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how do you do civics when civilizations tend towards ignorance, avoidance and udder fantasy to maintain the belief that they are absolved of any personal responsibility for anything (including their own suffering) and/or to maintain/further the facade of their civilization being a disney-esque wonderland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUw3iSRCYwM

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Federal law requires that any payments that are made "for the purpose of influencing" an election must be reported in campaign finance disclosures.

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The Tianamen Square Incident is being propagandized pretty hard in western media lately. Shit's posted everywhere, even 7chan/b/: >>/b/790842. Last week this lady comes forward to give credit to the stories that the military resisted orders to storm the square; reposts of Tank Man all week everywhere else; old sources dug up and regurgitated in every mainstream outlet.

I see what you are doing; it isn't going to work.

Either someone is trying to drum up anti-Chinese sentiment, or drive a wedge between the Chinese people and their government, or convince China to apologize for oppressing its people. None of those things are going to happen. It hasn't worked for thirty years and it isn't about to start working now.

People in the west, as offended as they may be, will not stick to this longer than it stays in the headlines and two weeks from now, no one's going to care. The Chinese people only remember that it is dangerous to discuss the matter and they will never accept any version of the story other than the party line. The Communist Party of China doesn't give a fuck, and will never apologize for something that didn't happen; that's right it didn't happen, because they erased it from history.

Also, maybe it actually didn't happen: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/

To be honest, I think a few hundred civilians were killed as a message to future protesters, but more importantly everyone who showed the slightest empathy was removed from their posts, disappeared, and/or 'reeducated'. Military officials, television reporters, civilians outside the action zone, everyone. There is no one left alive in China to speak against the official story and there hasn't been for thirty years. Think about this: no one under the age of thirty in China has ever heard about it; they are not going to believe you no matter how you try to prove it to them. They have all been raised to think that westerners are trying to undermine the prosperity of their country, just like they did during the Opium wars.

In fact, every military and economic conflict in which western powers were involved in China--even as allies of the Chinese government--have been recast as invasions, incursions, and attacks on Chinese sovereignty. This is also how they will see the western media dragging out the Tianamen Square Incident once again. No one in China will ever see it the way our media tells us to see it.

Nothing of value will come from drumming this up again.
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Trump: "It was like a gift to a union, and we're going to obviously be in court to stop it."

It's telling how he immediately decided to berate unions for this.
Sell or rent the buildings, or use them for other public services.
There's no reason to fire workers who work remotely, especially if they're getting the job done.

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I think people have been going down the wrong track when it comes to Trump threatening Comey. They're missing the obvious.

Trump spends his life surrounded by conspiracy theorists. They funnel every stupid idea posted on the internet 24/7 to keep him in a perpetually agitated, distracted state. This is a man who think global warming is a conspiracy created by China, that fluoride is a form of mind control, that jet contrails contain biological agents, that vaccines cause autism... it's really not much of a stretch for him to think people are recording his every move every single day.

Given this I find it highly unlikely that Trump was threatening Comey because Trump had recorded conversations. Instead he was threatening Comey because he thought Comey had recorded their conversations.

The threat wasn't about Trump going to the press with a recording. Its a threat against Comey going to the press with recordings of what Trump said.

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Antifa is fake, run and organized by the very right-wing groups they claim to be fighting.

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The best news America has witnessed in quite some time. Rest in piss.

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Do you think in words? Do you have an inner voice or do you think in pictures or a third way?

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http://youtu.be/JifTBDjtF38 7:50

Effectively: "Not EVERYONE should kill inconvenient unborn humans, nor should NOBODY do it, I'm just saying it should be legal for people who DO want to. This makes me the "fair and balanced" middle ground (apparently)."

I thought this was just a horrible, stupid joke on that one Simpsons episode. Is this how abortionists actually think?


sidetopic: abolish the political party system

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I don't have sympathy for animals and I'm not vegan.
I think we should convert to cultured meat protein for the sake of the environment.
We don't need this many animals any more. We keep a small breeding stock, to preserve and innovate products. The rest we grow in labs, cloned from the best specimens.