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by trasz 4y ago
I'd like to believe US is better, but I honestly don't see the evidence that would support this. The vast majority of people simply use completely different criteria for stuff that happens in China.
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by trasz 4y ago
Prisons are a different thing altogether; the "concentration camps" he's talking about look more like youth detention centers in some of Eastern Europe.
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by trasz 4y ago
>We don’t hear about them because Congress agrees and does it job is not interesting or newsworthy. Well, yes, that's the point - given that both parties represent the capital-owning class, no wonder they mostly agree.
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by trasz 4y ago
Nope - the pact introduced the "one country, two systems", and that is still in place. Also HK citizens themselves aren't exactly opposed to the new situation: https://research.hktdc.com/en/article/
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by trasz 4y ago
Not to mention things like the seawater rice: https://www.bloombergquint.com/china/chinese-scientists-disc...
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by trasz 4y ago
FWIW, China has a very long history of famines. Twentieth century wasn't an outlier - although in the West it's been heavily publicised for propaganda reasons.
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by trasz 4y ago
Why TikTok and not YouTube, though?
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by trasz 4y ago
Except that in this case the "violence" is actually defence. It's the Church that's the source of birther's fringe ideas, which led to laws that violate fundamental human rights.
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by trasz 4y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect .
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by trasz 4y ago
Current financial model for media incentivises pumping out crap instead of valuable content.
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by trasz 4y ago
On the other hand a civil war could be a lesser evil, because it would curb US capability to wage actual war by invading China.
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by trasz 4y ago
But it's the right leaning majority that's ruling the country.
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by trasz 4y ago
In the old days the reputable sources often spread the lies themselves - from local lobbying, to national propaganda, to churches.
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by trasz 4y ago
>people possibly acting violently towards churches since they blamed them for it. Why, I wonder. /s
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by trasz 4y ago
Microsoft didn’t control server infra. Google does. And they are already abusing this position.
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by trasz 4y ago
Until google breaks things on other browsers on purpose again.
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by trasz 4y ago
One time I’ve seen a similar problem was due to my home router screwing up multicast.
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by trasz 4y ago
If anyone dares, not if Taiwan dares. Like I said, this is about third party involvement.
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by trasz 4y ago
>We have the largest population of immigrants in the world Until you realize that metric would only be meaningful per capita, which again proves you’re talking rubbish: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings&#
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by trasz 4y ago
It’s not somebody else though - it’s me, they know the exact same things I know, and thus have the same feelings about them. And of course it’s also their account and their spouse. It’s not like an original and a copy, it’s not even fork,
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by trasz 4y ago
Yes, but it doesn’t change the fact that Europe doesn’t do that anymore. The fact the past vices went unpunished doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try.
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by trasz 4y ago
But of course you don’t have any data to support it, how surprising.
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by trasz 4y ago
>China is rich North Korea And US is Russia with better PR? :-D
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by trasz 4y ago
And you don’t find it weird that any argument that doesn’t match current US policy looks wumao to you?
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by trasz 4y ago
No - they made it clear that they will use military force if US invades Taiwan. They also made it very clear that they want peaceful solution, because their economy doesn’t depend on waging wars. Feel free to prove otherwise; note that Chi
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by trasz 4y ago
We are talking about India and China, not Soviet Union.
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by trasz 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et... Literally half of all the worlds countries is more diverse.
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by trasz 4y ago
I love how USA isn’t on the list, despite the two millions of people imprisoned in US camps, which is some 25% of worlds total prison population. Not to mention ongoing prison slavery which is reportedly critical to economy in some states.
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by trasz 4y ago
The difference is that Europe stopped doing most of this a century ago, and US didn’t.
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by trasz 4y ago
>United States, which is far more diverse than any other country in the world Here’s one fundamental problems with many Americans: they know nothing about outside world.

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