Lol you answered nothing at all. Did you even read my original question?

He is deporting Americans? That’s your argument? What does it take to become American?

How or by what were they forced to leave their country?

What refugees?

It’s a low confidence theory, but still the most likely theory based on the available evidence. And yeah it’s not new news.

The main reason they don’t have the evidence is because China won’t cooperate. We may never know.

Yeah, but if you don’t have enough evidence to prove something conclusively, but the limited evidence you DO have supports one particular theory, then it’s fine to say that you have a preferred theory with low confidence. Occams razor is frequently applied in these situations in order to pave a way forward, knowing that it could be wrong. It’s a matter of taking your best guess based on limited evidence.

It’s either the power mods or the admins who decide how content gets censored on reddit. Which one is worse?

Right, but not ALL of them.

To be fair, there are a lot of people who somehow find a way to blame Trump for every bad thing.

Seems like you are ignoring the very obvious solution in favor of “US bad”.

Lawmakers should be able to think for themselves, decide for themselves without listening to what Elon has to say. If not, then that’s a whole different issue, one that we shouldn’t blame Elon for.

Maybe it should be illegal for certain industries to be publicly traded companies. The pursuit of profit to please faceless investors is a recipe for blind and insatiable pursuit of profit. The stock market is basically a ponzi scheme at this point with so many layers separating humans on one end from the humans on the other end of the profit/product dynamic, that it becomes a system that blindly drives itself.

It’s more of an assassination in my opinion.

Yeah i suppose it is technically authoritarian, but society is overwhelmingly ok with it since it is indisputably a good idea. Covid restrictions did not have universal agreement, weren’t as obviously effective and common sense, were unconstitutional in some cases, but most of all too new to have trust from everyone, particularly when messaging was inconsistent or logically flawed.

Yeah but I was talking about covid restrictions in general. Maybe that’s where the confusion came.

Public masking and vaccine mandates didn’t stop until September 2022.

Every article i can find discusses New Zealand having the longest-running and toughest covid restrictions in the world, pretty far from normal life. I remember them briefly easing restrictions in 2020, and it was widely celebrated as some kind of victory over covid, but it was short lived, and restrictions and mandates came right back stronger than ever.

Everyone wants to talk about fascism these days, but give covid restrictions a complete pass. I’ve never seen anything like that in my lifetime, where you actually couldn’t go to restaurants without a pass, and had to have papers in order to justify being out in public. Even if you think it was justified, you have to acknowledge that it was extreme authoritarianism.

Are you saying that New Zealand returned to normal before the rest of the world? Because that’s not how I remember it at all.