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Sure, they experienced their country go from one of the top three poorest countries on earth to a top two economy in just a couple generations, but the reason they support their system must be because they just don’t know better.

You really think you’re the first one to cope with that argument?

Support for government in China: is the data accurate?

You really think you’re the first one to cope with that argument?

Support for government in China: is the data accurate?

It is

He needs to wash his brain, you could even say.

The purpose of a system is what it does, not what its marketing department says.

The only true ideal for power is that there is none except when handled by all. The US Constitution seemed to have this idea in mind with its intent

Are we talking about the same document granting exclusive political rights to land and/or slave-owning white males or are you a visitor from another dimension?

The consequences for what you’re calling “social credit score” in China is actually court orders issued on a case by case basis, not some automatic/bureaucrat-run all-encompassing system based on rating each citizen. I.e. it’s not a social score system.

Since the data structure has a static size, that is N is constant (12 months, 365 days) , technically any operation on it is O(1).

The distinction between left and right in the U.S is democratic and Republic ideologies.

Both Republicans and Democrats subscribe to the same ideology: Liberalism. That is: the supremacy of private property and absolute freedom (for those who posses said private property). That’s what liberalism is, not whether you believe deep in your heart in the neccesity of “social progressivism”.

They just play the good cop/bad cop routine; and just like with those cops, their goal is the same, they just trick you into trusting one of them because he’s stopping the ‘bad cop’ from hurting you.

Actually, it was gender-inclusive, they equally demonstrated for the right to rape Palestinian men.

If you read the rest of the tweet by Arnaud, you’ll learn that Nazis later abandoned the practice of rescuing survivors of sinking enemy ships, and it was because Americans are worse war criminals than Nazis:

The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident).

The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn’t get attacked during the rescue.

That’s when a US B-24 “Liberator” bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia’s survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed.

The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery…

This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the “Laconiarefehl” - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high.

In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea.

Dönitz at least had an excuse.

People have already deeply internalized the excuses, they don’t need to repeat them.

Nobody ever told me I needed to read Proudhon to think the state’s bad

Yeah, cause if you actually read Proudhon, you’d probably lose interest in anarchism after realizing how unserious and idiotic the arguments and methodology of “the father of Anarchism” were.

Further reading: The Poverty of Philosophy (Part three has the funniest blunders of Mr. Proudhon, if you’re looking for highlights).

I guess I did the meme and told you to read.

That’s a BOLD claim.

If Trump did it he must have had a good reason - MAGAs reacting to any inconvenient fact about Trump.

You:

Americans famously have goldfish memory when it comes to any kind of political events, so in a sense any event is a distraction from the previous event for them.

“Almost as an article of faith, some individuals believe that conspiracies are either kooky fantasies or unimportant aberrations. To be sure, wacko conspiracy theories do exist. There are people who believe that the United States has been invaded by a secret United Nations army equipped with black helicopters, or that the country is secretly controlled by Jews or gays or feminists or black nationalists or communists or extraterrestrial aliens. But it does not logically follow that all conspiracies are imaginary.

Conspiracy is a legitimate concept in law: the collusion of two or more people pursuing illegal means to effect some illegal or immoral end. People go to jail for committing conspiratorial acts. Conspiracies are a matter of public record, and some are of real political significance. The Watergate break-in was a conspiracy, as was the Watergate cover-up, which led to Nixon’s downfall. Iran-contra was a conspiracy of immense scope, much of it still uncovered. The savings and loan scandal was described by the Justice Department as “a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,” the greatest financial crime in history.

Often the term “conspiracy” is applied dismissively whenever one suggests that people who occupy positions of political and economic power are consciously dedicated to advancing their elite interests. Even when they openly profess their designs, there are those who deny that intent is involved. In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of unemployment in order to safeguard against “overheating” the economy. Like any creditor class, they preferred a deflationary course. When an acquaintance of mine mentioned this to friends, he was greeted skeptically, “Do you think the Fed bankers are deliberately trying to keep people unemployed?” In fact, not only did he think it, it was announced on the financial pages of the press. Still, his friends assumed he was imagining a conspiracy because he ascribed self-interested collusion to powerful people.

At a World Affairs Council meeting in San Francisco, I remarked to a participant that U.S. leaders were pushing hard for the reinstatement of capitalism in the former communist countries. He said, “Do you really think they carry it to that level of conscious intent?” I pointed out it was not a conjecture on my part. They have repeatedly announced their commitment to seeing that “free-market reforms” are introduced in Eastern Europe. Their economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector. The same policy holds for the monies intended for other countries. Thus, as of the end of 1995, “more than $4.5 million U.S. aid to Haiti has been put on hold because the Aristide government has failed to make progress on a program to privatize state-owned companies” (New York Times 11/25/95).

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.”

― Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths

In fact, it goes back all the way to Christopher Columbus: https://museumfacts.co.uk/atrocities-committed-by-christopher-columbus/

All European colonizers were child sex traffikers (among the rest of their crimes).