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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • No, I was just trying to drag out of you how you see the incident without priming the pump. How does one minimize the killing of hundreds of unarmed students? I knew people like you existed, I just never had the opportunity to witness someone actually do it, and I was curious how it’s done.

    You roll 20 additional days into it as a buffer, and count injuries as equivalent to murders, and let them happen anywhere.

    It can’t be the “Tiananmen Square Massacre” for you because then couldn’t draw in PLA members who had heart attacks and died elsewhere that day because they weren’t at the square. You need to create a context where they’re all the same thing and the geography of place really damages the ability to do that.

    You just dilute a massacre to make it not a massacre by expanding the time and places. Super interesting. It’s a distinctly different approach to propegands than you’d typically see in the west or Russia.






  • I believe I understand the perspectives, but I’m unconvinced that there isn’t asymmetry. It’s one person’s job.

    Like, I’ll whine all day about my job. But I’m under no illusions that I didn’t sign up for it, and I’m extremely cognizant that while it’s a bummer that I have to do my job, I understand that the people I support are having a worse day than I am. I’m not doing anyone a favour, I’m doing my job.



  • See I think this is where in general people in it misunderstand the impact.

    Like, if it’s -40 and your furnace breaks, who is having the worse day, you or the furnace repair man?

    The repair man might be grumbling because they have to do their job, but you’re grumbling because you’re freezing. You both might be grumbling, but by way of impact there is a massive asymmetry in impact.