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by refenestrator 5y ago
That's true, but if it ends there, then it's not a vital matter of self-defense for us. Honestly, not even that important in terms of balance of power provided we get that TSMC plant up in Arizona first. What it IS, is a grievous
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by refenestrator 5y ago
As of right now, there's no battlefield. China's official doctrine has been non-interference in other nations since Mao and they've mostly stuck to it with a few aberrations like a 30 day war in Vietnam. Xi has been pushing
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by refenestrator 5y ago
What happened when we finally left Vietnam? Absolutely nothing, that's what. Lot fewer people dying from napalm. We had to support one-way helicopter rides under Pinochet and contras gunning down nuns? Or else the soviets win? If it
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by refenestrator 5y ago
That's really easy to say when it's not you or your kids on the front line. Beyond just Taiwan, the last cold war kept the third world in a constant state of proxy war between the major powers, costing millions of lives in the sho
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by refenestrator 5y ago
The tagline "objective, nonpartisan and insightful" on 'World Affairs' really brings it home. The Chinese government obviously has its own propaganda, but being anti-China is objective and nonpartisan in the US. It&#x27
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by refenestrator 5y ago
> specifically China related content But from which angle? Pro- or anti-? I don't think it's likely that most/any HN commenters are paid trolls, there are lots of Chinese and Americans in this industry that will naturally
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by refenestrator 5y ago
The capital was Philadelphia while Washington was president. Philly had a law that slaves who resided there for a year were freed, so Washington established a rotation system to make sure he had slaves around for help but didn't have t
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's do-nothing bullshit. Do good on top a foundation of fundamental injustice? I'm sorry, do you have any other foundations laying around? I surveyed 5000 years of written history and couldn't find any. The options are try
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I'm with you on the advisory part. My impression is that it's all about negotiating the interaction without winding up in a contest of your rights vs them doing their job. If it goes that way, it seems like "this guy was bei
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by refenestrator 5y ago
This is a good take and probably covers 2/3 of liberals, actually, thanks.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
You know overtime is time and a half, right? Cops aren't worried about OKRs, if they're on patrol then whatever they do in a day is their job. If there's additional must-do work, hey, overtime hours.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Stop resisting! That's it, we're taking you in for public obtuseness and resisting arrest. Yeah, yeah, you can make a phone call at the station, stop resisting.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Sounds like you have never been in a spot when resources were scarce and you can't afford to keep around people who are nice, but useless. Everyone's a humanitarian when the sun is shining.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Worth reflecting on how the John Birch Society looks in retrospect, now that you mention it. Prophets, or paranoid fools? Are we looking back and saying, gosh, we should have listened to them, that damn Jane Fonda ruined America.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
The 'useful idiot' part that I replied to.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Wow. So, what, I have to vote Trump now? That won't be happening but always interesting to hear different perspectives.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
If all of my policy preferences code as progressive but I think Kendi and the white fragility lady are jackasses, what does that make me then under your definition?
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by refenestrator 5y ago
I'm not trying to let anyone off the hook, just describing the dynamics as I see them. I identify as a cultural moderate for that reason. This stuff is all divorced from actual politics, economics or governing, it's purely cultur
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It became 'plausible' based on fashion -- the evidence didn't change at all. Which is even crazier.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
There's an interesting dynamic here where imo the silent majority of progressives don't buy his approach and think it's counterproductive, but any lone soul who says so is called out, which side are you on here anyways. So th
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by refenestrator 5y ago
The strongest signal here is US ally vs adversary. Everything else is fluff in comparison. Saudi Arabia does not get called illegitimate, but Cuba does. Pinochet was 'legitimate'.
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It also ravaged the third world continuously over that time while we fought proxy wars.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Cultural sensitivity, you mean. If it mispronounced a random non-icon's name everyone would chuckle and forget about it. Pattern matchers don't understand culture, so this is gonna be a hard-coded workaround or intentional distor
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Because dead is dead. If you can't read, who cares what the declaration of war said. It's counterinsurgency in both cases, attempting to modernize a tribal Muslim society in hopes of improving security from terror attacks. You a
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by refenestrator 5y ago
FYI, putting in heavy partisan asides in comments hurts credibility with neutral readers. I think you're confusing the DNC and campaign server hacks with Hillary's personal server she used while at State. No indications her perso
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Sorry, I thought you were trying to understand why Chinese people might be happy with their government after you add it all up. If it's just cold war arguments and demonization, I can't help you with that. Consider, even if you&#
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by refenestrator 5y ago
Hillary didn't get hacked, it was one of the other people in her circle who got phished. John podesta I think? Anyways. Yeah, phished. Maybe it's super secret agents or maybe it was a teenager from 4chan.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
It's not a fantasy, money isn't even unbacked paper anymore, it's bits in a database column.
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Fun fact, if you are not a US citizen, you have no 4th amendment rights against seizure of your data. No judge or legal process necessary beyond a blanket executive order.
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by refenestrator 5y ago
There's those qualifications and spin I was asking for. China is bringing economic development, secular institutions and women's rights, in a heavy handed way, whether the residents want it or not, with minimal regard for costs t

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