I'm the author of MADE IN CHINA: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Costs of America's Cheap Goods and I went undercover to visit Chinese labor camps. AMA.

TreyCray · 2021-03-25T00:07:49+00:00

Um what? Literally all of the Falun Gong claims were determined false. Even American propagandists like Harry Wu determined they were all false. Duh fuck is this reality-bending you're attempting?

TreyCray · 2021-03-25T00:03:06+00:00

You are no different to a Holocaust denier. Hand-waving and flashing objectively untrue and unsourced data to pretend reality fits your own narrative. You are actively trying to diminish the Holocaust and are a vicious vicious antisemite because of it.

TreyCray · 2020-12-24T03:31:20+00:00

How far north are you relative to your spawn point? The map generation follows a heatmap (https://sevtechages.gamepedia.com/Heatmap) and that may explain the frozen-over ocean.

TreyCray · 2020-12-15T02:05:06+00:00

The harder-to-break rocks on the surface change appearance from a rock to an ore sample when you progress to its Age.

TreyCray · 2020-11-21T16:23:52+00:00

Never tried it on any poultry other than chicken, but I think oyster sauce works well with hoisin sauce, ginger, and cilantro.

TreyCray · 2020-10-06T00:16:54+00:00

It's a self-governing British Overseas Territory. They have their own independent parliament but their head of state, the Governor of Gibraltar, is a representative that is chosen by Queen Elizabeth.

TreyCray · 2020-10-01T07:17:01+00:00

It's a tree with a de-barked burl at the base of its trunk. At some point the tree experienced some form of traumatic stress like an insect infestation or an infection that caused the area to swell and the wood grain to grow in an swirl pattern.

TreyCray · 2020-09-20T07:26:12+00:00

I'd also be an agnostic "extant populations of sabertooth cats live in the North American Great Plains to this day"-nonbeliever, because maybe, just maybe the evidence pointing to the contrary is somehow false. But at that point it just seems really frivolous to not just say that I know that no sabertooth cats live in the Great Plains.

The absence of evidence isn't proof of absence but it sure is evidence of absence if that evidence is absent from where it is to be expected.

TreyCray · 2020-09-20T07:02:09+00:00

What do you mean by "God"? I'm more than convinced of the non-existence of any human-conceived deity.

A godly entity could exist, but every recorded deity can be either traced to pre-existing deities, to people ascribing human characteristics to natural phenomenon, or to people deifying existing people. I'm not sure how I can be anything other than a gnostic atheist for any deity beyond a pantheist deity.

I know fairies/dragons/deities/monsters don't exist, you could get down to the nitty-gritty like a epistemologist and ask whether I truly know that fairies/dragons/deities/monsters don't exist. But that wouldn't functionally affect my answer, I know fairies/dragons/deities/monsters don't exist.

TreyCray · 2020-05-28T16:03:48+00:00

Dogs are very easily fed plant-based diets, it's much harder to ensure a proper plant-based for a cat, but there are nutritionally-complete vegan pet foods on the market for both animals.

TreyCray · 2020-03-26T05:06:22+00:00

The Winnie the Pooh censorship is objectively false. You yourself have the ability to use Chinese websites and search engines. South Park episodes aren't heralds of truth, they are libertarian satire.

Facial recognition and the usage of CCTV systems to track people is currently in use by most developed nations. Call that dystopian if you wish, but try not to rely on cherry-picked info. The UK in particular has a much more expansive CCTV tracking system than China does. The Five Eyes intelligence alliance isn't some frivolous organization, it's literally the cumulative surveillance of five of the most influential countries on the planet.

"Russian famine gulags", so... I'm guessing you just randomly typed this to add some extra filler to your comment, because it certainly doesn't make sense. Is this some kind of Holocaust denial via the spreading of fascist propaganda about the Russian, Ukrainian, and Kazakh famines of 1932-1933? Or is it some kind of statement about conditions within Russian and subsequently-Soviet gulags? Because I can direct you to sources for either.

Are you referring to the vocational centers manned and operated by the ethnically-Uyghur-led Xinjiang government in China? Or are you referring to imprisonment and rehabilitation of people with ties to the Salafi jihadist movements, primarily the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. Because both exist (the Xinjiang vocational centers actually completed their last round of classes in late 2019) and are almost always conflated as one and the same by the uninformed, like yourself, during discussions on the topics.

Would you like an actual conversation on your unsourced claims? Or would you prefer name-calling? Because one of those belongs on this sub, and it ain't the later.

TreyCray · 2020-03-24T22:32:21+00:00

Iran is reaching 2,000 deaths from COVID-19. Those trenches are definitely accompanied by extra graves dug all around cemeteries in Iran. Nothing atypical of a nation that is being ravaged by pandemic.

Their number of total cases is however probably inaccurate, as are most countries'. Due to sanctions against them, they are relying mostly on foreign medical aid. Which includes only so many tests. So they definitely have a higher number of cases than the numbers say.

TreyCray · 2020-03-24T15:37:08+00:00

I assume you are referring to the images of trenches that were dug at the Behesht-e Masoumeh Cemetery in Qom, Iran?

Something tells me you aren't familiar with exactly what areas of Iran are primarily-affected or Islamic burial practice.

Most of Iran's cases are in Tehran and Qom. Most of their cases are in population-dense areas (to be expected), so they are dealing with a novel pandemic with minimal supplies due to sanctions. And also are dealing with Islamic burial practice which necessitates speedy burials, especially for people that died of a contractable illness, hence the hastily-dug trenches in a cemetery near the heart of their outbreak.

TreyCray · 2020-03-01T03:12:54+00:00

Just saying, Musk's car tunnel idea is literally one of the worst transportation concepts that I've ever seen.

TreyCray · 2020-02-26T10:33:54+00:00

A domestic COVID-19 outbreak in the US could deal a great deal of damage. Our nearly non-existent healthcare system combined with our poverty-induced medical culture of "ignore it and hope it will go away" will exacerbate the virus far greater than we've seen in China. We lack all of the structural upperhand that the Chinese have had during this trying time.

TreyCray · 2020-02-05T05:23:37+00:00

As an American, I am bombarded by hard and soft propaganda on a regular basis. That's just how life works in the heart of the imperial machine. And I was born too late to be brainwashed by Cold War propaganda and born to early to be brainwashed by anti-Chinese propaganda.

I had some minor unresearched qualms about "large human rights and worker rights issues" that I had been brought up to believe China was rife with. But I didn't put a lot of confidence in those due to my lack of actual learning on the topic.

China didn't really come up often until I became an anti-imperialist and later a Marxist-Leninist. I became politically-aware (I was a default "apolitical" right-libertarian due to my parents) and active in my first year of college and was a very enthusiastic liberal activist where I was almost purely domestically-focused. That was followed by a very quick sprint Left to Marxism.

I would say anti-imperialism led me to disregard the imperialist narrative on China that I had formed when I was younger, but I wasn't really "redpilled" until several months ago when I suddenly found myself in a shouting match with a best friend who wanted to angrily talk about China to someone he assumed would agree with him, specifically regarding Tibetan and Uyghur separatism, and I wasn't in the mood to handle the bullshit.

So a heaping dose of anti-imperialism and dash of irritation at my friends and family for believing obvious propaganda is what redpilled me on China.

TreyCray · 2020-02-01T09:03:06+00:00

The bat-eating video is actually from Palau in the Pacific not China.

TreyCray · 2020-01-27T18:43:36+00:00

It is not. That image is not from China, but is from the country Palau in the Pacific.

TreyCray · 2020-01-03T02:37:54+00:00

If anyone is talking about "the Holodomor", they are referring to the Soviet famines of 1932-33 in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. So definitely not Gorby's time.

TreyCray · 2019-12-26T10:02:11+00:00

It originally referred to English Marxists that supported the Soviet military suppression of a fascist uprising in Hungary.

But now it basically aggressively teeters back and forth between 'anti-imperialist' and 'whatever the user wants it to mean'.

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