Chomsky

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I'm Canadian and it sounds roughly similar to Quebec. Everyone always complains that they are sort of bribed to stay in Canada. Really they just know how to do politics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

It's not really a black and white issue because you can have greater autonomy while staying a part of China. From what I can understand, some degree of regional autonomy was basically baked into the system when it was realized fairly early on that China was way too big and complex to be effectively centrally planned, and that a degree of regional autonomy was essential. I think it is only natural that these regions should agitate for a greater degree of regional autonomy, but if they break completely from China then they only leave themselves open to exploitation by other imperialist forces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (4 children)

I have a feeling that even the Tibet and East Turkestan separatist movements are exaggerated. Certainly they are no more serious than the Catalan independence movement that was quite brutally crushed with hardly a side note in the media. For the rest of China, I don't even think it is on the radar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I just commented on this tweet that a nice man in Naxalbari told me the same thing.

I studied Yoga in India and this guy David Frawley, who I think is an American who got super into advaita vendanta, did a satsang for us. After I got back I innocently decided to follow him on Twitter and that shit is fucking wild. It ranges from just outright neo Nazi stuff to unhinged neoliberal wet dreams to total bizzaro world reglious... Idk what to call it, but let's just say it makes the American christian right look easy mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

"Then they came for the semi-fuedal landlords, but I did not speak out because I was not a semi-fuedal landlord."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (2 children)

"First they came for the small business owners, but I did not speak out because I was not a small business owner."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Humans are a canker sore on the ass of the world. If they saber tooth tigers had just eaten them the world would have been spared, but they didn't and now the world is full of people who won't shut up about Harry Potter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Thanks for clarification.

For reference I am from Ontario and I by no means think Quebec is more racist than ontario.

If there were some kind of Anglo seperatist movement it would just be beyond atrocious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Oh and as for religious symbols, they have been gojng down a similar road to France. Headscarves are banned in public buildings I believe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (2 children)

This isn't really an argument. You could literally just this logic to apply to anything more lib than you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (5 children)

I've read it before. It's a bit right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

He designed some of the software at the heart of open source software. Most notably GCC, which is a compiler for code. A compiler takes code from human readable form into a form usable by the computer. This is required by languages like C++, but not languages like python or JavaScript. He was also largely responsible for Emacs, which is the only piece of software a computer needs in addition to a browser. Although some computers, like mine, require proprietary software like Minecraft as well.

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