Human rights? How about the cruel family/child separation camps at our southern border?
> "our" Southern border
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U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
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#52I thought that "blacklist" was deprecated and that "denylist" or "blocklist" were appropriate usages? https://developers.google.com/style/word-list#letter-B
I didn't know this was a thing. Is Google really that worried about being politically correct? Are there lots of people that care about this?
My initial impression is that this is an incredibly forced alternative and it makes me cringe a bit.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The polls got his popular vote margin correct. They also got the Democratic generic ballot correct in 2018.
Yes, but they completely missed the point of the data. Popular vote is relatively easy to predict, but Trump's campaign reached really deep into quiet conservatives who wouldn't vote otherwise. Those people are still not going to respond to polls, and since they live in low-population areas, they won't affect the popular vote much, but they hit the electoral college hard. The Dem voters in the primaries are a predict…
You know the polls also accurately predicted the gubernatorial elections (and other statewide elections) in Wisconsin (D+1), Pennsylvania (D+19), and Michigan (D+8.5) right?
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#54Legitimate question: at what point does censorship become something more benign such as blacklist or sanctions? If we do it?
Censorship is not inherently wrong, it just depends on what is being censored.
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#55South Park episode and NBA fiasco made it possible for the public to be grateful for the move. Or maybe it was planned to happen before another round of negotiations and the timing is a... coincidence? Hard to believe in these anymore.
I do not think this is a coincidence that tension between the US and China raises every time Trump has political issues, just like Russia suddenly finds ennemies when Putin faces discontent, or that Turkey fights kurds 10 times stronger when Erdogan feels threatened. Pointing an ennemy is a great way to get away with many things, and works very well with all kinds of publics.
Obviously he wants to finish a deal w/ China before the elections so he can use it as an example. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Not to mention he seems to permanently be in a state of political crisis with his adversaries in the US. They've been rattling the impeachment sword since he got in power.
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#56South Park episode and NBA fiasco made it possible for the public to be grateful for the move. Or maybe it was planned to happen before another round of negotiations and the timing is a... coincidence? Hard to believe in these anymore.
I do not think this is a coincidence that tension between the US and China raises every time Trump has political issues, just like Russia suddenly finds ennemies when Putin faces discontent, or that Turkey fights kurds 10 times stronger when Erdogan feels threatened. Pointing an ennemy is a great way to get away with many things, and works very well with all kinds of publics.
Oh so that tweet and South Park, Hong Kong and political prisoners in China were orchestrated by the admin?!
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
>without it being patently clear that this was never about human rights? Have you been paying attention the last 3 or so years?
Or I guess, to phrase my confusion differently, if they're hoping to exchange this for a concession, and it will be clear to all that this was just a negotiating tactic when they roll it back ... why bother pretending at the outset that it's a principled stand over human rights? What's the point of the lip-service?
One answer is:
Because lip-service here and now is easy and has almost no consequences.
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Obama was manufacturing the pivot to Asia. The TTP would have given a lot of power to corporations to combat China. This presents its own set of problems though. Clinton was adamant that her grandchildren would not be speaking Chinese. China has been acknowledged as a threat since 2008 really, by everyone really, just, sometimes people need a very visual and visceral demonstration of action (no matter how less-optima…
From what I understand many corporate victims of Chinese industrial espionage since 2008 specifically declined to pursue prosecution for fear of what it would do to their existing or potential for business with Chinese entities and individuals.[0] And this was despite a Justice Department that was chomping at the bit to prosecute Chinese industrial espionage. I bring this up because I think this shows why leaving wei…
Do you think the TPP was a response to this fear? Genuine question here.
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#60Human rights? How about the cruel family/child separation camps at our southern border?
The families should not have been separated but how else is the US supposed to handle a surge of asylum seekers? The camps seem lightweight and able to grow or shrink as needed.
I might even agree with just allowing them all in to wait for asylum, it's the US' failure to accommodate afterall.