Volo Relinquere

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  • You know, good point, I’m sure none of you ever talk to each other or have friends, as you all seem to vastly prefer infecting other communities and instances to spread Chinese propaganda far and wide. It’s a shame I can’t block every one of your comments all at once, just the posts with the instance block; but I’ll get there one tankie at a time if I have to. You make #2 for the day!



  • No, actually, I never said that.

    actually you did, where I posted a link to a wikipedia article (several actually but who’s counting, this is the one you wanted to bitch about) and you responded by dismissing it altogether as “deep propaganda lore”. Was all of fourteen hours ago.

    Since you’re clearly having trouble keeping up – or, let’s be honest, willingly choose not to – I’m gonna stop reading right there at your “helpful explanation” about how sources work. I got better shit to do than listen to tankies trying (and failing, badly) at condescending to me; and it’s been funny watching you flail, but I’m bored now. You’re boring me now. Better luck next time!


  • Oh cool, now we both agree Wikipedia isn’t propaganda again? Super, I’m glad we’ve established that. :D

    I did in fact read it first. There are a total of four, count 'em, four paragraphs under the “Counterarguments” section (one of which isn’t actually a counterargument but we’ll get to that). That’s almost the length of an acceptable fourth grade book report. I’m very proud, as well as at your restraint at only directly copy and pasting one of them (and the other from the article lead – now I know the only two sections you actually bothered to read). Most of that entire section cites that same source, the Washington Post article.

    I wonder how many subsections there are under the “Evidence” section?

    … Hmmmm. Well, okay, okay, maybe they’re all really really short and poorly sourced! How do they stack up against the refutations?

    Ahhhh. Golly, dozens of sources, lots to read – they’ve even got helpful diagrams for the slow tankies. Well, since you clearly went and picked out the quotes you liked best, now’s my turn. :3

    Bo Xilai was governor of Liaoning province, which researchers believe was a major center for organ harvesting.[who?] The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong made phone calls to mid- and high-level officials with prior connections to Bo, posing as members of the Communist Party’s discipline and inspection body that was building a case against him. They asked questions about the chain of command involved in procuring organs from prisoners, including Falun Gong practitioners. When asked about Bo’s involvement in organ harvesting, one senior Politburo member reportedly told investigators that Standing Committee member and security chief Zhou Yongkang “is in charge of this specifically. He knows it.”[72]

    A city-level official in Liaoning province was asked by investigators what instructions Bo Xilai may have given on organ removal from Falun Gong prisoners. The official replied: “I was asked to take care of this task. Party central is actually taking care of this… Bo was involved quite positively. At that time we mainly talked about it during the meetings within the Standing Committee.”[verification needed] The official ended the call after realizing that he had not confirmed the caller’s identity.[72]

    Emphasis mine.

    And oh, hey, the very next paragraph after the one you quoted about that Washington Post article, that’s a good one too.

    Kilgour, Matas, Gutmann, and experts in fields such as medicine wrote to the Post saying that drug prices can be 2.5 to 4 times cheaper in China than in the U.S., making sales data an unreliable proxy for dosage, and that a country’s global share of immunosuppressant sales does not need to match its share of transplantations, citing Japan and the U.S. as counterexamples.[144] Their letter also states that most Chinese hospitals have an unofficial pharmacy whose “significant” amount of business data are not included in IMS figures.[144]

    “If you don’t believe that, there’s multiple different sources for you to follow.”











  • voloretomemes@lemmy.worldWell, guess I live in Cleveland now
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    5 days ago

    When you’re overtaking someone going slow, but they speed up next to you, so you’re stuck now and will miss the exit. Just pretend they were probably lonely and just needed someone next to them for a while.

    alternatively, if your vehicle is not driven by unicorn farts and has something with a bit of oomph to it, and you don’t mind risking it: Mash accelerator, assert dominance, make exit.