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  • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlCrazy Idea
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    1 day ago

    The image says 16.7 for Taipei, not 6.7. neither my comment nor the image contains a 6.7.

    Now you can argue all western and Eastern sources are undercounting nk and China, that’s why I didn’t even include nk given the natural mistrust of information from a country with less than 10k tourists a year; but any search of this info online shows the same trend: Chinese nationals dont commit suicide as often as their oppressed neighbors.







  • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlLiberals
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    6 days ago

    The harm is simple, people get the illusion they’re making a difference and that it’s enough, it also legitimizes voting as the way to change things despite ample evidence it doesn’t.

    This leads to Dems hating protestors, or telling protestors to protest quietly and no in the road. This leads to liberals hating the working class when they go in strike, because why didn’t they just vote for better conditions. It leads to liberals hating anything useful, because they already did the only ‘useful’ thing and voted.

    This leads to lesser evilism and accepting institutions as the foundation of society, instead of any ideology that will positively change things.






  • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone11 years ago
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    10 days ago

    You use singular they every single day or at most every single week and you have for your entire life and so did all of your English speaking ancestors including middle English.

    'how far out is the pizza guy’s ‘they’re 15 minutes out’

    ‘my coworker was a pain in the ass today’ ‘what they’d do this time?’

    ‘i think my doctor is famous’ ‘oh what’s their name?’

    They was singular before it was plural, and it’s singular use is still one of the most common pronouns in English.