Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1. I’m a progressive that votes Democrat but I respect Utah a lot. Its policies / politics aren’t full of hypocrisy like most red states and seem to stick to the moral teachings of their bible. Even though in 2015 most didn’t support gay marriage due to religion, they are also highly against discrimination and passed protections for LGBTQ
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  2.  @RorysHappyHouse  nah, Half as Interesting is run by a different Sam…Sam of HAI. This is run by Sam of Wendover Productions 😉
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  3.  @LENZ5369  non hunting is still less than a third of the income. You say dozens of you spent $40K, according to the vid -avg single 'hunter is spending $15k-25K and high rollers closer to 60k." Where do you get that non hunting is less than 1/3 of their their income and hunting is 2/3 of their income? Is that for one specific park, all of Africa, one country? And yes, the hunters might pay $15k-$25k. But they aren't as many of them. I saw hundreds of people in the non hunting safaris each day. There certainly weren't dozens of hunting safaris each day.
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  4.  @AdPaxSinica  The video literally says 30% and that's what you find online as well. What % of GDP in China comes from construction?
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  5.  @J_X999  I can see your other comments here also defending China and praising Xi
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  6.  @J_X999  Beijing dude, why doesn't Andre provide the correct numbers? Or u? Hmmm...say something bad about Xi
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  7.  @interrobangings  correct except they officially dropped the Mongolia claim IIRC. And before dropping it officially, they effectively had stopped claiming it decades ago but it remained on paper as they claimed it for reasons you mentioned
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  8. @timetodestination,The major difference is that it actually did work on some countries back then so China joining WTO in order to improve human rights had some merits. But now we see autocrats not budging so PGA of course is finding an excuse. We already know from the past 20 years that autocrats no longer change. Now, it still works on occasion but it has to be countries/govts that require support from international organization. Saudi Arabia & Russia primarly export natural resources thus they can find buyers ANYWHERE in the world. And China has such a big domestic market that the international community also needs them.
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  9.  @SomeoneFromBeijing  Clearly u work for Beijing because Japan could have done it too. China only got a strong navy the past decade but Japan has had one of the strongest for a while. How many yuan u get?
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  10.  @StayActive98  What newsflash? I know all of that, what's the relevance?
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  11.  @psikeyhackr6914  The probem with your argument (without you clarifying which you didn't) is: 1. 70% of Chinese person's wealth is tied to real estate but in the US only little wealth if at all is in cars. 2. Few people are buying cars with expectations they will make a profit on selling it later. But large number of Chinese are buying homes and extra homes as investments 3. A car adds major utility for a person. They need it and use it. EXTRA homes in China are (mostly) purely for speculative reasons sitting empty or mostly empty and hoping to resell later at a profit.
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  12.  @psikeyhackr6914  Did you even read what I wrote? >The potential wealth got poured down a rat hole. You mean Chinese with housing? B/c as I said with automobiles, it's only a small part of earnings of Americans AND it has utility (helps people get to work, get to places...you know, earn and spend money). A home is FAR more expensive and Chinse bought extra homes not for utility but to make money (investment)...which is now crashing. Buy a car at $30k then sell it 5 years later for $15k, that's $15k it cost but that provided major utility. Buy a second home for $300k and then sell that for $200k a decade later. That's $100k lost all while providing no utility.
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  13. His voice sounds so different in this 2 year old video
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  14. Every topic about Russia or China has a load of trolls spreading misinformation in the comments. This one looks like it’s no different.
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  15. Danish Blox yes
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  16.  @walli6388  lots of decent size towns in the US have airports. They are heavily subsidized
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  17. Yes they are. Look at the comment "X1 Gen KaneshiroX". It's the top comment and it's basically "As an American, I prefer China grow more economically can Mexico". It had 4.4k likes. Then seconds later, 4k. Then 3.3k, then 3.0k then 2.9k seconds ago when I checked. Bought some likes and YT caught on.
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  18. US GDP Growth has surpassed China. Fewer and fewer economist now believe China's GDP will surpass US and that's using the 'official' (inflated) GDP from China. Most of the west reached upper income level so being stagnant at upper income is MUCH better than where China is headed. China's annual GDP growth is now roughly half of what Japan, Taiwan, South Korea were when they were at the same GDP per capita as China.
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  19.  @ileutur6863  "Those aren't biases, they're objective verifiable facts. " This is a flat out wrong way to argue. Facts can be bias in how you present them and what you ignore from facts. It's like a pro Putin person making a video of how Putin helped Russia in the 2000's and don't discuss any bad things that Putin did and exaggerate with suggestions about how much Putin's involvement was in the economy bouncing back -- all while ignoring that oil prices were at historical lows in the 90's and surged in the 2000's. A video with "objective verifiable facts" can have biases and not tell the whole story.
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  20. Hey, it's the SEE SEE PEE account! How are you X1 Gen KaneshiroX? Buying up the likes for your comment?
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  21.  @dianapennepacker6854  Brazil has a combination of cheap labor and decently educated and nice cities along with good natural resources. They really should be doing far better. Philippines is probably going to be more service sector -- since a lot of them speak English, they are often involved in customer service, accounting, etc.
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  22.  @ZalamaTheDragonGod  technology isn’t heavily influenced by capitalism yet it was capitalism that has driven it the most. Okay comrade. That’s why Soviet cars, computers, video games, etc were the most popular in the world
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  23. Florida only ranked 31 out of 50 states in terms of arable land and Florida is a big state. Most of the souther 1/3 of Florida is not arable
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  24. This is interesting post. 1. Yes, similar to Japan i the 90's except Japan had reached high income while China is about 1/3 (or less) the GDP per capita that Japan was in back in the 90's. 2. Demographic problem of China is indeed worse than it was in 90's Japan. 3. Those internal & external conflicts are indeed making it harder for China to combat their economic problems. 4. One positive for China (at least in comparison to Japan) is that China can learn from 90's Japan and from 2008 housing market crashes around much of the world to address the problem today
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  25.  @EebstertheGreat  " You aren't wrong, but the way you wrote it is a little pessimistic" Because @João Cerceau actually is wrong in what they are suggesting.
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  26. Do you not understand the words 'slowing down'? China's GDP growth is quickly shrinking and taking A LOT OF MONEY to even keep it at or around 5%. US growth rate in 2023 was 3.3% in Q4 2023 and 5% in Q3. In addition, China has 1/5 the GDP per capita of the US and with a Shrinking growth rate while the US is back to a steady 2.5% annual growth rate. China's economic problems will only get worse as demographic AND housing crisis accelerates all while they are increasingly alienating themselves from most of their large trading partners.
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  27.  @angusyoung1448  That's such a Child like response. You work in Beijing? China's GDP growth is falling fast and will continue to fall as it's demographic AND housing crises worsen. When Taiwan, South Korea and Japan were at similar GDP per capita as China is today, they had some 7%+ annaul GDP growth for the next 20 years!! China is expected to have only about 3% annual GDP growth for next 20 years. Math probably isn't your skill but to put that in perspective, if you start with $100... 7% annual growth is $387 while at 3% that's $180. Basically China in 20 years will be at 40% of what it would have been if it had Taiwan/SK/Japan's level growth that they experienced in the 20yrs after they reached the level China has reached today.
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  28.  @angusyoung1448  Attack your comment? Why not since it's literally terrible argument meant to defend China. Explain how it doesn't make you seem like a Beijing worker when you are criticizing people for pointing out China has major economic problems that even Xi is worried about and the govt is doing everything it can to prevent a full economic collapse?
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  29.  @angusyoung1448  "an't you just present your sound reasoning without debasing other people? " I'll apologize if you admit China has conc camps of Uyghurs and is a very oppressive state that is a problem to many of its neighbors? Otherwise, it would seem like you are here to make TERRIBLE arguments in support of China.
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  30.  @louiss2441  Yes, Angus Young post was poorly written and clearly he is here to defend glorious Xi.
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  31.  @angusyoung1448  Funny how you can't even answer if China has camps of Uyghurs. No wonder the original post stated what it did...it wasn't meant to talk facts but defend glorious Xi
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  32. ITT: I saw this on half as interesting!!
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  33.  @LENZ5369  I was referring to non-hunting safaris. it's certainly a net positive. The video is unclear (though suggest net positive) on trophy hunting. "It's not like there is going to be $10k hot air balloon rides to replace killing an elephant." Except you have thousands each day on safari in some of these countries. I spent over $1k for two of us over 4 days on a safari. There were were dozens of us in this one small complex so assuming they all paid the same, that was probably over $40k in one week at that facility. I stayed in a relatively cheap place -- there were 'resorts' inside the park that would probably be 4x to 10x more expensive. These were all non hunting safaris.
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  34.  @LENZ5369  "you keep bringing in stuff that is not relevant and expanding the issue." I'm literally bringing up the relevant issues, it's you that isn't. - "This not about total tourism or whatever -this is about what is happening in that "PROTECTED" area." Like this, you refuse to understand what is relevant to the discussion. Total tourism was to fact check your suggestion of how trophy hunting safaris bring in more money. There is a difference between bringing in more money PER person vs bringing in more money in TOTAL. That's why total tourism matters. Why do you keep trying to argue that non-hunting safaris are bad because trophy hunting safaris are happening? They are not the same and some countries don't allow trophy hunting safaris, such as Kenya. Each time I try to defend the non-hunting safaris, you dish-nestly conflate it with hunting safaris. They are separate arguments and not related to each other. - "Do you honestly believe supporting 20 or 30 times more people in that park will be less damaging than the handful of rich aho?" If they only deal with the rich who want trophy hunting, there is less incentive for these poor countries to protect a much larger area of their country. - "The issue was supposed to be the wellbeing of THAT Park and if it is in fact actually being protected or simply being slowly 'used up' for profit." Ideological people with low intelligence tend to think that poor countries will simply protect lands without any profit. Are you a communist as well? You think people will just magically work their hardest for the common good to produce food and goods or do you think incentives (money) help more?
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  35.  @haochengzhai7156  "Delivery 12-28 months,". Did you not read the whole comment? I'm guessing Chinese is your first language? I said it's 12-28 months from the day a decision is made to order samples to the day the first full producition order is received. In between it's lead time of samples, testing of samples, having to re-order samples if needed, having our customer (the end product) test it and qualify it, getting every approval and ordering the first production order, lead time of that first production build, and then the delivery lead time which if it's from Asia is 4-6 weeks in transit and if from Mexico 3-5 business days.
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  36.  @haochengzhai7156  so many see see pee 50 cent here.
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  37.  @widodoakrom3938  "china manufacturing capabilities far higher than both". Oh, so 50 center doesn't think Vietnam and India are growing their manfuacturing? Or Mexico? China got that business at the start because they were very low cost and Vietnam & India are doing the same -- they are now the very low cost places.
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  38.  @后宫后  " China will replicate everything from the West and use its own system for rapid development.' Unfortunately they aren't succeeding as well as South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. China's annual GDP growth for the next 20 years is expected to be about 3%. When SK, Japan & Taiwan reached the same GDP per capita that China has today, those 3 countries had average growth of 7% for the next 20 to 30 years! China's sheer size of course means more industry but on per capita basis, they will not come close to those other 3.
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  39.  @shinobikyojune1849  Andre won't show us a source because they are here to defend China rather than to talk facts.
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  40.  @paulihuhtinen1821  yes, I know that. What’s the relevance? Is it not true global extreme poverty dropped from 45% to 10%? Is it not true that many nations went from poor to middle income or even upper income since ww2?
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  41.  @tren133  China is mostly entirely domestic market ranking 12th in export value. Mexico is a huge exporter of automobiles, ranking 5th. By value in billions of USD in 2021: 1. Germany 139.1 2. Japan 85.6 3. USA 54.7 4. South Korea 44.3 5. Mexico 33.9 12. China 22.4 By number in millions: 1. Japan 3.0 2. Germany 2.4 3. South Korea 2.0 4. China 1.6 5. USA 0.97
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  42.  @dearcoolz  China exported lot of low price costs. Germany still exported more on value. Based on your comment in this thread, are you enjoying Beijing? I'm guessing you cannot admit that millions of Uyhgurs have been sent to con.c c.mps.
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  43.  @dearcoolz  Hmmm...you cannot admit that China has sent millions of Uyghurs to some conc facilities? As expected. And the giveaway was you were ONLY defending China AND using typical talking points of the party. Who sings 'In da Club'? That's your favorite rapper.
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  44.  @psikeyhackr6914  I clearly meant 60 years. (edited 6 back to 60). What I am not understanding is the lame attempt of equating automobiles to China's HOUSING and or economic crisis. Even your respond to me provides no such answer to that.
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  45. Winston Tj “I just came from your video”. Strange kink you have
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  46. Last time I came this early I became an uncle!
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  47. I watched this video...Just In Time
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  48. THE DOG FOOD IS MADE OF SOYLENT GREEN!!
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  49. Geography is NOT a problem for China and in fact it’s been great for China. 95% of all countries have a bigger geography problem than China. So many issues with this video but here are a few: 1. Already mentioned in the video, China has a lot of fertile land. 2. Borders with Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar are NOT problems for China. While the mountainous terrain does make it hard for China to invade Southeast Asia, China is also very mountainous in that area. So how can you say it’s a problem for China when China also has the same geography? This is only a problem if China wants to invade those ‘jungle countries’. 3. Tibet (Himalayan Mountains), Gobi desert protect and mountains along Vietnam/Laos/Myanmar protect China from the south and west. Again, these are GREAT for defense of China. It does make it harder to invade those countries – but that’s almost always the case. If you argue some border is great for invading, it likely means it’s weak for defending. Rarely will a border be great for invading and great for defending. 4. The pacific ocean allows distance between China and the US. I guess the argument in this video is that any access to the ocean is a bad geography problem – but it’s access to the pacific ocean is why it’s been a great export nation.
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  50.  @gtasaints  What justifications? Are you also wanting poor people of Africa to stay poor? or are you making fun of the other guy, anonymous?
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