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by pimmen 7y ago
Yeah, it’s a very poor choice of words. It’s like saying that if I steal a TV and see the cops chase me I have faced a dilemma of keeping the TV but getting caught or dropping the TV to run faster. Suppress the rights of educated people who
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by pimmen 7y ago
The problem is that not doing anything signals weakness, as in Beijing stops trying to make a city do something if it protests. China can’t afford letting other cities learn ”wait, so if we protest the CCP would stop trying to forcefullt im
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by pimmen 7y ago
Yes, but if the populations want ”One China, two systems” enforced and the PLA stops that by force, it’s not really about the security of Hong Kong anymore. It’s using the military to subjugate its population rather than protecting them.
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by pimmen 7y ago
> There isn't any framework where this would be seen as illegal or illegitimate. Doing it just to effectively end "One China, two systems" would absolutely be breaking a teaty. Which is illegal.
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by pimmen 7y ago
What I don't understand is the sentiment that if the people of Hong Kong's rights are suppressed, they should just protest in a way that's tidy, quiet and convenient for the government. That's not how Sun Yat Sen rolled,
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by pimmen 7y ago
The reaction from a Westerner is ”wow, this is nothing compared to all the crazy shit we had to do to get democracy, and now with the democratic institutions and independent justice systems in place, definitely worth it”.
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by pimmen 7y ago
> rate of illegal immigration, which is higher than it was under the Obama admin by some metrics. What metrics? Illegal immigration has been in steady decline since the 2008 recession. Because you're not talking about the completely
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by pimmen 7y ago
This still boggles my mind as a Swede, how this is not the norm. Children are people who need the right circumstances, being with both their parents at an early age should definitiely be one of them. On the flip side, as a single person, I
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by pimmen 7y ago
South China Morning Post to me doesn't have the credibility to make claims about representing Hong Kong's actual sentiment or discontents. When they interview Gui Minhai between torture sessions and publish his forced confession,
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by pimmen 7y ago
Roughly half of the UK did not want Brexit at all though and wouldn't be that swell to hear that they have to appease a dictatorship now. I doubt Boris Johnson could pull that off with such a razor thin majority in parliament. However,
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by pimmen 7y ago
You don't have to look too hard to find the most obvious examples. Hop on over to an HN discussion about the ongoing Hong Kong extradition bill protests. You'll find plenty of accounts that use whataboutist arguments to change the
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by pimmen 7y ago
I would not say Trump's a fascist, but there are some really bad elements of fascism Trump does embrace. He does not believe in the checks and balances of government, preferring the executive branch to not have to answer to directives
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by pimmen 7y ago
I’m from Sweden. We have massive fresh water sources and most projections of the future show us retaining our water advantage while the rest of the world suffers through more intense droughts. Why do I deserve all this water just because I
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by pimmen 7y ago
Most countries register their citizens to vote too, and have national ID. If you were already registered to vote in the entire union automatically, and you had an ID-card (like the SSN, but actually good for identification with any security
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by pimmen 7y ago
I’m not imparting the sins of whatever country you happen to live in on you or your family. I see it akin to finding money on the street, growing up, and then finding out they were stolen. That would make me feel something, even if neither
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by pimmen 7y ago
But you’re profiting off of the sins committed in the past, and somebody else is paying for them. Does that not make you feel something?
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by pimmen 7y ago
And Norway is almost completely mountains, yet most of their soil doesn't seem too badly affected.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Government agencies require developers, and it’s full of older coders at least in my country (Sweden). Lots of benefits such as long vacations. Only problem is they move slow as all hell and they have decades of legacy, which drives the you
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by pimmen 7y ago
> I’ve met their head of data science. They’re doing all that stuff and have been for many years. This sounds very much in violation of GDPR. Are they just betting on people being too embarrassed to take them to court?
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by pimmen 7y ago
You are sort of making a diagonal movement anyway because of the rotation, that rotation is what's engaging the rest of your muscles to help you pull the water. If you cross the line, it's much harder to use your lats, your core o
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by pimmen 7y ago
The only thing that sucks with loving swimming is that the free market has a hard time reacting to the fluctuations in demand. If I want to open a gym I’ll buy a big garage or something, buy a lot of equipment and hire some PTs. If I want t
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by pimmen 7y ago
When people can be extradited to the unfair, Chinese domestic courts or failing that kidnapped by the Chinese government I would say that’s not ”largely autonomous” anymore. There’s no way for the kidnapped Causeway books employees to use t
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by pimmen 7y ago
I’m Swedish and we are one of the allies of the UK in that we fought together to grant each other exceptions. I would love for us to become more integrated with the rest of the continent.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Absolutely, I would say they’ve already collided, and I’m arguing it’s time for the West to acknowledge that fact and act, such as making Tiananmen Square 2.0 more costly in order to protect our core values such as rule of the people and fa
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by pimmen 7y ago
”One country, two systems” is originally an agreement between the UK and China before the handover. Violating a treaty with another country makes it an international affair.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Wouldn't China being the second largest economy in the world make it more interesting to make a second Tiananmen Square costly? Because democracy is very important for the stability of the West and having a powerful dictatorship steamr
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by pimmen 7y ago
Because China, contrary to popular opinion, cares about its image. Dismantling democracy in one sweep at 2046 would look pretty bad, replacing the democratically elected government at 2046 would also look bad.
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by pimmen 7y ago
That is however not what the parent asked about, the question was ”how do I cope?” not ”is this ok?”. Of course it’s ok to feel that way, most of the other comments are about how to cope instead of ”you don’t, give up and go someplace else”
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by pimmen 7y ago
Being very empathetic doesn’t mean that you have to be overly sympathetic . You can understand without feeling someone else’s emotions.
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by pimmen 7y ago
Sure, but maybe not in a way that's celarly done to lose focus of the actual issue? If I'm on trial for murder the prosecutor would object to mentioning all the people who've been illegally killed by the state's army. Sa

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