The only thing I got out of this is the fact that when people say ted Chiang is such a brilliant guy, you have to read his stuff, my mind is going to silently think no he's a sophist hack. Am I the only person who read this and thought my god this person is an idiot but is smart enough to get other people to think he's not an idiot but is actually a genius .
I have no doubt it would be carnage unlike the world has ever seen. But honestly the real joke is expecting the UN to be able to do anything meaningful. This is an organization that is so politically impotent they can't even stop genocides in places like Sub saharan africa, like they will be able to do anything against a premier world power that sits on the permanent security council. No one likes it but war is a serious answer, calling for UN investigations, well you might as well throw a bottle in the ocean and hope someone in a landlocked country gets your message.
The answer is war. It's really that simple. Do we want to bear that cost? Personally my answer is please God no, but that doesn't mean war isn't the only real option.
Funny how it works. Black people's struggle is always my people's struggle, but it's never the other way around. Injustice toward black people anywhere is injustice everywhere, but it's never that way when it's not black people. they don't have principals, they have a shallow and myopic self interest. and you are wrong - he did speak out on issues in china, he said shut the hell up about it because they will stop buying my shoes if you don't shut up. for all the good he does, when it comes down to it, when his bottom line is marginally affected he is a coward just like everyone pimping out wokeness to sell garbage.
Meanwhile, people like Nick Cannon, who openly speaks about how much he hates Jews, still has a television show. People like Chris Brown, who beat his girlfriend's face in, still releases albums. People like Mark Wahlberg, who beat an Asian dude (multiple Asian dudes actually) and blinded him, still releases movies. People like Roman Polanski, who raped a child, still is lauded by Hollywood elites. Meanwhile, this woman is being ostracized because of a few ill-advised comments she made as a teenager. The utter hypocrisy of the woke crowd, their inability and unwillingness to speak truth to power while picking apart those with no power and popularity and calling it a great victory for justice is infuriating. I can't help thinking about the end of the Roman Republic, when easily manipulated mobs ran rampant on the streets building nothing but leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. It's like their vision of progress is if United States turns into a Haiti or a Pakistan. The patients are in charge of the asylum; the people with decency will get ground to dust and the people with none will rise to the top.