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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles

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  • Imagine thinking the most Redditor-ass reply of linking to Wikipedia of all places on a topic they are already familiar with is useful. Do you believe the Reddit myth about wumaos being shot whenever they see the phrase "Tiananmen Square Massacre" is true?

  • Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles

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  • "I only want a government that doesn't do good things for me!"

  • Sheltered Reddit liberals finding out in real time that they're not in a pro-west echo chamber is fucking hilarious.

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  • Thanks for explaining and I'll take the bit about Critique into account.

    Hume is easily one of my favorites too. Even when I think he's being incredibly stupid (e.g. missing shade of blue) you really can see that he's being genuine even about his faults, which is unusual among philosophers.

    Of course, I enjoy (most of) Schopenhauer as well, but mainly the short essays he wrote as an afterthought to World as Will, like On the Vanity of Existence. I find the morbidness of it entertaining and there was a time that I was genuinely in one of the worst depressive episodes of my life and I read some of his works for the first time and howled with laughter. I can't not bear some affection for his writing after that. It's like a Kafka Comedy but where the protagonist is a metaphysicist who is just torturing himself with his own ideation, if that makes sense.

  • Sheltered Reddit liberals finding out in real time that they're not in a pro-west echo chamber is fucking hilarious.

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  • Nietzsche and other metaphysical philosophers

    There's a little bit of metaphysics in Nietzsche, but what makes you call him a "metaphysical philosopher"? I struggle to think of any metaphysical statement from him that wasn't just a rephrasing of Schopenhauer, which is fair enough since that wasn't really what he was into as far as I know.

    In any case, immense respect for successfully parsing Kant. I can only get the extremely easy texts like Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morals

  • Sheltered Reddit liberals finding out in real time that they're not in a pro-west echo chamber is fucking hilarious.

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  • Not true, liberals weren't even aware of the civil war for the most part

  • Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border

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  • "bolster border"

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

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  • It probably does violate standing diplomatic agreements with the PRC over how that sort of thing would be handled. There was a lot of pushback in Taiwan because they saw it (correctly) as pointless pot-stirring.

    Anyway, I think most of the flights that aren't innocuous (and many of them are or they wouldn't need to have such bullshit articles) are drills in preparation for the possibility of the US using Taiwan as a military platform as it has been angling for in the past. They aren't just dick swinging or whatever, China doesn't want to take any risks in the event of a military conflict, though it would prefer such a conflict not take place.

  • Sheltered Reddit liberals finding out in real time that they're not in a pro-west echo chamber is fucking hilarious.

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  • I don't think the world's largest pedophile ring is any laughing matter

  • Sheltered Reddit liberals finding out in real time that they're not in a pro-west echo chamber is fucking hilarious.

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  • A shill is someone paid to advocate for something or who has a material interest in fooling others.

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

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  • I didn't see this reply before. The other commenter has it right that the relevance of its pathetic diplomatic position is that it is being propped up by the US/NATO and ultimately depends on them to exist apart from the PRC, which makes it very difficult to oppose them. Incidentally, does the US not sponsor Taiwan? Even just recently there was this, which sure seems like sponsorship to me.

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  • I started writing out a timeline but I don't know what position you're asking from so I will say for the sake of brevity that the US kept the KMT from being run out of all of China so that the US could us the island as a threat against China -- as it also attempted to do in Korea when it had more-or-less complete control of the southern half. Taiwan spent about 40 years as a military dictatorship killing tens of thousands of dissidents, native Formosans, and others (this was called the "White Terror"), while their patron the US looked the other way while it pumped resources into the country (for the ruling class, mind you) to use the island as a sweatshop site in the interim. This legacy and its connections to fellow US puppet South Korea and US ally Japan go a long way to explaining its current capacity in manufacturing, which make up its other value to the US besides geographical position.

    Both Taiwan and SK have made various attempts to assert themselves (with some success in both cases), but with the pathetic diplomatic position of the former and the continued military occupation of the latter by the US, I think "puppet state" is a fair title for them, perhaps as much as Israel, but that's its own can of worms.

    I didn't really intend on getting into litigating this topic, but I'm happy to discuss it as best I can.

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

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  • The PRC wants a peaceful reunification, which would not be aided by them continuously flying military jets over the island. I, too, would prefer peaceful reunification, which means some level of cooperation and tolerance is necessary.

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  • Yeah, obviously it's a glorified puppet state but there's no point in arguing from that standpoint here. If a country is to exist, it should know about local air traffic, that's all I'm saying.

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week

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  • Ten Chinese air force aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence zone . . . Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ.

    For those unfamiliar with the Air Defense Identification Zone:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_(Taiwan)

    Not only does it include a lot of water that isn't part of the Strait, right off of China's coast, it also includes a portion of Mainland China a few times larger than Taiwan itself.

    People like to talk like China is flying jets over Taipei City, but you can fly a plane from one city in Mainland China to another, only passing over land, and be in this zone. Mind you, I don't think Taiwan having this zone is bad -- countries generally should be aware of air traffic nearby -- but this is part of a long history of alarmist headlines by western media regarding what is often very uninteresting air traffic in the PRC.

  • My sister is becoming more radicalised than me and it’s scary.

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  • She seems to be caught up in moralistic reasoning. Punishing people can't undo the harm they've done, it can't un-hurt her. Nicholas II was killed for representing a massive liability to the revolution, not because it would bring back the Jews he killed or be of any intrinsic benefit.

    There is no use in what she describes, just emotional maladjustment.