• HobbitFoot
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    11 months ago

    China’s response is clearly better than what’s going on in Maui.

    In this one case, but there is also the 90 tonnes of steel AI Weiwei straightened after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.

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      11 months ago

      In this one case, but there is also the 90 tonnes of steel AI Weiwei straightened after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.

      In this one case

      But your own this one case makes Burgerland superior to the See See Pee because that’s different! congratulations

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          11 months ago

          I never said better.

          So you were doing some exhaustive and tiresome devil’s advocate nonsense and/or are trying to dial back your ridiculously bad original take where you presented a strong centralized government response as some sort of scary nanny state that only the weak yearn for, and that you have a knee-jerk reaction about. ok

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            11 months ago

            I never said a strong centralized government was bad, just that it wouldn’t be tolerated in the current political framework.

            You interpreted that as being bad.

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              11 months ago

              I never said

              You’re waffling and playing sophistic games that are not unlike billdawg and your political ideology seems to come from the same source.

              Checks out.

              You interpreted that as being bad.

              nicholson-yes

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                11 months ago

                Or maybe you just want someone to argue with.

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                  11 months ago

                  That’s rich coming from you, especially after your amerikkka-clap flag-humping session that started with this:

                  Or maybe you want a strongman who will protect you until they don’t.

                  The crumbling and neglected infrastructure and decaying social institutions of Freedomland are cool and good and no worse than the evil See See Pee because something something federalism and how that’s totally working out great promise guys for real guys morshupls

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                    11 months ago

                    I was mentioning it in the context of the USA. I’ve been bringing up Trump as an example of a person in charge of the federal government who didn’t respond to requests from states for aid. During COVID, the federal government denied assistance to states that were politically against Trump. Putting all disaster response in the hands of the federal government could cause a similar case to happen in the future.