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I mean, the States have sloooowly been slipping there - McCarthy, Nixon and Reagan being beacons in that regard. But even with Trump in play, the States are salvageable. The vast number of schmucks screaming about America being the great satan are either in a gently caress you dad state of mind, or furiously masturbating over fantasies where they're finally the ones holding the whip. edit: And by vast number I mean D&D/C-SPAM/Twitter brigades. I've never heard anyone discuss the political landscape of the states irl outside some meth-head on a bus. WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 00:03 on May 27, 2020 |
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WarpedNaba posted:I mean, the States have sloooowly been slipping there - McCarthy, Nixon and Reagan being beacons in that regard. But even with Trump in play, the States are salvageable. The mere existence of leaders who had authoritarian inclinations or desires doesn't make for an authoritarian state when every one of them were either removed by the democratic process or by term limits. Like, claiming that you're in the same boat as someone in China or Russia or Iran or Saudi Arabia in terms of your civil liberties because a dumb rear end in a top hat won the most recent federal election is so sheltered it's crazy and I'm getting real tired of Goons unintentionally trivializing actual authoritarianism for the sake of a joke that is already tired and predictable.
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May 26, 2020 23:53
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But the US healthcare system is so bad. That's what authoritarianism is, right?
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May 27, 2020 00:01
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Well, I did say slowly. It's not there yet, and I don't see it hitting that button in the near future even with the current trend. But if that trend persists...
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May 27, 2020 00:04
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Authoritarian with American characteristics
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May 27, 2020 00:08
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The problem is authoritarian is too broad a category. The US is an increasingly hosed and unfree system, but in a different way than China is.
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May 27, 2020 00:11
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WarpedNaba posted:Well, I did say slowly. It's not there yet, and I don't see it hitting that button in the near future even with the current trend. Yeah, this is the thing with America. We're not there yet. But the seeds have absolutely been planted and watered, and if we're not vigilant, we will end up absolutely as bad as somewhere like China or Saudi Arabia.
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It's been a frequent topic at work since we all have US work visas and our managers are desperate to get us back down there, and none of us want to go because the place is hosed in ways which only become apparent to Canadians after living there for a few weeks straight.
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May 27, 2020 00:14
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Canadian discourse on US politics is pretty much universally smug condescension, and to be fair that's not surprising when 100% of Americans seem to be convinced that they live in a despotic hellscape, a notion that you'd think would be easily countered by the fact that they can loudly complain about politics without getting shot or arbitrarily imprisoned The fact that an organized opposition exists at all is one of the things that makes comparisons between the USA and authoritarian regimes utterly hyperbolic to the point that they're gross
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May 27, 2020 00:30
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It's ivory tower syndrome. People have a hard time understanding just how good they have it here. They get caught up in the negatives and start to actually believe going into debt is comparable to having your organs harvested in a remote corner of the Gobi desert because they did an innocuous Xi Jinping impression on Douyin.
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May 27, 2020 00:47
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The beaver is going to cuck for the dragon, or the eagle. I am sure this comic has been drawn already.
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Fojar38 posted:Canadian discourse on US politics is pretty much universally smug condescension, and to be fair that's not surprising when 100% of Americans seem to be convinced that they live in a despotic hellscape, a notion that you'd think would be easily countered by the fact that they can loudly complain about politics without getting shot or arbitrarily imprisoned republicans and democrats are not opposition.
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May 27, 2020 02:36
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Of course, just because they both have wildly different policies and spend an insane amount of resources opposing each other doesn't make them "opposition" because neither advocates for Full Communism Now. Your political views not being mainstream doesn't mean that you live in an authoritarian state. Go away
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Fojar38 posted:Of course, just because they both have wildly different policies Oh come on, you're laying it on too thick now
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Fojar38 posted:My larger concern is that if the CCP lucks out and gets a favorable court ruling they are guaranteed to take all the wrong lessons from it What is this word "learning"?. WarpedNaba posted:I mean, the States have sloooowly been slipping there - McCarthy, Nixon and Reagan being beacons in that regard. But even with Trump in play, the States are salvageable. I still have some optimism that the US will pull up. Also this: Grand Fromage posted:The problem is authoritarian is too broad a category. The US is an increasingly hosed and unfree system, but in a different way than China is. Dont Touch ME posted:It's ivory tower syndrome. People have a hard time understanding just how good they have it here. They get caught up in the negatives and start to actually believe going into debt is comparable to having your organs harvested in a remote corner of the Gobi desert because they did an innocuous Xi Jinping impression on Douyin. The greatest irony is 50% vote Face Eating Leopard party and blame the Liberal "Left" for getting their face eaten. It's almost impossible not to be condescending when looking from the outside. America's problems have very obvious solutions and its frustrating as hell seeing people die so pointlessly. There are no Americans outside of the US, only Canadians. PHIZ KALIFA posted:republicans and democrats are not opposition. This belief means you will continue to be hosed. Learn to vote.
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May 27, 2020 03:43
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are these people trying to poo poo up the good china thread again?
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hakimashou posted:are these people trying to poo poo up the good china thread again? We're good here, Fojar just had a time in the bad China thread. Which to be fair I do too from time to time when genocide denial raises its head. Or need to make a dick joke. But usually I'm happy to let it sink back down to the second page.
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hakimashou posted:are these people trying to poo poo up the good china thread again? Does a bear poo in the woods?
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Fojar38 posted:Of course, just because they both have wildly different policies and spend an insane amount of resources opposing each other doesn't make them "opposition" because neither advocates for Full Communism Now. Either way, gently caress Huawei and gently caress the communist party, free Michaels.
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oohhboy posted:This belief means you will continue to be hosed. Learn to vote. tried voting, didn't work. next step is Landlord Massacre
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:tried voting, didn't work. next step is Landlord Massacre Seconded.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:tried voting, didn't work. next step is Landlord Massacre Learn to vote. oohhboy fucked around with this message at 06:32 on May 27, 2020 |
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May 27, 2020 05:16
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vote local and state, guillotine everything else
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May 27, 2020 05:51
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I ate leftover rice today and now thanks to this thread every time I do I have to ask myself if this is it, this is the time leftover rice does me in.
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May 27, 2020 06:30
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oohhboy posted:Learn to vote. gonna learn how to crawl up your nose and pilot your swim shirt body like a doughy gundam.
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YouTube is deleting comments with phrases that insult China’s Communist Partyquote:Comments left under videos or in live streams that contain the words “共匪” (“communist bandit”) or “五毛” (“50-cent party”) are automatically deleted in around 15 seconds, though their English language translations and Romanized Pinyin equivalents are not.
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Isn't Youtube blocked in bad China anyways? I don't fully understand why the CCP tries to censor stuff outside of the mainland. People out here already know that Xi looks like a cartoon bear, that things did happen on June 4, and that the CCP are as poopy as poopy can be. Why waste time trying,(badly and ham handedly) to censor/control the information that non Chinese people receive?
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very often, golden boys are sent to study internationally where they give money to opportunists to write c-minus papers so they can say they graduated from a prestigious public college in montana, or newfoundland if they were exposed to these ideas while abroad, it might be dangerous, for them, when they return
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BrigadierSensible posted:Isn't Youtube blocked in bad China anyways? Remember this is the CCP we're talking about, which means insane insecurity and extreme paranoia. They want to control absolutely everything that they practically can, and will never be satisfied with it until they hit sufficient pushback
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I think it's a very real projection of power. By constantly hounding western nations and companies with these demands, some of it slowly becomes tolerated, and the more is, the more normalized the censorship, and the CCP's abuses more generally, become. These little things add up, imo. It conditions the companies to put up with their BS. And then we get a Blitzchung.
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Atlas Hugged posted:I ate leftover rice today and now thanks to this thread every time I do I have to ask myself if this is it, this is the time leftover rice does me in. Hello, fellow dead-man-walking.  We're soaking rice right now to make Thai sticky rice, and my mind kept coming back to this thread.
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youll die from rice but just cuz its all empty carbs and not cuz of bacteria. it's a good way to die.
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Magna Kaser posted:youll die from rice but just cuz its all empty carbs and not cuz of bacteria. Will the addition of coconut milk and mango speed up the process? Asking for a friend.
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I had mine with my trademark curry recipe, which also uses coconut milk. My son hates spicy food most of the time unless the food he is eating happens to be spicy. Then he says, "It's not spicy, it's sour," or some other nonsense justification to explain why he's stealing my lunch. Four year olds are weird.
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Shadow0 posted:Will the addition of coconut milk and mango speed up the process? Asking for a friend. I've almost died from mangoes before, so the answer is definitely yes, your friend is basically dead already.
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Dont Touch ME posted:Elemental mercury is actually safe to drink. Your digestive tract does not absorb it in any capacity, it goes in one end and comes out the other. In that context, it is 100% harmless and non-toxic. If you’re also a slow reader: 1 (800) 222-1222 for poison control. Don’t be like me. Fun fact about great Satan: Satan often carries connotations of an ‘adversary’ or an obstacle to be overcome, instead of being THE DEVIL in a lot of places, so sometimes when people refer to the US as the great Satan they’re correct given geopolitics. The North Tower fucked around with this message at 10:15 on May 27, 2020 |
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May 27, 2020 10:10
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Need fresh new organs, or how about a new assembly line? Put your order in for HK school kids, today!
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May 27, 2020 11:57
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The Chinese national anthem is a piece of poo poo!
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President Xi, let me off your wild ride! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHsGO8a8WOE
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Do not worry, Trump is here to save the day! https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265604027678670848?s=19
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