• Pennomi
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    1279 hours ago

    Of course it’s not a military company, it’s an espionage company.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 hours ago

        Normally, espionage can collaborate with other branches of government, apart from the military.

      • @essteeyou
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        73 hours ago

        Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature, dude.

      • CubitOom
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        268 hours ago

        You know, you can be critical of a government without using racist slurs against the people from that country. Not everyone from China is part of the CCP.

      • @[email protected]
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        127 hours ago

        giving you the benefit of the doubt like maybe english isn’t your first language, that word is considered a pejorative/slur in all modern usage

          • @[email protected]
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            57 hours ago

            the wikipedia article on it cites two instances where it didn’t seem to be wayy back at the word’s inception. but yeah hardly matters in the grand scheme

          • @Sarmyth
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            -36 hours ago

            Naw, it was most commonly used as a term similar to “that chinese guy” which is easy to confuse with racism at a time period where people were generally racist towards the chinese, but the term itself is not racist. There were actual slurs back then they could use if they were about that.

            My Grandmother said they always bought they’re vegetables growing up from the chinaman who rolled his cart through the alleyway behind their homes. It’s not a term of hate, but it’s easy to say hateful things alongside it.

              • @Sarmyth
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                06 hours ago

                Removed by mod

                  • @Sarmyth
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                    05 hours ago

                    I just disagree. We are equally dense at worst. I’ve already expressed people were racist and had slurs that they used. Im not ignoring that or unaware of it or trying to gloss over that. This just wasn’t one of them for a long stretch of time.

                    You won’t believe it because you just don’t believe it. That’s you being dense. You refuse to accept the reality I’ve witnessed. Terms weren’t used with equal intent globally throughout history. How a term was used in Caldwell Idaho in 1930 is not how it was used in Pennsylvania at the same time, despite them both being America and the people involved all being American.

      • @L3sM
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        27 hours ago

        Your submission in “Tencent says it’s not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn’t removed from a blacklist” was removed for Rule 3.

          • @L3sM
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            24 hours ago

            Yeah, okay.

            Derogatory terms towards anyone will always get removed, have a good day.

        • @L3sM
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          07 hours ago

          Your submission in “Tencent says it’s not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn’t removed from a blacklist” was removed for Rule 3.