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I know the name Candace Owens only because I've heard several right-wing podcasters suggest that she's a crazy person and they're somehow embarrassed to be aligned with her in some sense.

The rockets were a distraction. They killed 12 people, most of them Bedouins.

The real attacks (including the rave massacre) were done by operatives, boots on the ground, using small arms fire.

They probably couldn't imagine such a thing to make it a sin. Evidence: because they totally would have.

Wealth inequality is worse in the US than in China.

Could be, that data for wealth isn't easily available for both countries.

Income inequality is about the same in USA and China though, Gini coefficient around 0.41 in both countries. Most figures put China slightly more inequal than USA for income.

Dealing with surplus humans has never been a problem for communist countries. Just stop allocating them food for 2 months.

Not sure if China is that sort of a communist country these days though, but it sure retained the authoritarian parts.

What sound does one hand clapping make?

I cannot speak for anyone else, but a year ago I thought that I'd never buy a chinese laptop due to political reasons and here we are one year later and I have a Lenovo. I think most people will eventually make their decisions based on something else than politics, or that politics are in issue only when choosing between things that are identical enough in every other way.

Given the amount of publicity they've received from all this, I'm inclined to be a bit conspiracy theoretic about this.... Did they plan it to unfold exactly like it did? Are you all helping them?

Controversy and infamy lasts for a few months, but after that's over, the name Framework is still etched into everyone's minds even though they don't anymore exactly remember why.

I've had a pretty bad and long relationship at one point in my life, I'm not exactly a young man anymore, and I still don't understand why the fuck anyone would think this shit is even remotely funny.

what is “CoC?”

Code of Conduct, a set of instructions describing how people contributing to a project are expected to behave. It usually says "don't be an asshole" but some go deep into specifics what they mean by that.