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  • plyth@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePraise the rule!
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    10 hours ago

    You seem to already have half of it. Dschingis Khan has fought slavery and given the debate about nuclear bombs, used violence wisely.

    Pol Pot, I don’t know if there is a reason to justify the killings.

    Stalin, you can either go the way of his education, which means that his cruelty is rooted in a Christian upbringing. Or you could look at the disclosed CIA Stalin memo that reveals that most of his image is western propaganda. Or you could look at the decline after him and realize that whatever he did (or at least most of it) was necessary given the circumstances.





  • This sounds impressive without anything that is existential for China. All commodities can be replaced if China pays a small premium for nonwestern sources while the rest of the world buys from western sources.

    Airplane parts are inconvenient but China is starting to build their own aircrafts. If sanctions start, they will be able to create knockoffs for all necessary spare parts. But they also have a highspeed rail network, so they won’t be worried too much.

    At this point in development, pressuring China will only accellerate the full independence of China. It would be Huawei on a national scale.

    The dangerous part is that many former colonies won’t side with their former masters if they get the opportunity to break free.





  • plyth@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePraise the rule!
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    It makes sense if she means to diss people with tattoos.

    She says “can turn” in comparison to “doesn’t”. That comparison is not balanced.

    I thought this was a quote.

    As an observation, it is literally right. There is ‘Christian’ as a path of spiriitual growth and ‘Christian’ as a gang. That golden cross is a gang symbol and works as such. Spiritually it would be wooden. Golden, it shows membership of the Christian gang.

    Tattoos work in the same way. Japanese know and treat them accordingly. At the very least tattoos of normal people make gang membership less despicable. If everybody marks themselves as non-normal, society changes.

    This is not an argument against tattoos. They are just more than a fashion symbol, while those can already be spiritually influential, as many women on diets can attest.