Hmm yes what could be the difference between these two situations? It's real brain strain!
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Replying to @jackfruitstaken @HenryKrinkIe
Well one of them is a deliberate act of rapacity while another is a claim of mishandling of natural disaster but that's probably not the difference you have in mind
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Replying to @runclepennybags @HenryKrinkIe
One of them is ongoing and one happened over 100 years ago. Missing this simple point seems borderline disingenuous.
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Demanding reparations from China falls into the trap of attributing a natural disaster to intentional Chinese malice. I can only find proof of this malice from the outlets that also proved the government created adenochrome chemtrails to convince us all the earth isn't flat
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The charge is reckless negligence. If India did this we might understand but China has very granular control over its citizens. It can prevent them from trafficking bats after it causes lung AIDS the first time.
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Replying to @jackfruitstaken @chimponsey and
Or - and peep this - the second time. Not seeing a scathing rebuttal from China on the claim that bats and pangolins are once again on the menu!
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(said with an impish grin and forked tongue) Thats just their culture and you have to respect it
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Replying to @chimponsey @jackfruitstaken and
The slippery slope of litigious compensation demands against China for criminal negligence 1) presumes they will solemnly respect and answer to international law and 2) opens the US up to compensation claims from basically every country adjacent to the Middle East.
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Replying to @chimponsey
Nobody asked if anyone thought it would actually happen. I'd accept compensation in kind by their simply preventing a recurrence. Well, I haven't suffered much of an injury myself, but you get what I'm saying. I wouldn't get this upset about bird flu. It's a class thing.
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Replying to @jackfruitstaken
What's more likely is that we'll get exactly what we wished for - As soon as we all get back to buying 100% of our essential goods from them, China will go on an apology tour, splashing recovery cash around everywhere and destroying Western financial hegemony in the process
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Oh God yeah. In fact this very early on became an attempt to demonstrate the extent to which they're already there. The videos of people getting welded into their homes was bragging: we can do this because we understand the stakes and nothing stands in our way.
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Replying to @jackfruitstaken @chimponsey
To be fair they didn't release that, probably. But the underlying order was clear - by any means necessary. All western governments have pandemic protocols and extensive legal powers to enforce them, but they will not push the button until bodies start dropping.
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