• calliope
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    3 months ago

    I see that calling anything “viral” has lost all meaning

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        3 months ago

        Indeed, and here we are still talking about it.

        Something tells me we this post and the Tide Pod challenge meme don’t have a lot in common, and we won’t be talking about this one Chinese academic “dismantling” someone’s argument in seven years.

        Like, if this is “ultra-viral,” what was the tide pod challenge? Ultra-mega-viral?

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      3 months ago

      He’s an academic, not a government official. I sure as shit don’t want to be tied to the horrible shit my government does without my say.

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        3 months ago

        Peachy, neither do I. Now have him do his own country and let’s see how that turns out.

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          3 months ago

          “Your country has done terrible things without your consent, therefore you are NOT ALLOWED to criticize an international genocide”

          What the fuck?

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          3 months ago

          If that’s how we’re doing things, why didn’t you list out all the things wrong with wherever you live before criticizing him?

          Edit: I might add, I find it pretty callous for you to expect that of him when you likely don’t face the threat of jail or other forms of political retaliation for speaking out against your government like this man would.