GarbageShoot

"Karl Marx and his book"

If you think this situation is like what Canada did to its indigenous population, you're projecting. Beyond that, trying to have it both ways with "Mao apologist" and "Daddy Xi" just goes to further demonstrate you don't really have anything to say but that you think you're superior.

As an aside, it's hilarious that you depict Mao as somehow antithetical to "taking people from their communities". He cared about community and wanted to foster it, but he also believed and put into practice that people sometimes had to be at least temporarily transplanted to new environments, all the way from the mass-rehabilitation of opiate addicts at the end of the Civil War to the education-by-labor of the Cultural Revolution. Like in those cases, the Uighur people interned here are not being permanently separated from their families or communities, but receiving education and training so that when they return, they have more options immediately available to them besides joining theofascist militants.

Go on

I don't understand how you can know enough to ask this question without understanding that most anglophone-internet incels are so racist they make the Klan look like a HOA.

There is only so many times you can start a new proxy war to distract from the other proxy wars going poorly.

It's a heuristic thing. Denser objects are often* heavier, but it's the density and not the weight that may make them fall faster (not accounting for how aerodynamic a given object is). It can produce incorrect judgements, especially if they attempt to articulate their intuitive knowledge as some precise-yet-abstract law, but in practical circumstances their intuitive knowledge produces the expected result the vast majority of the time, so pragmatically it's reasonable to call it correct.

*Certainly their weight is more noticeable, as is the lack of weight of less-dense objects, so perhaps this is the real source of the skew, a type of selection bias.

Marxism is the ruthless criticism of all that exists. Plagiarism isn't bad for academic reasons, but because it exploits the labor of vulnerable people and is a basis for spreading misinformation.

Brexit was stupid, but I think this sort of thing is unhelpful and masturbatory.

I'm trying to articulate what is arguably an even softer point politically because it to me is a stronger indictment: He could remain a full-on content mill that is just profiting off of other people's work, but give them proper credit! He'd lose some of his personal mystique, but he'd still make a lot of money while still being incredibly lazy but without fucking those other authors over!

That's just question-begging

I don't think they are independent. Most people believe that the sky is blue when the sun is high and objects fall to the ground if they aren't propelled or lighter than air. It is not an accident that they believe correct things, it is from experience and education. Most people have a huge amount of correct information that is held in common in their society along with the myths and superstitions and misconceptions, while that latter category [false beliefs held in common] are usually but not always things that fall outside of their experience.

I think Odyssey sucks but I need to give Wonder credit for at least being engaging with its zaniness even if it isn't truly "innovative". Games need more whimsy.