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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by 4gotunameagain on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:44AM (#46272760)
Every place has been unstable at some point.

And every place actively destabilized by an empire is definitely unstable.

The amount of coups directly planned and executed or supported by the US military/intelligence/lobbying apparatus in south America and the rest of the world is incredible.

And then the presidents have the audacity to say that it is the right and responsibility of the locals to govern (as said by biden on Afghanistan exit).

It truly has been the most exploitative empire ever. I hope the Chinese do better. We'll find out.

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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by sabellito on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:57AM (#46272848)
You're replying in good faith to someone who ignored the main point of GP (an empire actively disrupting a region) and just said "every place has been unstable" (without even taking century-level timescales into consideration).
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by stinkbeetle on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:23AM (#46273041)
> an empire actively disrupting a region

> century-level timescales

Doesn't sound very scientific or predictive. Is also ignorant of history. Ottoman empire lasted many centuries. So did Roman empire. Which crushed and oppressed and destabilized a lot of Europe. China famously had their "century of humiliation" which was "century-level timescale" of "empire actively disrupting a region".

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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by 4gotunameagain on Monday December 15, 2025 @07:01AM (#46273378)
You are right, but I felt morally compelled.
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by actionfromafar on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:28AM (#46274984)
I see no evidence at all they will do better. Rather the opposite.
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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by 4gotunameagain on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @03:35AM (#46286164)
At least so far, they have been expanding economically and not militarily, as the US. China could easily start wars with anyone they wanted, and they haven't done so. The US on the other hand, has wars all over the place.

I don't know, and I cannot know. I can only hope.

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Re:The Problem of Teaching Physics in Latin America by actionfromafar on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:04AM (#46288594)
They could not easily have done so, because the US was undisputed top dog. And they are spending huge sums militarily, including on nukes.
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