Comment by jimbob45
7 days ago
The steel man is that American requests must be lawful, are done transparently through the courts, are appealable, and don’t come through secret agencies.
The titanium gold alloy man is that the Chinese laws are inarguably stricter and more authoritarian than the US laws, regardless of the actual implementation of either.
> American requests ... are done transparently through the courts, are appealable, and don’t come through secret agencies
This reads like someone who has paid absolutely no attention to American law for 25 years.
It's a steelman ... not an actual claim about reality. It says so right before the words you've quoted.
Isn't this a misuse of the word steelman, because it wasn't accompanied by the criticism?
From Google Search overview box:
> To steelman means to build the strongest, most charitable version of an opposing argument—even better than the way your opponent stated it—before you criticize or reply to it. It is the exact opposite of a strawman, which is when you intentionally weaken or misrepresent someone's view to make it easy to knock down.
You are not providing anything or justifying with any evidence.
I'm sorry friend.
Police force is hiding their face. Exquisite contracts are being made through informal announcements. Strong suspicion on inside trading from high ranks. A new level of people policing. Waivers for criminals already convicted to support coup on other foreign states.
Lies or at least speeches that are plain denial of obvious facts or brush citizen problems as they were mere senseless complaints
Speech about god punishment and the end of the days almost weekly Threats to use weapons graded of world level destruction for a conflict that "would have take a week"
Billionaire and trillionaires plainly saying what they want the government to do
In China, apparently there is at least one person who takes responsibility for everything no matter what and has been playing the discourse of growing together instead of attacking every single ally with unproven information while (seemingly) profiting from all crisis.
I don't know man. There is very little to defend. And look. I ain't American, and I still thought that guy had some good qualities despite the rest.
The nixonlike policy through the world in a state where only those people will have anything. Pledges for cheques, stocks, accounts. Not even that seems to be materializing up to now
I do like my American folks, wish all of them the best, but don't fall for "the world against you talk" This one is on you.