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Leaked [Chinese Internet] Propaganda Directives and Banned “Future” (2011)(chinadigitaltimes.net)
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by Lionsion 8y ago
I'm saying Xinjiang and Tibet are akin to the Philippines, India, and Greece: conquests that should get their independence. The latter independence movements had varying degrees of conflict, but I think few argue that those countries
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Lots of similarities, actually. Both systems were designed to destroy a culture seen as backwards by the powers that be. Yeah, except one occurred in the past and is now condemned; the other is a present, newly-created reality.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> A company's interests are superficially different from a government's - they don't care about which party is in power, sure. But they have much the same interests at a deeper level of: keeping existing power structures i
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Obviously net neutrality is something we should be concerned about but a single issue voter says it's the only thing we should be concerned about. That's just not true. Yes, it's not true because what you said is wrong.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Can you provide a source for this wild claim? The commenter I responded to was so vague, that they could have been making that claim. After all, they were likely drawing parallels between the situation in the OP and the US. But who kn
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> It sounds to me like you have some deep-seated insecurities that I really don’t think you should have. I think you should address these before you go around whining about other people’s attempt to discuss things. How condescending. I h
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> it's not, not even slightly, as far as i can tell. what makes you feel this is the case? If there was a high level policy to explicitly imprison African Americans (rather than one that disproportionately imprisons blacks because
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> FYI the Chinese government literally pays ppl to sit in massive internet cafes and camp out on various internet forums. They comment about how great China is and how anything bad in China is made not bad by something similar happening
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> How would we cope with a similar situation? I've heard China described as one of the last classical empires. All the others, such as the British Empire, Ottoman Empire, Soviet Empire have dissolved. So "our" solution wo
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I've never understood this American notion that just because a private company is doing something that makes it fine. If you can't get a loan and can't find out why, what difference does it make whether it was the govern
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Ineligibility for universities for opaque reasons happens in the west too. So does unaccountable public shaming - I don't think it being done manually rather than automatically makes it better. Knowing what information companies h
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> but most of us live in the US. It makes sense that we would talk about our own country. In an article about Chinese human rights abuses? At the most charitable, needing to make everything about the US is a form of political narcissism
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> i find it fascinating how to some folks, pointing at obama's ethnic background is apparently some kind of knockdown argument. It's pretty close to a knockdown argument against someone whose position is US government policy is
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> It depends on who you are Correction: it depended on who you are. Those schools have been closed and have been repudiated at the highest levels of the Canadian government: > On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Getting denied a bank account/job/housing rental/... for no clear reason and with no way to appeal is becoming increasingly common, and seems to have all the same negatives as the social credit program - if anything wors
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Whataboutism is more about distraction than justification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#Methods : > "[Whataboutism] functions as a diversionary tactic to distract the opponent from their original c
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> "Leading to what a U.S. commission on China last month said is “the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today.”" Oh the irony. You really need specify exactly what you're referring to, otherw
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> To think in such a manner can certainly be considered heartless. > How does that follow? They're considering the needs of untold billions of individuals not yet born Are they really considering the needs of unborn individ
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> so why would you let your vote hinge on that one issue? Single issue voters make policy, and this is a case where the small weight of my vote could tip a scale and actually accomplish something. Plus, I hate our current state of extrem
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> but not a practical real world scenario here nonetheless. That is the kind of thinking that entrenches the status quo. Close political fights are worth fighting because there's nothing to be gained by preemptively surrendering. &g
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> the House is not going to vote this way Unless you have a working crystal ball, that's a prediction, not a fact . > and this is a largely pointless political drama thing Not true. The repeal of net neutrality is extraordinari
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Time to call your Congressmen. I live in a purple district, and I'm going to make it clear to my Republican representative that: 1) I'm going to vote in November, 2) I will vote for him if he votes to keep the pre-existing title
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by Lionsion 8y ago
>> Salesforce relied on things this 'privacy law' would make illegal in order to get where they are today. This law would prevent other companies from following in their footsteps. > Are those things we want other compani
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> ORG What's ORG?
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Or long rope, a balloon, and a heat source ;) Good luck if a storm hits.
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by Lionsion 8y ago
If you're going through the trouble of epoxying USB ports, you could probably epoxy the mouse to its port as well. Or just monitor connected USB devices and shutdown if something unapproved is installed, a la USBKill. https:/&#x2
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> I’m kind of doing a bad job here because the GP of the comment I was replying to bailed out and replaced his whole comment with something dismissive, so we can’t actually see the counterpoint I was trying to defend. That point is prese
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> i think there should be at least a couple additional levels between small claims and full blown court. The lack of those levels is what arbitration mostly trying to fill. I think at this point, in most cases, arbitration is meant to fi
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by Lionsion 8y ago
Don't those nonprofits tend to focus on national issues? State and local issues still need investigation.

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