None of this is false but that doesn’t mean China isn’t threatening military action and waiting for their chance to strike. Being peaceful with the threat of force is not the same as just being peaceful, if a mobster says “pay me off if you don’t want any trouble” they’re not peacefully negotiating. To be honest I’m surprised they haven’t taken more action against Taiwan, when trump would probably say “it’s their country, it’s their territory, its rightfully theirs.”

The person they’re arguing with linked a state owned Chinese tabloid as evidence for their points. I don’t blame for not engaging.

First off it’s the opposition leader, not the president, who is vocal about Taiwan remaining sovereign. Second, if I threaten someone with annihilation, and they say “hey we can negotiate peacefully,” and I say sure I’ll negotiate but (in that article) “war is not off the table,” I as the person threatening them with annihilation am not being peaceful here.

I mean is it though :> 1/3rd of Americans think the election was stolen because of the right wing media network. I would guess it’s probably the same percent in China who blindly believe what the ccp tells them.

Funny that you say it’s to distract from the west’s crimes against humanity, since the report literally uses those exact words to describe what China is doing to the uyghurs, but yes you are correct it doesn’t say it’s a genocide.

You are most likely responding to an astroturf agent 😬 they linked a Chinese (state owned) tabloid as a source on the uyghur genocide being fake. I can link you to the comment if you want I would just warn that they are cleary not trying to convince for the sake of informing people.

I’m just impressed with how long you must’ve spent researching to make that response, we need more people like this when debating tankies.

I am saying I sucked it up and voted for kamala despite hassan explicity saying it was okay to not vote for the lesser of 2 evils “especially this time.” If there was ever a time in history to vote for the lesser of 2 evils, this was it. Hassan either pretends to or actually doesn’t realize how much America got shafted by trump, and how much WORSE trump would be for hamas.

https://youtu.be/GIIQQqnPVuw?t=3m49s He said democrats have to earn your vote, so the harm reduction argument isn’t valid. The democrats didn’t earn my vote so I didn’t vote. Now Trump killed 2 people, started a war, cut all solar programs, ruined our trade negotiations, destroyed the fda, destroyed usaid, destroyed the department of education, pulled out of the climate accord, destroyed research for being “woke,” but I mean hey the democrats didn’t earn my vote so I was fully justified not voting I think.

I’m sorry to break the bad news but asmongold is one of the most popular streamers and is constantly giving “information” to his viewers, which many of them take as fact and repeat verbatim. Impressionable teens and young adults are a huge part of the audience.

Taking care of my family by having a multi million dollar mansion fancy clothes a sports car and a Rolex, amen brother. I don’t expect someone to live like a pauper but wtf give 2 million to red cross and you’ve literally saved like 1000 peoples lives.

You have to sit pretty strangely, like leaned back with your arm fully against your side so the weight of your forearm pushes into you rather than pulling on your shoulder. It does trade a LOT of hand strain for a slight bit of shoulder strain though.

That’s not wrong but I’m not expecting anyone to forget about the negatives. If you punch 0 babies but you are so worried about causing harm that you’re miserable all the time and doing less good as a result, the world is on the whole worse off. It’s not a math equation but I would rather someone eats meat if that means they’re working to change the industry rather than someone who doesn’t eat meat and does nothing. Someone actively working against transphobia and contacting whoever their officials are and canvassing does far more than their $20 does.

I’m just saying there’s no possible way to exist without doing harm, anything you can cut out you should, but if it’s to the point where it’s stopping you from doing good in the world, that might be the line you should stop at.

Even if you do none of those it just keeps going. Coffee? Using too much plastic? Drinking 90% of soda brands?

I just like to think of it like “these things are bad, what good can I do rather than trying to cut out every bad thing?” If every HP fan supported the author by buying it, but then volunteered in a soup kitchen one time, they’ve done far more good than bad.

There are some recommended by dermatologists like lac hydrin. I have chronic dry skin and whenever I actually decide to use it my skin gets noticeably better even when I’m barely using it.

Npr will remain defunded but he will be slammed. And also raked over the coals.

I think he was trying to do what guy #1 did but guy #1 was already there again and one upped him with like 6 roses

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Because they’re being somewhat derisive and structured their sentences to be less comprehensible

“…you have ironically demonstrated that a pre-existing functional understanding of the concepts at play is an important component of more advanced literacy.”

Translation: being familiar with more words/concepts gives you the ability to understand what was said on a deeper level.

This actually took more effort to write than the esoteric one, because I put in effort to make sure I’m not being esoteric for the sake of it. I’m not against using more vocab or higher level sentence structure, but the sentence I quoted is a perfect example of being verbose for no gain in understanding or richness in the sentence.

I thought it just entailed manipulation, not the self interest part, so you’re probably right.