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@PREZ-HILTON
It's got to be hard for America to get spies implanted in China since they will definitely be executed without a trial for even a hint of suspicion.
Not exactly.
Only the most severe ones will get the death penalty, which may include those at the national inspection agencies for the arts, etc. However, that is far from the only kind of spies the US aids.
One group from the US helps a group of "liberal" Taiwanese internet users to attack China's media, social platforms, etc. They aren't as high level as those in Textbook design, University council, national quality control, so they aren't fit for the death penalty just yet. However, one must watch out.
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@zedvictor4
As technology progresses, there will be less and less crewmen. Maybe even less cannon fodder. Machines will be better soldiers than men if hacking is prevented by encryption from the Pentagon's top secret or something.
However, mechanics will probably remain a job until machines develop self-repair(which in that case will be closer to man-AI warfare than China-US friction). Surely, I think they would feel lonely.
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@Best.Korea
Well, what I am expressing was not the majority. However, the existence of merely one bad apple poisons the basket. And the emergence of any bad apple is very easy. That is what is hard.
Technically, most local governments are good, however, corruption is still an extremely urgent problem because it exists.
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I would rather this site be like 2B2T. There should be absolutely no protections for new users. The best way for the new users to grow is to grow their own pair, not having the site do half the work. That is how I did.
Sure, if the main goal is just to attract people in and let them stay, sure, but beware that people, including possibly me, try less hard on unrated debates, even conceding as the easy way instead of using the big ol' brain to think a way out. Voters are less likely to vote on unrated ones because why do they matter?
The new rule on that the first 5 debates one created are unrated is lame and made the site less cool, honestly. It is basically taking out the competitive fun. What if some new mastermind defeats Whiteflame on his first try as the instigator? He gains nothing quantitatively?
New users learn from their past losses, that is how they grow a pair. If their past losses don't even matter even qualitatively on any measure, why keep participating in it? If I joined the site in 2023 instead of 2020 and I saw this rule, I just may give up debating the hobby.
Though, something I do support is putting a concession button that requires one to confirm it at least twice(like the confirmation on "Are you going to post your argument" or something), and the debate ends. There should probably be a mutually agreed tie option of the same class, except confirmation from both parties is needed for the debate to end with no change in rating. New debaters who instigate and then FF deserved everything the loss of points, because obviously they didn't win nor tie if the other guy worked on it.
And once again, bring back the search bar.
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@Best.Korea
"to value achievements the most" would be one such instruction.Keeping local governments in order is necessary, as it is neccesary to replace them if they consistently fail.
There are numerous ways for those to "seem" good leaders on every statistics even when everyone knows they are greedy exploiters. One popular form is to exploit the workers and even the volunteers to make the city seem more productive, cleaner, etc. than they could handle. The hopeless part is that they can't check on every single day on every single city, and revise the rules for every inadequate part.
What is even more hopeless, is that sometimes the guy knows how to give a toast the best is often chosen by the last guy who gave the best toast speech towards the guy before him, etc., inducing such behavior and in the result, the position holder knows even less jack shit about how to run a city than before somehow. That is the main flaw created. Local governors and mayors are each day more disconnected from his people, it is almost like the old capitalist days again. The rich monopolize the position, making the position less reputable and more and more associated with the greedy upperclassmen. The commons, the intellectuals, would rather work as a science researcher in the University labs than to be an official. It gets worse until significant reforms on both the positions themselves and education succeeds.
You know what is even more even more hopeless? Sometimes a good guy steps in the position, and the opposition bonds with the large corps, the foundations, the capitalists, to eventually let him step down, replaced with a guy who'd allow the capitalists to exploit the workers and to pollute the atmosphere. A tiny dose of capitalism splashes within an organized society of billions, and this is what happens.
I am not hopeless, am I? Maybe on the present, not on the future. Surely they will fix this sooner or later, the sooner the better.
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@Best.Korea
Well, that just means better regulation could be necessary at the local level. Something like that is difficult to regulate, but I think it could be done with the law/instructions to the local governments.
Dunno if it would work.
Some of the regional heads are cooperating with local gangs. In fact, Anti-corruption TV series are less likely to get a pass on the TV channel than a normal one say, depicting love, because it tempered with their selfish profits.
If it is going to work, it is going to take a lot more than what you think is "hard".
Xi is not at fault, it is just some at the regional level and even at inspecting agencies at a national level(especially on art works) really are terrible people(some of them are not only greedy, they are western spies). If they bring me to the police station for saying this, it is probably I am right.
Everyone knows this pretty much, Unfortunately, I don't know how to reform from the status quo. That said, defending the status quo is not patriotism, at least not necessarily. Real patriotism promotes growth. If at 1911 I a chinese still speak for the Qing Dynasty even knowing how wobbly and corrupt and fragile it is, it is not patriotism for the Chinese, it is arrogance.
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@RationalMadman
Have you been to China ever and see how we live? No?
If not, I think shutting up is the better choice.
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@PREZ-HILTON
The concern is that the countries industrialization is stuck in the early 20th century instead of being modern.
What?
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@zedvictor4
Ships are big easy targets these days.
Not if they can make you the big easy target due to technology. Nowadays, shooting down a carrier is near impossible given the amount of defense.
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@TWS1405_2
Well, if China takes over the world or destroys in by 2049...I'm good with it. I'll be almost 80 by then. I'll just go out in a blaze of glory, taking a few CCP soldiers out with me.
That will only happen if America pissed off the rest of the world, including its buddies, such as UK, Japan, etc... I mean, look at what happened to Gaddafi.
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Priests Rape Boys
That is right, somehow people managed to cite a fact into a hate slogan.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Why are they failing so hard at number 9?
Because there are a lot of poor people, and just a lot of people in general. It is not Denmark or Belgium or the Netherlands where the population is low, the infrastructure is dense, and quick switching is viable.
No, no. If they just switch to "renewables" that quick, millions will starve to death because we would have needed 100x the resources to just built them. And you will have another angle for criticism for that they shouldn't have rushed.
But yes, we are trying. I am not, but my country is.
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That said, loving a country does not mean always promoting the status quo, otherwise we would still be in poverty. Hope this changes. I believe the refutation to any "invalid criticism of the country" is just refutation, induction, etc. to prove why this view is wrong, not being reprimanded. That will just make them an actual reason to criticize.
The problem with the system is not that the system is wrong, it is ok when done as intended(For example, Xi himself), but there are just too many people who is exploiting it selfishly that it became an impression.
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@Best.Korea
Over all, it feels like he is trying to develop heavily regulated capitalism, which at that point becomes "much less capitalism" and much more "government regulated market".
You are not far off. Of course, this is what happens when you plug in market capitalism as a keystone part of the brand new socialist ideology. But of course, a lot of stuff are still monopolized by government-regulated firms, such as Sinopec(producing oil), various construction companies, construction equipment producers, steel producers, railroads, space exploration equipment, etc. Pretty much all the large science research and application are governmentally-owned firms.
Then again, because the sheer amount of people, everything becomes 10x harder in China, and authority is usually involved and needed. So, American liberals who has never set foot on foreign soil has weightless on the topic.
Though, with exactly this, corruption is a huge problem. Nowadays, regional agencies' deputy heads are more likely to be the "fun guy at the parties" than an actual mastermind or scientist. There is a running joke here where "Stephen Hawking wouldn't be granted the head of a project because at meetings, he wouldn't be able to toast naturally". That is what happens when you incorporate even the teeniest tiniest dose of capitalism in, people get greedy and want money and are way too selfish to be optimally productive.
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Maybe they are right. Ignorance is strength.
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@TWS1405_2
What exactly is common knowledge? To rocket scientists, many astronomical equations would come off them as "common knowledge". To Michelin Star chefs, how to debone all kinds of fish is also common knowledge. To a US court judge, the constitution is common knowledge.
What isn't?
Think about it: Why do we even need to cite sources in the first place? Is it to accomodate stupid people? Is it for the paper to look more paper-like or something? Or is it something else?
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@TheUnderdog
China censors and they are communist.
Wrong, China is not communist as of yet, they just blended market economy within socialism.
The USSR didn’t censor nearly as much, so they ended their communism.
That is not the reason. The USSR collapsed due to multiple other reasons due to Western spies, corruption, etc. Lack of censorship isn't the main reason even it is for some reason one.
No human can be objective, including myself. We all have our own biases.
If you are expected to post this on a public net without considering how right the claims are, expect people to doubt you when they spot a flaw in your claims.
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@TWS1405_2
No, you can just mention what we believe, that is being discovered by Washington University. Just what we believe.
What you did was mention that Washington University did a study, then did not actually present the source until the next post you made.
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@TheUnderdog
Communism is a terrible ideology that relies on massive government theft and censorship.
This tells me something, either that you know not even jack shit about communism, or you are looking at it with a colored lense, possibly yellow or blue.
So how should I expect your commentary on conservatives and even democrats objective?
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@TWS1405_2
Well, that's better. Thank you.
Since you are so lazy, like Double_R, here you go:
By that standard, you could call the peers who reviews your paper which has no citations of papers even upon existing conclusions made by prior papers "lazy", because they could have just searched the paper up using Scihub or Cnki or Ieee or something. Still, we cite sources, even on arguments of this very site.
I guess if this site lacks the ability to hyperlink sources, then your concerns would be justified. However, I believe hyperlink citation is possible since 2018 on Debateart.com, if I am not mistaken.
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@TWS1405_2
- A Washington State University study has conclusively shown that law enforcement are less likely to pull the trigger on a black suspect than any other race.
Unlike the source at criticism which may include somewhat biased sources, you gave none when there is supposed to be one.
Where is it?
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Dying. That is an option.
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@TheUnderdog
Then don't. You can always join the Communist party after all.
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@PREZ-HILTON
You are not prepared to be in a relationship if you think this is true.
The more surprising thing is that you are in or know anything about any relationships.
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Default profile icons have changed from symmetrical from the centre to symmetrical to the central vertical axis. Wonder if that is on purpose.
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will update later... or not.
That’s the best one yet. I am for updating later.
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Well, for older people, again, we all know: their immune system has already been worn, so Covid, along with pretty any other form of contagious disease, is just a catalyst for their ultimate death and they are going to die anyways.
For younger generations such as myself here, at this point, not even the thickest American variant is going to kill me pretty much. But again, I have considerably important stuff to do in the upcoming months, so precautions it is.
Do y'all Americans still wear masks to this day, other than explicitly medical or industrial purposes?
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I ate a burger yesterday.
Good history.
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@DebateArt.com
You removed the search bar and removed the "debates" option from the dropbar from the profile icon. Now accessing your own debates becomes harder.
I suggest that we add back the search bar at least.
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"I am not a Doctor, but I am qualified to protect you."
This includes the entire military, police force, all kinds of securities, even bodyguards.
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Having something illegal and welcome defeats the purpose. If anything, this is just a loosening on the consensus immigration policy opinion.
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@ebuc
Finally you made a topic with an opening post that we can understand. Thank you too.
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Just realized that in the 2 1/2 years of me being here, I never actually introduced myself in this thread. I believe my first post on this thread is "Bump post to attract new users" or something.
Dunno if y'all need a make up for it, but my profile picture is clickable.
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@Tejretics
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"(please debate the exact wording that I provide!)"by using topics that have actually been used in debate tournaments in a range of formats (PF, LD, and Parli) around the world
Yeah, that is what got me in.
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@TheUnderdog
I think Trannie, Retarted, Ni**er, Ni**a, and Fa**ot are all deragatory. But using them should be allowed under the first amendment. DART’s moderation should not censor these words as they are only words.
Correct. But the one using these derogatory terms should not be protected from complaints for them using it, because of course they are bad words, expect people to react like they are.
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@Sidewalker
if farm animals count, Wylted.
Animal Farm, huh? We really do live in an "equal" society. Really do live in an "equal" society.
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@cristo71
Well, the criminal is wrong. Regardless of who it is. Based on the current moral system our society adopts.
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@cristo71
No, but anyone that is not mentally disabled doing exactly this should receive severe punishment regardless of the skin color.
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@TheUnderdog
Both are free speech. I think, though I wouldn't support either.
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@Reece101
I have searched up a few. Eh...
I believe you have used the correct set of terminology, that "muslims" are defending him, not "Islam". I believe that he is trying to fit into the Muslim Community as he thinks it is, which is not entirely the same with "Following Allah's virtues".
Then we have a Christian on this site who embraces Jesus as a serial killer and thinks discrimination as long as mentioned in the bible is just, even going out a way to create a thread to spread ableism. I mean, what do we know?
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Can I get the source that says Muslims actually defend Andrew Tate? Because without them, I don't believe it.
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Neither was this a representative black man, nor was that a representative white man. No one of any race would be proud that this happened.
Keep stripping the justice and law enforcement systems of racism and stop polarizing this in terms of race. Crime is crime regardless of who is doing it.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Sounds like Amazon
Reasonable.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Yes. He made people work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week in his company. He made some people richer but made more people impoverished, so the inequality gap widened.
Hope his companies actually violate something visibly and exposed so we can finally shut them down, at least with how they are being ran.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Capitalism. His app is still eating away people's pockets. The CCP is still allowing it. You happy?
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@Greyparrot
Yes, capitalism. As long as "they" don't want me to accept it, similar things have happened in China too since they enabled a freer market. Even Jack Ma turned against the commons. Capitalism.
But at least the highest ranks of Chinese are trying to battle against them.
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@Greyparrot
Well in all seriousness, the two main parties seem more like gangs in suits as time passes forwards.
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@PREZ-HILTON
This just in, my wife gave me a blowjob and improved an American citizens life. Why did Biden not do this?
If Biden did a blowjob on you, not only would that NOT improve your life intrinsically, it would add to his record of assault and harassment.
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