Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "China Observer" channel.

  1. They'll get them up at gunpoint if they have to. But they will fall back into 3rd-world status just when they THOUGHT they would rule the world.
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  2. 3G is good for anything I'd ever want/need, especially given how little I would use it. I don't understand people who need 5G for the hand-helds. Gaming while you walk down the street?
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  3. When you succeed at crushing all dissent and spreading despair far and wide.
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  4.  @rockysu7661  Because of espionage and predatory business practices.
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  5. Why is this a huge hardship, if you made sure you could afford your house payments before buying? If my house dropped in value, the only thing that would affect me is my property taxes would go down. Why would you buy a house you want to move out of in 2 or 3 years? That's a bad decision, regardless of market fluctuations. I can see where it would be a hardship if you suddenly had a life change and had to move. But if you bought the house to live in, long term, you might have some buyer's remorse, due to paying too much, but you shouldn't otherwise be affected, and you should have a mortgage that you can afford, else why make such a commitment?
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  6. If you need 5G, you're spending too much time on your phone.
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  7.  @barkmaker  I get at least one phone call per week from Indian or Pakistani scammers.
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  8. That ANYone is still working there tells you they fear NOT being there more than risking their lives to be there.
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  9.  @soakupthesunman  He was a pretty big disappointment as a human being, and couldn't manage his own affairs, let alone make recommendations to anybody else.
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  10. Thoughts and prayers for the people affected.
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  11. Wyoming deaths surged by 20% when the murders rose from 10 to 12 total!
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  12.  @butwhytharum  Even if prices are stable, it's very much to your advantage to own rather than to rent, if you're planning on staying at least 5 years in the same place. You actually get back some of your "rent money" when you sell, and you usually get "more house" if you buy, rather than rent, for the same monthly cost.
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  13. ... and CCP's response was also murderous. COVID was a marvelous opportunity for the CCP to crush opposition. The thing we don't understand about China is that the CCP thinks nothing of murdering as many as necessary to remain in power. They'd RATHER see economic growth, but if that doesn't materialize, they will crush those who complain.
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  14.  @kimbo99  Yes. We're jealous. We want to destroy ourselves faster than China is destroying itself.
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  15. Yes. Always a generation or two behind. Still, that comes at great savings in development costs. But when you don't come by it honestly, it can all slip away very quickly, with no options for digging yourself out of a hole.
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  16. American exceptionalism IS a thing, but it's been twisted to mean "We act against our principles because we have better principles." American exceptionalism is SUPPOSED to mean we have rights and our government doesn't run amuck because we the people keep it in check. We the people have failed to keep our government in check. This makes us very un-exceptional. Nevertheless, the notion that people have Natural Rights that supersede the powers and desires of our government IS an exceptional idea that's being destroyed by people who have twisted its true meaning in order to rule the world. American people HATE that $hit. That's why it's kept off the airwaves and cable news.
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  17. This superstition is pretty universal around the world.
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  18. The problem with authoritarian state is you have to watch everybody.
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  19. Those are horrifying casualty rates, but it's not like they went to Ukraine to sell noodles.
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  20. Don't underestimate the ruthlessness of the CCP. It doesn't care how many people have to die to maintain power.
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  21.  @dontcare7086  Home ownership is the #1 investment most Americans make. It's a long-term investment, not something most of us do in order to make money by re-selling, which is highly speculative.
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  22. Sounds more like one side had night-vision and infrared while the other side didn't., or they couldn't get away with splashing the other side with infrared. I think in the early part of the conflict, Ukraine had a pretty big lead in gadgets and precision artillery. I don't think that's the case, now. Not to the same extent
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  23. Try NOT buying from China. You have to dig pretty deep to find products that are NOT. They even make over 90% of our anti-biotics. I can't BELIEVE we trust them that much!!!
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  24. They were dealing with government bureaucrats to put together these partnerships. They couldn't've made it happen with people risking their OWN money, because such people would demand accountability AND know what that meant.
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  25.  @joesixpence3447  Depends how far back in history you want to go.
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  26. COVID exposed the arbitrary, dictatorial nature and concomitant instability. The CCP can turn on a dime in any direction with no warning. LOL! It sounds like I'm describing America! At least in America, the worst excesses were prevented by a tradition of restrained government. It's a fading tradition, but it's ground deep into all our hides by osmosis.
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  27. Plane vs plane. Tank vs tank. These things don't matter in modern warfare. You can't sortie manned aircraft until all air defenses are suppressed. And suppressing modern industrialized nations' air defenses isn't as easy as it was in Iraq. USA/NATO doesn't hold escalation dominance in the Far East, Middle East, or Ukraine. The USA is obsessed with its own internal march to communism via fascism. It's spent all its wealth and borrowed decades into the future. Verging on economic and financial collapse, it's long past time we started minding our own business, and paring back our federal government's footprint. Do it in the name of combating climate change, as the burden the government puts on the economy results in over-production, over-consumption, and more CO2 emissions that the government always lectures us about.
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  28.  @butwhytharum  I was just saying how it worked from a home-owner's perspective. You're right about runaway inflation of property values. We get stuck with higher tax bills. But on the other hand, when prices spike, we can extract maximum cash from the sale if we choose to sell. I think property taxes discriminate BIG-time against poor people who own property. The government doesn't want you living off your own land. It wants you working full-time and paying income taxes. The primary purpose to which property taxes are supposedly put is to fund the public schools. I'm against the current public school system and its means of funding. We live in a time when quality education can be delivered at far less cost than ever before. But it's more expensive than ever before, and the overall quality is less.
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  29. Denmark just hasn't been socialist long enough for the rot to set in fully.
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  30.  @animejanai4657  American government is learning much from CCP.
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  31. This is the nature of government. Plus the Chinese people are notorious for this kind of thing, for millennia.
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  32. Governments around the world are starting to look more like occupying forces than government.
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  33. They already re-located to Vietnam, Cambodia, etc. This is the case for many industries. Nobody wants to buy Chinese, so they open a factory somewhere else.
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  34.  @markdowse3572  I've noticed posts from one video showing up on others. I think YT likes to mess with me because I'm a freeloader who hates the Machine and I comment a lot.
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  35. Maybe I'm wrong and Nixon was playing 4-D chess, all along. Maybe China can't win without BECOMING us. It takes a lot of talented people, all working with a will, to make real human progress, whatever form of government you have. Theoretically, totalitarian regimes have a hard time holding things together, because the only way to win is to empower their people with skills and resources. The CCP's one-child policy (pogrom) has given them a generation of educated only-children. There's a Timothy Leary vibe going on in THEIR millennial, x, y, z generations (youth, generally). Don't DEMAND excellence. But rather, LET excellence, and always applaud and reward excellence. Top-down tries to MAKE things excellent, and achieves mediocre on its best day.
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  36. Send them to the countryside and crush them, piecemeal, rather than lose control of your cities. Smart plan. Indicates another round of China falling behind the rest of the world. You can't MAKE yourself a superpower. You have to LET it happen, and this they will never do, because that would mean relinquishing absolute power and control. Meanwhile, the West is drifting into Maoism. Stupid piled on top of selfish, with a side order of corruption and failure.
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  37. Look at all the empty office buildings and store fronts in blue cities.
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  38. Yes. Totalitarians always punish their best people and then wonder why they're always backwards and need to steal innovations from free nations that create them, non-stop. It's the one thing they can't compel: creativity and working with a free will.
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  39. "Atlas Shrugged"
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  40. Government financial support only helps big corporations while hollowing out all the small business. You're actually saying Crony Captalism (i.e. FASCISM) is a good thing. The reason we're failing and China is failing is because they're trying to MAKE things happen, top-down, rather than relinquishing power and LETTING things happen from the bottom up. People WITH power tend to think that they're smarter than everybody else. They're not. They just have more power. But their interests and the interests of the people rarely are the same.
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  41. THE TIGHTER YOU SQUEEZE, THE MORE THE SAND SLIPS THROUGH YOUR FINGERS.
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  42. All good stuff. Another idea is to not build in the flood plain.
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  43. So you've got a couple people to bribe...
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  44. The USA and China are intertwined. USA refuses to take a Middle Path of trade AND accountability. It either sells out or threatens war. USA needs to bring back manufacturing instead of making it impossible to operate. Again, Middle Path is required, here. We want environmental responsibility AND manufacturing. Government regulations prop up bad actor big companies and punish honest small business. Meanwhile, the environment continues to degrade, with the government, itself, protecting the worst polluters. Chasing manufacturing to China ensures that ZERO environmental responsibility will be exercised. For best results, free markets and full transparency give best products, lowest prices, and cleanest environment. People will flock to companies that do things the right way, and companies will race to be seen as the most moral and honest. We need a revolution in advertising and consumer awareness, not this fake, woke nonsense and government-approved "I'm Green!" posturing.
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  45. I think they've been skirmishing along the Indian border for years. Maybe they patched it up.
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  46. "One child" is just one in a long line of "5 Year Plans" that the CCP elites imposed in their superior wisdom, only to fail, miserably. The only thing commies are good at is taking power and holding power. But when you rule by force, you put a lid on what your nation can achieve. It's very sad, watching China go through this cycle. They can't compete in the larger world without an educated equivalent to western middle class. But an educated middle class means a lot of people with higher expectations for the system, and when the system disappoints them, the only way to stay in power is to crush the middle class. China proved in 1989 (Tiananmen Square) that it won't hesitate to drag the entire nation back to the Stone Age, if that's what it takes for the CCP to remain in control. We see some of the same thing going on in the West. We're climbing on that same wheel, ourselves. I think Trump's election is a good sign, but he's not really trying to make any philosophical changes, not really trying to return government to its proper role and scope. He'll do some good things and then the swamp tide will roll back in as soon as he's gone, if not before.
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  47. This is what happens when you give too few too much power, authority and responsibility,
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  48. More people means more brains working to solve problems. Yes, we sprawl and pollute too much, but it's not because of overpopulation, rather, it's because of how they live so unsustainably.
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  49. China needs more Confucius and less Mao. The USA needs more George Washington and less Dulles.
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  50. I'm just glad I don't have to go there! If it's mostly up-and-down, and I can clearly see it swaying side-to-side, that's some SERIOUS up-and-down that I'm not seeing.
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  51.  @julianajaxson  Malls are empty because it's easier to shop online and cut out the middle man. Amazon's been cashing in on this, but every manufacturer, just about, has direct sales. I use Amazon to find the companies and then I order direct from the companies, and cut Amazon out of the transaction. Even if it costs more, I avoid doing business with people who hate me and everything I believe.
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  52. I don't think they don't care. These failures are bad for the CCP. The trouble is, because they're top-down on everything, the people at the bottom actually doing the work are not given sufficient resources to do jobs properly. First the government officials get their cut. Then the low bid who won the contract sub-contracts it out to another contractor, after taking their skim. This might happen 3 or 4 times before it actually gets to the people actually doing the work. This is called "Tofu Dregs" construction. Sad thing (encouraging thing) is that if you gave the actual contractors who DO the work sufficient resources, the Chinese are fantastic builders. But because they insist on controlling everything from the top, they can't get out of their own way, and it makes them look, well, like Chinese! Imagine the waste, fraud and corruption of USA's military-industrial complex. Now extend that across ALL industrial sectors. That's the Chinese economy. Sadly, this is a direction the USA's been headed since the logistics crowd during World War II started using linear programming to get soldiers, weapons, tanks and planes shipped off to Europe and kept them supplied. They got a read hard-on for controlling/managing entire economies and they're trying to micro-manage the USA economy with punishments for x, subsidies for y, and never-ending inefficiency and corruption. If top-down planning actually WORKED for an economy, we'd all have been speaking Russian by 1980.
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  53.  @sootuckchoong7077  Good point. Good sarcasm. To the extent that the USA behaves badly, that's just as bad, if not worse, because of all the moral posturing we do.
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  54. "even the government?" LOL! Government's where all the crooks congregate!
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