On: Chinese DIY Inventions

[auctiontheory]

This is Hacker News. And these are some pretty darn impressive hacks.

Why not just appreciate what they've accomplished by their ingenuity, without adding all this geopolitical drama?

[yread → auctiontheory]

This is Hacker News. We're critically thinking individuals. When somebody tries to spin a story for geopolitical goals it is fair to call it out.

[mc-lovin → yread]

What are the geopolitical goals of The Atlantic here?

[sliverstorm → mc-lovin]

The same geopolitical goals The Atlantic has every night, mc-lovin. World domination.

[calibraxis → sliverstorm]

Not quite; the US's goal is world domination, which everyone knows. The Atlantic? Haven't looked closely, but its owner self-identifies closely with US government. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_G._Bradley)

The US press tacitly accepts US world domination:

"'Withdraw all foreign forces and withdraw all foreign arms.' That official was Condoleeza Rice and she was not referring to U.S. forces, she was referring to Iranian forces and Iranian arms. And that makes sense, too, on the assumption that we own the world because, since we own the world U.S. forces cannot be foreign forces anywhere. So if we invade Iraq or Canada, say, we are the indigenous forces. It’s the Iranians that are foreign forces."

"I waited for a while to see if anyone, at least in the press or journals, would point out that there was something funny about this. I could not find a word. I think everyone regarded that as a perfectly sensible comment." (http://www.zcommunications.org/we-own-the-world-by-noam-chom...)

[jodrellblank → calibraxis]

'Foreign' is a subjective view, not an objective one.

US forces can never be 'foreign' from an American speaker's point of view, and that makes no claims about whether they are indigenous or not.

That quote is trying to stir up fuss where there isn't any.