komali2

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by komali2 7mo ago
Regarding Japan, and especially Tokyo though, chats with strangers seems nightmarishly difficult (assuming in Japanese). Maybe with tourists in English, but locals? The exception would be at a bar or similar but outside of that... Yeesh I g
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by komali2 7mo ago
I've never heard about this mercantile Catholic church thing, can you expand on it?
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> I'd at least like to know what is the end game here. Have those groups effectively given up any hope of changing the country and mainstream society at large, so the new strategy is now retreating into gated communities I noticed
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by komali2 7mo ago
Your insulting tone diminishes the validity of your argument to nothing. There's no point in talking to someone like you.
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by komali2 7mo ago
People said the same thing about the interracial kiss or the "left side white, right side black" episode. You're suffering from recency bias and rose tinted glasses.
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by komali2 7mo ago
> A nuclear armed Iran could hold oil and gas shipments in the Straight of Hormuz hostage indefinitely. It could threaten regional allies with a nuclear attack. Personally, I don't care about the profit margins of oil and gas compan
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by komali2 7mo ago
That doesn't make sense for America to care about this much, given that Iran has no way to deliver nuclear weapons to it. Nor does Iran have nuclear weapons. Are we really back in "trust me they have WMDs" territory? How many
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by komali2 7mo ago
Do we need to keep reminding people that Star Trek depicted the first interracial kiss on television? Star Trek was always woke, over corporatization has just been sanding all political and social messages down to a corporate approved inter
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by komali2 7mo ago
Just go read engineering documentation about the Apollo flights then. What you're describing has never been sci-fi - you're falling in that camp of people the article described that are demanding authors not write above a fifth gr
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by komali2 7mo ago
Imo good sci fi was never really meant to be a technical description of cool technology, but more about how humans interact in specific scenarios dictated by the existence of certain technologies. Star Trek was less about the intricacies of
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by komali2 7mo ago
Treating culture as uniformly distributed and absolute is racism. Your racism is blinding you to truths, leading you to illogical conclusions like the idea that it's possible to make an accurate assessment of military threat based on &
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by komali2 7mo ago
I didn't realize it was the same person I had made this comment to twice, so I will copy and paste my answer here: > > The key phrase is "existing boundaries." The constitution was passed in 1947, when the "existin
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by komali2 7mo ago
> The key phrase is "existing boundaries." The constitution was passed in 1947, when the "existing boundaries" of the ROC were very clear: all of China, plus Mongolia. Nope, they were never formally defined, not even
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by komali2 7mo ago
"France" is a great example, as is "Italy." What we perceive of when we hear those words is a territory and government that are perfectly overlain. In reality, what one might consider France or Italy in reality contains
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by komali2 7mo ago
Please directly quote where in the taiwanese constitution there is a claim to the territory of the PRC. I tend to read the constitutions and legal documents of countries I live in. I have read the constitution many times. It's not in t
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by komali2 7mo ago
Ah, so in the end, your reasoning for attacking Iran is racism. That is very boring, caveman logic.
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Both sides officially consider themselves to be China There is no "China, the country." "China" just means, essentially, "Empire." It's like a country claiming to be Europe, or maybe better, The Roman
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by komali2 7mo ago
This is false. You will finally google this claim you've been repeating without evidence, and realize there's no supporting evidence for this claim. I guarantee it, because there is no evidence for this claim .
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by komali2 7mo ago
We're talking about Americans. What genuine threat did Venezuela or Iran pose to Americans ? Corporate interests don't count.
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by komali2 7mo ago
People keep making this strange claim about Taiwan, the only liberal democracy in the East without a single American soldier on its soil. Almost like Taiwan is a sovereign nation uninterested in participating in the PRC and USA's fight
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by komali2 7mo ago
> Taiwan does not consider Taiwan and mainland China to be separate countries. This is false. Both the government of Taiwan, and the people here, obviously consider the two countries separate, and neither have made any overtures challen
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by komali2 7mo ago
No, you're right, and I distinctly remember the conspiracy theorists and counter culture thinkers immediately circling around "this is going to be used to restrict our freedom." And of course they were absolutely right. I als
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by komali2 8mo ago
> It's a clear sign for us not Americans to just leave them be. Depending on where you live in the world that might be quite hard to do soon.
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by komali2 8mo ago
I think this mindset might be unique to western "atomic families." I have friends that would talk similarly about this kind of responsibility to cousins or non "genetically related" people in their village.
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by komali2 8mo ago
I think what they mean is that "responsibility to society" has been co-opted by capitalists such that even our own children are a resource we're expected to raise to further contribute to endless growth and someone else'
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by komali2 8mo ago
Lines on a map are just that. Globally we're doing fine. And anyway, constant growth can't continue forever, it's probably a good thing if we stabilize or even shrink a bit.
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by komali2 8mo ago
> There was nothing harris could've done Then, there's no hope for America. Why bother running a candidate? Waste of money that could be spent on local elections. The reality is, Kamala could have won that election. Quite easil
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by komali2 8mo ago
Evil in a co-op means something different than evil in a corporation. The corporation at the end of the day will lean back on profit motive as the core underlying value. This value , to a co-op, isn't inherently evil, but is often evil
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by komali2 8mo ago
I was politically active in the USA, in the only way I believe can make any meaningful change: direct action, mutual aid. The American political system is captured by two neoliberal (one now post liberal, fascist) parties, and you have to s
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by komali2 8mo ago
Voters don't lose elections, campaigns do. Harris failed, and this kind of "turning around of the blame" thing that Dems try to do is one of the reasons why they don't win elections: they never learn.

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