yourbandsucks

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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Don't forget the part where they all have access to running water and penicillin now. They're responsible for the greatest humanitarian success story in world history over the last 40 years. Overlay that with how the US spent our
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Every big country has got some skeletons attached to it, especially including the US. If you're primed to see the foreign country as monstrous and evil, you'll see it that way, whatever the balance of the facts for people who live
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Think of it as a scissor statement. Either it's the most mild, milquetoast statement possible or it's a declaration of war against Human Rights, Mom and Apple Pie.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Eh. I commented that "Chinese people are people too" the other day and got pretty heavily downvoted. Are those downvoters expressing a reasoned belief that Chinese people aren't people? Or are they just reduced to a set of
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
I mean.. politics ought not to be an exercise in demanding conformity and punishing any non-standard thought.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Without LBJ, we wouldn't have had the Space Program, the various civil rights bills of the 60s, or Medicare. He also escalated Vietnam from a minor conflict to a major disaster. Most impactful President since FDR, easily, yet he doesn
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Not really. Despots usually have politics to deal with. Not everything is possible. The companies in question had a massive technological and force advantage over the local populace with free reign when it came to managing dissent with fo
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Nazis are not in fact people for the purposes of discussion. They are movie extras who get shot as fast as possible. You really had to go full Godwin dehumanization on a billion people right away?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Chinese people are people too, you know.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
That's certainly the official US line on the matter. How has the official US line held up, historically, when it comes to coups vs socialists in Latin America? Why should it be different this time?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It's been like a week since the last US-backed Latin American coup.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
"Rule of law" doesn't mean picking and choosing whom it applies to. Saddam was our best buddy when he was using mustard gas in Khuzestan against the right people. International politics is rule by power rather than rule of l
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
How.. how many people have you shot on sight?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
This development is actually terrifying. If socialism has no home on the left, we'll see it rise on the right, with nationalist tones.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Also very much part of politics, although not actually at issue anywhere near this debate, as nobody is arguing against those things.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
If he would have? We should kick this guy out of the Linux Foundation because he hypothetically might disagree with us at a conference?
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
You seem to have your facts confused. Wood wasn't publicly planning to wear a provocative hat to a conference or anything like that.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Fighting over ethical norms is actually a pretty good definition of politics. Or one key aspect of it, at least.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
It is complex! You're right. It's also complex over there, where Americans don't speak the language or understand anything about the culture or history. Our lack of understanding does not make them 1-dimensional movie villa
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
There's a pretty significant online mob who really want to split HK off of China. I'd call 'kneecap' reasonably apt. As far as hegemony.. I'm sorry you don't believe that :) Why is specifically China the
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
You can have an opinion, of course. A mob opinion that our chief rival must be kneecapped in the name of freedom and justice is super suspect, is what I'm saying. Americans want American hegemony, and that's fine, but please don&#
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
That's awfully cherrypicked if you're going to limit things to specifically political prisoners. We have LOTS more prisoners, btw, 4x as many per capita, with a nasty racial bias. And that's before you get into all the dead
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
This is a thread where Americans are debating whether we should "flatten" a billion people via nuclear bombardment because they don't govern themselves the way we think they should. I'd pick a different spot to call us m
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
That's a good way of putting it. I could write a book on the assumptions, stereotypes and missed opportunities involved in buying into that shift.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Partially true.. used to be that fealty to working class unions and such was pretty sacrosanct. Blue bloods were always threatened by it of course, but they used to be split between liberals and northeastern Republicans. I'd say using
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Funny detail in our ongoing political shift: 'populist' apparently now codes as 'bad guy' for a lot of the NYT reader base. William Jennings Bryant ain't happy.
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
The thing is, news consumption correlates with partisanship. Your news addicts are the least likely to actually change their mind at the ballot box with all of that 'information'.. it's doing them remarkably little good besi
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
Is that really bad, though? Like if they said, in America, "Of course, USA #1, never forget 9/11, freedom baby", that would just be more boilerplate pandering and not really political. Is the level of hostility that high that
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by yourbandsucks 7y ago
'Good' and 'bad' in your sentence are subjective. Millions of mainland Chinese Blizzard customers feel differently on the HK issue than you do. You can think that they're totally, obviously wrong, but that's p

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