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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
My comment was that accepted speech and representation are different things, so saying "but representation" isn't really speaking to it, imo. And you're not even right about the demographics unless one ignores east and s
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
You're eliding the part where said employees are often one generation away from subsistence farming and this is a step up for them. That's how it happened in the west, too, no? Textile mills? I'm not saying anything about m
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Sorry, I thought you were implying something nasty. I like TheMotte, although there's a few opinions I see that make my blood boil.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
That's not at all how he described it in his Scott alexander-length blog post on the matter.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It's possible that such comments are popular here specifically because there are a lot of people who feel they can't say it at work. Catharsis behind pseudonymity.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Different arenas. You're talking about representation among the powerful in mainstream America, but OP was talking about accepted speech in tech/academia. You can both be right.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
'pro-China' was a little confusing on that score, but I did misquote you, so sorry. Cheers.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Related: There are multiple vintage typewriter stores in NYC. https://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+typewriter+stores If those stores can stay afloat, there's a decent chance this Atari could sell. (Assuming it's
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It has upsides and downsides. You realize that you're criticizing someone right now for having a take on relative weaknesses of the US system? Going so far as to immediately accuse them of loyalty to another country? Not to snark too
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Their only mention of China used the word 'repugnant', so I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
You've got a balance of hundreds of comments calling for civilizational confrontation. With dozens of actually racist comments in the mix as well. Over, what, 2 dozen threads in a few days? Go ahead and ban me if you like but I'm
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Ok. Cheers. For the record, I wasn't assuming anything about your exposure to various ideas. Just didn't want to belabor the points. I was snarking the one-sidedness of the board a little bit. If you wanted to hear what I was
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I think the NBA shouldn't take a stance because shared love of basketball shouldn't be an international battleground. Even if you're taking a purely American POV, there's a reason we don't weaponize the Peace corps
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Yeah, I'd call that type of statement being the vanguard, considering the US government is very much not getting involved in the HK matter. Silver doesn't even have the right to speak for all NBA employees on the matter, which he
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I'm glad Silver took his time and got it right. The response was perfect -- de-escalating, respectful, yet firmly refusing to get into policing their employees, as you say. The NBA shouldn't be the vanguard of American foreign po
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
You might like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
But do you think it's likely that the PRC actually invades Taiwan? I'm not taking a side on PRC vs ROC, maybe you're misunderstanding me. I just honestly thought it was taken for granted that that's pretty unlikely.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
The part where anyone thinks it's a credible threat? I honestly thought that went without saying. You really think China's 5 seconds away from a bloody invasion? China is Taiwan's largest trading partner. Everyone's
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
But we agree that that's the background and Taiwan hasn't reached consensus to change the official policy, right? OP is getting dogpiled for pointing out the grade school history overview of the topic. As for whether the threat of
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
They don't call themselves part of China under threat. Their official position is that they're the rightful government of all of China. Abandoning 'Taiwan is part of China' would mean abandoning that claim. It looks qua
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I wasn't trying to take sides on the HK situation itself, though, so it can't really be a straw-man on that topic. The topic was whether the outpouring of sentiment from mainland China could be 'organic' rather than some
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
This has already been going on for months, though. It's gotta be front-of-mind over there. The image of English-speaking westerners talking about "liberate hong kong" is a bit triggering for the average Chinese person, due t
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It's a dilemma in that neither the NBA nor their Chinese fans necessarily want to be dragged into this particular crossfire. Even if you're pro-confrontation over various issues, shared enjoyment of basketball is like the last ba
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I read a bit about postmodernism recently. I think the difference between yourself/Scott and the 'X studies' traditions is that they're not into classically philosophical arguments like you're making here. It&#x27
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Lots of Americans express admiration for our founders and institutions too, though. Flags and conspicuous patriotism are everywhere in our country. It's possible that that's just normalized for you but it seems jarring when you s
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I don't think you're disagreeing with the poster. They're saying that cancel culture has normalized private sector political censorship in the west prior to this, making it a smaller reach. The $ considerations are certainly
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Cheers and appreciated. FWIW, my basic angle here is 'people are people'. If the board were overloaded with anti-American or anti-Russian stuff, I'd be making mostly the same points.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Their stock quadrupled since doing so, though. You might be proposing a bigger rebellion against capitalism than just illegally selling to Venezuela :)
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I'm relating perspective to facts. Palestine has a UN seat, Taiwan doesn't. Taiwan has control of their territory, Palestine doesn't. Which one is more 'a country'?

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