Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Is China at Risk of a Major Financial Crisis? - VisualPolitik EN" video.

@danilolabbate Actually, his comment is on point. Chinese historically have been the great merchants of Asia, traveling between Dutch Indonesia, India, the Horn of Africa and parts unknown to trade goods. it is why the diaspora Chinese population has always been in better economic and financial status than mainland Chinese since the end of the conflict between the KMT and the CCP.
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Debt games are always a house of cards. There is a reason why most of the world' religions consider usury a severe sin. Debt is the first link in the shackles of slavery.
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@danilolabbate Moving the goalposts (logical fallacy). China's problems have NEVER been a direct result of outside forces, it has ALWAYS been an issue of bad leadership from within. Blaming "European colonizers" is just deflecting blame and is typical of despots.
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@Vaeldarg Not really. You are looking at it from the top-down organization perspective. Most of the founders of religious movements (Zaurashtra, Jesus Christ, Father Abraham, Gautama Buddha, et al) were VERY skeptical of such to-down control. Most of them were actually critical of those who used religion to control people.
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Hence why Thomas Jefferson said that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies.
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@danilolabbate "Making excuses" is called rationalization. Or colloquially "copium". This has nothing to do with tribalism, you are just making inane claims like a petulant child does when they know they are wrong. As the Marine Corp teach, failure is ALWAYS a result of bad leadership. China's problems have always been a result of bad leaders, whether military or political leadership. Try actually debating merits instead of making the logical fallacy of "appeal to emotion".
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@Vaeldarg Just now you didn't debate the merits, you simply used a strawman argument (logical fallacy). You are attacking institutions of power and falsely claiming that it represents the entire faith. That is typical of militant secularist bigoty. And double negatives do exist in language for a reason, clumsy though they may be. Thye are often employed as a rhetorical device. Again, you are not debating merits, you are engaging in logical fallacies as if that somehow makes your position valid. It does not. Unlike you, I am NOT attacking the messenger, I am attacking your message but pointing out the inherent flaws in your arguments.
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@Vaeldarg Talking about rejecting history, you realize that much of the Torah is independently confirmed by Persian, Egyptian, Greek, and Babylonian sources? Cyrus the Great was an actual king, and the high priest of Zoroastrianism. Nebuchadnezzar's conquest of Judea is documented by the Greeks, Egyptians as well as the Babylonians themselves. As to the Gospels themselves, Roman sources confirm that Pontius Pilate was the governor of Judea, and that Herod Antipas was the governor of Galilee and Perea. And the head of the Sanhedrin being Caiaphas is confirmed by Jewish records. And that doesn't even go into what Josephus has confirmed. Do keep in mind that Josephus is considered just as credible as Tacitus, Suetonius, Lucius Cassius Dio, and both Pliny the Elder and Younger. it is clear that you yourself fail to abide by the standards you apply to me. It is YOU who needs to realize that you are engaging in quite a number of chronological fallacies simply because you refuse to accept a message from a specific source.
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I am inclined to agree. Warlord era China between the Two World Wars saw China still acting as a trade partner with most of the major seafaring nations of the world. Shanghai, Dalian, Hong Kong, Zhangjiang, Lianyungang, Quingdao, Taizhou, and Xaimen were all major destinations and boomtowns for foreign trade. Mao put a stop to that. It was Deng Xaiping who effectively re-opened China's trade with the outside world.
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Not really. Even if you confiscated all of the wealth by the top 50% of Americans, it would not even make a dent in the US national debt. Same applies to China seizing Hong Kong or Taiwan. You don't kill the golden goose, which is what China has done to Hong Kong and will do to Taiwan.
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@containedhurricane What you fail to point out is that full 70% of those listed deaths are self-inflicted homicides. Mostly suicides. Nice try buddy.
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"State capitalism" is merely Soviet Command Economics by another name.
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@danilolabbate Again, you are just making excuses. Like a typical cultural Marxist, you blame a perceived "oppressor" rather than admit that there are internal, domestic problems. And in doing so, you completely buy into the racist "noble savage" stereotype. When you have Generals like Zho Zongtang, the Marquis Kejing putting down the Taiping Rebellion, you can't claim that it was the Opium Wars keeping China down. Indeed, all of the Rebellions against the Manchu Qing Dynasty shows how corrupt and terrible their rule was. And as far as Japan's invasion of China, do keep in mind that Chairman Mao cut a separate peace with Japan such that they could move through each other's territories unmolested. It was only the KMT who was seriously fighting the IJA as Mao was more interested in fighting his fellow Chinese. My perspective isn't strange, it is taking all of the facts into consideration, not cherry picking what you like to confirm your own biases.
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@Vaeldarg Wow, historically revisionism. You seem to ignore the cynical actions of Emperor Constantine and the Council of Nicene. You fail to realize that they were just using the popularity of the faith to grow their own base of power. Constantine continued to make burnt offerings to the Greco-Roman pantheon long after supposedly converting in flagrant defiance of Christian precepts. How about you ACTUALLY READ SCRIPTURES from an academic perspective. The gospels and the words of the Nazarene are VERY anti-establishment. They are HIGHLY critical of government and organized religion. "It is said my house shall be a temple of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves!" -Jesus of Nazareth; Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15;' Luke 19:46; John 2:13
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@Vaeldarg I am asking you to think outside of the box instead of simply accepting an misotheist perspective. Religions do not exist to enslave people; they act as guard rails to prevent societal collapse. But sure, show your contempt for the anti-religion "humanist" movements are responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the 20th century.
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Yeah, the Soviets did implode under their own weight. Since 1955, a majority of the Soviet GDP came from oil and gas sales to Western powers like the Federal Republic of Germany (west Germany). It was Western Europe propping-up the Soviet Economy all of those years. Hell, the ONLY reason why they were able to defeat the Nazis in WW2 was BECAUSE of American supplies to the USSR. Ask yourself why for 50 years all of the trucks in the Mayday parades were of American manufacture.
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@hughmungus2760 Is it a flaw of capitalism or is it a result of unscrupulous local governors and bureaucrats who took kickbacks to look the other way when they saw the money laundering going on? Those same politicians and bureaucrats were obligated under Chinese law to put an end to it. Much of that "private speculation" was encouraged and rewarded by the local municipalities who were incentivized to accelerate it. Now, I do agree that it may very well lead to more top-down authoritarianism, but then that is often the whole point of the exercise: create a panic and crisis so as to clamp down and centralize power.
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Command economies always end up a disaster. Cuba, Venezuela, USSR, DPRK, et. al. Soviet Central Planning NEVER achieves what true open markets accomplish.
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