"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
Recently, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other American Internet giants have participated directly in the social storm that has engulfed the Middle East. They have played a key role in manufacturing social disorder, serving a role entirely inappropriate to their status. Wael Ghonim, Google's chief representative in the Middle Eastern and North African markets even rendered assistance to Mohamed ElBaradei in driving forward the anti-government movement in Egypt, becoming the chief agent behind Egyptian demonstrations. The facts have shown that Google is not purely a company, that it seeks not only to make the money of other nations, but also meddles in the political affairs of other countries. It is not just a search engine tool - it is a tool to extend American hegemony.
In the Internet age, whoever dominates the Internet dominates the world. As the world's leading hegemonic power, America has always prioritized the Internet and sought to use the Internet as a means of promoting America's national interests around the world. Google has been very cooperative with this strategic motive of the United States government, and its cooperation has been active.
The enterprise with the world's highest online traffic, Google monopolizes the online search engine markets for the vast majority of nations and regions in the world, and it has the capacity to dominate online information, widely propagate lies and influence the information climate. When a number of countries in the Middle East experienced signs of instability due to inflation and other problems, Google immediately went on the offensive, even allowing a senior company manager to directly establish the online general headquarters of the anti-government movement, fostering successive protest movements and nakedly interfering with the internal politics of other nations. These actions of Google's are astonishing, and they lead people naturally to recall the British East India Company.
In the colonial era, the British East India Company used the monopolization of trade in the colonies to traffic opium and assist Britain in building its hegemony. In the Internet era, Google uses its monopoly of Internet information search to promote American values and assist America in building its hegemony.
At its heart, Google is quite similar to the British East India Company. But in managing its outward appearance it is far more skillful than the British East India Company ever was. Google does not burn, kill and pillage, but rather is a master of disguises. Against the modus operandi of the British East India Company, which was to "carry out trade when necessary and plunder when possible," Google's slogan is far more bewitching: "Do no evil." The problem is that no company on earth "does evil" as a matter of creed, and it is a bit hypocritical for Google to say it "does no evil." The facts show that this "Do no evil" is actually an admission of guilt through a protestation of innocence.
This company that claims to "do no evil" has cooperated with America's National Security Agency to monitor the private information of American citizens. It has been taken to court by publishing companies in France, Germany, Belgium and many countries for violations of copyright. It has been compelled by China and other countries to clean up its act because it disseminates pornographic content. And most recently it has also openly released subversive information, fomenting unrest in other countries. Before the facts, Google's creed of "Do no evil" is like a joke. Is it any wonder that Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said that Google's "Do no evil" creed was complete nonsense?
Oh, is THAT why you always show up to my posts? WTF dude, quit cyberstalking. I know what I'm saying, if it's "staggeringly inane" to your viewpoint then it certainly makes sense to a diverse viewpoint. Watch the next post I'm going to make about Google. It's entirely valid, fact-based, believed by billions, and will make people's heads explode because it represents a point of view their tiny minds have never thought about.
Jeez. Just look at this journalist. He reports an explosion at a power plant, and rushes to assure his audience that it wasn't a nuclear blast. I'm just speechless. It is utterly and completely impossible for a nuclear power plant to explode like a nuclear bomb, but this guy evidently has no idea. "NPR's Jon Hamilton tells us was NOT a nuclear explosion." Thanks, moron. Nuclear plant trouble is scary enough without intentionally lying to the public.
The smart people say that socialist economies are the worst - where recycling exists, this is entirely untrue! Due to the poverty, recycling is a very profitable enterprise. China has one of the world's best recycling rates, and the reason is due to the huge number of people who recycle.
Unfortunately, Chinese don't recycle because of belief in socialism, they recycle because of the profit motive.:( Ideally, belief in cooperative management of allocation of resources would be the motivation. It is not. Chinese people selfishly recycle because they can profit from it. Recyclers do not benefit from nationalization of the means of production, they benefit directly from how much work they put in towards their own personal goals. It is a pity that such capitalist (*spit*) motivations can result in such positive (environmentalist) outcomes. *mourn*
It's more like the government will begin levying penalties on non-complying individuals. "You eat meat so you hurt the environment" - extra tax. "You aren't in a union so you hurt your fellow workers" - extra tax to compensate those less fortunate. You left out the part where the data is accurate. Eating frequently at fast food is correlated with health problems. Hostility to unions is correlated with conservatism. Both are destructive to our country and should receive corrective action by the government. Face it, smart people know better than you. When they place disincentives on your actions, take it seriously, because it's for your own good.
Like many people in China, I use Google to search. Unfortunately, Google is a proven tool of American hegemony and if you believe otherwise, please provide citations that refute the facts in the above article. Being able to see search results and not click on them is not particularly helpful. If we could have a sitelist that keeps up with what the Golden Shield blocks, it would make Google a lot more useful. Otherwise, Google is just helping imperialism and impeding socialism. What would the workers in Wisconsin say about that? What if the people of Wisconsin could, with a mouseclick, be inoculated against the Koch Brothers' poisonous propaganda, much like China has been inoculated against the lies of the Dalai Lama clique?
Psychological projection is a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others have those feelings.
Any one of a hundred reasons it could be so. You automatically assuming "IT'S TEH ENEMY!!! OMG" says more about you than it does the original poster.
Back when I lived there, I used to freak out over the constant small shaking. To everybody else, it was no big deal and a fact of life, but to a guy like me who comes from a geologically stable area the FREAKING EARTH MOVING was a big deal. The earth's job is pretty much to stay still...not much else to say about that one.
Doom & gloom! It's the end of the world! Repent! The only cure is to vote for radical leftists! Workers of the world, unite! All you have to lose are your chains!
Seriously, buddy, get a grip. This is just the day-to-day "watching sausage being made" of politics. Saying net neutrality will reincarnate the Triangle Shirtwaist Company is just a setting up a strawman argument which is distressingly all too common these days. "Dark age"? You sound grimly serious, like a man-on-the-stree from the 50s saying that just because there were a few socialists in government that we're going to repeal free speech and start establishing prison camps in the Southwest for dissenters JUST LIKE THE SOVIET UNION BECAUSE THEY'RE SOCIALIST TOO! And yet the false dichotomy is disregarded.
Because every time Democrats do something bad, it's "both parties are equally corrupt." Every time the Repubs pull a fast one, it's "only the Right are corrupt." This is a remarkably consistent rule that you see around here all the time. It's being subverted by a previous poster and it evidently is causing minds to explode.
Isn't it funny that China's government recognizes the role the internet plays in culture? And wants to direct it in a positive way that benefits everyone in society? The entire idea is anathema to Westerners, isn't it? China does face some very real language problems and separatist tendencies, Mandarin is the common language that glues all of society together. Without a common language, the country would fragment along ethnic and regional lines and it would be back to the warlord civil war era from the 1920s. The government doesn't want this to happen and is enlightened enough to try to keep the country together in order to save millions of lives. Altruistic, eh? In China, the government really is made up of The Smart People. Not just anyone can join the CCP. It's rather like the US State Department or maybe Harvard, where you have to be really smart or have family connections to get in. If you're a redneck (laobaixing) who loves your country and wants to serve they'll just sneer at you, ridicule your hillbilly Mandarin accent that doesn't sound like a newscaster, slam the door in your face, and tell you to join the Army like all good peasants and hicks are supposed to do. Because if there is one cross-cultural idea that all The Smart People agree on worldwide, it's that lesser intellects (or those not from good families) should be ridiculed and rejected from having their ideas seriously considered in government.
As opposed to, say, America, where the government's idea of benefiting everyone is running up a $223 billion deficit in March 2011 alone, more than all of 2007. The role the internet plays? The internet allows Americans to utterly and completely convince themselves that they live in a real-live functioning fascist police state. And then use that same internet to organize protests against their own government. Inconvenient truths are a bitch, ain't they?
Without nukes, there would have been another war between the West and the Soviet Union sometime in the 50s or 60s. With any luck, the good guys would have won and wiped out capitalism forever. But no, nukes existed and as a result we lost the last, best hope for mankind in the great tragedy of 1989. Luckily academia keeps the dream alive and is imparting their wisdom to the next generation of students. There may yet be hope for change.
You mean association football vs. football? There's no sport called "American football". There is a sport called association football. However, that's a bit long, so you might just call it "assoc football". That's still long, so just shorten it all the way down to "soccer". See how easy that was? Now you don't have to be yet another douchebag bitching about word usage - oh, wait, it's too late. You've got douchebag all over you. Here, let me help you clean off with a shower.
Ten posts down from the top! Well, I expected the typical "DURR DURR Americans DURR stupid DURR I can't get it in my Eurohead that another culture might do something differently that Us Good People DURR" post to be a lot farther up. Good job though, without you we might have had a story about football where someone didn't point this out.
Yyyyeah. Responding to a username "politburo". Well, comrade, under socialism as it was actually practiced, making profit was indeed illegal. People went to jail for nothing but their opinions. Socialists need to wake up and take responsibility for what's been done in their name instead of using the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Isn't it an inconvenient truth that the people most violently opposed to socialism are people who have actually lived under a real socialist government? The kind where you can go to jail for making profit or merely having capitalist ideas?
Yeah, right. Take one of these foo-foo boards out and get the **** beaten out of you by "locals only" townies. These rednecks then take your board, break it in half, and sell the parts to a chop shop. (Do they even have chop shops for surfboards? Well they'll have to start now!)
People pay a lot for things that they didn't want.
You know, in the rest of society they would hold a vote for that. But fuck students anyway, right? Because a university is one sacred place in society where The Smart People really are in charge, and where their enlightened wisdom and superior education can make a difference. If there's one complaint I've heard about a college campus it's that there is just too much student parking available.
Way to totally miss the point. In the West people raise holy hell for a new power plant of ANY kind. In China, they're building new coal plants as fast as they can make them.
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If you've ever known any English teachers in Asia you'd understand why I stopped.
Yeah, I stopped reading at that point. If you've ever known any English teachers in Asia you understand why.
Ah, the old No True Scotsman fallacy. Keeping liberals from making the heel realization since 1917.
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
Recently, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other American Internet giants have participated directly in the social storm that has engulfed the Middle East. They have played a key role in manufacturing social disorder, serving a role entirely inappropriate to their status. Wael Ghonim, Google's chief representative in the Middle Eastern and North African markets even rendered assistance to Mohamed ElBaradei in driving forward the anti-government movement in Egypt, becoming the chief agent behind Egyptian demonstrations. The facts have shown that Google is not purely a company, that it seeks not only to make the money of other nations, but also meddles in the political affairs of other countries. It is not just a search engine tool - it is a tool to extend American hegemony.
In the Internet age, whoever dominates the Internet dominates the world. As the world's leading hegemonic power, America has always prioritized the Internet and sought to use the Internet as a means of promoting America's national interests around the world. Google has been very cooperative with this strategic motive of the United States government, and its cooperation has been active.
The enterprise with the world's highest online traffic, Google monopolizes the online search engine markets for the vast majority of nations and regions in the world, and it has the capacity to dominate online information, widely propagate lies and influence the information climate. When a number of countries in the Middle East experienced signs of instability due to inflation and other problems, Google immediately went on the offensive, even allowing a senior company manager to directly establish the online general headquarters of the anti-government movement, fostering successive protest movements and nakedly interfering with the internal politics of other nations. These actions of Google's are astonishing, and they lead people naturally to recall the British East India Company.
In the colonial era, the British East India Company used the monopolization of trade in the colonies to traffic opium and assist Britain in building its hegemony. In the Internet era, Google uses its monopoly of Internet information search to promote American values and assist America in building its hegemony.
At its heart, Google is quite similar to the British East India Company. But in managing its outward appearance it is far more skillful than the British East India Company ever was. Google does not burn, kill and pillage, but rather is a master of disguises. Against the modus operandi of the British East India Company, which was to "carry out trade when necessary and plunder when possible," Google's slogan is far more bewitching: "Do no evil." The problem is that no company on earth "does evil" as a matter of creed, and it is a bit hypocritical for Google to say it "does no evil." The facts show that this "Do no evil" is actually an admission of guilt through a protestation of innocence.
This company that claims to "do no evil" has cooperated with America's National Security Agency to monitor the private information of American citizens. It has been taken to court by publishing companies in France, Germany, Belgium and many countries for violations of copyright. It has been compelled by China and other countries to clean up its act because it disseminates pornographic content. And most recently it has also openly released subversive information, fomenting unrest in other countries. Before the facts, Google's creed of "Do no evil" is like a joke. Is it any wonder that Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said that Google's "Do no evil" creed was complete nonsense?
Oh, is THAT why you always show up to my posts? WTF dude, quit cyberstalking. I know what I'm saying, if it's "staggeringly inane" to your viewpoint then it certainly makes sense to a diverse viewpoint. Watch the next post I'm going to make about Google. It's entirely valid, fact-based, believed by billions, and will make people's heads explode because it represents a point of view their tiny minds have never thought about.
Jeez. Just look at this journalist. He reports an explosion at a power plant, and rushes to assure his audience that it wasn't a nuclear blast. I'm just speechless. It is utterly and completely impossible for a nuclear power plant to explode like a nuclear bomb, but this guy evidently has no idea. "NPR's Jon Hamilton tells us was NOT a nuclear explosion." Thanks, moron. Nuclear plant trouble is scary enough without intentionally lying to the public.
The smart people say that socialist economies are the worst - where recycling exists, this is entirely untrue! Due to the poverty, recycling is a very profitable enterprise. China has one of the world's best recycling rates, and the reason is due to the huge number of people who recycle.
Unfortunately, Chinese don't recycle because of belief in socialism, they recycle because of the profit motive. :( Ideally, belief in cooperative management of allocation of resources would be the motivation. It is not. Chinese people selfishly recycle because they can profit from it. Recyclers do not benefit from nationalization of the means of production, they benefit directly from how much work they put in towards their own personal goals. It is a pity that such capitalist (*spit*) motivations can result in such positive (environmentalist) outcomes. *mourn*
It's more like the government will begin levying penalties on non-complying individuals. "You eat meat so you hurt the environment" - extra tax. "You aren't in a union so you hurt your fellow workers" - extra tax to compensate those less fortunate. You left out the part where the data is accurate. Eating frequently at fast food is correlated with health problems. Hostility to unions is correlated with conservatism. Both are destructive to our country and should receive corrective action by the government. Face it, smart people know better than you. When they place disincentives on your actions, take it seriously, because it's for your own good.
Like many people in China, I use Google to search. Unfortunately, Google is a proven tool of American hegemony and if you believe otherwise, please provide citations that refute the facts in the above article. Being able to see search results and not click on them is not particularly helpful. If we could have a sitelist that keeps up with what the Golden Shield blocks, it would make Google a lot more useful. Otherwise, Google is just helping imperialism and impeding socialism. What would the workers in Wisconsin say about that? What if the people of Wisconsin could, with a mouseclick, be inoculated against the Koch Brothers' poisonous propaganda, much like China has been inoculated against the lies of the Dalai Lama clique?
Psychological projection is a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, such as to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others have those feelings.
Any one of a hundred reasons it could be so. You automatically assuming "IT'S TEH ENEMY!!! OMG" says more about you than it does the original poster.
Back when I lived there, I used to freak out over the constant small shaking. To everybody else, it was no big deal and a fact of life, but to a guy like me who comes from a geologically stable area the FREAKING EARTH MOVING was a big deal. The earth's job is pretty much to stay still...not much else to say about that one.
Doom & gloom! It's the end of the world! Repent! The only cure is to vote for radical leftists! Workers of the world, unite! All you have to lose are your chains!
Seriously, buddy, get a grip. This is just the day-to-day "watching sausage being made" of politics. Saying net neutrality will reincarnate the Triangle Shirtwaist Company is just a setting up a strawman argument which is distressingly all too common these days. "Dark age"? You sound grimly serious, like a man-on-the-stree from the 50s saying that just because there were a few socialists in government that we're going to repeal free speech and start establishing prison camps in the Southwest for dissenters JUST LIKE THE SOVIET UNION BECAUSE THEY'RE SOCIALIST TOO! And yet the false dichotomy is disregarded.
Because every time Democrats do something bad, it's "both parties are equally corrupt." Every time the Repubs pull a fast one, it's "only the Right are corrupt." This is a remarkably consistent rule that you see around here all the time. It's being subverted by a previous poster and it evidently is causing minds to explode.
Isn't it funny that China's government recognizes the role the internet plays in culture? And wants to direct it in a positive way that benefits everyone in society? The entire idea is anathema to Westerners, isn't it? China does face some very real language problems and separatist tendencies, Mandarin is the common language that glues all of society together. Without a common language, the country would fragment along ethnic and regional lines and it would be back to the warlord civil war era from the 1920s. The government doesn't want this to happen and is enlightened enough to try to keep the country together in order to save millions of lives. Altruistic, eh? In China, the government really is made up of The Smart People. Not just anyone can join the CCP. It's rather like the US State Department or maybe Harvard, where you have to be really smart or have family connections to get in. If you're a redneck (laobaixing) who loves your country and wants to serve they'll just sneer at you, ridicule your hillbilly Mandarin accent that doesn't sound like a newscaster, slam the door in your face, and tell you to join the Army like all good peasants and hicks are supposed to do. Because if there is one cross-cultural idea that all The Smart People agree on worldwide, it's that lesser intellects (or those not from good families) should be ridiculed and rejected from having their ideas seriously considered in government.
As opposed to, say, America, where the government's idea of benefiting everyone is running up a $223 billion deficit in March 2011 alone, more than all of 2007. The role the internet plays? The internet allows Americans to utterly and completely convince themselves that they live in a real-live functioning fascist police state. And then use that same internet to organize protests against their own government. Inconvenient truths are a bitch, ain't they?
Yeah, it's called "socialist morality". Look it up.
Without nukes, there would have been another war between the West and the Soviet Union sometime in the 50s or 60s. With any luck, the good guys would have won and wiped out capitalism forever. But no, nukes existed and as a result we lost the last, best hope for mankind in the great tragedy of 1989. Luckily academia keeps the dream alive and is imparting their wisdom to the next generation of students. There may yet be hope for change.
You mean association football vs. football? There's no sport called "American football". There is a sport called association football. However, that's a bit long, so you might just call it "assoc football". That's still long, so just shorten it all the way down to "soccer". See how easy that was? Now you don't have to be yet another douchebag bitching about word usage - oh, wait, it's too late. You've got douchebag all over you. Here, let me help you clean off with a shower.
Ten posts down from the top! Well, I expected the typical "DURR DURR Americans DURR stupid DURR I can't get it in my Eurohead that another culture might do something differently that Us Good People DURR" post to be a lot farther up. Good job though, without you we might have had a story about football where someone didn't point this out.
Yyyyeah. Responding to a username "politburo". Well, comrade, under socialism as it was actually practiced, making profit was indeed illegal. People went to jail for nothing but their opinions. Socialists need to wake up and take responsibility for what's been done in their name instead of using the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Isn't it an inconvenient truth that the people most violently opposed to socialism are people who have actually lived under a real socialist government? The kind where you can go to jail for making profit or merely having capitalist ideas?
Yeah, right. Take one of these foo-foo boards out and get the **** beaten out of you by "locals only" townies. These rednecks then take your board, break it in half, and sell the parts to a chop shop. (Do they even have chop shops for surfboards? Well they'll have to start now!)
You know, in the rest of society they would hold a vote for that. But fuck students anyway, right? Because a university is one sacred place in society where The Smart People really are in charge, and where their enlightened wisdom and superior education can make a difference. If there's one complaint I've heard about a college campus it's that there is just too much student parking available.
Way to totally miss the point. In the West people raise holy hell for a new power plant of ANY kind. In China, they're building new coal plants as fast as they can make them.
What you're talking about isn't trolling. It's contradicting. Trolling is intentionally stirring the pot.