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A comment on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial. Parent comment

Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by psychoslave on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:35PM (#46279313)
States don't have friends, only interest (of transforming humans in bomb targets and genocide victims).
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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by bigbadfeline on Monday December 15, 2025 @05:47PM (#46281927)
> States don't have friends, only interest

Quite the opposite. Actually states don't have interests - interest groups do - and those of them who are friends with the state get to install theirs as the state's.

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Re:Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national s... by JumpCrisscross on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:15PM (#46282275)
> states don't have interests - interest groups do

People have interests. To promote those interests, they organise. Sometimes as interest groups within states. Sometimes as business corporations. Sometimes as states.

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