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    14 days ago

    …I don’t understand your comment, I think. Is pointing out historical facts ad hominem? My (small) point was that I’m not certain that the sudden prosperity that some workers in the US enjoyed was entirely sustainable. That said, the development since the seventies or so has definitely gone hard in the other direction. I’m not competent to comment on the causes, but successful deunionization, destruction of the educational system, and overseas outsourcing of everything productive are probably in there somewhere.





  • Yeah, there would be no point in relying on China as a new favored trading partner, but as one among (hopefully) many, it could maybe work out. Absolutely agree that building stronger partnerships with liberal democracies should be the top priority, but I’m guessing some of the potential partners will need some time to go through the stages of grief…

    ETA: scratching my head a bit over the up/downvote ratios of our comments, as I think we mostly agree.



  • My moral convictions are more of the situational kind… In this case, I don’t know enough about the particular events to actually have a qualified opinion, and it’s not important enough to me to do the research. I’m content to dislike the ccp for being an oppressive near-dictatorship under Xi, and this random church I’ve never heard of for indoctrinating children (which all churches do, or they’d soon go extinct). On the balance, I probably dislike the heavyhandedness of the reaction more than the religious practice in this instance, but not with any strong conviction.