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by free_rms 6y ago
That's actually how a lot of mainland Chinese feel about their government, and I can sympathize with them to an extent. But it doesn't undo other things about their government, it's just a fuller picture. Same applies to U
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by free_rms 6y ago
The UK was actually in charge of HK, not Beijing. If Beijing were able to control the fate of Hong Kong in the 1950s, they would have, and it wouldn't have been "leave it in british hands, sure, as long as there's no democrac
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by free_rms 6y ago
> And given that the UK itself has most of these things, I highly doubt they'd arbitrarily deny them to a dependent territory without good reason (especially when their other territories all have some measure of representative gover
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by free_rms 6y ago
I was responding to a comment that characterized British rule as 'liberal government'. If we're so much better, maybe we can let up on the propaganda and whitewashing of history?
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by free_rms 6y ago
I didn't say regression was ok, maybe I should have preempted such an accusation since I was criticizing the West. I pushed back against imperialism dressed up as liberation. Everybody's soooo concerned about Hong Kong civil righ
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by free_rms 6y ago
Point of fact, colonization by the British wasn't exactly 'liberal government'. Anywhere. In HK's case, they only got their limited democracy in the last couple years immediately before handover to China. The 150 year
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by free_rms 6y ago
The arab conquests were like ~700, we're talking about hundreds of years later. I think 'the muslim world' can take some credit for developments on that timeframe.
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by free_rms 6y ago
The kicker is, they got their way, and we've got notable woke icon.. checks notes.. Joe Biden as the nominee instead.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Have you ever been an athlete in a serious way? Honest question. If people who've competed or deeply cared about sports seem to all get hung up on this, maybe they're seeing something you're not? Your two issues are issues
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by free_rms 6y ago
> In my opinion, the whole discussion of transgender people in sports is a proxy war for their role in society as a whole. There are a lot of people out there who care way more about sports than they do about the role of transgender peop
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by free_rms 6y ago
Cheaper, less sexy, and doesn't justify the jobs of several dozen engineers, a few managers and a director. If you're the director, which would you go for?
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by free_rms 6y ago
So it's all on the assessor to decide the 'proper' unimproved land values to raise enough revenue while not driving the wrong people out of business? At a national scale? On that note, is the inherent land value of a lot in
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by free_rms 6y ago
If you filter that list to US companies, it does seem to be mostly in services, with logistics and manufacturing coming up next. I'm fine with taxing the hell out of Exxon, btw, or at least not giving them cash-in-a-briefcase subsidies
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by free_rms 6y ago
If the arithmetic for this tax scheme doesn't seem to remotely work out, ruminations on the nature of infinity aren't going to set me at ease with it. Here in the finite world, most of the money moving around is in services, while
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by free_rms 6y ago
Google consistently makes headlines for culture war stuff from the blue side, it's the perfect foil for Trump. It doesn't matter if they're biasing search results or not, that's complicated anyways, highly visible cultur
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by free_rms 6y ago
This case is pretty irregular as far as rule of law goes. You just don't see executives imprisoned for corporate accounting shenanigans or trade with the wrong countries way down in their reporting chain. The laws are long and can ca
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by free_rms 6y ago
So you're saying we should all ignore the very, very obvious political angles here and trust that it's all about the rule of law, applied neutrally and apolitically? Next you'll be telling us that a police officer would never
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by free_rms 6y ago
And it's not even ideological bias, it's more like the tribes from Survivor. Joe Biden is more conservative than Donald Trump in a lot of ways, as far as ideology and policy go. But MSNBC viewers love him and hate Trump, Fox News
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's pretty brutal. Why do they have so little faith in their own concept? Independence but only on our terms?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Pike's take is pretty unfair to C++11, given how ideas like 'rvalue references' held up REALLY well. Yes, they were introducing even more complexity to a complex language, but how else are they supposed to incorporate better
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by free_rms 6y ago
And I'm too American to give you a good analogy :) In England I think they'd say 'chav'? Think culturally lowbrow vs cultural elite. Rogan came up as a cage fighting commentator. In Europe there would be a lot more te
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by free_rms 6y ago
Rogan is aesthetically a bro, that's all this comes down to. If he were more 'soy' and less 'bro', while having the same mostly-liberal opinions, he'd get an entirely different reaction from the elite cultural
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by free_rms 6y ago
Sorry, but if you're talking about Googlers, that's bullshit, they're fine. 200k/yr, 300k/yr+ worth of fine. It's great to have empathy for people in a less fortunate position, and yes we have a lot of problem
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's very obviously about class and material condition. We live in a society, and that society has correlations of these things with race and gender.. but from Amazon's perspective, they hire the people who don't have a bet
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by free_rms 7y ago
Did you read the comment that this thread is linked to? It's not based on WHOIS records for non-existent sites, it's based on CMS, HTML elements and identifies specific PR consultancies.
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by free_rms 7y ago
On the one hand, we've got a super-long effort post with lots of cites and documentation. On the other, a guy on twitter met an old hippie that says otherwise. Seems pretty metaphorical for the whole situation, no?