420blazeit69
joined 4 years ago
here--not voting for Biden ensures that Trump wins
Too late -- I didn't vote for Trump so Biden wins
Yeah the thought process goes:
- If you work hard, you'll succeed.
- Billionaires must have worked hard to become billionaires.
- Poor people must be lazy because if they worked hard they wouldn't be poor.
- Give a hard worker a billion dollars and they'll keep working, because they're a hard worker.
- Give a lazy person basic needs and why would they work again? They're lazy.
Yeah, it kind of makes sense if magic is rare, difficult to obtain, but not entirely foreign. Basically a luxury good.
To use an example luxury good, we all know what a private jet is. We couldn't build one or buy one, but we know there are people who can. It'd be cool to be in one but not some unimaginable experience.
This is a good point, but the space created there can be used to educate people on a subject they'd otherwise tune out. I don't care (to an extent) why people are suddenly willing to oppose colonialism; once they're actually engaging in that conversation there's potential for them to change their mind in a way that will stick.
Nazis will try to shut down your freedom to speak while protesting that they are being silenced. Then when they take power they'll just shoot you.
You don't disagree with your government; you didn't know what your government's position was until right now.
You still don't really know what your government's position is, otherwise you'd understand that here, as in many cases, there's an official stance for diplomatic relations and then a bunch of propaganda (for both domestic and foreign consumption) that undermines that official stance.
How about firsthand testimony that can be corroborated. If you've ever been in court for anything, it's standard to not simply take whatever story you hear at face value.
So point to a story you're saying is true, then show how it can be corroborated (by video? by documentation?). Show how there is no realiatic alternate explanation. Explain how your corroborated story amounts to genocide, and isn't just a story about someone being arrested, for instance.
There totally aren't actual Uyghurs who have told their own stories or anything like that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
Just because someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Do you think cops ever lie when they testify?
99% of the time, calling someone a genocide denier is just burden shifting. Genocide is a crime; you have to prove it happened, you can't simply assert it did and then smear anyone who asks for evidence.
We have spy satellites that can read a license plates and genocides, by their very nature, leave a lot of evidence. If there were a genocide in Xinjiang we'd have what we see in Palestine: tons of documentation in a wide variety of news outlets about crimes against civilians and actions like UN officials resigning in protest.