I strongly upvoted the OP after seeing it being in the negative for no good reason. I think you would do well to chill instead of going on a crusade against it. You could try to refute its main points, which I will conveniently summarize for you here, since apparently the summary in the OP wasn’t good enough:
Sanctions don’t work (the only counter-example I can think of is South Africa and even that is iffy).
Sanctions hurt general population disproportionately (well, that’s hard to refute, but give it a go).
That it is intended as a potentially inept deterrent of China taking over Taiwan.
Sanctions have not been structured to incentivize Putin to deescalate.
I hope you will dedicate one of your thoughtful and original posts to this topic… Once you chill a bit.
I would add that this post appeared on substack the same day it appeared on LW. In both cases, we have a totally new account opened that day (with different usernames), who never commented anywhere before publishing the post. This is definitely not the typical pattern I would expect from the average user.
That said, I can agree that sanctions will have horrible side effects, that they are not structured in an optimal way and so on, but the main feeling I got from this post is something like “it would have been far better to just sit quietly and watch”. Is it just my impression?
I only looked at aggregate patterns and didn’t see who voted on the post, but in-aggregate the patterns looked pretty organic to me. Mostly a bunch of strong-votes on both sides with relatively high weights, which you can’t easily achieve with sockpuppets, so my guess is this post is just controversial.
Moderation note: Have any sockpuppet accounts been used to upvote this post?
I strongly upvoted the OP after seeing it being in the negative for no good reason. I think you would do well to chill instead of going on a crusade against it. You could try to refute its main points, which I will conveniently summarize for you here, since apparently the summary in the OP wasn’t good enough:
Sanctions don’t work (the only counter-example I can think of is South Africa and even that is iffy).
Sanctions hurt general population disproportionately (well, that’s hard to refute, but give it a go).
That it is intended as a potentially inept deterrent of China taking over Taiwan.
Sanctions have not been structured to incentivize Putin to deescalate.
I hope you will dedicate one of your thoughtful and original posts to this topic… Once you chill a bit.
It’s a new account. I think suspicion is somewhat justified.
I would add that this post appeared on substack the same day it appeared on LW. In both cases, we have a totally new account opened that day (with different usernames), who never commented anywhere before publishing the post. This is definitely not the typical pattern I would expect from the average user.
That said, I can agree that sanctions will have horrible side effects, that they are not structured in an optimal way and so on, but the main feeling I got from this post is something like “it would have been far better to just sit quietly and watch”. Is it just my impression?
I only looked at aggregate patterns and didn’t see who voted on the post, but in-aggregate the patterns looked pretty organic to me. Mostly a bunch of strong-votes on both sides with relatively high weights, which you can’t easily achieve with sockpuppets, so my guess is this post is just controversial.