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china bad 🥺

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No, not to you. On an article about science in China, you have to make it about the government.

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China is not totalitarian.

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On July 7th, Biden said the US was running low on ammunition. Since they don’t really care about civilian casualties, tapping into the cluster bomb stockpile was a no-brainer.

This is a war relating to munitions. And they’re running out of that ammunition, and we’re low on it. And so, what I finally did, I took the recommendation of the Defense Department to – not permanently – but to allow for this transition period while we get more 155 weapons, these shells, for the Ukrainians.

Pretty sad.

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But it’s literally more.

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russian bots

redditor detected

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Because among the countries that have greatly exceeded their fair share of CO2 emissions, the United States is the largest economy. Your link has some data relevant for future predictions and policy targets. However, when discussing climate reparations we must look elsewhere: cumulative CO2 emissions, technological and economic development, and vulnerability to climate change.

Europe and its settler colonies went on a global rampage for centuries. They built the largest human trafficking operation in human history, enslaving tens of millions of Africans. Wherever they went, they stole people’s land, killed them when they fought back, and then took all of their resources as well. This still exists to this day, but in a less overt manner. It is why we have “developed” countries and “underdeveloped” countries. In reality, we mostly have exploited and exploiter countries. The loot from Africa, Asia, and the Americas kickstarted capitalism in Europe and the settler-colonies, and industrialization via fossil fuel extraction followed thereafter. The cumulative CO2 produced by these countries is not consistent with 1.5°C of warming, yet they expect the countries that they destroyed and left poor to do better while barely helping at all. To make matters worse, the exploiter countries continue to pollute, locking in more global warming. This will inevitably hurt equatorial regions more than themselves.

The US does have stacks of cash, and a decent industrial base as well. With a change of heart (lol), it could embark on a rapid renewable rollout as well as green, non-predatory international finance. Unfortunately, the only country doing something like this is China, which ironically has not wildly overshot its fair share nor engaged in colonialism. Still, China will probably exceed this fair share threshold. If the West was truly concerned about climate change, climate colonial reparations would have begun a couple of decades ago.

goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/atmospheric-appropriation/

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We’re going to need a JDPON to get America to pay its tens of trillions of dollars reparations debt, huh?

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The US says it will not “under any circumstances” pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate change-fuelled disasters.

Climate envoy John Kerry made the remarks at a Congress hearing before flying to China to discuss the issue.

The Biden administration really appointed not only a climate denier but also a colonialism denier as the climate envoy lmao. What next, John Kerry proclaims slavery never happened?

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What? Are you talking about oil? We need to be doing less extraction of oil, not more.

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Your own source shows the USA using more CO2 per capita than China in 2018, and Wikipedia shows the USA using more electricity per capita in 2019/2021. Where are you getting these stats from? The vibes factory?

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Yes, yes. And you can even find honest-to-God pro-US propaganda. The USA lost over a million people to COVID in the 2020s and are on a fast track to repeat the past.

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Show me an example of US state authored or propagated propaganda.

No. Neither of us were talking about this in the first place.

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You’re moving the goalposts. The famine happened far before North Korea had nuclear missiles, and rocket tests were far less common decades ago.

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I’m pretty sure it will be random civilians for the next few centuries after the war has ended that will be disliking it.

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@mykhaylo Debatebrain: By bringing up rhetorical gotchas, you are annoying everyone.

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The dud rate refers to the percentage of unexploded rounds. In previous conflicts, cluster munitions have had a high dud rate, which meant that thousands of the unexploded bomblets remained behind and killed and maimed civilians. That’s happened recently in conflicts in Syria and Yemen, but the grisly impact can be felt decades later, as seen in parts of Southeast Asia, where people are still killed by explosives from the Vietnam War.

It’s like the depleted uranium story from earlier. Sure, you can request these things and use them, but it’s a bad decision because you’re just going to end up maiming and disabling generations to come.

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There is actually, and here’s your story:

“We do not support the use of cluster munitions and we are committed to ending the effects of these weapons on civilians, especially children,” a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told CBC News in an email on Friday.

That said, the more important story is the sending of cluster munitions in the first place. And this article seems to agree, considering you have to scroll down a bit to get to the Canadian opinion. I’m not surprised the CBC is interested in the Canadian government’s response to this.

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If you DM’d nudes to a Kolektiva user, the FBI now has it

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Ruzzia 💀 here have some reddit gold too while we’re at it with redditisms

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No, that was from either Twitter DDOSing itself, or getting rate limited because they refused to pay for hosting services.

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So in America we have lawyer dawg, and in Canada we have the 👍 contract. Fantastic legal systems. 🙄

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Ad hominem

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Ad hominem. Please engage the actual content

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This is not a place for discussion. This is a place to post articles about why Ukraine will win and why Xi Jinping is evil.

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Correct. You are refusing to engage in good faith, dismissing discussion due to your anticommunist fervor.

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I know. I am not sure why I am trying to have a discussion with someone arguing in bad faith.

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Hopefully this just ends up being another nothingburger like last time there was talk about a Ukrainian dirty bomb several months ago.

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No I mean when there was talk about a dirty bomb several months ago. The dam wasn’t a nothingburger, hence why I didn’t reference it??

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Well, well, well. It looks like it was indeed a nothingburger. That’s a relief.

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Can’t wait for it to be released, everything ends up fine, people forget about it, and then we go through the same hysteria in a few decades next time there’s an accident.

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Eh it’s not that bad. A lot of shit is getting dumped into the ocean. I’d only worry if this became commonplace.

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Bro China is one of the greatest contributors to renewable energy 💀

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It is totally the Chinese, authoritarian way of thinking

Ah yes, as you can see from the cranium of this skull, the Chinese brain is simply predisposed to authoritarian thought… 🙄

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Fun fact: Asian =/= Chinese

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China is already a democratic and peaceful civilization.

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China doesn’t have any imperialist ambitions so don’t worry about it.

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No. Japan embraced European racial ideology but still wanted its own empire. This was problematic for Japanese imperialists because Europeans considered them as lesser life forms, and reiterated this in the League of Nations. Thus, capitalist Japan has always had to have a contradictory view of race, wanting to be equal to Europeans (and superior to non-Europeans) while not being European.

This racial view of the world is no longer so overt, but still exists. European leaders still consider themselves a white “garden” compared to the non-white “jungle”. Who is considered European, Western, and/or white can be changed. Following the war in Ukraine, Russia has been described as Asian more frequently. For the collaborationist regimes in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, they are often grouped in as the “West,” but because they are undeniably Asian (unlike Russia), they will never be completely accepted. Racists don’t ask you for your nationality before they push you off a cliff - they just look at you. Japan & South Korea need to realize that they are Asian instead of begging white supremacists to be honorary whites.

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Nuh uh. It’s both of them. Name one embassy China has bombed in the past 30 years.

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Sure, in 2021 voters voted for 65 members of the RCCK for the 13th National Committee of CPPCC.

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Ah very nice, racist stereotypes.

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It’s a good thing that China regularly forgives debt, and that nearly all debt issues in the third world arise from Western finance instead.

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China is a one-party state, lacks an independent judiciary, and exerts strict control over the media and public expression of ideas. To call it “democratic” is somewhat perverse.

You can say the same about liberal democracy.

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“Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build – the three things together. And here, Bruges is maybe a good representation of beautiful things, intellectual life, wellbeing.

The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.” -High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell

Also my point is East Asian countries’ proximity to Westernness is very conditional.

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No. Actually, when you have a European calling most of the world a “jungle,” they are quite obviously being racist.

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You’re being quite ridiculous. Here is the full transcript for anyone who cares. eeas.europa.eu/…/european-diplomatic-academy-open…

As for you, well, enjoy your racist garden.

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Yes you are so right. It’s very unfortunate dictator Xi Jinping is doing this out of nowhere based on no past events whatsoever. It’s really a shame we live in an acausal world.

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