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TheCriticalAmerican t1_iwtqxdk wrote

How about we work together for the progress of all humanity rather than viewing each other as enemies? Technology should be available to everyone, not just a few based on geopolitical considerations. Humanity needs to move beyond our petty differences of political preferences and really come together. This is what Star Trek and all great Science Fiction was about: the best of humanity. Technology should be used to promote the best of humanity, not used as tool to promote out basis instincts of power and leverage over others.

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turnophrasetk421 t1_iwtrql5 wrote

Well china agreed that all people are created equal and have rights that can not be infringed, sure

No free citizen should do business with China, they have no voice in their government.

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NegativeCap1975 t1_iwtuxu4 wrote

>they have no voice in their government.

they don't?

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TheCriticalAmerican t1_iwtsg59 wrote

>No free citizen should do business with China, they have no voice in their government.

Isolating people is not how those we disagree with should be treated. It just futures an us-vs-them mentality. We should actively engage and work with people with disagree with and learn through cognitive empathy.

The inability for people to work with people they disagree with and instead focus on methods that exclude others is precisely why humanity can not progress beyond tribalism.

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nova9001 t1_iwtxwu3 wrote

>Isolating people is not how those we disagree with should be treated.

Sanctions on Iran, NK, Venezuela, Cuba and now Russia makes me feel like you don't understand how your own country operates.

>It just futures an us-vs-them mentality. We should actively engage and work with people with disagree with and learn through cognitive empathy.

UN just did a vote where every country outside of US & Israel wants sanctions on Cuba removed. When America actually acts on what they preach maybe someone will believe what you said.

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TheCriticalAmerican t1_iwtyauv wrote

You should look through my post history - I'm fairly Anti-American. America is among the most destabilizing and hegemonic powers out there. So, I think we agree here.

China, Cuba, Iran, NK, and more have stated a willingness to work with and engage the U.S. The U.S refuses for multiple reasons. While most of the world is embracing a multipolar and multilateral world, the US is clinging violently onto its hegemonic theology of American Exceptionalism to utterly destabilizing effects.

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nova9001 t1_iwtyser wrote

Indeed, I misunderstood your initial points. You were speaking from a personal point of view. I thought you were talking from an American POV.

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turnophrasetk421 t1_iwtufpb wrote

... yeah that didn't work so well with the Nazi or Communists now did it?

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TheCriticalAmerican t1_iwtulz7 wrote

There's a difference between trying to negotiate with The Borg vs. The Romulans. Try to equate China to Nazis and the Holocaust just shows exactly why there needs to be more engagement and people-to-people exchanges.

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fitzroy95 t1_iwtvzpk wrote

sadly, it also shows quite how toxic the propaganda and misinformation from the West has become.

Chain is a very long way from perfect, but it certainly isn't the soulless and evil monster that western media wants to portray it as

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Gold_Smart t1_iwtxpsb wrote

The Chinese have been in my country for 15 years and in those fifteen years ,we have high speed Internet, highways ,railways, hospital equipment, better armoured vehicles....in our 40 years of our reliance on the west what did we get except SAPs, ruthless dictators and Diplomats who infantilised our leaders. China is far from perfect but don't believe what the west says either. The difference between what American/Western officials speak and what the Russian officials speak is the accent.

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evorna t1_iwtwmmf wrote

Or Russia, north Korea and Iran, chinas best friends

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Lively000 t1_iwtww2c wrote

The earth needs to be united politically first. Even in Star Trek there was a horrible war before first contact with the Vulcans helped unite humanity. We still exist in the age of nationalism and don’t think of ourselves as humans first. Military Technology needs to be guarded until we can get everyone on the same page

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Fairuse t1_iwugr9t wrote

Man, we just need some brutal resource conquering aliens to come kick our ass a bit for humanity to realize "human rights" are just social construct that aren't free to maintain and that humanity to needs to be united (climate change is too abstract for average monkey brained human to bond over, which is why we need aliens).

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Lively000 t1_iwxi7vy wrote

Yeah definitely, its gotta be an obvious enemy that people can understand. Climate change is basically boiling a frog in water for us

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TheCriticalAmerican t1_iwuf1jm wrote

Spoken like a true sociopath: someone advocating for the murder of others based on misinformation and ignorance.

China is absolutely nothing like how you imagine. I highly recommend you visit here and see and experience China for yourself. It's an amazing place. If you do decide to visit, let me know.

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f4ern t1_iwufuro wrote

some people are beyond redemption. Much less a dictator who basically erasing an entire group of people from existence. I hope your children find this post and find out their ancestor are advocate for a genocidal maniac.

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TheCriticalAmerican t1_iwuhbu7 wrote

Again, I'm happen to travel to Xinjiang with you. I'm currently in Nanjing. If you do decide to make it over here, I have a relative going to college in Urumqi. You and me can travel there together and we can experience Xinjiang for ourselves.

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f4ern t1_iwur8yp wrote

why, are you the type who get off from watching people in prison camp. I bet you fantasizes about rubbing yourself in Auschwitz didn't you? sick fuck

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