Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will invest in the platform

Post by yourbandsucks » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 3:55 PM UTC

learc83 wrote: post #339

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You'll note that I haven't defended anything except sovereignty over HK. If you only apply extreme rhetoric and exaggeration towards one country, that's bias. At a certain point, all you're saying is that you really really don't like China. Whatever. They'll continue as they are and we'll continue being a house divided against itself that doesn't build anything. Hopefully we don't start any "just" wars over it. Ameri…

>You'll note that I haven't defended anything except sovereignty over HK. You did. I pointed out examples of bad things China is doing to explain why I don't want Chinese companies to partially own American media companies. You countered with: whatabout the bad stuff other countries have done. If that wasn't a defense, then it was an irrelevant tangent that you had no reason to bring up. I don't go around to threads…

Post by yourbandsucks » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 11:36 PM UTC

sarchertech wrote: post #342

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You made a conspiracy-theory-esque suggestion that any given commercial action by any given Chinese company is some sort of commie plot. It's a tautology. Anything Chinese companies/people do is evil, because China is evil, because everything they do is evil... I was just trying to expand your mind a little bit with my suggestion of consistent standards. I guess you're happy where you are. Cheers.

You were defending a tyrannical government through text book whataboutism. It doesn't matter that you were doing it to "expand my mind"--you could say that about literally any argument you make, no matter how morally repugnant. >It's a tautology. Anything Chinese companies/people do is evil, because China is evil, because everything they do is evil... I listed very specific, "evil" things that the Chinese government…

Post by yourbandsucks » Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 4:44 AM UTC

learc83 wrote: post #344

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Once again you managed to invent an imaginary position to argue against. If you aren't able to have an adult conversation, you shouldn't post here. This isn't the place for trolling.

Post by yourbandsucks » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 1:48 AM UTC

learc83 wrote: post #346

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It's just us bro, thread is long dead otherwise. ... Consider those hundreds of millions (!!) who have joined the middle class. Are they your enemy? Should we start another cold war? What if you tried to think from their point of view? (And who is downvoting this deep into a dead thread? Some humanitarian?)

>It's just us bro, thread is long dead otherwise. Which is what makes it weird that you bother to build straw men to argue against in the first place. It's almost like you're deliberately trying to bait me into wasting more time. >(And who is downvoting this deep into a dead thread? Some humanitarian?) Your previous response was likely flag killed because it doesn't meet content standards, not downvoted because peopl…

Post by learc83 » Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

yourbandsucks wrote: post #347

learc83 wrote: post #346

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>It's just us bro, thread is long dead otherwise. Which is what makes it weird that you bother to build straw men to argue against in the first place. It's almost like you're deliberately trying to bait me into wasting more time. >(And who is downvoting this deep into a dead thread? Some humanitarian?) Your previous response was likely flag killed because it doesn't meet content standards, not downvoted because peopl…

Maybe I could work on defensive writing a little bit, but then maybe I shouldn't have to. Want to set me straight on the straw man? Any closing thoughts about the welfare of hundreds of millions of Chinese? After all, that was the thrust of my last two comments, and you've studiously ignored it. (I didn't notice the flag. Hi dang!)