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by trasz 4y ago
I’m assuming the claims from anti-Chinese propaganda - Zenz et al - are true. It’s still not worse from what’s happening in US.
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by trasz 4y ago
Stalin’s purges had nothing to do with atheism. According to your logic, building highways is genocidal, because Hitler built them too.
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by trasz 4y ago
No, I mean all of west. Protection of children from religion is pretty much nonexistent.
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by trasz 4y ago
Humor isn’t harmful. There were no genocides in the name of humor. It doesn’t destroy peoples lives. It doesn’t promote unhealthy behaviors, and doesn’t cripple peoples’ ability to understand the reality around them.
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China's life expectancy is now higher than that of the US(qz.com)
10 points by trasz 4y ago|6 comments
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by trasz 4y ago
>Meanwhile my government is taking 50% of my monthly income giving me in return the shittiest services, services I would gladly buy from the free market instead. Good luck buying law enforcement, roads, or healthcare, on a free market. O
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by trasz 4y ago
Okay, I think that’s it: to me, using methods of conventional warfare, but aimed against civilians instead of military, is no longer conventional warfare.
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by trasz 4y ago
I agree it’s hard to quantify, and I agree US prisons aren’t really worse than Chinese ones. Rather, I believe they are roughly the same. Thus, condemning out one without even mentioning the other is simply dishonest. Especially when the
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by trasz 4y ago
>From war-mongering, using arbitrary embargoes as political retaliation, to farcical business practices (e.g. the ARM China saga), to a lop-sided approach to intellectual property and using the state to remove competition This descriptio
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by trasz 4y ago
More like US prison system vs Chinese “camps”. One look at the numbers shows which of those is more oppressive. This includes things like slave labour: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us
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by trasz 4y ago
I’m not sure if razing a city to ground and killing hundred thousand civilians is “conventional warfare”.
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by trasz 4y ago
See also China’s response: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countrie...
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OHCHR assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang [pdf](ohchr.org)
5 points by trasz 4y ago|1 comments
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by trasz 4y ago
The fact that corporation does something useful for _someone_ doesn't mean they don't do it by exploiting everyone else. And in many markets monopolies form naturally, eg due to network effect. Facebook is a good example.
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by trasz 4y ago
So you'd be fine with a shop set up next to your kids' school specifically to sell alcohol to them? Because that's essentially how social media works right now.
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by trasz 4y ago
If you mean the cookie banners, it's the result of GDPR not being enforced strictly enough, so companies can use the banner to pretend they're not breaking the law.
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by trasz 4y ago
tl;dr making it harder to exploit your users can lower the (already absurdly high) profits Of course because this doesn't profit companies like Google or Facebook, they'll do anything they can to promote voices opposed to it. And
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by trasz 4y ago
I wonder if instead of blocking cookies we could make a browser extension to share the tracking cookies (and only those) with random people on the web, to confuse trackers?
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by trasz 4y ago
Data claimed to by anonymized usually can be easily deanonymized.
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by trasz 4y ago
World wars don't need to involve superpowers, but they need to involve large part of the world. Russian invasion on Ukraine doesn't, and it's unlikely to escalate - Russia can't, because they have neither people, hardwa
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by trasz 4y ago
Paywalls are generally immoral. They are designed to deprive users of their laws. Thus, anything that helps breach paywalls is morally good.
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by trasz 4y ago
All of the situations you've mentioned were crimes against humanity. One day Americans will realise that. But those wars are over, while the Rashist invasion is taking place as we speak. Also, look at the scale: Russians killed over
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by trasz 4y ago
Banned parties - eg those promoting fascism - are a thing in Europe. We've learned the hard way what happens if you don't do that.
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by trasz 4y ago
Very smart for India to protect its market.
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by trasz 4y ago
The other side is Ukraine, not USA. USA is merely providing support. Generally speaking, proxy wars happen between superpowers. In this conflict there is only one, and it’s supporting Ukraine.
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by trasz 4y ago
What the US and Europe should have done was to strip Russia off all its colonies, not just some of them.
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by trasz 4y ago
China produced a lot of things, but Russian market is worthless. Chinese companies left the Russian market same way western ones did.
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by trasz 4y ago
Okay. It is a bit hard, because on one hand there isn’t anything similar to CCP in the western world, on the other hand my understanding of all this is quite poor, and on the third hand China, being some five times the population of US, i
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by trasz 4y ago
It doesn’t matter they pretend to pay if the rightful owners want them out.
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by trasz 4y ago
Your response suggests you either don’t have a clue about US and their presidential requirements (from official, like being born in US, to de facto, like belonging to one of two approved parties), or about China, in particular what what CPC

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