Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "China Fact Chasers" channel.

  1. People desperate for cash, especially in cultures where insolvency is common and tollerated.
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  2. The crazy part is Chinese parts exported abroad aren't quite this bad. Almost as if they deliberately only sell the worse stuff where they know no one cares
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  3. Speaking of internal citizenship, in the most ancient Chinese empires this actually got particularly extreme because we can actually see the breakup of China with strengthening internal citizenships. The governors started issuing orders referring to themselves as "king," but spoke to the King of China referring to themselves as "Duke." This processed continued with the governors getting their own armies and independent wars and by the time the King of China was overthrown to really only ruled the capital city and basically no one cared. When China was reunified they had to coin a word for emperor because everyone was calling themselves king.
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  4. The funny thing is while the airframe is a direct copy, they still fail to maintain a tight profile needed for stealth.
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  5. Is it just me, or the more a country lies the worse they get at making it sound believable?
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  6. With that knife class, it's also proof the trainers have no idea what they're doing. There's no technique to a knife fight. Source: My Drill Sergeant.
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  7. This is why I told my retirement account to exclude "emerging markets." Most of them are crapholes that will never make money.
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  8. The counterfeiter probably works for Apple had has infinite access to real parts that they choose not to use
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  9. Not all the fentanyl comes from China, but Chinese chemical factories do appear to be seeking out cartels to work for. It's not like the cartel connection to illegal fishing where by no surprise the same sailors that will smuggle drugs are the sailors that will fish illegally, so the overlap is coincident.
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  10. Quit saying insurrection when you mean riot.
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  11. You'd think for as much fraud as goes on they'd be better at it
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  12. Why do they think forced pregnancy will work when forced abortion didn't?
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  13. The spelling of American Indian words are determined by the first European to write it down and in a lot of cases that wasn't English. Case in point: Souix is pronounced Soo because they initially dealt with French fur traders
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  14. You might be fine, you might get jailed just so an idiot police chief can prove his loyalty to the party
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  15. Authoritarians don't profit from misery, they exist BECAUSE people in that country make each other miserable.
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  16. "Favoritism" also describes many of these appointments
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  17. Amazon has added "country of origin" as part of product description, but hasn't added it as a filter yet
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  18. It can be distilled from rice so it is stupid cheap like cigarretes
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  19. Same story, different day
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  20. Trading babies is definitely a thing so there are many orphans with living parents
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  21. To be fair, Amazon has dozens of people working on this who've banned prodigious amounts of sellers and filed many lawsuits against serial offenders, but the company doesn't want to spend big money on this
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  22. @jimmahr.4665  there was some of that, but the issue he is describing largely didn't exist.
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  23. @XxBlindoutxX  historian here. Crazy stuff happened in the industrial revolution because obvious regs didn't exist, but that didn't make people less honest
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  24. You don't expect liars to get facts straight, do you?
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  25. You probably bought a second hand scooter being advertised as new.
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  26. It's like how in Iran people don't like you if you wear jeans because the clothes don't originate from Iran and the fact no one wears traditional Persian clothes is a symptom of their irrelevance in the world.
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  27. Winston keeps saying it never got as bad as Africa because they actually have basic institutions and opportunities to improve yourself.
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  28. Don't be silly.
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  29. You can tell these farming propaganda people know nothing of farming, because if they did they'd be talking about new plant breeds and installing water pipes.
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  30. Given all I heard about extreme chinese food and disregard for life I wouldn't be surprised but I haven't heard much about that. There was a scandal many years ago that aborted babies were eaten for TCM, and I heard of a lot of bodies (human and animal) being found casually dumped in the river because no one could be bothered to bury them, and of course there was the matter of criminals being executed for their organs. But I haven't heard of human flesh being mixed in with pork.
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  31. Lying isn't necessarily in this instance. Battery fires are impossible to extinguish so firemen just cordon off the flame. And there were major vehicle recalls over battery fires.
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  32.  @annieandelsieofarendelle3294  There's worse. In the Middle East it's hard to find a willing wife because a lot of the girls are already sold off to be married by the time they reach puberty.
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  33. The EU is not a country
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  34. Everything makes sense. Cheap car, expensive license.
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  35. Except they don't have 1.3 billion people
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  36. 5:55 A laughably incompetent insurance scam
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  37. Or boyfriend gaslighting her
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  38. Yes, he's said they were surprised and he to explain dozens of times. Every time he went someplace he hadn't been before
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  39. ​@etantife which may mean he has hostile intent
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  40. What are you talking about?
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  41.  @GamerShowdown-h8j  or maybe you shouldn't be accessing illegal websites with your VPN
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  42. Same story, different year
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  43. I wonder how they count though because a lot of homeless are seasonal laborers coming in from the farms between harvests.
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  44. Don't you have a beer tank to pee in?
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  45. Dude, those are bad jokes from children
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  46. As if you know anything about them
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  47. Most of these factories are losing money.
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  48. Quit spamming
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  49. @Veeger  There are many scandals in China of cheaper meat mixed in including rat, stolen pets, and food gell but I haven't heard of people. Yet
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  50. They are losing money too
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  51. Maybe in some places, but in much of Iraq it's considered to get in people's face and make aggressive motions in conversations.
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  52. @the_real_glabnurb Let me check... Yep, you're right.
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  53. @ Arabs have a phobia for dogs and they treat people differently depending on how rich/important they look.
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  54. They complain no matter what happens, it doesn't matter if things are good or bad
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  55. Most propaganda is some version of "no u"
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  56. Don't you have an exam to cheat on?
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  57. ​@bc-cu4on that was built independently. Unsurprisingly there's very few optimal ways to build a passenger jet
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  58. I think they're all going for illegal fishing because the rivers and farmland in China is now worthless so the big money is bringing in good fish from abroad which cannot be faked.
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  59. I have a plugin that filters out Chinese goods on Amazon, but I can't choose which suppliers major brands use. That was one of Boeing's problems, they had too many turdworld contractors making inferior parts.
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  60. The degrees are also fake
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  61. Why can't my hometown be this exciting?
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  62. That's the least of their problems
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  63. But it's suddenly extremely common.
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  64. Often a bunkbed and cafeteria is provided, so they are not in total default. Even so, city jobs are not seen as just jobs but as lottery tickets because factories tend to work like Hollywood in China. The cities are super expensive but the countryside supplying them is stupid cheap. Think 20 dollar rent in village versus 600 dollar rent in city, so farmers will get seasonal jobs between harvests in the cities and live on the streets or in a crowded dorm.
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  65. There's worse
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  66. The tax evading racket exists within the US too. In some states, the tax isn't as bad as others and so it is easy to bring in whole truckloads of untaxed cigarettes and half the time the stores don't even notice there's no tax stamp
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  67. Nothing new about that
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  68. There's worse
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  69. As if there isn't a billion safer ways to do it? You know free-standing AC units are a thing?
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  70. Or both incompetence and negligence. That's common enough in China
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  71. Historian here: Often many sources are, in fact, one source
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  72. Same story, different year
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  73. Most Chinese men wouldn't have it in them, but I'm sure it will happen in some localities
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  74. The thing is it seems like everyone uses Temu once or twice, realizes none of it is worth owning, then leave, so they have to pay big bucks in ads to bring in new customers
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  75. @ But that's the thing: They know all the big money is in conning civilized people
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  76. @alfal7113  The sellers are losing money because the lowest absolute price gets all attention, ergo only ponzi schemers and counterfeiters sell anything
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  77. @basscannonjake1235  it literally isn't
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  78. Quit spamming
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  79. He is an actor chosen because he looks like Prince Harry
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  80. I once shut down a commie on Facebook with the following: "The drug cartels are profitable but you are not"
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  81. Why would the Arabs have a problem with you fishing?
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  82. Do Chinese eat any of the shark but the fin? Shark meat is poison unless you cheese it.
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  83. @ggolden1102  He's talking about how people will straight up lie about the economy. If you haven't noticed recently there are whole online forums making terroristic threats against anyone who works for an insurance company just because they don't like paying bills.
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  84. They don't. They just want you to believe that, or at least say it even if you know better
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  85. To be fair, US embassies have a very different issue from most. They're very bureaucrat, trying to stop common immigration issues with paperwork that only sometimes works, and they're really slow about changing things if there's a problem since everything has to be done from Washington so months long backlogs are common in complicated processes that often takes weeks to get done without backlogs. Some Mexicans said the real reason they migrated illegally was they couldn't be bothered to get permits.
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  86. @ssesf  Dude, we're not sure Marco Pollo even existed and that trade routes were ancient when the Romans used them.
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  87. Possible but unlikely. There are many machine shops in china
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  88. The Victorian era had better products, the lack of regulations just allowed snake oil to exist. And BTW, it was Chinese expats selling literal snake oil as medicine.
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  89. You can tell just by looking at it the plane is not stealth. The flat top and bottom are visible on radar no matter how good the radar-absorbing paint is... And I doubt the paint they're using even works.
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  90. It simply was not stealth, except face on
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  91. Probably was an accident... Caused by stolen tech they don't understand, shoddy manufacture, and an unqualified pilot
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  92. Westerners expect market efficiency, where everything is at least close to fair price. That doesn't exist in China
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  93. Lose the hyperbole
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  94. Why you think they felt the need to call everyone else paper tigers?
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  95. Nor exactly. The dirty dealing is in the account books over there.
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  96. ​@standardnerd9840 To be fair, some of the laid off Feds were far from useless, like immigration judges
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  97. @jasonchui111  those were rich women and the play things of oligarchics
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  98. Water can carry it, though
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  99. Note the orange smoke: That's proof of hypergolic fuel, which is poisonous in every conceivable way.
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  100. It literally is a lazy parade rest
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  101. Liars get scalped
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  102. Same story, different year
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  103. @Stumpy-mv2iq  they live on the streets though
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  104. You should see Arab schools. The purpose of the school is not to learn anything at all, it's a scam to gain prestige, or to scam your way into top jobs, or indoctrinate kids, or even to supply oligarchs with an easy supply of young girls and it is often hard to tell which is which
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  105. Lose the spam behavior
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  106. What about them?
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  107. ​@asamusicdude put that back up your butt where you got it
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  108. Business as usual
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  109.  @MojoTheMystic  It looks like a fast fashion brand. The type that's priced like a luxury good, perpetually on sale 80% off, and comes from the same factories as Walmart clothes
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  110. Yeah, the regs are for collecting fines and bribes.
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  111. Old news
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  112. Sht up
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  113. The guys selling the pets are also stealing the pets and slaughtering them
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  114. Silly commies. Only the internet has bots
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  115. Anti-colonial types will do everything they accuse ex-colonial empires of doing. I bet my life upon it.
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  116. The houses are fake
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  117. There's worse. Qatar pays people in allied countries to get themselves arrested promoting terrorists.
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  118.  @JokeShinet  tofu dreg electric wires
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  119. There's a more extreme example in Qatar. Al-Jazeera is owned and operated by the Qatari aristocracy, an absolutist monarchy, but all Qatar publishes is about how evil, incompetent, and undemocratic every other nation's government is while actively suppressing information about Qatari state-run slavery scams.
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  120. Shut up
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  121. They stole an undisclosed amount of data years ago, but stealth is complex enough they couldn't replicate it even if they had all the info because it takes huge budgets and thousands of specialist technicians
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  122. Go back to eating gutter oil chicken carcass.
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  123. I'm sure many are just temps or volunteers looking for a job
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  124. Why do you think everyone is leaving China and/or giving up on having sex? It's because they poisoned everything and there's little food except what is imported at great expense. Watch the population fall by +50% in coming decades
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  125. Come on. The whole Olympics have always been fake.
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  126.  @DK-ev9dg  Mind your own business, gong fei. Go back to cheating on US college entrance exams
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  127. Except they're not all that common and even ownership of a fur baby doesn't mean they don't have kids too
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  128. Probably thry acted without orders for tge street cred
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  129. ​ @emigrator08 shut up
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  130. @victorye7150  murder
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  131. @iam5085  or he rogue
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  132. I think much of this is because China lives in their own little world and they have to remind themselves that there's more beyond what's in their home city.
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  133. Found the pimp
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  134. You haven't seen Chappie?
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  135. You can't buy anything from the turdworld without playing whack-a-mole with pirates, gangs, and such. The difference is in most countries outside China the slavery incidents are too small scale to make international headlines. For instance, a lot of the ores coming out of certain mines in Africa are actually stolen by muggers before it gets to the distributors and since the muggers are miners it's impossible to tell the tainted goods from the good stuff. Meanwhile in the Middle East they rig migrant labor laws so that the employer can hold the employee prisoner without consequences.
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  136. That doesn't increase productivity per worker and they have neither the equipment nor expertise for that. Also, some of the population loss is permanent because they poisoned the soil
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  137. Cleaner than what they're washing
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  138. Allowed? USAID has been in the news for decades, it's just not until a President said the name that reporters found out how Federal grants work.
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  139. Shut up
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  140. The reason the charts match is because they spent it all as soon as they get it on gambling and fake luxuries
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  141. China only pretends to hate Japan, but that's a perfectly good excuse to rob people
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  142. Business as usual
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  143. Chinese culture will argue in favor of whatever gives them more stuff
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  144. A lot of places have little if any swear drains. You can't see them, so no one cares
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  145. The US government has no involvement in any Olympics, at all
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  146. The people are as corrupt as the government
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  147. Only if cousin f*ck*rs are buying them.
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  148. Except that would require ccp people to know stuff
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  149. Not overnight, but yes a large portion of regs are made due to past incidents
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  150. And market share, but not profits
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  151. ​ @DK-gj5sp ..........not in most civilized countries since WWII
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  152. @DK-gj5sp  as if Beijing statistics don't record a third of people as rural and we know for a fact those stats wildly exaggerate the size of most cities?
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  153. Only an idiot gong fei thinks he can blane shift onto rural people
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  154. Hardeehar.
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  155. ​ @TheRenofox Russia has never had population controls. Romania did
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  156. Only thieves think hou need to steal to become rich
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  157. Vhut?
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  158. It doesn't take an engineer to see the airframe is a copy.
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  159. @RedSunFX  There's good pay and lots of equipment to do work like that in civilized countries
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  160. The counterfeiters will just go somewhere else
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  161.  @SpaceOddity4214  That and Amazon has limited off-brand selection
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  162. Lose the bull
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  163. @4layers404  soft power doesn't exist. There's petty feuds and there is money and guns and loyalty. The EU can't even get Italy to stop printing money
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  164. @4layers404  The EU simply isn't a country. They've got at least two succession movements and the free trade zone has collapsed.
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  165. @ploed  that is nothing. Steal a megacorp then we're talking
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  166. No one cares
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  167. @mikestewart4752  who are you talking to?
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  168. Why install a big expensive custom bowl when there's actual coudrons for sale?
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  169. Break up eventually
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  170. All my cash purchases are either under 10 bucks or to an individual not a store
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  171. Same story, different year
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  172. They pay a fortune in ads using borrowed money. It's a ponzi scheme
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  173. *negative billionaire
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  174. Except the residential schools stories are wholly fraudulent and I will dox you if you say otherwise. Your friend's Mom most like didn't even go to that school, she's just a registered Indian and that's the only scandal they know of
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  175.  @williamc7367  Except the numbers are fake. They double count internal migrants and double count select cities as local officials fight over allocation of national budgets and Beijing bluffs their threats internationally
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  176. @ Except the numbers are fake
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  177. Dude, China is mostly privately owned and they were doing this shit before they went commie
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  178. That ain't funny
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  179. They leave and/or stop breeding, as you can see.
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  180. Sht up
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  181. They don't spend as much on the armed forces as they say
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  182. Not as much. They copy Japan and genuine luxury brands which are mostly European. But scammers are fixated with ousting the biggest player no matter if it makes sense
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  183. Not exactly. In tech news, which is mostly about inventions and ponzi schemes, everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek but slowly everyone is realizing it's just copy-pasted ChatGBT. Almost no news from China hits the front page and most people don't realize things like involuntary organ harvesting ended years ago.
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  184. Vhut?
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  185. They're buying them from meat breeders and breeders are stealing pets for food.
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  186. What makes you think there are any?
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  187. @Stumpy-mv2iq  shut up
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  188. They all pass safety standards (aside from being tobacco of course). Can they really be that bad?
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  189. Disposable dishwear is perhaps China's most reliable product
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  190. Lose the spam
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  191. Cowboy here: Never heard of them.
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  192. The pay is bs because they run ponzi schemes, not the other way around
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  193. Chinese cars aren't just cheap, but they're not all that impressive even at face value because the buyers can't really afford them
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  194. And you were complaining about the price of McDonald's.......
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  195. Of course, they only exist to service men's masturbation fantasies
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  196. You're also in a land where the farmland isn't toxic
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  197. Liar
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  198. He probably doesn't know who they are
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  199. In China at least, most of the discount cigs are made by tiny ventures with no equipment, sanitation, or quality control. A factory may share space with a pig pen and the cigs test positive for poop. Or the tobacco itself is marinated in pesticides
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  200. It's mildly directly poisonous and an irritant and flammable. Basically a little of all the chemical things
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  201. There's worse
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  202. It's not a matter of lies, it's a collective effect of how everything is fake. Fertilizer was fake, so the soil can't make food well. The food is fake, so you're never really full. The doctors are fake, so you have to do it yourself. The buildings are fake, so you have to pay more to find shelter. The businesses are fake, so it's hard to find reliable employment. All this stacks onto the cost of living and while Americans complain they can't support their lifestyles and the lifestyle they want to give their kids, but have kids anyway because things aren't bad enough to give up on having sex. Chinese men struggle to feed themselves much less a wife and children, so they really are giving up on having sex.
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  203. @IiiiIiiIllIl  No one giving you free stuff, Greedo
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  204.  @DrEpicPhD  It's called low-risk fraud, extortion, and terrorism and no amount of blame shifting will change that, kiddo
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  205. The goon doesn't know what nomad means
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  206. Disposable products like plastic cutlery/dishes/razors, clothes, fireworks, hand assembly as long as there's foreign QA.
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  207. Yes, but it's the sexual fantasy of a lot of western men
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  208. Americans are bored, so the biggest accident of the month gets a freak out.
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  209. ​ @DK-gj5sp Liars get scalped
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  210. India's space program is at least mostly a scam. Just off the shelf gear and press releases. But this the same country that bought a plane just so they could move animals from one river to another river in conservation efforts that straight up ignored more obvious sanitation issues. The Indians obsess over big business, and the bosses do big business-y looking things even if it makes no sense
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  211. It's just an excuse to rob people
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  212. Dams breaking, or releasing floodwater without warning, or changing the local climate, and the cheap buildings collapse if the wind blows the wrong way, and the farmers poisoned the land so they farm deserts gambling on rainfall
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  213.  @blintzkreig1638  I've dealt with way to many freakin Feds. It took me two years to get security clearance
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  214. @quartqwertbudisgood  depends on backlogs and visa types
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  215. Yes, I'm sure she does like to eat you.
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  216. Even if concrete was the solution in these instances, they could have and should have saved a lot of money with having a bottom layer of gravel
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  217. No, they were totally counterfeiting everything before that. Look up "warlord era pistols" under Forgotten Weapons and Ian will show you all kinds of Chinese knockoffs of European guns from back then
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  218. @free4fire  there are parts of Africa where people wash dishes in cow pee
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  219. Lose the bullshit. They're all ponzi schemes
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  220. No one cares
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  221. Better versions sometimes start as copies, but a copy is a copy
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  222. The crazy part is you will notice Chinese proucts outside China aren't near as shoddy because no one will buy them
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  223. Where is Russia too? They got tourist money
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  224. West Taiwan makes no sense as a name on account Taiwan is the name of an island and the commies are on the continent.
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  225. Can be stupidly easy or really hard depending on who you are and politics. Right now a tourist visa shouldn't be an issue because they need tourists
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  226.  @Stumpy-mv2iq  you trying to look like a commie?
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  227. More like 2 million time bombs.
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  228. Some of them, yes. Others are methheads that get evicted/fired from everywhere, the guy I met was severely retarded and argued with his family over stupid stuff, but most "homeless" are really just "couch surfing" by staying with family or friends for whatever reason or squatting. There are also beach bums who are mostly young men who do some work but they live where the weather is nice so they do not bother paying rent.
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  229. Why are Chinese license plates in Latin letters? Are the cars for English eyes?
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