Candid political opinions thread. One per like. Limit 100.
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Citizens of China are complicit in the actions of the CPP despite it not being a democracy
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Bougainville island deserves independence from Papua New Guinea because they wear great hats
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The Citizenship Amendment Bill in India is the most cynical political act of 2019
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China’s presence in Africa is not colonialism, and African nations know what they are doing in participating
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One Belt, One Road is a fragile initiative and will fail to meet Chinese objectives
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Gonna start numbering. 12. Aung San Suu Kyi’s career is proof that the Nobel Peace Prize is purely expedient virtue signaling by the West to bolster legitimacy of its shaky claim to global moral leadership. It should be shut down, and endowment returned as a dividend to Swedes.
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13. The correct response to all things GOP and Trump is “ok boomer”, obstruction, and running out their clock. They are beyond redemption.
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14. Flight 93/Michael Anton justification for supporting Trump is stupid and people who bought it were and are delusional
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17. Identity tribes are not meaningful units of natural selection and people who believe they are are dumb
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18. Gangsterism is a better basis for politics than purist ideology
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19. “People of color” is a terrible term and I refuse to use it
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20. The internet has been healthier for politics than TV and radio
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21. San Francisco is not worth fixing and should be allowed to suffer the consequences of being itself by being systematically abandoned
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22. High inequality is not a cosmically righteous outcome of enlightened market economics and innovation-fueled growth and people who believe that merely lack the theological imagination to worship something more interesting than financial wealth
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26. The Great Awokening has turned cancerous and should be abandoned
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27. Classical liberalism is a clueless position and people espousing it should be ignored and kept away from anything important
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28. The Electoral College is not a fundamental problem. Just a delaying ofvthe inevitable.
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30. Cat people make for better political leaders but dog people are more electable
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31. Singapore is a fun place to visit but a terrible model polity no matter what your ideology
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32. Political Islam is an overblown threat because it does 2x damage to itself in its territorial dar-al-islam core for every 1x damage it attempts to inflict on dar-al-harb, making it a self-limiting problem that will decline with the oil economy
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34. Anyone pretending to have more than 3 real political opinions is making shit up for lulz or delusionally self-important because politics is too hard to develop more than 3 real opinions in a lifetime
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