anothercoup

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by anothercoup 2y ago
According to the article, taiwan looks exactly like china... "Students in these programs often become a low-paid labor force, working long hours in factories in the guise of “practical training,” according to education experts and a re
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by anothercoup 2y ago
For the same reason the guy wrote an article/ad about it. To make money.
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> I sincerely hope US and Canada can regrow some manufacturing capacity. What does canada have anything to do with anything. When was canada a manufacturing power? Why do canadians love to interject themselves into topics that don't
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> Japan is in the West and last time I checked they were still Asians. Japan is not in the west. Japan is not a western country. They are not a western peoples. They don't speak a western language. They don't have western cultu
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> Would a child of European descent born and raised in China be a 'westerner' in your eyes? Not just to my eyes. To chinese eyes, african eyes, middle eastern eyes, etc. There have been tiktoks and youtube videos of westerners
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> And, tbh, democracy, freedom of speech, and gender equality are pretty great values to endorse. But none of those are "innately" Western. Most of the current West do not have free speech. Western civilization ( going back to
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> Would you really not consider e.g. adoptive children to be part of the culture of their adoptive parents? Sure. But culture isn't "innate". But being a westerner is innate. I could learn chinese, but that doesn't ma
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> I think democracies are innately superior, including morally, to autocracies. Even if the democracy commits mass genocide? I think the most dangerous societies/systems/governments are those filled by people who think they or
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> The west is a culture not a race. It can be both depending on the context. A westerner is a european or a european descended person. > For example many Asian people are more western than many white Americans. What does this even mea
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> I think the beauty of women changed humanity. Inspired by these beings that were so beautiful they were almost gods, men strived to be more than club-wielding cavemen. Men did strive to be more than club-wielding cavement. We became sp
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> Nearly all the people we fund at Y Combinator use Apple laptops I find this absolutely shocking. Was this a west coast thing? I graduated and got my first job around that time and never met a single developer who used an apple laptop.
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by anothercoup 2y ago
> But the Soviets chose to abandon it. They "chose" to abandon it? Weren't they forced to retreat by the german army who encircled it and chose to starve out the population rather than directly attack the city? > The ar