I already read the article. I basically stand by my comment. Also are you seriously calling me a tankie for pushing back against a piece of obvious sinophobic fearmongering? Because I’m an anarchist, not a tankie 🏴🏴🏴

Damn bro hook me up with your acid supplier, mine is obviously far weaker.

I gotchu covered bro

The only thing in this article that even remotely contradicts my summary is

He said he said (sic lmao) seen “the full spectrum” of approaches – from cyber-attacks to “people who are infiltrated into programmes, get the information and bring it back”.

which yeah, I’m sure a nation-state like China is doing cyber-attacks on our institutions as all the big nation-states do, and no nation-states should be doing that (or just existing at all 🏴🏴🏴), but like…all your scientific artifacts should be available to the public regardless of nationality anyways, i.e. academics have no business keeping secrets. So unless they’re going and making life Hell for researchers, I really don’t give a fuck if China’s national security apparatus is antagonizing USA’s national security apparatus because I see any national security apparatus as enemies of humanity.

Otherwise, the article is just sinophobic fearmongering about Chinese people gaining knowledge at scale.

Wait wut? This article wants me to be upset at Chinese students for *checks notes* going to school at our universities and applying the knowledge they fairly learned in their home countries? And I’m supposed to consider this “stealing technical knowledge”??

Why stop at one when you could stop at just zero and not use a compass?

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Put the lead back in next!

I give it under a year.

Healing is a right, not a privilege

Every AmeriKKKan politician and millions of brainwashed USians:

Never because the capitalists don’t have to play by their own rules

E. Never.

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The power of Bogatin compels you!

It’s almost beautiful how terrible of an opinion this is 🖕😆🖕

The working class

Only if he gives up his power and privilege permanently

I am crazy but the only help I need is the abolition of all forms of domination and hierarchy

Richest country on the fucking planet yet we can’t won’t pay ATC 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

And people wonder why I don’t go outside

Well I don’t literally agree, but that’s a more relatable perspective 😆

Depends on what’s outside. Is it a five-hundred foot drop? Would I rather burn to death or die on the pavement?

I’m saying it’s just not bad enough yet.

Yeah it’s not bad enough yet for me. I’m openly saying it. And that doesn’t make me morally inferior or worthy of your scorn.

I think you would have a better chance getting on a plane

Stowaways using die after takeoff. Only since literally yesterday have I ever had enough spare money to buy a plane ticket. At this point, I’m probably gonna try and do a semester abroad (or ideally forever), but no guarantees 🤞.

or swimming across the ocean

Absolutely zero chance I would make it to the other side of the Atlantic. A more realistic option is swimming across one of the rivers or sneaking through the Canadian border. Which…

in order to establish a life as an illegal alien in another country…

Yeah almost every other country treats undocumented migrants like shit because every country has xenophobic bigots and every government serves its local capitalists, so not much of an improvement.

What it really breaks down to is that people who live in Tennessee do not feel the risk of spending 30 days in jail for posting something disagreeable on the Internet is enough reason to leave Tennessee.

Yes exactly! Emphasis on risk, i.e. we assume a probability distribution and roll the dice. IMO the alternatives you proposed have less favorable distributions for me than remaining here, but I recognize that (1) everyone has their own situation and (2) humans are trash at assigning probabilities so I could be wrong. But you’re not morally superior (or inferior) for choosing not to roll that specific dice.

Like I’ve been looking to leave this country for over 15 years. I absolutely HATE Amerikkka and everything it stands for, and I have hated Amerikkka since long before Trump. If I could have left, I would have left. So I beg you to understand that just because I remain here doesn’t mean I approve of even the tiniest sliver of what this country does to us and the rest of the world.