> Only in the sense that you can compare them, but then, you can compare anything, so literally anything is comparable in that sense, which robs the word of all meaning.
I think there's quite a bit more in common between a 1400's tribe and the EU than say, the star Polaris and trends of Swedish Cubism in the years 1950-1980.
The point here has always been that throwing up your hands and saying the original comparison is unreasonable is not a reasoned argument, it's flipping the table and walking off. The systems of social control in the United States and China are far more comparable than "anything to anything".
I think there's quite a bit more in common between a 1400's tribe and the EU than say, the star Polaris and trends of Swedish Cubism in the years 1950-1980.
The point here has always been that throwing up your hands and saying the original comparison is unreasonable is not a reasoned argument, it's flipping the table and walking off. The systems of social control in the United States and China are far more comparable than "anything to anything".