Is it normal for the lock to be so high?

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TechCrunch has that article tagged as “evergreens”, which I think is their code for “we can probably get away with reposting this later and pretending it’s brand new.”

Case in point, this article was published in 2023.

“We’ll try again when you’re not paying attention/when can figure out how to force or trick you into it.”

The stuff saved on my phone’s not for the faint of heart but… you do you, Ancient Terror.

although they can probably mitigate the effects by moving to one of their 500 houses that’s in a safe zone

That’s why they don’t care.

Climate change hits the poorest first and hardest (see: hurricanes in the Caribbean and SEA).

Billionaires can fly in, enjoy the waves, fly out and not get a drop of water on their skin.

And they’ll keep “outrunning” climate change on an individual level, and only feel it when it hurts their net worth*.

And then they bring you steak with bees because the server’s new and she doesn’t quite understand the kitchen shorthand yet.

Hate when that happens.

All of your comments in my inbox are immature attacks.

Since you’re not even trying to engage in an argument with me, I’m blocking you.

Wealthy capitalists, if they’re not based in the US

Are you talking about this part? If so, what I was saying was that billionaires moved to either the US or the three countries I mentioned.

That means the billionaires from China also did not move to Taiwan.

You can also look at the wiki for Taiwan’s billionaires. Only one was born in China and not Taiwan (Hong Kong, specifically), and I’m pretty sure he moved to Taiwan way before the events we’re taking about in this thread.

That would be… so lame.

why the fuck would you bring it up as a reason to think Ukraine isn’t losing?

I was bringing it up as a reason to think the case for Russia winning wasn’t a clear slam dunk.

Resorting to conscription to fill your ranks is not something you do when you’re “obviously winning”.

And before you make a claim about Ukraine resorting to conscription, too, at no point have I claimed Ukraine was “obviously winning” either.

This was the statement I was responding to:

It’s basically an island that all the wealthy capitalists ran away to after China imposed economic democracy.

Here was my response :

Wealthy capitalists, if they’re not based in the US, have moved to [Singapore (or Switzerland, or the UAE)], not to Taiwan.

Where was what I said dishonest or irrelevant?

Edit: reorganized for legibility

It’s possible, but he didn’t say that, and our argument continued without your help.

It is weird that you’re white-knighting so hard for him.

Why are you here?

I was saying that the billionaires were not moving to the island of Taiwan.

You’re talking about US Empire, which, as mentioned in my other responses in this thread, is irrelevant to the physical movements of billionaires.

Even if Taiwan declared itself to be US Empire island #76, it would not change the fact that billionaires did not move to the island of Taiwan.

The NPR article I linked above was citing a Russian source.

The AP article was citing Russian legislation, which I assume (and I could be wrong) is public record.

I usually try to cite multiple sources because one or all may be biased, but it’s less likely that multiple sources will misrepresent reality in exactly the same way.

It is possible, but it is less likely.

I quoted all three in my original response, and he only responded negatively to the one based in UK, implying that he considered the other two met some minimum standard of quality.

He also quoted those same sources in his responses to me. If he thought the same way you do, I would have expected him to dismiss them outright, like you are.

I didn’t say either of those things you’re saying.

This is what I said :

I’m sure Ukraine is in a similar position, but it doesn’t sound like a clearcut win for Russia, either.

Whether or not Ukraine has kidnapping squads doesn’t mean Russia can’t also be having manpower issues.

Both can be true at the same time.

I think you are nothing more than a troll who argues for the sake of it, without a single honest bone in your body. You are the epitome of a reddit debate bro

You won’t or can’t address my argument above, so you switch to personal attacks.

You introduced the word “press-gang” and tried to turn this into an argument about the dictionary definition of the word.

You also tried to retroactively rewrite my argument. (You’re not talking about the draft, you’re talking about the reserves. You’re not talking about the draft, you’re talking about “calling up to the front line.”)

And you claim that I’m trolling?

My position has been that Russia has been coercing citizens into military service and I’ve been consistent on that point.