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by somelamer567 25d ago
This would make ideal cover for a Russian hybrid sucker-punch. I've spotted Russian trolls in the comments on YouTube blaming Israel for their hybrid attacks in Germany these past few days. They have form, and they have been preparing
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by somelamer567 2mo ago
Meta have long profited from knowingly aiding and abetting the enemies of the West by undermining our societies from within. Meta are the greatest force against freedom in the world today, apart from Putin's post-fascist power vertical
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by somelamer567 2mo ago
We need to get over the idea that criminals and geopolitical aggressors have human rights. Human rights should only be afforded to the law-abiding.
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. Even if a certain large Asian country has carefully constructed a pretext to do do out of confected historical grievance, and entitlement to 'rise' at the expense of others?
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
I'm wondering what the grift here is. Usually, the pattern is that we see a tsunami of planted "China number one" stories boosted by hordes of Chinese "internet commentators", and then the world trembles for a few d
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
These days, Amazon do a lot of print-on-demand which gives bootleg quality, and there's no way to tell if you're going to get it, and there seems to be no way to avoid it.
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
Not correct. Sodium-ion batteries were invented in the United States in the 1970s.
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
Wars and self-destruction, if they happen, will be purely the responsibility of the Chinese side, who have been caught numerous times hacking, spying, copying and stealing the hard work of Western countries. China's conduct of the last
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
Please enlighten me -- if a robber pulls a gun on me in the street and demands my wallet, or if a burglar robs my house, then in what way must I blame myself? Normal human beings with common decency and honour would blame the criminal, not
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
China's predatory and anti-competitive trade practices, undervalued yuan, hacking, espionage, IP theft, etc., need to be formally recognised and penalised. They have lied, cheated and robbed their way to the top, and the West is in se
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
De jure one-party system. No other political parties are permitted.
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
The NSA have Congressional oversight and are held accountable for their (mis)deeds, more or less. The Chinese MSS and the Chinese Communist Party itself aren't even accountable to God.
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
The people who raised concerns about the awful things the Chinese Communist Party has done in the process are unfortunately unavailable for comment.
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
The extreme downvoting of certain viewpoints that are less-than-flattering about China's conduct in the AI race is quite telling. They seem to have given themselves license to do what they like, but _God forbid_ they're called out
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
The Spanish government trusting the CCP over Palantir is wild. The CCP's intolerant, cruel and authoritarian nature is a direct threat to humanity in ways that Peter Thiel could barely imagine in his darkest dreams. The lack of perspec
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by somelamer567 3mo ago
So what is being described here? Scratch-built self-replicating nano-machines inspired by biology? That itself seems significant.
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
I'm sorry - did I trigger you? On one hand -- I read the opinion of one anonymous random on the internet posting a Russian-accented sneer, trotting out the usual Russian disinformation talking points, on one hand -- and the combined we
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
I'd go further (as a parent of kids of school age): It takes a village to raise a child. It's all well and good for childless techbros to say "Raise your kids" properly, and be subject to the tender mercies of the tech
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
I did think it was interesting to read that Steve Jobs banned his kids from having screen in their rooms on day 1. Zuckerberg apparently does the same. What do the billionaires know that we don't?
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Most continential Europeans, like in Spain and France, have mandatory strong ID. I have never seen "paper please" there. This argument simply doesn't work.
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
(This comment is addressed to peer comments, not the parent post.) It's silly to say "Get better at parenting", when parents who have no specialist training, are literally facing off against trillion-dollar companies with tho
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Techno-libertarianism was always a con. I'm convinced it was an information operation organised by enemies of the West to "prep the battlefield" to enable revisionist state aggression against the West in the cognitive domain.
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
"Project Green" There are some sly word games happening there. Although to be fair, it does roll off the tongue better than "Project Jeff Wants Another Yacht".
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Ordinarily, we wouldn't have issues, but seeing as the US is now a full-blown kakistocracy, being run into the ground by know-nothings and mental cases, I don't have much hope of seeing a competent response.
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Spotted the intellectual.
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Ad-hominem attack. Can you do better?
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
> Whataboutery (also known as whataboutism) is a debating tactic used to evade accountability. Instead of directly addressing a criticism, the accused responds with a counter-accusation or brings up a different, usually unrelated issue (
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Exactly. Russians seem to understand the word "Nazis" is a less-literate way than the rest of the world. "Nazi" -- in Russia -- means anybody that Russia hates, resents, is jealous of, or otherwise dislikes. Anybody not
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Interesting: the Russians are calling "our partners", "our would-be enemies" now. They're not even pretending anymore. Given that this steady parade of seemingly-planted and promoted derogatory anti-Western stories
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by somelamer567 4mo ago
Is there an establishment in the room with us right now? Let me know, because I want to make sure that I'm aligned with this mystical Western Atlantacist Anglo-Saxon (insert Russian propaganda snarl-word du jour) hive mind.

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