>Personally if it were up to me, I would exclude poor working class whites from any notion of privilege as they clearly aren’t.
When the world's wealth was stolen and concentrated in a few locations on the planet, the majority of the people living in those locations were/are white and one of the primary barriers to earning a piece of that wealth was and still is race. What we see today is less explicit than racial laws but things like immigration restrictions have the same effect.
I think the 'white privilege' label is appropriate, anecdata doesn't change the larger historical observation.
Thanks for posting my quotes. Reading over them I realize that I haven't changed my mind on any of the positions. I expect most students of history understand there is a factual basis for every stance I've taken on China...
>Also, I'd turn this question back on you;
>If given a choice between being someone who lives 99% of the time in the US and has a US device backdoored by the NSA/CIA vs. someone who lives 99% of the time in China and has a Chinese device backdoored by the Chinese government, which would you choose?
If I spent 99% of my time in China I would possibly prefer the NSA backdoored system, and if I spent 99% of my time in the US, I would prefer the Chinese backdoored system. The precise question you asked really depends on what business I'm engaged in since each government is hostile to its own specific types of activities in its own ways.
Having said that, I do lean heavily towards the Chinese system because the Chinese government doesn't export its laws to non-Chinese people...I'm glad you posted my quotes about Assange because I do think the Chinese government is more measured.
Assange, a non-US resident/citizen, has spent a decade in jail for leaking info about war crimes the US committed. In comparison, if Assange, a non-Chinese resident/citizen, leaked CCP related secret intel/war crimes, he would 100% be in Australia raising his children freely right now.
Do you disagree? All evidence points to my assessment being correct... and if my assessment is correct, you will have to concede that Chinese backdoored devices are preferable to NSA/CIA backdoored devices if you are an average non-Chinese citizen/resident of country N.
>I see pasabagi criticizing xtian’s specific comments and approach.
I see him implying that the comments/observations are not in good faith and that he might be paid for taking the positions he takes. This seems completely unnecessary and quite rude.
>Assuming any negative comment about China to be an attempt to scam us into a war also seems like a mistake.
You may not recognize the increased sinophobia in the west but it is part of a well funded centralized effort to demonize and increase the potential for kinetic warfare between western countries and China. The fact that HN acts like an echo chamber for state approved anti-Chinese perspectives doesn't help matters.
A close reading of sino-western historic/economic relations results in a very different perspective than the one which is promoted in western MSM by corrupted organizations.
This notion that everyone skeptical of western defense contractor funded claims is paid by China is a sad evolution of the close minded rebuttals that existed during the Iraq WMD period.
There is no counter to this false claim online which is why it is unfortunately effective in shutting down discourse.
I guess we are stupid enough to walk into a potential war the same way we were scammed into one not too long ago. We already forgot the lessons as a population.
They were considered terrorists, then at some point during the Syrian regime change project, imported Uyghur fighters became useful allies to the US along with Al Nusra, Al Qaeda and ISIS.
US is also currently rehabilitating an Al Qaeda militant's image to make him the 'Juan Guaido' of Syria...
>Bitcoin cannot succeed past a certain level because then it competes with the USD and becomes a threat.
It already is a threat to the USD and the game theory ensures anyone fighting against Bitcoin loses in the long run.
If the US wants to lose miners/nodes, large holders, and fintech innovation to other more free countries, they should take the view that you are sharing, but they will also lose the future in the process.
>Was the primary driver of the Tiananmen Square protest caused by the CIA?
You are saying that if a CIA regime change pattern is detected and the CIA doesn't publicly disclose its covert/overt operations (even as it does expected post-op cleanup), it probably didn't happen? Quite interesting to maintain a permanent state of denial when history says the opposite is more appropriate...
After looking at timeline of CIA destabilization operations (using NGOs, rebel groups, terrorists, etc...) around the world and the constant funding of protests and extremism in China/Tibet/HK... Anyone that can do elementary level pattern recognition can see this for what it is...
This regime change operation extends to the repeated HK protests (many participants are paid to attend) and Xinjiang extremism (participants funded, armed, and trained by the CIA and their partners in Turkey/Syria/Iraq).
>Do you seriously believe that the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were backed by the CIA?
Western intelligence generally rush to protect their assets, or at least they used to...
These regime change attempts have been ongoing for about a century, opium/heroin dealers/criminals and their western partners/suppliers didn't like getting shutdown by the Chinese government, primarily Mao.
When people ask, "Why is China a Surveillance State?", this is why...
I disagree, NATO countries (including Japan) have benefited from sabotaging/disrupting Chinese trade for more than a century. They know what they stand to gain by making China the "virus spreader/origin" of the world.
The Fauci emails in March 2020 that described the exact components of the virus with subject 'coronavirus bio-weapon production method' hints at the actual purpose of this release.
North Carolina lab was shipping covid around the world. Wouldn't be surprised if the lab in Fort Detrick was doing similar research.
You seem to assume a bio-weapon has to cause mass death to be effective and meet the deployer's objectives...you are wrong in the case of economic attacks.
>I do not believe that covid was intentionally designed and released as a bio weapon.
History says you are wrong to discount NATO countries (I include Japan as an unofficial member) using bio-weapons. They have a long history of deploying and supporting deployments of these kinds of weapons against military and economic foes.
This "Marketplace of ideas" is run by English speakers, in our case, and completely ignores the idea that we or our allies may have been involved in a biological attack on China. Very convenient, in my opinion, since history says NATO countries are the most likely to deploy biological weapons.
Related to the organization that faked "doubleblind" studies to get AZT approved by the FDA in the 1980s?