throwawaaay129

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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
Lord... That's such a simplistic black and white view of the world. You're either for us or you're against us. This is the toxic juvenile attitude that's so scary honestly. One can express support for a particular action
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
I'm not complaining or comparing myself to anyone. I didn't say I support the CCP either. Just explaining why people might use throwaway accounts If I was currently living in China I wouldn't be posting anything remotely poli
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
I don't post anything positive about China on any account associated with my name. In the current zeitgeist it'd be career suicide and with all the frothing at the mouth in the public discourse with the US itching for a cold war -
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
How is beating pets to death political posturing..? Someone thought it'd make them look good? Most likely it was some misinformed overzealous local official. Pets from pretty early on in the pandemic have been known to catch corona. I
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
Ironically both articles come from a very typically western patronizing perspective A lot of expats come to asia and get frustrated with many small cultural details. It's especially prominent when the person doesn't speak the loca
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
I mean I lived a sheltered life in the city and my friends were city folks, but I often hear people had issues firing bad employees. And on the flip side people new their rights and knew they couldn't just be left off on a random day.
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
If the government is out to get you, then yeah you're screwed. If it's you against a company - then you typically have more protections than I think the typical western reader would expect. I personally know people that had issues
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
Yeah, I think it's a scenario where you can probably sue and you can probably win - but then (just like in the US) you're known as the person that sues their employer and it's a black mark. I haven't heard of people gett
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
I don't know where people get the idea people are semi-enslaved in factories.. Having lived in China, in my second hand experience Chinese worker protection laws are quite strict. Somewhere between US and Europe. It's not really e
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
B/c there is no sense of justice about it. It's just the arbitrary fickleness of some decision maker and it can't be appealed. The US government alleges they (Huawei ZTE etc.) colluding to put backdoors in infrastructure equi
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
Yeah I saw Minority Report. I know about future crime :) Now I'm imagining clones in vats at CIA headquarters telling them which companies will turn evil. I dunno man, in the US you don't just ban people and companies for stuff th
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
I think singling out China or the PLA is kinda the problem... Just any government/military controlled company from any country arguably is an issue. If you make it more country agnostic then it's going to be taken more seriously
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
"it's the Orwellian thought-suppression psy-ops stuff." I mean that's like a "bigger" issue. I think it's a completely fair to decide you should just not conduct business with companies under authoritarian
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by throwawaaay129 4y ago
This whole things looks more and more embarrassing. From the outside it just looks like the US is struggling to compete and so they create extrajudicial barriers based on "secret evidence" to block competitors. The hypocrisy is th