TimothyOilpants

What IS the right way to unify 1,400,000,000 people into a cohesive, functional society where the rights of the individual do not detract from the greater good?

You’ve already admitted you haven’t read the paper… Only an article covering it… Take your bullshit and indignation somewhere else.

We’re done here.

Sure thing Nostrabumbass…

You’re unhinged. Your actual views are clear, and contrary to the social contract of a peaceful civilization. You’re getting ratioed into oblivion across this entire thread and not one person has agreed with anything you’ve said.

No one cares what you have to say, and your scrambling to rationalize and justify your heinous opinions would seem to indicate you need some serious introspection and likely some psychiatric care.

You will receive no further replies from me; you’re dangerous and I don’t entertain the type of rhetoric you’re promoting.

There is still time to work on improving your character.

Do better.

I was being funny. Then for whatever reason people decided to turn it serious because we can’t joke in this country anymore…

Schrödinger’s bigot!

If you didn’t believe what you’re saying you would have taken accountability for the poor taste and apologized by now.

Yes… And your alleged intentions have clearly been well understood by everyone here…

Get over yourself; from your vocabulary it’s clear you’re not employed in a STEM field. You’re just some armchair pundit who wants to manufacture doubt by suggesting ideological bias has been introduced in someone else’s work because you don’t like the results of their study.

Don’t expect any further replies from me; it’s clear exactly what you are, and you’re not worth engaging with.

… And you value truth and accuracy so much that you are making assumptions rather than seeking out the actual study…

You already know what you want to believe, so you’re framing your interpretation to fit your presupposition.

Kick rocks, racist; no one here wants to talk to you, or hear what you have to say.

…and it’s just that easy to get you lizards to crawl out of your den…

Days are numbered for you folks. Good riddance.

Good thing the Republicans hated Charlie Kirk then! Thanks for the favor!

Too bad there’s only 2 kinds of people in America eh?..

I’ve never been more disappointed in America… This is literally the one thing they are the undisputed world leader in! How can they keep fucking it up?

Maybe if they can get him to spend more time in public schools and houses of worship?

Yes, if you’re the kind of person who is looking for ways to discredit victims and deny the existence of social problems, then any amount of ambiguity is easily manipulated.

Scientists should always define experimental protocols explicitly with ignorant apologists in mind…

The Capitalist bourgeoisie never wanted democracy; they just wanted to be monarchs themselves and the promise of democracy was the most practical way to manufacture consent among the working class.

You’re right, that’s waste of time. The topic here is a suspected Chinese espionage against Canada, we should not continue in this distraction.

See! Now THAT is how you write a response that reads like propaganda!

You see no irony in your “rebuttal” to my point being locked behind a Western paywall?

It seems clear that you’ll continue to avoid real discussion and dismiss my perspective with some conspiracy minded magical thinking regardless of how this “conversation” proceeds…

You’ve made no attempt to rationalize or justify your opposition. You’re using ad hominem attacks to imply the blanket superiority of your moral position without any logical connective tissue. “Someone has a different opinion to me? They must be a Chinese propagandist!”

If you don’t have an actual counter-argument to present, I’m not interested in indulging further.

As stated in the article, historically they are after “…data across academia, medicine, military, cybersecurity and foreign policy”.

I support it.

I also don’t care if they are compromising personal information.

I am far more comfortable with any speculative use China has for this information than I am with the known exploitative intentions that private, for-profit, western institutions have for it.

Again, centuries of history has made me significantly more confident in China’s ability to deploy this knowledge for the greater good and progress of humanity than ANY western nation.

China is the world’s largest producer of both total and high-impact scientific literature. Chinese research institutions publish more than 1,000,000 papers annually, which is double what the next most prolific nation publishes.

Looking at the last 20 years specifically, China accounts for a 27% share of the Top 1% most cited papers, with the US coming in 2nd with a ~25% share

When accounting for raw purchasing power, China spends >$1,300,000,000,000 annually on R&D compared to the US at $1,010,000,000,000.

China is home to 24 of the top 100 science and technology clusters, delivering >7,570,000 person-years of R&D manpower annually.

As for their espionage tactics; again I fully reject the position that information and knowledge are property, so I do not see accessing those without permission as theft.

Looking at the raw numbers, and the material outcomes we all benefit from, I have more faith in China’s ability to turn knowledge into meaningful human progress than any other nation on earth.

The concept of intellectual “property” is asinine.

Scientific knowledge should not be treated as a commodity, leverage, or a privilege.

Greater understanding benefits all of humankind, and it is morally indefensible to gatekeep progress to the benefit of any minority.

Because our planet famously has infinite resources…

To be fair, they DO bare all the risk of violent deposition and decapitation. Let’s honor their sacrifice.

edit: and of course by “honor”, I mean ensure…