Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

@douglasgyi We don't necessarily want China to fail, only the haughty (can't do wrong, conveniently forget Mao years and 1989), exclusionary (Han ethnicity >> everyone else), and patronizing (unchallengeable authoritarianism) attitudes that the CPC advocates. However the CPC deliberately equates itself to "China", and so calls for Communist downfall sounds like calls to take down the Chinese people, which the Party can then use to rally hateful support.
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Bigger doesn't mean better -- the average Chinese worker is far less productive and only getting older. The CPC's allergies to dissent makes its education and creativity lackluster, and these are exactly what's needed to break out of the middle income trap. And China's own debts have shot up alarmingly fast, like five times the growth of America's in the past decade, much of it into shoddy hardly-occupied "real estate" because of even lower trust in their stock markets. Now they're having problems just keeping the lights on, because most of their coal plants are optimized for higher grade Western stock, and they might not have the funds to get alternative sources built without the social unrest caused by multiple freezing winters during the wait.
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But that would be “socialist”, says those who look forward to their next “business-related” tax break and Social Security check.
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Remember last time a bunch of traditionalist reactionaries tried to fight for their state and way of life? They lost ownership of all their slaves. A century later they lost legally sanctioned dominance over their descendants too. America's "Great Experiment" doesn't reward going back to a flawed past.
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@qjtvaddict Which when civilian shipping in the SCS and ECS gets scared off by the crossfire will be shockingly upcharged (overland) or useless (by sea).
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Chinese soldiers aren't paid as much, but they're also stuck doing a lot of political indoctrination classes while American units regularly get sent to field exercises if not the combat zone. Plus PLA equipment gets enough complaints of breakdowns in garrison, imagine how reliable those would be in the degraded maintenance of war.
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Right, a common currency really needs a common budget to work properly. I doubt Brasilia would prefer to have its public spending driven by Beijing.
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The PRC government is very much right-wing: ethnocultural dominance, traditional values, paternalist governance, Make [this country] Great Again attitude... all the hallmarks of fascism. Remember that the term "Nazi" is itself a contraction of the German for "National Socialism", and the CPC promotes combining both nationalism and its idea of "socialism".
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These don't really exist in China either. China's structures often become hazards in a fairly mild incident, and they age surprisingly quickly due to shoddy workmanship. Plus China's healthcare coverage is a joke, covering almost nothing on a medical bill.
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Uncontrolled subsidies, not questioning and limiting payouts to what college administrators say they're worth.
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@ivanbudianto1962 Make friends yes. Make families no, at least if they want to keep their identity as authentically "Japanese".
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@luisoviedo-perez2896 More like that's what our politics naturally converges on in a winner-take-all system where the collection of losers becomes the only other side. Unfortunately this administratively simple concept also encourages pushing the extremes as a way to differentiate one from the other, since the real political spread is more a continuous spectrum.
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Are the patents actually good and defensible though? Or are they more like the near jokes that the USPO was handing out in its early years?
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Let's hope if the war obliterates anything Ukrainian, it's their infamous corruption that had kept the country weak.
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America has been tearing itself apart constantly, critics have doubted its continued existence since 1812, various Panics, the Civil War, the anarco-communist insurrection, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement where even the President wasn't safe from some random sniper. These critics underestimate the American ability to come back and help each other just as fast. China also has a long history of revolt and reform, but each reform often requires a full and usually violent change of leadership, which is exactly what the Party fears.
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That treaty though was proudly punitive to keep Germany from rising again through reparations debts regardless of changes in leadership and policy. The current sanctions are meant to degrade Putin's ability to cause that damage in the first place.
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And what of the waste it produces which remains dangerous for thousands of years? We haven't figured out how to safely reprocess the ones we have now, and back then we weren't trying to replace every fossil fuel plant in the world.
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The USSR prioritized its STEM grads, and look where they ended up. STEM folks are notorious for being horrible at leading other humans, not to mention they often dive into solving whether could it technically work without really asking what are the wider effects of trying. China today is heading down a similar path of developing technical prowess yet undermining their efforts with toxic mistrusting relationships and an increasingly brittle society facing self-made aging, household debt, and soil pollution. If anything humanities and social sciences will become more important over time as those products are harder to reverse-engineer, they're not as vulnerable to automation, and they help focus efforts on what truly matters to humans.
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Land forces aren't that useful in a largely air and sea battle of cross-Straits combat. In fact they may be a liability having to feed them all, especially when food and fuel prices explode in the absence of shipping to Chinese ports who got scared off by the crossfire.
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Yet Visa can handle tens of thousands of transactions per minute globally, whereas Bitcoin has to compromise the inherent security of the blockchain with Lightning side channels just trying to keep up. And that's considering most people with a cell phone haven't even generated their own crypto key pair yet, while happily moving money through transfers of airtime credit and other financial apps which structurally operate more similarly to traditional banking and card networks.
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That's because the government isn't putting downward pressure on the debt amounts it's forgiving, it's just paying out whatever the college bureaucracies say they're worth.
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Muslim World just refuses to believe the West can care for Muslim populations, like the Uyghurs and Bosnians. Probably because their state governments want that same unchallenged despotism with economic strength that China achieved, and so steers all its masjid sermons and public narratives to indoctrinate its people accordingly.
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National Guard are an asset of a US state, occasionally called up for federal service. Their primary mission is a lot more localized.
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The US recently came out with an improved bolt-on JDAM kit that turns cheap gravity bombs into warship killers -- there's tens of thousands in the existing stockpile launchable by practically anything that flies, each at 1/20th the cost of a regular anti-ship missile. A dozen-sortie raid would easily overwhelm even the most heavily-armed cruiser, and would be overkill for the practically defenseless patrol boats and coastal cutters that make up the bulk of the PLAN fleet.
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Combat eats through stockpiles surprisingly quick. Really the only weapons we have plenty of are a couple hundred-thousand dumb gravity bombs left over from carpet bombing Vietnam, and only because we're not producing bolt-on JDAM guided fin kits fast enough.
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The Foreign Legion is a part of the French Army, just set up to recruit foreigners
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Clean air is pretty important to society.
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No, it just means they're officially talking government to government. Doesn't mean they're no longer willing to destroy each other if given the chance.
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