We regret to inform you that we have decided not to proceed with your application for the position of Junior Online Troublemaker.
The writing sample you supplied is simply not up to the standards of rhetoric and general wordsmithing we expect of our junior troublemakers here at Middle Kingdom Troll Farm and Heavy Industries.
Every argument presented in this article is a straw man, the writing is pretty bad, and then he says SoftBank vision fund is positioned to grow because of ridesharing, AI blah blah - as if American capital isn’t hugely invested in those fields.
Exactly. I kept reading and waiting for an explanation, but they keep dropping things like "American capitalism fueled by a perversion of Silicon Valley could result in the decline of America as a whole." with no evidence. It's absurd.
A lot of Anti-American statements with no supporting evidence. The scant examples it gives for China's rise are the facial recognition algorithms China uses to subdue and control its population. As if that's somehow better than what Facebook and Google do. The entire article is hollow garbage.
What's really scary, is that facial recognition articles it links to describing the dystopian future that awaits China: the "ubiquitous surveillance network". Video cameras everywhere watching every move you make and reporting it to the social credit system.
[+] [-] johan_larson|7 years ago|reply
The writing sample you supplied is simply not up to the standards of rhetoric and general wordsmithing we expect of our junior troublemakers here at Middle Kingdom Troll Farm and Heavy Industries.
We wish you luck in your future endeavors.
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It's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion
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