mparenti123 [none/use name]

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: November 24th, 2021
  • mparenti123 [none/use name]topolitics•Just the smoothest of brains
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    3 years ago

    "The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.... No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders."

    • Edward Bernays
  • mparenti123 [none/use name]toaskchapo•*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    my college (this means uni for non-americans) had a school shooter. i was in another building far away when it happened though. the buliding I was in was locked down for maybe a few hours max and that was it.

  • mparenti123 [none/use name]tonews•A very abbreviated summary of the China-Taiwan relationship, and why the United States is risking global thermonuclear war over it
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    3 years ago

    And even more importantly, the CPC threatens to invade Taiwan if they rescind KMT claims aka "declare independence". I personally don't think they will, it's just a giant LARP.
    Evidence: 1. The CPC has been saying it for decades
    2. Property values have not fallen in Taiwan. If Taiwan is truly to become a battleground, prices would plummet.
    3. Taiwanese businesspeople aren't fleeing the country 4. Tsai has been trolling the CPC, continually "crossing the line". She has said that Taiwan is already independent and she's had US marines visit.

    For the record I don't like the DPP joining the US in their fake news propaganda against China but I think it was demanded by US leadership for defacto protection against CPC invasion. The US has a tendancy to demand things from other countries.