Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Sometimes Bad People™ (like Voldemort) do Good Things™ (like instituting long term broad-spectrum nationwide policies to raise the standard of living realtively equitably)
China is doing the long-con. They’re gonna help the whole world via global influence, only to turn around and help them transition from an exploitative system to a mutually beneficial, cooperative one. No wait, um. They’re going turn around and after helping over a billion people be more self-sustaining and collectively empowered, they’re gonna suddenly… start doing the opposite without changing anything about the existing power structure and the mechanisms in place that would make that next to impossible! turns out the lights Wooooo waves hands Chiiinaaa
things are more complicated than a children cartoon!
describes things as good vs evil
Gold medalist for Olympic mental gymnastics