irrelevant comment and flamewar

i expect my comment to be downvoted (and of course flagged) instead of yours because HN

It’s actually quite relevant, but probably low effort and yes flamewar.

Eh, sometimes it’s the mongols.

Ironically, they’re probably more tolerant, though with more initial destruction.

Yep it's very easy to be tolerant whenever fears you. Remember the Mongols killed around 10% of the worlds population. The reason they could have tolerance is that you knew if you stepped one toe out of line the Mongols would destroy you, your family, rape the women, slaughter the town and everyone you knew, and then come back a few days later just to make sure they got everyone.

This is like saying China is super tolerant once they get rid of the Ughyrs.

I didn’t say it was great, but if I had to be stuck under vicious authoritarian rule, I’d rather one that will tolerate my culture and religion as long as my loyalty is there, which is not what China seems to be doing.

Shit the Mongols themselves ruled over the Uyghurs (though admittedly I’m not quite sure whether medieval Uyghurs and modern Uyghurs are the same people) and many were in high ranking court positions, not re-education camps.

Well, they did kill left and right during their conquests, sometimes even literally exterminated whole cities that surrendered to them without fight. Piling human heads, ears, penises and whatnot on very tall heaps. Chinese are currently fluffy cuddly kittens compared to mongol brutality. When they will kill half of uyghur in most gruesome way and rape the rest then we can start comparing.

Like the religious extremists that destroyed American cities like Detroit and Baltimore in the 70s and after? Maybe it was this same religious extremism that is leading to the economic crisis today in Florida and Texas? /s

That’s white flight and collapse of legacy industry. Different problem.

The weird theocratic/government stuff you see in places like Texas is bad news. No different than the catholic dominated political machines that ruled the Northeast.

The thing is, you might be cool with their politics today, but religious extremists flip on a dime. You may not like them tomorrow.

you jest, but an officially secular system that asks us to 'trust the experts' has a lot in common with religious fundamentalism.

As a whole, "trust the experts" has a much better track record than "google what you want to be true".

A better track record according to whom, the experts?

It's one thing when an expert in biblical study tells you not to do your own research. When the same instructions come from an institution deferring its authority to the scientific method, someone's very obviously gone off the rails.

Should a random person with no scientific background or familiarity with medical studies trust their doctor and the overwhelming consensus of epidemiologists and virologists over Joe Rogan and a two hour youtube video? Yes, clearly. That this is even up for debate shows how insane things are right now..

This video series: https://odysee.com/@BiohackThePlanet:3/coding-the-dna-for-a-... was created before any MRNA vaccines for novel coronavirus were scheduled to be released and the global research community world was scrambling for any edge against covid-19. It documents the efforts of a group of citizen scientists to develop and test an MRNA vaccine against Covid and test it on themselves. If you can offer one semi-compelling reason why it should have been removed from youtube without resorting to ad hominem against either me or the people producing it, I'll engage in some self-reflection.