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chainsaw

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  1. yeah but people might be laughing at us
  2. How big, though? I have my doubts that if every one of those Uighur workers were liberated Chinese manufacturing with collapse overnight. They should be liberated, though, even if it did have those consequences. Slavery is every bit as wrong today as it was during the Civil War.
  3. I'm not denying what they've done to the Uighurs. There are plenty of legitimate problems with the CCP. What I'm questioning is whether the oppression of disfavored groups fully explains China's economic successes. We have this idea that it's full of third world sweatshops and inhumane labor conditions, and that's the part that seems more like "trust me bro" rather than something that has been corroborated. These re-education camps number like 2 million people (way too many) while China has a population over 1 billion and the vast majority of its factory workers are not in those camps. The third world sweatshops do exist, but they're in places like Bangladesh.
  4. I'm beginning to wonder if these conceptions we have of the conditions for workers in China are accurate. A lot of what the US media has said about foreign countries has turned out to be exaggerations or bullshit.
  5. People all over the world are equally susceptible to propaganda. It's just a fact of life. Also a fact of life is that there are bad actors with access to money and no shame whatsoever in exploiting the fact that people aren't immune to propaganda. Knowing those two facts of life, it makes sense why there should be laws to protect the masses from the effects of propaganda.
  6. I don't agree that Uighur labor camps are the engine driving China's economic prosperity.
  7. The only miscalculations any foreign nation, including China, could make is underestimating how stupid the next decision Trump makes will be. Take the over every time and you'll come out way ahead.
  8. Looks patriotic to me. Great t-shirt!
  9. If that's what they do, I'm not supporting the suppression of true information. But our hands-off experiment has been a spectacular failure.
  10. This might be a hot take, but China might have the right idea when it comes to suppressing propaganda, demonstrably false reporting, and fringe extremism. Look at where Fox News and the AM radio radicals have taken us.
  11. Unless you were there, everything you think you know is no better than gossip. Now we have this list of 20+(?), 40+(?) supposed witnesses, a number that seems suspiciously large. There is no reason at all for this to be national news, except maybe to distract from the fact that everyone's retirement has been wiped out and the people without any money in the market will soon find that the buying power of their money is not half of what they thought it'd be. But I guess race agitation heals all wounds, including those inflicted by $80,000 Ford Fiestas.
  12. Imposing ridiculous tariffs? That's a caning.
  13. I believe that's a flagship Mayfield DQ, so the customer service is noticeably better. I sure hope they're better paid.
  14. I wouldn't consider a bruise or anything that heals by itself to be a serious injury. To me a serious injury is an injury that would definitely put someone in the hospital. Anything less is definitely an injury but not "serious."
  15. We talking ER trip or are we talking any kind of first aid?
  16. I remember when this happened. What has to happen in your life to run into someone who looks like this, and think to yourself, "he's got all the answers. i should trust him unconditionally."
  17. Would you rather discuss the race-baiting? The intricacies of UIL track meet etiquette? Nobody could click on this thread and expect it to be worth reading.
  18. It's redundant to apply that definition to murder. Or maybe I should say it's circular. The murder law says it's murder if the defendant's intent was only to cause serious bodily injury, but the result of the defendant's act is that the guy died. By your logic, any time the guy dies we can infer an intent to cause serious bodily injury. I'm saying, that doesn't necessarily follow, and to define murder in such a way (defined in a way that the defendant's intent ceases to matter if the result of his behavior is that the victim dies) basically destroys the distinction between homicide and murder.
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