the USA. Most people in the USA can build and own bombs. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/6jdgeu/are_you_allowed_to_own_bombs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/6jdgeu/are_y... Americans can get https://tannerite.com/ https://tannerite.com/ delivered to your door... LOL I bet the mailman doesn't know. Biden actively threatened to nuke the insurrectionists. Which maybe you haven't been following... Wikipedia doesn't even call it an insurrection anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att... And if you followed the court cases. Some "insurrectionists" plead guilty to crimes. But all those that went to court are being found not-guilty. These people were all found on video being allowed in by police. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/matthew-martin-capitol-acquittal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/matthew-marti... Then you have Biden saying to expect "real" food shortages: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/biden-says-to-expect-real-food-shortages-due-to-ukraine-war https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/biden-say...
    - powerslacker 5y ago
      If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq?
      - incomingpain 5y ago
        >If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq? Yes I do think so. Nuclear weapons are a VERY powerful deterrence. As we see, then instead of a primary name vs primary name war. It's now primary name vs minor, minor, minor, insurgency, minor. Why did they never use nukes in middle east? Because they ratified the geneva protocol in 75 and can't use them. Foreign vs Domestic consequences of using nukes is similar but not the same.
  - thawaya3113 5y ago
    You don’t want your pet to be taken so you choose to have your entire family slaughtered instead?
blunte 5y ago
I was wondering how it could work to lock people in their homes and prevent them from shopping for food. Predictably, it does not work.
innagadadavida 5y ago
Can normal Chinese people upload these videos without getting blocked? Also, will technologies like starlink effectively remove CCP/govt control in these types of countries and create an environment for US influence?
- fspeech 5y ago
  Starlink needs local licensing for radio spectrum. Even if downlink may not require such licensing, uplink (from hand terminal to satellite) certainly does.

29 points by abledon 5y ago

robbedpeter 5y ago
- himinlomax 5y ago
  For hunting house cats?
- incomingpain 5y ago
  >This is an excellent example of good reasons for gun ownership. The common argument against 2nd amendment is that the government has nukes. You cant overthrow the government with hunting rifles anymore. It's a valid point, you should only ever need guns to overthrow your government in times it has gotten too tyrannical. Said tyrannical government would likely freely nuke their own people. An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground….to rule over the ashes. -sun tzu Did you see what Biden had to say?: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57590483 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-57590483 I'm not even American, but I know what the 2nd amendment says. Biden was not right there. Sure you need a license and some reasonable exceptions exist for your right to build bombs in the USA. Most people in the USA can build and own bombs. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/6jdgeu/are_you_allowed_to_own_bombs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/6jdgeu/are_y... Americans can get https://tannerite.com/ https://tannerite.com/ delivered to your door... LOL I bet the mailman doesn't know. Biden actively threatened to nuke the insurrectionists. Which maybe you haven't been following... Wikipedia doesn't even call it an insurrection anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_att... And if you followed the court cases. Some "insurrectionists" plead guilty to crimes. But all those that went to court are being found not-guilty. These people were all found on video being allowed in by police. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/matthew-martin-capitol-acquittal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/matthew-marti... Then you have Biden saying to expect "real" food shortages: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/biden-says-to-expect-real-food-shortages-due-to-ukraine-war https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-24/biden-say...
  - powerslacker 5y ago
    If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq?
    - incomingpain 5y ago
      >If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq? Yes I do think so. Nuclear weapons are a VERY powerful deterrence. As we see, then instead of a primary name vs primary name war. It's now primary name vs minor, minor, minor, insurgency, minor. Why did they never use nukes in middle east? Because they ratified the geneva protocol in 75 and can't use them. Foreign vs Domestic consequences of using nukes is similar but not the same.
- thawaya3113 5y ago
  You don’t want your pet to be taken so you choose to have your entire family slaughtered instead?

I was wondering how it could work to lock people in their homes and prevent them from shopping for food. Predictably, it does not work.

innagadadavida 5y ago

Can normal Chinese people upload these videos without getting blocked? Also, will technologies like starlink effectively remove CCP/govt control in these types of countries and create an environment for US influence?

fspeech 5y ago
Starlink needs local licensing for radio spectrum. Even if downlink may not require such licensing, uplink (from hand terminal to satellite) certainly does.