PeriodicallyPedantic
@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
The reply I made doesn’t depend on the definition of imperialism because the comment I was replying to wasn’t refuting that definition of imperialism.
I was pointing out that their argument boiled down to “yeah well that doesn’t count because the USA does it too”.
Idk why you’re trying so hard to be an asshole, but you’re putting words in my mouth and then insulting me about them.
- Comment on Post title lol 4 days ago:
Hold up.
I think that mobile phones became popular before chat rooms.
Chat rooms existed first, but I think that they were mostly just for nerds until the early to mid 2000s - Comment on Post title lol 4 days ago:
You sound like an asshole, fyi
- Comment on Post title lol 4 days ago:
You can pry my lol from my cold dead fingers lol
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
As I’ve said repeatedly what China is doing is better than what the USA is doing. But that’s bar is so low that it’s buried under the ground. Being better than the USA doesn’t make them beyond criticism and doesn’t make it good. The lesser of evils is still evil.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I’m aware.
But practically, that’s a difference without distinction. The majority of the rest of the world considers Taiwan to be a sovereign nation, and Taiwan has been acting as such for a long time. Functionally, that argument is the same as Russia is making with Ukraine, and technicalities over academic language doesn’t change that.North Korea and South Korea are de facto separate countries, even though their civil war technically didn’t end. If the south invaded the North, that’d be the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
The potential for bad is bad. It’s why benevolent dictatorship is still bad.
Let’s not forget the long history of vassal state politicians praising and thanking their subjugator.
Again, I think this is better than what the USA does, but it’s still worthy of criticism.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Do better at what? This isn’t a competition.
The dude said “yeah well the USA does it too”, as though doing the same thing as an imperialist nation was some kind of gotcha.
That’s the conversation.So what is the point y’all are making with your memelording?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
China and laos have strong friendship… According to China today? 🤨
I’m not saying that China is currently taking advantage of Laos, I’m saying that China has put Laos in a position where nothing is stopping them from taking advantage of Laos. The threat is implicit.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Bro didn’t read the thread, I can tell
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
“active civil war”
LOL stay on your meds, kids
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
But they haven’t.
Right now PRC holds all the assets and gets all the revenue, and laos holds all the debt and all the risks, for 30 years. China has used this to grant themselves positions of control over large parts of the infrastructure planning. - Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Then China should forgive the debt.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Dude calm down
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Debt trapping, for example, laos.
Still a lot better than what the USA does - better to build out country’s infrastructure and then hold them ransom with the debt than bombing schools, but it doesn’t make them good or beyond criticism.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It’s like you forgot to read the question they’re answering.
Question: how is China imperialist like USA
Answer: here is how China is imperialist like USA
You: yeah, well USA does it too!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Literal definition of “no true Scotsman”
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Something about the way he acts always gives me the ick. It feels like a mask.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 week ago:
Yeah I don’t wanna exclude other places for having shit universities for whatever reason - I just wanna comment on why it sucks in “the west” (by which I largely mean USA, Canada, western Europe).
- Comment on cool cool cool 1 week ago:
The argument was “it happened before so it’s fine” which is an absurd argument, and I’m just pointing out the absurdity.
“You don’t get a choice so it’s fine” is also an absurd argument. If someone kidnapped me, bound me up, and expressed their intention to cut off my hand, then I would worry about it even if I had no choice. If you’re telling me you wouldn’t be worrying in that situation, you’re a liar or incredibly abnormal. Lack of choice plays nearly no part in the degree of worry.
What can help alleviate worry is knowledge, but here is a topic that is impossible to learn about.
- Comment on cool cool cool 1 week ago:
I got kicked in the nuts as a kid, that did not make me less afraid of being kicked in the nuts
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 week ago:
I kinda agree, but mostly because western universities are being run like businesses first and educational institutions a distant second or third, and this is the inevitable outcome. Idk if other cultures have the same problem with their universities.
It’s more lucrative to sell degrees as status symbols and career checkboxes, than to sell education. This changes both their target market demographics, and their funding priorities.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 week ago:
Is say “learning how to learn, and communicate effectively” especially in a specific domain, are pretty huge skills, honestly.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 week ago:
They always present them as mutually exclusive, instead of related or reinforcing.
- Comment on I used to be a fan 🤦♂️ 1 week ago:
The call of someone who cries when people actually do get offended.
I have free speech to hurt you, but you don’t have free speech to hurt me
Kinda shit
- Comment on A true ally 1 week ago:
For some reason I imagined him with like… A Bosnian or Hungarian accent or something
- Comment on Wacky 1 week ago:
Huh, I haven’t heard of that. I know they did other stuff but I didn’t know that sloppy top was one of them. What about cunnilingus?
- Comment on Wacky 1 week ago:
Who was the first man who was like “I wanna put my dick in the place for tearing meat”???
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a device from the 90s that played specialize erotica tapes that had an extra channel which synchronized to an electric pocket pussy (not pictured) over 3.5mm cable.
- Comment on Ups and downs 2 weeks ago:
