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Going by the popular votes, no, actually.

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Yamaha Pacificas are a great first guitar in terms of value for money.

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No. They do not.

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GOURANGA

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Ah yes, well known liberal checks notes George Bush.

Russia cannibalised itself after the Soviet Union fell, didn’t need any Western help there.

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My guy, China is the least socialist place on earth. It is so capitalist and so unequal. You pay to use the roads, you pay to use the hospitals, you pay for any schooling past middle school, if you don’t have a city residence permit your pension is 5% of those that do.

Have you ever been?

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If socialism isn’t from each according to his means to each according to his needs then what the fuck is it?

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If your idea of socialism is homeless people dying in the streets and people stepping over children because taking them to hospital lumbers you with their medical bills then, sure, China is as socialist as they come.

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I was taught the tenets of Buddhism in my nationally-required Religious education lessons. Does that make me a Buddhist? Does that make my nation a Buddhist one?

There, your question is answered.

China has been peddling the same excuse about needing to get their economy up to a certain point before they can fully embrace communism since the Great Step Forward.

Meanwhile, there are 969 billionaires in China, it is the home of sweatshops and workers aren’t legally allowed to strike.

Soshulizm

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I can’t believe you forgot about this, but here we go

Socialist china has a higher homeless rate than capitalist hell-hole USA

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I’ve spent six months in Guangzhou and three in Qingdao.

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You mean economic liberal? Bush was far from politically liberal.

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Actually talk to people from China sometime. For weeks all wechat was was people saying “yeah, it sucks, but I’d do the same”

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UK.

Oh, it would be way worse, because communism is always way worse.

I think it would still be terrible even if there were no USA. If there were no USA, whatever brought them down would have collapsed the entire world’s economy and there would be thousands of nukes lying around.

I’d rather be a billionaire in the US because my English is better than my Mandarin. Quality of life would be exactly the same at that income bracket wherever you live in the world. Labor protection would be weaker in China though, if I were looking to exploit my workers…

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Because I spent six months in Guangzhou and three in Qingdao.

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Corrupt politicians purging enemies is not the win you think it is there, chief.

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I’m not reading a pop politics book for you. Go read The Gulag Archipelago.

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Yeah, it was a real cultural revolution for China. A great leap forward even.

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I know it because my mother lived through it. But go off, I guess, comrade.

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If that’s your takeaway, you haven’t.

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The only people that praise communism are those that never lived through it.

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I didn’t dignify the juvenile barb with a response. Take it how you like.

The same reason 99.999% (there’s a 0.001% margin of error) of North Koreans love the Kims.

A combination of patriotism, indoctrination and fear. Talk to Chinese people sometime. In person, not on WeChat.

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Whatever, kid.

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The US doesn’t care about the Chinese people. There’s no malice, there’s no ill intention, they just don’t care beyond the vague ‘hope they find democracy someday’ schtick. This whole geopolitical shadow war you worry about only exists in your adolescent head and the heads of your equally juvenile comrades.

Go outside and try to be a contributing member of society. Maybe even meet a girl. Or a guy, if that’s your thing.

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Unironically, “you were my brother, Anakin. I loved you” though I suppose it is more of just a line rather than a whole scene. Ewan was too good for those films.

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Or the tree trunk grew to the asphalt.

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Hard to carry a TV on a bicycle, or transport loads to the recycling centre, or drop my kids off at school or any one of a thousand things that occur day to day.

Our world redesigned itself with the invention of cars. Trying to exist without them is very hard for your average family, especially those who live outside cities.

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The train doesn’t stop at the recycling centre. Nor does it stop at my childrens’ schools. Ditto my office, the supermarket, IKEA, the house of the person I just bought weed from.

The layout of our towns expanded with the ubiquity of cars. Services agglomerated and became situated where land was cheap rather than central.

Bikes and light mass transit have their use cases but removing cars is not feasible for the majority of households

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Great, well I have a six year old that needs to get to his school which is about a mile and a half away and I need to get to work 20 mins after which is about three miles in the other direction.

I then also need to do his pickup during my lunch break.

Most people’s lives don’t work without a car because that’s not the society that car ownership created.

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It’s a town of 90k people. The kind of town that the vast majority of people in the UK live in.

Just out of curiosity how can you transport something large and bulky, that isn’t allowed on public transport, let’s say furniture, or the remains of a shed you dismantled or any one of a hundred inconvenient loads that occur during your life without a car?

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For real, the pavements here are like bunched-up carpet from all the roots, lol

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Someone needs to own a car still.

And that someone can’t be available every day when I need to do two school runs and an office trip.

That someone can’t always be available when the sink springs a leak and I need to go buy some new washers and plumber’s mait.

I really question your life experience at this point. If you’re single, childless and living in a big city, sure, cars are very unnecessary. For most people this isn’t the case

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How do you believe women (and men, and NBs) who willingly go into this line of work should be treated?

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We’re all victims of economic coercion. Very few would willingly work service or clerical jobs if they didn’t need to.

If that’s your rubrik, then whatever your opinion of Johns is, it should consistently be applied to anyone who ever buys any product or uses any service.

We all work because we need to get paid to survive. Knowing that, how do you believe those who choose for that work to be sex work should be treated?

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Guy who refuses to answer the first question asked continues to deflect because he knows there’s no logical position he can take that isn’t ‘I don’t like sex workers’.

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You deflected first by invoking economic coercion. Unless it’s your firm belief that there are zero people who would knowingly choose to fuck for money over taking a menial job.

Get better talking points than these sad little ad hominems, they aren’t helping you.

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Never said they were equally exploitative, just that we all suffer from some level of economic coercion.

What you are doing is what’s called strawmanning. It’s where you reframe an argument you are unable to counter to a slightly different one that you are able to counter.

I’d say it’s beneath you, but it honestly doesn’t seem to be.

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Indeed I did. I’ll own up to that mistake.

The rest is projection, I’m afraid. Your should probably spend some time in reflection, but you’re not going to.

Get whatever jibe is left in you out of your system and be on your way.

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Yeah, because it’s a jraphical interface format.

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You understand the egg in this dish is unfertilized, yes?

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Big logical gaps in this argument:

The op never said they were superior morally.

Even, given the above, the op deemed chickens immoral that does not make all chickens’ actions immoral. Preening, roosting and eating grain are not immoral activities.

Defining only the horrible acts as horrible is a circular argument as no definition has been provided as horrible.

Other than those three, you really stuck it to the carnist, chief.

[Rant] I swear to fucking god. Windows is harder to use than Linux. Have any of you ever USED Windows lately? Holy fuck.

I’m helping a family member build a pc. He wanted to use Windows because “Linux can’t play games” despite me having a perfectly good gaming laptop running Linux that runs all my games, even graphically intensive ones....

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I mean OP is trying to paint Linux as the more user friendly system and I think we can all agree that’s BS.

Linux has many advantages. User Friendliness is not one of them

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This has big “the calculator isn’t working” energy.

No sir, the calculator is working fine. The problem is somewhere between the chair and the keyboard.

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Wow wow wow wow

Wow

What sci-fi would you recommend next?

I have soon finshed all of The Expanse (which I have enjoyed immensely) and last month I finished Peter F Hilton’s Pandoras Star. While I enjoyed the second half of Pandoras Star, they (it’s a trilogy) are such heavy books with rather slow pace. One of my favorite reads last year was Recursion by Blake Crouch - it’s fast...

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Iain M Banks’s Culture novels. User name is relevant.

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Thing is, every line Russia has drawn in the sand, accession to NATO, arms supplies to Ukraine etc have been proven to be empty words. Russia has backed off each time.

An attack on Poland from Belarus would quickly lead to an invasion from Poland. Securing Ukraine’s northern border would free up a lot of Ukrainian resources and would put NATO soldiers in another neighboring country to Russia.

It would be suicide for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Is that better? Assuming they committed the crimes they were convicted for they are agreeing to avoid the consequences of immoral acts by agreeing to perform more immoral acts?

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