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

  1. This is why I trust this channel. They realized they made some mistakes, took the criticism, removed the video, then uploaded a new more accurate video.
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  2. Wouldn't it be VERY expensive to send that power to the far distances of the nearest foreign cities?
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  3. China kept the more fertile lands of Mongolia, thus far more people. But China has worked hard to erode the culture and people...nearly 80% of Inner Mongolia are Han Chinese. The city in Mongolia is also about 10 deg C colder in the winter and has less precipitation than most cities in Inner Mongolia. It's not suitable for big population.
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  4. Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst episodes so far. Too many assumptions, too over the top in those assumptions, no sources, etc. it felt like click bait title but in video form.
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  5.  @simplesimon8255  How is Moscow weather today? They paying you good?
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  6.  @dgray3771  better then supporting Russias war in Ukraine, right comrade?
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  7. I've been seeing a lot of content about the Darien gap in recent weeks or moths. NY Times podcast (The Daily) had an episode on a a reporter who did the travel through the Darien gap with migrants. It was tough. They saw at least one dead body. The major problems they discussed is that it's often hilly (ups and downs), muddy, streams, insects, very hot and humid, and not close to any civilization if you get sick or injured. And that's usually how the deaths occur - a person gets sick or injured and cannot go any further and succumbs to the conditions. They ran into one 9yr old child separated from her mother and being looked after by one of the men making the trip. The reporter falls behind to see if she can cross path with the mother. She does. The woman has blisters and possibly infections in her feet and could not keep up. She lost her daughter near some hill. if those blisters or infections were any worse, it could be her body that others see later on.
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  8. Phoenia's Productions he meant without a shot from NATO.
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  9.  @benrodir2  this shows that people make mistakes and that this Channel goes beyond others to correct mistakes. So if it stays up in this channel, i would argue it’s generally trustworthy. Nothing is 100% perfect so even trusted programs should still have be only part of your total information gathering
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  10.  @silveriver9  But they (both Soviet and China) propped up North Korea for decades. They would have folded or been forced to reform if they were not supported by Soviets and China (later only China because Russia stopped supporting them after the USSR broke up).
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  11. I’m glad they are moving the capital of Indonesia. It’s insane to have 140 million people in such a small area. Jakarta is also sinking so they need to stop the growth.
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  12.  @Marc-.  hey, I see u defend chi-na and Rus in other comments. Anything more interesting to add? The amount of water dammed by PRC on Mekong is more than Colorado River. Also, hardly any Mexicans live in that small area of Mexico between US border and where the river runs into the gulf of California
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  13. Weaknesses also include a rapidly shrinking economic growth with this year likely to be 2nd year in 3 years with gdp growth under 3%. Baking crisis already forming where many are not paying their bank loans on construction properties that have been delayed and some banks are limiting withdrawals leading to protests. And the housing market is about to crash with prices dropping already and construction been halted in many places. There is also the demographic crisis where working age population is already shrinking and total population will begin shrinking shortly
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  14. @Jgw, 100# spot on. Russia was NOT going to hold on to Alaska and US knew this as week. US also knew the only two countries that would buy it are UK and USA. Of course they weren’t going to see it to their enemy and threat UK so US was the only option. It’s easy to get a great deal when the selling party MUST sell (or lose it) and when there is only one buying party.
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  15. Wouldn’t get the views. This channel is about fear mongering or just anything that gets people worried, justified or not
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  16. It happens a lot but the extend of this one is insane. Dozens of damns?
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  17.  @darealberrygarcia  the two biggest and probably only real factor in why they didn’t connect South America to North America is that it’s too expensive to build and Maintain roads through the gap and the second reason is the huge negative impact to the environment. This video is much like most of their videos in the past year — way too alarmist and often exaggerating things such as stating the US is the reason a road hasn’t been built through the gap.
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  18.  @Stellar_Politics  " it's a cool/sad/lesser-known-fact that shows how wrong both the Soviets AND the US were in the split up of Korea." But if the US didn't get involved, wouldn't the Soviets have just muscled their way in and taken all of the Korean peninsula as a puppet state?
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  19.  @malamutehunter  yeah, sort of. What do expect Europe and US to do when cutting off Russian oil and gas?
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  20. And what’s going on around 9:40 with the blue banner saying “new frames need analyzing. Click analyze”. Is that a joke or did the team forget to remove it?
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  21.  @Stellar_Politics  " I don't think lesser evilism is an argument," But then you didn't really truly answer the question. " I'm not saying it would've been better under the Soviets, that's not the point" But it is the point. It's important that while we blame the US and other nations for their involvement, we also understand that without that intervention South Korea today would be like North Korea. So did it work better for South Korea to have the US involvement on their side?
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  22.  @Stellar_Politics  The main point of my reply: “The fact that you can't comprehend any level of criticism against a country” South Korea is flawed but its still better than 90% of the countries out there. Why can’t you admit that South Korea is a success story that lead to it becoming a wealthy nation, a democracy, and strong human rights? No country is perfect so don’t give me this “why can’t you take criticism of South Korea!” “How foolish you are to dismiss the elderly who are being neglected by the south government and forced to go homeless,” Still one of the top 30 countries in the world in the quality of care the people receive. How does that compare to North Korea where millions have died of starvation? How does it compare to communist China under Mao where 50 million were killed either in famine or cultural revolution? So you’re only argument is that South Korea is flawed – but that doesn’t mean it’s still not one of the most successful stories and better countries in the world. Unless, of course, you’re a communist that doesn’t like people having freedoms or any wealth or rights?
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  23.  @stephenjenkins7971  it’s 2023 though. The reason russias invasion is such big news is because land grab wars are thing of the past. There is basically zero chance Colombia would invade Panama now or the future if they removed the gap.
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  24. @paper plane what west involvement in 2014 Ukrainian elections? You think the west paid hundreds of thousands of protesters to go to the streets and protests after the then Russian puppet president of Ukraine was killing protesters? You think the west paid Ukrainian congress to Vote 75% in support of removing the president? Funny - all of this started when the president had for years said he was going to sign some deal with the EU and in the last minute (bribed by Putin) dropped the deal, people hit the streets in protests, then president began killing protesters which angered the people even more. But yeah, not Putin’s fault for them invading the country he tried to bribe and keep as a puppet.
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  25.  @PutXi_Whipped  "The demography argument is really stupid. China has 1.4 BILLION people" Hey 50 yuan, the economic growth of China has been falling for years now. Their working age population started shrinking in 2014 and their total population will begin shrinking shortly. I never said China won't surpass the US in terms of total GDP, I'm pointing out that on a per capita basis, their level of wealth is not going to reach the US level. This year will be the 2nd time in 3 years they have growth under 3%. They were at 10-12% from 2000-2012. They have banking and housing crises forming with people protesting in mass due to banking issues and mass number withholding payments on housing projects that are delayed. These issues are a problem for the govt which is why the govt is becoming increasingly nationalistic and warmongerings. That helps rally support.
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  26.  @6023barath  I'm bothered by the glaring mistakes that seems to be more common recently but the bigger issue I have is the alarmist tone they have on many of the geopolitical issues. They overexaggerate the possibilities of some terrible event and I think such alarmist videos can give people the wrong idea of the facts.
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  27. That’s a small town in US or Europe
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  28. Every aggressor is sacrificing money and lives for something. They don't do it unless they happen to have something big to gain. Most wars we see in recent decades are related to terrorism or threats made by one country or a civil war. What Russia did here is more in common with the ways wars were fought before WW2 -- old fashion land grabs. The last war I can think of where it was such an aggressive action was 1991 Iraq invasion of Kuwait. That was the last land grab I can think of.
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  29.  @thomaszhang3101  A few 'Zhang' here earning social credit scores.
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  30.  @Stellar_Politics  "So you pick the one statement I made", Actually, it was numerous statements and it's not a coincidence you are a tankie.The game is obvious. " because discussing the criticisms of South Korea is a bit too complex and nuanced for you" There was zero reasons for you to make such criticism of South Korea other than for you try to defend North Korea or communism -- which is of course what you were doing. So everything was just like I had thought. You can tell a lot about people based on what they decide to bring up or what they ignored. You bringing up SK like that told me you were likely a communist. "How is Mao relevant? I don't support China? " That's what you all say but a quickly defending China (Mao) every time you get a chance with "but what about the west/capitalism/US!". Ask yourself how I was confident you were a communist or far leftist before I even noticed your communist avatar (not even sure you had that avatar before).
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  31.  @donnmckee4973  But you said "Except it's not much of a weakness." It is a major weakness -- literally why they want to steal the south china sea.
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  32.  @Sweatcheck69  yes, all his comments are defending Chi-na or Rus. 5-0 ćent or pal of Pûtîn
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  33.  @bitterballs356  You aren't making any sense. " US can divert the river but China can't river to produce electricity " Wat?? It sounds more like you are defending China for starving South East Asia of it's main source of water.
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  34.  @rpb4865  Indians are biggest fanboys of their countries on YouTube these days after Chinese.
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  35.  @raifij6698  I would think 2 parts would be better for the algorithm. It's also harder to get people to watch 40min YT videos but I'm guessing they are sacrificing some potential financial earrings in order to produce more quality content which can be considered better in the long run. Most of these similar youtube channels seem to stick to 15-25min. I believe even RLL use to do that until recently.
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  36.  @PutXi_Whipped  who is Phillip and here are your .50 yuan
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  37.  @PutXi_Whipped  Its interesting that .50 yuan solider doesn't think there are protests happening in Henan because of banking problems. Doesn't think there large number of people withholding payments to banks on delayed housing construction. Doesn't think China's GDP only grew 0.4% this past quarter. Does think anything bad is happening in China.
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  38.  @PutXi_Whipped  to expand on the effect of the demographic collapse, look at Japan. Their economy stagnated the moment their population stalled and started to decline. The main reasons are many but include the following 1. Workers are a key driver in economic growth of a country. CNhas shrinking worforce so some of the gains in productivity are being offset by fewer workers. Explain it like ur 5: Start with 10 workers. see increase in productivity of 20% so now they produce 1.2x more than before. Lose one worker but stay 20% productiviy gain, it'x now 9x1.2 = 1.08x increase instead of 1.2. If offset much of that productivity gain 2. More elderly people means more social services for the elderly which means more taxes on the working age which reduces efficiency You can see CN already looking to increase taxes to pay for more and more which will increase the cost of goods and lead to fewer exports. Maybe they should teach you this in China but of course nothing negative about China can be taught there.
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  39.  @donnmckee4973  post hoc argument? You claimed China doesn’t have a weakness when the whole video is describing their weaknesses on energy. They have to make massive investments and use more costly measures to get more energy and some of those sources would be much easier to Sabotage than oil tankers. It is a weakness and the same time they are trying to reduce the weakness
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  40.  @jonathaneastwood2927  I’m China, a village is 300,000. 40,000 would be a small village
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  41.  @annoyingtuguldur8689  In English it's Genghis but Chinggis should be made the main way IMO
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  42.  @ArcAngle1117  they carved it up exactly to play on the tensions among Armenians and Azerbaijanis…it’s an old playbook. They often sent in lots of Russians to newly conquered areas as well to dilute the ethnic minority population. Russia committed holodomor in 1930’a and millions of Ukrainians died or were displaced. Russia moved in Russians to replace them, mostly in eastern Ukraine and now it’s mostly Russians there. I’m Crimea they evicted the tartars who a century ago made up majority of population and now make up a tiny percentage.
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  43.  @c4thenerd171  how is Ukraine being a rat? Isn’t Russia the one that invaded a peaceful country — twice? Isn’t Russia the one refusing other nations to decide their owns paths? Isn’t Russia the one targeting civilians in Ukraine as well as in Syria where they purposely bombed hospitals? I’m confused why you would support evil Putin — unless of course your a Russian troll
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  44.  @donnmckee4973  that’s true but also keep in mind the amount of oil will they get from Russia is only a fraction of what they need and also keep in mind the “discount” they get does not include the transportation costs of the oil which is expensive considering how far in Russia it has to travel to Chinas refineries.
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  45.  @thomaszhang3101  "Vietnam started the whole situation with encouragement from the US" China was drilling for oil/gas near Vietnam based on China's claims of most of the South China Sea. Vietnam started taking islands NEAR Vietnam as response China is BUILDING islands 1000 km from their coasts often much closer to Philippines and Indonesia. + 1000 social credits
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  46. Nebula platform has some issues. No likes or dislikes. No comments. And only one saved folder (watch later). I like to save some videos I’ve already watched but can’t do playlist.
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  47. Also, relatively few in Mexico rely on the colorado River while maybe a 50 million people in south east Asia rely on this river
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  48.  @Marc-.  Wikipedia literally lists the Tibetan plateau as the main source of water. The Mekong River Commission also cites China as one of the main factors so what are you talking about? Why do you have so many “china good” comments?
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  49. I'm glad you aren't doing as many 'doomsday' geopolitical issues lately and returning to the old ways. This was a fascinating video and I've been intrigued with Hawaii since I first visited about 5 years ago. I've done 2 trips and visited all 4 of the major visited islands. They are all so unique in their own way. 1. Oahu: The only island with a big city and a nice city at that (Honolulu). Great beaches. Some great views of the small mountains and lots of interesting little towns. Expensive and small though. Also lacking a large mountain or canyon. 2. Big Island. Complete opposite of Oahu. Beaches aren't good or just okay at best and it has no big city with Hilo & Kailua-Kona being only mid size towns (40k & 20k) but boring. However, it has the best 'other'. It has 2 huge mountains with one you can go to the top at over 13k above sea elevation. it's really cold up there. They have some amazing canyons, great active lava fields to view, and amazing world class snorkeling/scuba spots. IIIRC, one of 2 places in the world where the giant manta ray is common/predictable making for a great snorkling / scuba experience. 3. Maui: The Best beaches. No big city and mid size town is a bit boring but still better than the towns of Big Island. Road to Hana overrated (can't see much on the road other than trees) but the mountain at 10k provides some great views of the island and the valley down below. Do not recall any beautiful canyons 4. Kauai: Again, no big city. Maybe the most interesting town outside of Oahu though but almost no one else outside of that one town. The best canyons by far if you take a helicopter tour. Some great views as well if you go up the mountain -- canyons, valleys, etc. Beaches not as good as Maui or even Oahu but still very good and much better than beaches on Big Island.
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  50. It’s mostly due to agricultural use in California. That’s a whole different beast than residential and commercial water usage. It’s far more difficult to recycle water in agriculture without having major effects on the industry. But they will have to make those changes eventually
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  51.  @angriffslusticherWildoger  Exactly. Without sources there isn't much holding them back into using a lot of speculation. There is a massive difference in a video from say Caspian Report and others like him vs RLL. RLL have always been a little overly dramatic but it's become more speculative and more overly dramatic. They often state the speculative part as if it's a fact too.
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  52.  @stephenjenkins7971  also, the last true war between Latin American countries was almost a hundred years ago! 1932 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay.
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  53.  @arryn786  it was probably about 3 big mistakes but I can’t remember them I right now. I do remember the mistake about the path of the HSR line and how they said it was a mistake to hit a small city that appeared to be out of the way but in reality what the channel didn’t know was it wasn’t out of the way, it needed to already go in that direction because of the mountain range only has one viable pass in that area.
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  54.  @alexlazar4738  the video clearly shows that the Chinese part of the Mekong has major influence on the River. What’s with u 5-0 çent crowd? Bet u can’t answer what happened 1989 near Tiananmen Square? Or what’s happening in Xinjiang today?
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  55.  @abrarlabib2325  Gaddafi was killing civilians and a civil war broke out before EUROPE got involved AFTER United Nations approved an operation for a no fly zones. Nice try in trying to blame the US.
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  56.  @dreamcogs3877  that’s true of everywhere the imperialist went. They exploited those ethnic tensions which is what Soviet Union did
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  57.  @programmer1010  hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine don’t care that much to protest but they somehow cared enough to do it because they just saw others doing it? So hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are now staying back to fight Russia — I guess they don’t really care to fight, they are just doing it because others are doing it? How much you paid by the kgb?
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  58. Ethiopia damming the river potentially hurting Egypt and China damming much more water on the Mekong River that is used by about 100 million in SE Asia are two major water conflicts to keep an eye on.
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  59.  @donnmckee4973  Russia was always an option though. And the discount isn’t that cheap.
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  60. I've never been to Northern Mexico -- only Durango and south. From central mexico and south, it's very similar to Europe. I did not know that northern Mexico is more like the US in terms of housing spacing and being car centric.
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  61.  @MaticTheProto  one of the viral videos that I saw (the most viral) also made mistakes which was funny because they were made at the inaccuracies of this one. But that viral video was extremely bias in trying to defend Californias HSR
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  62.  @alexlazar4738  according to “The Hydrology of the Mekong River” study, more than 40% of the Mekong River water comes from China. What’s your source Curtis Jackson? Furthermore, from the study “In the upper part of the Lower Mekong system, at Vientiane, the flow originating from China and Burma, the so-called Yunnan Component, not only provides most of the dry-season flows, but in addition, most of the floodwater during the majority of years.”
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  63.  @alexlazar4738  oh, so now your saying that when south Vietnam needs water (dry season), the majority of the water comes from China? So water coming China is indeed extremely crucial to South East Asia but you left that important part out while pretending to say the water from China isn’t important SEA.
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  64.  @NeostormXLMAX  Literally from wikipedia: "Soviet military aid was instrumental to equipping both the North Korean and Chinese forces fighting in Korea."
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  65.  @haroeneissa790  well, English derived a lot from old Dutch (sorta…old Frisian language that was in modern day Netherlands)
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  66.  @Fauxsho94  how is the US to blame? For Gaddafi killing civilians and civil war starting then UN approved a no fly zone which europe then conducted but needed US help? So it’s somehow the US fault? Haha
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  67.  @Fauxsho94  do you think it’s wrong for US to help Ukraine and Taiwan?
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  68. We need to have that Uyghur video be public. It will be demonetized on YT so I understand him not releasing it here first but I hope that at some point not to far in the distance it gets released on YT.
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  69.  @foorack  yeah, I wonder why Vietnam would not be friends with the Country taking away it’s water and trying to take away its sea access in the South Sea?
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  70.  @ssdfrsohuiu4544  lol, you figured how to write it so it doesn’t auto removed
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  71.  @Marc-.  mr 5-0 çents, Mekong River commission literally has a whole page on the effects of the Ch-inese dams.
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  72. China is extremely damming a rice with nearly a dozen of them. Did you watch a the video? Nice “Z”‘comrade. What happened in 1989 Tiananmen Square and what’s happening in Xinjiang? Just checking to see if u cam criticize Chi-na
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  73.  @MorrisonProductions  this had numerous mistakes that I don't know what happened here. Not just getting some facts wrong but they also messed up with images like using the wrong map, not circling a city properly, and the blue banner.
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  74.  @ImEmaRose  why won’t the US allow Libya to have peace? Just because your bosses at Moscow or Beijing said so?
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  75.  @mamojebac111  “but when NATO fail”. What does that mean Ivan of Moscow?
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  76.  @NeostormXLMAX  "the USSR was traditionally one of Vietnam's strongest allies and offered crucial military aid to North Vietnam during the war."..."both the Soviet Union and China gave moral, logistic and military support to North Vietnam" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  77.  @qijixin8137  2020 protest in Mongolia as China govt tried to remove Mongolian language from schools
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  78.  @c4thenerd171  my facts are incorrect because you said so? Russian troll can’t even come up with details of how I’m wrong.
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  79. .50 Yuan soldier, what does eco-friendly have to do with the topic? Might as well start talking about what's happening to Uyhgurs?
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  80.  @1SouthernRaj  The amount of Mexicans that live near the Colorado river is in the thousands. The amount that live along the Mekong in South East Asia is a hundred million. U aren't even trying with the comparison.
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  81.  @LancesArmorStriking  hey comrade, Slava Ukrani. You have Russian flag and your other buddy here (bitterballs) has a “Z”. So you Pals of Pu-tin now defending Chi-na? Makes sense since they are defending Rus
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  82. Australia looks at Europe: wow, so many big cities near each other Europe looks at India and China: wow, so many big cities near each other
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  83.  @stevewest6133  that agriculture, especially in California Central Valley, is very lucrative agriculture.
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  84.  @donnmckee4973  "your original comment wasn't about that" @Phillips original comment was literally about the video which was indeed energy in a time of war.
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  85.  @seanhedgpeth2109  how are you in Beijing? Or Moscow? Any ways, the political videos aren’t often flawed but they are often not remotely pro US therefore I’m wondering of the huge bias you have.
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  86. Why has US gained more than Australia? Australia gets the protection a small populated country otherwise would have problems with.
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  87.  @stephenjenkins7971  Didn't stop who? you need to be specific of what countries since there is too much going on. Do you mean Russia-Ukraine? Well, Russia did sort of similar in 2008 and 2014 so it's not that unexpected . Russia was also involved in Syria for the past decade. What wars have Latin American countries been involved with against other nations in recent years? My point is that your argument doesn't hold. >Basically, it makes sense to hedge your bets rather than hoping for the goodness of another's heart. So the US or Canada should build a wall just in case?
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  88. Weaknesses also include a rapidly shrinking economic growth with this year likely to be 2nd year in 3 years with gdp growth under 3%. Baking crisis already forming where many are not paying their bank loans on construction properties that have been delayed and some banks are limiting withdrawals leading to protests. And the housing market is about to crash with prices dropping already and construction been halted in many places. There is also the demographic crisis where working age population is already shrinking and total population will begin shrinking shortly
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  89.  @robertmurray8763  I can’t imagine living that deep and isolated in a desert
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  90.  @Stellar_Politics  " I brought up what I did because I enjoy educating people and videos like this one are almost always one-sided. " It's not relevant at all to the topic thus it gave me a high degree of certainty that you are trying to defend the terrible regime of North Korea. " The fact that you were this alert to anything that went against the norms tells me " It tells you I'm aware of the games authoritarian communist play. Thus, no surprise, you're a communist! " I'm more concerned about the encouragement of critical thinking especially against medias" You say that while you have an extreme bias of a terrible ideology. LOL.
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  91.  @maazahmedpoke  You are in a RLL comment section. RLL literally has a video on how the PRC is forcing ROC to claim mainland China and Mongolia. In fact, ROC has publicly stated Mongolia is a free independent country for 20 years now but changing the constitution will lead PRC to send military into Taiwan.
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  92.  @Fauxsho94  our Foreign policy? This is about Libya not Iraq so nice attempt to defend ur dishonest argument by trying to switch it. You acknowledge that Gaddafi had killed some civilians and a civil war broke out and UN then sanctioned a no fly zone which europe then began to enforce and then got help from US? You acknowledge those facts? And then after acknowledging those facts, why single out the US if it’s Gaddafi fault then UN then Europe than US?
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  93.  @anonymoose_yt  so one politician from the US joined the protesters and it means the US was behind the whole protest movement? Did John McCain pay hundreds of thousands to protests? Did John McCain pay 75% of Ukraine’s government to vote to remove the Putin puppet Ukrainian president out of office? Did John McCain pay the the Russian puppet Ukrainian president to kill many protesters? Did John McCain pay Russia to then invade Ukraine and annex some lands? So how isn’t this Putin’s fault for twice invading this peaceful nation? For bribing Viktor Yanukovich to go back on his EU deal he promised the people? For annexing Ukrainian land?
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  94.  @1SouthernRaj  To add to the problems, not only is Ch-ina taking away much of the river flow from the mekong that Vietnam relies on, but Ch-ina is attempting to take away the south china sea from Vietnam and the others in the region. There are lots of reasons Vietnam doesn't like the PRC.
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  95. To think how much better the region would be if China wasn’t trying to steal the southern China sea and if it became peaceful with Taiwan instead of threatening to invade.
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  96. Drawn out is where where money is at
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  97.  @vyros.3234  the embargo (or sanctions) doesn’t include food, medicine and a few other goods. People think all trade is banned but it’s not.
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  98.  @gilangzaidan8454  salt is one of the cheapest products out there so it has little value. Desalination is very expensive so it’s only used in areas with literally no other options for water and they pay a lot for that water.
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  99.  @b.cdrisk2035  US has had some of the best economic performance since 2020. Unemployment hit near record lows 3.5%. Not to say there can’t be improvement but just that you aren’t being very honest about the description of the US
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  100.  @donnmckee4973  It was the VERY start of the video. It seems he he at least saw the start of the video and the time it shows it's released is not the time it actually becomes public. They are often off by some amount of time.
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  101.  @eymiporahi  You're right, I kind of put that in the 'environmental' bucket I mentioned. I've watched/listened a few videos/podcasts on the Darien Gap and that came up twice. It wasn't just cattle but other possible plant or domesticated animal concerns that benefit from having a gap so it doesn't spread easily.
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  102. China does have a lot problems and many are hitting them now. Their economic Growth is shrinking with 0.4% gdp growth this past quarter and expected annual growth this might even even be under 3%. That would be two out of 3 years with growth under 3%. They have housing crisis already forming with pricing starting to drop and construction of many new units being halted. This has lead to many people withholding payments to the banks on home loans. The housing might crash any moment. Then there is the banking crisis forming. Lots of banks are having problems and some already reach the point where they have restricted how much people can withdraw leading protests in Henan that were violently stopped by officers dressed in plain clothes beating on the protesters. There is also the looking demographic crisis — working age population is already shrinking and the total population will begin to shrink shortly all due to the one child policy. And in addition to all that, there is of course the energy problem discussed in this video.
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  103. What a wonderful video showing the horrors of war. All this because Putin wants to be remembered like Peter the Great.
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  104.  @chrispoop  not only geopolitical and geography but all the videos are increasingly alarmist and overly dramatic now.
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  105.  @golagiswatchingyou2966  Ha, just realized your funny username.
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  106.  @robertmurray8763  I’ve been to remote areas of the mainland 48 states in the US but it’s not anywhere near as remote as Alice Spring. Maybe 2-3 hours from the next settlement of any decent size. I guess the only parts that’s would compare to Australia is Alaska.
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  107. So what your saying is that China is indeed hurting the hundred million who live downriver in south east Asia but it’s okay because it’s better for China?
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  108.  @alexlazar4738  U, just like Marc, have the same obvious post pattern. Defending all things Ch-ina and defending Rus invasion of Ukraine
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  109.  @alexlazar4738  u Wu.ma.os are all the same. U defend Chi-na on everything and leave out important data while suggesting something completely different from the truth. You just pointed out how water from Mekong coming from China is crucial to SEA but initially ignored that data and suggested water from China isn’t important to SEA. U also defend Russia as expected. Bet you defend the gé.noc.îde in Xinjiang too?
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  110.  @hkwopczk1  ",mongolia plateau is just geographic conception" Just like China. I guess China shouldn't exist. "also its deeply integrated into china" There are huge differences between Mongolians and Chinese.
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  111. I would appreciate all YouTubers with educational content post their sources or at least mention some of the biggest sources they used.
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  112.  @Fauxsho94  what video you sent? Where?
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  113.  @ABC-ABC1234  you work for Beijing. You weren’t not honest about what the world thinks of Taiwan (no they do not recognize Taiwan belonging to the CCP). Also Libya today is a sovereign state.
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  114.  @ArcAngle1117  I’m totally going to agree with you…people defending Russia in others comments like you do make you a totally reasonable person. /s Slava Ukraini
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  115. How times change. Egypt was the biggest wheat exporter during Roman times and now is a major importer. China was a major producers of soy / soy beans and now it’s the biggest importer.
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  116.  @1SouthernRaj  Also, I see u r a wu.ma.o. Defending Chi-na everywhere? The video perfectly shows how Chi-na is destroying the Mekong and in other comments you are basically saying "No they aren't" as if u didn't watch the video. Just to make sure ur not not a party member, what happened in 1989 Tiananmen Square? Is there are ge.noc.ide in Xinjiang going on?
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  117. @Luke Tremblay from the Mekong River commission: “In the upper part of the Lower Mekong system, at Vientiane, the flow originating from China and Burma, the so-called Yunnan Component, not only provides most of the dry-season flows, but in addition, most of the floodwater during the majority of years. “ So what’s ur point?
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  118. @Luke Tremblay Wû.má.ô, what happened 1989 near Tiananmen Square and what’s happening in Xinjiang right now?
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  119. fun fact, Sinsagpore and Thailand invest more than China in Malaysia. Japan invests almost the same as China. Net foreign direct investment from Japan and US combined are more than China.
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  120.  @Apagadorable  Iceland 's processing are RIGHT on the coast making transpiration costs cheap vs very inland remote Mongolia. And Iceland's geothermal is basically free but it costs a lot up front to build energy infrastructure in Mongolia.
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  121.  @Owlr4ider  "To RLL's defense, South Korea's shrinking population hurts its economy a lot, and will continue to do so in the near future. " But it's VASTLY overblown by the video. South Korea may see shrinking population but it's getting stronger militarily by working more and more with US and Japan and other powers. Plus South Korea is building up their military more than it had in the past when they relied more on just the US.
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  122.  @achilles1373  "Also the video is speculation." That's what bothers me as it seems to portray it as facts but it is speculation and thus cannot provide a source for that.
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  123.  @Owlr4ider  “has yet to lead to Russian being nukes but it’s not out of the question”. What? You’re basically just saying that since anything is possible, you can then say whatever you want and call it a possibility! So I guess Macron might go shoot a bunch of dogs so he must be crazy! Also, in you’re scenario about nukes being used on Russia, you had to add ANOTHER scenario on top of it. So you just admitted the invasion of Ukraine isn’t the same as North Korea using a nuke — because you literally had to add in a scenario that Russia would use nukes. The point is the invasion isn’t what makes Putin like Kim using nukes…it’s Putin using nukes that would be like Kim using nukes.
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  124.  @Owlr4ider  the fact you had to add into the argument Putin using nukes just shows how dishonest you are being in order to defend RLL
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  125.  @williamdavis1629  Hello Beijing Worker. Or is is Moscow?
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  126.  @Richard_Gonda  300km and your might be two countries over
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  127. Can we cut some of this BS defending Russia? Russia didn’t invade Ukraine because of national security concerns that NATO would invade Russia. Russia wants to control an empire and Putin’s own pre war speech literally says a much by talking about Russian empire of the past. They also believe Ukraine literally should belong to Russia. NATO won’t invade Russia because a nuclear armed nation hasn’t been invaded. Furthermore, successful invasions of Russia in the past were few compared to invasions of most other European countries so this worry they have because of past invasions doesn’t hold. And on China, how ironic that China wants back the lands taken in the 1800’s and yet is not willing to give up all the lands it took in the 1700’s….Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, Inner Mongolia, etc.
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  128.  @slevinchannel7589  tankies like u defending China and Russia might not know Afghanistan war was 100% legit and UN approved
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  129.  @b.cdrisk2035  questionable that Australia has a higher standard of living — its close though. But Australia has lots of natural resources for a country with 23 million people
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  130.  @Michael-tc1dm  I beleive your joking but the Murray River just doesn’t have much water flowing out of it. Compared to Mississippi that is. Mississippi River has a hit 110x more water discharge.
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  131.  @J_X999  ambition yes. Doesn’t mean they are there yet. I’m glad you at least think they are major problem and threat to word stability and most certainly to regional stability. 10 years ago china had basically little technological ability, now they have a growing amount but generally well behind the US. But 10 years from now and if especially if they steal technology, they will be a major threat to the world.
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  132. Don’t really have a choice, right w8ma0? They cut oil and gas from Russia so need it somewhere else
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  133.  @thepestilence7939 ”to be fair”. Nah, it’s still way too alarmist and click bait of a title
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  134. Better watch out Paraguay, your next!!
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  135.  @danielutriabrooks477  But US was small when it splintered from the UK. 2.5 million people only. >The reason as for the lack of wars between south amercans countries is not due to lack of disputed territories Oh, it's a big reason. They settled those disputes mostly in the 1800's. > but the outside interference that has stalled my region. So those outside interference will continue to prevent wars. > During the Cold War Those were civil wars. We are talking about a LATAM country invading another. >. But american dominance is clearly waning, the disputes are still there and the military capabilities of the countries are rising None are remotely big enough to do a successful invasion. And Colombia is closely allied with the US so they would be under extreme pressure if they tried to invade anyone. But who would they invade? What border dispute is such a big problem for them?
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  136. Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst episodes so far. Too many assumptions, too over the top in those assumptions, no sources, etc. it felt like click bait title but in video form. This channel has been doing more and more overly dramatic videos.
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  137. 4:24 india, Pakistán, indonesia and Bangladesh are home to a combinen 800 Billion people. Yes, Billion with a B.
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  138.  @applejuice9468  nah, too harsh of a term. It just means the rosy projections from even 3 years ago are unlikely and China will see much smaller growth than expected. It’s also why many think 2020-2030 is the time they are most dangerous as they hit these issues Winnie might take steps to use nationalism to get support so people can forget their slowing economic growth
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  139. And if you just worded it badly, yeah—e everything is totally false on the evidence. We can’t trust the mass number Uyghurs telling their stories. Can’t trust international humanitarian organizations like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch. Can’t trust the various reputable media that has investigted it. Can’t trust the satellite images showing Islamic sites disappearing nor images of the schools that happen to have prison walls and watch towers. Can’t trust the leaked and hacked government and police documents that were verified by a collection of experts. It’s all one big coordinated plan by the international community and what China says is the truth
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  140. There are two MAJOR reasons for Texas's population and economy. Oil (&gas) and warm weather. The tax revenues from oil & gas serve basically as subsidies for other industries and for income taxes. They can keep corporate taxes low and income taxes low because The Texas oil and natural gas industry has paid $24.7 billion in state and local taxes and state royalties in 2022. The weather of course is also another reason people are migrating to the south and southwest in general
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  141.  @TohaBgood2  you never pointed out what you caught wrong? Sounds like you a bunch of BS.
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  142.  @henli-rw5dw  XJ gen ide successful for Han supremacist like you. It’s not successful for Ughurs. But all that oil lead you Han success so all is good. Uyghurs get free room and board with beatings In the wonderful -1 star accommodations detention centers
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  143. Whoa, another 5-0 çenter that can’t take criticism of his country.
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  144.  @sosoable  calling real life lore brainwashing media while you use CCP media. Good one
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  145.  @sosoable  yes, BBC is the same as China media that is run by the party for the sole purpose of defending the party only. While BBC has various stories and investigations that help take down government leaders. Same thing, right?
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  146. Like all videos about China, be prepared for hundred if not thousands of their supporters (most using vpn) to flood these comment sections.
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  147.  @golagiswatchingyou2966  PutXi Whipped shows up to all of the videos about China.
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  148.  @Sweatcheck69  oh, he subscribes to JaYoe nation which is some westerners paid by the Chi-na govt to spread pröpagánda. Marc is most certainly a Wu-ma-o
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  149.  @alexlazar4738  so once again, u are admitting that for several months the water flow from China is very crucial but you seemed to want to Ignore that like u want to ignore answering what happened 1989 near Tiananmen Square or what’s happening in Xinjiang. U aren’t allowed to criticize ur bosses?
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  150.  @alexlazar4738  my point is that you are heavily suggesting China isn’t causing any problems so you stick to the “16%” number but ignore that it could stave a hundred million people of water for months. Imagine thinking starving someone for 4 months is okay because you will provide them food or water at other times.
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  151.  @Marc-King777  U a see-see-pee member or what? That was the worst response I've seen.
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  152.  @kimcarrier9834  that’s not accurate at all. China is doing that when there are 100 million people relying on that water. US did Hoover dam when when there was basically no one in Mexico in that region
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  153.  @kimcarrier9834  what’s the point about Tibet? The water upstream doesn’t matter.
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  154.  @kimcarrier9834  next time 五毛, try not to be so obvious
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  155.  @kimcarrier9834  is the going rate still 0.5 RMB?
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  156.  @kimcarrier9834  you probably will argue concentration camps are normal as well?
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  157.  @kimcarrier9834  yes, colorado rivers being dammed up is an ecological problems. Something countries didn’t know nor care about 100 years ago!! But Beijing is doing this today when we know the ecological problems AND there are a hundred million people depending on the water downriver
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  158.  @kimcarrier9834  is the going rate still .50 RMB? I’m sure u believe nothing horrible going on in Xinjiang, right?
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  159. @莱克多巴猪 I’m guessing it’s late than .50 RMB for ur work?
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  160.  @phillipwright7022  "China should build more dams on the mekong to punish dirty southeast asian countries " Spoken like a true Beijing worker. hahaha
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  161. Very good points. The US could shoot and destroy those islands. However, that does mean it's an added level of defense the US and allies must get by if CN were to invade TW which would delay the help. I think what it mostly is for is pure power projection -- CN wants to steal the south island sea and believes such power projection will lead to eventually others giving up and just giving CN a bigger portion of the sea. Or use it as negotiations such as "okay, we will remove the bases if the UN recognizes this part of the sea as ours" .
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  162.  @Normaledit308  how do you like working for Beijing?
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  163.  @Normaledit308  so US doesn’t own the oil in Iraq. So why bring it up and say US stole oil?
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  164.  @Stellar_Politics  "South Korea is quite a terrible country right now," And there we have it, I knew where you stood and especially since the last comment I noticed your communist colors. South Korea is one of the richest countries in the world and one of the few true democracies Asia. Yet somehow you don't think they are much better than North Korea where millions have died of starvation, possibly hundreds of thousands have fled in the past few decades, and they have build a nuclear weapons program and threatening to destroy the world or other countries. Any reasonable person (i.e. non communist) would see South Korea is not only a HUGE improvement over NK but also SK today is one of the more successful countries.
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  165.  @NeostormXLMAX  So, is No_Guard Moscow or Beijing worker?
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  166.  @maazahmedpoke  I love when 50 yuan soldiers bring up constiation of ROC but leave out that it's China that is forcing ROC to keep those old claims. Really outs those people as 50 yuan solider.
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  167. Dutch when arriving near modern day Perth : “Yeah, the weather is just too nice here”
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  168.  @TheBc99  yes, Netherlands was small so they didn’t have ability to colonize or be everywhere. Indonesia was very profitable for them so they focused there
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  169. Half the world doesn't care about anyone but their own. The other half care but like most things, they will only put so much support behind it. We do need to raise more awareness -- it's how you get more people to care and get people to pay a higher price to fix the issue.
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  170. Belarus won’t invade. It mentioned in the video why - Belarus doesn’t have that many soldiers and the dictator needs those soldiers at home to keep his power. If they leave to fight in Ukraine, not only are the soldiers tied up fighting but the people will have an even bigger reason to over throw the dictator.
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  171. Starting to see the defenders of the Uighur genocide show up. It’s 7 am in China so they are making their way to this video
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  172. I feel like I’m on cocaine as I watched this
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  173.  @Silver_Prussian  South korea and Taiwan and Japan all transitioned to democracies. Communist countries other than a collapse such as USSR rarely make that transition. They might drop their communist economic policies for more capitalism but they don’t drop their authoritarian one party control. Just look China North Korea Vietnam Laos Cuba.
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  174.  @abdoeljafre3000  Gaddafi did kill civilians. It’s well documented. Maybe not in whatever oppressive country you live in where the government controls the news.
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  175.  @ABC-ABC1234  destruction of what sovereign state my Beijing friend? Yeah, the guy who said nearly the whole world recognizes Taiwan as part of the PRC which is not remotely true.
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  176.  @VRuler  I’m sorry but are you saying Gaddafi wasn’t oppressive?? The dictator? Who arrested opposition? And who started the civil war by attacking the people? You also never answered if India thinks they would have been better off with the previous rulers considering all the violence and death after they removed the previous rulers.
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  177. Unfortunately the 700,000 people who have fled Russia are 700k fewer people to try to remove Putin and or his party from power.
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  178.  @DUDIDUAN  is you’re username short for CCP?
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  179.  @programmer1010  " I’m not saying they shouldn’t have tried to get rid of corrupt " But your saying they didn't really care and it was all the CiA or something. "that revolutions have organisers and unfortunately they are supported by some foreign companies and countries" Name who was the top organizer and how he is a shill of some company?? And how did this shill get hundreds of thousands to hit the streets very quickly??
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  180. Nice try to defend your China by trying to switch the topic.
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  181.  @cerberus276  @so so is a compete .50 yuan soldier. He even has videos that are anti India and pro China
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  182. Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst episodes so far. Too many assumptions, too over the top in those assumptions, no sources, etc. it felt like click bait title but in video form.
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  183. In summary, I agree with you. And the content here is becoming more and more overly dramatic making everything look like the worst possible scenario
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  184. China doesn’t care or will ask for a lot in return
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  185. @Luke Tremblay “clearly mention the benefits of building dams for energy” lol, u Wu.mâ.os are all the same. The dams in China are to benefit china not SEA. Just wow. So what did happen 1989 near Tiananmen? The fact you can’t answer tells me you are wû.ma.o
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  186. TL;DW: 95% of Australia is empty because Australia lost a war to Emus who to this day control 95% of Australia.
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  187. you trolls — NATO didn’t go to Syria. In Iraq they were there ONLY NON-COMBAT role. Change your talking points you trolls. Libya and Serbia were UN sanctioned. Yes, the UN (which has Russia as permanent member of security council) voted that military involvement should be taken. You Putin trolls working hard.
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  188.  @4TKRACE  standing on Russian borders? You mean when Russia put 150,000 troops on Ukrainian border? Lol, you russian bots get paid by the post? Notice you could not refute the fact check I provided. You trolls are all the same - spread lies and move on.
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  189.  @4TKRACE  btw, you look like a Russian troll when you lie and then can’t defend your lies.
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  190.  @gawkthimm6030  this video could have been 15 min
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  191. It's all the party and the values. Sure, the people of China could be so much better off if China worked properly within the international community. Instead, they are alienating countries that represent half the world GDP (Europe, North America, Oceania, East Asia). Why? Because projecting power is how the party believes it can best keep power. Same reason Putin sent 200k troops into Ukraine.
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  192.  @Marc-.  JaYoe Nation is literally PRC propaganda. And u subscribe to them of course.
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  193. Not gonna lie, this was one of the worst episodes so far. Too many assumptions, too over the top in those assumptions, no sources, etc. it felt like click bait title but in video form.
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  194.  @SergioR00  to me it wasn’t that there flat out wrong things said, it their interpretation and the assumptions they make that were often bad. It seems like they are making more and more content that is overly dramatic and making big assumptions. I saw the video a couple days ago on nebula so trying to remember but the demographic argument was way over blown. Sure, South Korea does have low birth rates and faces a future demographic crisis but that doesn’t mean SK is getting weaker. SK is getting better and better weapons and forming stronger relationships with US and even japan. So whatever weakness arises from the demographic crisis is more than offset with building stronger alliances and spending more on defense. Plus, none of that matters because South Korea has Allies with nukes and SK has massive conventional weapons that could wipe out much of North Koreas population. Any nuclear use or even invasion of South Korea will be done be a leader they went completely crazy/mad and that leader would have done that regardless of South Koreas demographic situation
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  195.  @Owlr4ider  Russia invading Ukraine does not mean Russia will be destroyed in nukes. So how is that war relevant to Kim destroying his own country?
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  196.  @Owlr4ider  " I mean the whole " world police" model is framed and designed from the original British colony model." And then you refuse to clarify you terrible argument. You do agree that Russia invading Ukraine isn't going to lead to Russia being nuked, right? And the video talks about how North Korea would potentially use nukes which would indeed result in North Korea being destroyed in retaliation. So I ask again, how is is Russia invading Ukraine relevant to Kim destroying his own country? The point is that Putin did make a huge mistake that will likely hurt his country but it's not the same mistake as Kim destroying his own country and therefore you can't say "Kim will use nukes because Putin invaded Ukraine".
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  197.  @juniper9836  This video was anything but American propaganda. And this channel is anything but American propaganda -- it's often very critical of the west or US. So I don't believe you're American.
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  198.  @Owlr4ider  Notice you won't say that Russia invading Ukraine isn't going to lead to Russia being nuked? Seems like that destroyed your whole argument about trying to compare Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Kim starting a nuclear war. " My point when comparing Putin to Kim was that irrational leaders tend to do irrational things." But Russia's invasion is not the irrational thing that would lead to Russia being destroyed unlike what you and RLL describe about NK.
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  199.  @Owlr4ider  " ​ I don't understand what you're trying to argue. That South Korea becoming a stronger military power somehow makes it more important for the US to not abandon when they need US assistance most" No, I'm saying that the South Korea is not only forming STRONGER alliances with other nations effectively creating an Asian NATO of sorts and that South Korea is also building up their own military -- thus the video was wrong to suggest South korea is getting weaker or will be getting weaker. This isn't hard to understand so why are you struggling with it? You just want to defend RLL? Again, how does a country that is forming stronger alliances and building up their mlitary as well lead to that country becoming weaker and thus more susceptible to an attack by NK?
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  200.  @Owlr4ider  "What does the British colony model have to do with the US' 'world police' role? " You brought up the world police and British colony model
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  201.  @hogscattle7877  I think my biggest problem with the video, specifically the narrator, is the tone used with each assumption. It comes off as fear mongering IMO. I've seen other videos mention similar things about North Korea but it was a lot less fear mongering and more straight forward.
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  202.  @drinkbuje2807  given the history of India, If it was Muslims on the island, India would have evicted them.
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  203. There have been 50 years of more to invade North Korea and they didn’t. It’s a bit more complicated than saying “nukes”. North Korea is also very close to their enemy and with powerful non nuclear weapons, it could already go so much damage. Add in their ties to China and you see how they are very different than the other examples mentioned
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  204.  @Max_R_MaMint  Sadly he is. Repeating moscow / beijing talking points.
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  205.  @YourMajesty143  the video said energy wasn’t a supplemental reason — it said they believe the main cause is indeed the energy aspect. Did YOU watch the video? Or you just want play the Russian troll here? Also, NATO would never invade or attack Russia first. They just proved that by not helping Ukraine fight off the invading Russians. But we know that Russia will invade peaceful Allies of NATO and therefore Russia is the one that is a threat. By Russias logic which you might be supporting, NATO would be okay to invade Belarus since Belarus allowed Russia to use their country as part of the invasion. Would you defend NATO if they invade Belarus?
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  206.  @YourMajesty143  “Putin is incredibly predictable” and yet almost all the experts and leaders still didn’t think Putin wouldn’t be dumb enough to invade Ukraine. Now Russia will be economically destroyed and set back for decades. NATO also didn’t sign any agreement with Russia that they would not accept any Eastern European nations. Russia did sign an agreement that they would respect Ukraines sovereignty and not invade — but broke it in 2014 and again in 2022. Surely you must agree that Putin is not trustworthy, is Evil and is extremely dangerous? He’s targeting civilians in Ukraine just like he has done in Syria (even targeting hospitals) where he defends the leader that is dropping chemical weapons.
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  207.  @wilhelm7129  yourmajesty143 is just repeating Russias talking point and ignoring that Russia is the one that invaded a peaceful nation, the one that is targeting civilians in Ukraine and did so in Syria while Russia supports the leader using chemical weapons, and that Russia is now threatening to use nuclear weapons as part of their INVASION.
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  208.  @YourMajesty143  you know — Russia could have ignored all of this if Putin didn’t want to keep former Soviet states as his puppet states. If he respected sovereignty of those nations. He just proved to all of Russians former colonies that Russia will use force to keep them his colonies. And the whole Ukraine issue started when a president of Ukraine who promised to sign a deal with the EU was then bribed (or threatened) by Russia to back out of the deal in the last moments. People began to protests and the president decided to start killing protesters thus leading to much larger mass protests that had him flee and lead to 75% of congress voting to remove him from office. Putin then decided to invaded Ukraine. Had Putin not invaded or had not bribed (threatened) Ukraines president— none of this would have happened. Now Russias economy is crumbling and will be set back for decades making Russia weaker — all because Putin wanted more and more power. Now he’s threatening to use nuclear weapons after he’s already been targeting civilians in Ukraine because Putin has gone mad.
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  209. totally going to believe someone that subs to wû.má.os like Daniel Dumbrill — paid by PRC for propaganda
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  210.  @timlinator  we think long term? Well, if you wanted to go all in on water desalination now you would bankrupt the state. They reason they have limited it’s use is to reduce economic impact and it will stay limited use until technology gets cheaper or they are forced to find more water
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  211.  @timlinator  long term it will get cheaper but that’s why desalination isn’t much of a solution today because it isn’t cheap yet. I would argue they are just experimenting at this point.
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  212.  @timlinator  and I simply pointed out from the start that there is a long way to go for it be viable solution.
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  213.  @timlinator  I hope it Moves faster. That’s why I mentioned I think they have done some desalination more for experiment to test it out and see if it can be improved
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  214.  @b.cdrisk2035  okay Marx
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  215.  @brianlong2334  highly depends on what metric you use.
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  216.  @brianlong2334  oh, we are talking about different things. I used Wikipedia discharge and Mississippi had accidentally used the max discharge of 86,800 M3S discharge to Murray at 767. That’s roughly 110x more. But 16,800 m3s is the average discharge and should have been used — that’s 22x more for Mississippi
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  217.  @brianlong2334  Australia is out there by itself so it needs to spend more than say much of Europe but Australia would need to spend a lot more of US wasn’t helping to protect Australia.
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  218.  @J_X999  prove to us JX 210 isn’t w8ma0. Acknowledge the gén Cide in Xinjiang
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  219.  @J_X999  95% of what China produces is poor quality though. They still have 5% that isn't poor quality.
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  220.  @PhillipPlus  The 50 yuan army is after you. Putxi Whipped is found in any video about China.
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  221.  @henli-rw5dw  No, you said Plaza accords was about food security for Japan. In addition, Germany also got the exact same treatment and there were 5 parties involved in the Plaza Accords. You're just trying to use talking points of which you have no understanding.
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  222.  @LOLLOL-kg4dz  And youre repeating nothing but CCP propgnda. Let me guess, you don't think anything terrible is going on in Xinjiang?
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  223.  @davenobody407  I’m talking about those who came to Hong Kong in the past 20-30 years. They are mostly party loyalists- which a w8ma0 would know so stop pretending you don’t
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  224.  @henli-rw5dw  the result of the plaza accord was economic stagnation of Japan for 30 Years and yet there were 5 parties involved and Germany got the exact same treatment yet they didn’t have the same issues. Japans economic growth was shrinking in 5 years before plaza and then increased in 5 years after. So why didn’t Germany suffer same result? Why did Japan go from shrinking growth to increased growth? Why was Japan still stagnant 10yrs and 20 years after the early 90’s drop? If it’s still happening many years later it would suggest there is some structural issue and not plaza issue.
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  225.  @henli-rw5dw  but hey, you switching eBay thing. It was food security before? Is you’re talking about semiconductors? Just an FYI, Japan was given lots of preferential trade from the US which by the 80’s were stating to hurt the US.
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  226.  @alexlazar4738  according to “The Hydrology of the Mekong River” study, more than 40% of the Mekong River water comes from China. What’s your source Curtis Jackson? Furthermore, from the study “In the upper part of the Lower Mekong system, at Vientiane, the flow originating from China and Burma, the so-called Yunnan Component, not only provides most of the dry-season flows, but in addition, most of the floodwater during the majority of years. “
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  227.  @Member_zero  what do you mean EU supports the invasion of Azerbaijan? They have condemned it. Why make things up? Oh, you’re Ivan from Moscow! And trying to justify Russia invading Ukraine!
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  228.  @Member_zero  why would EU block Azerbaijan oil? They just blocked Russian oil meaning europe is having energy issue. They can’t afford to do it. So what’s your point Vlad from Moscow?
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  229.  @Member_zero  oh, so they could afford it if they didn’t try to stop Russia? So you’re saying that Russia invading a Ukraine and ending the lives of possibly hundreds of thousands while annexing their lands is worse than Azerbaijan attacking Armenia to get back in control land that is internationally recognized as Azerbaijan and with only a few hundred dead? Wow, Igor from Moscow, you are so obvious!
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  230.  @lukearts2954  europe literally started cutting back on Russian fuel and had plans to almost eliminate it entirely by end of 2022. Why spread mis info that europe didn’t? I do agree that the fuel sanctions don’t go far enough if China and India will just buy it up but at least two things happen: 1. Russia is forced to sell it less to China and India so they take a hit 2. Russia won’t be able to use that over Europe anymore
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  231.  @lukearts2954  never a plan to (mostly) eliminate? That’s why they began to full of their reserves? So the following are false: - “EU pledges to cut Russian gas imports by two-thirds before the end of the year” - “EU reveals its plans to stop using Russian gas” Why spread misinfo?
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  232.  @lukearts2954  I cant wait until you tell me that the reports form BBC and France24 and Reuters were lies!!
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  233.  @bmbullman  discuss what with them? Unfortunately europe needs oil and gas right now after cutting off Russia. Can’t fight every Petro dictator or else you end up with no gas and oil. You agree?
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  234.  @bmbullman  no, the discussion here is trying to shame europe and US For getting gas or oil from Azerbaijan. It’s a silly discussion these people are having
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  235.  @Shoelessjoe78  US also doesn’t need oil form Central Asia. What the US cares about is stable oil prices for world that EVERYONE benefits from. OP (Jaden Nguyen) is just an anti American and pro Russian. His last name is Vietnamese and Vietnam is allied with Russia.
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  236.  @lukearts2954  separate website and separate country for US viewers? So everyone leaving comments here is from the US??
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  237.  @lukearts2954  are you in Beijing or Moscow?
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  238.  bastiat  who is “we”? And where did I say Biden killed “our” infrastructure?
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  239.  bastiat  wait, you’re saying Biden ordered the operation to take out Nordstream2? You’re evidence? What news do you use for sources, Russia’s RT? Grayzone?
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  240.  bastiat  "you apparently cant read he shut down the energy star pipe line 3 days into office" Is that why Russia shut it down for maintains in July?? If Biden had it shut it down, how did Russia shut it down later? - "a man whos most famous moments in politics WERE LYING IN TWO ELECTIONS " Are you talking about Trump 2016 and 2020? - "AND SUPPORTING SEGREGATION." You are talking about Trump!
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  241.  bastiat  keystone is in Canada/US and you mentioned controlling europes energy. Why are you all over the board? And the lie about the segregation too—- what’s up with you?
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  242.  bastiat  and help Armenia? Make up your mind — you want the west to intervene everywhere or nowhere?
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  243.  @metkic94  US is usually top 3 but it’s also by far the biggest user with 330 million people and heavily industrialized so they don’t export their own. They do have refineries that buy oil from all over. What’s your point though about US being a major oil producer?
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  244.  @aptalyoutube.  did not send what?
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  245.  @ArmenianBishop  why 30 pieces of silver?
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  246.  @_snonce  what isn’t better?
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  247.  @DavidWilliams-nr6uk  qanon, if that was true it means Australia has had over 40 years since it to remove it. Lol
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  248.  @DavidWilliams-nr6uk  “Whitlam later wrote that Kerr did not need any encouragement from the CIA” “
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  249.  @DavidWilliams-nr6uk  “Former ASIO chief Sir Edward Woodward has dismissed the notion of CIA involvement,[173] as has journalist Paul Kelly.[174][175] Justice Robert Hope, who had twice been royal commissioner investigating the Australian intelligence agencies, including ASIO, stated in 1998 that he had attempted to locate and interview a witness who had allegedly given in-camera evidence to the Church Committee about CIA involvement in the dismissal. He was unable to find either the witness or testimony, despite having the support of "a senior [US] senator".[176] In his top secret supplementary report, however, Hope dismissed the idea of a CIA involvement in Australian politics.”
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  250.  @DavidWilliams-nr6uk  Qanon, huh? So what government do you like? China? Russia?
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  251.  @MichaelK1710  so you’re a far right wing trumper. Got it
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  252.  @KilmarMS13  Biden Cheated said the Jan 6 te-rr0-ist.
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  253. And what’s going on around 9:40 with the blue banner saying “new frames need analyzing. Click analyze”. Is that a joke or did the team forget to remove it?
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  254. So people leave comments before watching the video to get likes? That never works
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  255.  @logiic8835  it’s nearly 20% smaller in area than my home state of Illinois but 12x the population. And Illinois isn’t half mountain like Java. It’s not Hawaii size for sure.
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  256.  @doujinflip  fresh water for 148 million people on an island that size must be difficult
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  257.  @logiic8835 it’s 1.5x the size of the island of Ireland but 21x the population. And Java is 30% mountainous so they actually livable land is much smaller than the full size of the island
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  258.  @logiic8835  compared to Netherlands, javas non mountainous area is twice the size of Netherlands with nearly 9x the population. And Netherlands is densely populated.
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  259.  @briantarigan7685  Several nations have moved their capital and some are in the process (or consideration) of doing it right now.
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  260.  @logiic8835  from Wikipedia, Java population density would be 11th behind almost all city states like Macau, Singapore, etc. It would be first of any country over 7.5 million people. The capital moving won’t decrease the population but should decrease the population growth.
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  261.  @billlee6  I’m not arguing that it isn’t very arable lands
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  262.  @danielutriabrooks477  "there was a war in 1941 between Ecuador and Peru" I specifically said 'true war'. There have been 2 or 3 conflicts since 1932. I guess it's a matter of opinion. IMO I don't think a conflict with 1,000 dead in a 3 week conflict is a 'true war' but I can see the argument for it. >"Land grabs are out of fashion because the Cold War make it so every conflict became a proxy war" no, land grabs fell out of fashion due to the effect WW2 had on the world and the creation of the UN that started a more rule based international order. that's why they had to resort to proxy wars during the cold war and why after the USSR collapsed, there were far fewer wars and far fewer proxy wars.
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  263.  @stephenjenkins7971  "What more taboos will be broken in the future? We don't know" The fact that this is a rare occasion in more modern times tells you that we are generally going to fewer and fewer conflicts. Thats' why Russia and potentially China are a major concern to world stability. Russia is acting like it's pre-WW2 and China is saying and doing things that would also put them on path to act like pre-WW2. But the rest of the world is generally moving forward. Even the US is getting far less directly involved in wars or military conflicts. >LatAm has not been embroiled in any wars, thankfully, but why do you think it will always stay like that? Because you need a large strong army to invade a country successfully. LATAM doesn't have that. they are also culturally too similar which is a reason that wars among these countries have been rare. And their borders are well defined at this point -- at least not anything that would suggest a major conflict. And third, the US has A LOT influence in the region. That means an invasion of one LATAM country of another will be met with some major consequences from the US.
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  264.  @andywu3342  And US use to be part of UK. And Mexico use to be part of Spain.
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  265.  @danielutriabrooks477  What false equivalences? You need to be more specific than such a vague comment. We know that Russia has been involved in many wars in other countries just about every decade. But no latin american country has attacked another in many decades and no true war between 2+ LATAM countries has happened in nearly 100 years. The US is also a major influence in the region so invading another country would come with possible retaliation from the US (be in economic or otherwise).
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  266.  @danielutriabrooks477  There are disputes but those are not serious border disputes to the point they are threatening to attack each other. The last territorial conflict with any deaths was almost 30 years ago between Ecuador & Peru. >"1 The outside interference is going back to Eurasia, where it belongs, and away from South America." What part of my argument is this addressing? If it's away from South America, what is the relevance to South America? >" The example of the Cold War is talking de why there were not war between countries" The cold war has been over for 32 years and not only no war but nothing close to one. I don't even know why you even bring up the cold war since there were plenty of wars between nations in africa, asia and middle east during the cold war so it certainly didn't prevent wars. >Colombia's, Brasil's and Argentina's are big enough At most Colombia's are big enough to invade Guyana....if they bordered Guyana. They don't have a big enough military to invade and occupy any part of it's neighbors.
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  267.  @danielutriabrooks477  "I'm not saying that there will be an invasion, I'm saying that the factors wich prevented an invasion are starting to have less influence" I'm not saying there is ZERO chance of it but I'm pointing out the facts that they are very low chance. No true major war/invasion in nearly 100 years. The factors you mention like cold war doesn't make any sense since there were more wars in the world during the cold war than after the cold war. And the Colombian president is a semi-socialist who use to be a terrorist but that doesn't mean he's going to invade anyone.
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  268.  @danielutriabrooks477  the external pressure isn’t going away. It’s not just the US but if a LATAM country want to access global trade, they will be under pressure from many in the west. And Cold War era didn’t have American hegemony in LATAM. That’s literally why the US and Russia each were so heavily involved. Wow, for you to say LATAM was American hegemony is plain funny and wrong. And Colombias military doesn’t have the weapons needed to mount a successful invasion of its neighbors. It would be very costly for them
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  269.  @danielutriabrooks477  You're argument is more clear now. Still doesn't hold though. The US and Soviets were not involved in all LATAM countries. In addition, as I pointed out, wars are happening less and less since the cold war ended. These day most are either civil war or wars over serious territorial disputes that have have seen on and off conflict over the years and almost all are from countries formed post WW2. I can't think of any recent war between two countries in a territorial dispute that has been seeing conflict before WW2. Add in that culturally LATAM is very similar, it reduces the chances of any war.
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  270.  @danielutriabrooks477  US and Soviets weren't involved in most of them all the time. Only when there was a civil war or some rebel group group causing problems. There weren't examples of one country invading another during that period. "I would say that wars happened less and less due to a consolidation of the states (a nation/administration reaching their maximum natural borders in regards to aviability resources, geography and similar cultural groups)" There haven't been many new countries since the 1960's. Most of the fighitng during the cold war was a rebel group against the government where one was communist and the other wasn't. > as opposed to people just becoming more peaceful. Russian, chinese and pakistani expansionism seems to follow this idea. Pakistan doesn't fit there. Anyways, that's all you can name? Wait until you hear about how the world was before WW2 or even the cold war. Korean civil war, vietnam civil war, chinese civil war, China-Vietnam 1979 war, Pakistan-Bangladesh-India war, Several Israel vs neighboring states, China-Tibet 1959, Cuban civil war, etc etc.
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  271.  @danielutriabrooks477  "With this logic the possibility of war between culturally similar countries would be more likely than between two countries with no cultural similarities" But that just shows you know little about wars. Most the wars and conflicts right now are between two groups that have different ethnic identify be it race, religion or other ethnic differences. Somalia right now is between the government and a different ethnic group. Yemen civil war is two groups with different religious beliefs. Ukraine - Russia is the same which is why ethnic Russians in Ukraine generally support Russia and ethnic Ukrainians support Ukraine. almost all the conflicts in africa are between different tribal groups.
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  272.  @danielutriabrooks477  Pakistan and India are not ethnically the same. One is Muslim and the other 80% Hindu. The fact is that territorial expansionism mostly disappeared after WW2 and we saw mostly civil wars or fighting over contested border territories during the cold war. The fact is that compared to the past (cold war), there are few serious border disputes as most of the serious border disputes have already been addressed. This is why a major conflict where one country invades another besides some border dispute is not likely in Latin America.
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  273.  @danielutriabrooks477  "the contested region is culturally similar to Pakistan," The contested region that's part of India? Or the contested region that has a lot of people culturally similar to India? I don't know how this supports your argument. "unlike other countries with territorial disputes, Pakistan and India have gone to full-scale war multiple times in the recent past." But they fit exactly what I mentioned. Post ww2 indepdence that has a constant major dispute over territory and it's between two groups that are very different -- Muslims vs Hindus.
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  274.  @AaronOrtiz  That was a small conflict. A few hundred military lifes lost.
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  275.  @ritwik5774  how is Beijing? Want to discuss how evil PRC is? Threats to invade Taiwan, stealing South China Sea, crime against humanity again the Uyghurs, etc.
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  276. Xenophobia at its finest
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  277. The issue is their interpretation and the assumptions they make that were often bad. It seems like they are making more and more content that is overly dramatic and making big assumptions. I saw the video a couple days ago on nebula so trying to remember but the demographic argument was way over blown. Sure, South Korea does have low birth rates and faces a future demographic crisis but that doesn’t mean SK is getting weaker. SK is getting better and better weapons and forming stronger relationships with US and even japan. So whatever weakness arises from the demographic crisis is more than offset with building stronger alliances and spending more on defense. Plus, none of that matters because South Korea has Allies with nukes and SK has massive conventional weapons that could wipe out much of North Koreas population. Any nuclear use or even invasion of South Korea will be done be a leader they went completely crazy/mad and that leader would have done that regardless of South Koreas demographic situation
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  278. Oh look, the guy who defends Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The guy who said US need soil from Azerbaijan even though US gets almost no oil from Central Asia or Asian continent.
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  279.  @darealberrygarcia  “sponsored by ngos”. Sounds like Qanon right there
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  280.  @nguyenvpicipmu  Luke Tremblay is paid member of the see see pee. Wû.má.o. He will say the MRC says this vid is wrong but never gives details. Typical tactic
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  281. China is a threat to the world and most certainly a major threat to Asian countries. Threats to attack Taiwan, attempting to steal the whole South China Sea, conc camps, supporting Russia in its attack of Ukraine, etc. They are just another Russia but becoming more powerful. This East China Sea conflict is small compared to everything else China is doing.
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  282.  @doujinflip  Good point. Food security is also a major concerns which is why they have the worlds largest grain reserves if anything should happen. But how long would their population be okay eating mostly just wheat? They import most of the beef, almost all their soy (soy beans), and many other important food goods. Part of the problem for them is they do not have large industrial size farming operation so a significant share of their farmlands are subsistence or independent farming.
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  283.  @applejuice9468  That's a good question. I don't think we will ever know for sure because the US and companies are in transition of decoupling a bit and so are other nations but it's a slow process that it will be hard to measure. It's possible that even the 2017 tarrifs from US may have started working...their GDP growth went from 6.95% to 5.95% 2017 to 2019. It's now expected to be under 3% in 2022.
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  284. Is there a more well known country and people with such a small population? There would be no Mongolia if China had decided to take it back. We see form inner mongolia, the people and culture are being eroded away.
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  285. Whole traveling Big Island and Maui, I found out most people I talked to only went to other island 1 times of less a year. I was surprised. That explains the low demand factor — people just don’t leave their island much
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  286. So huh are saying China is guilty of the crime? lol, does the government allow you to admit it?
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  287.  @davenobody407  guy defending what’s going on in Xinjiang is also defending Russia. W8mä0 is too easy to spot
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  288.  @davenobody407  and now you’re saying all those facilities that China said were schools are now prisons? funny how the story changes. 2018: Uyghurs speaking out but China says nothing is happening 2019: hundred of facilities identified by satellite and other evidence and some pictures also come out, China now admits they have Uyghurs in facilities but says they are just schools and all will graduate by end of 2019 2020: still Uyghurs in these facilities, much more evidence comes out. China now says it vocational schools….with prison walls and watch towers and armed guards 2021/2022: Moe evidence, China now says these facilities are prisons The whole time they didn’t allow people to get remotely close to any oft those facilities, especially international media who they blocked on the road and harassed But yeah, totally nothing to see
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  289.  @davenobody407  btw, most of those “prisons” were built in the past 5-7 years. What a coincidence they built them in Xinjiang at the same time evidence came out they are sending mass numbers of uygurs to the facilities and same time that Chinas documents who a huge increase in spending on security in Xinjiang and arrest numbers spoke i
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  290.  @davenobody407  so you support long term interest of China thus you support what’s happening in Xinjiang because all that matters is Han supremacy? But you can’t admit you support it since it sounds cruel so you just deny it.
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  291.  @davenobody407  show you where you said they are schools? I pointed out the history of what YOUR govt says. And you repeat irrelevant CCP talking points as well. Uyghurs population has been increasing? The gen cide started in 2017 so why are you talking about historical population growth? That’s right, sticking to CCP talking points s In addition, Chinese government data shows Uyghurs birth rates have been cut in half form 2017-2019. That’s some strong evidence they are trying to reduce the population, right?
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  292.  @davenobody407  " Since when is word cruel is on the US dictionary?" Im guessing 'gen -cide" isn't in the Chinese dictionary? " Xinjiang, Tibet or Taiwan must not fall into others hand. They are strategically important for China as a nation to survive in the future" Typical thinking of authoritarian types. Just like Russia. Because no way would you support China becoming allies and friendly with those populations, right? It has to done with force to project power.
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  293.  @davenobody407  "And during Qin dynasty all these territories belonged to Qin" So you are arguing concentration cmps in 2022 are okay because Qing had control of that era for years. Cool. Typical Han Supremacist -- defending concentration cmps because "hey we had it since 1750s".
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  294.  @davenobody407  I never said Qing didn’t conquer Tibet and Xinjiang so what are you going on about?. And you’re now saying that since Qing conquered it, it’s okay to have a gen icide in 2022 And in 2022, those who identify as Han are using Han supremacy. Much like white supremacy in the US come from various European backgrounds, some who weren’t considered white when their ancestors arrived in the US
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  295.  @davenobody407  wait, you mean Qin from 220 BC? What are you even bringing them up and the origin of the name china? That’s irrelevant and makes you seem desperate
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  296.  @AlexMousavi  this video was perfect but the original did have maybe 3 major mistakes that I don’t know how they missed it.
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  297.  @MaticTheProto  the problem is defending it with lies. You can be in general support or something yet not support a specific project. For example, would you support California HSR if instead of the now over budgeted cost if $105 billion it was $1 trillion?
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  298.  @daverohrich8518  so you’re saying this project is trash but also saying that this video trashing the project was too pro HSR project?
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  299.  @electronresonator8882  yeah, I’m totally going to trust Russians right now. 95% of them online are defending the invasion of Ukraine. Do you also support the invasion and deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainians?
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  300.  @TohaBgood2  give me two major things he was wrong with
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  301.  @TohaBgood2  lol, so you can’t think of two things he got wrong?
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  302.  @Stettafire  are we for or against the Oxford comma? I use it. What’s the opinion out there?
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  303.  @sotakoira1390  I agree. I think they could have shaved maybe 10min.
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  304.  @chongqingcapybara1306  what happened 1989 near Tiananmen Square and what’s happening in Xinjiang today?
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  305.  @chongqingcapybara1306  u made my point Wû.mà.ô. All ur other friends here didn’t even answer but at least U had the courage to answer the questions and just straight up admit u r a party member
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  306.  @chongqingcapybara1306  just like in China, I’m just trying to get around the censors
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  307.  @chongqingcapybara1306  not a party member but an outsider paid to defend gén.o.cide in Xinjiang and murder of hundreds likely thousands in 1989. You also believe Chî.na isn’t attempting to take control of south sea from its neighbors and think an invasion of Taiwan is good?
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  308.  @chongqingcapybara1306  “over exaggerated propaganda”‘regarding “gèn.ocî.de. Sure Curtis Jackson. Only a couple millions have been sent to camps with more and more going each year. And they live normal lives except, you know, either being sent to camps or having to change their religious practices and culture in order to avoid going to the camps. That’s all.
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  309.  @chongqingcapybara1306  Typical wu.m-a.o response. Blame everything on 'MSM bias' while you literally just spout the propoganda from a government that won't allow any free press or free speech. That's when u know ur paid -- you believe NYT, AP, Reuters are all lying but the govt that controls all news and info and forcing u to use VPN to engage here is the one telling the truth.
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  310.  @chongqingcapybara1306  “everyone shouting fake news when NYT BBC”. So you’re point is ur no different than Trump supporters? The people shouting that fake news are indeed just as bad as u so not sure what ur point is?
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  311.  @chongqingcapybara1306  my point is Trump supported screaming fake news at NYT is a horrible defense for u screaming fake news at NYT
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  312.  @chongqingcapybara1306  “continue believing these Chinese stories” — you mean the news reported by actual good media as opposed to u believing what the govt that doesn’t allow free press and free speech tells u? Why do you believe the see see pee over good media outlets?
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  313. Oh look, the guy that supports Muammar Gaddafi! And spread mis info that the US by itself invaded Libya when in fact it was Europe (with support of US) who enforced a no fly zone AFTER the United Nations approved a no fly zone after Gaddafi began killing civilians and a civil war started. But somehow it’s the US fault your Gaddafi was removed from power.
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  314. JaYoe Nation is literally PRC propaganda. And u subscribe to them of course.
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  315.  @Marc-.  u have already proven u r a see see pee acct. JaYoe Nation and Daniel Dumbrill? Literally two Channels paid by the PRC. I’m going to trust RealLifrLore over some random who subs to PRC propaganda
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  316.  @Marc-.  hello comrade, here is your .50 RMB
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  317.  @lSeKToRl  Caspian Report is more detailed but also more boring. RLL lately has a good balance of entertainment and pact with info.
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  318.  @lSeKToRl  China Uncensored is highly bias. They do look at things more in depth than mainstream media but they muddle the waters a bit with their extreme bias. They should not be a primary source of information but if you see something there, verify it elsewhere.
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  319.  @lSeKToRl  correct. Mostly opinion. I’ve caught a few of their videos and they do discuss interesting things on smaller scale that aren’t discussed much elsewhere like Chinas fishing boats stealing from other countries but is still 75% pure opinion
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  320.  @soundscape26  caspian report adds a lot more opinion IMO but it’s more in depth than RLL. RLL is more entertaining not just in graphics but also story telling while caspian report is lacking in the story department— as if he’s just reading facts from a book. Still very informative.
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  321.  @lSeKToRl  Along with this channel and Caspian Report also mentioned, the following often cover some geopolitical issues or global topics at times: Polymatter, Neo, Economics Explained, Frontline PBS, TL;DR News, Vice News. Give those a try.
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  322. Hey Wu.má.ô, what happened near Tiananmen Square in 1989? What’s happening in Xinjiang today? Because what exactly is wrong from this vid other than ur desire to defend all things PRC?
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  323.  @ritwik5774  like I’m going to believe the person who is defending China often and criticizing the US. How is Beijing?
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  324.  @liuyanbo6510  how is Beijing? You obviously live there with such a comment or you work for them. Nobody cares about China.
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  325.  @dulguunjargal1199  "Chingis Haan". I don't know how Genghis Khan happened though..
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  326.  @Quondom  @so so is a compete .50 yuan soldier. He’s now talking about China providing nuclear subs to Venezuela and Cuba? China oniy has 3!
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  327.  @michaelj.beglinjr.2804  It is harder to picture. For example, an inches is roughly 2.5x a cm. But if you tell me it's 16cm, I got some math to do and I will still have to picture it in inches. You tell me 3.5 hectare, I have then do math by mulplying by 2.5 and then picture it in acres not hectares.
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  328.  @2rslvl126  143 billion gallons.
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  329.  马列驱逐炎黄  What happened in 1989 near Tiananmen Square? What's happening in Xinjiang? My point is that the opinions of people like you don't matter because you ONLY defend your country and have no care for the truth.
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  330.  @Marc-King777  "Your point makes no logical sense. " As opposed to Mekong that runs where tens of millions live and need the river. So how doesn't it make sense? "Large populations being close to a river does not mean jack sh-t in terms of the generation of electricity " it literally means that projects on that river from China are effecting tens of millions of people downstream.
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  331.  @kimcarrier9834  what is common and normal?
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  332.  @kimcarrier9834  who cares where Tibetans live — they aren’t living in south east Asia which is downriver from the dams.
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  333. @莱克多巴猪 I agree that Beijing is evil and doesn’t care about camps or south east Asia
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  334. @莱克多巴猪 “don’t care about beijings horrible actions and camps, look what our ally Russia did in Syria targeting and ended the lives of tens of thousands of civilians on purpose”. Good defense
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  335. @莱克多巴猪 yes, the shooting is bad. I don’t support it like I support the camps of millions of innocent. U see the difference?
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  336. @莱克多巴猪 oh, for half a dollar u probably can’t see the difference between me being against the shootings and u supporting gé-n0c-îde
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  337.  @kimcarrier9834  you just named two parts of China making my point that downriver outside of China is where they are suffering. Y do u support the camps in Xinjiang? Side note, I loved Yunnan. Beautiful area and the people there in the remote areas have a great culture
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  338. @莱克多巴猪 so you support the gê.n0cide and then make a joke about camps?
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  339. @莱克多巴猪 why don’t the west send the troops to fight in Ukraine? So that u can say “see, u people got involved and don’t care for peace.” This is the worst comment I’ve seen
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  340. @莱克多巴猪 honestly, y support the gê.n0c.ïde?
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  341.  @kimcarrier9834  what does “the ignorant are innocent” mean in the context of this discussion?
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  342.  @kimcarrier9834  also, you mention the Chinese rich technology (like the three Gorges dam) and that things aren’t on equal footing — this is you actually admitting that Beijing is doing horrible things to south East Asia but you approve it because might makes right
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  343.  @kimcarrier9834  that last post of urs is hard to read. Not sure what ur saying. All I see is .50 RMB Worker defending everything about China while admitting the horrible things they do but justifying it because might makes right
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  344.  @kimcarrier9834  do u actually support the gë.n0cide in Xinjiang or just paid to support it?
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  345.  @kimcarrier9834  and i see you sub to The Grayzone. That tells me everything. It’s fake media who ONLY supports Chinas and Russia and ONLY criticizes the west. So the sources you use are the worst and highly bias. Also, you sub to a pro MAO channel? Wow, so surprising
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  346.  @kimcarrier9834  you’re saying that 100 years ago people knew and cared about the environmental impact of dams? Also, you sub to grayzone which is the worse “news” source. They are paid by Russia to defend Russia and China
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  347. @莱克多巴猪 why do u support gë.n0c.íde?
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  348. @莱克多巴猪 y do support invasion of peaceful state, Taiwan?
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  349. @莱克多巴猪 is that cent comment a wide Chinese saying?
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  350. @莱克多巴猪 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Uighur gên.0cîde. Free Tibet! Free Xinjiang! Free Hong Kong!
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  351. @莱克多巴猪 9/11 happened because of terrorist. What an odd question.
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  352. @莱克多巴猪 anything new? U are contractually unable to criticize China. I proved it
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  353. @莱克多巴猪 good one! Why did Chinese choose choose a genocidal dummy? Oh wait, they don’t choose
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  354.  @kimcarrier9834  sure they did. The evidence was from porn. I think you were looking up a different “BBC”. I don’t expect you to be 聪明的 enough to know the difference
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  355. @莱克多巴猪 sure buddy, the bbc did that. While cgtn and cctv refuse to admit one thing their government has done wrong
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  356. @莱克多巴猪 你得到0.50元的报酬？
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  357.  @LaFonteCheVi  me Thinks the two users with Chinese characters in their names are refusing to acknowledge anything bad bringing did might be pâīd to do this
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  358. @莱克多巴猪 hate China? I love the see see pee — I love how they threaten to invade Taiwan, love how they are trying to steal the south sea and East Sea, love their concentration camps of millions of innocent Muslims, love their oppression and lack of free speech and press, love how they defended Russia in its invasion, love how they are taking the water from the Mekong River, etc etc
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  359. @莱克多巴猪 what food shortage? You mean the great famine that lead to deaths of tens of millions because Mao communized the economy and sold much of the food to Soviets so Mao can stay in power?
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  360. @莱克多巴猪 yes, bbc is fake. So what is your source of news? Come on, tell me where you get your news?
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  361. @莱克多巴猪 I’m very strongly in support of stronger gun control. Hey, why won’t you tell me what news sources you use?
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  362. @莱克多巴猪 I already know all the see see pee tro||s work the same — you will say you can’t trust this media or they media and then never tell us your sources because you know it’s the worst sources (Chinese state controlled media)
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  363. @莱克多巴猪 I cant understand your post. Are you saying you do get your news from bbc?
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  364. @莱克多巴猪 I love the see see pee — I love how they threaten to invade Taiwan, love how they are trying to steal the south sea and East Sea, love their concentration camps of millions of innocent Muslims, love their oppression and lack of free speech and press, love how they defended Russia in its invasion, love how they are taking the water from the Mekong River, etc etc
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  365. @莱克多巴猪 Chinese media only relates Russian propaganda in China. So, why are you unable to answer what news sources you use?
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  366. @莱克多巴猪 you sound very guilty when you can’t answer what news media you use. I’ve never seen someone look so guilty
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  367. @莱克多巴猪 contact must specifically state you can’t tell people your sources are the Chinese government itself, eh? Why else refuse to answer?
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  368.  @kimcarrier9834  first of all, regarding your comment on no shortage of drinking water in China. Northern China has a shortage of water which is why it was controversial that 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Beijing area because they had to waste lots of water to make fake ice. Second of all, China has to import a massive amount of food.
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  369.  @kimcarrier9834  what news sources do you use for your news information?
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  370. @莱克多巴猪 got it. So your sources are just yourself — you why to the Mekong River, spoke with the engineers and scientists, collected data and analyzed it yourself? You went to Xinjiang , spoke to thousands of Uyghurs on their experience, visited the “facilities”, spoke to the victims in those camps, and analyzed all the data? Otherwise you’re telling me you got your information from the Chinese state propganda media
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  371.  @kimcarrier9834  “google” is not an answer. That’s what you use to find other news sources. So what are your typical news sources?
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  372.  @kimcarrier9834  “China Is Running Out of Water and That’s Scary for Asia” “Yet China’s natural abundance is a thing of the past. As Michael Beckley and I argue in our forthcoming book, “The Danger Zone,” Beijing has blown through many of its resources. A decade ago, China became the world’s largest importer of agricultural goods. Its arable land has been shrinking due to degradation and overuse. Breakneck development has also made China the world’s largest energy importer: It buys three-quarters of its oil abroad at a time when America has become a net energy exporter. China’s water situation is particularly grim. As Gopal Reddy notes, China possesses 20% of the world’s population but only 7% of its fresh water. Entire regions, especially in the north, suffer from water scarcity worse than that found in a parched Middle East.” “Thousands of rivers have disappeared, while industrialization and pollution have spoiled much of the water that remains. By some estimates, 80% to 90% of China’s groundwater and half of its river water is too dirty to drink; more than half of its groundwater and one-quarter of its river water cannot even be used for industry or farming.” “This is an expensive problem. China is forced to divert water from comparatively wet regions to the drought-plagued north; experts assess that the country loses well over $100 billion annually as a result of water scarcity. Shortages and unsustainable agriculture are causing the desertification of large chunks of land. Water-related energy shortfalls have become common across the country.” “By building a series of giant dams on the Mekong River, Beijing has triggered recurring droughts and devastating floods in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Laos that depend on that waterway. The diversion of rivers in Xinjiang has had devastating downstream effects in Central Asia.” “In other words, the thirstier China is, the more geopolitically nasty it could get.”
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  373.  @kimcarrier9834  so like a typical 五毛, you won’t answer what are your news sources.
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  374. @莱克多巴猪 unlike you who Is on a contact that states you can’t tell people what news sources you use, I have no problem stating my sources. Some examples are AP, REUTERS, France24, NYT (not the opinion pieces), NPR, PBS and for Middle East news Al Jazzera but that’s just to get an understanding of their opinions (AJ isn’t high on factual reporting). A few other as well but that’s the biggest ones I can think of. Now your turn…..😂
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  375.  @kimcarrier9834  you ignored all the information detailing their water issue and how they are diverting water away from Mekong because of their water issues? I’ve never seen such a hardcore 五毛
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  376.  @kimcarrier9834  can you name any serious criticism of Chinas government? Assuming u can contractually make such criticism
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  377.  @kimcarrier9834  cultural revolution and Great Leap Forward the CCP already acknowledged it was bad. Shanghai government? You don’t mean CCP/Xi?? Seems like you avoided criticizing Xi/CCP on major policies they haven’t already acknowledged as bad
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  378.  @kimcarrier9834  “when humans transform nature there will always be side effects”. The point is they are doing it at major damage to Southeast Asia. Ever wonder why most of Chinas neighbors have horrible opinions of Chinas government? From Vietnam to Taiwan to South Korea to Japan? And mixed opinions from a bit further out Indonesia and Philippines. Does China have any true strong Allies and if not, why?
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  379.  @kimcarrier9834  i was in China when the outbreak started. Can you guess what was in the news? Well, did several days it was nothing but how great Xi is and then on Jan 20th over 6 weeks since reports were coming out Xi finally admitted something was going on. Then all that was in the news after Jan 23 was first the lockdown of Wuhan and then how great Xi is for building temporary housing for the infected. I had to get the real news using vpn. They silenced the doctor, they hid Covid, they were trying to argue that Covid was not transmissible by air despite that being the only way it could have spread rapidly, etc. The government completely lied and tried to silence anyone that spoke out — yet you then trust that government on what’s happening in Xinjiang?
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  380.  @kimcarrier9834  Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia handled Covid very week. You must like those countries better than China since they handled Covid well and they have rights! And they have media that can criticize and keep their government more honest. And they are all wealthier than China (per capita).
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  381.  @kimcarrier9834  why do you think all those countries i listed (Chinas neighbors) have very unfavorable views of China? And why doesn’t China have any close ally? If you’re point is that China is aggressive but it benefits China, then why lie about what China is doing in that region and in Xinjiang? I think what’s happening here is what is typical of pro authoritarian types — you actually do understand why so many hate China but you can’t acknowledge it because it makes you look bad if you acknowledge all that and justify it with “it makes China better/stronger”. I would say to be honest and I would also say that it makes China weaker. If China was a more respectable country, they could have fact more influence in the world. But instead, the Chinese government is behaving like global powers 100 years ago. Just like Russia/Putin is doing.
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  382.  @kimcarrier9834  lol, “takes a long time to confirm a new outbreak”. There is evidence the suppressed information. The very fact the doctor (who later died of covid) was being silent should tell you everything. That was weeks before Xi officially confirmed it. Also, investigative reporting Frontline has an episode called “China’s secret” which details the lies and suppression of information from the government in December and January and I remember into February. They knew it was airborne, they knew there were lots more people sick then they reported, they lied about the numbers who were sick, they refused to work with The WHO And the WHO would lie for china. They document this with video, Audio recordings, and other evidence. Yet you trust news from such a government?
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  383.  @kimcarrier9834  of course you “trust” the news of Chinese state propaganda considering you subscribe to The Grayzone which is a faux news blog paid by Putin to only defend and never criticize Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba and Syria. You have no interest in the facts so I’m sure I am right when I said you actually know how horrible china is to others and it has no actual Allies but you refuse to acknowledge what China is doing because you actually support all those actions and it makes you look bad if you answer honestly.
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  384.  @kimcarrier9834  you’re the one getting paid to post CCP propaganda. I must have been right in my assessment— that you understand why so many hate chinas government but that you need to lie and deny the horrible things because it makes you look bad. Anyone that uses The Grayzone and repeats CCP propaganda is going to the evil type that supports genocides
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  385.  @kimcarrier9834  it’s funny that all your comments are suggesting “yeah, china is Aggressive and other should fear china” while also refusing to actually acknowledge the specifics. Why support genocide? Because you are evil and your goals are selfish. You have 1800’s values in the year 2022.
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  386.  @kimcarrier9834  your account literally follows fake news genocide supporters and you support genocide as well. My account doesn’t have a history of genocide support
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  387.  @kimcarrier9834  grayzone and cctv are you main sources of news? You subscribe to both- wow, you pick the worse sources. Sources that will never criticize the Chinese government
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  388. @莱克多巴猪 I gave you my sources but you still refuse to gov your sources?
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  389. @莱克多巴猪 I did give you my sources and now you pretend I didn’t? Again? unlike you who Is on a contact that states you can’t tell people what news sources you use, I have no problem stating my sources. Some examples are AP, REUTERS, France24, NYT (not the opinion pieces), NPR, PBS and for Middle East news Al Jazzera but that’s just to get an understanding of their opinions (AJ isn’t high on factual reporting). A few other as well but that’s the biggest ones I can think of. Now your turn…..
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  390. @莱克多巴猪 50 million Chinese died because for the Great Leap Forward! And millions more died in cultural revolution
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  391. @莱克多巴猪 So again you refuse to provide a source? A true tr0|| unlike you who Is on a contact that states you can’t tell people what news sources you use, I have no problem stating my sources. Some examples are AP, REUTERS, France24, NYT (not the opinion pieces), NPR, PBS and for Middle East news Al Jazzera but that’s just to get an understanding of their opinions (AJ isn’t high on factual reporting). A few other as well but that’s the biggest ones I can think of. Now your turn…..
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  392. @莱克多巴猪 all of the sources are government sources? Bbc and NPR are publicly funded but aren’t propaganda like Chinese state media - those western publicly funded news are some of the best. Their goal is to keep their government and others in check. That’s why most of the news From those sources are critical of their governments Now your sources…
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  393. @莱克多巴猪 Yes, they are funded by governments (mostly local and states) and by donations. Their purpose is to literally report on the news factually and keep politicians and government in check. They are some of the best reporting. From mediabasfactcheck: >Overall, we rate NPR (National Public Radio) Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans slightly left and High for factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting. Accurate news reporting. I get it, you are from China and you think EVERY news is just like yours because you are don't have the ability to think.
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  394.  @kimcarrier9834  I don’t know what your last post is arguing. But you subscribe to Grayzone and CGTN, the first is run by a puppet of Putin and only purpose is to lie on behalf of Putin to defend Russia and China. The layer is Chinas own state propa news which will never criticize or investigate k their own government
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  395. @莱克多巴猪 you’re source is yourself so you went to all the identified camps in Xinjiang? And spoke to all the prisoners? You also went to Mekong and took measurements and studies the historical flows?
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  396. @莱克多巴猪 you said you are your own source. That means you don’t use other sources. So you did the investigations yourself of Xinjiang and Mekong?
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  397. @莱克多巴猪 why don’t you answer the question? You just proved you lied that you are your own source.
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  398. @莱克多巴猪 once again proving you are a liar refusing to say how you investigated China
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  399. @莱克多巴猪 so if there is video that shows Chinese security officials blocking journalists from getting near the camps, you will admit that China is guilty?
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  400. @莱克多巴猪 so you bring up why don’t journalists just go to the camps but then refuse to answer if you will say that China is guilty if there is video of them blocking journalist from going to the camps
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  401. @莱克多巴猪 but you said they don’t have camps. Then why are they preventing them from visiting those camps? Now you are saying they do exist and are blocked for security reasons.
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  402. @莱克多巴猪 so you are saying all the identified camps are actually military bases? But yet China never says that they were military bases and they called him reeducation facilities. Nice try with that horrible argument
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  403. @莱克多巴猪 You aren’t keeping up with your bosses? The Chinese government had to admit they are detaining large numbers of Uighurs but called them re education facilities. What’s wrong with u? Talk to your bosses and keep your lies straight
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  404. @莱克多巴猪 Huh, so you're saying that China's govt never mentioned re-education facilities -- and you refuse to answer that you would call China guilty if I showed you videos of Chinese government preventing journalist from getting near the identified camps. You got busted so hard it's funny to watch.
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  405. @莱克多巴猪 And you also said that you are your own source but unable to provide the details of your investigation into Xinjiang and Mekong. Busted so hard your mom is worried for your health. Ha, we all know you ain't got a mother since bots are machines.
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  406. @莱克多巴猪 So you aren't aware of China admitting to the facilities but saying they are education facilities? Even though they gave the BBC a tour of one of them? You really need to speak with your bosses. And you said journalists are free to visit the camps but then you refuse to comment if you would admit you were wrong and that China does have camps if there is evidence of China is blocking journalists. Look at the weasel trying to find a way out of the hole he dug
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  407. @莱克多巴猪 So if they weren't educational facilities, why won't china say what they blocked the journalist from seeing? LOL -- the videos also show all the journalists being blocked while other cars are allowed to go through the road blocks.
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  408. ​@莱克多巴猪 "Don't change the subject while I refuse to answer all the questions such as how I have personally investigated all the camps and genoc in Xinjiang and the Mekong. Sure, I lied that I do my own investigations and I rely on Chinese state media propa to tell me what to believe. And sure I also said British journalists could just go to Xinjiang and investigate but I will ignore all the videos of China blocking journalists and harrassing the journalists by following their vehicles and waking them up at 1 am. But don't change the subject!!"
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  409. @莱克多巴猪 ​ "Don't change the subject while I refuse to answer all the questions such as how I have personally investigated all the camps and genoc in Xinjiang and the Mekong. Sure, I lied that I do my own investigations and I rely on Chinese state media propa to tell me what to believe. And sure I also said British journalists could just go to Xinjiang and investigate but I will ignore all the videos of China blocking journalists and harrassing the journalists by following their vehicles and waking them up at 1 am. But don't change the subject!!"
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  410. @莱克多巴猪 it’s just so sad that your mother abused you to the point you have to go online and be a trol
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  411. @莱克多巴猪 ​ "Don't change the subject while I refuse to answer all the questions such as how I have personally investigated all the camps and genoc in Xinjiang and the Mekong. Sure, I lied that I do my own investigations and I rely on Chinese state media propa to tell me what to believe. And sure I also said British journalists could just go to Xinjiang and investigate but I will ignore all the videos of China blocking journalists and harrassing the journalists by following their vehicles and waking them up at 1 am. But don't change the subject!!" You’re mother who abused you would be so proud
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  412. @莱克多巴猪 ​ "Don't change the subject while I refuse to answer all the questions such as how I have personally investigated all the camps and genoc in Xinjiang and the Mekong. Sure, I lied that I do my own investigations and I rely on Chinese state media propa to tell me what to believe. And sure I also said British journalists could just go to Xinjiang and investigate but I will ignore all the videos of China blocking journalists and harrassing the journalists by following their vehicles and waking them up at 1 am. But don't change the subject!!" The mother that abused and abandoned you must be so proud…that she abandoned you.
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  413. @莱克多巴猪 ​ "Don't change the subject while I refuse to answer all the questions such as how I have personally investigated all the camps and genoc in Xinjiang and the Mekong. Sure, I lied that I do my own investigations and I rely on Chinese state media propa to tell me what to believe. And sure I also said British journalists could just go to Xinjiang and investigate but I will ignore all the videos of China blocking journalists and harrassing the journalists by following their vehicles and waking them up at 1 am. But don't change the subject!!" The mother that abused and abandoned you must be so proud…that she abandoned you.
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  414.  @pengzhang5081  China destroys everything it touches
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  415.  @云玩家-e5e  yes, I totally believe you that you have friends and relatives in Xinjiang. If true, I’m sure all Han Chinese that support the conc camps of Muslims
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  416.  @pengzhang5081  China don’t strangle hold on other countries except all its neighbors
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  417.  @charleschoy2327  SE Asia relies on the water from the river China is stealing. It’s chians fault for having 1.4 billion people.
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  418.  @charleschoy2327  what’s a shame to blame a country for building a dam and taking massive water from 100 million people down stream who historically survived off that river??
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  419.  @charleschoy2327  What a shame that China has good water sources and heavy rain in the South East Asia part? Only the north a long way from this dams is dry. But what a shame that China decided to hurt a hundred million people downstream?
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  420.  @charleschoy2327  "This is China's water. We graciously allow 15% to SEA countries. " That's actually not how it works. Or else constant wars will be had. But hey, if that's your attitude, you would support a blockade of China? The world just graciously allows China to use the open seas.
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  421.  @charleschoy2327  "hat's a lot more generous than America." The same China with conc camps in Xinjiang?
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  422.  @charleschoy2327  "The hurt is created to stir hate." So china hurts SEA to stir hate? "All you can do is to post threat. You know what a war will do for the rest of the world?" So you're saying your logic of China cutting off water to 100 million people who have used it for thousands of years is bad? "Read up more on your country's treatment of natives and slaves" So it's okay for China to commit those crimes against humanities because other countries did it 150 years ago? wow.
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  423.  @charleschoy2327  So does the CCP teach you to defend the conc camps by saying "but US did that to natives 150 years ago so it's okay for China to do it today!"? I see this so much from .50 RMB types like yourself. It's a horrible argument and only demonstrates you are not only using CCP talking points but are horrible person.
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  424.  @phillipwright7022  "As a Canadian, I proudly support the building of these dams." Doubts your Canadian. Or you moved from China. How is it working for Beijing?
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  425. Slava Ukraini
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  426.  @novat9731  Ur comment doesn't show and I think it's the word 'propa...' that often causes a post to now who They are indeed in part propa pieces for civilian viewers. Much of what they do is exactly that -for civilian viewers. Wolf warrior diplomacy is the same - it looks childish and bad international politics but it's theater for the home audience. They won't show in their news what their govt did to provoke responses, they just show what the response were from foreign countries.
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  427.  @Denis-qv5yj  Gaddafi was killing civilians and a civil war broke out before EUROPE got involved AFTER United Nations approved an operation for a no fly zones. Nice try in trying to blame the US.
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  428.  @Denis-qv5yj  Libya so great that their leader started killing civilians and a civil war started
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  429.  @Normaledit308  yes, US owns all the oil in Iraq, right comrade?
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  430.  der Führer  westerners only got involved when UN sanctioned it after other Middle East countries asked for it. So how did the civil war start after all that? Ha ha!
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  431.  @redditstoriesfuny  People care most about fear. Then they care about what's on the news. Then they care about interesting things from countries they are curious about. Last, they care about 'good' stories from small countries that most people don't think much about...like why Costa Rica is so chill.
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  432. China created this situation with North Korea. Then and the Russian / Soviets.
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  433. @Space Lizard "you mean they are supported by a certain three letter ghost network". The CCP? yes, NK is supported by them.
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  434.  @Stellar_Politics  “And there we have it, a person unable to think critically” and then “You could've just clicked on my profile and realized I'm a Marxian content creator,” So it all makes sense… a communist defending communist North Korea! Wow, you really got me by proving to me your extreme bias and support for a horrible ideology. “I've made a few videos on the DPRK because even if we're to be against them, the western media doesn't do the people any favors when it spreads misinformation” You mean how I’ve argued in this threat that this video is too much fear mongering and that even Kim isn’t likely to be as crazy as suggested in this video? Or was it the fact you refuse to admit that Russia would likely have taken over South Korea as well either directly or indirectly and South Korea would be as poor and terrible as NK? “We're talking about the media that decided to say the north claimed to have discovered a unicorn when the truth to the story was that the north was celebrating the dynastic history of early Korea which involved a myth of a unicorn.” Oh, I know how you authoritarian communist like to debate. So on the unicorn, the media posts the facts that “Korean news agency say they have 'recently reconfirmed' the lair of one of the unicorns ridden by the ancient King Tongmyong”. But since maybe some media took it too far, it’s somehow means North Korean government isn’t often saying crazy things or acting very irrational? And then that’s your way to then defend the horrible regime of North Korea – that it’s just western media fault?!? “The fact that you can't comprehend any level of criticism against a country” South Korea is flawed but its still better than 90% of the countries out there. Why can’t you admit that South Korea is a success story that lead to it becoming a wealthy nation, a democracy, and strong human rights? No country is perfect so don’t give me this “why can’t you take criticism of South Korea!” “How foolish you are to dismiss the elderly who are being neglected by the south government and forced to go homeless,” Still one of the top 30 countries in the world in the quality of care the people receive. How does that compare to North Korea where millions have died of starvation? How does it compare to communist China under Mao where 50 million were killed either in famine or cultural revolution? So you’re only argument is that South Korea is flawed – but that doesn’t mean it’s still not one of the most successful stories and better countries in the world. Unless, of course, you’re a communist that doesn’t like people having freedoms or any wealth or rights?
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  435.  @Stellar_Politics  "It doesn't take a military genius to realize that the North's testing of nuclear weapons is the only thing keeping it independent from the global capitalist hegemony." You mean the nukes are the only thing keeping the Kim family in power where they oppress the people, millions die of starvation, and people aren't even allowed to leave their region without government approving it? Yeah, the global capitalist's hegemony with it's healthcare, better food, human rights, etc is much worse.
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  436.  @Stellar_Politics  "Everything you say is said dishonestly," Literally true about you. Again, you think it's a coincidence that I was able to tell you were likely a communist before it was confirmed just based on your original comment? It's a tankie playbook what you did. Why would anyone trust someone that supports a terrible ideology such as communism? It's like trusting a f-scist.
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  437.  @wren_.  And to become allies with China, the US has to ditch Japan, Taiwan and possibly South Korea.
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  438.  @Member_zero  3 months later and Russia is losing more and more territory. Lol. Kherson is about to fall so they evacuated the city. SLAVA UKRAINI!
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  439. Everyone is that area has some islands but it's CN that has build vast number of islands with bases on it and actually threatening others.
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  440.  death to the west  tried to keep their culture alive? No they haven’t, there have been lots of forced assimilation attempts. In 2020 protests occurred as China was removing Mongolian language from schools
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  441.  death to the west  oh, you’re username suggests someone that doesn’t stick to facts and supports bad governments
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  442.  @qijixin8137  and I don’t trust anyone that is from a country where they don’t have free press and speech. Do you even believe there are conc camps in Xinjiang? Do you support CN aggression towards Taiwan? Do you support CN not honoring the Hong Kong Agreement and taking away rights of HK?
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  443.  @alanxu1238  95% of China is 'Han' and thus they are 'China' for the most part. You are basically making an argument that Germany is similar to Middle_east because 5% of their population is from the middle east.
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  444.  @alanxu1238  Yes, they are Chinese citizens. Why do you keep trying to argue that Chinese Han majority are not different than the Mongolian minority? You think Uyhgurs are the same as Han majority? Tibetans the same as Han majority? "most of the minority ethnic groups are indigenous. Middle East groups in Germany are not. " Makes it worse for China because it means China conquered other people who didn't willingly want to become part of the country and culture unlike middle east going to Germany. "Secondly majority does not automatically makes minorities out-siders. " Except in China it does for many minority groups. Thats why China treats Uyhgurs and other Turkic muslims along with Tibetans very badly. And why Mongolians in the past have protested against the government. Most native Americans are fully or mostly integrated into US culture. There isn't a large indepdence movement from them. But again, you are missing the difference here between 'Chinese Han" and "Chinese nationals". Chinese nationals are everyone that is a citizen of the country but the way I was using 'Chinese' was referring to ethnic Chinese -- i.e. Han.
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  445.  @lx6461  你是五毛
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  446.  @lx6461  享受 50 美分
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  447.  @alanxu1238  European colonist killed many of them just like Chinese killed 100 to 200 million Europeans150 years before indigenous Americans died. Look up 14th century in Europe.
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  448.  @alanxu1238  Wait, you do have access to VPN, right? That's how you are on here? So you should have no problem using google to find what happened in 14th century Europe due to Chinese .
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  449.  @nehcooahnait7827  Let me ask you a question...do you think China has conc c-mps of Uyhgurs with likely millions having been sent to them? Or are you going to respond "not true"?
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  450.  @oneplacegifts5946  The future of Russia v China will be interesting. Friends of convenience right now but there are a lot of potential conflict points between the two.
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  451.  @jinjysbro  Oh, that explains why by Tues & Wed, Chicago had the worst air quality in the world. Maybe even Thursday as well.
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  452. Exactly, “trapped” was a poor choice of words. It was over thousands of years likely with maybe hundreds of years where they could swim or take a small boat to get to the other lands before it became what it is today
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  453. We haven’t seen a full invasion of a major force without any warning in who knows how long — world war 2? Even the Iraq war of 2003, the US told Iraq they were invading if X and Y didn’t happen and the president of the US went on tv and gave Iraq 2 days notice.
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  454. Lol, 2 weeks later and Russia had to pull back and only focused on Donbas while their economy is expected to shrink by 15% this year
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  455.  @_w_w_  so europe stalled and Russia is crashing up 15% decline. yeah, sounds about even Putin Pal
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  456. Free Xinjiang! Free Tibet! Free Hong Kong! Free West Taiwan from PRC!
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  457. You like g8noc1de of Uyghurs?
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  458.  @Fauxsho94  lol, I love how people like your comment even though you didn’t send me any video link.
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  459.  @fattfatt6483  another Moscow or Beijing worker? You said “big yes” to my question if US should help Ukraine and Taiwan. You like evil so are you Moscow or Beijing?
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  460.  @Fauxsho94  I also find it funny how you say “I love US but our foreign policy sucks” when you’re clearly not American. Beijing or Moscow worker for sure.
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  461.  @ABC-ABC1234  disprove that Libya isn’t a sovereign state today. WTH?!!?
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  462.  @ABC-ABC1234  What deflection? You are suggesting Libya isn't a sovereign state today so prove it. Also, Libya was already in a civil war and the UNITED NATIONS is the one that passed a no fly zone resolution. Since UN doesn't have an airforce, it was left to NATO to enforce it. You should really learn more about this.
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  463.  @ABC-ABC1234  permission was granted by UN but you just admitted Libya wasn’t even sovereign to begin with! Ha ha
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  464.  @Silver_Prussian  had guns and rebelled against which country? I’m not sure which of my comments you replied to
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  465.  @Silver_Prussian  why are you defending Russians invasions? Horrible people like you is why the world is a mess.
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  466.  @VRuler  India in the years after independence had horrible transition period with millions killed. Do you think India would prefer to have stayed under the oppressive government? So why do you think in the long run this bad for Libya?
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  467.  @VRuler  who will make Libya a slave to the west? How? Like South Korea, Taiwan and Japan? You know, Wealthy democratic countries? You also never answered if India thinks they would have been better off with the previous rulers considering all the violence and death after they removed the previous rulers.
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  468.  @VRuler  people like you are why dictators and oppression exist. You defend Gaddafi and think the west is bad? Ha! You’re morals are messed up. You also never answered if India thinks they would have been better off with the previous rulers considering all the violence and death after they removed the previous rulers.
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  469. Time for a land war!
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  470. ​ @woolwarian  The placement on the river ideally would have given it a huge leg up by the time industrialization began. In addition, the natural resources would have helped. The Port of South Louisiana is currently 2nd biggest port by tons. It has a lot going for it on the surface. That leads me to believe 2 factors holding them back. First, terrible government. Second, the geography also makes non shipping infrastructure expensive and difficult.
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  471.  @nyana6641  They won't get rid of it. It will be demonetized. That's why it makes sense they release it on their other platform but I hope after it gets all it's views in the other platform, they release it on YT.
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  472.  @nyana6641  i agree it should but also it has more to do what with advertisers would pay. They don’t want to advertise on videos that aren’t “safe” so that includes topics On atrocities.
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  473.  @soundscape26  he cares about being monetized — just a little thing they sometimes say. He also want to get subs on the other platform so he mentioned the whole monetized thing to show at nebula they allow more risky content. I’m hoping that once it’s already run it’s course on nebula, he will post it here. Doubt it
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  474.  @DUDIDUAN  integrity isn’t spelled “c-c-p”.
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  475. I can see you defending China in other comments and saying things like "US can't protect Taiwan because they can't like about WMD nukes like Iraq". or "LMFAO taiwan ADiZ goes over mainland" while ignoring the jets China flies over Taiwans AIDZ in the sea and near Taiwan.
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  476.  @maccothemillion3558  “WMD Iraq! So anything anyone says I can ignore and I can then believe the country has zero free press!” So ADIZ meant to protect any country (all countries have one) is a joke for Taiwan but not for China! And China knowingly sends Jets to be aggressive but somehow it’s not aggressive! Hello Winnie!
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  477.  @maccothemillion3558  “Iraq! So anything anyone says I can ignore and I can then believe the country has zero free press!” So ADIZ meant to protect any country (all countries have one) is a joke for Taiwan but not for China! And China knowingly sends Jets to be aggressive but somehow it’s not aggressive! Hello Winnie!
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  478.  @maccothemillion3558  “The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group…” It frustrating when those who support gên cide or Uyghurs are not familiar with the various spellings of the group are gén ciding
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  479.  @m......7984  Sensationalist videos to draw viewership.
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  480. @Luke Tremblay the post was literally copy paste from Mekong River Commission. How about U copy and paste it on google? Links aren’t allowed. But hey, u didn’t answer what happened 1989 near Tiananmen Square nor what’s happening in Xinjiang so I’m sure u aren’t interested in the truth
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  481. @Luke Tremblay my mistake, that was from the peer reviewed research “The Hydrology of the Mekong River”. What exactly from this video or the peer reviewed research is wrong per the MRC?
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  482. @Luke Tremblay it’s not American research. It is peer reviewed. You just wake up in China BTW? So, what exactly did the MRC say that proves this vid wrong?? Seems like you started out by saying MRC says vid is wrong but never gave details
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  483.  @garytang1613  Curtis Jackson, you left off the part where water from Chinas side provided 40-70% of the water during the dry season in South East Asia. So yeah, when the water is need most, it comes mostly from China.
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  484. @Luke Tremblay so why aren’t u providing more detail about What exactly is wrong with this vid based on the MRC? You like one of a dozen other wû.má.ôs her with the same comment “MRC says this vid wrong” but none of you provide details. And the vid points out that during the dry the season, China has on occasion not released enough water leading to the issues in SEA during dry season
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  485.  @hyc1266  it’s kind of hard to trust a country that is running concentration camps and withheld vital information on a virus that spread throughout the world. Also when that country has no free press and free speech thus no one to hold them accountable
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  486. Yeah, the channels vidoes are becoming longer and packed with more information. It must be a decent size team working on this now.
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  487. Tankie for sure
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  488.  @kennethmelnychuk9737  not true. Research already shows that companies that represent 40% of their gdp have already left Russia. That doesn’t mean 40% gdp drop but Russia is having to replace 40% of their gdp with locals who likely won’t be as good and likely to run into supply issues from sanctions. It’s a serious long term impact. Short term, Russia is having to sell their energy on the cheap so it offsets some of the record high prices. Once oil and gas prices Stabalize even a little, Russia will see even bigger drops in revenue from energy.
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  489. Oh look, the guy who defends Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The guy who said US need soil from Azerbaijan even though US gets almost no oil from Central Asia or Asian continent.
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  490. That’s not at all what happened KGB or CCP member. Gaddafi killed civilians, civil war started, UN approved no fly zone, europe enforces it but needed US help and US came In to help. But somehow it’s the US fault?
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  491.  @ahuman2613  You mean Gaddaffi killed civilians, a civil war broke out, muslim countries approved for foreign intervention, UN sanctioned a no fly zone, Europe enforced the no fly zone but then needed the US, so US came in to support the no-fly zone ---- and it’s all the US fault?
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  492. Jaysihno how did Austia start the second?
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  493. Oh look, the anti west guy turns out to be a Beijing worker. Or a Moscow worker?
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  494.  @ABC-ABC1234  the water source that has been used by a hundred million across south East Asia for thousands of years? It’s now okay for China to block if it wants? And it’s okay for China to have concentration camps of Uyghurs? Okay for China to steal the South China Sea by building fake islands and putting military on it? Okay for China to invade peaceful country of Taiwan? And you wonder why much of the world hates china
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  495.  @ABC-ABC1234  name me 10 other countries that have greatly effected the water to 100 million people who have relied on it for thousands of years? And explain to me why you support Chinas concentration camps, stealing of South China Sea, attempt to invade peaceful country of Taiwan, brutal crackdown of protests in China in Hong Kong, etc?
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  496.  @ABC-ABC1234  also, why do 80% of Vietnamese think US is a good influence on Vietnam but only 19% think China is a good influence
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  497.  @ABC-ABC1234  Vietnam reaching out to China by working with the US military and running exercises with them? “Given US history in Vietnam”. You mean one east where both sides moved on vs thousands of years of conflict with China and where Vietnam still sees China as a problem?
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  498.  @ABC-ABC1234  “(Singapore) refuse to do USA’s bidding and potentially ruin their economiy just to please one nation”. You just confirmed how terrible china is in that they economically punish everyone that doesn’t bend the knee to them. Ha ha
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  499.  @ABC-ABC1234  you already confirmed china is scary and that others have to be worried
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  500.  @ABC-ABC1234  Australian farmers aren’t being sent to concentration camps like some in China. And Australian farmers have great healthcare and other benefits that China doesn’t.
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  501. "Georgian government is now also under Putins control" they are very anti-Putin though, aren't they?
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  502.  @ellashy6539  getting your 50 çénts
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  503.  @ellashy6539  “other peoples narratives”. You mean the si-si-pee?
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  504.  @ellashy6539  I wasn’t name calling, just pointing out you are literally repeating see-see-pee talking points. Let me guess, u don’t believe any gén-ôcîdê in Xinjiang?
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  505.  @ellashy6539  I wasn’t name calling, just pointing out you are literally repeating see-see-pee talking points.
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  506.  @ellashy6539  what’s going on in Xinjiang?
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  507. Hells Moscow worker. Nice propa you spread. In the west like the US, they talk a lot about environmental failures. In USSR and China, that wasn’t allowed.
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  508.  @indexpictures  what Cold War propaganda? Everyone knows about the species that disappeared in the west — there were huge environmental movements. In communist countries you can’t go again the government so no movements. I see you defend Russia in other comments — typical tánkîê
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  509. Yes, they are still vastly dependent on oil shipped by tankers mostly from the middle-east. They cutout Australian coal imports and now they have had some energy issues and blackouts increasing in frequency. They are having to open up some of the more expensive or dirty coal mines. Meanwhile Australia just found other nations to ship their coal having little effect.
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  510.  @nurityalieva3852  Propa video? You mean China isn't building artificial islands with military bases on them and threatening anyone that comes near? You mean CN hasn't said they would use military force if necessary to take Taiwan? What's the propa going on here?
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  511.  @rimfire8217  It's a potential problem especially given the massive bribing operations that CN has. if you want details of such an operation, look up Vice News story "Undercover In Guyana: Exposing Chinese Business in South America". they catch the operation and CN govt is paying bribes to Guyana's leader to not only accept CN projects but also to break ties with Taiwan. But with all the trade Malaysia does with Japan and western powers, it should make it harder for Malaysia to be a pupet of China.
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  512.  @rimfire8217  To see how China can manipulate Malaysia to some extend, Malaysia has openly criticized China many times on the detention centers of Uyhgurs. But at the UN, in order to not upset CN, they did not cast a vote in support or opposition to CN on the Xinjiang issue.
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  513.  @augustineraja  “Malaysia will not entertain requests to extradite ethnic Uighur refugees to China and will allow them safe passage to a third country should they feel their safety is at risk, a minister has said.”
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  514.  @augustineraja  ““Hence, if there are any Uighur refugees who flee to Malaysia for protection, Malaysia has decided to not extradite Uighur refugees even if there is a request from the People’s Republic of China,” Mohd Redzuan said.” “then-premier Mahathir later said Malaysia was too small a country to confront China over Uighurs.”
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  515.  @augustineraja  so now you admit that Malaysia has problems with China on the Uyghurs situation??
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  516.  @MatsYoo  Yes, all that seems too costly to be viable solution, at least at this moment.
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  517.  @citytianyu  I agree. But producing electricity won't be a big export.
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  518. Interesting how so many are thing to blame just one or two factors when it’s a combination of perhaps all the factors in the video and more: 1. Geography- distance between islands and water depth 2. Relative low demand from locals for transport that is several hours between islands 3. Lobbying by local airlines and likely rental car companies 4. Jones Act etc requiring boats made in the US and operated by Americans. This adds lots of costs
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  519.  @bitterballs356  " why should I criticize Chi-na when I approve of what they are doing" That's exactly the point. You approve them helping Rus so in return you defend them on everyting -- even Xinjiang ge-noc-ide and 1989 Tiananmen Square. Yeah, the dams they produce are producing energy for Chi-na while starving South East Asia. But Chi-na never cares about other countries.
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  520.  @LancesArmorStriking  Utube censors a lot of comments so I have to get around it. Slava Ukraini!!
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  521.  @LancesArmorStriking  Y do U support the f@sc!st Put-in?
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  522.  @fisherbuys1  I’m totally going to believe the guy who subs to Chinas paid (wû.má.o) YouTubers like Daniel Dumbrill and the Barrets. Totally going to believe u. So what’s happening in Xinjiang? What happened 1989 Tiananmen Square?
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  523.  @josegrande8746  1 million compared to 100 million in Mekong River area. How is that not “relatively few”?
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  524.  @josegrande8746  and tonto, the Hoover dam was built in 1930 when Mexicali had 15,000 people so 95% of the population in that region happened AFTER the dam while in Mekong it happened when there were already 100 million. I would demand an apology but I don’t think you care about the obvious weak arguments you make
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  525.  @josegrande8746  so we agree that Mekong and Colorado River are nothing alike? I’m not defending everything about the colorado River but I’m pointing out such comparisons to Mekong are ridiculous. All dams will produce those environmental effects but what China is doing to a hundred million people is a different level
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  526.  @josegrande8746  you’re criticizing my complaint’s of people equating Mekong to colorado River and of Course you won’t apologize after I pointed out almost no one lived there before the dam was built
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  527. Last time I was this early, it was England that was being invaded....by French, Normans, Vikings, angles and saxons, Romans and the Celtic people
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  528. China imports most of its soy beans
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  529.  @kiingchunk502  Most of RLL videos (at least in the past year) tend to be fear mongering.
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  530.  @hogscattle7877  "As the narrator talks I search the internet and most of the things come right up to be true" The problem isn't that the verifiable facts are correct or not, it's the assumptions and fear mongering made. Half the video contains assumptions.
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  531.  @Rishi123456789  there are tribes In the Americas that still live like they did hundreds or thousands of years ago so śh-t the F ûp
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  532.  @Rishi123456789  indian b0t, don’t forget Canada also has many indigenous tribes still living their old lives. How much is Delhi paying you
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  533.  @lambfatale  what about Americans? I don’t know which of my comments you replied to
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  534.  @drinkbuje2807  off the coast of the US? US has reservations where native population is giving lots of autonomy. Same as Canada. India on the other hand is trying to eject Muslims.
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  535.  @drinkbuje2807  also, India was only free after 1947. The Native American being evicted was the century before.
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  536. It’s America now, get use it.
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  537. Exactly. William Spaniel (sp?) is a YouTuber who’s an expert on Ukraine - Russia and he talked about that. He mentioned a tactical nuclear bomb use opens up the possibility of a full nuclear attack.
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  538.  @nelsonmaingi1297  Yes, Russia is fighting 'aggressive' NATO expansion. That is why Ukraine and NATO made all those threats to invade Russia -- wait, it was Russia who made the threats and who invaded. But okay, Russia's main concern is to stop NATO expansion --- oops, NATO just got bigger with Finland and Sweden. Okay, so now Russia will invade Finland and Sweden since Russia invaded Ukraine out of concern of NATO expansion!! Yeah, surely Russia will invade Finland and Sweden or else they proved that NATO expansion wasn't the reason for invading Ukraine.
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  539.  @aidenhall8593  Not always. But often.
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  540. Much longer viewpoint on things? Like the one child policy that is now leading to a demographic crisis? Or the housing pyramid scheme that is now in crisis mode? Or all the decisions made in the 1800’s?
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  541. Not on the list of countries that have fewer people than we think: Bangladesh, Nigeria
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  542.  @golonawailus4312  sure, 1300 years ago. What’s you’re point? Should Italy get back almost of Europe and the Mediterranean? Or where you providing a little random fact for fun?
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  543.  @golonawailus4312  so basically you want the whole world in a war? I don’t think you’re joking that you want china to get it’s tang dynasty peak borders but you also put yourself in a position to then have to argue for a true world at war. I also think you backed yourself into this position by seemingly defending China for wanting its 1800’s lands lost back while they have no problems keeping their 1700’s lands taken.
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  544.  @golonawailus4312  “their great historical cities”. China doesn’t have any (of the Chinese) in the regions they conquered nor do they have any in the lands taken. Unless you use “Greta historical cities” very loosely. But again, your position is for the whole world to enter into a war. That’s the only way to defend China here
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  545.  @timlinator  much cheaper than historial desalination but still expensive for now.
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  546.  @timlinator  sure it was but you’re trying to suggest the this tech is already there at the cost point. It’s not. Imagine buying a computer in 1990 for $10,000 because you believe it will be selling for $1,000 in 30 years. These desalination plants only make sense at this point in time in very specific circumstances.
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  547.  @shimmeryglad5752  water is not more expensive in America (it’s practically free in lots of places) and you have all those desalination plants because you literally have no choice. The Central Valley of California is the most productive agriculture in the US and perhaps the world — its a desert or semi-arid region. They turned it into great farms by using water from the mountains. So they haven’t used desalination much because it’s much more expensive than the water they currently use.
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  548.  @shimmeryglad5752  your post was just so uneducated
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  549.  @rodneytrotter3725  your solution for California sounds very communist
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  550.  @slevinchannel7589  ​ ​ tânkîes like ü defending China and Russia might not know Afghanistan war was 100% legit and UN approved
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  551.  @brianlong2334  what are you talking about? I don’t know which comment you replied to but I thought it was about higher quality of living?
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  552.  @brianlong2334  In general, probably right but the smaller populated countries almost all dominate. US Is so large and diverse it’s going to be harder to rank at the top. Heck, at 23 million Australia is often bigger than almost all the countries that rank above it. Usually going to be the likes of Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore, New Zealand, etc.
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  553.  @brianlong2334  "Australia with a population like that would have a GDP of over 15 trillion". The US has a higher GDP per capita than Australia though. "And almost all of the country's mentioned rely on American power" I agree, they are protected by the US which allows them to not worry about having to spend as much on a military.
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  554.  @brianlong2334  US has about 13% higher gdp per capita. It’s not “slightly more” but whatever the next level is.
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  555.  @brianlong2334  Wikipedia has (in Usd) $76k for USA and $67k for Australia for 2022. What your source?
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  556.  @brianlong2334  just saw world bank: 2021: US at $69.3k vs Australia $59.9k 2020: US at $63k vs $51.7k Australia 2019: US at $65.1k, vs $54.9k Australia
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  557.  @JesusChristLovesYouBro  allahu akbar
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  558.  @brianlong2334  I gave you world bank data and for the last several years, US has been well ahead. Australia fluctuates a lot due to heavy reliance on natural resources. The only time Australia was ahead in all of history was 2008 and 2010-2014. The US has averaged over 10% higher gdp per capita than Australia since 2016.
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  559.  @brianlong2334  you cut off at 2008 making it look like before 2016 it was basically tied or Australia ahead. In the 200 years of Australia history, they only passed US 2008 and 2010-2014. Since 2016 and before 2008, the US has always been at least 10% above. 2008-2014 was also when china was building the most and relied heavily on Australia for many natural resources. After 2014 China slowed construction which is why Australia has fallen.
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  560.  @brianlong2334  intellectual dishonest is cutting off at 2008 when in all of history the US was at least 10% above Australia other than 2008-2015. And given Chinas slowing economy and construction halt, why do you argue as if Australia will get back to 2008-2014?
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  561.  @brianlong2334  and if you have to go back to 1880s before the idea of gdp even existed to point out the last time Australia was ahead of the US, then maybe you lost this argument?
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  562.  @brianlong2334  1960’s? Worldbank website literally shows US at $3k and Australia at $1.8k in 1960 and $5.0k US and Australia $3.0k in 1969. US was about 40% higher throughout 1960’s so what are you looking at? I’m loooking at gdp per capita current USD.
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  563.  @brianlong2334  how do you see before 1960 when world bank data only goes to 1960? It wasn’t until 1944 that organizations began to actively measure gdp with the first GDP developed in 1934, so what data are you looking at for 1800’s?
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  564.  @brianlong2334  “research” isn’t a source and you were way off 1960’s world bank that you likely made it up
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  565.  @davidsonpeter8408  Why would Russia detroy their own pipelines to Europe? They can just turn them off -- which they have. Try again, not the same as Russian pipelines to China and another 3rd party destroying it.
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  566.  @pupugattakakka7519  PutXi Whipped gives it away with his username. Most of these w8ma0 just use their Chinese name LOL.
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  567.  @donnmckee4973  china going closer to Russia at the same time as half the world economy nations pulling away from China. Yes, that sounds bad for china. Russia is just a Bandaid on their bigger issues as they alienate the west and its eastern Allies
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  568.  @henli-rw5dw  “their economy is still okay”. Nah, it’s all relative. Relative to how they were doing, they doing bad. They might actually have economic growth below inflation for first time in decades. And aging population is indeed a problem for every country in terms of economic (great for environment). Nice of you to defend China with “demographic crisis is okay, we don’t need that many people anyways and we also meant to do this” In regards to arable lands, there is this thing called global trade? Japans been using that for nearly two centuries since they have almost no arable lands Am I shocked you defend what’s going on in Xinjiang in other comments! Nah
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  569.  @henli-rw5dw  uh, the plaza accord was 1985 and not 1990’s. Plaza accord had nothing do do with food either. It’s like your looking at a Chinese govt playbook and just randomly picking things from it now knowing what they mean
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  570.  @davenobody407  China has delivery services in major cities for well under USD$1 because there is a huge population of very poor people in even major cities. Also, China has lowest % of foreign born residents in the world. They aren’t even trying to get any foreigners to work there just like japan. Am i surprised you deny what’s going on Xinjiang? Nah
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  571.  @davenobody407  Hong Kong made the mistake of allowing so many mainlanders to immigrate there — most are who are now CCP part loyalist
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  572.  @henli-rw5dw  You defend China's gen -ide of Uyhgurs so you have no intention of a good faith argument here.
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  573.  @LOLLOL-kg4dz  " china at all not even 1% " not even 1% of what? " only one bank crisis in one small province " Thousands protests and were shut down by police dressed like civilians by using violence. And govt isn't doing much because they know the banking is in trouble -- which is why I mentioned that there large numbers now who are withholding payments to banks on property construction that has been delayed.
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  574.  @TheZachary86  their strength? They are the best at building concentration cmps
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  575.  @chongqingcapybara1306  just so everyone knows, u are a paid see see member. U call the Uighur ge.nôc.ide just propaganda of the west
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  576. Because people did have an issue with Tibet being taken over for decades and Ukraine is right now with thousands dying each week. This is actually a dûmb comparison
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  577.  @ChannelRandom-v3d  that because OP Alex Lazar only defends Chi-na and Russia. He is wrong that only 16% comes from China. according to “The Hydrology of the Mekong River” study, more than 40% of the Mekong River water comes from China. Furthermore, from the study “In the upper part of the Lower Mekong system, at Vientiane, the flow originating from China and Burma, the so-called Yunnan Component, not only provides most of the dry-season flows, but in addition, most of the floodwater during the majority of years. “
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  578. I don't trust Erdogan at all. He will invade Syria JUST to get re-elected. The whole Kurdish situation is complicated but what's not complicated is how Erdogan wants to be like Putin -- a dictator formed through democracy then slowly eroding it.
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