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Re: Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

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Post by dang »

echelon wrote: post #19
math wrote: post #18

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it is interesting that this comment criticising the west is not downvoted, but those that are criticising china are

It's not just on Hacker News.

Hey, your comments have been breaking the site guidelines so consistently and so badly lately that even though you have been a good HN user in the past, we're on the verge of banning you. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments? We have already tried several times to get you to stop this:

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...but your account is standing out right now as one of the ones that's doing the most damage to this place by lowering discussion quality in many threads. I don't want to ban you, so please stop doing this! For example, posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25948268 are totally unacceptable on this site, regardless of what you're arguing for or against.

Re: Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

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Post by bosswipe »

tomp wrote: post #119
bitcharmer wrote: post #75

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Would you expect any sane person to celebrate another coup from a military junta that has a history of killing whole villages and skinning people alive?

You're not dismissing bias, you're just saying why bias is OK.

Bias means having any morality or principles?

Re: Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

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Post by onethought »

baybal2 wrote: post #43
onethought wrote: post #27

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Isn’t this related to the head general not being able to extend his term... how is china involved?

It's the biggest sugar daddy of Myanmar's military, after US wasn't able to cope with rising appetites of Burmese generals.

How does the Chinese giving money to Burmese generals related to the generals trying to hold onto power?

Re: Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

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Post by baybal2 »

onethought wrote: post #133
baybal2 wrote: post #43

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It's the biggest sugar daddy of Myanmar's military, after US wasn't able to cope with rising appetites of Burmese generals.

How does the Chinese giving money to Burmese generals related to the generals trying to hold onto power?

Money, the inevitability of them losing power, means the inevitability of them losing money.

Re: Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

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Post by holycannoli »

adventured wrote: post #92
tomp wrote: post #85

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> All of this could've been avoided under different leadership. What do you mean? The war in Iraq has outlasted 3 US presidents, so clearly "different leadership" just doesn't work in practice. IMO the US should completely change the modus operandi. "Invade & install new regime & call it democratic & steal oil" just isn't a good proposition for the local population. Unless the US can improve the proposition (to match…

What oil did the US steal from Iraq? I've been asking that question for about 15 years now, when people casually toss such empty claims out there. I've never once received a facts-based answer (for obvious reasons). Iraq was about Russia, not oil. The same thing Syria and Libya are about. Trying to limit or strip Russian influence out of the Middle East. It's two major powers going at eachother via proxy, the same th…

>Iraq was about Russia

You are entirely wrong. Iraq was about Israel. The neoconservatives in the US pushing the invasion are Zionists and the entirety of US intervention in the ME is about strengthening Israel's position relative to the countries surrounding it. Sorry it took you 15 years to find the correct answer. You don't need to spend trillions invading countries just to get access to their oil, you can literally just buy it from them.

Re: Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup

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Post by math »

square_usual wrote: post #36
math wrote: post #18

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it is interesting that this comment criticising the west is not downvoted, but those that are criticising china are

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

FWIW, I didn't mean to suggest this was coordinated.

I take the point that my comment here is of low value. I do believe related issues will perhaps turn out to be the most important of my lifetime though, and it's unusually tricky to know how they should be tackled in the public arena. Apologies for me failing to do so appropriately here.

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