Can’t the government just force these private companies to give them their data?

The UK is not part of the EU (European Union), although it is part of the content “Europe”.

He’s a molester, what makes you think this would be an issue for him?

How about the pedophile class stops discussing children?

Wasn’t rhetorical, was intended to ask for your reasoning in more specific terms.

Allow me to rephrase.

Do you think it is likely for voting to create a difference?

There is nothing constitutional about the US and how it operates anymore.

Do politicians still have your faith?

The direct statements I’ve made are directly against that. You’re arguing in bad faith if you’re going to put words in my mouth for me and insist I said what I didn’t.

I can have a discussion about the present without focusing on the past or future. Saying that it is metaphysics is a non-sequitur. Not everything has to be viewed historically.

What you’re doing is you’re using dialectical materialism as a veneer to deflect criticism here.

You’re saying that, why should I believe that’s actually the case?

Censorship is always done with some sort of “positive” narrative tied to it.

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I never said history was metaphysical or wasn’t something that progresses. As long as you keep reading things into my statements you’re going to keep responding to arguments I never made.

That’s not what I said. Under the veneer of censoring capitalism, you allow broader censorship.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t support China, I’m saying we should call it out for the BS that it does actually do, and not treat it like divinity beyond criticism. Every time I make any criticism of China, the responses are apologetic at best.

Those issues aren’t “invented”, but I won’t go over those points again.

I didn’t say it’s permanent. It’s common sense that everything is temporary. If you’re reading that into my statements, that’s on you.

Re: chauvanism and dogmatism. What was that thing you said earlier? Phrasemongering? Sounds like. I’ll add one: hypocrisy.

I don’t fucking care what you think lol.

I beg to differ.

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It passes in terms of what democracies are in practice but the political suppression, surveillance, and censorship that China is known for its anything but democratic.

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What are you even saying? Preventing independent journalism is oppressive towards the working class now? Censoring the media is oppressive towards the working class?

If my criticisms of your reasoning/facts appears as dogmatism to you, that is not my concern.