low_poly_shiba

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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
to the contrary, it's wild that you keep grasping at straws to make China seem worse than the USA. China isn't waging war all over the world, so America is the worst case scenario right now.
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
The way the US deals with Saudi Arabia vs. the way it deals with China. And the disciplined way in which people here rationalize that status quo.
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
Looking forward to your links showcasing the evidence Geoffrey Nice put forth. RationalWiki covers a lot of claims, and the counter-claims. It's overall not very compelling, very "I swear I heard about incubator smashing", wi
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
so? I find it interesting to point out the double standard I'm hardly the first Canadian to notice the insane ramp-up in anti-China sentiment from our American neighbours, especially given the stark contrast with the royal treatment gi
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
big if true! unfortunately the Falun Gong is an insane cult and not a very reliable source of information RationalWiki has a big citations-packed section on their claims of organ harvesting in China: https://rationalwiki.org&
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
It's wild to me that americans point at China for this when they: 1) routinely bomb muslims to death, destroying entire nations, I guess gesturing towards vague notions that being murdered is better than being brainwashed 2) have their
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
I'm not sure I understand how I "prove your point". Why are "victims of communism" allowed to generalize from their experience, while "victims of capitalism" are not?
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
Americans, and people living in American colonies, also have first-hand experience with American imperialism. I'm not sure why you think your experience trounces theirs?
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
what are your sources of info, so that the "but the USA" crowd can learn about your reality?
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
An interesting fact I learned the other day is that the man in that picture is from after the protests, when the tanks were leaving the square, not when they were entering it. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5aad
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
I don't think so. Got any examples? Any "national socialist" that tried to couple free healthcare with racist ideas about who gets it would be making a mockery of "universal", for example. There's probably a go
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
I suppose your own bias aside, these roughly map to - AOC/Sanders - Obama/Clinton - Bush/Trump ? I'm not american but it's no contest I'm "authoritarian left", I guess. If "universal health care&
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
who's your go-to left equivalent of Jordan Peterson or PrisonPaul or Crowder? site doesn't let me reply but I can't believe you're seriously saying Chomsky and Zizek are the left equivalents of Crowder and Prisonpaul, lo
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
sure and there's other tamer lefttube people like Jenny Nicholson, Lindsay Ellis, etc. I was comparing hard to hard. "Hard left" youtube seem to be great people, whereas "hard right" youtube is utter trash. One has
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
famous left wing youtubers are people like Hbomberguy (known for helping trans charities) famous right wing youtubers are people like Prisonplanet (white genocide propaganda, Brexit) there's no comparison between the two outside of ris
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
Did a double take when I got to the white supremacist anxiety part
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
How much do you need to save for a rainy day? I've heard that line from people raking in several hundred thousand a year, while they still callously heap ads on their audiences. If you have no target, neither for your site nor for your
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
Yeah I suspect it could work with some savvy and pluck. I have some ideas that will probably lead me to face off with this issue myself, I'm kinda looking forward to it.
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
Yes, I have, but didn't deal with this issue. I don't think this advice of "if you haven't done it you can't criticize or ask questions about it" is very good. It would bar me from commenting on and criticizing
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
Never ran something like this, but always wondered: why not have a visible counter saying "this is what it costs to run, please donate!" and let people donate to keep it up? Some kinda big progress bar somewhere or whatever. How d
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
I think people will be wondering in amazement that we were so wasteful in ferrying around 200-lb bags of water and flesh in 1-ton carriages of steel, when buses and trains and bikes and scooters where already well-known about and available.
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
didn't americans do "Freedom Fries" like 15 years ago? let's not act like this is unprecedented
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
It's funny because if you go on r/samharris today you can see it's got a thriving population of white nationalists defending every last racist, right-wing propagandist, and promoter of white genocide theories (Stefan Molyneux
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
given that you do not consider these good-to-ingroup-bad-to-outgroup people "mean or bad people", who do you reserve and apply that descriptor for? any examples?
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
The mistake here is obviously to compare China and the USA as apples and apples. The US is an empire comprising the mainland, as well as vassal and occupied states. China has a smaller periphery (Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, HK, etc.) If you
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
According to whom? I find them different ways of accomplishing the same thing: securing a business edge Onavo, a VPN that secretly did device-wide spying, doesn't count as a "hack" because...?
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
People who rely on public transit adapt to public transit. For example, they become more savvy about how much stuff they own and what they carry around.
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
> Friedman has been called many things but inconsistent or unprincipled were not among them. This is what you said. People have thoroughly proven you wrong.
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
This isn't really how this works though. You don't get to elevate economics by tearing into other fields, all you do is drag them down (fine by me). You invoked "economics textbooks" like some kind of conversation-ender,
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by low_poly_shiba 7y ago
There has been a big push to normalize the idea that "macroeconomists have figured out x and y". However, macroeconomists aren't scientists, and their messes like the Reinhardt-Rogoff affair should make everyone skeptical tha

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