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Your sentiment here betrays a misunderstanding of the way war works. People who fight in wars for years or decades (which was very common at the point in history you're referencing) were often "just" in the business of fighting in wars. There were people who fought on two different sides of the same "ideological" conflict. The mechanics of fighting a war are fairly separate from the political and ideological ends of the war.

He died doing what he loved, being a fucking idiot.

No it isn't. You were trying to cast China in a harsher light for doing "for decades" most of the same things the US has been doing (also mostly for decades).

Everyone sucks in this situation.

No, the pot and kettle can both be black, that's the entire point of the expression.

Our last standing differentiator was IP law, until we got weapons of mass IP destruction in the form of AI companies and LLMs.

From IP theft, to secret police stations in foreign countries, human rights abuses etc…

At this point you could literally be talking about the US with this sentence.

AKA all of your personal data, you know, just in case we need it

I agree that most of them are athletic, but they simply aren't competing in an athletic competition.

I think your comparison to the Globetrotters is on point. In the ballet and other examples, the difference to me is that they're not pretending to be in a ballet competition while dancing the ballet.

There's no doubt that what most wrestlers do requires skill, talent, and athleticism but it's "fake" in that what you're watching isn't an authentic athletic competition despite the people involved pretending that it is.

The outcome of the match is predetermined while the participants pretend that it isn't. That is why there are constant arguments about whether or not it's "fake".

They didn't "design a directory tree" either. They were designing screens for a thing that sits on top of a directory tree, and they didn't understand the underlying concept.

It was likely because they're used to the abstraction that iPhones and iPads provide, where the underlying directory structures are largely hidden from users.

They were designing functionality that contained directory trees and didn't understand directory trees. How is it my responsibility that this person is not qualified to do their own job?

If I knew I was teaching remedial computers that day, I would've come with a lesson plan.

I'm going to stick with my initial conclusion that you love to blame the "teacher" even when they aren't in any way a teacher.