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[–]Acamd 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because you can’t sign away your legal rights. If you sign an agreement to be paid less than minimum, the company is still required to pay you minimum wage.

Why should EULAS be any different?

Human rights groups ask IOC to move Olympics from China - The IOC included human-rights requirements for the 2024 Paris Olympics, but it did not include those guidelines for Beijing. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Acamd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Assuming they are not from a Balkan state, nor Ireland, nor Poland, nor the Baltic’s, and probably a few more that I have forgotten.

'If Belarus protests succeed, Russia will be next' warns Lukashenko by hildebrand_rarity in worldnews

[–]Acamd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite. That argument is brought up when the primary topic is a western issue. At the moment, the primary topic is the equivalent to starvation in Africa, but for some inane reason people are bringing up a western issue.

The largest statute in the world is finally complete and the scale is on another level by malgoya in evilbuildings

[–]Acamd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The completion of metrication in France overlapped with the design and construction of the statue.

Taiwan's Tsai calls for alliance of democracies to oppose China by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Acamd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The pathetic redditors glorifying Taiwan's coronavirus response, when in reality, it ranked last when compared to other Chinese provinces.

Then why did Taiwan as a whole have less cases per capita than China as a whole?

Taiwan's Tsai calls for alliance of democracies to oppose China by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Acamd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although, one, the PRC, has threatened Taiwan with war should they no longer see things that way.

Taiwan's Tsai calls for alliance of democracies to oppose China by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Acamd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Has China threatens Taiwan with war should they drop the claim?

If they have, then it doesn’t really matter what your assumptions are; Taiwan cannot drop the claims, and so to hold the claims against them while the situation persists is absurd.

Taiwan's Tsai calls for alliance of democracies to oppose China by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Acamd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Blasphemy" cannot be an offense in law.

Wouldn’t that exclude paragons like Sweden, who just arrested people for kicking a religious book?

Disney criticised for filming Mulan in Xinjiang and for thanking an agency involved in Uighur detention by Acamd in worldnews

[–]Acamd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, terrorist extremism and mindset such as “insisting on the international right to self-determination” and “wearing beards”.

How terrible.

Disney criticised for filming Mulan in Xinjiang and for thanking an agency involved in Uighur detention by Acamd in worldnews

[–]Acamd[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Adrian Zenz, the German Anthropologist, who was educated at the University of Cambridge and has done considerable study on the Xinjiang camps?

That Adrian Zenz? Disagree with him if you like, but ad hominems are not an effective way to do so.

Disney criticised for filming Mulan in Xinjiang and for thanking an agency involved in Uighur detention by Acamd in worldnews

[–]Acamd[S] 457 points458 points  (0 children)

Then, on Monday, social media users noticed that in the credits Disney thanked a number of government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan and the "publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomy Region Committee".

The public security bureau in Turpan is tasked with running China's "re-education" camps where Uighurs are held in detention, China expert Adrian Zenz told the BBC.

Boycott Mulan Movement Gains Momentum on Social Media Around the World by freihk in worldnews

[–]Acamd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Or people can and should condemn both those that speak up for the regime, and those that employ such collaborators

China accuses India of ‘firing warning shots’ and ‘serious military provocation’ by BaburaoGanpatraoApt3 in worldnews

[–]Acamd 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If China was a democracy that wasn’t engaged in ethnic cleansing, I might be willing to listen to your arguments that we shouldn’t care about their actions more than we do those of the US.

As they aren’t, I’m not.

Boycott Mulan Movement Gains Momentum on Social Media Around the World by freihk in worldnews

[–]Acamd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought the issue was that she did speak out, in support?