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by clavicat 5y ago
What a bizarre objection. Colonial entities can be as small as a city-state, e.g. Singapore. The point is that a newly imported population is imposing their domination on the people that were previously there.
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by clavicat 5y ago
No, it’s society saying that the social contract is a two-way street and that if you violate your most basic obligations as a human to your fellow man, society has no obligation to you. Feel free to disagree, but it’s not just murder for th
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by clavicat 5y ago
She was detained and belatedly exonerated. That sucks. On the other hand, it has the lowest crime and incarceration rates among major developed countries. Surely it has to be doing something right? Something worth emulating even?
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by clavicat 5y ago
“It’s not colonialism, it’s racial revanchism!” probably does not sound as sympathetic as you think. And why can’t it be both? It is also true that Xinjiang was once peopled by the Han thousands of years ago, before the Uighers arrived, but
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by clavicat 5y ago
That is like saying that the Greeks would be justified in invading Turkey and annexing Istanbul and all of Eastern Anatolia because they had an ancient presence there and that their domination over the subjugated Turks wouldn’t constitute c
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by clavicat 5y ago
And yet, if another country invaded your country and tried to take your land, you’d think it an injustice, no? Or would you be telling yourself that it’s no big deal, after all, our ancestors took this land from some forgotten people as wel
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by clavicat 5y ago
Notice how your defenses of Israel are identical to the colonial regimes of old. We’re progressive and secular and advanced and humane, not like those terrorist savages who attack us for no reason. The rhetoric is indistinguishable from tha
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by clavicat 5y ago
I see a lot that can be removed without substantially altering the user experience. Just compare Hacker News to Reddit, or Nitter to Twitter.
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by clavicat 5y ago
San Francisco probably has one of the most generous social service provisions of any city in the world. The latest one I’ve heard of: a bunch of basic income programs explicitly limited to certain races and also artists for some reason. &g
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by clavicat 5y ago
They seem to have given up on murder as well. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/15/brian-egg-sa...
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by clavicat 5y ago
The criticism I’ve read of ShadowStats is that they don’t actually recompute inflation using different methodology—they just add a constant of their own choosing to all the official inflation figures.
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by clavicat 5y ago
They look at the West with its respect for the human rights of drug dealers and notice that it seems to suffer from tens of thousands of drug overdoses every year as well as creating tens of millions of addicts inflicting crime and squalor
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by clavicat 5y ago
Kind of wished that humanity could have explored the consequences of making everything out of plastic before we decided to make everything out of plastic. In hindsight, it seems a little crazy that we just radically altered everything we us
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by clavicat 5y ago
I scrolled through it for five minutes just now. Advice animals, rage-bait about politicians, political cartoons, cute animals—this is complete garbage.
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by clavicat 5y ago
Pelosi or her husband bought a bunch of Tesla call options when TSLA was at $900 or so. Those are way underwater.
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by clavicat 5y ago
> Why not just hire an interpreter? The message it sends is “you’re so incapable that we need to hire another person just to make up for your deficiencies”. And if it becomes a norm across the corporate world, companies will become even
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by clavicat 5y ago
Windows is probably the most important piece of software in the entire world, yet Microsoft does not treat it like the most important piece of software in the entire world. They have no sense of responsibility about foisting this garbage on
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by clavicat 5y ago
Translation: it’s bad PR for my tribe. One of the privileges of occupying a position of hegemony is that you get to instruct your subjects in how they are allowed to refer to power, and pathologize expressions that are offensive to it. Libe
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by clavicat 5y ago
People invoke Aum Shinrikyō all the time to draw conclusions about the condition of Japan at the time and the wider sociological forces that led to its rise. People invoke the existence of the tiniest, most fringe right-wing groups to draw
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by clavicat 5y ago
>ok, so it happened to 1 guy No, it happens to a bunch of people, I just chose the guy who has a Wikipedia article so you can't claim I'm fabricating an anecdote. >she does not have citizenship That tells us nothing. Has she
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by clavicat 5y ago
That's kind of ironic. Funnily enough, one respect in which Japan is less xenophobic than Germany is the total absence of terrorists and serial killers that target immigrants or any incidences of mob violence like the 2018 Chemnitz rio
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by clavicat 5y ago
There was a longtime member of of the Diet of Japan who was born in Finland and is of pure Finnish ancestry. He became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marutei_Tsurunen Seriously, w
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>During an edition of BBC's Timewatch program, an eyewitness described the carnage in Cell Block 4. They saw an inmate held up in front of a window; he was being tortured by using a blowtorch on his face and eyes until his head expl