never get involved in a land war in Asia

I’m sure who ever said that was joking and everything will be fine.

Yes they are overhanded when addressing terrorism with “education camps”, but I don’t think their intent is to erase their culture. If Israel acted like the Chinese towards their minorities then the world would look very different.

Yeah, people forget this guy was addicted to the blood of young “men”.

Opiate addict I talked to said your body was never meant to feel that good. That stuff wrecked my brother (a different addict).

The primary enabler of fascism is the belief that it is inevitable.

And maybe the half bottle of wine I drank. But I definitely didn’t do it on purpose.

… Yes I said I wouldn’t mind if something terrible happened to her, but that isn’t a motive.

Well that and the Father saying he wouldn’t feel bad if something terrible happened to her because he has two better behaved daughters.

Sure, but why is he the alternative we should bring up?

This was a distraction from Venezuela, which was a distraction from Epstein, which was a distraction from the fact we elected this guy twice.

The closeted ones may still vote for a woman just to say they aren’t part of the problem, like they did with Obama. But the candidate has to sell change, they aren’t going to vote for the same policies but advanced by someone who doesn’t look like them.

Which is why it is so strange to see the a female candidate pander to those voters. Plenty of stupidity to go around.

If they are allowed to train on OSS code then the same is true of proprietary code, they use the same legal mechanisms. Get your code off GitHub…

People become more tribal under scarcity conditions and the scarcity is largely artificial.

The United States has negotiated “Pax Silica” so that it doesn’t need Taiwan for chips…

I guess they would just kidnap, I mean “capture”, the president of Taiwan to be charged in their courts. No need to invade, it’s just “law enforcement” without a warrant like what Trump is doing now.

She will say this is the war to end all wars or some BS like that. Words mean nothing to these people.

Low key yes. So many Americans have this “well it doesn’t affect me” attitude.

And pax silica will lessen the geopolitical fallout by ensuring there is fab redundancy outside of Taiwan.

I do wonder if they had a referendum whether this war would have been avoided. Maybe I’m just being idealistic but even if Crimea had voted to stay with Ukraine then that would have at least gone a long way to show it isn’t simply the will of the hegemon. Or if Crimea had voted to go independent then the international community could create a new security agreement.

Yes, that is good of China to not act like the USA. Which is why it is concerning when they start to act like a more competent version of the USA.