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  • ITT.

    I love the scene where a group of sociopathic murders are all shocked at how scummy someone has to be to deprive a waitress of her wages, as if it's justified because the owner doesn't pay her either.

  • Can't forget that they sent John Fetterman instead of Tim Walz or literally anyone more likeable to do Rogan.

    But we can't ask what the democrats did wrong, then they might have to do something other than move to the right every election and complain that rightwing policy and messaging is unpopular.

  • Have you tried talking about legitimately bad things the Chinese government does instead of shit taken wildly out of context or simply fabricated, in a context where you're not transparently simply trying to cHInA BaD?

    There's not productive discussion to be had when someone is only trying to twist any data into hostile evidence.

  • That's how you defend any position you know to be true or even any position that's being attacked as a proxy for something else; when a nazi claims they have evidence the holocaust was fake, if you acknowledge the validity of any "evidence", you're already playing their game. Instead you explain the motivations behind the person's actions.

    When an American starts talking about tiananmen square and lacks basic knowledge of what occurred and the conversation about it in China, going through evidence and witnesses is futile; the atomic unit of propaganda isn't lies, it's emphasis and getting bogged down on specifics allows them to control the framing.

  • China also uses a VAT and they're way more progressive than the EU. As far as I know it's generally worse in both fairness (can't be used to decrease inequality) and impact to productivity to income tax, but it's much easier to administer.

  • Operation Paperclip was publicized, because it's easy to pretend they were all just apolitical scientists.

    Operation Bloodstone was not, because you can't twist sending nazi officers to facilitate torture and mass killings in South America and Eastern Europe into anything but what it was.