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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by roenxi on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @05:30AM (#32149328)
The story of appeasement was basically that the Nazis kept invading places, country after country, until they tried to take on the USSR and got transformed into paste (the US getting involved being a major factor). It was really quite breathtaking in hindsight because they wouldn't stop and obviously didn't intend to stop, ever.

gp's argument has no parallel to appeasement.

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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by roberttod on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @04:51PM (#32157796)
> treating countries as though they are enemies can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It can increase the threat rather than decrease it.

That's what I was referring to. Not appeasement exactly but seems like similar logic.

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Re:FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be r... by roenxi on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:36AM (#32177340)
That logic is nothing like appeasement. Or if it is then appeasement is a great strategy that we should all be using daily at all levels of societal organisation.

Making enemies of people who are not enemies is one of the stupidest moves imaginable. It is hard to overstate how mistaken that sort of mistake would be.

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