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Convolutional commented on The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen theverge.com/2023/6/16/23... · Posted by u/lewisflude
Convolutional commented on The concurrence of three climatic events climatecasino.net/2023/06... · Posted by u/xemoka
He forgot the 4th event - Social Contagion Resulting in Climate Sensationalism.
Can we please have a realistic discussion on climate change? I'm so sick of these "scientists" acting like we're in "Day After Tomorrow" and every normal weather event is suddenly a precursor to the Armageddon that'll take us all out in the next decade or less. You scientifically cannot look at individual weather events and determine they're climate change, that's pseudoscience.
People like this author only manage to turn rational individuals into deniers due to their over the top claims that never come true.
> every normal weather event
San Francisco and the PNW being covered by smoke every summer is not a normal weather event, and now it is starting on the East coast. The east and southeast is also being hit harder by hurricanes, and they are not stopping at the Gulf of Mexico any more. These are just the events people have been able to see in the US in past years and they're not normal and with ever-increasing carbon output it is undoubtedly going to get worse.
I'll take the entire northeast being covered in smoke as an "over the top" claim that just came true.
It's bizarre how the US attempted to block Cuba from getting the Internet, and still blocks Cuban Internet through many means ( https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/g... ), but the presentation is that the suppression of content is of Cuban origin.
It reminds me of when the US said Cubans were not allowed to leave Cuba, and the mental hospitals and prisons were filled with political prisoners. Castro announced anyone who wanted to leave Cuba, even those prisoners or mental patients, could go to Mariel harbor and leave if they wished. Suddenly the US did a turnabout and began demanding Castro stop letting Cubans leave Cuba, and too many were prisoners and mental patients, when the US suddenly discovered those were the inhabitants of Cuba's prisons and mental hospitals.
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Convolutional commented on Army tested 'germ warfare' on NYC subway (2015) businessinsider.com/biolo... · Posted by u/hypatiasrevenge
Horrific, yet sadly not the only time the US government has used bio weapons on their own population.
The most well known examples are MKUltra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
And the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
If you want to look at something slightly more speculative, I recommend Dr. Mary's Monkey: https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Marys-Monkey-Cancer-Causing-Assass...
It talks about how the CIA worked with Dr. Mary Sherman and Dr. Alton Ochsner to develop a cancer causing bio-weapon intended to give Castro cancer, but ultimately became part of the plot to assassinate JFK when that fell through.
Regarding MKUltra - the only reason we know what we know about it, after the CIA director directed in 1973 that all documents on it be destroyed, is that some of the MKUltra documents were mislabeled and not destroyed. They were discovered in a 1977 FOIA request.
Convolutional commented on Ex-ByteDance exec: Communist Party had ‘God credential’ businessinsider.com/commu... · Posted by u/thunderbong
So? Just because it overlapped in time doesn't mean the US played a role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Barrier_Forts
> Sailing off the Chinese coast, USS Portsmouth and USS Levant had received news of the beginning of the Second Opium War. The two sloops-of-war were tasked with protecting American lives by landing a 150-man detachment of marines and sailors in Canton.
Aha, so during the Opium Wars, in this battle, the US invaded China, killing hundreds of Chinese soldiers and capturing four forts, but you have some definition in your mind where "the opium wars didn't involve the US". The Chinese have a different opinion.
Also, "the US invaded the country to protect Americans there" is one of the oldest excuses for an invasion in the book. Just thinking of the Caribbean in the span of a few years, it was the stated reason for the US invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, and then Grenada in 1983 (the latter following days after the US invasion of Lebanon).
Also this was just one battle in the Opium Wars. The US fought alongside the English in the Battle of Taku Forts, as well as other skirmishes.
Convolutional commented on Ex-ByteDance exec: Communist Party had ‘God credential’ businessinsider.com/commu... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Can you explain how Snowden or Assange are mistreated against our standards of human rights? Snowden hasn't been in the US and is in Russia for years, and when he was in the US, he was never treated wrongly. And Assange hid out in an embassy to dodge charges. If you break the law, get people killed, push propaganda from Russia, you're going to have to face a Jury of your peers. Unlike China where you just get disappeared, we have a court system where you can get a trial by jury.
> face a Jury of your peers
Like the Arab nationalists being waterboarded in Guantanamo Bay?
Although some of them the US realized it picked up the wrong guy and released them.
Incidentally, Guaantanamo Bay is occupied by the US military against the wishes of Cuba.