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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
If a streamer had said something, for example, anti-LGBT, Blizzard would have shut them down the same way and everyone would be applauding. Depending on your personal politics, any given corporate action is either 'brave, standing up f
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
1) Get sympathetic media to print a claim 2) Plaster claim over grainy black-and-white photo, with attribution. Run TV/internet campaign with it. If you're having a lawyerly debate about the technicalities of the accusation, yo
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Lots of great people in both places.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
4x longer than the British did, in any case. The CCP hasn't even proposed rolling back HK's limited democracy (so far, 22 years). And they've, so far, killed far fewer protestors than the British did. As far as the first pa
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Believe it or not, the average Chinese has a better grasp of their recent history than the average HN reader. How come nobody cared about 'universal human rights' for HK residents until it was a way to kneecap China? Again, check
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
But you and they are calling maoism and dengism "basically the same thing". That's about half a degree from calling communism and capitalism the same thing. With Chinese characteristics for both, of course. Anybody who knew
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Everyone panicked about the Japanese buying up American assets, too. It's all about 'rising tides lifting all boats' until there's a chance of someone else's boat being almost as high as ours. Then all of a sudden
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I'm a 2x Obama voter, but Obama totally greenlit and supported Saudi Arabia in Yemen from the beginning. Things were getting hot there in like 2010, this spanned almost his entire tenure. That's another area where as soon as thi
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
What power does Crowder have over you? He's a joke. Consider: his viewpoint is a firing offense at FAANG while your viewpoint is constantly validated and endorsed. Who's got the power there? Of course Crowder is a terrible examp
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I appreciate the engagement. I'm not Chinese and either way I wouldn't speak for 1.6B people. I'll just note that there have been way more revolutions in China than in America over any timeframe, and they were all terrible.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I totally agree, I think we're talking about orthogonal things. You're saying that a good idea should absolutely be taken, whichever culture it came from, which I totally agree with -- I was saying that Western powers (all powers)
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
You have me at a disadvantage here because I'm not sure which sentences you're trying to emphasize or how they relate to the debate. It sounds like you're saying that you're so right, self-doubt would be an unnecessary e
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
But you only got that constitution because the British had to retreat, literally centuries after Locke wrote. Entrenched power had no intentions of giving your people rights before that. Related, the British ran Hong Kong for over a hundre
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Re: brainless sheeple asians Consider how easy it was to get you to believe cartoonish generalities about a billion people you've never met. Who's the sheep?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I wouldn't say that Chinese should hold strong opinions on how we run our country, either. But for what it's worth, the average educated Chinese knows far more about America than vice-versa. These threads are great evidence.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I love that line of argument. 1) China has done >0 bad things 2) Comparison is whataboutism 3) Therefore China is literally Nazi Germany (actual topic of this subthread, not a strawman).
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Is it within the realm of possibility that the vast majority of Americans are in fact uneducated and misinformed about what daily life in China is like? Or even the broad strokes of history there? What % of Americans could even tell you th
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Context matters. When the only relevant sins are those of our chief geopolitical rival.. at a certain point that says more about us than them.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
And a few years prior, Yeats had written that "The center cannot hold", and that "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity". Worth remembering, IMO. Lots of passionate people callin
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
"Give the game away" is too strong, you're right. I don't mean to imply that Kuhn didn't mean what he carefully wrote, he seems like a standup guy doing Free Software.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Absolutely possible and I don't have a hard time believing they'd reached that point with RMS. I hadn't seen RMS's politics link before -- he puts out like 10 bullet-point hot takes a day, lots of them with a viewpoint w
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
But then Kuhn gives the game away within a couple paragraphs, calling RMS's views 'problematic' and expressing disagreement with several of them. If you're gonna go with that line, stay on-message.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
This is 2019. We want to cast out anybody different, in the name of empathy and inclusiveness.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
If it were the case that these things were never mentioned, and anytime they were brought up, people were silenced, I'd totally agree with your point here. But we're getting wall-to-wall coverage of basically those exact issues, a
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
A wise company with secret sauce wouldn't give it away. If our corporate culture is pathologically short-term-obsessed, that's on us. It's not on the 'bad guys' who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
If a Chinese family goes from a 3rd-world life to a modern one, is that a relative loss for America? In sports, it would be. Yes, we should be firm about our interests. No, we shouldn't be obsessed with some 'score' -- or i
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Maybe sports teams are a horrible way to think about it.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Not only that, you definitely guessed wrong about what the market wanted and now all your effort meticulously reviewing every line of code is voided. Not to mention the over engineering which has become an actual liability.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
The Chinese have rebelled against their government waaaaay more times than Americans over basically any timeframe. Mao managed to do it twice, including launching a revolution while actually in the government but sidelined. Another fun fact
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
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