I don't write this because I love my country (although I do, in spite of everything) or because I think the American order is absolutely wonderful. Rather, I write it because the alternative world is very, very bad.
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I have great affection for the people of China (see below) but the Chinese State is an eldritch monstrosity. It is a case study in how bad life in a totalitarian state can be in the Information Age. And they are extending their mode of operation abroad.https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/989148696293003264?s=19 …
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I just want to grab our Statesmen and their foreign counterparts and citizens everywhere by the lapels and slap them to consciousness of the fact that THEY COULD LOSE. Good things are not all maintained by magic! American supremacy is not preordained! History is not over!
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And even if you dislike American power internationally--a perfectly reasonable position that, frankly, I share--you have to reckon with the fact the the alternative is not youe ideal world but a counterfactual where the vacuum is filled by China.
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Absent a liberal revolution in China, this seems likely to be the story of the next fifty years of history. Good luck to everyone.
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incidentally it's not just the corporations china has been kidnapping people from abroad for years and not just in Hong Kong few discuss this https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/29/the-disappeared-china-renditions-kidnapping/ …
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John RobbVerified account @johnrobb"The organs of members of marginalized groups detained in Chinese prison camps are being forcefully harvested — sometimes when patients are still alive, an international tribunal sitting in London has concluded." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646 …Show this thread3 replies 1 retweet 22 likesShow this thread -
think I need to break from this for a while I don't usually get worked up like this--the last time was probably Snowden not super good for me there's something about--idk, feeling walls closing in on the space in which people can act that is absolutely maddening ig
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eigenrobot Retweeted ☉rthonormalist
anyway wisdom from
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Thank you for the informative thread
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hey, my . . . usually I would say pleasure but this felt more like compulsion :)
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