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shawn1122

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  • The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work

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  • Its has also been shown to improve survival in metastatic colon cancer. Agree that this is a poor example.

  • 'Do you think Israel has a right to exist?': NYC mayoral debate question sparks backlash

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  • Yeah there was a short run there domestically at least. Those values have never really translated to foreign policy in ant meaningful way though.

  • 'Do you think Israel has a right to exist?': NYC mayoral debate question sparks backlash

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  • Does the West have any such values? The entire colonial era was democracy for me, authoritarianism / fascism for thee. It was always self serving with loud marketing of values that were rarely an actual priority if you weren't part of the right compartment / demographic.

  • Roundabouts are Woke

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  • Yes, youre right in a strict sense but the whole advance tech at any cost including mass casualty (as long as its disproportionately nonwhite people) was a colonial era development leading up to the industrial revolution. The idea of outsourcing labor to lesser humans (on a global scale) also comes from that time. Those are the precursors that have led to the Elons and Zuckerbergs of today.

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  • I'm dumb, password is passcode in this case. Just don't include any letters lol.

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  • So.. How do you set a passcode?

  • Roundabouts are Woke

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  • Yes all third world countries are the same /s. Not at all a reductive viewpoint.

    Techno fascists have set our world on an unsustainable path and it is past Colonial powers that started that. So, revisionism aside, those "big bad" technology and industry obsessed empires will be attributed most of the blame and they better fix it or we won't be here much longer.

    That, or China will have to fix it since Western countries have been thumb twiddling for decades (despite being the source of the problem). Either way it will be ugly once past colonial powers lose their shine and history reflects an honest assessment of them. "Great" Britain is already a shadow of its former self. More will follow that march into relative obscurity as the rest of the world fixes the mess they created.

    The cultural, economic and environmental impact of the Colonial era is much more profound than most know (largely because its ignored in most Western curriculums). You may not recognize issues if you're white or man, but that can be remedied by going outside and speaking to people that don't look or talk like you.

  • Roundabouts are Woke

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  • A lot of so called 'third world mentality' is just Victorian cultural norms that were imposed by the global techno fascists of the time (the British Empire).

  • TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries

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  • Perhaps, we often assume these transformations to be inevitable in hindsight, we as humans are biased to see things that way.

  • TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries

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  • It isn't taught because they feel it was worth it and would still have an empire today if they could.

    The West goes on and on about its moral superiority when the truth is its entire social structure is predicated on white supremacy, labour exploitation and the destruction of nature. Unfortunately the entire world will have to suffer for that, even if the benefits have only been experienced globally over the past few decades.

    A lot of young white men in Western countries are turning to fascism because they feel that they've lost privilege relative to their fathers.

    What does the future hold? Only time will tell. One thing we do know is that every superpower falls eventually.

  • TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries

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  • For better or for worse will be the big question, especially since it's a major driver of climate change which may result in our extinction. In any event the world has been set on this path by the West so we will have to see how it plays out.

  • citation appreciated

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  • It was not a colonial based introduction but it was institutionalized by colonists.

    I'm glad that we agree modern capitalism is problematic and the history of colonialism (and the modern Western world) is predicated on evil, exploitative, inhumane and non-egalitarian principles.

    I didn't say that they couldn't have bad socioeconomic practices without [the West]. I simply stated that a forced assimilation to a capitalist worldview has occurred globally (the alternative being destitution) and which has reinforced the idea that wealth is virtue.

    If we're going to have an honest reflection on caste, we first need to acknowledge that the West treated all colored peoples as low caste for hundreds of years (and it still does in many ways through neocolonialism). Inequality is inherent to modern Western capitalist dogma, just as it is in a rigid institutionalized (courtesy of colonial legacy) caste based system.

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  • Thats because the Western capitalist worldview has spread globally.

    Many of these countries had more socialist systems after establishing their respective post colonial governments but embraced more protectionist strategies or had sanctions placed on them by the wealthiest (Western) nations for not playing ball with the neoliberal capitalist agenda.

    Basically, the West stole from them for centuries through settler colonialism, left with the riches and then said 'you better do things our way or we will refuse to do trade with you and you will continue to starve'

    The world has had no choice to embrace it, for better or for worse.

    Western capitalist mores are actively brainwashing us into thinking wealth is virtue. Might is right. It is not.

  • King says 'strong and free' Canada is a force for good in historic throne speech

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  • To be fair, a nation that clings to its monarchy in the 21st century only really deserves that.

    They led the charge for the West in setting the world on fire with global warming, were a preeminent colonial superpower (ie. force for evil) for centuries and have been gradually slipping into irrelevance since then. Not a good look.

  • King says 'strong and free' Canada is a force for good in historic throne speech

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  • Can't wait for Britain to become a forgotten empire. That country really needs a glow up and rebranding.

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  • The original article says women. Unless they are using women with small hands as code for children.

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  • I would hope a social studies teacher would understand the pitfalls of Western orientalism and Western cultures obsession with describing other groups as 'its' rather than as whole persons.

    But if we're going to objectify people, why don't we get real technical about it. Why not move manufacturing to other east Asian countries? Even outside of East Asia, you can find many countries with less labor protections and large populations where you can select for millions of people with small hands. Why China? Anyone who is being intellectually honest knows that hand size was not the central reason.

    If this is widely accepted then Western culture has a long way to go when it comes to facing its history of racial objectification. Because this sounds less like a valid rationale and more like modern phrenology presenting itself as business and engineering acumen.

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  • Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said. In a recent analysis the company did to explore the feasibility of moving production to the United States, the company determined that it couldn’t find people with those skills in the United States, said two people familiar with the analysis who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html

    They're supposedly paraphrasing "supply chain experts" but they could definitely paraphrase better.

    Western culture is built on a foundation of race based hierarchical brain rot and isn't it remarkable how it always finds a way to remind us of that?

  • Pornhub and three other porn sites face EU child safety probe

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  • Making laws with the intent they will be broken is different from having an understanding they will be broken.

    People break speed limits every day. There is no intent they will be broken but an understanding that it will happen. Overall though, people obey them and roads are safer as a result.