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by idra 1y ago
Sounds like hypernormalisation has now hit the West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
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by idra 2y ago
Funny to see how all the commenters just ignored point 2.
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by idra 2y ago
But it does. At the very least, you need to keep paying off the people in power and do everything within the framework of their rules, otherwise you’re in trouble
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by idra 3y ago
I can enjoy music at home or at any private space. One of the main ideas behind clubbing is to enjoy the music in a community of like-minded people and fostering that sense of connection and belonging. In the past it would occur naturally,
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by idra 3y ago
Incredibly thankful for Berlin bouncers for doing their job properly, and not letting people in who think that as long as they "give money" everything should spread open for them, and who don't even bother to know what the ma
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by idra 3y ago
One can hope that every single one of the 200+ highly educated members of the elite ruling class of Canada made this “honest oversight”. At least they can claim it after some kind of apologies were made. Not so much for Zelensky who didn’t
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by idra 3y ago
This is where the Overton window is shifting. See the deafening silence of the media on Nazis in Ukraine, and the recent mind-blowing case of the heads of state of Canada, Ukraine, and the entire Canadian parliament giving a standing ovatio
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by idra 6y ago
The parent is talking about communicating with friends and family. My point is not about evading surveillance, it's about not using one of the main tools of the CCP censorship apparatus. If you're inside China and care about your
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by idra 6y ago
There is no such thing as "the law" in China. You may be imprisoned or disappeared if you didn't do anything to circumvent "the law", there are always undisclosed "relevant rules and regulations" ready to
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by idra 6y ago
"Have no choice" is false. Fortunately, email still works. As does any messenger through a VPN. Using Wechat is simply being complicit with censorship out of laziness.
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by idra 8y ago
Chinese policies (or laws, or contracts etc.) don’t mean anything
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by idra 8y ago
Hong Kong is not China
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by idra 9y ago
This is because they can't find jobs abroad and can't even speak a foreign language properly after spending their undergrad years in a Chinese international student bubble. Quoting China Daily is irrelevant because it's a pro
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by idra 9y ago
Indeed. The best things about Hong Kong are all colonial legacy.
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by idra 9y ago
Hong Kong is not China
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by idra 9y ago
> Also they brought the most populous country in the world from extreme poverty to a near superpower status Before that, they first had to bring the country into extreme poverty (see "The Great Leap Forward"). This is like boas
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by idra 10y ago
Extremely accurate and valuable comment, thank you. Your "broadcast message" explains the situation very concisely.
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by idra 10y ago
China has never stopped being a poor third world country.
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by idra 10y ago
That's only if your company is a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE), which come with its own special set of deliberately roadblocks which are not there if a Chinese partner is involved.
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by idra 10y ago
If anything, the population is underreported. The 2010 census claims it to be around 1.3 billion. But it is widely accepted as a fact that a lot of people in the countryside weren't included in the census because they are "illegal
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by idra 10y ago
They've already ravaged it, no need in trying further.
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by idra 10y ago
The CPC is still in power.
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by idra 10y ago
Is invoked in EVERY China-related thread on HN pretty much without exceptions.
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by idra 10y ago
That's what they do in China (of course replacing "America #1" with "China #1"), it's been quite successful so far.
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by idra 10y ago
> You will never see a restaurant in China that says "No ---- and dogs" except in early 20th century Shanghai Very poorly chosen example, because "No Japanese and dogs" signs are incredibly common across China. [1][2
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by idra 10y ago
Taiwan (The Republic of China) is an independent country with its own government, currency and international relations. Any deals between Mainland China and Taiwan are international affairs.
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by idra 10y ago
Although I mostly agree with your comment, I find the subtext of it (and especially the fact that you had to put "racism" in quotes, as if Chinese prejudice towards other races isn't actually racism) quite distasteful. Racism
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by idra 10y ago
These attitudes are a direct consequence of government propaganda, and what you've described as "golden years" and "negative experiences" are pretty much the de facto spin on history spread by the Chinese state medi
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by idra 10y ago
Those hundreds of pages have examples, references and sources. The section with this sentence doesn't single out Russia, the previous sentence is about South Asia, and the next one talks about Latin America. These are the things which
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by idra 10y ago
The "mention" is one sentence: "Racism is common at every level of Russian society and is at times explicitly voiced in Russia." This is true. How can this possibly make you suspicious about the article's main topic

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