Youtube comments of The Asian Jaywalker (@theasianjaywalker4455).

  1. I've lived in China for a decade and before I ever heard of demographics or Zeihan we, as in our social circles, we were figuring this out simply by seeing it on the ground and in our lives. In particular, by around 2016 we started seeing first waves of villagers being repatriated into the city. I am NOT joking when I tell you they arrive on buses and subways with their watermelon (no, seriously, they were given watermelons) and seriously, they are baffled and amazed at lights, automatic doors. Wave after wave were moving in and yet: There was no increase in traffic, in shops, there was no increased 'population density'. By 2018 we were all aware that nearly ever skyscraper was 90% empty. the 10% are almost exclusively various local/provincial government things 'youth sports committee HQ'. and as far as we can tell 100 of them don't actually 'do' anything but occupy an entire floor. in 2018 i was surprised when a Party member was the first to tell me that it was the 1st year there was, officially reported, more deaths than births in China PRC! (so one could easily believe it was much more ration and earlier than official govt reports). Villages are interesting, by 2019 some are as unoccupied as they were during the great migration of younger villagers to the coastal factories however there is this: actual villager-villagers remain gone but properties are being bought by wealthy retiring (usually party members) from cities. The Chinese version of retired 'Boomers' buying cottages they visit on holidays and weekends. the new arrivals became the odd stragglers and ever once in a while you'll see a 'Borat' or two arrive (they are Xinjiang Muslim people and they've finished Re-education are then assigned to jobs in the cities. they are dispersed so there is no possible 'enclaving') We live it. We see it on the ground. During covid in 2021 we routinely walked the dog past entire neighborhoods where you'll see massive new homes and barely anyone lives there and sometimes they're only occupied by the migrant workers who built them and just stayed there. It's actually a little 'bizarro world' too because we recently saw them complete a massive highway (GDP bloating, bridges to nowhere) and it opens and there is just the odd light traffic. A year later it's still relatively light traffic. we've taken high-speed train and there are routes that are so weirdly empty. 5 of us in a car that could seat 50. Eerie.
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  2. I'm happy to see someone influential clarifying this in the popular culture. Yes, "3rd World" was, in the original popular usage, this was a nation that was not properly aligned with either side of the 'Cold War' world, either the capitalist west or communist east (sometimes short-formed to 'USA or Russia' I suppose) and even more nuance: Some could be said to be 'not yet fully aligned' as the powers could be courting them either way and some would be switching back and forth depending on what rebel groups or pro-communist factions were taking over at a given time. After the Cold War sort of faded the term somehow got changed like a 'ratings system' as if they were the 3rd place in wealthy or something.
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  3. He brought up something I'm also wondering about a lot: It seems like AI might be an excellent anti-scammer tool with great use in blocking or warning those sneaky 'phishing' things, romance and bitcoin scammers and maybe someone can use it to find and red-flag online sexual predators? It seems like AI could really do some good in those areas? Instead, it just seems to be used for fake celebrity videos, creating student papers, writing for would-be journalists or authors and making nasty misleading pictures. :(
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  4. I'm calling for a rematch between Charlie Kirt vs Asian Student!
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  5. 1. The commentators, IF it was possible to sue them for lying, for deliberately making false reports, these two could be arrested and face jail time for this utterly Orwellian levels of lies and blatantly saying the 'opposite of reality' in our faces.
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  6. This also reminded me of a Chinese student who'd literally just arrived in Canada and the very first outing was to a local park. She came out of the toilets holding a roll of toilet paper and was recording herself on wechat with the toilet roll just as you see in this video. She was just bragging that they put free rolls of toilet paper in the park so she took it. free! and I'm not joking she really did put the roll in her purse and carry on like a cat that caught the canary. She was a college student!
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  7. The food safety issue is huge now. As China's economy goes down so does food safety for the domestic products (and counterfeits too, fake foods etc). so that becomes far more important. Sams and Walmart are very very strict by Chinese standards. It's as close as guaranteed safe can get. This is a major reason, IF you have money to spend.
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  8. I used to be a 'globalist' meaning I just subscribed to this grand idea that we can make the entire world modernized, that we can eventually create a global community where every race, color or creed is, at least, in a world without starvation and everyone is educated and all the world... The older I get the more I am convinced we only need to return to what was the normal world for most of human civilization: Leave them alone to be whatever they naturally are. If Lao want to be a kind of primitive jungle farming people then good, let them. If Zimbabwe returns to a world where they are basically tribal peoples who live in the jungles then good, let them, its their natural will and so be it. Would they soon go back to a system where there is just one king with some insane pile of gold around his skull throne? Probably but good for them. So be it. We do not need to call a UN meeting and fret about how they need to become European. Let them be.
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  9. I haven't been everywhere but without a doubt the most 'stares' had to be Changchun, Jilin China where I don't suppose they got a lot of foreigners and ohhhh boy did they stare, stalk, hide around corners staring and sometimes I'd look at the reflection in a large window and see locals standing behind me just staring away. So, ya, it's a strange phenom depending on where.
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  10.  @sui_1776  Yes but a Bobcat will absolutely shred the hell out of you if you gave it a reason to attack. It would go poorly and yes you oould lose your ears.
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  11. So far, these are my best explanations: - Population shrink is greater than anyone is letting on. There are, literally, physically less people. - Far far more grandparents and old aunties are dying off and many of those in their 60s. - At the same time, the vast overbuilding of GDP bloating communities has dispersed the populations too far away. - in 2025, its not just that younger people no longer like Spring Festival or have less aunties and grandparents to visit (or none to visit) or that there are far far more divorces making family reunions uncomfortable OR that many are uncomfortable returning somewhere to be humiliated by a lack of family, marriage, no children (this is a massive deep issue at Spring Festivals) but they are really in 'Survival Mode'. They have to go two full weeks, half a month without any earnings. They are actually in Beijing but they have set up two bowls of rice, don't use heaters, blanket up, keep any expense to full minimums, eat a little meat and just try and get through the financial darkness and hope to climb back out after its over. (then they are 2 weeks behind on basics). They are in an apartment trying to go without 2 weeks worth of income.
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  12. That's actually a pretty darn amazing moment and although I'd seen the speech video and clips I never noticed that he was actually clapping his shoulder. Enthusiastically too. My wife is quite obviously disabled and from a world where you wouldn't believe how oppressed she really is, at times, by some people. It would be almost impossible to try and explain to her that a wealthy comfortable young man at a wealthy UK elite college (or any college) who's in perfectly good health BUT declares he really wants to _ another man's wiener is "A Victim of Oppression". Actually, I don't believe this could make any sense to her. She might assume this is a kind of western comedy bit or a joke. I don't think she could comprehend how a rich privileged 25 year old Uni student at Oxford is actually in a law suit, suing the school, crying, becoming a 'Victim Star' on campus because she thought she overheard a student calling her a 'Paki'. My wife could not comprehend this as real life. Often, real life disabled people, meaning, they are actually physically disabled for real, they do NOT have a lot of patience for these stupid woke-world 'victim status' weirdos and this victim-status madness in society.
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  13.  @ryanmendenhall7121  this guy with the reddit world history lol
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  14. Going to my very non-expert church history classes and yes it annoys me how many movies need the 'nefarious church police' which weren't actually a thing anyway. Once again, Blackadder is probably the most accurate summary where a 'Witchsmeller' shows up in town and is part huckster and part lunatic. 'The Church' wasn't sending their FBI to shake down villagers, there wasn't a 24/7 Inquisition going on lol
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  15. We seem to have discovered a new thing: Traveling Hoarders.
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  16. I was curious to see what PZs TDS would do.
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  17. It almost seems like being given a massive rise by the USA and then biting that hand the minute you got $8 and smirking 'Now ME Captain!! USA so JEALOUS!!' was a bad take?
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  18. I've seen all this happen in mainland China some 10 years ago and the consequences too. Yes, around 2013 I was working on college campuses and it happened that young women were launching very high standards for men. In 2013 China was still peaking and there was an expectation men ought to be more successful than ever, climbing the ladders, landing tech jobs and in particular buying a home and a car by age 26 because those were the requirements to marry a woman. We're now a decade later and I still keep in touch with many of those (then 20) now 30 year old Chinese young people and we already went through the 'naked wedding' (marriages without expensive weddings) then the 'laying flat' youth movement. This is where young people just give up on life and in our parlance someone might say 'couch potato' but the meaning is give up trying and lay on your bed. There was even a 'Let it Rot' movement which is just more the idea, don't try and don't even try and preserve or maintain. The broader meaning is that they have no interest in marriage, family, jobs, buying homes building a life and further more don't even try to stay in shape, physically, don't care if you become fat, old and your beauty rots away. This "dropout giveup life" fully spread among young men and has now spread among young women everywhere.
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  19. Absolutely and no society should be letting someone who'd do that be walking around among the public.
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  20. I've often thought China was 50 years behind in 'culture'. Even today, I hear many 60 year old building managers talk about who has the tallest buildings? How CHina has even more 50 floor buildings that the USA! Another was disappointed as he thought Europe was so advanced but when he visited there were only a few skyscrapers, so few, so poor!? but as this video shows us, in fact, high-rises and skyscrapers were a thing of New York (or other modern nations) in the 1970s era but by the time the Twin Towers were finishing - Americans were already complaining about them. more writers wrote articles on how socially unhealthy these 50 story buildings were. People who had money did NOT want to buy a 30th floor top apartment but (as noted in the video) would spent their money on a 'brownstone' 3 floor 'walkup' and renovate it. In fact, much of Europe has really 'banned' buildings past 20 or so floors. They found they block the sun and create a grand 'darkness' for everyone else living outside the 30+ floor giant monoliths. Yes, they look 'cool' and in the 1970s it was like a 'show of your national wealth' or some kind of fantasy of the 'tallest in the world' was some bragging rights. but China is still in this '1970s' phase where that's the highest number one thing! Its the 'highest money lifestyle!' thing. and its true that across North America and the UK you notice, these days, the highrises are for the poorer people, refugees, the poorer working class folks, not because they love it but that's sort of the lower rent living places. *mind you, New York still builds exclusive skyscrapers and their primary buyers? wealth Saudi Arabians and wealthy Chinese mainlanders! They are not actually that popular with native-born New Yorkers.
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  21. I can tell you this much - there is an owl in the neighborhood who's audio-illusioning the hell out of everyone. 20 neighbors convinced he or she is in 20 different trees in 20 different directions.
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  22. Everyone around the world really really needs to understand something: As a very strict rule among almost ALL nations; When you step foot in a foreign country you are 100% liable and accountable to their laws. Do NOT keep believing your Embassy somehow gets you out of this. The ONLY time an Embassy has ANYTHING to do with any kind of crimes, arrests, sentencing etc is IF the incident has some NATIONAL relevance. Arrested for 'spying' as an example. Arrested as a 'hostage' in negotiations. People really REALLY need to get this. Really start understanding how that works. in my experience, OLDER Americans can misbelieve that somehow they are a 'diplomat' or 'embassy property' and if the police (or whoever) wants to deal with them WELL let's phone the US embassy. NO. No, that is NOT how it works. Now, younger Chinese Mainlanders are the new 'worst' with this. They really do walk around in foreigner countries with the misbelief that actually the countries laws are NOT FOR THEM s they are like Diplomats. They are special envoys, as if having 'diplomatic immunity' and again that is NOT HOW IT WORKS.
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  23. This is wokian revisionism and really misleading. bad video.
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  24.  Mr. Tibs  One of the other curious on-the-ground things was around 2014 we could not help but notice baby-photo, baby-shower, baby-clothing stores opening absolutely everywhere. People in more free market worlds have to know that China is a "capitalist dictatorship" so in other words, having a baby-store showing up on every block means the government has decided that. It's made so it can be that way. Right around that same time a big announcement: China had officially began '2-child policy'. Nobody ever saw a 'baby boom' and by 2016ish, nearly all these baby stores just faded away, closed, became something else. 3-child and more recently 'any and all children' but we've never seen a new baby-store open ever again.
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  25. It's really just Fury doing everything he can to last 12 rounds and NOT get KOed or dropped or look like a stumbling oaf while Usyk besieges him. Credit to Fury, he took no chances and buckled down to not get dropped. I can make a case for a 'shutout', its pretty much just 12 rounds of Usyk being a level better.
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  26. As a seemingly rare foreigner in some of these places now (add Guangzhou Canton Fair and more) I'd really advise potential visitors to watch this and in particular the absolute LACK of working ATMS (so, you absolutely must bring cash, install Wechat then trade that cash for wechat digital money) and it doesn't matter becaues 90% of cafes or stores or services, money exchanges (if you can even find one) CLOSED. Closed, every other thing is closed. A massive airport full of shuttered shops and services is like a massive dystopian holding cell. 90% of doors, exits etc will be bicycle locked. Why even have a Trade Fair but then make every arrival come to a cold closed off empty holding cell then go to the next station where every other things is shut down, closed, metal gates locked up. It's depressing as hell.
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  27. These cards are crazy. it's just a series of co-main events that would have been single headliners a few years ago. and they aren't '7 high level stars vs 'opponents'. They are the best fighting the best challengers or equal stars.
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  28. In a way, its better the Liberals won so as to dismiss whatever 'last hopes' some Albertan's had, whatever flimsy faith remained. Now that this is done, its time to begin the Alberta51 campaign in all seriousness.
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  29. Having spent some years in China and some of those on Chinese campuses, recruitment agencies and it's worth reminding people of how many sneaky things can go on from either side. One of the saddest things I ever saw was wealthy Chinese (usually party members, social powers) they will BUY the Gaokao of peasants daughters. That said in the video 'the farmers daughter' cant understand why she was never accepted to a Uni only to find, often many years later it was sold or even worse stolen. All kinds of things like this, things we'd call 'Identity Theft' and the all sorts of shady business. Yet, American and other Anglosphere Unis just carry on with it, politicians do, everyone just keeps playing along with it.
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  30. This is largely a Chinese social phenom around their children. A battle of seeing who cares more about their little emperor more has mothers topping each other with the amount of times they can take the boy or princess to the hospital. it starts a kind of mass domino thing magnifying itself. In almost ALL cases, the kid would be just fine being sick in bed for a few days. Just like all children always did for thousands of years until yesterday.
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  31. Anderson looked very good, better than before but Bakole was an unstoppable force on that night.
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  32. Funny but not funny story, a friend marries a Chinese and a few years later they're set up in Canada. Typically, a few years later her parents arrive. He earns a very admirable salary, the home is great, the parents don't need a thing, all costs One day he calls me up near having a mental breakdown. He's discovered boxes of decks of cards and a 'pantry' of non-perishable drinks or snacks in the garage. It turns out they'd found the casino gives those complimentary freebie cards to customers and daily they'd walk in take a deck and leave, go to a food bank, collect free stuff and stop at a soup kitchen for lunch. Oh but wait... he then finds they've been staying somewhere on-and-off 2 or 3 days a month. He finds out.. get this.. they'd applied for a unique homeless shelter project. Keep in mind, Vancouver is like San Francisco where a downtown apartment is insanely expensive (if you could ever get one) and this was some charity/govt sponsored thing to re-house the homeless. Somehow they'd schemed themselves a free apartment!! One that they only used a few days a month whenever they felt like it. He found out it was basically unlived in but they were storing the free playing cards and food bank freebies. He tells me he would wake up in sudden 'panic dreams' about the news media showing up at his house asking him why he part of a scam to steal from the homeless etc.. he'd have actual nightmares and became paranoid. Unfortunately, this is a similar attitude among far too many Chinese who see Canada as a 'ripe picking' for social programs they not only have the right to come take but will brag about it as if they were the most clever winners. A Chinese friend says he's convinced it's a genetic thing and they are born with greedy hearts. He can't really explain it either.
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  33. It's worth noting that there isn't really any given appearance but instead these are SOME of the appearances described. Then there is also: "don't forget to show hospitality to strangers. by doing this some of you have entertained angels without knowing it". This suggest that, in those cases, the angels appeared as perfectly ordinary humans. - In Sodom, two angels arrive, apparently to the Sodomites, as two normal humans who were (at least) attractive enough that they wanted to sexually assault them. - Mary see's two angels dressed in white sitting in Jesus tomb and they console her (so, we may suppose they were pleasant or at least not horrifying orbs of eyeballs and animal heads?). So there isn't really one way angels look so far.
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  34. Does anyone else think its truly weird that you would have a audio/visual recording of the inside of your home running at all times?
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  35. Quite the plot twist. Usyk has no particular interest any accolades and status but watch him become a teenage superfan when you mention the Chicago Bulls lol
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  36. yes, a difference of about 3 to 6 years.
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  37.  @AustinGauthier-y1f  it must be difficult for you? having to go through this life with so many plebs around you, not even smart enough to know they need your help.
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  38. 25:45 to the millionth Aunty who MUST smuggle a Chinese wet market worth of food through customs.
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  39.  @JuliodelaVega-h7l  in part, I came to this after watching an old documentary on one of the last of the last surviving Africa tribes, still unchanged and it wasn't a 'tourist' thing either. honestly, I think they had a damn good life in many ways. They were just fine. men were men, women were women, they were all pretty damn healthy looking, they all knew their place and role. They dont have "Unemployment" or 'depression' or try to figure out 'who am I' and the elders were very intelligent and wise. So what, good for them. What is the compulsion to make sure that comes to an end and they get phones and 'pay electricity bills' and stress out about their 'mortgage' and they need to do 'careers' etc etc. So what, they were happy. Actually imo they were happier people than 99% of the modern world and so good for them. One night the men chased a lion away. He was proud of the new young warrior kid who was really brave about it. What need is there to stop this, I dont know.
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  40. ya but why should Chinese men have to take on all that burden?
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  41. Nope, the conomy is not bad everywhere. Much of the Western world, SE Asia and more are doing fairly well now. Also, the vast majority of Chinese didn't see (or really experience themselves) a vastly growing economy until about 30 years ago. but to your point, most of the younger people here only knew growth. Older people will have remembered the closed China when it was eating grass and brutal poverty like that.
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  42. Mind you, I don't think a lot of people outside China's mainland know this but failing to pay wages and especially taking the last issued salary is very very common practice in China. If I think of the English Teacher days, it was 'standard practice' they delay any final pay. So if the person was finished the contract and going home. They ALWAYS as a standard operation delay, delay and actually hope you leave the country and will keep your last month of salary and distribute it across the owners/managers. Always. standard. The only way you can stop it is to 1) they make it on YOU to intervene, 2.) IF you immediately report them to a government level then they may hand over half the money and hope you just conceded the other half. But this is standard stuff done constantly and throughout China and has been at least the 15 years I've been around it.
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  43.  @俊德何-w9u  'Vietnam' was defeated by Vietcong rebels. These rebels did not defeat the USA. Not even close, not even for a minute. You're shouting about 'knowing history' but its an 'open book' and many are still alive and well today and obviously Vietcong never defeated the USA. Yet, you say it like its a real life thing!
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  44. Canada as a 51st state is a very good idea and may happen sooner than later. You can stop pretending it must be some crazy joking idea.
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  45. in a slight twist, the Asian uncle was being a 'mule' for the asian auntie wife in Australia. the absolute obsession with them bringing in every barred natural product is a social phenom the worlds experts need to keep working on.
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  46. So, one of the most important changes to notice: Hong Kong is being included in 'The PRC' and that is due or even overdue. Hong Kong is now a wing of the Mainland 'PRC' and they've been using the different status for every last drop.
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  47.  @teckmenglee8060  This is USA or Western news media. You're on Youtube.
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  48.  @xdxdsheep  Yes and having traversed, lived and worked in the region I've gathered a little more big picture (well.. and the details too) but you are correct that Taiwan is extremely difficult to invade when one considers the entire Western side, that which faces the Mainland, that is really 'mud'. China first has to carry out an utterly monumental crossing of the straight and then land on.. well mud. long stretches of sandy mud extending forever. If not that then its a long dangerous tour around the outerside for any kind of proper place to land where, as Obed notes there is a massive issue of mountains and fairly solid infrastructure waiting for them there too. As also noted, Taiwan is just stacked with the kinds of missiles that would love picking off anything around it but ALSO can wreck a lot of the Mainlands major cities and ports. This isn't even factoring the massive problem China's Navy would encounter as Japan arms its Navy (technically a civil defense force) and whatever alliance just evaporates the hell out of PLA boats of all shapes and sizes. For whatever reasons, Taiwan is too often presented as a tiny defenseless island when it would (as it has been before) a very difficult issue, I mean it would just about wreck the Mainland to try and invade and take control of Taiwan.
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  49. Usually when they say "..on Day One I will..." they don't literally mean the same day they are sworn in or even, literally, the next '1st full day' but mean 'soon after I get moved in and started and in process' But apparently Trump very literally meant 'on Day One'. yikes.
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  50. A tremendous number of people. nearly any North Korean that can flee and get into the USA to ask for Asylum (or just live illegally), around 60,000 Mainland Chinese manage to get into the USA illegally and declare and ask for political asylum. Pretty much the people from 170 countries in the world - if they can find a way - they want to live in the USA and they try. Here is a fun fact: 100% of 100% of all kinds of Visas to live, work, study or immigrate to the USA are 100% full in 100% of US Embassies around the world. Realy, its like 300% which is to say 3-years backlogged. This may well surprise people but 100% of ALL visa applications in the British, Australian, German, etc embassies are always 100% full. You would, given only 1 choice of a nation to live in for the rest of your life, you would choose an American passport and citizenship. That's who.
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  51.  @mdkgod43  More the coloring on their skin. In fact, 100% guarantee anyone with those tattoos is a huge PoS which is 2% more accurate than if he had a Pitbull.
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  52. yes of course it refers to murder, to 'manslaughter' but some people like to be childish with wording and pretend it means killing anyone for any reason ever. Some take it a step down and pretend 'but killing cows for hamburgers is killing!'.
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  53. I've tried suggesting this to everyone in China who'd listen: You have to use that authoritarianism for the 'powers of good' sometimes and here is the chance. You (CCP) take the massive massive amounts of empty homes and you do NOT 'sell them' in some schemes but you outright give them to people, in particular younger men first (but NOT young women) and you just solved MASSIVE amounts of problems (that they created) but at least you did that much to correct things and make China a better place.
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  54. Please stop doing it.
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  55. Chang was mostly correct though. In his 2001 book he figured the economic collapse would start around 2011 and he was almost correct, that is when it was collapsing but was bubbled up with massive GDP-Bloating games that actually DID work to keep the thing propped up! HOWEVER, as Chang and others pointed out, the problem with such things, GDP bloating 'bridges to nowhere' is that you're now putting it off for a while but making it come all the more badly when that runs out. The artificially extended peak economy came and went around 2015. Some say 2017 but from there they tried to 'GDP Bloat' again (hey, it worked the first time?) but thats when you knew things like the Evergrande Collapse was now guaranteed and worse. So, he did have it too early. Also I'm not sure why you're sayhing "it is still in one piece". I'm not sure what that would describe because it can't really be broken up into different pieces. it will just keep deflating, more unemployment, less capital investment money, more companies and stores will close, fewer cinemas and hot pot restaurants and more wumao-dog meat skewers etc.
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  56. Nope, there are massive chip plants being built in the USA. You can go visit them today if you want. They are, as expected still months and years from being in production. Now what?
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  57. The problem is that you've done a college girl 'NOt ALLLLLL hmmm????'' You've also done the dumb thing of finding 'hobbies in China' on an app that is going to, obviously, find you all the exceptions. then your brain went 'SEEEEE ahaha .. and he said there are NO hobbies yet here are 1000!! What he really means (and yes, technically HAHAH he said 'no hobbies' in one sentence before clarifying) but as a broad rule, Chinese mainlanders do not really have near the interest in hobbies as you'd find in the UK and USA (which I suppose is the cultural context and audience he's speaking in). in fact, this has actually become a common criticism of English Testing systems in China where they frequently ask the Chinese test taker about 'Hobbies' and they had to preplan a made-up 'hobby' just so they could demosntrate the English. (ask me how I know this if you want). In fact, about a hundred Chinese have told me that Chinese didn't even have a word-for-word translation of 'Hobby'. You see? The concept, in the Anglosphere's definition was foreign or 'non existent' to Chinese but they can translate it into 'Ai Hao' which is something like 'things you love to do'. (not quite but like that) or 'Hobby'. So that said and modern interpretations adjusted.. ... generally speaking, and this is like 95% of Chinese still won't have a 'hobby' in the Western sense of some dedicated luxury time projects. But.. well its true that most of the farmers will finish work and then meet and drink rice wine and play cards. so.. I guess you can say that it their 'hobby'? Students will meet their friends and play basketball but may also go ride bikes but also go with their parents to a tourist site but also.. but it will be RARE you'd find a student who's engaged in *hobby, western sense where as an example: He spends his spare time dedicated to collecting and fixing up bicycles, following the world of bicycles, building custom bikes and he does this for the sake of loving it for itself. It would be amazing to find a farmer who doesn't just play cards at night but he has a 'playing card collection' on a wall and his proper hobby is finding vintage cards, he is part of a playing card group that trades and discusses and searches out rare cards. You see the difference here. but yes, its true, and often in the bigger cities, you will find something like motorcycle hobbiest club. You would find 10 people who meet up and their hobby, a proper definition, they like to create miniatures for the sake of it, for the passion and as a 'pasttime' hobby. I hope that helps you stop snickering and guffawing for a while?
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  58. It's open-source because its FROM [correction: all the open-source AI models that already exist] There is no 'slap in the face' and now you're sneering and slapping the face of anyone.
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  59.  @mitchtherighteous  Yes lol. One day, now keep in mind we'd seen villagers trying to get chicken aka dead chicken through the subway x-ray scanner but one day a few villagers were trying to put a live chicken through the xray. Of course they argue about it and finally one villager thinks they see the problem - the chicken should be carried through the metal detector gate NOT the x-ray. The poor staffers and security lol
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  60. Yes, of course, there is ever-increasing restrictions, forever.
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  61. Years ago I worked for Senior Citizens homes and I'd notice a lot of the oldest and still most mobile, energetic guys were these sort of lightweight boxer builds. Shorter leaner builds. We used the word 'Spry'. So, they weren't necessarily the oldest living men but they oldest who were active, sort of 'spring in their step' types bobbing around the place, chatting up the ladies.
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  62.  @brenatevi  youre describing plebs and how it was used in common parlance. anyway, put that aside, how to you deal with this superior enightenment? You just feel sorry for them, do you sigh a lot? it must be exhausting, Aristotle?
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  63. Can confirm. Left Canada in 2014 and returned for 2022 and could not wait to get out of that deathhole 8 months later. I hope I never return. I probably have to sooner or later and it's a feeling of doom.
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  64. this again. this incredibly childish little idea. 'heee haww... she lives with her parentssss'. utterly childish gamer-kid level garbage from Scott here.
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  65. Yes it has to try and create a trading block for when it's disallowed from the real global trading block. Sometimes called 'Plan B'
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  66. 15 years ago, a number of foreigners got massive with training centers. Some likened it to a 'lotto winning' because some were simple foreign English teachers who didn't expect to open 170 branches across China. names aside, around 5 years ago they were shut down and driven out of China. Soon training centers (any ownership) were shut down. but consider this: All those big foreigner owned franchises? NEVER ONCE did this happen. None of them did a 'close and run' AND consider this: When the government ordered them to close, sell, shut down, leave China? They made sure every parent was refunded and never charged past closing day. Just saying.
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  67. The days have already begun and in a few weeks there will be no more apartheid system in the Gaza strip.
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  68. I don't know if I'd like the 80s era Vegas comedy scene but there was a time and place for every era too. I'm also convinced Barry and those old-school joke-tellers are actually about to come full circle. I sense a certain crowd doesn't love these 'personal life observational' comedians as much anymore and there is a renewed love of 'Joke Tellers'.
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  69. It's worth mention the title choice: Capitol "rioters". the VAST MAJORITY did no such rioting, nothing even close to the definition of 'rioting'. The running joke as 10 different livestream angles were broadcast to millions on social media aligned with Norm MacDonalds tweet "I like rioters who follow the velvet ropes". Because 99% of them who even went past the foyer ACTUALLY did follow the red roped-off tourist path. Really. They didn't even knock them over. Yep, several took and held items to chants of 'DO NOT DISRESPECT OR MOVE ANYTHING!!!" shouted almost everyone. (In fact, the only seen example was Viking hippy who did in indeed do a circle with a podium saying it how it belongs to 'the people' in some hippy symbolism and he put it back". Yep, around 5 people smashed in a 3 separate windows. They vandalized and can be called 'rioters' if you really want. The VAST MAJORITY were, at worst, guilty of "trespassing on public property". A reminder that entire area is usually open to the public (hence the arguments with capitol police who temporarily opened it). Almost ZERO were 'Rioters'. Even more insane in terms of jailing people: nearly HALF the people charged and jailed and convicted were, literally, people who popped in to the foyer. Literally people like 'Vloggers' or just concerned citizens who, long after it was opened, stepped into the doorway and foyer area and asked police if they could help or simply asked 'what was going on' but themselves not participating in anything. Nothing I'm telling you is some 'conjecture' but was livestreamed from SO MANY CAMERAS that channels couldn't fit all the livestreams into the split-screens. You can, no exaggerating, you can actually watch so many angles with so much audio covering every split second of nearly every single person from that day, from entering, to where they walked around, to every word etc.
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  70. That was so interesting to me because I had an *almost identical experience a year later when visiting Beijing. A crumbling Hutong was 'disguised' for the Olympics with a wall and they'd had schoolchildren paint 'world peace' types of pictures so that's what you'd see on the outside. We just happened to get mixed up and behind that wall and there was a world of old Beijing hutong, some sections were still lived in while the other section was being torn down. Similar to your description, at one point the outside wall of bricks was mostly crumbled away and there on an inside wall was still... a large 1980s era Michael Jordan poster. I stopped to take a few photos of this sort of perfect 'old/new/contrast' and the local friends says "Cmon.. we gotta go' and soon we maze around to an exit and following her lead sort of blend into the background crowd and slip back out to the proper streets. She says "oh.. no foreigners are allowed in there so we better just go". So.. almost but not as exciting as your story. Not that they were stopping photos of Michael Jordan but at that time they did not want any foreigners and especially not photos in certain hidden areas. Around a month later we cam back to that exact same area and it was absolutely flattened with the big construction crews already arriving to put up a big new hotel.
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  71. You'd be stunned in disbelief if you saw how many ACs in China run full-blast beside wide open windows. (conversely full-blast heaters near wide-open windows in the winter months). I am, in no ways, joking. You'd be just astonished if you saw this.
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  72.  @hanskrause8315  This is another thing we watched over the last 10 years, literally on the ground and its 'Dancing Aunties'. If you don't know then you're blessed but every city and building we ever lived has evening dance parties (with deafening music) and traditionally, all the aunties and grandmothers take all the children with them. The thing is, there are relatively few children per-adult. In some ways it feels like there are so many obnoxious children until we realized there are some 50 aunties and maybe 10 children. There has never been some notable increase in oldies vs children we've ever noticed. I will say, I've never actually done some proper math. I never counted adults to children but it becomes a grand intuitive theme that, once notice, can't be unseen. Without ever reading Zeihans figures, I could easily see there are more children-per-aunties at any given American or Canadian event. (and yep, plenty will be immigrants) but there you'll see 1 kid per 1 auntie at whatever 'farmers market' or some local concert in the park etc.
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  73. Why are you telling people 'Don't Hate' as if someone was hating them but then YOU stepped forward, a goddess among us, and YOU halted the hate. Why would you talk like that?
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  74.  @jbranche8024  Who tried to tell you its just a few people? Hmm? and stop paying women for their company already.
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  75. I consider you a mediocre troll. do better.
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  76.  @invest48  well yes, in China there is no such processes. If its decided to be built it will be built. There are no oversights, no short term or long term political considerations, no market viability, no directors or any of that, nobody is 'fired' nobody is hired with 'new plans' or something. In PRC, if its ordered to be done it will be done. You can decide if that's necessarily better than French Bureaucracy or worse or just as well.
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  77. Sir, this is a youtube, not a Reddit.
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  78. Peter has TDS Syndrome and it affects his cognition. I hope he can beat the disease.
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  79. Why the 'LMAO' though? I mean if you're going to how laughing in some twisted glee over the fall of the wealthy privileged Chinese I suppose that's one thing but you're 'LMAOing' at the worsening poverty of what are mostly relatively poorer people? That's sick
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  80.  @windmillrespector  "Shenanigans"
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  81. how did a subreddit get in here? sir this is a youtube, not a reddit.
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  82. Something that isn't brought up enough but it's straight up demographics. The generation that supports the current regime, they are about 60-75 if they are alive today. They are disappearing at a very rapid pace these days. There were no less than 50 of them around 2018 outside blasting square dancing music and savaging any rubbish bins for recycling. That group, that demographic. a few years later there were just 40 of them. Now, I am almost convinced there is one less ever month. These ones are NOT living long and are dying before age 70. Plenty go in their 60s. It turns out hot water doesn't cure cancer and China's statistics that put their average life expectancy exactly 1 year higher than the next highest aren't accurate. They are passing away and very rapidly. This group could be called the Cultural Revolution group. They were brought up and students during that decade, 1960s zone. They are fading away fast. The old uncles who have, for a decade, been glued into a sofa watching War Channels (where the PLA beats the Japanese) these old uncles are passing away from heart failure FAST. This may have a LOT to do with the way things are going (or not going to go much longer)
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  83.  @domper4845  I saw this thing called the 'comment section' where peopl were commenting on this so I thought I'd try it out by commenting.
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  84. Around 60% of those young people you saw are unemployed or some are 'under-employed' and they've given up much hope of finding jobs. Everywhere you go you're seeing leftover construction projects that started many years ago and were done to 'bloat the GDP' (actually this did work for a while!) and run massive real esate money games which have since collapsed. Now their finishing 'bridges to where' and 'hotels for nobody'. Yes indeed, northerners, mostly party members these days, they can get very cheap flights and hotels in Southern China this year. Most of those young people don't have jobs (hence you see so many). China is sometimes seen in '3s'. by the 3rd month you see past the tourist level. "OHHH.. oh wait THAT is why and what I'm looking at okay...". If you did stay 3 years a new layer reveals itself and 'OHHHH shhht... okay now I realize the bigger picture behind all this". but enjoy your time now. Actually i kind of envy that, I miss that, I wish I could go back to those first few months of traveling around!
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  85. It was all the Liberal and lefty globalist types (which is a lot of them) though I'd still say the "zero tariffs either way" Canadians were the majority.
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  86. Boomers still seem convinced that you could get a job if only you go right to the store and apply in person. Despite this tactic nearly disqualifying you because you, by doing so, already went against their store policy which is to apply online.
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  87. This was excellent, thank you to Gummo for his honest and compassionate video autobiography.
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  88.  @judithbradford9130  sry i think you meant to reply to the Boomer and that stupid thing 'live with parents' comment. and btw all over the world, aging parents are supposed to live with their family. that's what people are supposed to do.
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  89. No, that doesn't make sense. Also, there is ought to be no problem whatsoever with them taking CVs and handing them out and even interviewing for jobs. Nothing wrong with that. and yes they would give those to schools they may or may not apply at.
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  90. Ok this is definitely not good and there are plenty of living people today who went through that level of hell :( - regarding the ethnic costumes it's truly weird. You can take my wife's village (I have some old videos) they were brought "Ethnic Dress" from somewhere and 'village songs" and absolutely nobody in the village had ever heard or seen any such things. The oldest grandmothers never heard of the songs. They even had color systems (unmarried in red or married in black etc) of which nobody had ever heard of any such tradition. Nevertheless, a whole made-up 'festival day' was assigned and everyone had to learn the songs, get fit for their 'ethnic dress' etc and it was all recorded for television and posters.
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  91. ​ @alanj9978 hold real votes and see how many Canadians want to merge with the USA.
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  92. I really like what Top Rank did with the Joyce-Parker clips and that was showing Parker landing MONSTER shots aplenty. This is nearly the story of it all because Joyce the Juggernaut seems utterly UNPHASED. Parker was excellent that night but Joyce is superhuman! (err.. and really he shouldn't block shots with his head BUT apparently it doesn't affect him so .. why not? I guess?)
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  93.  @RebelandDave  Canadian here and yes Canada has all kinds of tariffs. They also have all kinds of subsidies so that (example) the Canadian milk producer can compete or even sell for less than the American brand of milk. (like.. 200 and 300% subsidies talking here). Canada also carries on like China. Canadian banks (for example) can open in the USA just fine. You can go find a 'Toronto Dominion Bank' deep in the USA just fine. Canada will NOT allow ANY US Banks to open in Canada. I've spend enough time in Canada and the USA to know this and everyone can stop pretending Trump suddenly 'attacked Canada' this nonsense. btw, the last time team Canada went to negotiate the USMCA trade deal they actually.... this is not a joke... they actually wanted to make a 'DEI' section between the countries so that each country would write up ways to trade X-amount from 'black owned businesses' and 'women owned businesses' and ACTUALLY HAVE THIS in a north American trade pact FFS. Seriously. So that's what Canada's govt was doing rather than serious stuff.
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  94.  @Che1980s  Do you have the Chinese version?
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  95. It's true that a lot of foreign companies in China are actually the best jobs. McDonalds, Starbucks, they really had to follow rules and regulations same across the worlds franchises. A recent (actually current one) but the last 1500 employees of the closed Foxxconn here got relatively rich dismissal deals. They lived in the Foxxconn dorms so they had 1 year rental at some communties paid for and not insignificant lay-off money. (some said 50,000 rmb though another said it was only 5000). Vs a nearby domestic Chinese tire-factory closed and they 1. didn't tell anyone but instead said they needed to remove all their cars and belongings for Spring Festival. Then they did that, went home for Spring Festival and Surprise! Then a certain number had the govt assign them to communities and (i swear no joke) sent riot police type patrols to make sure they stayed where assigned. most are went back to their own villages while a few remain. and keep in mind, the Foxxconn people, mostly younger people, the last year there weren't even producing much of anything yet Foxconn still paid them to pretty much live in the factory with salary anyway.
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  96. It's not bad at all and overall quite good.
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  97. It's all a strange concept when you remember that the PLA thru it's political administration is the sole owner of all businesses and property. People have heard that nobody can own land in China. Only the building. But you can't own that building, you can only lease it for 70 or so years. Anyway, the whole thing becomes just a massive weird thing.
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  98. A very good point is brought up about time. Trump needs to think about 2 years, He has two years. In his last administration he had a slight majority for the first 2 years if I recall? (or the last 2 years?) but the point is Trump DID NOT work like he was going to lose that advantage. Instead, he carried on as if he'd have a majority for at least 4 years AND another 4. This time he seems to get it. he needs to GO GO GO like it will be over in 2 years and mid-elections. Work AS IF that's happening.
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  99. All compassion for the man, he's a senior citizen and I'm sure he doesn't love the nasal problem he suffers from but... .. would this be a place where 'AI' audio tweaking could make this far far more bearable by removing the over 700 snorts (I'm halfway through) and just making it easier on everyone's ears SNOFF... and give him some SNOFF dignity too?
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  100.  @therewdy4038  Yes, something much much more accurate.
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  101.  @CGB.SPENDER  you just described having to do tremendous work to find a girl.
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  102. Malaysia will be happy to trade coconuts in exchange for some minerals at a very very reduced price. What's China going to do with them? Not selling to the USA so its just in a warehouse. Might as well get half what they would have to the USA and sell Malaysia the 50% off amount.
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  103. who do you believe were the two robbers?
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  104. This is correct. One of the main reasons i left Canada was that it became impossible to think of buying a home and then living a poverty college-boy lifestyle sharing rent with 7 strangers IF you can even find a bedroom or sofa for rent. walk outside and see 170 new and largely empty homes bought via zoom from someone in some other country. It's really an evil thing Canadians did to themselves.
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  105. There is a vast difference between China PRC and then the USA. Its not small, its massive. They are not equal rivals nor has China ever come close to being the 'next USA hot on the heels and rising'.
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  106. I hope more and more people review the 'final thoughts' at 16:04 and it might be like the expression "cant see the forest through all the trees" but that is really important advice. One of the very good reasons why we (used to have) a strong tradition of 'asking parents for permission' or even marriage proposals done in public, it used to be a couple would always have several meetings with the clergy before a wedding was agreed to carry forward. You (they, them, the would-be couple) really want everyone else to analyze that relationship. People in that relationship become engrossed with each other, they become 'conditioned', they can become 'desensitized' to each others flaws and even start poisoning each other while becoming more convinced there's nothing unsuual to see here. So that is really good advice.
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  107.  @madusvan  I'd put it closer to 65% of Americans have some sort of dedicated hobby. They collect baseball cards. They restore old cars. They do home baking (or elsewhere) they are part of a group of 'llower hobbyists' that organize tournaments etc. The UK, I swera it has to be 105% but yes it seems like some social obligation you must have a dedicated hobby and this is the foremost important thing in your life. your job is just to facilitate your hobby. but it may be more like 75% of Britains have one of these. They meet to play some weird game called Warhammer. this is not to be confused with idle game playing but they develop clubs, collect and paint characters, dedicate schedules and meetings, merchandize etc. wow you're learning a lot today! It's good because I can tell you this - you have a lot to learn about China, USA and Britain hehe.. a LOT to learn. yay, you're getting started! hey quick question but what do your IQ would be if you were properly tested?
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  108. here's the thing with that, Shany. A whole lot of those drug addicts have all that 'education' you can think of and more than you'll ever have. They get to sit you down and be 'educational' to you, a student. They have had all the social conditions, better than yours.
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  109. China is 2922 years old (well, shorter than that if you count being conquered by the Qing in the 1600s)
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  110.  @rizzamaeong  tell me wher you saw 'those' men? Have you ever actually known any real life examples?
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  111. Once spent some time in my life dating a model, hanging out with models, even vaulting my stupid face to the level of an embarrassing modeling photo I hope has vanished from existence: Maybe I was just lucky but almost all those good looking models I got to know to some degree - they were great. Really nice young people. Most of the young ladies were ... here's the expression: They were "In on it'. They were fully aware of what this is (and is not). That this is a 'gig' they can do with their face. I have no idea why everyone around me referred to this recent model on set as 'arrogant'? He was absolutley NOT arrogant at all. He was fully 'in on it', he knows what this is, he is, like everyone else, happy to get another gig, a job, he wanted to earn some money. Yes he did work on his 'Abs'. He isn't vain, he is fully aware thats the job. its really his work obligation, his work duties. It's nearly the opposite side of 'vanity' and 'arrogance', and btw he laughs and 'cringes' at the stupid cool guy model hair he had to wear for this 'cat walk' clothing modeling thing he did. The women were just legit nice young women, I like one said she would stay in the city because they asked for another fashion show and "... ok, well they decided im pretty so..." She's aware this is just what people decided is a beautiful pretty lady. She didn't say that. She has no 'need' or lust or anything about herself being pretty. China? The mailand of China is rough. This lady is not wrong that there is a kind of (see 2:00) there is thick world of harassment, ugly sexual luridness and then they get very cynica and jaded, a kind of off-put, soured attitude creeps in. but again, she is 'self aware', she knows this is a temporary job, she isn't asking someone to 'tell her she's pretty' because shes vain and needs attention.
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  112.  @violetsrayreikishop2  Oh no, China would have to physically conquer, tanks in streets, full PLA takeovers of buildings, streets etc with Taiwanese being mass exodus refugees fleeing to various places. Let's hope it doesn't happen in any way, shape or form but we shouldn't overestimate The PRC's power and underestimate Taiwan's strength.
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  113. An important observation in the summary is that of 'insulting the publics intelligence'. These kindergarten teachers and really all teachers know. For years now, they see a few less new kindergarteners signing up. the next year, a few less. They aren't going to different schools because these school teachers have broad networks and they all see it in every school. They are well aware of the kindergartens and play centers that close. due to lack of business. At a certain point you can't just convince everyone that a horse is really a deer. You can't fool all the people all the time.
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  114. Nope, it hasn't done any of those things in the past 5 years. one day, maybe you can visit China and see for yourself but there's just 5 years of stagnation, more closed businesses than ever before, economic collapses in real estate and more things simply breaking down and getting old.
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  115. but this has NOT been what's happened and is currently happening. The importers do pay the tariff (importer, not Americans or the US govt) and the different is PASSED BACKWARD onto the exporters, sellers and in China's case usually the govt who subsidizes the losses. This why, for 8+ years nobody ever noticed the price of the 9.99 China Brand spatula went up. it did not. it's STILL 9.99 at Walmart.
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  116.  @YUINTER  for you the word we use is 'mid-wit' or sometimes 'half-wit' and is characterized by not quite grasping the concept but being sure they did. (and leaving smirking laughing emojis)
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  117.  @somenuance  What I'm obligated to do is go by what I think Winston means by hobbies. Then I see how many Chinese might have hobbies (his sense of the word) and its far far less than I would see in the USA or UK. That said, I also suspect 'Hobbyists' and Hobbies (Anglosphere sense) is passing away among the younger generations. and I don't believe you've seen something where Chinese in the middle of nowhere are doing creative things you never see in the middle of a US big city. I think you're just making that up.
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  118. In Germany, only the best of the best will qualify and succeed in being exchange students. Those are Germany's diligent, most well behaved, most academic, brightest students. The are also aware they must perform well overseas, have a good work ethic while abroad or they lose their whole thing. While in Germany, I'd show you everything you see in the USA but the American exchange student would be a hardworking academic nerd who'd be keeping a strong grip on their grades and behavior, more so than the average German student (and much more than the many German slacker students).
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  119. One of the reasons China's PRC gets tagged as a warfare threat is because it's definitely in that 'peak' where this would be the most capable it will be and will be less and less capable as time goes forward. So, IF they were going to make a move it has to be 'now or never'. This gets more tempting when they see adversaries are not sharing the same fate. Japan maintained, also rebuilt and newly built military forces AND is on a slight upwards boost. Philippines is on an upward trajectory for at least a decade, Vietnam too.
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  120. Too many people missed his film 'Apocalypto' because of a kind of blacklisting but WOW that is a movie! It's easily in my Top 10. Really great film if you have a nice big TV that makes colors pop too.
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  121.  @MarkMa1979  Hello Foreigner, I can tell you this much for sure - You have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a lot to learn. Good luck getting started on that lol
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  122.  @JasonDouglasRalph67  Yes and selling it to Chinese and Asian markets. These Aunties.. if they can make $3 they feel like they just beat the world at Majong with this stuff.
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  123. For some reason you wanted to talk about some other country but since you did bring up somewhere else that isn't China's mainland it can be useful because you need something that you can 'measure' by. (naturally, you'd only know your own culture). So, in this case, take the level of 'pretty privilege' you've described there in the USA and now amp it up to an '11'. Magnify it by a factor of around 3x or even 5x MORE like that you observe in the USA. Then remove any kinds of 'anti-discrimination laws' or really any kind of legal recourse and THEN take it up another notch where your local, state and even federal governments even encourage and expect it to happen. Take it even more extreme where it's not just a kind of 'pop-culture' but is nearly THE fundamental premise for everything from school admissions to really every aspect of life one can think of. a 'basic premise' of sorts, a 'given' that you're supposed to be doing, obviously. Now you've got an image of what China is like. Now you've got a sense of the relative levels typical in most of the PRC and really most of the four countries mentioned here.
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  124. They do. Israel will rebuild over the former Gaza strip and there will be lots of brand-new homes set aside for former Gaza residents. the big priority will be to resettle Gazan women, senior citizens and female children as soon as possible. There is a lot of reasons to believe they can live very nice comfortable middle-class lives in modern conditions, very good Israeli hospitals, schools and a lot of work as servants, maids, hospitality at nice new beachfront resorts.
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  125. I disagree but it looks like it will come down to Alberta first.
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  126. A reminder I won't be using the term 'UAP' and that has to stop. It's as annoying as 'BCE' instead of BC or AD and I get someone decided "hey, we need to change for marketing" but just knock it off and say 'UFO' and I won't get through this podcast or his book with 'UAP' all over it. nope. stop it.
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  127. Stereotypes exist for a reason and Ronald was, like a cartoon caricature, of a dozen community college professors I remember. yes, I think there was a kind of star power with the Ronalds, (at least back in my day). mine always had a ponytail and there is a kind of new student who's like 'amazed' this guy is a communist, anti-society, maybe what their parents told them is wrong and corporations mannnn. What I do know is that nobody deserves that kind of ending. The moment his wife died in this story is when I braced myself for a nefarious 'romance scam' and there it was. Awful
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  128. I love antiques and for 15 years I've criss-crossed China finding all kinds of sales events, markets etc but here's the thing too many Chinese don't know (because they aren't allowed to know) but: - As the Republicans fled China they wisely took nearly every highly valuable artifacts they could load up. This was not simply 'looting' either because.. - When the Communists took power they denounced everything Chinese and vowed to destroy and disappear all the '4 Olds' and they did a damn good job of it too. So did looters and then the apprhension of looters booty. and then .. - Communist SOLD much of that to foreigners. Specifically, foreigners and on the condition that the antiques and books were to be taken OUT of China and never resold back into China. There remained (at least in 2014 to my memory) a very famous little antiques and book shop in Beijing. This was an exclusive shop for ONLY foreigner bidders and buyers. It was even featured in a movie and referenced in some books but I believe it's been closed since then. - Of the remaining antiques and many of these would be found in villages, MANY of those 'disappeared' and some have ended up found overseas. Suggestion: if you think evil British collectors snuck into the village at night to steal them I'd suggest your suspect is very very local. so, this is why China's mainland has almost NOTHING LEFT in proper authentic ancient books and ancient artifacts and while some have been dug up in all the massive construction of the last 30 years the CCP had to get very very strict on seizing those items. This after construction workers were happily helping themselves to items (seriously, this was an ongoing problem covered by China's state TV). All that said, i realy admire their counterfeiters. Yes, it will be some old dude in a village and they are just fantastic. They probably fool experts just because they really will make them straight-up old school, actually pouring pot-melted metals into dirt and clay moulds they hand-carved and really raw hand-made work. One guy told me that the easiest fastest way to articially age certain things? Tea. They just pack it in wet leftover tea leaves for a few weeks and that gives realistic aging effects.
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  129.  @sonicusr  it's strange you think you're really humiliating him and laughing as you one-up him. You're a weak character :(
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  130. They won't get invaded by the US Army. so that's a good thing for Panama!
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  131. It's worth mentioning China has never been thought (not by any serious source) never 1.4 billion. That is India. For some reason, just as everyone said 1.3 billion it just 'became 1.4' like China now went from 3000 years of history then 5000 and now people start saying '6000'. ok that aside, revised numbers (so, careful about believing official CCP numbers) agreed to round up to a peak of 1.2 billion. Which was probably overcounted, 10 years ago. There is absolutely every reason to believe that is below 1B now and for 2024 (so, you can say the 2023 counts) by independent sources, by the Shanghai Data Leak combing, by the many 3rd party nation who monitor things like salt imports etc: 970 million. not more than 970 million. Yes, there are some serious estimates, not goofy online theories but people who very seriously work on numbers, yes many insist its as low as 800 million as we hit 2025. Some say 900 The only people who insist its still 1.2 billion seems to be the official Chinese CCP govt. (even those are weirdly vague and open-ended counts). And again, India is thought to be around 1.4 billion. Not China, the '4' was never China. the '3' was corrected due to overcounts and revised to 1.2 at peak.
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  132.  @Somegirl811  You're supposed to live wth your elderly widowed father FFS. 'moving out at 18' is NOT 'powerful' FFS. smarten up.
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  133. Hi, sorry but you are so very very naive if you think China doesnt just look at whatever 'the west' reports in budgets then simply says a smaller number. Btw China doesnt even have such a distinct category as military vs infrastructure. 5 island bases are 'infrastructure' and again.. you have no idea what any actual budget there is because Chinas PRC isnt like these others who have mandatory open budgets. Whos 'bankrupting' their nation? Here again, China doesnt really have such a system as the PLA owns all things so 'filing bankruptcy' in the sense we use the term becomes fuzzy, HOWEVER, The answer to your question is.. China is. The others are not. Lets put this as people? My neighbor has accumulated wealth, a salary 8x the other neighbor and he had solid job security and lots of wealthy friends. He keeps spending around 3% of his income on some boat hes customizing. Ok? The neighbor is relatively poor, has just enough money to cover bills, food, maybe heat or AC and some snacks. Hes also spending 3% of his family income on an eBike he wants to customize. The latter, his name is Mr. Zhonguoren and he is the one bankrupting his family. His 3% cuts into their food anf medicine money. They cant drink tap water in their home so the custom eBike accessories are a bad bad idea. Thats who. China is your answer. Not the others who can afford to lose money.
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  134. 'Allies' isn't really the description though, is it?
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  135. The average Westerner works with, knows, goes to school with, lives among hundreds of Chinese from China. There are 'Chinatowns' in every Western nation, there are Chinese television stations and if they went out, be it London or Toronto or Los Angeles, they would come across Chinese tourists, students, Chinese storeowners and Chinese restaurants, Chinese immigrant workers, Chinese would be seen in pubs, restaurants, workplace events so frequently as to be normal daily life. If this vlogger was standing in Richmond, BC he'd be one of the few people who ONLY lived 10 short years in China and most others would have lived in China far longer than that. Many many 'Westerners' will have visited China, some part of it, at least once in their life. --------- Very few Mainland Chinese will have ever been to a Western nation. The ones that have may have gone 20X. Very few Chinese in China will spot a "westerner" in public (tho, in tourist areas its more common) and fewer will ever work with them, talk to them, few Chinese will engage in any social media where 'Westerners' are part of the circles, throughs and comments. Every "Western" social media platform will have, as normal life, always, routinely, have Chinese netizens. (here is an example, here on youtube, we are proof of that). Chinese will often know so little about the west that they believe and speak as if there is a nation called "The West" and a people knowns as "The Westerners". There is no such thing The average Mainland Chinese will have more misbeliefs about 'The West' and often stunningly wrong beliefs than the other way around. As a recent example, some Chinese (all smart normal people) were absolutely amazed to learn that there is no USA Police Force, that most police in the USA states are not 'White men' and that of the 10 controversial arrests in a year (out of 1000s of violent arrests) only about 10 involved a 'white policeman' shooting a black man. Most of those have some reasons too. They were utterly convinced that in the USA, there is a 'USA Police Force' which is mostly white men and that they murder 1000s of innocent black men every year. They were sure I must be lying because they KNEW for sure in the USA a 'white police' force goes around murdering 1000s of black people. I've found almost every Mainland Chinese believes these kinds of outrageous things and I cannot think of as many parallels in (for example) the USA. I have very intelligent friends in Mainland China who are absolutely convinced, as if they KNOW it for a fact, they believe in "The West" they also have an internet firewall that blocks the Chinese internet, they also block Chinese news, CCTV, they block Weixen and Alipay and Weibo etc. They totally believe it's a "parallel" and of course that is not true at all.
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  136. 32:00 gives me the impression everyone was drinking again. Look at these posed photos (not sure when taken or where) of many people reaching for booze! But did that really happen as a thing? As a national trend? I read a study that said, even after prohibitions were lifted, consumption of alcohol remained relatively low for years and even 20 years afterward.
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  137.  @cupes2231  why what is China doing to shape the future?
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  138. Oh, in case you missed it, Vanke collapsed yesterday. The CEO was taken away by police (to make it fun i guess) and everything is seized.
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  139. My go to real life example: - In Canada my grandmother gave me a made-in-the-USA can-opener that had to be 20 years old already. I couldn't count the 100s of cans it opened for at least another decade. I don't even think it broke but just got lost in a move. $10 USD. - We bought one from 'Pinduoduo' in China $2 USD, and I am NOT joking with you: The handle collapsed the first can by me squeezing it. We laughed and bought a better #3 can-opener from China. I think it lasted 3 can openings before the little blade just popped off the rivet. We rolled our eyes and agreed to buy a $10 Chinese can-opener that appeared to be the same as my grandmas. same handles, etc. It actually failed to work. It didn't break at all. I mean, no matter how skillfully or powerfully you tried to manipulate the can opener it did nothing but 'score' a little dent along the lid of the can. our lesson: If you do some quick math you realize that the $10 Sears US-made can-opener was BY FAR the cheapest best-value money-saving can opener! the Pinduoduo ones were the most expensive and i want to say amounted to '$1 per can opening' after all.
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  140. Serious question but what difference do you see in Mainland China today from 8 years ago? For me, it's stopped and frozen in 2015. From clothes to apps to everything. What are you seeing that's changing?
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  141.  @dariasmeh  Nope, I'm going to shop at Amazon as much as ever before and buy all the American products I can. So will most Canadians. You're living in a crappy-brained little fantasy.
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  142.  @DontUputThatEvilOnMe  i have always wanted to bring a mobile hearing test van, the kind we had on construction sites, to bring those to Dancing Auntie squaredances and test hearing. I have to believe most have significant hearing loss. I see children running around and realize by age 20 they will also need to turn speakers up to 11 and think its normal levels because, in fact, they have severe hearing loss themselves.
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  143.  @fwfeo  The USA has a population 10X the size of Canada's population and many cities more populous than Toronto and yet, a Torontonian could cross the border into huge swaths of Detroit that are just about abandoned. It's not only that though - there are vast brand-new suburbs of the USA where with 'ghost suburbs'. They aren't really ghosttowns but huge real estate deals that will fill up over 10 years. Despite having a population 10X the size of Canada, nerds points out that every house, building, including parking lots, parks, schools and people of the entire USA could (in theory, if you wanted) all would easily fit in New York state alone. however, having said all that - something else is going on in Mainland China. It's something you can find in select parts of the USA and may be dubbed a 'Bridge to Nowhere'. and as some example you could be vacationing in Alaska and all of a sudden cross a rather impressive new bridge, a remarkably large bridge and indeed your the only car on the entire bridge at any given moment. It's notable since there is a popular of 5000 people who'd use the bridge. Meanwhile, over in New York City an area with 500,000 people only wish they could get a bridge like that! they wish! Of course this 'Bridge to Nowhere' exists through some wacky federal and state budget schemes for the sake of getting some kind of funds and some economic purposes. China is something much more like this. They aren't totally crazy either. around 15 years ago China had a big lull in economic growth and launched massive 'make-work' GDP-bloating projects and it worked! The outside world, 'the west', they saw that and invested in China's surge of massive growth. That's around when you first started hearing of China's "Ghost Cities' and if you watch a few videos of those cities you may even spot me wandering around a 'ghost mall' aha. In fairness, those are closer to that sprawling empty US suburb and unsold gated communities. Where China went mad was trying to 'GDP Bloat' themselves out of the 2015ish lull and really just wouldn't stop doing it everywhere. Which would be fine IF China's population was growing. An empty highway outside a rural village could be just fine if we all knew it's going to be filled by population growth over the next 25 years. Instead, if anything, there are less villagers this year than there were 5 years ago. The 50 floor skyscraper with the LED show on the outside is fine IF that city has population growth for decades to come. Instead, its just 40 empty floors and this year 41 empty floors and soon 42 empty floors and a bus stop outside that is passed by so often for the lack of passengers that it nearly confused me when one day the bus stopped to pick up 2 office workers at the supertower bus stop. the bus never stops here what? As Zeihan often points out, one of the main biggest and unique things with Mainland China is not just a declining population. Indeed, a city in China may have 7 million people today as it did in 2013. The remarkable story is that the population is almost exclusively replaced with aging rural seniors (65 yo and older), the grandmas old uncles but 10 years later everyone from and in the city is also 10 years older. 7 million people were 1 million seniors. A decade later 7 million with 2 million senior citizens. As Zeihan points out correctly: Senior citizens don't create new startup companies and move into the new skyscraper downtown. Seniors don't buy new cars or even drive cars. Seniors don't go to the big iMax entertainment center. Seniors in China get up at 6am, do Tai Chi, look for pop bottles and cans, buy some vegetables on the street, go to a small old apartment and are happy to watch anti-Japanese war dramas for the next 12 hours of the day and that's that. next year, of the 7 million in that city, 3 million of them will be senior citizens. The next year it will be 6.8 million but 3.1 million will be seniors. The big shiny skyscraper will have 44 of the 30 floors empty...
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  144.  @AdrianCHOY  no. nothing about that is true. Its as if the person saying it has absolutely no real knowledge of the outside world. It's weird.
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  145. You can say 'nah' in the referendum.
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  146. when I was a little kid we stil lived in an era where grandmothers and most mothers really needed to cook food... but already, that was becoming a habit more than a sheer survival necessity. MIcrowaves, there was already a world of jello, instant meals, 'tv dinners' and there was no end of new ultra-convenient products being sold; kitchen wizard, makes dinner easy! The new kitchen mixer does a 5 course meal in 5 minutes! slapchop chops veggies in seconds. by the time I moved out and got my first apartment, any dumb 19 year old college boy could figure out how to microwave pizza pops, buy pre-made dinners. mix juice powder, yes make scrambled eggs with my 'instant eggzz gadget'. Even as a kid i thought about how this was the 'robots replace us' and now 'AI replaces us' of the time. Women or maybe 'wives' were replaced in that former need. and lest we forget - for most of human history until 5 minutes ago, a wife who gathered, prepared and cooked food was an absolute necessity to stay alive day by day. you'd die if not.
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  147. First: Can everyone give some props to Dubois for fighting Parker, who is probably the most deserving heavy right now, coming off a stunning 4-fight win streak in 2024 to a very deserved top spot. DDD would be within rights to have an easier opponent but goes right to Parker (and these were different orgs yet Turki got it made!) - I do think Parker is at the end of his career because its not just chronological age but he's had a long hard arc with a lot of hard hard bouts. That said, Parker has those veteran moves, he can be clever, he can steal rounds. - 'If its not broke, don't fix it". Dubois is obliterating the divisions like a wrecking ball. It obviously works. Come forward and smash them to bits. Do that. Just do that again. Wrecking ball isn't broken - don't fix it.
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  148. This was a BRUTAL fight, just gigantic guys hitting each other HARD. I don't know why every fell asleep on this one because it's a helluva good fight in terms of power and taking huge shots like that.
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  149.  @starlooker6612  youtube doesn't like it when I call them 'meat puppets'.
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  150. Do you think it means the US consumers pay for the tariff?
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  151. i liked your post enough to ask you to please change 'Loose' (not tight) to 'lose' (not win) and please fix your autospell thing so it stops doing that, thanks.
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  152. Yes, China is currently in an economic collapse. The real-estate collapse, though epic and massive is really just one of the terrible economic collapses in China with more to come.
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  153. This is the best comment so far but Rogan's mouthbreathers will downvote it away. but yes this is the best reply of them all.
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  154.  @mish375  I think you're onto something. It would be about how they manifaest an appearance to human eyes and minds. They don't necessariy walk around the heavens 'looking like that' but instead an appearance we have to get, some way our minds eyes comprehend a non-corporeal being from outside our material world.
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  155.  @jwoods9659  Yes, it's almost impossible to live and work in North America (really, most of the Americas, Australia and NZ too) without a car. It's nearly mandatory with some exceptions like NY City or other densely populated areas that were built pre-automobile too. that said, that's the lifestyle and as you noted, many people simply don't want to live in the city or high-density areas.
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  156. it's worth noting that while China does have almost 1 Billion people it's also one of the largest land masses, about the same as USA or Canada in land and unlike Canada or Russia most of it's land is 'livable' for humans. When you do the math, the population density is not especially high. It's probably around 100th out of 200 countries. That said, yes if you consider the alleged population density of these city centers (which can be quite dense) this is definitely not good.
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  157. I looked and over the last 48 hours the American working class weren't paying any price and the US is at 100% building capactity of new factories. vs. Yesterday China's official govt media reported 8 million people in Guangdong province are now unemployed. Now what do you have to say, prophetess?
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  158. Asian Aunty Marathon! Greatest ever!
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  159. That's a lot of calories!
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  160. Oh no! Yes, I remember seeing the news magazine story (wow 20 years ago?!) and I'm sorry to hear she passed away. Condolences to her family and friends.
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  161. I can rewatch it but I'm still baffled Chisora got a win against Juggernaut. that said, Chisora, who should have retired about 6 fights ago, am I now hearing that this is NOT his farewell bout but he'd going for 50 fights wtf? whatever happens, I just want to know that he has a significant financial saving account to handle all that comes with brain damage.
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  162. things that didn't happen.
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  163.  @BidenSniff  I'd have it the other way around. AJ at least tried to go at Usyk. He tried to compete against Usyk. Fury, in this 2nd bout, was not trying to win. He was trying not to lose. but, he was successful in that he didn't get knocked out or knocked down. I suppose there is a 'moral victory' of sorts in that.
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  164. They can and do. Mainland Chinese are forbidden by their government to watch this talk.
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  165. It's already having a very serious affect on many many newly unemployed Chinese people. I have no idea why youd think any of this is a 'nail in Americans coffins'? Just crazy talk from you.
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  166.  @HEOT652  oof, so some kind of race war maybe?
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  167. Another good interview by Dev 'Dave' Sahni today with another gigantic hands fighter. I'm really perplexed on this one. I think I should think Kabayel runs away with mounting body shots and his in-out style and YET... Zhang happens to love 'in and out' guys and timing them with surprisingly fast KO inducing shots. I really don't know what to make of this one!?
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  168.  @caroline61804  There are 100000000s of hours of Travel videos, vlogger videos, journalists, documentaries from 100 different times and places in China, 1000s of hours will be current recently recorded videos. "so true" that somehow you passively look at 'China cold season" videos and decided 'hey WTF.. this video here on this WEstern Media Youtube proved its NOT what I thought!'. What is wrong with you?
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  169. @oneofmany1087  he cannot afford to lose 2 American dollars. That actually is his daily food money.
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  170.  @Radwar99  i don't believe you but I would accept that somewhere in some part, in some specific line of work there is a labor shortage. This is not Canada wide, no way, no how.
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  171. Yes, in fact you know about all this and the details because the British made careful accounts and taught about it in schools. Every UK student learns about this repeatedly, several times over.
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  172. Can I suggest something I almost never hear suggested? Between Taiwan, Japan and all the Allies, they are no longer thinking in terms of 'how to defend Taiwan' but instead how to let the PRC give them an excuse to start a counter-offensive, invasion and conquering of China's PLA/CCP regime. Let me suggest something: Taiwan can, today, IF it really wanted to withstand the warfare, it can (with alliances of course) defeat the PLA at sea, land and take Hainan and even carry out a significant INLAND incursion. The consequences of this will have the Chinese Mainland people overthrow the CCP and The RoC will land in Tianjin and march as new (old) rulers of a unified China.
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  173. I've been describing is as some shlt scribbled all over them but you've won the internet for giving them a name. Scribble Skins.
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  174. Hello foreigner, welcome and I like your interesting foreigner characters. They looks like chicken scratches. Anyway foreigner, you are mistaken and repeating a lie someone told you. 'The West' (there isn't really a country caled 'The West') but for 30 years THE biggest news story on earth was about the rise of China, predicting China would be lifted out of extreme poverty by 'The West Money' and they were correct the entire time. When does it crash? Right now. about 6 years ago the peak ran out and the decline is well on the way. Many 'The Westerners' predicted this 30 years ago and they were correct.
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  175.  @Will-i-am7  yes and the customs person was simply wrong about this. Plenty of people going overseas take all kinds of paperwork and resumes too. Not only for school or for business and networking but I'd ask Australia what is the problem if she DID get invited to job interviews while she was there? So what? So what if the company says "hey we want to hire you!' so what? So she will do the next phase of work visa application.
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  176. uncountable Americans lived in China for many decades, uncountable jobs in China, uncountable numbers of American tourists have traveled all over China for the last 25 years. There are uncountable hours of vlogs and documentaries and travel videos of China HERE. On Youtube. right here,. if you typed 'China' into the search bar you don't have enough hours of your life to watch them all. It is normal for Americans to see, meet and talk to, befriend and even marry Mainland Chinese. An American couldn't cross a college campus without meeting a dozen. It woudl be NORMAL that any typical American has some Mainland Chinese family living in their neighborhood. American do not have a 'Parallel' China. they do not have their own version of The Great Firewall of China' so they need to use a 'VPN" called 'Rednote' to look outside their State-Run 'The West Media' and WOWWW I can FINALLY see the 'Real China' through this Red Note VPN.
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  177. Look, we have to stop pretending Usyk vs Fury2 was somehow close and 'controversial'. We also have to start realizing that the scores on both Fury's obviously losses were VERY generous to Fury. (I'm also tired of pretending 'Bivol should have won that' when really, no. at least that fight was far far closer than Usyk Fury2 which could nearly been scored a shutout for Usyk btw)
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  178. holy effballs this is what I come for! Ultimate Chinese Auntie move lol
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  179. The 'low skilled' nebulous term. I'm FOR more regular people and less "high skilled" but I can say a lot of corporations are for massive importing of brown service workers (which, actually does require higher skills) and really you might want to lose that 'low skills' part of it.
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  180. nope, it is not the same thing in America.
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  181.  @Laotzu.Goldbug  he thinks this is reddit
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  182.  @shah_en_shah  so.. free to invade Israel?
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  183. Please stop repeating this relentless story that Tariffs increase the cost of goods for consumers. this is NOT how it HAS and CURRENTLY works for MOST products. Listen closely to this: The Chinese Gizmo has a specific 'price point' at walmart and its 10 bucks USD. A 'tariff' is put on it. The Importer pays the Tariff (or not) but what REALLY HAPPENS is that the Chinese Gizmo company eats the diffence. The Importer paid China Gizmo 6 dollars a Gizmo. Now the Importer says I'm only buying those if they're 5 dollars cost to me. China Gizmo lowers the price to the importer by THE SAME AMOUNT AS THE TARRIF. Voila. This is why the China Gizmo was 9.99 at Walmart BEFORE the Tarrif and is 9.99 AFTER the Tarrif. And then you'r other made up thing as you bluff your way through this saying wrong things: "China could do it to us!' THEY HAVE BEEN FOR TWENTY EFFING YEARS ALREADY. Do you understand why all those Chinese exchange students are there at midnight in the USA buying iPhones in the USA? then get caught smuggling 100 of them back into China? Where iPhones are are made and available to sell anyway? its because CHINA ALREADY PUTS 'Taxes', Huge taxes sometimes dubbed 'Shelf Taxes' on American products making them 20% MORE EXPENSIVE to Chinese consumers in China. "there is such an imbalance anyway' YES BECAUSE CHINA HAS ALREADY BEEN DOING THIS FOR TWENTY YEARS AND MORE FFS. Why just go online and write fake shlt like that?
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  184. No, you respect the USA even more than ever, now.
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  185. Much has been said about the Mainland Chinese but let me tell you: Move over Chinese and make way for the Obnoxious Indian. What? Can someone explain to me WHAT is going on with Indians who are not just demanding, walking around like litle Princes but what I can only call a 'Scoffing' arrogance? I mean literally, physically 'scoffing' in the face of hotel staff or sellers as if they can't believe these little shlts are daring to try and cheat them. scoffing and sneering "nice try you little fool, I'm Indian". What is that? I don't think I've ever seen that kind of attitude from any other humans on earth but Indians in Thailand. Oh, Chinese may still hold the title for the rudes, most ignorant, noisiest disrespectful FOR NOW but wow Indians, in particular younger Indian men are well poised to take that title.
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  186. @ The Chinese guy thinks the UN has ordered Taiwan to belong to The Peoples Republic of China. If only he had notes he wouldn't have said such an ignorant thing lol. Anyway, after that incident, Cheney made a few phone calls and took 1 billion away from China as a punishment for the developing nation Chinese schoolboy disrespecting him like that.
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  187. I don't know how you could stand to live in that disgusting world though? It's one thing to visit or its somewhere sometimes. Its another that you have to live your life in it.
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  188. goofy fantasy campaigns that won't actualy mean a thing.
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  189. I've lived in and out of the UK and seem to return once in ever decade so I can sort of see the differences in a jarring way. It really seriously has degenerated.
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  190.  @Shanonmcnab576  Nope, that's not real life. in real life, you'd have insurance that would cover all the basics like almost every American does.
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  191. I know it's been said in comments already but I just want to "can confirm" as I grew up in rural areas and dad was a carpenter and I really did find a set of stairs in the woods but never thought to take a picture. Yes, stairs are by far some of the most solid unbreakable bits of construction in an entire home. I'd see them (and sometimes help) frame 4 sides of a 3-story home in less time than building the stairs. Those are serious planks and nailed up a dozen different angles and they might even be set in concrete bases so they will outlast either way, sudden tornadoes and/or decades of abandoned decay. Another thing could be people tearing up an old abandoned unit for firewood or whatnot. A man actually could pull apart wood-framed walls using his own strength and simply tools but goooood luck tearing up a solid old staircase and just try dragging that through the woods. Anyway, I see others have noted this but there ya go.
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  192. It's wild. Deflation is here forever woot! On the upside, lots of international quality goods will be going for low prices all over Tabao, JD etc China certainly living through exciting times!
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  193. I realize Tucker's idea is to have on every kind of voice, all the different opinions but this guy is an utterly disgusting commie sell-out, he is the 'WEF deepstate swamp', he is an utterly vile Anti-American whenever he's paid to be.
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  194. What does that even mean though? Is China 'under attack' or is China 'taking on the USA' or is China doing anything at all? There is nothing to 'Stand for' when its simply the USA decoupling trade with China. Which is fine. So what? In a real way, China has nothing to do with it. There is no 'Stand' to take when a customer or business partner says "Hey, okay I'm leaving now" Okay. So what do you think 'Stand with China!' is supposed to mean in any of this?
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  195. Kevin is the lie.
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  196. I don't know if you meant to write 'illegal immigration'? legal immigration isn't a big problem for the USA but a very good argument could be made it needs to slow down for a while and could stand to be more selective taking in far more 1st worlders than 3rd worlders, far more Christians and far less Hindus and Muslims etc etc. but Legal immigration is, overall, not in need of much fixing. --- The 'fentanyl crisis' and that shocking rise of overdosing deaths leveled off years ago and has been in a shocking decline. I mean, really, experts are 'shocked' at how sharply its declining. ---- There is no special reasons to think America is 'screwed in the long term' and partly because their demographics are, overall, looking fairly good and not nearly as horrible as what's now most nations in the world. -- Demographics is Destiny is overhyped. try to pull back from that.
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  197. I've been working with young people for quite a while now and something I've been seeing in East Asia is that the young men increasingly and now as a rule - they don't engage with any females. They do NOT engage unless that is necessary work-related actions they are obligated to engage in. Last year I was in North America again and I noticed this does seem to be catching on. The under-40s especially. They get this new way of things. They say hello and goodnight and I noticed the only conversations are very surface level ones like "Did you enjoy your weekend" and "yes, I did thanks, very relaxing". They are now very good to avoid ANY kind of conversation that could be tied to any relationship status. The older men will still reply to a female with "Oh ya, I took my new lady friend to a movie but you cant believe it - we saw my ex-wife at the theater!". The young men might say "yes, I went to the movies with some friends and we had a good time". I think North American men are starting to catch on that you don't engage them. In Asia, I noted that very few of the college students engage any other female students outside of mandatory activities. the females on their campus are 'off limits'. They may go looking for romance at OTHER colleges but not their own. So this is quite an interesting thing to see changing in my lifetime.
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  198.  @danielponiatowski7368  It was some Zimbabwea teachers who went a long way into forming my view too. One is in Canada and will never return, the other in China. both tell me the same things. They were both well educated, real old school British education system guys. Both tried for years and years to reform things, one of them setting up real big international aid, these 'ngos' etc. both guys described it as utterly hopeless. there is nothing they can ever do, no amount of effort, it cannot work, so pointless they have forever left, will never go back. culturally, politically, socially, there is no way they would succeed and one described being relentlessly harrassed, bullied, all he got was intrigue and drama, being used, abused etc. but there comes this idea that maybe its better to let them live. maybe they dont want certain things and so be it. Let them. Maybe I shouldnt show up with an NGO vowing to build a girls-only modern school like I need to make them like it.
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  199. Apparently, going by this channel's content, people are never allowed to take resumes and documents that could be used for illegal job interviews or maybe school or agency applications. Seems weird. Job interviews are illegal inside Australia I guess? So you'd have to be hired via 'zoom' then get hired and the work visa BEFORE you arrive it seems?
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  200.  @ptitgavroche  Hi, there is no rewriting of history but you should find out why the Chinese relentlessly always said '3000' up to the time they started slowly adding it to '4000' and 5000 lol were they wrong? no, because the founding of the Qin (please note, this is 'Chin' aka 'Chin-a') is well known to be 900 BC. (878 something like that). So you understand that IS HISTORY. That IS what 'history' is written as. There is not 'rewriting' lol well you sure can argue that 'Qin' was indeed ended by the Jerchens who conquered China and changed it into their own image yes. But if you'd like to carry on saying it was still China then you don't get to say 'unbroken history'. Btw this is just a ridiculous thing in itself BUT then you do not get to say "China's longest unbroken lineage' etc OH they were WELL BROKEN lol Anyway, today the Peoples Republic is 75 years old. The very inception, the very basis was to DESTROY and utterly break from China's history. Not just that, to totally 'Destory the 4 Olds' then to burn them, then spread the ashes, then REMOVE THE VERY MEMORY of China as it was ever known before. You cannot get a more broken history than to break, destroy and make it 'disappear' from memory can you?
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  201. Are they though? What good have they brought us and what harm?
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  202. Why are you 'reminding everyone' about a strange belief you have about emotional motives you've come up with?
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  203.  @Menscode411  Ok but Jared Anderson isn't a 'hype job'. nor was he taking all the money and tops spots. His stock went up a bit from this fight.
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  204. Yes, its almost unbelievable but the USA was almost entirely built during the era of the car on land that is as vast as Western Europe. You might be proud to know a great number of people who built the USA this was were from the Netherlands. They were Dutch people who organized and planned these American cities you're in awe of today. It's what Dutch did.
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  205. Well he is correctly describing China of 2012. HAAA HEEE HAWW Sneering shltkid emojies HEEE HAWW. but yes, he is correct in what he described. i dont believe he told you he was an expert on China though HEEE HAWWWW
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  206. China does indeed use communist flag red and it does not have the same appeal as it does to their eyes. They made everything that color red in the 2008 Olympics and it literally caused so much dismay, 'feelings of danger or oppression or hell' from focus groups that the Olympics mandated all future color schemes must include blue and green. Besides the red, I don't know HOW they manage to do this but everything else looks so ugly. small lettering, the graphic and visual presentation looks like 'anti-intuition', dull, technical labels, bleak, I can't really explain it but they do this to everything so the presentation from colors to space to lettering looks so 'nothing, minimal, bleak, governmental'. Anyway there are other problems but seriously the entire look and feel of their section just says "don't bother coming to this unappealing zone of refrigerator box boring ugly graphics and colors.
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  207. yes and they are. It's called 'arrested development' and the worst thing (for them) is they will stay that way into their 80s.
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  208. What about it? What's with you and the 'crying laughing' about it?
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  209. Hmm, well cranky post 80s Carlin wasn't. Much of it was him shouting, whining and barking.
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  210. At the first watch, I had it maybe a few rounds for Lopez but I could see the argument made for Martin in a few closer rounds. Martin gave a pretty damn good spirited performance, credit due to him. He was a big reason why Teofimo looked bad, off, his rhythm disrupted like that. That was Martin making it that way. That said, Teofimo didn't suck but he did look like something wasn't right with him. Personal problems I don't know. Whenever I see someone showing up with multiple new tattoos (esp of their kids) i worry some spiral is on the way.
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  211. 'painting a doomsday picture' is something you have made up so you can say "But China stll exists!!". Instead, he is correctly describing the severe economic collapse in Mainland China that is currently taking place. "but China just keeps going". Yes, because the economist term 'economic collapse' does NOT MEAN China will explode and implode, become 'Gaza Strip' and actually China will cease to exist! What it does mean is what is reported, a country running on market speculation loans and a massive artificical bubble of 'Evergrandes' has see them collapse and so has the massive loans. Then (think of 'collapsing buildings') the next floor of restaurants and shops being floated by that kind of 'fake real estate value money' also collapse beneath, thus closing doors and becoming empty shops. Then (think in terms of 'collapsing levels') we find 50% of younger people are now unemployed or 'under-employed' because it used to be easy to get a job at a restaurant or retail shop (which were funded by evergrande bubble money) but now they cannot. Then (thinking of collapsing levels) these people do not have enough money left over in a month to buy things from Toaboa or see a movie. That Taobao clothing shop is out of business (as was the shop owner now unemployed) and the movie theater closes. now thinking of 'collapsing levels' foreign investors who did so thinking about a big middle-class 'consumer' goldmine in China say "nope" and then there is a 90% drop in that foreign investment from the previous year. Does this help you? Let me do this: Everyone kept "painting a doomsday picture of Hait" and yet Haiti just keeps going! Right? well its true. Haiti is still there and going along! ahahah.. these people must have been lying to say Haiti would have economic collapse right? After all, Haiti just keeps on going! do you hear how that sounds? Somalia just keeps on going. In brutal poverty. so does everyone. Speaking of making dishonest 'clickbait' claims: Stop pretending everyone is Low IQ morons and you can be so clever you change the claim to: "China will become a end times wasteland" so you can fake-laugh and point out how its obviously not a wasteland of physically collapsed buildings and thus 'prove them wrong'. Grow up, okay?
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  212. Rummys Corner! Yep, this is a perfect summary. (actually i never thought of Joe Louis/Schemlling) but I think Dubois is the future of the division for the next few years. It's just impossible to NOT pick Usyk since.. well.. he pretty much won boxing and never loses. but my guess is Dubois KO before 7rd.
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  213. If China has planned for them to return to China - and they do not return? Defying the directive? Some parents (and adult siblings) will be invited to have tea at the police station and then they have to work on ways to ask the student to return as agreed and promised. From there, the family will lose 'guangxi' incrementally, their finances will decrease of course and the other annoyance is they will be relentlessly monitored, phones, calls, etc.
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  214.  @buhmacseries6322  the price is having manufacturing jobs in the USA?
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  215. Yes and when Foshan was seeing the peak of it's wealth they didn't think to themselves "Wow, manufacturing for the international world and these big western countries is making our lives better'. Instead, they said "Now CHINA is CAPTAIN NOW!!" and smirked about how America and Japan would 'bend their knees' and at the rate it was going would soon make American buyers grove and beg for China to help them and Japanese would be punished! etc. So maybe, that attitude wasn't really the one to have and now maybe they can rethink that angle?
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  216.  @iceman5882  Cuffs are not enough and if you don't believe that just try and deal with a wild cuffed drug-fueled grown adult man who thinks he is fighting for life and death.
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  217. Thank you Dr. Grande for rightfully analyzing the utterly pathological cowardice and some kind of Mass Coward effect on many many police. Simple astonishing behavior.
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  218. I wasn't that excited about the first fight. I didn't think Fury deserves that title shot against THE champ Usyk when other more deserving challengers were awaiting. Didn't see this 'close fight' and saw Usyk deciding how it would go and winning no less than 8 rounds + a KD point. - still astonished these weren't the boxing cards everyone got very upset about. - Do not need to see a rematch. This is yet another 'rematch clause' that is highly annoying as 5 other challengers are more deserving of a shot while Usyk has to, once again, spend a whole 8 more more months beating someone twice. It was slightly better than I expected because Fury was the best Fury I've ever seen and deserves credit for digging deep and holding on to keep swinging to the final bell. however, It was mostly just Usyk beating Fury. It wasn't some 'cliffhanger' or some crazy KO shot or something like cuts or "IF ONLY...'. It was just Usyk winning, the end. Will I watch the 2nd one. Yep, this MIGHT be the last time we ever see Usyk (win or lose) and of course it doesn't also matterthat Usyk is a better boxer who hits harder: As the cliche goes, and its a true one, On a given night, even a single wild punch can turn it all upside-down. but tbh I will probably just watch it online the next day. not PPVing this.
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  219.  @jadenkarim5367  you're living in the past. a cheap version too.
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  220.  @kaishekchiang8581  Hello Foreigner, welcome to 'The Western Media' laowai. Well, we don't know because China's PLA have only won a war against other Chinese but lose to Vietnamese and fail to invade Taiwan (twice) but there are reasons he says it will be a 'Reef'. Aircraft carrires like this need massive support. It can't go very far and it still needs years of upgrades and equipment then a gigantic assistance fleet. Keep in mind it's capabilities are all 'theoretical' and nobody ever see's it actually working. This would be 'burying' someone if they fought India, China PRC's equal rival. If they ONLY fought the Indian Navy and nobody else. Yes, they would bury some Indians like Indians bury Chinese 'Wolf Warriors' at the border. HOWEVER, realistically, the only thing this would be fighting is the Japanese Navy which is far FAR superior while they are allied with the Taiwanese, USA, France, UK, Philippines, India etc. An alliance so overwhelming, so vastly superior, that it would be likely before this aircraft carrier could bury anyone it would become a giant coffin for 1000 PLAN soldiers and they wouldn't even get to kill a single Japanese in order to pretend they valianitly did something. Really, the alliance would be so overwhelming it wouldnt even know what hit them, so fast and it would be a great loss of face because they wouldn't even get to be in a 'battle' of any kind. I know, you believe it will be glorious as it does a 'Kamakaze' sacrificing the lives of everyone on board but to see some 'American ship' temporarily retreat and take some damage before it's sunk. Then create a lore, a god-like story of the powerful Chinese who PUNISHED the West and died trying! but in fact, the way it looks here, there would be no battle. Only an 'artificial reef' which would be declared a Philippines Island and have a Philippino flag on it. The Chinese soldiers would be rescued by Taiwanese but before being lifted out of the water they'd have to confess Taiwan is the True Ruler of China, to be pulled out of the water. I'm not happy about this. I'm just realistic and I don't want 1000 young Chinese mainland men to die for nothing.
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  221.  @veganath  whao.. you topped the OP as a holier than thou!
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  222.  @veganath  No, I don't share your 'spirit' of reciprocity. Now what? Judgement day awaits us all. See you there!
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  223.  @atleastistoletheshow  he's a series of viral videos that kid. Yes, I'd watch that. something like Gervais Pilkington 'an idiot abroad', Charlie Kirt just sends him to places like a bakery or truck stop to tell them what's wrong with them.
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  224.  @johntuttleiii8445  oh i totally had 'Karl Pilkington' or Conan's 'Jordan Schlanskey' where I have to think there is NO WAY this guy is a real person. It's too good to be true, he has to be an actor doing a character. but i have a wacky feeling he's real.
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  225. I'm convinced something is wrong. This channel is almost criminally undersubscribed in my opinion and I can believe youtube has some way of stalling certain channels. That aside, there are plenty of us who thank you for the tremendous work you put into original videos.
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  226. if people follow my timeline of videos they will notice I occassionally return to Canada and then I leave Canada. This video uses, bang-on the word for Canada: Hostile. It's one of the most hostile living conditions, incredibly, they have imported massive amounts of brown foreign servants so that their own working poor are now unemployed, you cannot find a home, it's actualy one of the cruelest countries on earth to try and live in. Not the people. It's very aggressive and its shocking my country got that bad.
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  227. Not all and many remain open with lesser degrees of production. Not random coindicence, about 15% of factory production has been reduced. Why, you think its hilarious when Chinese people lose their jobs, their incomes and livelihood?
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  228.  @Righteous90  Ugh, thank you for saying what I felt. Sick of these people and these comments.
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  229. Your take on MrBeast isn't surprising as British culture see's the ultimate goal, the bottom line, it comes down to 'show was more their real self) (see: Big Brother series, a contest to see who was the most real). but that isn't important when it comes to what he does. Which is the important part: what he actually DOES. What is made to happen. If he builds 100 wells in Africa and that is good for those people then that happened. They don't become less good, less valuable, less 'real' because he sold lunchable snak-paks. Conversely, the African Wells and their benefits do not become better, more life-saving, greater functioning wells if we found out that MrBeast was really sooooo sincere, he really had real feelings and it was out of true kindness. I get that those are THE most important values in 21st century Britain but its the part where "..so, that cancels out whatever was done and given and does not count anymore".
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  230. ​ @CantHandleThisCanYa ok well thats wonderful. So are you going to actually DO anything? Like phone your MP or stop going to Tim Hortons. Or just announce a thing you know wont happen so you can pretend you did your part and were in the right?
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  231. here in southern China I haven't seen any special outbreaks but what I'd call the 'common cold' did got around and yes it was mostly stuffed up lung, throat, sinuses, watery eyes type thing. lots of kids already had it and are over it too. Here is a clip of the pediatric ward of a local hospital yesterday: https://youtube.com/shorts/MUizCGYtSeU?feature=share
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  232. ok but China is now lowering, descending, on the way down, not up, it is 'falling' not rising. Afghanistan? well.. I don't know its ever been stable, seriously, for like its 5000 year history, not even once? So that would require some serious fantasy level imagining. Syria belongs to Turkey now. Its a province of Turkey. Turkey is relatively stable though. And this straight line from China to the Mediterraniean is for what? So Turkey can buy Mainland China laborers and servants?
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  233. I'd strongly suggest listening most closely to the German lady. and don't spend a lot of time trying to find out how to make the USA inferior and its worse in the USA and 'The West' but just work on this for China, in China. It won't get better because 'someone else is worse' okay?
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  234. Right but when they say Taiwan is a part of China they mean the region, the 3 states, PRC, RoC, Hong Kong (well, can included Macao). The PRC is also a 'part of China'.
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  235. One thing you should do is try and decide if what's being said is true, untrue, (partially true?) and if these things you see can stand or fall on their own.
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  236. Fantasy
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  237. Wait.. what do you mean an 'ex-prostitute victim'? She was abused by prostitutes?
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  238. The exchange is you will not know your fellow countrymen as well after a while.
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  239. Count me as a non-nerd who doesn't seem to see any point to much of this. From my far off observation: - For some reason, China takes all these free AI models (lama or Chatgpt etc) and yes, no doubt the code from the paid ones like OpenAI and whoever else. Ok - China then gets a massive amount of people who make a version or a kind of 'clone' and its not a 'Chinese one' its still English and Nvidia chips etc. Okay. It's not like its for sale. Its just an Open-Source projects. Okay, great I guess? I suppose I can use that instead of ChatGPT and Im sure something is a little better, some update, something else is cooler or lesser but whatever. What is the point of this? i mean the stupid amount of hype and YT videos and news and even the President Trump has to comment on this. I don't really 'get' what I'm supposed to care about.
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  240. hey quick share: In 2010 or maybe 2011 I was on a train that went through a city hit by a horrific rocket test that failed and the train stopped at like 5am . the crazy thing is that there were families and people living in apartments which had all the glass facia gone (still piles of glass at the base) which was surreal because some were seen like 'making tea' and waking up in totally wide open 10th floor apartments. Everything was blackened. Just a thick blackish grime absolutely everywhere. This was around 3 months after the rocket blast and yes they REALLY covered it up and refused to say anything about exactly the death toll etc even though Chinese state media did report the 'overall incident' yes. Ya, it was just barely dawn and we were actually perplexed looking out the window at buildings with NO windows yet people inside but sure enough there were massive piles of glass shards in huge piles all around the street.
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  241. Oh good, a teenage 'kombat sports' gamer is here from his WWE chats to tell us what a 'real fighter' would or wouldn't be doing. gross.
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  242.  @brianye964  Would it be closer to 55%, lazy couch potato boy?
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  243.  @brianye964  nope, I am suggesting that Winston's definition describes something more specific than just doing things like playing phone games to pass time but instead a kind of dedicated practice of a specific craft for the sake of loyal engagement and very few Chinese will have such a dedicated thing. What about it? You have decided hobbists are superior and a culture with much hobbyism is inferior. Thats on you, bigot.
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  244. @ I wasn't worried about being bad or good.
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  245. Cleese is now accused of being a white nationalist.
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  246. Yes but there are good reasons to build for some 'market demand' or you end up with (example) a massive web of high-speed rail lines that cost far far more to maintain (even when closed) than they can ever recover in ticket sales or even some financial benefit to the societies they run through. So what happens is that's workers money, that's the communities wealth, their labor, their business that is going to a web of bridges to high-speed nowheresville. I've become well aware that engineers do not see that and can only understand making it for the greatness of making it but I'd also encourage you to look at it that way. Somebody has to pay for it and that's their labor and time and community wealth. and yes, the USA did bomb the hell out of 'ISIS' which isn't a bad thing since ISIS was happily murdering innocent Chinese people as happily as they were fellow Muslims and everyone else.
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  247.  @wojiaomaxiaoyun  You are watching this and 200000000 other video vlogs here on Western Media youtube that is seen around the world but is blocked in China. Really think about what you just said?
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  248.  @Mgminvestments  It went very well.
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  249.  @BeefSupreme-vk9sz  you're for putting strict bans on alcohol, yes?
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  250. I've lost respect for him. He's become a divisive 'woke' leftist or even worse just says what he thinks they want him to say.
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  251. Nobody asked about freedom of navigation.
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  252. China too weak to colonize. you're so jealous lol
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  253. nope, he is correct. He's also right about the timeline of Hong Kong's degeneration. Its around 2012 its beginning its decline and by 2015 is depressingly unstoppable.
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  254. Oh, it could be done overnight if not for an utterly outrageous number of lawyers, lawyers, investment group boards, unions, lawyers and then an array of bylaws, laws, regulations, government committees, bylaws and lawyers that would make our heads spin as they got their 90% of whatever is to be gained from it, money/powerwise.
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  255.  @turtlesoup8134  China is the opposite yes, well really its the thing that happens beyond inflation: Deflation. China isn't doing this on purpose but has simply no choice but to watch as its fundamentals are changed aka 'Collapsing'. but the point here, there is no comparison whatsoever. China's Mainland is entering a severe and unique economic collapse.
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  256. "just steer clear of your favorite crimes" solid advice.
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  257. Almost every single one you saw or ever drove by will do all kinds of outreach for the community at large, from soup kitchens to shelters and a long list. However, this is not why they would or would not be 'taxed'. They aren't taxed because they are made from the already-taxed contributions of its members and they are non-profit organisations.
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  258.  @batataandshawarmalover  China is on a significant decline and has been for 7 years. and no, its never exceeding the USA and not even close. It's weird you believe that and think there is some 'global south' power lol
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  259. Eh? No they are paid to build those thing for the Indonesians.
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  260. Nope, China's economy is far far worse than it's being portrayed in 'The West' (whatever you think that is?) and Europe is just fine, SE Asia is really growing and the USA is on an upward swing. None of these can be compared to Mainland China which is now in full severe, game-changing, economic collapse.
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  261. well for starters, they cannot because they don't have a 'blue water navy' capable of doing such a thing. the other thing, the US Navy is in the South China Sea benefiting, far more than anyone else, China. it's why China can exist by shipping and receiving goods from all ove rthe world. The US Navy is what ensure that.
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  262. That should give you a good idea of how little money is going to China and how many of their factories have laid-off their employees, yes?
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  263. At some point China's mainland could just say "eff it' and go full-on wild-west free market madness. Any foreigners can buy and own and do whatever business they want. there would be a crazy economic boom imo. Not that it's possible with their current system but just saying.
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  264. tell me, what are the 5 rounds you thought Fury won? You really found FIVE rounds?
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  265. Not as many as who left. The thing people don't seem to realize is that Shanghai IS the home of millions. They are Shanghaiese and their relatives would return to Shanghai.
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  266.  @samueljburnt9307  You dont think that's a bizarre invasion of privacy and weird that you record anyone who comes and goes, whatever private family convos go on. Interesting. Also good luck recovering from your stroke. get better soon!
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  267. How? with a OpenAI clone??
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  268. For around 3 years though keep in mind he isn't moving or not moving goalposts, simply reporting where they are and telling you what the rates would be. The reason for '3 years ago' when he had to realize the demographic change is happening faster and is deeper than he first thought is a couple of reasons: - The Shanghai Data Leak has, so far, made it clear a massive 'overcount' occurred and so much that the official Chinese govt published.. -- An overcount around a decade ago. - More evidence piling in from foreign analysis of things like baby formula, salt and tampons. But as much as you wanted to use some Redditism, the concept of 'moving goalposts' doesn't work here. So you can feel a little dumb about that.
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  269. Why would you believe Netanyahu desperately, above all else in life needs to keep his job and will do anything to keep his job? He is 75 years old. He has maybe 10 years left and will be feeling very old age. - He could retired tonight and will have more wealth, money and power than he can ever use at any given time. He would not have MORE luxuries, money, service and privileges if he had another billion dollars, he is at 'Maximum'. - He can retire tomorrow and literally fly around the world getting standing ovations, millions of dollars, doing social media influencing of his causes. So what are you actually talking about? You're shocked that most people aren't like you where you think "He must think like I think!" and you think, MANNNNN IF you could suddenly get a super powerful president job with fcking $500 a year earnings YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING to keep that job. ANYTHING! So you think obviously Netanyahu obviously is just like you thinkign that same way. Holy eff. just wow.
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  270. Name one of these TECHNOLOGICAL BREAK THROUGHS?
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  271. yes and they were correct. The Chinese economy started collapsing with serious speed around 2019 and is currently in economic collapse. They were correct if they picked '2020-2025' and as far as I could find, most of them did give '2025' thereabouts. So those people were all correct.
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  272.  @Maxშემიწყალე  well yes, since China has been in economic collapse for 5 years you would be seeing me make the same observation in 2026. Have you actually heard of the country China (PRC) and do you know anything about the current economic collapse it's in. Now. today?
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  273.  @thefanwithoutaface8105  Now write reasons why he's doing this to 'troll' or deliberately make a political statement, a deliberate demonstration of the insanity of 'transgender' and all the equity movement nonsense? and/or because young men like this would think it hilarious to dare each other to do it. You could probably write 4 points for that?
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  274. can i ask, what is your ethnicity?
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  275. but the USA is in good shape, steady wealth, it's very good relative to nearly any other place on earth and has excellent factors for future success (if it can seize on them)
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  276.  @frederickmuhlbauer9477  Nope, no it doesn't.
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  277. It's also worth mentioning a nation, a people, they are more than just a GDP Data report. There is something about shared values, shared cultures, something about high-trust society, common religion and there is something about the 'degrees' too. You can love a melting pot just fine but you don't just keep tossing more and mORE AND MORE into it so that damn well nothing can even melt anymore. We don't live and work to create 'data-driven statistics' and at some point it wasn't good for Yugoslavia's economy and social problems like mass self-segregating enclaves and unmelted pot life become economic problems.
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  278. I have been vlogging and traveling around SE Asia and China for almost a year now and i say this with no joy, taking no sides and no teams but keep in mind I have great old friends who have lost jobs at Foxconn Zhengzhou: This was obviously coming. Last year I was in Vietnam and it reminded me of China 2009. They cannot build factories fast enough. The dump trucks and crews are absolutely flying 24/7 day and night to get up factories, plow out new industrial areas, they cannot transport enough metal and machines fast enough. There are English training centers appearing and full because new international trade offices are being put up faster than they can fill them with staff. They are mobbing university campuses with recruitment booths for ever damn factory position or tech or whatever else positions. Vietnam is blowing up while yes, I'm sorry to say more Chinese factories close.
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  279. No, not always and not to these degrees. You have to keep in mind Beijing IS home for millions and those families would go home to Beijing. However, what's being seen here is the degrees of emptiness. 10 years ago, straight through Spring Festival you'd have seen massive numbers on the streets. This would also include a massive number of overseas Chinese who'd return to China via Beijing for Spring Festival.
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  280. It's weird that you obey the UN and make it your government but my problem is with your 'teaching' about NATO and whatever you think 'Russian Roulette' is supposed to be. 'Russian Roulette' is a game of a single bullet in a 'revolver' style pistol, spinning the barrel, putting a gun to their own head and pulling the trigger. Usually a 6 shot revolver so a '1-in-6' chance you blown your own brains out. So this thing you keep saying 'Russian Roulette' would have it that Russia itself is a kind of empty gun with a single bullet and they may strike in just some random chance? then there is another problem with your teaching: So far, NATO doesn't have consequences for taking on Russia. It's done it since it's inception and nothing happened in Cuba. No Russian strikes. Russia never did anything, they didn't nuke anyone when NATO bombed Yugoslavia. Russia didn't do anything for Syria or Iran and now get this.. .. They didn't do a thing when Ukraine JUST INVADED ACTUAL RUSSIA and are STILL in Russia, inside Russia taking over Russian land. Nothing. and what isn't a good idea anyway? NATO can take on a lot of Nukes. Russia cannot survive what NATO would throw back. When the nuclear smoke cleared Russia would be a province of Poland. So you are, demonstrably, as a repeated and historical thing, saying this 'warning' with nothing behind it.
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  281. These 'refugee runs' tend to be so very temporary and they always seem to collapse into a mini-disaster. 'Mastadon' gets rampaged and then they're gone. Then 'bluesky' but then that gets wrecked badly and forgotten etc. This one is weird because I don't think China's government foreign relations or Great Firewall people EVER expected this to happen and are surely freaked out and trying to figure out what to do besides selling some 'Americans confess China is superior and now grovel and beg to be taken in by China'. I dunno. On the upside, IF Red Note can grab this '15 minutes of fame' and do something then maybe they can translate it into some kind of a longer-lasting boost?
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  282. I will say this: It's another 'wacky China' thing when you are in a community that is maybe just 50% occupied and there is a small army of property management people. I haven't done an official count but I'd guess there are more guards, gardeners, office staff than actual residents.
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  283. Blew what? all the responsibility?
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  284. Did you think it was impossible to even talk about the Louisiana purchase? You can't be serious about the USA buying Alaska can you? Are you seriously talking some 'hawaian islands' somewhere becoming an actual State wtf??
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  285. Things that never happened.
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  286.  @jiegui1979  It's not inheriting them as territory. These are international waters. The end.
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  287. The Chinese Seed Smuggler may be the most 'Nervous Nelly (Ne Li) to ever attempt it. He may as well had a neon sign on his head saying, in several languages, "I'm a bad boy with naughty items in my bags!."
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  288. It's so shockingly different that it can be called the exact opposites, the polar opposite.
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  289. This: " On the other hand my son cannot find a job that pays well enough to make it worth getting up for. By the time he buys a car, pays insane insurance, and other job related expenses he is breaking even..."
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  290.  @chuckp.4740  What happened to Hong Kong though? They battled to a 'tie' a 'draw' against teenagers then called a truce. 5 years later Hong Kong is just degenerating as real Hong Kong leave and it 'mainlandizing' and what about it? PRC tried twice to take Taiwan and are still in the worlds longest retreat. The PLA failed then then failed badly in Vietnam, then got beaten up by Indians and fled when some Africans shot at them and its a pretty embarrassing series of failures. and here's a question: years ago I heard Taiwan was getting a 'red line' and if they bought any more weapons from the USA there would be severe and final punishments. .... nope. didn't happen. Then the US didnt just sell SOME weapons but have since been loading Taiwan with far more than ever before. .. and yet, the red-line punishment still hasn't happened. Taiwan just announced another round of massive US weapons being shipped to them. Where is this punishment?? I thought this was the 4th or 10th time the PRC gave FINAL WARNING that 1 more time and they would be punished and etc etc.? So.. what's the wait for? all talk no action?
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  291. It's been my experience in Canada and China that the two things are not the same at all and very different. In Canada, if one of them is cheating the scenario is almost always they fell out of love (or one of them did) and they are really looking for a new wife/husband. The affair will be a 'love affair' and while they have an affair they, in their minds will plan to be together. At some point, they initiated a divorce and soon they remarry that person they were cheating wtih. Vs China was stunning to me THOUGH it did remind me of certain classes in Italy funnily enough but Chinese men are expected, as normal life, to get a 'Mistress' or a 'Xiao San' and this is weirdly normal. Cheating? In a way that makes no sense to people in Canada but actually its permissible on the condition that the wife NEVER knows about it and neither can her family or their mutual friends (though other husband might know). The horrific damage is when (and I've seen this happen) when the husband idiotically takes his mistress to the KTV that is right outside the family community in which case, minutes later, a miserable auntie or 6 gossip it everywhere and the wife has then lost face badly. Weirdly, the 'xiaosan' thing really is just kind of paid prostitution so its not like either has some belief they are falling in love or they just couldnt help each other because of hot sexual chemistry. But yes I dig your distinction. there are 'Mistresses' but that's another level thing. Then there are just blatant sex lovers that go hiking and put on old shoes.
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  292. Like his father, he has become a kind of Nazi. He thinks it's okay because it's like an 'Arch-Nazi' but it's still a Nazi.
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  293.  @BidenSniff  I can't think of any round where Fury tested Usyk. I suppose, the 'test' was taking a posture and defense of a castle and testing Usyk to knock it down. Well, ok. Usyk only able to win the round but didn't get a knockdown or KO. I suppose, i could say 'Usyk tested Fury's defense for 90% of the fight and rounds' but Fury didn't do anything to 'test Usyk'. but maybe you mean something else? Like what?
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  294.  @BidenSniff  lol eww grosss.. you're trying to get out of this with stupid toxic fanboy crapping. Tell me what rounds you thought Fury 'tested' Usyk in this 2nd bout?
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  295. I'd find him guilty of criminal neglect causing homicide IF I could see that after Neely went limp (though, that could be a trick) but Penny, IF aware he's limp, continued to apply the same pressure non-stop. But I can't really see that via the video. I can't tell if he is apply compression OR is he just 'holding' him by the neck but no longer squeezing the neck. (or what degree of both).
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  296.  @lordumas  Yes because you're using a VPN service. It's illegal in China without special govt permission. sooooo...... ?
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  297. I've tried to explain to Boomer family who boast "heck, I paid my own way through school by working weekends giving tennis lessons!'. They cannot comprehend that today's young people (and this was true for my age group anyway) but they work full-time far more hours, labor, more than their actual school work hours and all of that would be acceptable IF they graduated with everything paid off in full. They don't. They then start their 25 years of debt.
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  298. Here is the one piece of advice and warning I can give anyone who might visit China's mainland: - You see a Grandpa in a 3 wheel cart? He can and WILL do any damn thing he wants, anytime, from stopping in the middle of traffic, to blocking intersections, driving down the wrong sides of the roads, ANYTHING and anything can and will happen. You've been warned.
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  299. This topic needs to be put into more video and podcast forms for the general public. I can confirm some of the things you're saying from a time I worked around the local justice system. One of the wacky things I learned about are these 'Incredible discoveries!' of highly valuable artworks we hear about. "Local woman discovers old painting bought at a garage sale is worth 50,000 dollars!" "Hiker trips over a can of rare civil war coins stashed in the desert!" Over and over again they investigate these and what is REALLY going on? - That painting was very knowingly stolen from an estate, a senior citizen or even a blatant break & enter etc etc. Criminal purpose. Then later someone found a corrupt lawyer, a fixer, someone who created a scenario where, by law, it could be sold. Soon it's in someone's grandmothers' attic where and keep in mind: Yard sales, nobody has a 'receipt' or can necessarily recall what house it was, it was 8 years ago. Nobody can really identify what old painting was dropped off at a thrift store. Who left it in a garbage bag outside? nobody knows. the bag of coins or whatnot are 'tripped over' in a national park. there is no way to make a 'claim' for these by some private person. So there is all kinds of blackmarket, criminal, theft, scamming stuff going on with a lot of these things and that's before even getting to 'legitimate' art but is most obviously for money laundering and 'tax scheme games' purposes or the world of counterfeiting.
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  300. but this has no meaning or place in what is happening. Nothing is done 'to China' nor does it have something to 'fight back against'. It makes and sells all kinds of things and exports them for money. One of the customers, Mr.USA doesn't want to shop at China Store (or much less). So what? What is the 'fight against' supposed to mean? Against who, the wind? What is the 'threat'? how dare this customer does NOT come and buy as much of our stuff?? Or do you mean the volunteers will arise and remove the current Chinese rulers?
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  301. Why, you think Russsia will try and invade the Philippines and carry on a 4 year long 'meat grinder' battle where at best a few kms of land gets pushed back and forth??
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  302. I think you'll find it really does come from 'Frank' as in 'France' and is just a pronunciation of 'Farang' (thai) and 'Falang' (laos) etc. As they mentioned, its from 'Frank' not 'long-nose'.
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  303. Many of these countries started tariff wars against the USA decades ago. The US starts responding in kind and you actually wrote that.
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  304.  @neil03051957  yes of course it was
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  305. Yes and as someone who carried the bags of Ukrainian grannies and was traveling all over SE Asia with all my new Russian friends I think I should tell you something: It's not the brag when you describe a much smaller country invading Russia and announcing how Russia has a much bigger military force. As if that isn't a kind of damning confession of weakness. --- but to your opening nonsense. Indeed, thousands of Ukrainians arrived in our airports as refugees and we all agreed Russia was in for trouble because every single one were kids, ladies, grandparents, the odd time a middle-aged man who was not in such good shape. We didn't even see a man over 50 who was physically fit. Never one under 18 at the oldest and teen boys were usually only seen because they were the elder brother of younger siblings (hence tasked with the dad-role). - I have pictures and videos of streets in Vietnam and elsewhere where you'll be blnded by the white shoulders of 1000s of young Russians. Their shoulders are pasty white because they had just arrived in SE Asian and were wearing tank tops and summer clothing for the first time. 1000s of Russians between the ages of 18-32 age ranges. Many asking me about how visas work and so they're still traveling 3 months Vietnam then 2 months tourist visa Thailand and 1 month Laos... you ge tthe idea right? They are rotating via tourist visas around and around East Asia so they don't have to go back home. The numbers are nearly uncountable because at any given moment you can count hundreds up and down The Russian Market of Phnom Pehn but when you land in Bangkok there is a hundred in the queues and so on. Hey, I do't blame them whatsoever and they hang out with plenty of Ukrainian youth who don't want to go back either. Why would they want to go back and die, I'm all for their saving their own lives, but, You are just absolutely wrong in your childish fanboi narrative crap and you need to know you can't just 'create reality' or bend it or manipulate real life by storytelling. and not that crappy either.
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  306. this comment section is full of reasons why I'm voting for Alberta to become a 51st state and cannot wait to separate from Canada. What a worthless post-national state of TDS infected fools in a Karenocracy
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  307.  @gnosticmind  What the.. GAHHH I STILL live with my parents.. how embarrassing hee haww.. because to us 19 year olds we think renting our own apartment is becoming a big man and dont deen mommmmmy to help us herrr derrrr
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  308. He has a glitch at 24:00 when he insists decreased smoking is the prime factor in decreased cancer rate AND (seemingly contradicting that) correctly states that Lung Cancer remains a major cause of death. When I looked this up I also found that despite 50 continuous years of vastly reduced smoking - Lung Cancer rates are still THE SAME and ought to be declining in some proportion. To justify what he's saying they just change the theory and say "Hmm.. so actually if you just smoked a little in college 30 years ago you get lung cancer as much as the old school 2 pack a day folks from the 1960s who smoked for 30 straight years. There is also a world of difference between 'rates of acquiring cancer' vs 'dying from it'. In fact, surgical techniques, screening, etc and more people will not die as quickly from lung cancer as, for comparison, people acquiring the same lung cancer in 1966. to the point here: I think I'd like him to clarify 24:00 seemingly saying smoking reduced cancer rates and also those rates remain the same. [also worth mentioning, something being 'the number one' doesn't really say (or not say or may say) anything. Loose dogs remain the number one cause of injury in our lady's football league. How often? once, last season, a playful dog ran into the field and a girl tripped over it and hurt her knee very badly. Did i tell you something important about loose dogs? no.
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  309.  @ramieskola7845  It's okay, I think you'll find there wasn't an actual UN universally recognized official listing and that involved scheduled times and dates for the official designations of 1, 2nd and 3rd. Rather, a kind of 'moniker' and as noted in the video, it seems to have come from French poetry or literature where 'the masses' were dubbed a kind of '3rd estate' neither Royals or Clergy though subject to the whims and pulls of those. In a similar way, I don't think the moniker 'Banana Republic' is an actual official classification in which wikipedia could provide the mathematical requirements and qualifications. The are more 'conceptual' than proper designations. Yes, when we were kids in the 'cold war' culture we thought of Finland as a '3rd world icescape'.
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  310.  @MsStar266  Nope, there isn't some 'thing' going on where 'even Americans are learning Chinese now', but Yes, Uighurs have it mandatory to learn Mandarin and yes its to integrate and absorb them into the greater Han society. This, the UN will call 'cultural genocide' but it's simply how things work in China. You have a lot to learn about Chinai and how things work in China hehe.. a lot to learn. Good luck getting started on that!
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  311. @dt_2  nope, its wealthy and its not in any wars. It did get a ceasefire done in Israel tho.
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  312.  @marcio7145  He probably doesn't live in New York which has had a functionting subway system for around 100 years. If he got a passport and traveled around the world, he'd better appreciate just how good the USA really is and why you want to move there.
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  313.  @marcio7145  You didn't choose it over the USA. You couldnt get a visa to live in the USA. No, the 'fact is' China, South Korea and Japan don't share some path and it's weird you needed to attach PRC China to those other countries, however, Yes indeed, China's mainland went from a horrific poverty hole of malnutrition to something close to your home country, around 100th of 200 in terms of wealth-per-person. Almost all of this being opening up and manufacturing for the USA, Japan and South Korea. You've never been to the USA but of course its not 'spiraling downward' and if it was it's still where Chinese WANT to be and rise up to, to get even half that wealth, security, that level of quality. also, I'm not from China or a developing country like you (Brazil?) so I don't say things because I"m a toxic hyperfeminine in low-thinking 'comparison culture' where I'm 'jealous'. Your culture does that. I'm not from a materialistic 'shame culture'. Learn that. There is no need for you to keep being dishonest. Stop lying about the USA or China.
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  314. Absolute crickets on what I would have supposed is the most obvious fight in the world: AJ vs Ruiz: The Tie-breaker. This will not even get a single upvote and will never be spoken about again for some reason. You'd think its obvious but apparently not.
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  315. Right, not everyone caught what really happened. He didn't really resign, he is stll the PM but announced that in the future when his Liberal Party has their next meeting, that party will be asked to do their process to appoint a new party leader which is whatever elected MP. At that point, Trudeau remains an MP anyway. The other thing worth noting for American friends is that in the Canadian system the same government still exists just as before. They just have a different 'prime minister' from among their ruling party. Trudeau would just be replaced with another name and face BUT the same government still the same. So.. realistically, nothing changed. We just had to hear about how he 'fights' and is a 'fighter'.
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  316. I don't believe someone deserves to die because their father was a multi-millionaire. The hated millionaires aside, yes it does become difficult to call these 'tragedies when the entire point and purpose seems to be taking on an absolutely deadly risk for the sake of doing so (or recreational?) and in similar ways I can't call it 'tragic' when a race car driver dies at 250mph against a wall.
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  317. Nope, much of the worlds economy is fine, 'The West' is far far better than Mainland China. But so is most of the rest of teh world as China is having a severe economic collapse that is uniquely China.
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  318. China's factories, the manufacturers will sell for less. Often the government of China uses the people's wealth to subsidize that difference. often the importer/exporters take less fees too. This is why American consumers don't pay more at the store. It's why China will lose money.
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  319.  @brettadler1013  What did you find 'disrespectful' just askin'?
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  320.  @kashmm  I'm just letting you know Cleese was called out for xenophobia, bigotry and racism and booed for his alleged extremist views
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  321. btw, 22:00 ish, I am proud to credit my father with that Sasquatch explanation. it is, to my knowledge, the first and for decades the only guy who I know had that explanation. For good reason, he grew up in BC and was, for many years a hunter and later hunting guide. Having seen this very exact thing numerous times, he would explain that very thing Rogan is repeating: Bears do indeed stand up on their hind legs all the time. You can also find plenty of trees with big claw marks and bear hair where they stand and scratch their backs and claws. They will also (and notice this) they will stand up to get a look at something unusual, like hikers for example. When you're in the ultra-dense forests of British Columbia and down to Washington states its like looking through 'Blinds' and what would happen, IF YOU just so happened to look up at some noise or randomly looked over at a bear (standing on hind legs so it can look at you) you'd see it appear to 'walk upright between the trees'. Well it IS walking upright. but you wouldn't see it long enough to see it go back down on all fours a few seconds later. between the trees you would see it 'walking through the forest'. Indeed, a bear on hind legs does actually look quite 'human like'. Think of the Chinese zoo visitors who were convinced the standing bears were men in bear costumes. This is actually the FIRST TIME I've ever heard anyone in media saying what my Dad told people 40 years ago at this point. And its almost 'word for word' my dads description so I'm nearly wondering if my dad told Joe Rogan this lol, but, yes, when you know that, it becomes so very very obviously what 'Big Foot' is, its a bear being seen on hind-legs for bried moments in very thick forests. This is also why Bigfoot is only ever seen in 'seconds' and then seems to disappear into the forest. In fact, the bear is stll there. He dropped back down to 4 legs and you can't see it anymore but its right there just fine.
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  322.  @SaretGnasoh  No, he means the massive numbers of unemployment migrant workers in China who have nothing to do, are released from their contracts and then flood around China living under bridges, in unfinished buildings, parks and walkways. That and train stations. He means those ones, in China's mainland.
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  323. Nobody told you that was the problem. Nobody complained about that so how about you drop that and try and figure out what the complaint ACTUALLY is? Start now. Come back after you do. Got it?
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  324.  @nox5555  what about Chinese people?
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  325.  @SmokeyTreats  You must be a strong proponent of Abolition, yes?
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  326. You're wonderfully naive (and bless you for it, enjoy it) if you believe marriage is based on 'falling in love' and 'soulmates' and if I had to pick the relationships that would most likely go toxic? Yours. Anything where the couple thought falling in love and being soulmates was the thing. The least likely to go toxic? Marriage that runs on who's doing the cleaning, cooking, money-making, putting the cap back on toothpaste tube and who takes the garbage out. but I'm sure I enjoyed the 'ignorance is bliss' you're currently living in.
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  327. The 'good news' is that you may see far far less French (or other Colonial powers) far less interest in doing anything in Sub-Saharan Africa, sending any more money, no more Loans, nothing. Then see how well that goes for ya!
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  328. I gotta say 'Apocalypto' is stil on my absolute Top 10 movies of all-time, holy hell that is an amazing movie!
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  329.  @recondax  I disagree, the more US presense the less likely they are to try and make a run at Taiwan. US warships and aircraft carriers (and the more there are) means the chance of an absolutely disasterous and humiliating failure increases too.
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  330. well.. no, not if its being done to them.
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  331. Here's the angle I liked, as pointed out early in the commentary: He's getting trolled and 'dragged' (whatever that means) simply because 1 or 2 photos were seen where he happens to be standing or sitting beside her at some entertainment event. That's it. This alone is enough to fire up an onslaught of narratives, rumors and insults. Not a date, nothing but an event where many people happen to be sitting together and at one point he is sitting beside her. THIS to me is the mindboggling part.
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  332. well, they did get her to work as a brown servant for Tim Hortons corporation, some government employees justified their jobs AND the school got some stuff too. So, it was a success for, at least, SOME of Canada.
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  333. @ Good point, you are correct. Still, what do I care about DeepSeek being Open Source 'OpenAI'?
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  334. At the moment it's the greatest country in the world, by far and this video is just more proof of that.
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  335. The Sage Wall reminds me of the Japan underwater megalith and a few others where it seems like a legit explanation could be a man-made structure before the worldwide flood where they ended up exposed and severely worn away, so reclaimed by nature they are.. well.. nearly 'back to nature'. I couldn't really either, its like, just enough you can't totally dismiss it as man-made. Lots of interesting angles and compelling things in this video!
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  336. I saw it all over North America and while the young men and boys are almost all mentally-ill, autistic and loaded with syndromes and disorders it's far worse on young women. Almost every single young woman, 30 and under, they are wrecked. They don't know who they are, what they are, they don't know what's right or wrong, they are socially alone, distant, perplexed. It made me very very sad.
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  337.  @MWH12085  The 'track record' is your grandfather was part of Maos higher circles and/or did very very bad bad things for Mao after he won power. Turned in family and neighbors, had people done away with etc. After that, the Fuer Dai don't really need to get to that stage as they are actually 'assigned to that stage' but I would say if they screw it up then yes they'll be replaced with newly assigned Fuer Dai.
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  338.  @Shrekisdaboss  No, of course not. Taiwan isn't a province of the Peoples Republic of China. This isn't a 'debate' or we argue about it. As a blatant reality of life, what you've said is untrue in law, in consensus, in actual real life practice. I'd just as easily tell you that West Taiwan is the property of the Republic of China. Here is some advice: Just 'announcing new reality' doesn't really work in real life. Just 'announcing' Ukraine is a province of Russia doesn't actually make it become true and happen. The USA just announcing "Taiwan is a State administered by the USA" doesn't make it become such. Do you understand that? You aren't really a 'Wizard' who can 'Speak things into reality' just by your words?
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  339. thing is, he didn't suck at all vs Bakole. imo looked better than ever before. He showed up against a Bakole that was going to beat anyone in front of him on that night. on that night. Anderson went up in stock imo. As for this sort of comeback bout, not sizzling. its not sizzle reel but its also a perfectly good win to get back in the running, get back on a track. good overall!
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  340.  @havocrein  Nope, there is widespread unemployment and especially among young people. This is widely reported in China by State-Run official media and reports and recently was so bad that they just simply stopped reporting the youth unemployment as a category. Nope, its not the same in those other countries who may report routine ups and down, recessions and little economic upswings, however, China's Mainland is in a situation FAR FAR worse so that there is no comparison to be made, not the same things at all. it's embarrassing for you to just keep lying to me and everyone else. It makes you look small. Just stop doing it.
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  341.  @Showmatic  Knock it off with that. It's more cringe than you know
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  342. Americans prefer to use their private cars. Nothing wrong with that and nobody needs to disrespect their culture either.
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  343. If an adult wants to have conversion therapy (either way, to become gay or straight etc) you have an actual law to stop them from making that choice with their own mind, will and cognition??
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  344. For starters, China is in a severe real-estate speculation collapse (and other collapses) so yes I would presume that affects Canada which is run on laundering Mainland China real estate bubbles into Canada, its 'side territory' where it does whatever it tells Canada it will damn well do. ok. but all this is easily fixed by importing 8 million more temporary brown servants, 5 million more 'students' and then 1 million refugees. Voila - problem solved and the Boomer DO indeed take it to the grave with them as they vowed.
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  345. I'm convinced Chengdu has more people and certainly felt more dense and congested with people and cars and noise too. Numbers aside, both are these high population urban areas and I could not live well in either. big concrete jungles, yes they are 'dystopian', there is rarely fresh air to be smelled but people seem to be there.
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  346. China is one of those poor countries.
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  347. Theo is around 47 years old but I could see where he has a lot of that 30-40 demographic audience.
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  348. @ welcome back, foreigner. You have a lot to learn about China and a lot to Unlearn about China. good luck on that.
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  349.  @chrisdown9241  More people have to understand that. Trudeau is just an MP for his riding. the Liberal Party is who won and holds power. EVEN IF Trudeau stepped down as PM role, they simply replace him with a diferent liberal MP. Canada isn't like the USA where they vote, directly, specifically for a President. 'get rid of Trudeau' and another 'Trudeau' would be there 10 minutes later. Maybe even more 'Trudeauy' than him.
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  350. @ Please tell me you don't think its going to be 400 million vs 8.6 billion? oh nooo you do, don't you?
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  351. One of the most comical things I've seen in China was village weddings in Guangxi's rural areas. The government had figured out this wedding budget. it was no payoff eithe, you had to use it for X-amount of food, x-amount of cigarettes, x-amount of table rentals. Ok, well whenever some villagers got married, 100 people showed up. 90 were unknown aunts and uncles. Actually they are just traveling wedding crashers. Mind you, that family could also invite themselves to the next village wedding they saw. it made me laugh. Nobody seemed to mind.
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  352. I don't think I've ever disliked a human being more than this PoS.
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  353. Nothing wrong with being a peasant but he's referring to the peasants China sold as cheap labor circa 1995.
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  354.  @MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou  no but Mainland Chinese are the most 'monolithic' with a strong 'monoculture' though the term 'homogenous' is more used for a people.
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  355. Snakes are pretty awesome. Next year its the Dragon!
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  356. =it's known in China as Tibet. =he was NOt told it's a land of enslaved people. = He was NOT led to believe it was made of sticks, mud and discarded shrimptails. - nobody says 'xizhan' and nobody painted it as a dystopian land of oppression. - The Buddhism is extremely well controlled by Beijing. - I don't know why the need to shlt on the USA but at least he can do it here on this American platform.
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  357. describe what you'd need to see so that you think it 'looks like its collapsing'?
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  358. The IDF has hundreds of days to continue.
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  359. China does not have them. They aren't China's islands to 'surrender' or 'give up' though.
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  360. Why, Americans use personal cars.
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  361. China is only 75 years old. Its only had a modern economy for around 30 years.
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  362. I remember a church group that started something like this in a far-flung Mexican region. Build homes for the poor. By the 3rd year they needed 2 buses and you nearly had to know an 'insider' to get tickets because it was sold-out instantly. up to 50 people, often young people were traveling from central Canada to the end of the Baha Penisula to build homes. One of the problems was that we did have a lot of college kids with the mistaken belief that construction was easy (after all, that's what poors and uneducated do right?) and much like she mentions in this video - they were just making a mess. Much like the Informers testimony, the competent local workers were simply undoing much of the work and rebuilding. What some of us started to catch on to: mainly it was the building supplies they wanted. All the concrete, lumber and nails. Add to that transporting it to the village. So, yes, in a real sense, letting all the college kids 'build things', nail drywall, do some sweet paintings, this was, weirdly, like the price the construction workers had to pay for the building materials. Worse than all that (which wasn't so bad I guess) but some of us got the strong suspicion that the entire thing was really just a big scheme as a local real estate developer was simply selling the homes as would any real estate developer. So, when all were gone, when the dust settled, it was all just a corporate 'capitalist' venture anyway. The kids meant well, everyone meant well but unfortunately a lot of these things aren't what they seem to be :(
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  363. Yes and a big part of this can be explained by the previous 2024 Spring Festival when a lot of factories and businesses figured out they could close or carry out staff reductions during the holiday while everyone was at their villages. So then what happened this year is a kind of belief (rightly or wrongly) but that whoever returns first might keep their jobs. those who come back last may then be told there is already enough staff so they aren't needed. This kind of belief spreads and as they said someone might think 'The smart thing to do is get back earlier than others to make sure i don't get left out. Then they saw many many other smart people with the same beliefs racing home.
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  364. Tuffguy like you wasn't there to show everyone how tuffguy hero you are.
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  365.  @BoltarThePirate  It's a good question because IF it's only a few they may well be removed by the defense systems. Peter's scenario has them needing 10 and 12 per city.
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  366. I mean, if only the US bridges put LED lights on them they'd become 'the year 3025 but meanwhile.. ...your Vietnamese in-laws are living in the USA illegally??
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  367. Yes. Just as the news likes to report factory closures across the USA or any country. It's because, in the overall, these are the most direct and massive indicators of economic (and social) consequences and losses. one thing Chinese in particular have a difficult time grasping is that when the factory reopens 8 months later then it doesn't somehow erase the 8 months of losses. The 8 months of loss doesn't disappear and now its back to where it was before the closure so its the same. No, that is 8 months of 'less' and you could say it will take 8 more months to get back to where they were. This is why the news around the world will often report any significant factory closures. Unlike 'statistics' or some 'econonimc math theories' or LED light shows at night, these are the most direct, consequential, real life demonstrations.
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  368. Some high quality advice around choosing to love someone. I can't speak for women but men don't just fall in love and they 'love their wife' nor do things because 'he loves her so much'. Not quite.. men choose to love their wife. That's a good thing to know and to do. We decide to love them. I'd also suggest far far too few women know that. It's not a bad thing to know that, its good to know that actually. He decides and choose to love you.
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  369. Yes. I recently gave up trying to get proper medical care in Canada. One of the major problems is they set appointments then refer to another appointment then refer to a specialist all in different locations and over months and months. They are charging the medical systems so they can do that forever. They break up care into as many different journeys and then each segment requires another month or year of cycling through the specialists who can get their billing money and so on. I would die early in Canada too.
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  370. Once again attacking water and yelling 'GRRRR' and we saw the PLA jets run away when the Taiwan jets warned them and chased them off. but again, this demonstrates the PRC is obviously not going to dare start a war with The RoC. Now, will Taiwan take back the Mainland? That's a good question.
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  371.  @squidmanfedsfeds5301  I'm not sure if the idea of even more powerful states and unions trying to control regional states in some parental sense of protecting another region even works. All the world power came to 'protect' Yugoslavia, no doubt many well meaning and decades later a good argument is made it only prolonged the inevitable but made it far more divisive and deadly.
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  372. Canada is one big real estate scheme.
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  373. 'In China' is a helluva broad and varied thing. Rental prices in downtown Shanghai remain crazy high and 10,000 for a 3-bedroom condo or more is normal. If you're going to be in some '2nd, 3rd tier' cities it will still vary a lot depending on what district but you may find that '2500 rmb' 3-bedroom condo yes. protip 2024: One thing you definitely can do this year (and in the past it was not this way) but you can now make offers. They ask 2500? Get back to them and say you're max budget is 2000. Do not be surprised if you soon receive a message saying they'll take it. Our landlady friend had a dozen apartments for 1000 a month rent (these are only for Chinese) and was pretty upset this year when they all told her they could only pay as low as 300. another offered 600. basically 'half' previous rental prices. She explained to us she has absolutely no option but to take it. There are hundreds of empty rentals all over the place. The days of 1000 a month were over. If one moved out the apartment will be empty for years making 'zero' per month. I negotiated from 1500 to 1000 AND they still wanted 2-months upfront but agreed to 'first and last month' not a 'damage deposit' that we rarely every get back. So, no matter what the asking price - now is the time to make offers and don't be afraid to walk away because there are probably 5 empty apartments in that same community.
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  374.  @douglasrodenbach8000  there population is far far too small for that.
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  375. Your comment is literally banned in China. They cannot view this video or anything Youtube. Really think about that lol
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  376. in economic collapse
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  377. who was he talking about?
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  378. Its all over mainland china, its like pigs and zoo animals. Spitting bones all over the tables, snapping mushy food, mouth agape, expectorating phlegm, sickening grunts, showing off mashed up food in their teeth.
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  379. As has been happening for 7 years, the cost is passed BACK onto the Chinese manufacturers. They are often subsidized the difference by the Chinese government. That is why US consumers did NOT pay 10% more for the kitchen gadgets at Walmart. So it will happen again.
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  380. A good many construction workers are well paid and some very well paid. If you are passing construction sites in California, its possible that most of them earn a higher salary than you or I ever will and some are upper-middle class types of salaries.
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  381. This is a real problem now. for these businesses, 20% is the difference between .. well being in the business at all. 10% and really 5% loss ends the point of doing it. Middle-Easterners and Africans won't buy $5000 outdoor BBQs and neither will Chinese so I just don't know what the answer is other than.. hear me out: - What if China just removed all their tariffs, shelf taxes and impediments, trade barriers on the condition the USA does the same (which is pretty much what it has always been until recently) and then see what happens?
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  382. He's referring to The Peoples Republic of China, obviously.
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  383.  @neilloughran4437  im worried about that too. Yikes
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  384.  @Nunyo-Bizznez  So, to break down the verbose reply you've come up with: It's a kind of formula that has made you a superior being, no longer able to control - you've now become the one who can control, grip and release and.. in a way.. you've become your own 'god'. All that said and your own 'leveling-up' aside, has the 'critical scholarship' (the thing we were talking about) has that done more good than harm? *I know you would like to choose your own questions to answer aka 'better questions' but we're here at: What has 'Critical Scholarship' done for us lately?
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  385. It's true that 'GBL' is dubbed a 'date rap drug' the likely use here squares with all the bodybuilding drugs. I believe the actor Nick Nolte was arrested for this. For bodybuilders, the most important part, where they build that muscle is when they're sleeping. I'm told they take 'GBL or GHB' whatever versions so they are in a deep sleep for 10 and 12 hours if they want.
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  386. No. the answer will be 'no'.
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  387. The Medicine thing. One thing I experience seems to be pretty obvious inconsistency of 'potency'. So, I take ibuprofen. There might be 20 different brands in China but it's not really 'between brands' but inside them. 300 mg. one box from one store and I'd swear these are 50 mg. another box, yes, i can say that's 300 mg effect. Then sometimes I would swear I just took 1000 mgs. I also noticed this in 'balms'. It might be the same brand but earlier use that balm is tangy! oh ya, this is potent stuff. a year later same brand, same tube, same medicinal ingredients but it may as well be colored water. but then again the 2nd tube is spicy and potent again. or just varying. I dont' think these are 'fake medicine'. its not a 'couterfeit' either but its just Cha-bu-duo quality control where they don't care about the exact mix per tablet. meh, some might get a little more or a little less of the actual ibuprofen so 'good enough'. maybe you got the first or last squirt of the skin balm and another time you got a glob of 'extra strength' becuause the factor worker 'topped off' the batch at a given moment.
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  388. Its not 2003 anymore.
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  389. What do you think "processed food" is supposed to be? and a reminder that most of your ancestors were dead by age 63 and they didn't take pills either.
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  390. Nope and we know that because Trump and Biden have been putting all kinds of tariffs on all kinds of products and the American consumers do not pay. China did, does and will eat that difference.
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  391. It's far far different than the USA. China is undenialy less innovative than the USA and you then go into utter madness, I mean utter crazy world with your insane belief that the average Chinese in an urban area is a lot brighter than counterparts in the USA. Seriously, it's astonishing you just decided you'd write all that. Wow. Just wowww.
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  392. I tried and disliked it. I don't like that fish or the chirpy burby style.
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  393. Underestimating Chinese talent is always the way to be more accurate. For example, you can be sure it cost far FAR more than 6 million USD to make this and you your point about high-end chips.. ...you can 'overestimate' the number of high-end chips needed to make this Chinese 'OpenAi' clone. Way wayyyy more than China's estimate. When you do that - underestimate Mainland China in nearly anything they tell you, you will be the most correct. and yes I like your story about how China didn't actually lose something but TURNED IT AROUND and now the Americans learned a lesson getting beaten by the godlike Chinese minds etc etc, however, You will always be closer to the truth by UNDERestimating anything you are told about China and it's people and performance. You will be prove right more often than wrong.
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  394.  @samuraijosh1595  but it is stlll number one in nearly everything. So what?
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  395. The main reason China's PRC will never be a superpower like the USA is that China isn't a 'superpower' and it's all but impossible it will ever become a superpower and its impossible to ever get near the only remaining superpower, the USA,. India is closer to that, Japan is closer and they aren't even close. China's PRC is way wayyyy down that list.
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  396.  @DaggerSecurity  They'd be correct.
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  397.  @zlocish  It's a simple observation. It's not that unusual in the world today.
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  398. Why not continuing worrying about other countries like CCTV and the way Chinese Mainlands relentlessly smirk and sneer about other countries?
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  399. @DL_2025_B Im not, I'm fun at boxing events where adults love the sport.
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  400. As an Asian Jaywalker may social media trends annoy me.
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  401. For the most part, Singapore will become the new 'Pearl of the East' or whatever you want to call the big finance, banking and capital hub of East Asia. I'm sure Hong Kong will still exist for a long time.
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  402.  @_Tony.Montana  relative to the income and opportunities, choices and competition, taking in account the quality of taxpayer roads and food safety? Among the very very best in the world and why everyone from around the world continues trying to migrate to the USA.
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  403. Ok but normal people correctly inform you that the US and Vietnam have made a series of astonishing trade deals over the last 6 years.
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  404.  @watershed8685  Right but that's you doing 'Creative Writing'. That's fun, I like creative writing too but the US is still the Dollar King with all those alliances going strong, and, still the military superpower of the world that can indeed start pushing a few people around if it want to ADD that. btw, some of your creative writing is just massively missing huge blocks of real life factors. the part about Taiwan is ... wow.
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  405. please check your 'autospell' so 'border' (a perimeter) doesn't render as 'boarder' like 'snow boarder, a carpenter' thanks.
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  406. Sorry but this is something I find very annoying in China, a country who's governnor now 'Live for The West' and 'keeping up appearances' to the outside world and let me explain in this example: a few months ago, a series of videos and news reports went viral around and inside Mainland China about the surprisingly empty cinemas. Not only that but the bankruptcy (or impending ones). These caught on all over the outside-world internet and weren't some 'viral' story but it was a little news cycle/social media topic for a few days. oh oh. Here comes this stupid thing. Oh ya.. okay.. so you say China have SMALL Audience Thewest!? haha okay we show you! We make BIG AUDIENCES and make 48 hour news cycle show TheWest the POWER OF CHINA is the OPPOSITe of how they shamed us! We shame them! Its jussssst such a 1-D brain dullar move but here it goes. Yes indeed this is absolutely correct, to show us the 'power' they will control and make videos of crammed theaters, show Chinese overflowing cinemas! now we have 'punched back' even stronger than we were punched!!! Every student has to go to the cinema on some class field trip. Every corporation is instructed to do this as a company event, then some banners need to be involved. Ja yoe! add oil! see which company can out-do the other in enthusiasm and attendance! I can't stand these things. yes of course the numbers are bogus, have *asterisks and aren't what they seem. They never kickstart the cause either. 2 weeks later, cinema will be as empty as ever before. there is no natural need ro want to return to cinemas and they're still too expensive for a lot of struggling Chinese these days. I mean great that people enjoy the movie but just saying these things are often annoyingly contrived social 'keeping up appearances' after all. btw, on the ground I just don't see the 'mania' for this. Girls aren't wearing backpacks, they aren't going on about it, boys don't seem to care about this.
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  407.  @crystalyang7605  incorrect. you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh.. a LOT to learn. good luck on that
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  408. Ok but he's telling you about a future possibility that hasn't actually happened. You then say 'Its true and happening before our very eyes!'.
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  409. are they? that from your ole' warrior days eh? from that crazy frontlines battle world you came from?
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  410. CGTN contributing to the overwhelming 'Black Fatigue' sweeping the nations. Exhausting to listen to the privileged goofballs pretending to be God's chosen complainers :(
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  411.  @leesiewoo5116  Blame what? The improved wealthier lifestyles the American working class get from this?
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  412.  @R.AlDuaij  No, you don't believe that.
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  413.  @TYUdays  I have and this is a problem for China's economy. China doesn't work by "rule of law" and while there's nothing China's citizens can do about that - foreign businesses (and tourists) will avoid a place without it. You have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe
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  414. I can think of a woman who, in her 50s, was relentlessly telling people about her failed relationships, what this man did, how she survived, what another was like and why it didn't work. IF it was possible, she would easily go on tour telling these stories for 8 hours a night on stage AND 100% obviously believe every person needed to hear about Bob, the Jeff, the Gordon, the Brant 20-part miniseries that was her life of relationships. What's up with that?
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  415. yes but not of The Peoples Republic of China.
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  416. It's not what "people wanna do" it's what deranged and evil people want to do to men, women, boys and girls. Thank God people like Antoine Doubine and most people want to rescue victims.
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  417. This is excellent!
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  418. Sooner or later China PRC will have to focus everything on its eastern seaboard. This could be several things from Taiwan and Japan sinking PLAN ships, some tactical nukes making SC Sea bases disappear or the domestic uprisings in Beijing and I will make a guess: As soon as possible, India will not just take all the disputed borderlands but a bit more and wait for the first chance to administer Tibet under emergency circumstances (China having a massive govt upheaval). But for sure they will move in ASAP.
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  419. they were correct. China's economy peaked around 2015 and most of the predictions have been right that it would start collapsing around 2025. China's economy is collapsing right now, here in 2025. Thoughts?
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  420. Did China start innovating things? like what?
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  421. This is more bad news for China and the last guy smirking at how he wants other Chinese sellers to keep losing because it just so happens he sells mainly to the middle-east and will only lose a little from the tariffs was really ugly stuff. Chinese turning on other Chinese so easily? He even smirks about it with a devlish grin. Not good :(
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  422. These are gold.
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  423. 8:30 Satan, in Christianity is not a great opposing Deity to God either. He is an accuser and wants to mislead mankind. Much more the thing you describe for Shaytan.
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  424. Something in this I wish more coaches would take big notice of: "15 years old.. no, too late". This belief seems to come and go in fads but I still see coaches with this. By 15 its 'too late' because it's going to take a good 3 years before they would get to the higher amateur levels. the 15 year olds who started at 7 area already well on the way. Really, I've seen these 7 year olds who were indeed masters at age 15 and also 'burned out' and even lost interest in boxing, stalled and they didnt keep growing and improving past 16 years old. [in some cases I really hated seeing fathers and others push them and did NOT blame them for losing interest, not at all]. There is a very impressive long list of great fighters who started 15, 20, even 25 but I wouldn't even refer to the crazy exceptions (Ray Mercer, Toney, Hopkins, Marcianio) because you can still just stay with great amateurs (under-19s) who started at 14, 15, 16. btw, Usyks old friend Anthony Joshua: age 18. Olympic gold medal. not bad.
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  425. without it, life goes back to 1965.
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  426.  @jamesmiller4114  yes in part, tariffs are one way they will start paying down their wealthy-country sized debt. Keeping in mind, as every country in the world was tariffing the crap out of the USA this is really just matching them. but yes, tariffs will go (at least in part) to paying down their rich guy debt in their rich wealthy country.
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  427. It's far more likely this has everything to do with a certain new US president having a convo with a certain new 'Mexican' president. and this is where she needs to start.
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  428. I have the same questions I had when Canada saw entire towns utterly annihilated by massive fires. In 2023 we are STILL utterly incapable, and this in in the most expensive and wealthiest of places, NOPE we can't figure out how to not have entire towns suddenly burned to the ground. Too complex. We can sure make MRNA vaccines, put a man on the moon 60 years ago, we can develop recycling to 'save the planet' and dry paper straws but man ohhh man.. fire got us stumped. really?
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  429.  @yuanSU-d1p  Yes, partly, she is an honours student at Beijing University and majored in Chinese history. If you want, she can tutor you? You have a lot to learn about China and China's history hehehe.. good luck getting started!
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  430. Nope, most of the world is doing fine. The 'Western' are doing well and they don't have any problems because of Tariffs put on China or Russia. But China is having a very severe economic collapse.
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  431. I don't diaagree with any of that but hte last sentence. The showstopping 145% Tariffs will being US manufacturing to its knees? So far, though its early, no such thing is happening and there still in overall expansion of manufacturing.
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  432. @Heisenberg-1967 Please use words with their actual meanings. 'Terrorism' does not actually mean 'really terrifying' and unarmed protesters trespassing a public space when its closed is not a 'Insurrection' and if Canada and the USA agree to merge (actually re-unite) this is not the USA 'Annexing'. Words have meanings for reasons. I know you fancy 'spellbinding' and think you can change reality by turning them opposite, upside-down, backwards etc but this is not 'Annexing' and I'm not asking you 'Pllllease... you're being tooo strong and powerful ... please don't be so strong and clever'. I'm saying you end up screwing yourself and everyone around you and your own goals and wants in life when you misuse words.
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  433.  @jurassicthunder  I wouldnt even try to put some conditions on it. I know its difficult for people to think of giveaways without getting to put some of their controls on the thing but just let it be. The full control around lives in China with expectations may even be one of THE main reasons people don't want to have children :(
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  434. @puppetperception7861  it has collapsed. Thats why we can discuss this plan for the massive number of ecess homes in China. The collapse is already here.
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  435.  @AustinGauthier-y1f  Oh man, it happened to you again, someone who didn't understand your higher level, who got so upset by your words and you needed to correct them, ugh it must be exhausting for you?
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  436. Nobody is calling it 'Xizang' so you can stop with that. Yes, he is correct as recorded and reported by Western journalists and travelers at the time. Tibet was a brutal 'Theocracy' not unlike Myanmar has always been and is today. They were impovershed just as Mao's China was living in brutal poverty esp in the far out rural areas. After the PRC occupied Tibet they were just as impoverished and had to wait until the 1990s before experiencing any kind of modern living just as it was for most Chinese. so, he's not wrong.
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  437.  @RoseRose-gk6ku  Incorrect, the name is Tibet and that is the English. You will use 'Tibet' and everyone in China including CGTN should use the correct word 'Tibet'. Understood?
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  438. this just amounts to 'fake news' and can be called 'fake analysis'. also climate change :( wow this is bad.
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  439.  @TanteiGH  you're even holier than all the others posting about how holy they are!
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  440.  @veganath  The important thing is that you made sure to spot the OP being good and beautiful at all those things and made sure we knew that YOU also follow and obey those laws and always have and will! Since I have you on the stand: Have you considered teaching others how they can not only solve the entire morality question but how they can be as holy as you? Perhaps you could hold a class every sunday morning or publish a free guide for people to follow?
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  441. @SCC.1233 What about it? Are they going to sell $6000 washers and dryers to ASEAN? Are they going to make up a trillion in lost sales to ASEAN?
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  442. Learn the difference between 'need' vs 'want'.
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  443.  @uhJerryJackson  they need to find that kid and sign him!
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  444. Its more a story of Boomers fading away and apparently 'Gen X' replacing them. Nobody will remember some old commie activist anyway
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  445. I'd strongly suggest it's not the time and there won't be a time. right now, the prices are being kept artificially high by government order because, otherwise, people would be selling them for $1. Why? the fees, the water, elecricity, these things alone are a burden when you cannot rent them out. Then what's happening is these buildings are degrading and a new owner may have to pay for major fixes or just watch as their home is eventually demolished. But there's no upcoming 'stocks rise' with these as their population now goes into significant decline. Now keeping all that in mind, you have to know that in China PRC, nobody can even 'own own' the building but can only lease it for 70 years at a time. and that is only the building itself, nobody can own land itself.
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  446. Incorrect. Some of these really were being paid by the US farmers (usually China pays the difference) but Trump simply took money from other tariffs and subsidized those farmers and don't worry they were VERY happy with their Trump Checks. So, you can delete that mistaken belief.
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  447.  @Heal_the_world2000  Taiwan isn't a province of the Peoples Republic of China, you shockingly ignorant goofball lol
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  448.  @ratbert1  Uh, yes, Professor Ratbert, may i beg your 14 year old self to teach me? Oh wait, I asked a question you failed to answer. What about it? Go on, tell everyone what about it? your sophisticated explanation hmm?
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  449. Just to be clear, this is not a dispute about a China-Philippine border. There is some dispute about The Philippines border (the extent of it) but it has nothing special to do with PRC China who's borders are far far from this location.
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  450. Coincidentally, and I mean just like 60 minutes ago I parked outside this convenience store that is apparently abandoned. As far as anyone can tell they just left one day. It just looks like someone took the electronic scanner things and what would have been more of the more expensive stuff but left all the chips, the lighters, the row of drinks, turned off the lights and left. I mean, like 7 months ago. it's just getting dusty inside. ya you see weird stuff like this in China now. They just leave, yes, I believe that lady that they sent everyone on a 2 hour lunch break and just bicycle locked the door and drove away.
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  451. He gives us a good overview of a world where doing porn was, not even that long ago, that was something only done among the most troubled, desperate or even sometimes the most witless, easily duped, the drug addicts, maybe the most 'anti-social' subversive types. He starts off 'doing gay porn' but that would have been another insane level, that was men in deeply 'underground' perverse counter-culture world and still only the wildest of them would go there. 15 years ago, yes actually it somehow became like a strangely desired thing to enter celebrity or 'internet famous' stardom and I think he's right that you'd now have 1000s of people, actually they aren't wildly desperate, they didn't have dysfunctional upbringings and they do not need cash or drug money at all. They are actually doing it as a hobby. For some fun hobby. That would have been unthinkable to our age group in our 20s .
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  452. @ She added that yes, which i thank her for.
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  453. Around 10 years ago China went full-entry on absolutely every high school grad they could lure onto a university campus. If you were breathing you were accepted and stuffed in a dorm room and most played video games for 3 and 4 years in a kind of break from life and 'come down' from the insane Gaokao exam pressures (though, by that point you didn't need a high score and you'd still go somewhere). The results have been an utterly astonishing number of landscape engineer diplomas, In the last 5 and 6 years, many who were finishing a typical 'bachelors' (whatever 3, 4 years diploma) realized there won't be any proper office jobs for them and so er-enrolled into Masters, Phd (so, really they are just sort of biding time, refuge, hoping that will do it) but its almost worse for them as 20 million doctors had the same idea. you have to figure this too: Now they are 27, 29... turning 30 years old. They do NOT know much about labor jobs, they aren't skilled 10-years veteran handimen, construction workers, carpenters AND besides they're turning 30. labor would hire a novice 18 years old full of dirt-digging vigor not a 30 years old college grad. But Wait... it gets worse. indeed, lots of these office jobs are deliberately firing 30+ years olds now. This is a 'face' idea in China where maybe a restaurant wants only tall, pale and pretty young people. They figured out 30+ year olds want 'job jobs' with some livable monthly salary and predicable hours etc. Fire them, hire some 19 year old who's just happy to be there for the most minimum of wages and work 80 hrs a week and do what you tell them to do. Its bad. now there are small armies of 32 year old delivery drivers with a masters degree and the delivery gig is no longer able to be considered "just a cash gig to get by.. until I can decide on where I'm going to work, TenCent or a government job". Oh no, they are now having to admit this IS their job for 9 more years until they're knees give out from climbing stairs 30 times a night and they'll be replaced by a 28 year old. If Chinas government ever needs to fear a particular civil uprising? Armies of these delivery drivers revolting will be utterly fierce, notthing to live for - not afraid to die. be afraid.
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  454.  @BidenSniff  I could care less about some other fighter you're talking about but instead want to know what you mean by 'tested' Usyk. How do you think Fury did any 'testing' to use that term. What do you mean? Can you describe it?
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  455.  @BidenSniff  hi, i don't know if you're an "AI' but you still need to get back to where and how you thought Fury tested Usyk in this 2nd fight. Since all you can say is 'you need to rewatch the fight) you should be able to name some round where your version of 'testing' happened? Was it round 5? I might be able to think of 2 rounds where Fury could barely get the round because he might have landed one or two more quick slappers and was not only in 'defensive mode'. Neither of these would warrant the term 'tested' though. By all means, tell me what you mean by 'tested' which we might be using differently but what rounds do you think Fury 'tested Usyk'? *i have no idea why you're still talking about some other opponent but I didn't see AJ inside the ring for Usyk-Fury2 I can't say AJ 'tested' Usyk either but I don't know that Fury did any such things in this particular bout. He just acted like a 'castle' being besieged and in boxing you don't get points for 'not doing anything'. Its not a 'knockout game' so if you stay in it for 12 it's 'competitive'.. Nobody calls it a 'close fight' because one didn't get stopped thus it was 'close'
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  456.  @ronnyMcAuley  Name those 5 rounds. and you say 'at least' as if there could be more but name those '5 for sure'?
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  457.  @ronnyMcAuley  Holyyyy eff. I mean you really believe that don't you? I just wanted people to rewatch that and take a good look at those. Did you score any 'draw' rounds?
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  458. I like Moses a lot and he may very well be a big player in the new generation of heavies taking over now. My guess is that Dempsey gets the better of this, takes control and Moses is stopped around that 8th rd mark.
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  459. I'm all for single use plastics. I'm against sending the trash to some 3rd world nation who then dumps it in the ocean when nobody is looking.
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  460.  @TitB1199  Hanoi is now the 'new Beijing 2010' for ridiculous levels of smog. Its really bad there. Much of SE Asia, like south south, they still burn off their crop stalks every season and while its not a factory type smoke its 'smoke smoke' and I've gone outside and you'd think the city was on fire for the smoke hanging in the streets. ya I suppose the 'upsdie' to China's decline is far less factories emitting. I mean, i guess that's good in that sense.
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  461. That's a pretty good summary of it. That's pretty much it yes.
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  462. Oh how I wish it was comedy. Oh ... but its not. It really isn't. :(
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  463.  @liuj88  That's a good question.
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  464. These nations produce more goodness in the world.
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  465. One of the most overrated comedians in the world and spent the last decades being a bad comedian, one of the worst
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  466. I feel like you've never met anyone outside of China?
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  467.  @happymelon7129  Taiwan is a free country where everyone can watch anything they want anytime they want. Youtube is freely open and available and they can see all Mainland State Media too.
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  468.  @SaretGnasoh  What BS question is that?
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  469.  @happymelon7129  It would make zero difference since Taiwan is not like Mainland CCP China where the media is blocked or condoned, controlled or otherwise. 100% of Taiwanese can watch 'Ch 52 online as almost all of them do anyway. Nobody really needs actual legacy media TV channels anymore. Meanwhile, youtube is still blocked in Mainland China (and LOTS of things are including Taiwan media)
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  470.  @happymelon7129  nope, everyone in Taiwan can watch her videos here on Youtube and on Chinese Mainland social media, Douyin or 100 other sources for her videos. Nobody cares if a legacy media 'TV channel' wasn't renewed. (not 'blocked' either by the way).
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  471. Can confirm from the ground travel. Laos is basically empty. I'd ask all people to be more responsible with the overly-used term 'carpet bombing'. this is tempting because people feel trained to damn the evil USA for 'indiscriminate bombing' and the term 'carpet bombing' lets them feel (or accuse or invoke feelings) of some random indiscriminate bombing. The term 'Carpet Bombing' isn't actually some proper military or technical term. It seems to be used as some kind of 'emotion evoking' term and to make things a bit more confusing: - for some time there was a specfici kind of cluster bomb(s) being called 'Carpet bombs' but again the terms is so over-used, so often as a 'propaganda' use, so often to manipulate images in minds that its come to mean nearly anything and nothing and everything thus unhelpful. Generally speaking, bombs are very very expensive to drop, they put expensive pilots at hgh risk, they require a lot of work to pull off and almost nobody in any military including and especially the USA is ever just indiscriminately "carpet bombing" anything but is trying, to the best of their technology and skills, to make the most ACCURATE hits they possibly can. because thats what they like and want and enjoy the most of course.
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  472. The scene at Khalids store killed me. I think they might have been the single most motivating speeches of the entire campaign
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  473. Yes but they teach a version where Chinese are like 'children' and not responsible but the British are like parents who ought to have known better.
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  474. This is a massive part of the problem yes.
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  475.  @sleepyearth  Or try and get that money out of China.
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  476.  @DarkCriimes  hmm your username says otherwise
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  477. I still believe in Yarde but I also wonder if he has that 'second wind career high' coming? I think so. I think he can take a top slot but only after Beterbiev and Bivol wind out of their careers. (I'm guessing Beterbiev retires 1 or 2 fights from now)
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  478.  @RoseRose-gk6ku  The name in English is 'Tibet' and that's what will be used in English. you should use 'Tibet' when writing in english.
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  479. Well, yes it 'can' in that it would be physically possible. They cannot in the realistic sense that would be losses of billions that are very desperately needed right now in China.
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  480. I found this kind of thing happens far too often in China. The idea 'create the problem then offer to solve it'. Recently I saw a great deal of talk in China about keeping foreign businesses from leaving China. after this TV presentation, the next was a scathing report on how foreign companies need to be punished and how China does not need them anymore. I imagine, next week another report will ask "How can China attract more foreign businesses?". In China, this 'Create the problem solve the problem' is very clumsy and yet it persists anyway.
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  481. Kevin woke up to yet another day realizing he has bet on a losing horse and needs to make more 'economy porn' for the RMBs. tough life :(
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  482. The USA has no such need to do that. No need and they don't even have much want anymore. They can do all that by themselves and with other allies.
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  483. These TV debates dont matter anymore and Trump just used it as a kind of rally and media event. Which is fine. But the debates do little or nothing either way
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  484.  @JKENLAO-pi7to  Chinese Mainlanders are around 100th out of 200 countries in 'GDP per Person' which is to say average wealth per person. $26 is a significant amount of money for an ambulance ride. When Chinese people need surgery they have to pay for it and it will be financially devastating. A 'few dozen dollars' for most Chinese is a significant amount of money and just so you know, the typical health exam will be around 450 yuan. Again, that is a significant amount of money for the average Chinese who might make just 4,500 a month. that's 10% of their monthly income on those tests. If I were you I wouldnt' try touting Chinese hospitals and Medical care.. really.. you don't want to do that. You have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh.. a LOT to learn. Good luck getting started on that.
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  485. @ShinjiKataoka  like what?
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  486.  @西郊  wow Chinese aer so powerful and mighty! so strong!
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  487. Exactly, no actual person, no normal citizens ever heard of a labor shortage outside of MPs declaring we MUST import millions of TFWs and students to fill those jobs that "Canadians don't want to do that kind of work, they just refuse to do it anymore". So, literally added insult to the injury they caused.
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  488. Wait.. in what language and dialect?
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  489.  @stoneysauce  Ok but then it's strange you'd correct something you don't even know. Keeping in mind, this isn't just about Cantonese but there were (and still are) Guanzhou dialects. Like this, what if I told you the English "Tea" is a very correct way to pronounce it in the Chinese?
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  490.  @stoneysauce  why do you think the pronunciation is 'odd'?
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  491. I don't believe he was playing up a 'creepy guy' but today, this persona, this kind of 'Carry on Gang' sort of mad pest, lady-loving, sexual innuendo persona was interpreted differently in 70s-2000 era British entertainment world. Yes, he is an original DJ and MC with the track suits, gold chains and outrageous hairdo which has been followed and copied since him by so many rappers. They also carry on the persona of these lusty booty-lovin, ladykillers who obviously have gorgeous women wanting sex and so on.
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  492. I hate saying this but, sadly, yes, you can see some of these things all over the place. To my mind, the 'skybridge harness' is actually one of the biggest dangers and problems - not specifically harnesses - but when anything new arrives there is often a stunning incompetence around how to use it, manage it, administer it safely or effectively. So, it can be an outdoor escalator where staff is using it to transport heavy bricks and it absolutely will break HOPEFULLY not dragging someone to a horrifying painful death. - They've installed western-style ovens and nobody knows how to use them and I've seen them putting buckets of soup inside that inevitably caused a dangerous electric fire and so on. - Yes, you'll see things like a 'Skybridge' and realize that the bottom rail is a good 8 inches from the bottom - in other words - exactly the height a child can slide through to their death. (its amazing how often I see that actually!) malls, high places, balconies). - A few years ago we saw a cool 5-floor high children's climbing tower and a few months later saw THE REMOVAL OF THE CLIMBING TOWER and I can only say that you could see the staff really had no idea of the 'concept' and we'd see the staff, some college kid in a harness and rope but carrying free-hand the toddler or small child. At least the college kid was safe! - A children's train is an awesome new sensation at a shopping mall - the 'engineer' has no idea how to drive this and not have children busting their heads open getting on or off etc. So it really is things like 'harnesses' which is saying new things introduced in which NOBODY in any positions around it knows how to use it properly and even worse will often choose the most dangerous ways to use the thing.
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  493. This is correct. Sometimes dubbed 'Fortress North America'. Good for them.
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  494. This. and for years, including Trump 1st term, there was actually quite a lot of soft options, easier routes, there was entire stretches where, as you described, you could do documents and figure it out. So this is why the entire nation seems to have had enough. People had MANY opportunities to do what you're family did. MANY ways, many chances and here we are in 2025 and they DID NOT. for the 40th time they did not.
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  495.  @NopWorks  Hi, what YOU mistakenly believed was that the foreigners decided (for China) that Taiwan aka the ROC belongs to The PRC aka the Mainland. You are ABSOLUTELY WRONG and that is NOT what their declaration was half-a-century ago. What they did was declare BOTH to be part of 'China' The PRC is, so they declare A PART of 'China'. Now what do you want to say? Now what? Not that foreigners (all of them died since then) in some UN building making a 'declaration of their opion' matters but now you realized it was NOT what you mistakenly keep thinking it was. So now what?
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  496.  @NopWorks  Nope, they do not recognize Taiwan as 'under it'. They decided to deal with Beijing as a representative. and again you can STOP WITH THE COUNTRY misunderstanding. The declaration is very deliberately making sure Taiwan is NOT considered a 'separate country'. but hey, maybe the foreigners will decide Taiwan is the only true authority over all of the Mainland. Remember to obey whatever the UN 'declared' as law for China, right?
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  497. @ why, would you fail to invade me (twice) and then carry out the worlds longest lasting retreat like the PLA? they couldn't even take Kingmen island lol! What would you do, act like the PLA this week and punch water, run yelling 'GRRRR look at ME punching the water!!!" until i told you to get lost and go home. Then you go home. Like the PLA keeps doing? Put on your paper tiger mask and for the 100th time shout "...NEXT TIME I will get you!!!". you calm down, farmer.
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  498. There will be increased interest in China because, not unlike the Qing of 150+ years ago it's becoming more apparent that there are strong possibilities to negotiate. Coincidentally, I can see these being remarkably similar to the old days: 8 or 10 of the worlds big 1st world economies will ask for ports. ports like the old days, the 'American Port' (for example) will be something like 'american soil' and the German Port the same. China will have no jurisdiction in their ports. - Some will also stay (or come to China for a first time) but there will be no more rules about needing to partner with a Chinese company. They will open 1000 stores in China and there is to be zero Chinese involvement or controls or ovesight or 'partnerships' involved. Though, of course they may well hire their own local Chinese people. - you may also see a return to a world where (lets say americans) they won't be subject to Chinese justice systems in China. Oh, if they are arrested yes but then they must be handed over to the American consulate who will determine their crime under US or British or whatever laws the foreigners have. Chinese will not be allowed to 'detain' any of their people ever, for any reasons. but here's the thing with this: IF that happens? that could actually start a new resurgence, a real swing forward, actually China might become, once again, the real hotspot of the worlds business and trade and all kinds of good things.
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  499. No, of couse not. nothing you said here is anything like the real world. In the real world, the USA is competing with China (after not even bothering for way too long, maybe out of pity for China's people). Right you get that China puts massive taxes on US products. Ok so now the USA says "ok sure, lets compete!" and is matching them. Who's having a 'hissy fit?' Chinese getting on VPNs with their genius cool strategy of: WHATE yo u Say CHINA... Hehe.. NOW I SAY OPPOSITE!!!". you ridiculous backward 3rd worlder lol
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  500. 4 hours in a minivan of Chinese traveling from Southern China to Hanoi and I wasn't eavesdropping. I just happened to be keeping to myself and of course they're going on about everything including where I must come from, what I probably want to eat, they carried on about if I was a Canadian which they decided made me a 'Kangaroo' and nothing they said was actually that bad though they had some rant about how they had visa problems but how I did not At some point at the end of the journey someone asked what the time zone was in Hanoi and I replied in Mandarin. Another asked if it was an hour ahead or behind and from the back of the bus I say "1 hour behind". then all of them just turned around and sort of stared, not embarrassed but 'bewildered' and one just peeps "wow, the foreigner can speak Chinese," but in a way that was so silly funny.
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  501.  @gingerlee726  U Mad, Bro?
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  502.  @Tenebarum  agreed, the idea is he sits in his easy-chair and watches the news and you just bring him dinner and check on him now and then. but not with an ice-pick.
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  503. India already has that though. India is the 5th biggest GDP in the world and for the similar reason that China is: A massive population. Similar to China, they have a fairly low 'GDP per person'. There are some problems evaluating China (PRC) GDP though, it's obsessed with it for sales purposes and for their intense belief that whoever has the highest GDP Score is therefore 'The Boss Winner' and thus God of the World.. EVEN IF you take their official government claims for GDP: not all GDP is the same and they bloat theirs with things like 'traffic' and other goofy hacks. They've even included mistakes. I mean. like actual accounting errors. Then it's highly questionable beyond the official reports. China's GDP will continue to shrink (though it will ALWAYS report 5% or at least 1% higher than whatever the USA reports in yearly growth). but it will, realistically continue to shrink for the same previously mentioned reasons: Their population will shrink. It's on track to be HALF its peak in just around 30 years. India's population growth for about 10 more years is also why they'll grow 'net GDP total'. but as it stands, India is 5th largest GDP in the world.
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  504.  @soonmeteh4150  Hello, no, the total GDP does not necessarily decide how much will be spent on military. Example: right now Russia is spending 7% of its GDP on military. Ukraine is spending a whopping 37% of its GDP on military. Funnily enough, Mexico barely 0.5% These will also change and not just because of some current war threats but it may be a nation has previously spent enough (for now) and opts to work on infrastructure for a while or has some financial crisis etc. and, Other times, a nation realizes its behind and for several years will boost up the percentage to rebuild up their military even though there is no special warfare threats either. As for the two countries you mentioned (out of 200 countries) we have no idea how much China is spending on military because neither you, me or Chinese citizens believe the official government reports. One of the reasons for disbelieving is that China hides military spending inside 'Infrastructure' spending. China PRC's real spending is thought to be about double their govt numbers. This is different with the USA where they definitely have to make a distinction between 'infrastructure' vs 'military defense' and then they publish to the UN and their system demands the accounting. Yes indeed they are somewhere around 10th place in the recent year tally at around 3.5% which isn't as high as around a dozen others which is surprising since The USA has to protect global trade. The single biggest beneficiary of US military spending is... China. Which is to say China has the most number of cargo ships with the most products being sold around the world as well as needing to import massive shipping across the seas. The US Military is what protects that. The US Navy is who goes and counter-attacks Huti terrorists shooting missles at Chinese shipping freighters. The US military is why almost all of China's ships make it home safely and don't get seized by (Iran, Russia, Yemen Rebels, etc etc etc). So thank an American military budget that China gets to exist in safety and lifted out of povery by the US Miltary budgets! btw, you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh.. a LOT to learn. but at least your making a start. good luck
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  505. for what it's worth, I took a quick video from inside the hospital and beside the pediatric ward of the local Chinese hospital: https://youtube.com/shorts/MUizCGYtSeU?feature=share (Jan 9th, 2025)
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  506.  @ramieskola7845  I dont know about Sweden but it seems to me Finland was a '3rd world country' at some point in the 'Cold War' era. It wasn't really any kind of official label but you're onto the right idea that it wasn't necessarily that a nation was poor or isolate. It so happened most were and so I think it became associated with 'poor' country.
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  507.  @ramieskola7845  Yes, these things are always changing over time. A kind of new winter of 'cold war' seems to be on the way.
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  508.  @dustinbauer3554  You couldnt' see enough videos of 'the real China' nonstop here on youtube. There are plenty, 100s, 1000s of professional documentaries from dozens of the legacy media channels. Nope, they aren't 'anti-China' but some are absolutely beautiful, some are very very real, some are 'raw streets' to carefully shot settings. But the most bizarre thing is this ridiculous 'narrative' pretending Americans are finally using the Red Note 'VPN" to peer into real China when A WHOPPING 6 MILLION AMERICANS VISIT CHINA EVERY YEAR. Someone once did math and calculated 60% of Americans HAVE BEEN TO CHINA (this is if you calculate it that way). "Americans finally used Red Note as a VPN keyhole to be 'Refugees' and they got a GLIMPSE into Real China, WTF? MILLIONS of Americans TRAVEL INSIDE CHINA every year. China.. like physcially being in China is actually one of THE single most popular American destinations. but wait there is more: Although this youtube has so many videos of China, including right now Americans here can watch 'Live Webcams' of spots in CHina, live, real time, not just that, Americans can see 1000000s of hours of these, chat live with Chinese 10 years ago, today, never once using the 'VPN' rednote, but, they can see more 'Real China' that Chinese INSIDE CHINA CAN SEE FFS! Yes, I can see old films of brutal civil war footage or the mass executions of opium addicts for example. Chinese in China CANNOT see that film and 10000s of hours of real China. so its just mindboggling that Chinese or any American is being so utterly foolish to create a fake reality where Americans are behind their USA Internet Wall and FINALLY these 'refugees' found a little VPN called Rednote where.. ahhaahh!!! NOW they FINALLY can see the REAL CHINA not the one their State Run Media created on America's CCTV AHAHH!!! At some point, when people engage that deeply into fantasy they will become mentally insane. Really, that's no joke.
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  509.  @TacticalMayo  It's unlikely to be banned but if we see an American with Red Note on their phone, zero people will care, nobody will do anything.
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  510. Nobody complained about that.
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  511. If you can think of a dirty scam then be assured - it's already been thought of and tried in Vietnam before you even stepped off the plane. This is 100% correct. Know that.
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  512. yes, it's to integrate or 'absorb' them into the greater Han culture.
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  513.  @globalren  I don't know that it created so many problems with regard to business, work and travel and education though? I'm pretty sure the marriage thing is still that way but a lot of 'Han' were assigned into those ethnic areas so in that sense, by redistribution, more intermarriage has happened for sure.
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  514. This is realistic and it's worth noting something: EV cars, if this was ever to become government mandated, its a world where the wealthy 'got mine' and 'haves' eliminate a massive number of the 'not got mine yets' who won't be able to have a car or climb a ladder rung to get one either.
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  515. Like what though? Canada just did a good thing.
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  516. In a few shorts years (and i wish you more) but you'll find out what is evil and what is good. You might be surprised to learn you were the bad guy all along. It was you.
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  517. This is one of the best documentaries online. Now I see someone has made a 'Vancouver is Dying' and it's nearly the same things but not because the filmmakers copied anything - its just that its the same things, same choices, same tent cities, same.
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  518. Too bad you effed up your lives and the lives of loved one, of society for 7 years. You really did a lot of damage and I hope you realize that you hurt people and society for 7 years. I admire people who didn't abuse drugs. ever. they are the best people in our society worthy of the most respect and applause.
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  519.  @Jamiegirl79  What a dishonest reply. You didn't read me telling you any such thing. What I will tell you is that the most righteous people are the ones who did NOT shlt up lives for 7 years. Seven years you did that bad weak low selfish stuff. Nobody is perfect but the best special people in our society are the ones who did NOT do any drug abuse. Now you know and I'm not a fellow cvnty woman so don't bother having a 'personal cnty hurt their feelings' face off with me. I'm happy you stopped ruining lives, but, The better more respected more appauded ones are the ones who didn't do the first place.
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  520.  @ChristineKikiMac  no but lauding respect and a holy status on criminals because they have stopped ruining peoples for a while is unhealthy. Save your admiration for the ones who have been sober for their entire lives
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  521.  @Jan-mu6vs  I took it to mean the building itself, be it elevators or whatnot, these are unfinished.
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  522. and today it's weird because italy is just a kind of recombination of various ethnicities mixed and waves and blotches that were just sort of leftover around the actual area, around The Vatican, around the old relics, sort of like some loose bushels of wheats all over the place. Then by the 1930s it's like someone tied the bushels together into one clump again and voila - we have 'Italians' again.
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  523. You'll never be fighting anyone for anything because you've got weed to get stupefied on and fantasy video games to play.
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  524. China PRC needs to understand something: Whether or not Philippines has a St Thomas Shoal, a rusty ship or not = there is no 'dispute over the property'. China is NOT entitled to claim that much or that part of the sea as belonging to PRC China. If the Philpppines sank in the oceans along with the shoal - it remains that China's PRC does NOT have any right to that and won't be allowed to have rights to that. Just know that.
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  525. What if we find out that 'Celo' really did put something in his car that injected him with poison?
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  526. a reminder: 57,000 people. not million. not 'hundreds of thousands' but 57000 let them hold a referendum and you'll see 60% of them will obviously choose the USA and their lives will change in ways they couldn't even believe they'd see. For Americans, that would be a tremendous new place for them to move, lived, open businesses of whatever kinds.
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  527.  @netgodzilla1  lol no, no it's not even close, there is no comparison. consider this, even if it was, Germany has so much accumulated wealth and is so wealthy it would mean less champagne, less expensive cars. China is looking at less nutritious food, going without medicine and eating dogs they can lure from owners. make no mistake, China and nobody else, just China is having its own very very severe economic collapse.
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  528. Okay but just so you understand that was a fictional script written and flmed by actors, yes? You get that right? It wasn't a documentary.
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  529.  @DccAnh  I enjoy your light mockery but yes, this is something people do with what we'd call "spare time". they have no work, no homework, no household duties, really, every kind of responsibility is completed. The way Winston was using it (because he didn't just say the single sentence as clipped out). I suppose he is referring to the more traditional British sense of the word 'Hobby' which is more like a self-taught unpaid acquisition of a certain skill or 'expertise'. in this concept, we wouldn't say watching movies or clicking phone games are 'hobbies'. In the sense he means (which might be a foreign concept to you) but it would be something like learning to sculpt classic miniatures. it might be learning to fly airplanes. restoring antique furniture. We consider something like collecting to be a hobby as they acquire an expertise in mail, trains, guns or whatever they collect. It's not just 'buying things' but they dedicate themselves to attaining a high expertise in the subjects. hee haww hee haww!!! 😆🤣
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  530. I've been through, beside, among and around these effing compound worlds for years now (see username) and I cannot overemphasize how these are evil dens of iniquity, these are sodoms and gomorrahs and if the 'UN' and the "WEF' and everyone else in the world would take 10 minutes off from 'saving the world from global warming' and actually carried out massive work on eliminating these 'Special Economic Zones'? The human suffering they'd alleviate, the evil they'd vanquish, the sorrows that we would relieve! Quite seriously, if you're a young person who wants to be some 'bleeding heart liberal' some 'social justice warrior' you take a break from the men in dresses and BLM for a hot minute and spent a few summers protesting these places. Golden Triangle Rights Now! or whatever clever slogan. You will have done more ACTUAL SOCIAL JUSTICE that will absolute save far more lives, misery, inequality, more than anything else you could social justice warfare against in the world. start now
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  531. It will never stop. If they'd have stopped it they would have at least 10 years ago if not 20 but they never never stopped. So, its a fantasy unto the end of our lives.
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  532.  @kashmm  extremism is in the eye of the beholder?
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  533. There will be increased tariffs on China so that they will 'talk business'. and they will.
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  534. Chris Mannix should not be allowed to be involved in these. The problem is his Dad is a massive and major investor so we have to put up with his stupid comments and scorecards. He doesn't even like boxing. He loves 'WWE' and his next favorite is these MMA things.
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  535.  @LovePeace2025  Do something, do anything but don't waste time with comments like that.
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  536. I think it comes as a bit of a shock to a lot of Europeans who have, for so long, put all kinds of tariffs on everyone and the USA without ever even thinking the USA would carry out equal tariffs on EU products. They probably never even thought of such a thing. The very concept is new to them. So, for now, they can't really answer well since its not something they even dreamt about before.
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  537. A very consistent phenomenom: The 'bullied revenge' killers almost NEVER murder any of their actual bullies. This can be found as far back as Columbine when many testified they actually went out of their way to murder several students known to be kind ot them. None of these people were his bullies. In fact, they don't even go after what they perceive as their 'Bully Type'. If they were bullied by some 'jocks' they will still find a place, ignore any 'jock types' and murder the band camp, nerds, random girls, a receptionist. as if purposely AVOIDING the 'Jocks' because you'd think even by some chance they'd hit one. Some criminal experts really should look into that. BTW: Don't always believe these murderers WERE bullied. Again, as far back as Columbine. there was universal agreement neither of the two spree killers were actually bullied. Nobody recalled an 'jocks' or 'hot girls' ridiculing them, teasing them. The Virginia Tech murderer was touted as being 'bullied' but in real testimony, his roommates often tried inviting him to their group, activities, nobody recalled any such bullying. They may well believe they were bullied but that is often part of their pychosis. few had any real life clues or witnesses of actually been bullied by anyone.
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  538. Seriously, the sneering, the insolence, then these 'false' signs they held up and i bet anything they were (in their minds) hoping getting a 'black man' ejected would turn into a big story 'Trump attacks Black Congressman' and so on... it all came across to me as "This is why you lost". I think it hurt them because my social media was NOT filling up with the usual lefties pretending they were smashing Trump, hooting about it, instead, not much of that.
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  539.  @kabysummit5801  'Rule of Law' doesn't mean ruled by laws but I do believe you are onto something because Communist countries and those with 1-Party authoritarian rule tend to be among the least productive societies. Take the People's Republic of China for example. Conservatively, it takes 5 of their people to produce what 1 Japanese or American or Taiwanese or German would produce in the same time. (some sources say Chinese are 8 times less productive) We could attribute this to developing countries where they haven't yet brought up factory standards, have few experienced workers and other issues but here's the thing: China PRC is actually using the same factories as the German or American or South Korean. They now have 30 years of experience in modern production and yet they are still far far less productive. This is reflected in the exchange rates if you ever want a fun way to think of the Americans as being 8 dollars of production for every 1 Yuan of production. So, you may be onto something.
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  540.  @goldenmonkey963  Welcome to the world of renaming and new names.
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  541.  @arularulrajah9003  Please find out what the actual complaint was about. It was not about freedom of naviation.
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  542.  @empressm6  What do you think China is shaping for the future? Like what?
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  543. @My-favourite-rock Nope, overproducding massive amounts of The West solar panels, The West EVs and making a clone of The West LLM AI isn't doing any innovating and so far they can't seem to make high-end The West chips.
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  544.  @robmcnaughton6918  I'm not sure what to care about this. I'm not an AI nerd but I know one in China and as near as I can tell someone took existing '2002' AI language models then made a kind of upgrade version. This 'shapes the past' which is to say takes an older thing and hot rods it, hones it. Which is fine. The problem is that model its made from is already on the way to being outdated because AI nerds are making some '2nd generation' thing that needs some insane energy usage etc. And this is where a Chinese phd student offered some complaints about a serious problem in China: - Far too often China's government is sponsoring and subsidizing (massively) some 'hot technology' but they end up with something that is insanely expensive but already out of date by the time it would ever be useful. His example: the relentless promotion of 5G, hyping 5G, dumping a massive amount of the nations wealth into 5G and even convincing Chinese that China is the one who innovated 5G which is the highest score and biggest number! The West so jealous heh, however, what ended up happening is that they government finance 7 trillion 5G transponder trees everywhere. then they use that to 'shame the West' with their highest score number: "China already has 500k 5G trees and the jealous American only 500 hahha sour grapes?" however, China does this .. adn that is money from peoples rice bowls... when there is nearly ZERO actual market demand for 5G. but its worse, because it turns out those 5Gs needs massive amounts of energy. So now they are burning mountains of coal to run these things 0.01% can use. to figure this out, even if you had a 5G phone you need to be a registered student, get a password to log-in to use the 5G and that will be "5G lite" version. by the time these things have started rusting out and burning up the nations wealth? Everyone wants to have a 'Starlink' system anyway. 5G is for 'old people' already as they buzz about how they need a Starlink phone. [personally I just use 4G so i dont know whats what or care much] and Deepseek is another example of taking a 2021 Chevy then you 'overclock' the hell out of it. you 'hotrod' the Chevy. remove the backseats, put some racing tires on it, tweak it and China just made a 2001 Chevy as good maybe faster than the 2023 Chevy!!! Ok, well great i guess? Its free for anyone to use. Ok, thanks? i guess?
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  545. This was a roller-coaster. Ya big props to Bakole because usually a top fighter who's on the brink of some KEY negotations to a big payday stardom like a Bakole would NOT just fly out on 60 hours notice and fight a Joseph Parker! So that's wild that they were able to pull that off and so we still gets a real 'Top 5' crossroads fight (at least on paper?) but I suppose we have to wonder if Bakole is in shape? I mean, was he just in the middle of a plump month-long vacation or was he in training at this time??
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  546. There really is something going on around the first 15 minutes of this discussion and I dont' know how exactly we got here but its like this: someone decided you aren't allowed to try and figure out why Hitler (or Jim Jones or Hussein Jr etc) you do NOT try and find out how they went from a normal 3 year old kid to someone doing horrible things. Even when nobody told you this is an exercise for 'finding an excuse for their behavior' you'll get that reaction. I believe this happens because a lot of our intellectuals and pundits believe in the 'social engineering' of people, a kind of popular leftist belief. Whatever the reasons, for some reason there is a very aggressive and defensive blockade ready for anyone who does NOT intend to 'excuse' a Stalin or Pol Pot or a serial kiler but is merely and only trying to find out what drove them to it. What roads did they take. when did they make a sinful choice or how many and where? You need to dismiss them as monsters before their inception OR ELSE.
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  547. I will pay you to fix your autospell thing so that it renders Lose (not win) instead of 'loose' (not tight). Please get that fixed so i can upvote your comment
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  548. Indirectly (which is everything) acquiring Greenland could result in a significant goldmine of .. well not so much gold but minerals and some rare-earth minerals too. This is called 'more money' and actually you don't really have to 'LOWER PRICES' but keep them around the same while getting wealthier. Of course, some suggest there is more to life than 'me get money!' and a nation isn't all about how much you pay for an X-box and where's your money? There can be more things to life too.
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  549. I mean, seriously, can people who produce this 'Chinese Insecurity Porn' live with themselves after putting this ridiculous level of coping mechanism lies out there? I couldn't sleep at night lol
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  550. It's strange how that happens. Our neutered poodle got loose in a rural Chinese village. Village dogs aren't wild coyotes but close to it. very aggressive, they will run in packs and yes I have a picture of 5 of them, including one of the most brutal monster dogs I've ever seen and following him. I mean, he's straight up leading them. All are 5 times his size but he'd lead them hunting rats. They seemed to think he was some sort of fascinating alien dog king or a magical angel dog. We are very certain being neutered was a big factor and he was also an abandoned puppy who's a tremendous rat killer (and eater). I guess (??) maybe he killed a rat and they started worshiping him as their new god dog leader?
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  551. Thats what happens if you let a pit bull type get out.
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  552. She is correct about the 'TCM' in China. It's almost all fake, contrived and it is NOT real traditional medicines. Oh, they will show you it must be because of a lot of fake documents about fake history but the real truth is - its almost all contrived in recent years. Much of it exists because Maoism made them far too poor for medicine so they created a false 'Chinese medicine' world which was so much superior to the pathetic western medicine poisons. But its not real.
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  553.  @shah_en_shah  Free to do what? Carry out Jihad on each other? Free to create a super-caliphate or free to have Saudi vs Iran or what exactly would be free?
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  554. Wait.. so they record themselves inside their own home?
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  555. Why would you pretend to be asking 'WTF???????' when it's obviously one of the single most popular fast foods on earth and has been for 30 years non-stop? Don't do that anymore okay? That is so petty, so childish sounding.
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  556. Nope, Taiwan does not lol.
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  557. I know lol.. that is most definitely not true. (oh, i see what you mean. He meant '2016/17" but put that aside, no, China does not have a bigger country or bigger economy than in '16/17'
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  558.  @wei7095  hello foreigner, welcome to my 'the wester media' and your foreign language is so strange looking. Yes, well you don' thave to worry about those peasants in Foxconn because they've left China for Vietnam. I suggest the 1000s of now unemployed and much poorer Chinese IT workers go see if Huaweis government subsidized assembly factory is hiring. Since Huawei can lose and lose money and lose more money and just gets re-filled by the people's wealth that would be a stable job for them! but then again, some other Chinese would be unemployed.
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  559.  @brentdallyn8459  Hey.. YOU took what i asked you and then turned it around to ASK ME. Wow, you'd make a great China propagandist but here's the problem: now I ask you to tell me what 'holes' and you don't know, do you Boomer phaggit? we are not in a 'two sides' debate. You and I arean't having a 'he said/she said'. There is not an 'argument'. where you hold your own and I my own. All that happened here is you wrote untrue things and I caught it out.
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  560. Who are you talking to? Taiwan chased them off with their jets.. you remember how they keep buying fighter jets from the USA? and keep arming themselves more and more. So who are you talking about because at this point Taiwan is who will start punishing the PLA and Taiwan deciding if it's lenient or harsh.
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  561. OK that's a cool story but at the moment our population and demographics are in free fall and the economy is sagging. But I guess it's fun to fantasize :(
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  562. All the people insisting they wanted to care a out fellow citizens and the health systems should take a look at the psychological horrors, the social damage these 'lockdowns' instigated, facilitated and know the damage, losses and social fragmenting, those consequences havent even played out in full, yet.
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  563. Hmm once again, obviously this has no affect on China who has nothing to do with the tariff story but to be 'concerned' for all those other nations who might be affected by it. Not that China has any involvedment in any of this.
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  564. Ya that was really aggressive stuff, really mean-spirited and it came off very bad for Democrats. I don't think they realize that might be the kind of things that will lose them would-be Democratic voters in 2026
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  565.  @MbisonBalrog  Oh no son, Hong Kong has degenerated by the very measure its been 'Mainlandized'. It gets worse the less and less they can resist. It worries me you dont know that :( It worries me you believed the problem is that Hong Kong was 'resisting improvements' :(
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  566.  @kirkmanlord  its time for people to stop doing that.
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  567. please pay attention, thank you
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  568.  @cnmike1988  The USA is far far more powerful than China, not just military, not just a massive network of allies, not just because the world uses it dollar but also because it's an economy 10x wealthier, more diverse, more robust, more endurant than anything China ever touched in its peak 10 years ago. A peak that was made by the USA lifting 800 million starving Chinese out of extreme poverty. Anxiety? You go feel the anxiety Chinese are having as we count down to Jan 20th and a single America president will decide whether Chinese become even poorer OR are allowed to stay as they are now, which is poor, unstable, in an economic collapse. now THAT is some anxiety. Can you feel it?
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  569.  @Trgn  Gordon Chang hasn't been wrong for 20 years. He has, more or less, correctly predicted China would peak and decline around 2012. He was correct. From there it started using every kind of scheme 'GDP bloating' and overinflating real estate and Chang was correct that this would DELAY the decline but also make it much much worse when it came in 2020. And he was correct. Indeed, the real estate bubble collapse just saw one of the last of the massive companies (Van Ke) collapse today. (fun fact: police personally removed the CEO and took him.. somewhere). That is the last of the biggest ones to totally collapse now. Chang was correct but that doesn't matter. What matters is that it is currently happening and its terrible.
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  570.  @Trgn  There isn't some 'theorizing' anymore. the economic collapse is currently happening. Nobody needs to 'debate' or 'theorize' about it. protip: I'm not a shltty toxic gamer fanboy person. You can drop your cvnty toxic attempts and start being far more interested in what to do about the brutal depression Chinese citizens are facing for the next decade.
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  571.  @yt.personal.identification  he really did have the freedom to choose home care for his wife's final years and he really does have the freedom to work anywhere he wants, the news has the freedom to cover the story and all kinds of people have the freedom to pay off his bills. So yes that is called 'freedom' and there's a lot of places in the world where he couldn't do these things unless a government authority permitted or ordered them to be done for him.
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  572.  @shripadbhagwat6566  Well them and then people around the world who don't have to 'say it' but actually put their money, time and their body itself into proving they think tis the greatest country by filling out a whopping 10 millon visa applications to move to the USA every single year. now that is just counting the people who actually got in and are processing in a given year! Fun fact: 100% of any and all visa applications, work, study, immigration for citizenship or residence etc etc, 100% of them are full 300% of the time at 100% of American foreign embassies in 100% of the countries in which they exist. The reason its '300%' is just because many have a 3 year long backlog maxed out. This does not include the estimated 15 to 20 million foreigners who actually cross into the USA illegally and want to live in the USA 'underground' rather than go back home or any other country. In a real way, they are THE ultimate declarations of the USA being the greatest country as they will often risk their very lives and physical safety, risk imprisonment just to stay in the USA.
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  573. People mix and there are just as many Natives in the America's as there would be without overseas tribes arriving. You can see them everywhere in people, millions of Americans who are 5% or 75% native genes.
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  574.  @mullythebully5557  the contradiction is massive and yet it never seems to get brought up in public.
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  575.  @msquietwoman  nice internet urban-legend Anti-Christian burp. smarten up.
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  576. There'd be nothing wrong with a Canadian flag on your home (traditionally an American flag is flying first) or having a bumper sticker and throughout American people know you can be proud of your heritage. It would get weird if you were downtown 'defying the US govt' and then start waving a Canadian flag "seee thiss.. I refuse to go back to this1".
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  577.  @Lat265  Maybe that's it? I've never seen this kind of 'scoffing condescension' and smirking arrogance. I almost expected to see one 'slap' the hotel clerk for his 'insolence' and daring to try and cheat him of his money with his childish tricks.. i mean that really was the attitude and openly sneering at the staff who he imagined were trembling at his presense, learning they best not try and fool him again. What is that from? I've even tried giving them 'friendly advice' while seeing them blatantly defying rules (in an airport in this case) and they laughed at me as though I'm a little shlt who can't understand the level they work at. They were seen being detained for extra security when I walked past them to the airplane. I'd like to tell you that sure wiped the smirks off their chortling faces but even as they were made to take off their shoes and socks they had looks of 'contemptous mockery' at what these pathetic Thai goofs were making of themselves. If that's from a Caste system culture then that sure doesn't translate well cross-culturally.
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  578.  @NS55-q2d  it is. Its just not a part of The Peoples Republic of China.
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  579.  @chillian1985  I asked the United nations and they said that: Nobody has EVER said Taiwan become a 'province of the PRC'. They did say they decided to acknowledge a geopolitical land mass, broadly called "China'. They then decided to include Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan and The Peoples Republic of China,these 4 'states' as being part of the geopolitical landmass dubbed 'China'. Now what?
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  580. Request: Could Dr. Todd do one on a similar shocking cowardice event in Sydney Australia sometimes called 'The Lindt Cafe Siege' in which a maniac held hostages for a whopping 16 hours while a small army of supercops in supergear ... literally just stood around. I guess they did 'siege' the cafe with a plan of maybe 'starving the hostage taker out'. at a point a hostage phones a radio station: Hostage Marcia Mikhael called radio station 2GB during the siege and said, "They have not negotiated, they've done nothing. They have left us here to die." Finally, its said a barista tried to grab the gunman (since police weren't) and was promptly shot to death, where police run in and don't just shoot the hostage taker a bunch with insanely high powered guns but kill a hostage with shrapnel and 3 others take bullet fragments including one of the cops themselves. It's just a stunning example of police uselessness. basically they just created a huge supercop event where they stood around for a day waiting until some hostages were killed before going in an killing and injuring people.
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  581. Who's the guy with that stupid old twtter take where he can't stop 'We funded .. the CIA funded'. Its such a stupid low-IQ aging Redditor take.
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  582. a sincere suggestion: Run the audio through an "Adobe" or whatever kind of AI that automatically suppressed dog barks. I find a lot of these unlistenable with a relentless YAP YAP YAP of dogs that you'd swear are 5X louder than the speaking.
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  583.  @wenoyang6571  welcome Laowai, foreigner, Chinese are most definitely dealing with astonishing deflation, however, yes of course they are poorer. You're poorer than you were just 7 years ago and you have less of everything ,less wealth, older cars, depleted savings, you buy less, you eat less. Everyone in China PRC is the same.
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  584.  @SSTan-cz7eo  Almost every single thing you've written is wrong, senseless, irrelelavant and ends with a bizarre challenge around 'who can ednure more'. It worries me that you wrote that. It worries me there are people like you who have such weird miseducation and yet try and come up with things to say about it.
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  585.  @avnidvyi  It's not a dream, its a nightmare.
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  586.  @Showmatic  You're carrying on in the cringiest of ways. You should have taken my advice, stopped, reflected and realized I was helping you. but nooo, instead you decided its a toxic hyperceminine competition to carry out cheap cringey social zingers. :( I tried. I tried to help you. sad face :(
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  587. There is a strange consequence to freedoms. Overseas, I have to explain this to a lot of bewildered people who can't quite understand why the USA would "allow" people to walk around drugged on streets like that. Well the first answer is that there is no "allow them" in this. In the US, in that city we see here, it is their right. Nobody can "allow" US citizens to walk around in public. And that is a very strange thing to say in a communist China or really a lot of countries. Of course, in many countries that may be their general rule too but they'd just keep arresting the people for things like 'loitering' and 'jaywalking' and eventually catch them with illicit drugs on them and basically use those laws to remove them and force them into various hospitals, jails or to simply make sure they only do that inside their homes.
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  588.  @ffbeexaid4509  I wasn't sure if there were ever many ebikes in Shenzhen to begin with. That's strange you didn't see locks on them. I just posted a video where about 300 ebikes n a row and most have wheel locks on them. On the bright side, less are setting the blaring obnoxious child's electronic toy alarms so that every bump of them blasts the world with sounds.
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  589. Uhh.. i suggest you rethink that stereotype
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  590.  @Tyler-hk4wo  You need to think about what you're reveling in though. Codified into law and ultimately enforced at gunpoint, Canadian government people can control what thinking a free adult citizen can or cannot choose. Seriously, you really have to think about what you're applauding. You also have to get very concerned about who decides what thinking choices you make will be 'wrongthink' or allowed by government. Think about that but now put a right-wing conservative government into the position of government. What thoughts will they make illegal or illegal for you. imagine its you. I'd have to say, if a grown adult is having problems with what they decided is unhelpful heterosexual desires and decides on their own they wish to seek counseling or coaching to 'convert' the heterosexual thoughts and become strictly homosexual then, whether we like it or not, that adult can choose to have those thoughts. You say "NO and GOOD they are banned from it!" really?
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  591.  @Tyler-hk4wo  yes, i understand you want to say you are full of the holy empathy but you keep saying "abuse" as if youre talking about psychologists doing it to unwilling adults who cant escape it. This is asking you about adult gays who decide to think and engage in techniques. Duly noted you DO NOT accept the old concept of "whatever 2 adults decide to do in the privacy of their own home is nobody elses business and especially not the government". Now what else can we proudly ban and call abuse? Any suggestions?
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  592.  @Tyler-hk4wo  assuming youre not just a troll, you still have a problem of a government power deciding what two adults are allowed to talk about and think about in the privacy of their own home or office after government authorities decide what will be defined as abuse or not.
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  593.  @sammaimas155  That's all the more reason he shouldn't have disrespected Dick Cheney like that. Liz would have wrecked 3 billion dollars for China with a simple phonecall.
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  594.  @notvvell9442  Yes and China benefits the most because they have the most ships trading but so do most of the countries on earth. you mentioned the 'palestinians' but one of the main reasons those foreign aid ships can land and unload aid to them is because the US has a massive naval presense that ensures that. If not, a dozen countries could sieze that life-saving mediine and food to the 'palestinians'. Now you know. Since 1945
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  595. Canada's Boomers found a way to thwart the 'Gen X Time is Now'. Simple, they imported millioss of brown servants from the 3rd world and financed them with tax dollars to work in Canada and drive up the costs (and availability) of places to live. Gen X got wrecked, bypassed, short-circuited. Easy, Boomer win and take even more to the grave with them.
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  596. Right but go to 20 ims downwind from where you live in Shanghai and the same amount is over there. dispersed around different districts and outlying areas. Vietnam hasn't yet realized you move all the pollution emitting things downwind from the city. You didn't know this?
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  597.  @englishpedant  er, yes, yes it will because they didn't actually close those factories. they moved them and sprawled them out. It fools people like you into believing it must have simply vanished somehow.
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  598. Unfortunately for many Chinese (and others) the economy is on a steady downward slide and they're going to have to adjust to becoming poorer and poorer, lower standards of living, less income, living off savings and a lot of what some South American countries actually went through (Brazil and more). Indeed, the major core business centers like Guangzhou will still gather wealth, Beijing will maintain, Shanghai's downtown.
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  599. Yes and because of their records it was later taught to Chinese.
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  600. @mrtee3477  no these types never ban youtube or their disney subscriptions or any American movies or games.
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  601. @dariasmeh  ok but you wont be using youtube anymore? Its a billion dollar IS product. So.. bye?
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  602. @linnlinn6131  the good news is most Canadians think these people are role-playing online and theyre not actually going to carry out any meaningful boycotts. Cosplaying as if Canada was a real country anymore.
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  603. you are watching foreign media.
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  604. You're not wrong but why would you think the 1st world America is being isolated? Let me put it this way: You decided to build a guesthouse in the back yard and move there! Do you sit in that guesthouse and wonder why the rest of the family is really isolating themselves from the future?? Brics is the 'isolating themselves'. America is the big house.
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  605.  @donchiva2222  That would be The Peoples Republic of China but then again Russia wuold be pretty close. That said, Iran has a lot of tariffs and sanctions on seemingly everyone lately.
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  606. He was correct though. Not that anyone else couldn't have predicted the obvious but he did suppose by around 2020 Chinas economy would begin to collapse. it did and iscurrently in severe economic collapse.
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  607. I have to admit I don't mind Mixue soft-serve ice-cream. Once in a while, not often but its not a bad treat on a hot day. I wouldn't accuse it of being premium ice-cream tho. It's a kind of country fair, traveling amusement park cheap cone that'll do just fine for a dollar.
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  608. I can't think of his name now but one of Youtubes very first, original stars was an 80 years old from England. but yes, its a good repository for what we can call 'Memoirs'.
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  609.  @SagittarianArrows  I'm sure that happens too.
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  610. Nope, you'll sell as many as you can for every US dollar you can get. If you're lucky.
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  611.  @ButlerProspect  but seriously, its definitely the biggest and the strongest.
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  612. I've been advocating Alberta becomes a 51st state for two decades and if we can have a year to campaign we will get there.
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  613. this guy is the real life Rorshack
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  614. Nope, Americans have massive amounts of Mainland Chinese people living in America. It would be normal in most places in the USA to easily find and know Mainland Chinese who are from China. If they were curious they have the whole internet to speak to Chinese people and have for 30 years.
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  615. So he is partly to blame for influencing this occultish food belief system that I've been seeing go on for over a decade in fuller force: This quasi-religious belief that one can become enlightened, a kind of special 'food gnosticism' by traveling around eating different magic foods. I suppose its the whole social media thing that made it more obvious but it seemed like suddenly these Hipsters in fedoras were roaming around East Asia doing this thing where they film themselves at whatever street food place they find and then that cringe thing of bending the head back and 'dropping the food' into their mouth and then making this "OHhh yaaaaa.. Oh THATS what I'm talking about hmmm" as if they have always had this special flavor center and always were about this incredible magic thing. They moan and make orgasm faces and speak about it as if they just climbed more points up the Special Secret Knowledge of something. they often denounce whatever their western food is too, like a cult, they desecrate it and declare it garbage but the more foreign the food the more godlike special juices embiggen their gnostic powers. They are closer to nirvana, if they can just eat more special things they will reach some sort of Buddist-like enlightenment. This stupid thing had been going on for years. Personally, I like to sit outside a McDonalds and count how many of them walk by and say "Who goes to insert country and eats a fcking hamburger?' said just as you would speak of a sinner doing something unholy. You can see comments here on how they speak of Bourdain, a rich privileged upper-society super-hipster as if his death so very verrrrry personally hurt them inside. As they'd speak of a Cult Leader. The Food Culties.
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  616.  @anastasiocarretero3432  Some unknown fighters are the best and most dangerous challenges. Doheny is legitimate very good Top 10 opponent.
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  617. ohhh haha.. wow.. you just make sure you clarify anywhere but Vientiane City where I got sleep deprivation from the shocking abnoxious noises, metalic dogs barking and ear-bleeding music levels.
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  618. Don't go back there, they now have about half-half, 50-50 right vs left type of political opinons allowed.
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  619.  @samueljburnt9307  so you think its as much of an invasion of privacy as Walmart recording you in their stores. amazing, you 82IQ wizard.
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  620. I might know a little bit about this. This was a pretty good overview so credit where it's due, it didn't instantly start sneering at how shltty evil white men are. however... I'd love it if some future discussions about this starting discerning differences between 'Asians' which is like saying '50 different countries with broad cultural differences that make up half the planet's populations'. Just some efforts at distinctions. It's like the cliche thing heard from women "oh Asian women are submissive". really? because there is a VERY SIGNIFICANT difference between 'submissive/dominance' in (example) Japanese women and then Mainland Chinese women. here is an example: Yes, unfortunately, in Japan, a businessman, especially an older man, can grope a young Japanese woman on a train and she may suffer through it before she may report it carefully and with embarrassment to an authority afterwards. Vs. I pity the Groper who actually tries that on a Mainland Chinese woman in China PRC. He would be getting the shltkicking of his lifetime. - Vietnamese women will beat the shlt out of their husbands no problem. Actually if you have ever seen one of those horrific stories about the 'wife cut his penis off'? Just see how many are from Vietnam or Southern China too. - Lao women are not the slightest bit that way. - Japanese women are submissive in public. Japanese women are dubbed 'House Yakuza' (homelife gangsters) in their domestic life. Marry a Japanese woman and you come home, STFU and go sit down. Thai women are not South Korean women. Saying 'Asian' is so crazily broad and gets even more insanely 'everything and nothing' if you use the British sense which seems to be all human from Instabul and easterward across the planet. Just saying. and for a lot of new and upcoming possible Passport Bros: You really need to know this. Cambodia wives are not Japanese wives. Chinese wives are not Thailand Wives etc. there are some very significant cultural issues, vast and even opposing cultural norms on 'submissive wives/dominant wives'. For whatever this is worth: the most successful combination I've observed over 15 years if its an Anglosphere male then it's it's a Filipina. but again, if someone things Filipinas are 'submissive' then WOWW you're going to be in for a big cultural surprise lol
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  621. These 1997 era Japanese bullet trains seem to have 2 purposes: The obvious one of an absolutely massive GDP-Bloating concrete pouring exercise (consequenes later afer China is numba one!) but the other is for when the USA simply cuts off oil supply. China doesn't have a lot of oil but they DO have a LOT of coal that can run a massive network of electric trains, move military and riot police to even small towns and all the rice and recruits they can pack on it. The GDP Bloating benefits are already gone and the utterly insane cost of maintaining them is already appearing (you should see how ugly and grubby some of them already look, not quite Vancouver's 'Skytrain' level of old cans on dirty concrete, BUT they are on the way to needing massively expensive upkeep. So all that is left is the behind-the-scenes use if and when the oil stops.
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  622.  @moralambush  Why, pretty much anything Deepseek does already existed in all the other open-source AIs I mean it's cool the Chinese paid huge money to make a free updated clone for everyone to use for free but there's already a dozen of those plus proprietory ones. Just for laughs?
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  623.  @ngoyemichel5406  The interviews with other tech bros told me that there is nothing in Deepseek that wasn't already known. It's something that they already agreed 'could be made' but they're working on the next level. Not a 'sum of all knowledge so far' model. Some also indicated they knew how many high-end chips were actually used, which, doesn't make it that impressive.
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  624. @jackson505 ok but there is a movement and its still forming the campaign strategies and how to vest organize. But maybe if you use more smirking emojis and 'incredulity' you can make it go away?
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  625. That is just obviously untrue and nothing like this is happening.
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  626. Hot take: The contradicting left are accidentally correct about something: This 'alpha male' gym culture is toxic. It's what happens when you have a generation of men who don't know what manliness or fitness was. This is the cartoonish side-effect: "still doing sets brah" and obsessive bodybuilding, back to drinking raw eggs and other dumb stuff. This IS what's left when men don't know what to do anymore and go hard into childish stereotypes "I dunno.. Arghhh eatin' raw meat arghh" and flexing abs at each other.
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  627. If you're a Chinese mainlander you are poorer than you were 5 years ago and would, rightfully, take a US work visa if you could get one. You'd take it and move to the USA asap. That would be the right thing to do in order to help yourself and your family.
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  628.  @mihotleenkwei3884  You aren't discussing equal things where the decision is on something like that. You'd take it because in America you could be living in a developed country where there are many jobs and opportunties well beyond your job in some dying industry. the again, I don't think you've ever been to Mainland China.
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  629. As heavyweight champ, DDD did give him his toughest fight so far. Usyk easily defeated AJ twice (he said up to Fury though I think Fury was easier for Usyk than Dubois). So yes, as champ, DDD has given him his toughest fight.
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  630. All British commentators have decided amongst themselvse illegal and unsportsman like moves are actually winning moves that should be applauded.
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  631.  @ireneserrano4570  that's definitely how it works. If you met LOADS then you just canceled it all out and defeated clownery.
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  632. That isn't how it works. It does NOT work that you can sort out who did what, who is guilty or who is very upset or sad or remorseless by what outward emotions you see expressed. Really, I'm not joking and sincerely, you need to know that.
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  633. oooof that was a really gross made-up comment lol
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  634. 1:22 you just know that somewhere after the cleanup someone is going to ask her "Oh hey - any chance you have that episode from Donahue from 1982, I need a copy!" lol
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  635. He has a live-in illegal alien maid who cleans his toilets.
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  636. the deal with Canada is something almost any living Canadian outside the Liberal Party almost angrily denounces and it's really nothing more than 'looking the other way' far too often. Canada Customs and immigration are absolute pricks and especially bully their own Canadians coming INTO Canada but have for years been 'looking the other way' in a stupid game where everyone knows 3rd worlders and 'who knows' run down into the USA. This is not some Canadians who are 'running beer' and 'tax free cheese' or hunters, these are a lot of Asylum Seekers, these are people who ran off from airport stopovers in Canada, then there is a whole big problem with Canada's MASSIVE importation of Sikhs who decided to start gangs who are absolutely running things back and forth. These aren't truckers with some extra-cash tobacco. Canada and the USA ALREADY came to full agreement on this. They don't even ask Canada (or the US side vice-versa) meets a quota, does the best job on earth etc. The ONLY ASK is that they are pro-actively attempting to stop them. That they are NOT purposely 'not looking'. That was it. nothing more, just stop 'looking the other way'. Even if they couldnt' stop the border run, ok, but TRY and notice it then do SOME effort to try and stop it.
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  637. Some people may not have caught the title does in fact say 'climate change' not 'ClimateChange(tm)'. It makes me sad to see some of the most beautiful places change but we also have to accept our earth has been changing for a very long time and will carry on changing, shifting and moving itself around. On the upside, for us humans, sometimes nature brings us new wonders too. I don't know that people need to believe they can 'save islands' though. It seems better to let it be.
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  638. Or... did they just have 1000s of variations and it will happen, by chance, 1 or 2 seem to be their voices.
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  639. Why would you say that again? Try and talk me through how collecting massive amounts of cash through tariffs is the US 'shooting themselves in the foot'? Go on, I'm listening?
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  640. Ok but a Chinese 'nationalist' wanting to save face has to tell themselves this version of events. It must be the China is now the superior maker of all things so the buyers, this is simply 'market demand'. But there is a problem with your claims here: Fuer Dai and the Chinese who still have lots of money will still buy a Volvo, they will still buy an iPhone and they will still try and buy Chanel or for that matter a Toyota, a Samsung and a Sony television. and those often have steep tariffs ... or rather 'shelf taxes' as high as 30% more in China. THAT SAID... now put that aside: 'Foreign investment' doesn't mean 'Investment in foreign brands'. The 'Foreign Investment can be foreigners trying to invest their money in 'Huawei' or 'Trumpchi' or whatever Chinese brands they are sure will become money-makers. Your narrative does not work here.
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  641.  @Member_zero  nope, the importers (not Americans or 'America') do indeed pay this tariff but what HAS and continues happening is that the sellers have to lower their price. The cost is passed BACKWARD. Didn't know that did you? Now you know, This is why American consumers have NOT noticed price in increases when they buy the 9.99 made-in-China brand spatular at Walmart. Its still 9.99. It was China who ate the difference. and in China's case, because every producer is the property of Chinas' government it really is 'China' the government of China who can either subsidize the different or just lose the sales. Not theory. we don't 'debate' this because its been this way on *most of the tariffed items. Has, is, currently, present continuous, its the Chinese side that eats the difference. The cost is PASSED BACKWARDS really don't reply unless you've seriously read what I'm telling you. Keep in mind I have some very very good reasons t know what I'm talking about.
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  642. Ok but this is obviously not true and China is absolutely obsessed with 'defeating the USA' but putting that aside, her appeal is obviously being denied. The USA will now restart competition. Playing to win. Seeing who can outplay the other. The USA will keep doing that for at least 4 more years to see 'who wins and who loses'. That's how it will be. I'd suggest China 'plays to win' as soon as possible so it doesn't get defeated 100-0 by the end of this contest.
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  643. Sorry if I made this comment before but I do believe this is a tremendous (and rather sudden) change in our traditional social identity systems. My grandmother recalled when women had different but increasingly respected social stages. they were 'debutantes' and then newlyweds and then 'Mrs' and 'mother' and a 'matron' and grandmother was, as in the name 'grand' and women were bestowed differing levels of respect. Now we just seem to have 'debutante' and then desperately watch that degrade into what? old debutantes? This has wrecked a whole lot of life for women everywhere. You can see this in old movies too. A running theme well into the early 1960s where any and all men would smarten up and get all respectful if a 'Ma'am' enters the room. She's 40+ and thus the rough worker and the big boss in a suit suddenly show reverence for MRS female and its definitely not because she 'still looks hot'. We removed that and now women are .. well.. I guess just to be sexually hot or a declining stage of it.
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  644. For Americans who don't know: The 3 people you see standing there are 'limousine liberals', climate cult, neo-marxist globalists who's mission was to make Canada a 'post-national multicultural state' and imported MILLIONS of foreign servant workers to replace their native population. These 3 are nearly everything evil about our world today.
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  645. @Global-yt speaking of crashing out, you've never been to China and you've never been to the USA. You would not be able to say such insane things about how 'nobody actually lives in TOfu homes' and this infrastructure fantasy you're living in. are you basing this on the LED light shows or relentless videos about Japanese 1997-era high speed trains? and you should be wary of something you're feeling. your words: "Not to mention GDP growth is STILL LUDICROUSLY HIGH in the middle of a bubble poppin" Really think about what you've just sensed, the disbelief, the LUDICROUS part, the seemingly impossible contradiction. because you're intuition and feelings were the correct ones.
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  646. It's hard for me to watch this because I was arrested and subjected to some ugly stuff for what wasn't even a correct charge and that was less than 24 hours. So that still bothers me and I cannot even start to imagine how he went through 5 years of this. I don't even know.
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  647. @ I used to. I took them in case I had a job interview. A lot of would-be students take them in case they apply at a university or any school. What about it?
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  648. I'd strongly suggest a large part of the 'homeless' problem has little do do with available housing.
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  649. I say this because I like some Chinese people: It would be better to stop pretending China is growing (its obviously not) and better to announce to the world the decline and recession times are here BUT China is also going to act accordingly. You would see more confidence, more careful investment (yes, some businesses thrive during recession and economic collapse, shrinking markets) and then China will do better than this current plan of pretending it has now surpassed the humiliated USA and is also a godly angelic kingdom that is kinder and more righteous etc
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  650.  @loveall2516  From living in China and experiencing it.
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  651. This is correct and orderly. Alberta (and Trump too) are doing well to prepare but then let the Federal Election carry out. regardless of the outcome, THEN you want to start the dedicated, open and public campaigning for a legit referendum. Trump will also do well to then work on Alberta51 and the rest will come later.
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  652. and their ID cards are inherited from their parents. The older couple are around 60 years old. probably, statistically, they won't around past age 66
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  653. Why does Gladwell and nearly everyone in the USA think traffic police can see if someone is black before and up until the time they make the stop? Since the late 90s, I cannot even see well enough through modern tinted windows directly beside them and definitely not from behind the car.
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  654. there is this popular advice and it was non-stop for Usyk AJ2 and now again. I think it occurs when nobody really has any other ideas. So the advice becomes: Fury should just come in bigger and punch harder! the other being: Despite astonishing superhuman conditioning that was slightly less than Usyk's, arguably THE most superbly conditioned athlete in all of sports, what Fury should do is 'work on his conditioning'. It's something like "I don't know, I guess just be better faster, bigger and strong next time'. ok. I mean, ya okay i guess. but as you detail. it just can't work that way. Fury cannot just come in 275 and somehow just 'go at Usyk!'. Fury says this. Look AJ was massive and came at Usyk and it FAILED, it utterly failed and he ended up swinging at air and exhausting himself so Usyk could just punch the shlt out of him a round later as AJ 'came forward' into it too. Fury is right, it doesn't work and he cannot. He has to be back here zinging from the side and gTFo of the way. Which is fine. So he should. but to the point, I think its just something people say. Boxers are also aware they should help the sport by saying something in interviews to make this exciting. It helps the whole sport. So they kind of just 'say a thing'. something. anything. "Yaaa.. welp.. yknow wot? If Fury can come in an use his size on Usyk more this time... he could win this!'. They just kinda have to 'say something'.
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  655.  @justify3733  This isn't correct though. There can be (and is, worldwide) a kind of prototype language from which numerous languages INCLUDING what woulid become Chinese grew out of. So, no, your weird new rule doesn't work at all. That isn't how anything would work. I'm Canadian and I'd recognize characters or 'letters' from ancient Greek writing. This doesn't make Canada 6000 years old. (or England either). but that was a weird attempt lol
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  656.  @Assisi9  No, you are incorrect, putting aside whether these oracle bones are even 4000 years old (not 5000) only a few of the characters are close enough to match what was Qin (China) earliest known written language. This is very much like English people of England recognizing letters in Greek (5000 years ago) and they most certainly were the letters we use today. Again, a Proto east Asian language certainly did exist and from that many nations of east Asia would have roots but China would be just one of them. but anyway, using this desperate and goofy thing to get the 'highest score' (since idiotic commies think that's how this works) using these same measures.. ready.. NEARLY EVERY PEOPLE ON EARTH HAVE A 5000 YEAR HISTORY. So does Egypt, so does Greece, so does Nigeria, so does the USA from England, so does pretty much EVERYONE ON EARTH using these standards have a CONTINUOUS CIVILIZATION. Just some are older. Iran has 6000 years of unbroken continuous civilization. So does Israel. 6000 is a higher Gaokao score than Chinas lower score haha see how jealous the Chinese are in their shame and lower score?
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  657. I was hoping for more Asian aunties smuggling 300kg of gooey foods BUT the Jewelry was a fun surprise twist.
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  658.  @MusicalRaichu  I'm concerned about you to. Maybe cburch membership isn't for you. that's fine but you don't have to go around slurring those who are.
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  659.  @RickJaeger  nope, the selfish ambition is inside you and the ignorant belief that because you'd do anything for it - therefore they must be the same. 'why else would they' and you can only imagine they are desperately luxuriating, lusting and addicted to this power. In real life, any and all of them could retire to luxury for their remaining years, and, any and all of them are far beyond getting off on having 'power'. This is all a selfish teenbrain inside you that hasn't figure out that not everyone obviously must be the same thinking you have.
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  660. Were you high on drugs when you wrote that?
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  661. You just reminded me of something that used to infuriate my sister (not a feminist at all) but she used to get utterly enraged by a popular kind of country singer .. like Reeba Macintyre or others who'd put out these songs ... hah.. one line would send my sister into rage: "... AAAAnndd... I KickED that man right outta my beD! der der doo doo der doot doot.." Yes, this is a great example of 'luxury beliefs' and what is actually a kind of social status declaration over other women. These female country stars are letting us know that they are actually so attractive, so sexually desired that they can even afford to ...'...doota doota.. and I kkkkkkicked that man right outta my life'. (usually for some petty annoyance). Someone made an observation that Taylor Swift is also doing this. I don't follow her songs but I'm told that each year she writes a single hit song where she has a new boyfriend but they break up. The next year she has already had a new boyfriend and kicked that jerk right outta her life. The next year. She's establishing her highest level powers of sexual attractiveness and fertility and riches of male suitors BY telling everyone how they broke up (you can't break up unless you had a relationship). Good observation btw, I don't know if Rob ever covered the 'luxury beliefs' of female singers but wow that is a rich rich field of that backhanded boasting of status while gobbling up victim status
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  662.  @mccrakens_lair  I don't know if you're getting the 'spirit' of the original post but ok.
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  663.  @anjuna_deep  Yes this cheap out. I can tell you this, you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. Good luck getting started on that
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  664. @ no seriously, there has been a massive real-estate bubble collapse. It's so big its been world news. Did you hear about that snide emoji boy? well its bad and its devastating Chinese.
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  665. @ I don't care if I do but Gordon Change was correct when he observed China PRC was entering economic collapse in 2020. Which is currently happening.
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  666. The reason you cannot believe it is because... it's not believable. No, they are most definitely not returning to those neighborhoods. People telling them 'IDF is retreating so you can return' are dangerously misinforming people and it could lead to their deaths or suffering.
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  667. You should move from Canada and become a PRC citizen. then see how you like it?
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  668. Leftists, who ARE now turning to the idea of assassinating opponents, to murdering people after their Trump loss, they should stp and ask themselves a serious question, really think about this: Are they SURE they want to take this to assassinations? Are they SURE that their politcal opposites won't actually say 'YES, Agreed!' and they may even be more effective at this game? Do they REALLY want to start this game?
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  669.  @larrysellers7891  It's actually because Usyk is as well-schooled as any champion in any era.
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  670. I don't agree with Trump on the policy he'd want to pass BUT man he just rules in his answers and wrecking the whole setup lol.
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  671.  @MarekKolenda-cr8vr  very difficult getting Chinese to ramp up domestic consumption. It just doesn't want to happen even with the intense stimulus.
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  672.  @HTeo-og1lg  Hi buddy, yes, I mean that is the price the American pays for it. The American buyer spends $5000 on such a thing. At Walmart or Costco or wherever. I wasn't trying to tell you Americans go to China's factory and buy the thing for $5000 from the factory floor. Sorry for any confusion. I thought what I was saying was self-explanatory. To the point, we don't need to find out breakdowns and what the prices are including State Sales taxed but minus what kind of tax write-off or propaine recylcing fees etc etc. What we want to say here is that the company makes these 'big ticket' household items FOR the American buyers. Americans will actually buy such a big household appliance type of product as these Barbecue Grills. Not just buy ONE but many Americans will even buy a new one every 5 or 6 years.! Americans will buy these things. Canadians. Starts getting far less elsewhere. I'm not sure that I have ever seen an outdoor BBQ in an SE Asian home. I'm sure they exist, I'm sure I've seen them in restaurants and at least one popular street cart outside my home in Laos. It appeared to be 40 years old but it was this style of outdoor BBQ. You can't walk down a typical US suburban street without seeing at least one BBQ, often two (the new one, the old one). You can't visit a neighbor who doesn't tell you how he's thinking of buying a new BBQ grill. So what Im telling you is they have a very big problem. So do the big refridgerator manufacturers, the Washer&Dryer combo manufacturers because its the US Market that buy those and buys new ones every few years. They even buy a new $5000 Fridge because that summer the hot new kitchen color is Coca-cola Red so the wife insists on replacing the 2 year old Fridge that works great. Cambodians don't buy those things. Nigerians don't buy those things. Thais don't buy these things. or, Maybe they will but for such a low price it would cost the manufacturer and everyone else down the line more time wasting trouble than its ever worth. This is why 'simply dual channel' it to other countries' cannot just replace 'one for another' as if they are all the same consumers in the same markets. As if its 'math'. likewise, for the cheap big volume sales too, if you're making plastic 'Marvel bobbleheads'. Far far too many Americans must buy the complete set of all 24 characters but also every new edition of the plastic toys. Nearly zero Malaysians are doing this kind of purchase. Brazilians aren't doing this. Iranians aren't buying things like this. but to this specific case in our video: The 'American Outdoor Griller' manufacturers are in big trouble. 'Spatulas' yes, you can sell anywhere but an enormous 'American Summer BBQ' is a very very American thing you really need to sell to Americans more than anyone else.
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  673. no, it isn't.
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  674. There is a reason they didn't want to hire you and it wasn't anti-intellectualism. :(
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  675.  @Julian-gh6fn  eww :(
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  676.  @blanco6865  You don't need to come here telling viewers what they will be allowed to say or think. this isn't China's state-run social media, understand?
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  677. The thing is, when this guy was doing this to him smack in the middle of a party, Crews has to 'freeze up' because there's a split second between the next move being something that SEVERELY hurts that man and might even cause other people to get severely hurt. Some people don't seem to get that. I can think of a devastatingly hard punching heavyweight who had a shltty kid humiliating him with pranks and antagonism and saw the same thing. The heavyweight 'froze' but you can see it in his eyes. You see he's not worried that this shltty kid might 'beat him up' or something, obviously. He's terrified that in 1.3 seconds he puts the kids parents into years of life-changing trauma, he is in a jail cell, ending him and his wifes life, then 10 years later he has to see that guy slurring because of a broken jaw incident a decade earlier etc etc etc. Was it Hulk Hogan or one of those massive WWE stars who said they would routinely have not kids.. not kids but actual adults would see him eating in a restaurant and actually surprise attack them, leaping and grabbing them in headlocks thinking it was hilarious and funny. Same. He has to lock up, freeze, politely move them off, sit there and finish their breakfast.What's he going to do? beat the fvck out of this guy in front of his family in the pancake house on a Sunday morning?
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  678.  @JazzFunk22  nope, one of the reasons for the Bakole hype is that Anderson was very good, looked better than before, better skills, fitness etc. but can I ask what your ethnicity is?
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  679.  @Frnztak7  whats with this 'humiliates' thing? May i ask what is your ethnic background?
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  680. I'm all onboard with Concha which is why the 'take a shower hippy' take was so disappointing. Yes, you're there in a suit because you're on a mainstream network show, tough guy. The very appeal of podcasts is they are casual conversations in someone's home. "look at that, wearing sweatpants" holy eff that was a stoopid take :(
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  681.  @rambo3870  You are right and Orwell's comment (he wasn't an American) was that there migh be a lot of cash in starting a religion. This was also 75 years ago and it's not clear if there is, reliably, easily, a chance to get rich starting a religion in this century. Oh, many many try and newly rehashed religious groups still pop-up all over the place but very few make it past a trailer park sort of organization where maybe a few founders can ruffle up enough money to build a hokey temple full, a few guns and some shiny uniforms. A few others have managed to go into the 100k USD zone of money making before the taxman puts them in deep financial trouble. Scientology, Hare Krishna might be the last of the hot new religions that actually got serious money involved. Today, most of the new religions aren't even different enough to qualify as novel really. It will be just a split of Hinduism Yoga or it will be another variety of 'New Age' or it's really a Moonies group. but give Scientology some credit because wowww they really went for a whole entirely novel WTF crazy new religion at the time!
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  682. Over 60 age group?
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  683. In a way, it was because much of the knockout part comes from the opponent who has, at that split second, thrown his body into the air and direct ON to the punch. In a way, even if it was stationary but solid, he'd nearly KO himself on it. So, yes, it was relatively effortless. (but dont actually run and jump your jaw into a tree branch)
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  684. they don't look for 'subservient' wives. as a rule, that is not what they're looking for or want. That's something you heard from scornful women and feminist thought.
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  685.  @dragosdoreldumitru6633  maybe but they can't have this where the US happily allows Canadian banks to open in the USA (which you may dislike) but the vice-versa is disallowed by Canada.
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  686. I lost all respect for the Canadian military when I realized its a bunch of administrators making 120 'got mine' jobs so they can retire at 55, get a PTSD Payout lotto and then spend their days stopping any new houses from being built near their real estate investments. Then when they went 'woke' they can go eff themselves and I'd be happy if the entire thing, from cellar to roof, all structure, every name, rank, the entire system was dismissed and an entirely new Canadian military was retarted (and i mean, especially any and all top people, all of them especially gone and gone for good) Never saw so many holiday post high paying careers for so many doing nothing but dick around.
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  687. You're not wrong. Now, it's really worth noting this issue happens elsewhere but you're right in that you play the odds and probability and in The PRC for far too many women a marriage is a financial venture and indeed money is the highest and most baseline thing there is. There is no 'higher power' than money. There is no 'other loyalty or morality' beyond it. Money is all that matters after all else is said and done. So, you have the right idea, if the idea is to look for something that is NOT that then you're way better off in nearly any other fields. (well, oh boy, some of the Buddhist nations, no its not that much better if you asked me but again, chances and probability are the thing).
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  688. It's good. it's civilized self-analysis and being aware of what his weakest (or not strongest) attributes are and then acting accordingly. He doesn't have a Joe Joyce Jaw (or a Dubois either) so he knows he can't be a 'stand and trade' guy against big punchers. He knows he isn't a Zhang or Bakole, giant 300lb monsters so he knows he wins by moving, boxing and landing not going inside the 'out muscle' (see Ruiz vs Miller on that Bakole undercard). this is how he wins. Street goofs think you delude yourself "IM the toffest TUFF boy and strongest man grrrrr" will somehow make them become stronger. Dont be a goof.
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  689. I mean, a person could say those things but it's not necessary.
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  690. Burger King effing rules and is easily the best of the best in China. Let's hope they don't fade away over there.
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  691. I've been taken into these newer explanations that suppose 'globalism' has been what ended this civilization, the collapse of the Bronze Age question and some others too. Indus Valley becomes what is a 'global non-national state' that isn't really a single unified culture or people and may even be more sectors of trade unions, trading companies, global buyers and sellers who go through it but are not residents either. This is a recipe for a very large and wealthy area HOWEVER when the bubble bursts in just a few angles - everything deflates and fast. Tradesmen from this type go to the next biggest cities. the 'Investors' also go back to their home nations, the collapse of this and that means the every flowing traders take it off their routes. When the network of global trade broke down so too did everything. It's not even necessary for civil wars, some invaders, you don't even need a plague or famine either, it all collapses to an end quickly and suddenly and it's abandoned.
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  692. Steve Allen was 'Mr Entertainment', America's Uncle and probably doesn't get enough credit for a MASSIVE resume that was often ahead of his time, classic and set us up for much of what happened from him onward. Here, this is so refreshing, he just simply and humbly points out what seemed to go wrong with American morality, the family and the sons. I think of meeting the great heavyweight contender of the 1970s George Chuvalo. At a point, he was traveling the world and a real celebrity and not to mention making some pretty sweet money. Money he would have NEVER comprehended growing up. In the most devastating tragic home life, 2 of his sons get into crime and heroin and overdose, the mother, so devastated by it deletes herself and finally a 3rd son will, overdose and pass away. One possible explanation? Chuvalo Dad wasn't home that often but was making sure the family got a good deal of money and security at the same time.
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  693.  @orangetube1  Uh huh.. so how many of these White people do you think live in China? and nobody was really telling you ONLY Tibetans and Uighurs. But we're adults so I don't need to put 'ALLLLLL' and ONLYYYYYY!! "uh acshually there are 18 people that us Chinese know from a Russia village that was incorporated into China'.
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  694. @rhyslogan6490  New Testament God the same.
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  695. wait.. why do you think it needs to drop down to 5 million?
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  696.  @portmoneul  that came out as AI babble. please do better, thanks.
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  697. Nope, it is not the same. Not even near the same, not even close.
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  698.  @Trgn  Yes, I routinely go back to the USA. that's why I'm very well aware it is doing just fine. It's why I'm aware China is in a much much worse place and very severe economic collapse. I don't lie to people about China or the USA. You shouldn't either. Don't lie to Chinese people.
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  699. Oh boy, you are in for a rude awakening.
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  700. Usyk's size appearance is odd. Many many of the presenters and commentators will say "oh.. he's actually a lot taller than I thought'. He seems to have the build, the 'shape' of a man you'd think is 5'10, maybe 6ft tall? but he's a pretty well measured 6'3. This squares with *most opponents claimed height. *tyson fury has grown from 6'6 to at one point 7ft tall so... who knows The other thing worth mentioning is Usyk is a damn lean 222lbs and there is no bulk muscle or fat on him. that said, he's also fought 'lean machines' like AJ (i think 255 2nd bout?) and Dubois (240?). Tyson Fury actually did look damn good vs Usyk1 at like 262? But to the point, Usyk isn''t small. on a level canvas, wearing flat boxing boots, while AJ is obviously bigger - the difference isn't some insane 'david vs goliath' and while one may be crouching and another straight there are angles where Usyk seems 'bigger' at least across the chest and shoulders. Dubois was light at 233 vs Usyk but you don't really notice any special size difference. and think of all the talk pre-Fury1. People were talking as if this was an insane 'david vs goliath' (this was used frequently) and how a human giant couldn't just hurl him around etc etc, the 'Size difference battle' and YES there was, but, Almost from the face-off the story is really more about fury's height. his weight, his size wasn't really talked about much and soon after the height story dissipated and it was 'Fury's long arms'. once into the fight you realized Usyk wasn't THAT much smaller. Its not some crazy Valuev vs Haye level.
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  701.  @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391  maybe but in real life there is a plate for every bowl and that's how it goes. 6ft tall women marry 6'6 men because they match in size and then 5'6 women marry 5'10 men and so on. Although it happens, the 6' man will not be comfortable so much with the 5'ft woman and so on. for every ugly guy there is ugly girl. Both WANT to have a super handsome model star match of course but they will not get that and end up with each other. for ever fatty, for every lunk, for every balding man is a woman with a mustache and so on.
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  702. Indeed, in Laos we are 'Falang' but its 'Franc' and the locals say it's leftover from when France was the colonizer of what was French Indo-China days. Farag, Falang some versions. Ya that's wacky to think we're still dubbed 'French'.
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  703.  @tubalcain1039  Yep and it was so oddly 'disappeared' and muted and you'd think many reporters would ask about it and yet it was like it never happened. There are still news reports online but it was just kind of 'waved off' and not a story at all and shhh... and never brought up again.
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  704.  @pr5pr  Since you're asking about the scoring. In boxing, they do 'round by round' scoring. this seems to be where you're getting the confusion from. As you flip to 'thoughout the whole 12 rounds'. Bivol may land twice as many shots in round 9 but barely any in 10 and 11. The judges don't 'spread the points' from round 9. They don't make an 'average thoughout the fight'. I suppose one way to look at a bout is '12 small boxing matches'. Here's the other thing: Generally speaking, most boxing judges won't reward the fighter that is 'not taking clean flush punches' vs the one throwing and 'partially landing'. As you noted Bivol was often able to avoid clean Beterbiev shots. They may have landed yes but not 'flush'. A judge, seeing that exchange will tend to reward the fighter 'throwing and landing any kind of punch' vs, the one taking and obsfuscating the punches. and, this to another thing. lets say a round is close? both actually land 10 punches, both take 10 punches. A school of judging will reward 'The Initiator'. the 'attacker' or really sometimes called 'the ring general'. So the judge see's that most of the action is being 'initiated' by Beterbiev. Beter is the one 'starting the exchange', he is the one 'coming forward'. Beterbiev is the center of the ring and in a sense 'controlling the action'. yet Bivol, going backward is the 'responder'. Yes both landed about the same punches but being forced to give one or the other the round in the 10-point MUST system of scoring that judge will fall to Beterbiev. also, while technically a judge could score a round a draw it's extremely rare.
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  705. At 7:40 you say there was something starting called 'The War on Drugs' started by president Reagan. I'm old enough that I actually saw, in person, President Reagan in California but of course I didn't follow every political policy nor stay anywhere near 'Skid Row' but I don't know what you think 'The War on Drugs' was? Can you explain?
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  706. No, the US customers don't pay for it. Chinese do. The Chinese govt subsidizes the difference (so, that's the People's wealth). How do you not know this in 2024?
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  707. Is that what you did?
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  708.  @mesimesi2313  There have been people sightseeing but it's significantly less than it was 5 years ago (not counting the brutal wuflu closures) and what we need to watch is the 'degree'. How many, how little. but its understandable because China is in the start of economic collapse so of course we see less than before. The bigger question is how much of the decline is actual population. That and aging population.
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  709. I'm going to call BS too. Regarding 30:30 because this thing "The heart of a 37 year old, the skin of a 28 year old" does NOT mean what they seem to be saying it means. It doesn't mean he, the person 'reversed age'. i know this because I routinely got into this with my own biyearly physicals and my doctor explained the chart is just taking 'averages' in age categories. At 45 I had the "Blood pressure of a 25 year old" (seriously, no idea how or why) but I also had the breathing of a 65 year old. It doesn't actually mean my lungs had 'aged 20 years' but rather I was chain smoking and doing nothing on the sofa at that time and sucked. The next time I had the lungs of a '55 year old' but no, I didn't 'Reverse Aging!'. Piers mentions this too. My grandmother has just freakishly youthful skin. She just inherited that and yes, she didn't work as a welder in subzero tundra so she didn't especially damage it either. It's not that she 'reversed aging' but has freakish genetics. So this entire "Organ of a XX year old' no that's not what that means. That's just playing a kind of wording around a statistical average thing.
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  710. A peasant in China watches empty 1997-ea Japanese high-speed trains fly overhead eating up their entire villages' monthly harvest value in a single passover. In the USA an executive takes business class airplanes and limouine service and the infrasture isn't made from tofu-strips.
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  711. I'm 24 minutes in and almost dead again. Can confirm, I lived as an adult through the year this start until now. This is absolutely excellent and is done so well the only problem is that it doesn't quite feel the level of apathy, atomizing, socially dysfunctional and s-word Canada feels like now. again, this is just perfect and I don't know if I can take the 2nd half without feeling too Canadian (depressed, hopeless, cold) so I will take a break and watch some funny American videos for a little while.
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  712. Around 12:00 and early on I asked people to look at this as 'hours/years of life saved' and weigh this. Bear with me: 1. By lockdowns, closing down all but Covid and urgent surgery and quarantining the healthy then arguably we may save 1 year of life for some 82 year old with comorbidity. We saved 1 year of life!! 2. A side-effect will be a 32 year old woman who would have had breast cancer detection but didn't and consequently dies of cancer and our newly invented 'lockdowns' cure has lost us 50 Years of life. I'm not the one giving anyone some weird concept when I say we cannot 'save lives'. Any politician that tells you that is a liar, 100% of lives will be lost (most to the last disease they get) and what really, truly does matter is 'saving LIFE' as in 'man hours' as in life time. Trading 50 years of one citizens life for 1 year of another's life is one of the worst things we ever did to our own people.
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  713.  triplekmafia4932  so, that wouldnt be Roulette. Oooof
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  714.  @Anonymous-iw4hx  They have around 970 million people and yes the vast majority of it is - as I helpfully described to you - is livable for humans It is not extremely hilly or mountainous don't reply.
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  715.  @EB-jf5oi  or to be fairer, all Chinese cities are seeing less and less shoppers
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  716. I once walked alone through what I later found out was infamously the most dangerous crime-ridden, deadly neighbourhoods in the UK at that time. No less than a dozen locals were just shocked, some made me promise to NEVER do that again, apparently it was the days following a full-on violent 'uprising' which explained the burned-out buildings and debris. Far from being mugged, attacked or hassled - I was weirded out how people peered out windows and suddenly hid behind curtains if I looked and how I'd see someone on a corner then they'd look dodgy and disappear around a building corner. How did I do it? 1. I was utterly naive and had zero knowledge of this being a declared 'no-go zone' lawless gang-run neighbourhood. 2. to the great amusement of locals they are certain without a doubt that I really did have, by coincidence, the appearance of a plainclothes detective - the locals were utterly convinced I was indeed a cop looking for someone and they would easily suspect I had a 'back up team' of cops trailing around me at the time LOL Oh.. and it was just dusk by the time I was leaving the area. Many suggested that if I'd been there past daylight.. I may easily left that neighbourhood in a body bag or at least an ambulance.. or running for my life. Yikes!
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  717.  @conho4898  That's a good question. the Qin (China) begins around 900 BC and what we can know for sure it that by around 200 BC they conquer and expand and establish the first official mandatory Qin (Chinese) language. 3000 characters. By 100 AD there is a proper dicionary with some 10,000 characters. Of course languages change and evolve over centuries but that, the Qin standardized language is what is happening today. but that's a good question because even though China creates this standardized language - we may easily suppose they had something that we'd recognize as uniquely Qin language before then. 2,500 years ago??
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  718.  @conho4898  ok but if you take these oracle bone characters, these are 'proto' to not-Chinese languages too. but yes, it seems some of them made their way into the Qin's eventual language. Yes this would be something like finding Estruscan 'Latin Alphabet' (which we do) and yes indeed, there are characters (letters) that would make up the English language. (really can go back to Greeks vesion). Ok, so this can't be called early English because while those are characters eventually use in English they also go on to be letters of Romans and German and dozens of others. There are, likewise, some characters that would go on to become part of the Chinese (and dozens of others) languages. 'At what point' does English become a proper identifiable language? Also a good question but it's not 2000 BC because some Greek Alphabet letters would become English letters. (maybe 500 AD). btw, the Japanese thing, would you look at these oracle bones and say 'That's Japanese language' if an equal number of characters would to on to be part of Japanese language characters too? I hope you see what I mean here.
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  719. @ These are just a few of the hundreds of legacy media corporations. BBC actually has some of the most beautiful documentaries on China. However, from the UK he grew up being fully able to watch 100s of channels from across the world, buy magazines from China, newspapers from China if he wanted. But then he probably didn't spend nearly as much time on the 1000s of those as the media available online. At a click he can watch China's State Run media, then the international versions of China's state-run media, he could watch 100000000s of hours of Chongqing travel vlogs, Chonqing TV, Chongqing newspapers, 10000s of hours of 'Anti-Chonqing' and 'Pro-Chonging podcasts, articles and videos and even watch 'Live Webcams' all over Chongqin. why are you putting stupid laughing teenage girl emojis in yuor posts? Do you think you're talking to other low-culture middle school girl?
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  720. @ It's definitley not my wish, I lose when China loses but this is the objective reality now. One day you might visit China and see for yourself.
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  721. What is we use the term 'Sponsored'?
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  722. This isn' Reddit from 2014 but there are some reasons to believe video games can drive certain users to violent outbursts yes.
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  723. I can see this in my own family. The WW2 generation of the 40s, 50s early 60s, they were strongly aimed into the right ways to... boys to cut and style their hair, tuck their shirt in. grandparents recalled elaborate dating rules, the man must open the car door, let her choose her seat, pull out the chair. I suppose that generation came out of the military era so they transposed that into civilian life. I can see where the next generation, the 'boomers', where they swerved out of that. In my family you see all that age have these slick, gelled (grease?) all the boys have this coifed perfect hair in photos and then around 1966 they have 'Mop Tops' and by 72 era photos they go hard 'opposite' with crazy long hippy-style hair, beards, afros. I can well see how that was a 'counter' rebellion in that sense.
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  724.  @patrickbeguin6719  ya but you have to live in The Netherlands to get them. :(
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  725. What happens when Chinese and Anti-Americans find out that this is not the case, that 'American CEOS' aren't in shock and that its just a clone (a very very expensive one) that does nothing new? Will they take out that hatred on who?
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  726. Did you know Tik-Tok is banned in The PRC?
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  727.  @wyz9815  Hm no, that's obviously untrue as all 4 of those countries have massive numbers of foreigners, from students, foreign workers, immigrants and all of them have huge numbers of foreign tourists who keep coming. So you've got that very wrong. Not so safe for locals? Germany is nearly everywhere and France has a large number of foreigners who are a danger to locals. But the USA and UK have the same kind of thing as China: pretty much everywhere is safe for locals EXCEPT very specific areas, aka 'bad neighborhoods' where locals know to avoid. So there is no meaningful or significant difference on your last accusation. and i presume you were talking about crime not the dangers of accidents, poisonous foods, elevators etc, because yes of course China is much more dangerous in those areas.
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  728. I can honestly say I watched this entire video maybe just a year after it was up and was absolutely impressed beyond belief. and then disappointed at the shockingly LOW views at that time. I'd guess I've recommended it 20 or 30 times over the years. I came back to revisit this to learn, sadly, the creator has passed away but now this has an absolutely stunning 11 million views! He is gone but left the world a tremendously refreshing return to common sense.
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  729. I'm sure you meant 'lose' (not win) instead of 'loose' (not tight)
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  730. It's a big deal when the 3rd party takes enough of a cut that it's not longer profitable or an even bigger loss to make the Huawei phone but putting that aside, its not just a thing where 'they can just simply use'. Singapore, Thailand and others have to fear reprisals and all kinds of big losses when the US finds out they're buying a whole bunch of high-end chips and flipping them to China. That can include 'now you don't get to buy any either'. I realize it's been done but it not just some simple thing like its just 'welp.. got around it!'. Those countries have a lot to lose.
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  731.  @Ccc-ru7oe  but you were wrong all along. so?
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  732.  @crystalyang7605  That's correct so you won't (contrary to what Chinese pinks believe) you wont' be able to just keep shouting 'no its not' and 'America DOES THAT' and think narratives make something real or unreal. I am correct and here's a suggestion: I suspect that YOU know that I'm correct. Hmm?
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  733. I most admire, respect and give props and congrats to everyone here who was never abusing drugs and alcohol. You're the top hero, the ones who get the special handshakes and accolades. - then the second lesser admired are those who failed to stay sober or responsible and pleasured themselves with drugs and caused a lot of problems but have stopped (reads comments) for 2 years, 5 years, one guy wrote its been 9 years that he's stopped being a druggie. and again the most admired, the strongest, the best, call them the ones who deserve the biggest applause and respect are the ones who were never drunks or druggies and therefore never went into recovery. They get the most praise and highest respect.
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  734. They cannot stop believing in the 'magic soil' theory that if you just put peoples on different soils they will just become like that culture. It's not correct and it certainly doesn't 'scale' well. You can have small scale immigration from uncivilized cultures where the few must adapt and civilize quickly. If you have thousands at a time then they do not need to change and can run in enclaves 'as is' for generations.
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  735. always with this 'humiliation' shlt and almost always from 3rd worlders who think its how life is. gross.
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  736. China's mainland has a three-part health risk problem. - despite all the advancements over 2 decades the food safety, I mean the natural kinds of problems, e-Coli, salmonella, food, bacteria, very unclean cooking standards, pests, vermin, worms is STILL shockingly bad in far too many places and cases. - Squeezing in with that is the problem of 'fake foods', chemical fillers, poisons in foods, contamination of metals and other inedible substances. btw I do NOT mean 'chemicals' the way health nuts in 1st world countries mean it, i mean chemicals like kerosene or lab chemicals unrelated to any kind of food usages. Now those two compete to get people sick but there is a terrible 3rd which how a world of fake medicine, fake therapy, fake cure does not stop being promoted like its real. I don't mean this in the way some California goes to a goofy holistic medicine but I mean hospitals in China giving people bogus 'chinese herbal medicine' and acupuncture and then boxes of smoke and convincing themselves that actually China cured the 'American Virus' by once again herbal remedies and TCM that the world is jealous of and grovels to know China's powerful healing formulas etc. This is notorious among village aunts and uncles but its actually shocking just how many younger people in China are utterly convinced the foolish world and their hospitals can't understand the godlike healing powers of Chinese special techniques. but no, actually that box of mushroom smoke is not actually going to cure the cancerous growth by 'rebalancing hot and cold water' and this shlt. As for the caner part here. yes this probably will happen because just a decade ago, we recall and uncle dying of cancer. I knew it was cancer. The cancer actualy grew outside his own skin before he died of cancer. Just 10 years ago the villagers "knew" he had too much 'heat' in the area because he frequently drank very cold water on very hot days. to my memory there was not 'post mortem' and just 10 years ago they still simply put them outside and carry out the burial. no doctors were ever involved. So, there is no such registration of a cancer death. HOWEVER, In fact, now they ARE starting to have hospital engagement and doctors verify who died and what they died from. 10 years ago almost NOBODY ever died from ANY diseases (since nothing is registered as such other than deceased) but all were reported to have died from 'drinking hot/cold water and imbalance of heat' I'd assume, only thing i ever heard of, so, you WILL now start getting a huge uptick in cancer deaths .. since... well since they just officially report them not that there is more. the next problem is, as mentioned, WAY TOO MANY Chinese will dick around for months and months putting 'smoke boxes' and drinking buckets of lemongrass and frog tea and by the time they realize the cancer is obviously getting much much worse they seek treatment at a 'western hospital'. but its now too late. Many of those will have been cancer that COULD have been caught and stopped and stalled in most any other culture and country but instead will only get proper treatment when it's months or years too late. and that's my take on it.
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  737. Around 5:00 they discuss something I've seen enough of to confirm: vast majority, the strong rule, few exceptions, whenever you see a successful entertainer, magic, comedy, singing, puppets, whatever it is - they worked relentlessly to get and stay there. They put in the '10,000 hours' they did the dedicated practice. They did not just happen to be 'blessed with great dancing feet' but spent and still spend 12 hours a day dedicated to dance moves. They weren't not just somehow lucky to be a wizard with a guitar but put in uncountable time and work and practice. Gladwell's Outliers are very very real and the constant rule. Yes, the ODD rare event aka 'The exception that proves the rule' streaks through now and then. One-hit wonders occur (actually most of those also took tremendous time and practice) but the rare 'fluke viral sensation' can zoom around too but please do NOT believe that is how it works as an otherwise very strict rule. I saw a magician do that simple 'appearing cane' thing but the way he did it look REALLY GOOD. Even if you know its a cheap expanding prop it STILL looked effing amazing how he did it. I realized he did it 1000 times, the guy who'd go find the lighting, perfectly pick exact angles, redo practice dozens of times until, on THAT specific night in exactly that specific stage with those specific lights he had perfection. and that was just the opening 5 seconds of his act!! 5 flawless excellent seconds.
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  738. This is why people hate the leftist woke media. He was a rampant active homosexual, gay as gay who was killing other homosexuals. yet, somehow the title has him some outside. they are sure to pre-load "..he came from a religious family" and then really pump on that 'religious household' even though it describes 95% of all Canadians of that error as well as all his victims came from 'religious homes'. disgusting media.
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  739.  @xdxdsheep  Good points, my friend!
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  740. What about it though?
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  741. sure but don't you miss it? why not do just a little heroin? you must have really liked it to do it for 7years!
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  742. please, never call it 'combat sports entertainment' ever again, thx
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  743.  @soulimmortal8487  great, you go watch that and comment on it.
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  744. It's more like asking why China agreed to a massive and beneficial alliance with the USA, accepted all the USA offered and gave China, all the charity and all the allowances and the USA lifting 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty - it decided to bite the hand that fed it and say 'surprise! now we got some stuff we are STILL going to be against you!". So that's why.
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  745. @ but you don't believe Trump has Dementia.
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  746. There is some very crunchy food for thought in this. I hope more people will sit down and think through a lot of what's said here. It's 'dense' with points so people want to really hunker down for this. Really, almost everything said needs to be talked about and thought through.
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  747. it doesn't though. That's something you've made up and something you say because you think the world is a 'jr high' and you can make toxic 'mean girl' social manipulation that way. In fact, what terrifies you into submission is the idea of everyone pointing and jeering at you in the hallway.
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  748.  @TYUdays  Right but if you're calling it 'pragmatic' then it's no longer 'the rule of law' so stop saying 'its there but it isn't'. Yes, this 'pragmatic law' can be used to help China progress. For example, right now this Pragmatic Law can decide to prevent you from sending money outside of China or from extending your visa, it can decide to block your VPN or freeze foreign capital, all kinds of money foreigners have in Chinese bank accounts, or, tomorrow it might now. Then might do it again. So what you can do is stop calling it 'Rule of Law' as we all understand that term and use some other term. "rule of flexible law, which may or may not be applied depending on how much it helps China get things progressing for itself". Use that language instead. So, what will you do now - open a business in China? You going to open a business are you?
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  749. That's great, Mean Girl but I still have to decide if what they are saying, the subject matter, is it true or false? Or.. are things they report mostly true? Partially true in some sense or not? but great fun with the social shame thing and feelings etc. but are Chinese parks better or worse than America's parks? Is it true they spray green dye on most or many Chinese parks? That is what I need to worry about. Not if he's having cvnty 'small face shame' or whatever this things was about with you.
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  750.  @winchesterlyon  You're just writing the 'narrative' and the story we should all repeat yes? You posted 'instructions' yes?
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  751.  @winchesterlyon  What you should have done was try to decide if whatever they were reporting (or opining about) is true, untrue (or partly or mostly true).
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  752.  @ralphzoombeenie2330  you don't believe the story you're telling us.
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  753.  @ralphzoombeenie2330  you were doing creative writing. you don't actually believe this man has been making up some untruths out of bitterness he was too lazy to.. ...get a diploma apostilized so he could get a work visa to .. of all the great honors and lofty dreams in his life.. continue to work in a Chinese school as a foreign english teacher. Egad, just THINK of what you've written for your "dismiss anything bad he says about China" creative writing gross little story? you're talking like he's a mainland chinese who didn't get a job and work visa working in a US university ffs lol
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  754.  @ronin_myaus  It seems (and I just checked) they are working as ful-time social media influencers and earn, monthly, around what you and I earn in a year. Mind you, contrary to popular opinion, it turns out making youtube videos is a lot of work and time consuming. So its not just easy laughs and click a 'record' button.
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  755. A prevailing theory on the 'Bronze Age Collapse' comes down to what we know as 'Global Trade'. It's all good and well until a few tiny wheels fall off (or get knocked off on purpose) and a few more wheels more and the whole damn thing comes flying apart into an invasion by Sea Peoples. One thing I'm now a big believer in is this idea every nation has to go back to, at least, the capability of making their own things in-house again. Canada can carry on importing (example) common medicines but it best have at least one factory that can make and store medicine. The USA can buy rare-earth metals from China as usual but it better have its own mines staked and fully capable whenever it may want or need to do so. Great Britain can import 'PPE' all it wants as usual but it best have at least one PPE making factory somewhere on its own soil and so on.
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  756. There isn't really a nation called 'The West' anymore than there is your imagined nation 'The Asia'. China's population, around 970 million here in 2025 makes up around 15% of the worlds total estimated population. China's Mainland is actually one of the most fascinating populations in the world today because it's currently experiencing a rate of decline so massive, so fast that experts say they cannot find any other example in human history. This is a population that was once 1.2 billion and will actually drop to HALF its population in a single generation at this rate. down to 600 million people by 2050! By then, the population of China is expected to make up less than 7% of the worlds population and just 13% of 'East Asia' population. It will be tiny in comparison to Asia. But wait because there is more. Population, just as a number, this isn't really good, bad or maybe nothing or great or terrible. In Chinas Mainland, before Amerika lifted 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty, a massive population was a detriment, a terrible problem that burdened the failures and caused horrific starvation deaths and malnutrition. India, now at 1.4 billion, making China's 970 seem small in comparison, is not really BETTER for it and arguably this is a major problem weakening every Indians lives when they don't have the infrastructure, the food the systems to easily get the best of everything working smoothly. but there is even much more because a LOT depends on what KIND of population that is. The 'demographics'. Take Nigeria for example: Yes, it has 200 million people. Good or bad? Well in their case its a 'Golden 200 Million' because a massive number of their population will be 20 to 60 years old with few old people. This is GOOD for them. It's what China used to be 30 years ago. by contrast, China's Mainland is 970 million but is now entering a terrible demographic: A very very large number of those will be 60+ people with far far fewer '20 to 60' people. Thats a 'bad 970 million' in that sense. (ot that people are bad but the demographic makes the sheer population number a burden not an advantage) so who knows, maybe as China's population continues the most astonishing shrinkage every seen in the history of the world, actually speeding to 50% of its' population it might be GOOD for China? It might be that China having a tiny population (compared to The West or Asia) MAYBE helps it run more smoothly and increase wealth per person? We will have to wait and see.
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  757.  @randomname931  Is that how you think things work? You think whatever you watch? Anyway, no I just happen to live and work between Mainland China and the USA (and a few others) so I get to tell you about these real life things.
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  758.  @randomname931  I see, and what's the population of the USA?
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  759. Nope, no it is not
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  760. Trump put all kinds of Tariffs on China 6 and 7 years ago. Biden kept most of them. Now you tell me, now that 7 years has passed by what is the thing the Americans 'learned'? tell me?
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  761.  @kitchenwhispers-geti  holy eff that was bad lol ... don't try to engage in this concept lol
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  762. Rogan and everyone needs to stop the 'Black Bear' and then 'Brown Bear' categorizing system. Just stop doing that. Just make it something like common bears and then call the other cousins 'Grizzlies'. Also people don't need to distinguish 'Kodiak' just say 'Grizzly' and for that matter Polar bears are the 'white cousins' of a Grizzly type bear. Anyway, I'd love it if less city people like Rogan and guests would stop BSing their way around how animals do things.
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  763. We're you a White Nationalist a few weeks ago?
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  764.  @Rex-ww4cw  China's PRC started a 'trade war' 20 years ago. Trump started countering it 7 years ago. China does not have 'economic dominance' of anything, by 2015 (its economic peak) it was already overinflated to the max and hence the economic collapse. The single greatest benefitting from the USA control of international waters is... wait for it... the biggest benefit goes to CHINA! It's why China can send insane amounts of products and get those US Dollars that lifted it out of poverty! US Warships will continue to go as close to China's '12 nautical mile' shores as much as they want. China PRC can remain very grateful that the USA does and keeps protecting China and the only way it keeps from falling back into brutal 3rd world poverty.
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  765.  @ThomasVWorm  Nope, that is not what happened before, now or in the future.
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  766. Many people know that and the reason YOU know it (like many many others) is because Western Journalists and travelers documented that prior to 1959 and the century prior to it. Often British and Germans but others made a point of documenting their time in Tibet and later that was compiled and academia took on more research. That's how and why YOU know anything about it and its actually the only reason China's new PRC knew about their lives prior to 1959 and why CGTN is able to pass on this Western Knowledge via this Western Media platform. as for life after 1959, Tibetans lived in poverty, malnutrition, rural hardship until the 1990s like the people in Mainland China did.
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  767.  @cathearts09  I don't know wha a 'Xizang' is because we speak English here but the Peoples Republic of China needed the accounts of German and British experts in order to understand and learn what Tibet was like before they were allowed to occupy Tibet. but good luck to some imaginary province of 'Xizang' lol
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  768.  @tthscrolls7772  locals here in China call it Tibet or rather 'Tibei' which will sound alike to 'Tibet' (more like 'Tea Bay' Now what?
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  769.  @bakitibeibe  that's incorrect
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  770.  @2mek99  and maybe the worst thing, its not just that their population is declining now (probably around 970 million) but they're going from kind of golden demographic into one of the worst demographics. I mean, if you're talking about economy. A massive amount of Chinese are now gettng too to work while there isn't a massive amount of younger ones to make manufacturing cheap.
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  771. Canada is now full of brown servants and corporations and boomers outright say they are better workers, never complain, comply, do as their told. Its disgusting modern day indentured servitude and causing massive poverty to Canadian workers now.
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  772.  @MK_ULTRA420  What is the compulsion, someone explain the absolute compulsion of a kind of internet commentator who NEEDS to see or hear anything about any kind of problem in any other country and race in to be frst to write: "Same here n the US". really, is that 'AI Bots" or what is that. Your response is really the only one needed. It's not even close and they know that. (unless it really is 'AI bots' then again they would still know that).
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  773. You frequently start off with something that you know gets Chinese mainland audiences JUICED UP but its really a kind of false narrative. You always tell us something like: "..this is the picture painted by the 'Western Mainstream Media'" Huge sneering grins get taught across the face of the ignorant or naive audience that is pumped up on sneering revenge and 'exposing and shaming The West' but here's the problem with this constant opener, this 'cliche' you grease up every report with: There is no Orwellian thing as 'The Western Media'. There is no 'The West' for starters. There isn't actually this 'Opposite PRC China' where this 'State' called 'The West' has their own State-controlled Media. The 'Mirror of CCTV' and China' closed fully state-run media. There is no 'Great Firewall' around 'The Western Media'. No, they don't use a 'VPN' called Rednote either. There has been the term 'Mainstream Media' which used to describe different country's 'Network News' which, 30 years ago were so large and all-encompassing. even those had 'Rival News' though. Even then there were MANY alternative news and opinion media outlets. 'Cable' and no end of magazines then AM Radio and at all times all 'The Westerners' could access The People's Republic of China's media. It wasn't blocked. Today? You, CGTN, you ARE 'The Western Media' This is an American based platform and Youtube and social media are and have been for well over a decade THE 'mainstream news. but there is no "Mainstream' anyway. 1000 Media channels here SWEAR that Foreign INvestment is MASSIVE in China and it's THE places to invest your money!! 1000 contradict it. 1000 media sources offer these complicated balanced views or some simple 'moderate' views etc etc. And its all weird since CGTN, this very thing we're discussing is actually blocked in Mainland China. but you can stop with this 'painted a picture' which is just something to get Anti-Western insecure nationalists sneering so they can jack themselves off as 'The Western Liars' are seen as getting punished with 'the truth about China'. Just stop doing this. It's really ugly and childish. You are really shaming China with that constant misinformation about some Orwellian 'The western Mainstream Media' and claiming over and over they 'Painted a Picture'. Just stop doing it?
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  774. I'd say they'd better hurry up because China's economy is collapsing so sell sell sell.. except... Every Chinese EV being sold is less money for China. They're selling them at a loss so.. 'a million new sales' is really just 'millions more lost from China's remaining wealth'.
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  775.  @EdwinaTS  eh, well the US population is nowhere near being 'too poor to buy US cars' but the collapse of China's economy will most definitely help them afford any Chinese products they want. Just yesterday I saw yet another 'going out of business' sale. Not only were boxes of 30 rmb snacks going for 5 but the owner said "look, buy 5 boxes and you can have this bag of sweets for free'. Way below her original cost. but since the store was going to be gone anyway '5 yuan' was better than 0 yuan right? That's China and that's already the EVs which are a desperate attempt to 'market dump' subsidized cars. but that said, i believe India and some SE Asian countries will buy them all once they go into the 'going out of business Bin'.
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  776. That is a great 'creative writing' fantasy about how you want things to be. China becomes 'The West' and now The West will be self-punished to become poor China! Now China is the captain now! and China isn't guilty because 'The Collective West' is actually who lowered themselves by their own ignorance haha! but it's a creative writing fantasy. This isn't what is actually happening in your real life and is currently going the opposite trend where you and everyone else in China is poorer than you were 7 years ago. There is nothing new. There is no innovation. There are just a LOT of things that are now 8 years old but 8 years older. You're also living in a fantasy of 'The Collective West' and your Orwellian 'Global South' and these are, as Orwell's book had them, not real.
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  777. China was soundly defeated by the Qing 400 years ago and realistically, China as anyone ever knew it has never existed again. but yes, Marx UK and Stalin Moscow reconguered i again after the USA defeated the Japanese and lifted 800 million Chinese from their grips. So what are you talking about? and why would you think China is on the rise??
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  778. Consider this, any Mainland Chinese who'd follow such things as GDP knows, I mean its just a kind of given presumption, the govt will say '5%' and always pads 5%. It's like the default given number and they know its unreal. They know its really, in any meaningful sense, its really like 0% If they ever report 4% it means 'minus -1%' Nobody is even upset or anything, its just a 'given' part of life type of thing.
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  779.  @tonyatgoogle6076  China is lying about it's GDP.
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  780. Does he clarify his opening lesson by letting you know it was Vietnamese communist rebels who were being bombed after they invaded Laos?
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  781. Yes, that was the first I noticed too but I have ANOTHER Angle on that: Him and his Liberal Party almost NEVER use the term 'Public Servant' and in Canada its 'Minister' (this is, one that serves others, in service to the public, minister) and they refer to themselves in the communist "Leaders" and Trudeau will always say "I fight for Canadians" and "leading Canadians'. this is bad. In our systems the language would be "I've been serving". This language of being a 'Leader' and 'Fighter' really DOES square with how he behaves, how his party sees themselves as 'Rulers' and dear Leaders.
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  782.  @joecoffee7750  Communist China then Laos.
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  783.  @user-wb8mp9by9f  Well they probably know lots of citizens of China because many of them live in 'The West' and other countries. They'd also be able to know that from watching Youtube videos which won't be 'Fake AI Videos' but really are videos, from China, often recorded by Chinese of homeless Chinese people, however, Indeed, if you have ever traveled around China long enough, you will most definitely see homeless people yes, actually sometimes plenty of them.
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  784.  @ZhenYae  The US just brought another massive shipment of weapons, mostly made for any PLA friends and will be stocking up the islands more over the years. It's okay, for the first time in decades Japan is having a little uptick in their economy and is finally free to arm their Navy. Where this bitter pill you imagine yourself sneering about about?
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  785.  @vdotme  Is that why China's mainland opened up and sold it's labor to the USA and Japan in the 1990s? Because Chinese really were beyond hungry and malnourished. People actually starved to death.
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  786.  @古德雍飛  '100s the times that of the United states' this is the most ridiculous thing every said. but yes, maybe the USA can buy lots of weapons from China for cheap cheap low prices because they need to load up Taiwan and Japan and the re-opened bases in The Philippines. So get to work, cheap labor China!
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  787.  @LemonJuice516  You just wrote a thing you see said on the internet when toxic gamers 'hurt each others feelings' but it doesn't apply to anything here. Obviously, Chia and Japan are NOT closer after Japan is loading massive missiles on island and announced it will fight China if it should try and invade Taiwan. (also you meant 'coping') also, Im not a fellow toxic hyperfeminine litle shltbird fanboy so don't bother.
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  788. I'm happy to look at it. A decade ago China PRC had far far too many students loading universities where far far too many graduated with the weakest of effort and walk around in the worlds largest group of unemployed engineers and scientists. That said, what we would like to see is some sort of real world consequence to this legendary million-man army. So far, nothing. So far, these amazing ... i guess what? 'Engineering' would be happening all over the place or some sort of 'Sciencing' will teach those piece of shlt low-life American grads they're garbage? Or what? You tell me what? Where is this economic revival of these Godboys who are laughing at the lowly American shlts? Hmm? Tell me? where is this 'stuff' of it?
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  789.  @mikewolf-x6t  No, he's talking about Xi City and a few others and these were never 'abandonded' but were never moved into to begin with. If Chinese ever abandoned 'Tofu' buildings well they'd have to abandon nearly every residence in China over the last 30 years.
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  790. It never failed to disappoint me how often a child would repeatedly kick the back of my chair in China. The parent believes the child has ever right and was upset the woman dared insult him for no reason. Remember, they do NOT see any issue with their child kicking her chair.
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  791.  @giaminhvu9968  China did not invent 'gunpowder' as there were no such guns but yes they did invent some kind of explosive powder. So did others. but I'm trying to figure out what innovating China's mainland is doing now? Because suddenly every Wumao and little pinko on this Western media keeps banging the gong "innovation" and just like a magical 'spell' think if they say 'China is the land of INNOVATION INNOVATION" and talk 'as if' we all know China is the worlds innovator that somehow... ...by just saying it - it becomes true. But what though? Like what? Nobody asked you about 1000 year ago but what is going on today? Or you just said 'They ARE TOP OF THE World Innovators because they ARE because that's what they are, the best numba ONE innovators'. Ok, so can we get a sweet list?
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  792.  @goldriverbank6647  Nope, China's economic collapse has made me unhappy. It's also making a lot of Chinese very unhappy.
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  793.  @Daniel15au  i noticed two of them given as an example and it's coincidentally something a Chinese mainlander just recently complained to me about: This series of Lab Experiment Games being sold to them (the Chinese) as yet another gold medal beating the fumbling USA in tech. But these are gimmicks. This Chinese understood that. These are what we can call 'Overclocking' games. Let me given you an example: Some nerds get the latest Lenovo and jam it with insane chips and power supplies and nerd reprogramming until "they created the worlds fastest Lenovo 2025 Laptop!!" They take a German Maglev. many many years ago the Germans created a stretch of track then dangersouly shot the empty train to break 600km (for 1. 5 seconds) Well, 30 years later guess what China 'innovated'? They took their (new to them) Maglev and purposely bult a stretch to overclock it to go 601 km (for 1 second)!! CHINA INNOVATED THE FASTEST TRAIN ROUTE ON EARTH!!! In a lab, take a Starlink and 'overclock' this thing to go insanely fast for a few seconds!!!! China just 'innovated' the worlds fastest satellite transmissions!! You're going to need to stop believing in these gimmicks. The Chinese who, coincidentally, just ranted about this with annoyance knows this is BS games and none of this is creating or innovating, not really, this is playing overclocking gimmicks. What's worse he pointed out, the government is ordering these types of things via funding and thus killing any real competition so they end up with a million 5G trees almost nobody is using so someone could say a few years back: CHina Has THE LARGEST 5G NetWORK in the WOrld. Chinese are just poorer for this insane 'overclocking' of somehing that wasn't invented by Chinese and most can't use anyway.
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  794.  @sutikareoluwagbenga1272  Oh, why do you believe China has managed to be ahead of the curve, and has left 'the western world' behind? Besides just saying it like you're 'creating a reality you want to be true'. but why do you believe that?
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  795. China might be unified soon but not in the way you were hoping for.
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  796.  @ngaraipammahongnao8521  Blue eyes yes, 13% Asian, lived, worked and married to China longer than you've been an adult but welcome to my Western Media, laowai and nobody should enjoy seeing one Seller smirking about how he wants to see other Sellers lose more than him. The so-called 'Karma' coming for him? He doesn't know it yet but all those sellers who WERE primarily selling to the USA will start selling to the Middle-East and exactly where he's selling. Then he's going to wake up and wonder why his sales are way down. He wont be smirking so much after that.
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  797.  @billinsf88  Mmm, no that doesn't make any sense, peasantbrain.
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  798.  @hongluong3427  If China could sell this much to the other countries they would have been doing that already to maximum capacity. You need to know there isn't some gap elsewhere. There aren't countres complaining they definitely want 15% MORE of those Chinese made products while China tells them 'sorry we're too busy and out of product because we are sending tha tmuch to the USA right now!. So, no, that isn't what's happening. please understand, there is no 'theory' where say what we imagine will happen in a board game. Right now, many many Chinese manufacturers have slowed and stopped making things.
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  799.  @robe2504  No, you're repeating goofy things you read online last week and these things are simply not true. 15% of exports is everything that keeps China from collapsing back to 1990 and IF tha tcould have been directed elsewhere it definitely would have by now. You have to stop posting silly things like that
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  800. Yes but China is currently in a severe economic collapse. The USA isn't.
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  801. Speaking of nasty.. you can't praise China without shitting on the USA. think of how sick you are, mentally sick and nasty that you do that?
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  802. It's disturbing in a way, to think, know that 260 of them were just carrying on causing horrific crime, threats, all kinds of evils for however long they were in the USA.
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  803. I enjoyed the Constant-Teen joke but I suppose he would have to 'Turn 19' (well.. ya i suppose he stopped aging by his 20th birthday) but I enjoyed it lol. - Although the world's most annoying internet group, the Reddit Atheists are finally fading away into their embarrassing history I was STILL more recently informed that 'It was all made up at the council of Nicea' and yes in counter questioning he was convinced that brave atheist scientists finally revealed the truth about Nicea in the 1980s. and, - I had a guy at the cafe get me on a really wry smiling 'gotcha' that totally turns all my beliefs about Jesus upside down - he almost put on a 'pity' face as he dropped the news: Jesus wasn't a white nordic man! In fact, BBC had proven he was a very very dark curly haired brown man!!! OOOOooof did I feel .. i mean I was really just owned and depantsed and wtf sudddenly Im not a Christian anymore!?
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  804.  @jasonnacci4091  It's worth mentioning that the 'Boomer' generation has often been dubbed the wealthiest and most privileged to opportunity in human history. I don't know if it was Zeihan or Gladwell but said that Boomers in the USA (and most of the Anglosphere) actually had to deliberately sabotage their lives to NOT prosper. The Boomers (then the 'Hippy' generation) really could dropout of college (paying todays equiv of $5000 a year) and party for 3 years at hippy festivals, return to 'work life' at age 25 and buy their 'starter house' at age 30 and by age 40 the 3-bedroom and by age 60 their house was worth 30X what they paid for it. That generation could semi-retired at age 55 earning more as "consultants" than a full-time 35 year old could hope to earn today. The Boomer generation was unique in another sense in that their world was made for them, their age group, every product, lifestyle, entertainment was relentlessly made FOR their peak age cohort. Boomers were one of the rarest generations where they could actually switch to entirely different careers and only continue earning more each year of work. They were so full of hope, education and high standards that they believed themselves to be 'the purpose' of life itself and they had every reason to believe that. Boomers had among the highest recreational (and prescription for that matter) drug use of all-time. Infamously, the wealthiest most socially privileged Boomers were the ones who started mass popular marijuana use and hence their 'hippy culture' is forever associated with the 'Cheech and Chong' culture but it wasn't just their mass consumption of marijuana but they even invented new drugs that didn't even exist before them: LSD. A very powerful drug and hence our strong association with Boomers 'tune-in-turn-on-dropout' and the wild and weird Beatles 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' Sgt Pepper wild hallucination culture which was soon trumped by the Boomers next great massive drug intake: Cocaine. As Boomers entered their 30s they were already working on what to do with their income and all the free time they had and behold 'Disco' and people have joked that 'Club 54' itself probably funded a dozen Columbian crime families into relentless labor-shortages for the cocaine demands of Boomers - one of the wealthiest generations to ever live. That cocaine didn't stop as Boomer leveled up into the next levels of success, social power and all the purposes they wanted in the 'Wolf of Wall Street' Era. Boomers, many now going into their 40s and looking at age 50 were so full of capital, that sweet capital and it was their time to take over Wall Street and stock markets everywhere and they did not forget to take their cocaine! Many experts have noted that you can also watch drug consumption patterns by simply following the wealthy opportunity-blessed Boomers peak aging. As Boomers (peak age, that big clump of cohorts all within 6 years of each other) as they get to around 50 years old there is a concurrent surging of 'opiates' or 'painkillers' that aren't just new drugs being made and consumed but we're also talking the overuse of them. Why, well because around age 50 a Boomer is no longer interested in having cocaine-driven heart attacks nor will they be disco-dancing until the sun rises. Boomers getting nervous about market collapses and the thought of not retiring with at least 1 million net worth at age 60 want something that keep them calm, sedate AND more importantly might be able to keep living well despite the groaning lower back pains, the old folks knees, the arthritis being a real downer on their bi-yearly three week vacations to Maui and so the opiates rise and so do the valiums for the menopausal lady boomers who live off a handful of benzos and a red wine and talk about how they worked their way through college to pay for it by waitressing on weekends and why can young people do the same? The Boomer husband on a handful of Opiodes rubs his shoulders and notes that's why his shoulder is so bad now because he worked his way through college by giving tennis lessons on the weekend. Both will consume all the alcohol their parents and grandparents generation did but far far more drugs, more powerful drugs and far more often than any generation before them. Here is a baffling statistic claimed by some expert observers: The next generation (which has no name other than 'the children of baby boomers) would come of age at around the worst ever time for hope, opportunities or finding purpose. They'd come of age in a world where there was ever drug available to their parents the Boomers, in as much supply and they'd come up in the late 1980s to stunningly high unemployment rates. The 'downsizing era' and where, as far as they could see into the future, more and more jobs were being shipped overseas, there would be far far less 'advancement' even if you could find a job and they would be absolutely held down by any and all Boomers who had the total run of everything on earth at that point. That generation (today are around 50 years old) that generation is thought to have used LESS DRUGS than their parents generation. In fact, nearly the only pop-culture drug movement they're associated with was the peculiar 'Straight-Edge' culture. A strange thing where.. and think about this... NOT doing drugs was an act of rebellion. A 'counter-culture'. That cant be a 'thing' unless Boomers, the 'establishment' had indeed normalized drug use. This generation might be seen in TV characters like 'Alex P Keaton' who would tease his 'hippy parents' about how they were probably high on weed or must have done some drugs. "hhaa.. wow you really did have some good drugs back then didn't you mom and dad" as the audience chuckled knowingly about those '60s' days. This belief that if only people have a benevolent government that develops sophisticated social services that give everyone hope, opportunity and education then we'll see drug use and abuse simply cannot and demonstrably has not panned out as any kind of rule. I can think of Boomers in my own circle who will, to this day, still go down memory lane to what it was like back then. One recounted "we could tell our boss to go eff himself, go to a three day hippy festival, get baked out of our minds, come back and we'd get hired back. If not, we'd walk across the street and get hired that afternoon by another company and recounts having a working class job but saving up for a few months and buying a new Trans-Am with cash, outright and how that car plus a bag of cocaine and a disco ball had them swimming in the p-word every weekend. They also insist that the drugs were way better back then. Then again, they also insist that marijuana today is wayyyy more brutally powerful so I don't really know lol
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  805.  @Matt_from_Florida  This 'genetic invention' thing doesn't work. His thing was ridiculous BUT it doesn't work that the very first incarnation of something is therefore 'since we knew it' or since it's been a broadly accessed institution. That said, I don't know what he or she is talking about and psychiatry, mental health care, psychology have been a broadly accessible institution, that which most people could find for a solid half-a-century and that includes deep dives into drugs, drug addiction and so on. To pick a date, 1973 onward. Since then drug use and abuse has only become more difficult. (though, someone else doing the genetic thing really caught me out pointing out opium was around for 200+ years and lots of people used it!! They sure got me!
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  806.  @seandelaney1700  Eh, no, most all the trade you see around the world is because the profits are higher on the other side of the line but I agree if you use government forces to suppress something then you can slow or stop it. Over in China, they put a 'death penalty' tax on smuggling drugs and it has, in part, to some degree, kept drug smuggling to a minimum.
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  807.  @RonLarhz  a state of disbelief, id suppose.
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  808. This is the energy for drugs. One of the ways Chinese get the capital and establish networks is by selling counterfeit products at crazy low prices. This is exactly what, where, who and why they can bring the precursors for fentanyl into Mexico and sell or cooperate with Mexican cooks that turn that into Fentanyl that gets smuggled into the USA on a truck full of fake Disney shirts and boxes of 'Nintendos'. this IS the energy for drugs.
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  809.  @pc14thenumber9  nope, the drug in this case come from Mainland China or more specifcially the 'precursors' aka the ingredients come from Mainland China and most via networks to 'Chinatowns' and the kinds of retailers who sell counterfeit products and blackmarket items. These Chinese then move the ingredients to Mexican Cartel 'cooks' who take it from there, mix and make the final product and then smuggle it into the USA, very often inside big shipments of Made-in-China Disney and Marvel knock-off products.
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  810. Heee hawww hee haww.. Please don't be a boxing watcher, we're sick you toxic casual kids.
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  811. It's worth noting that at 15:50 the problem is that almost everything would be 'first used' sometime around the 16/17th century because.. that's when we our texts (you see, the ones we have today) that's when we get more and more of them. Less and less texts from before then. Right? and this is the ones uploaded to databases. but it's fun to find the first known usage (known to us, from what texts we have today)
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  812. I'd vote Trump all day but over the years I have looked that Democratic Party election systems and that's where you really see some outrageous 'rigging'. This isn't a 'trump zinger' thing. If you go back and watch how they robbed Bernie Sanders it's really blatant and shocking, how they rigged Biden to win and yes they did rig and jam things in a way to sideline Gabbard.
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  813. imagine how much more would get done if so many people didn't waste so many years and so much of their brain on getting college degrees for nothing, to do nothing, that did nothing.
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  814. You believe there are people who 'believe in biblical literalism' ffs .. that's cute.
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  815. The USA is great right now. It's very wealthy and doing just fine.
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  816.  @Iskander9K  yes, i was there just recently. Its one of the cities in the USA and its a very wealthy city.
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  817. @AArata63  yes, thats why they can get credit cards and buy all kinds of food with high food safety standards and still be able to pay their credit cards off. Chinese use Alipay credit to buy food, just so you know. Americans are fine.
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  818.  @Jody-howl  this isn't an 11 year old childrens Roblox chat. don't do that here where adults are talking.
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  819. @Jody-howl  no, i didnt mean level up to a shltty 15 year old talkin like a tuffyboy on Grand Theft auto. And you dont even know what 'insolvent' would even mean here.
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  820.  @Iskander9K  Please don't keep trying to engage in levels of discussion where you are simply going to get confused, then think everyone else is so dumb, then become a nuisance and only make yourself frustrated. Just don't. there are some cool WWE wrestling videos on youtube. You just stay there okay?
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  821.  @Iskander9K  You don't think I'm a bot and you 'barfing out inernet comment retorts' without knowing what the words even mean like that? I can't help you. The only thing I can say is that you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. Good luck on that.
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  822. She's very pretty and in peak office fashion of the day. It might have another viral quality that is matches the classic comedy 'Office Space' and the enduring meme of the beleaguered worker who, overwhelmed with paperwork murmers 'Burn it down.. im gonna burn it all down'.
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  823.  @KratostheThird  Hello, please try and think about what concepts are going on now okay? This video was RECENTLY a viral video. Get it? He isnt telling you 'this was a viral video 45 years ago' but rather here in 2025. Office Space has, since it came out, been a long-running very popular source of internet memes. It's a pop-culture phenom that is still referenced today, in 2025. has that helped you grasp this a little bit?
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  824. What do you mean by stand straight?
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  825.  @rodneybell3201  ok but this video isnt about acting confident and taking a stance that says 'im not afraid of you' but more like 'physics' of physical fighting. IF youre past looks and think the assault is going to happen you should not being trying to stand up straight.. not squared up to the attacker. You can if you will be stepping back and siding ala the video.
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  826. Nobody's going to mention the worlds worst fitting shirt on this man?
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  827. I'm going to let you in on a secret but there is a hotel in Cambodia that has segregated floors, the two basement floors, for Mainland Chinese. They don't tell them that, they just assign them and put other guests on upper floors. Why? you guessed it, they are noisy, the make disgusting spitting noises, they make a mess everywhere, they certainly do smoke like crazy inside the rooms and leave garbage all over the place. The other issue being they stand around outside hoarking phlegm, kick dogs and flick cigarette butts and yell into phones all while acting like they are the big bosses from 'head office' China. A nearby 'Halal' restaurant has a similar scheme: they have a nice outdoor patio section and they automatically seat any Chinese mainlanders outside. same reasons and there is something with the Malaysian Muslims that I can't remember but they don't want Chinese eating in the same room. Something to do with the way the Chinese spit out bones and shells all over the table top.
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  828. to summarize, you're describing how Ukraine has invaded Russia and taken over Kurks, is keeping all they conquered and is taking a little more to the north. Think about what you've just said lol
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  829.  @dalstephen3834  Yes, they actually did that. They just invaded Russia and took over a city in Russia. Really. They are STILL doing that. A month later they are STILL invading Russia, inside Russia. Your imagination of that being different in the future is fun to imagine, but, can't say this enough: Ukraine has actually invaded Russia and has 100s of Russian pows while it burns down Russian buildings, ammo and no doubt collects massive amounts of intelligence info. In Russia. invaded Russia holy eff!
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  830.  @efghggdxlmfn33  ok but they were already in a meat grinder. now they are grinding some meat inside Russia. they actually put a meat grinder inside Russia's land. that's crazy!
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  831.  @ButlerProspect  why are you saying your imagination as 'thats the reality'. Thats weird lol
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  832. 7 years ago Trump started putting tariffs on many Chinese products. Biden actually kept all of them and now Trump still has them. He has learned from the 7 year long history they most definitely DO work for the USA. 60 billion worth. You need to keep in mind, in most cases (not all) China ate the difference. the tariff is passed BACK to the exporters by way of them charging that much less.
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  833.  @rayshoesmith  ya that was cute. i think he defended his renegade belt two in two years? Whyte and Chisora 3. Then retired and lost his trinket but then wierdly un-retired a week later to once again become the 'WBC champion of the world' Meanwhile, no seriously people thought anyone was THE heavyweight champion other than AJ and then USYK.
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  834. Everybody thinks I'm joking or exaggerating when I say the UK is, no joke, they are going to have to consider having a very real civil war style uprising. Not a joke. I mean it. This podcast has it right too: those who know, you MUST now make up your mind. You're going to have to decide and that needs to be done yesterday so make up your minds. It may already be to late. There is a window and its closing.
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  835.  @jamesmiller4114  Oh no, its definitely very much what is happening today. There is no 'sinking US empire'. They are a wealthy country doing fine.
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  836. There's still lots of time
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  837. That's great and hopefully it will help do something about China's current economic collapse.
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  838.  @Riannu-i8x  Can I give you some advice? Most of the world and the people that would comment here are not actually Chinese middle-schoolers who win 'reality' by HEEE HAWWW pointing and jeering in mock laughter at each other. You MUST do better than that okay?
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  839.  @letsgobrandon4429  Sure, China's Vanke was just bailed out and this is an attempt to reorganize and slow the devastation from the massive economic collapse of the real-estate bubble. It's why almost all Chinese are poorer today than they were 5 years ago. Should we carry on about the most obvious thing in the world?
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  840. @rogerstarkey5390 Why do you think severe economic collapse is hilarious?
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  841. where would I find the Chinese version? If you mean the narrative the Mao camps wrote they are absolutely damning of the Qing as being corrupt to the core, absolute failures, traitors to China and could take all blame for every aspect of the Opium Wars, directly and holistically they damn the Chinese emperor and all his men as utterly deplorable, worthy of hell and guilty of everything that followed.
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  842. For legitimate reasons I was prescribed opiates (several times over life) and the doctors get very anxious, they keep mentioning 'addiction' and all this but sincerely speaking here: It never once affected my actual day to day employment, my duties, even in a job where I needed to be on-the-ball, alert, carry out many specific tasks, communicate clearly with clients etc etc. If anything I was better focused because I was not distracted by chronic pain as much. Now, on the converse: I once got a prescription for some 'stop smoking' pills called 'Zyban' and became forgetful, clumsy, utterly wrecked fool who probably shouldn't have been driving a car, that's how wacked and stupid they made me. I quit them 3 days later. I guess the point here is that we all have to be keenly aware of what any drug is (or isn't) doing to us, our body, perhaps our mindset and thinking is part of it. Be aware. Know what your genetic happenstance can handle or handles poorly. That is all.
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  843. nope, Japan has been doing slightly better since Trump renewed trade deals with them around 6 years ago. still on a little uptick too.
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  844.  @LemonJuice516  Yes, its been a lot of Capital (money) moving from China into Japan. Indeed.
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  845. @Etheldreda20 it's one of the freest countries in the world and with Trump has been dismantling the previous restrictions after the USA rescued China from the Japanese invaders. They just had the courage to inform the PRC part of CHina that if it attacks Taiwan is will be coming for China again. That was pretty bold.
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  846.  @LemonJuice516  For what, how capital flight from China was, in part, going to Japan? I can't post links but you can very obviously look that up in the news.
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  847. Nobody and especially not Trump, peasant.
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  848.  @庄安得烈  White men built what you, a peasant, benefits from. be grateful you're not eating tree bark in China.
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  849. I'm at the point (for years now) but that Alberta has to simply leave Canadian federation and become the 51st American State, full-on, straight up. and there doesn't need to be some negotiations or any of this. We just become a State as any other.
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  850. Piers is transitioning into Cathy Newman.
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  851. The political stuff aside, it's interesting to see Ukraine actually has invaded Russia (for a surprisingly long time) and Russia can't even push them out of Russia. In fact, I think Ukraine is about to just start conquering and annexing parts of Russia for a while. which.. i mean who saw that coming?
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  852. there are a lot of places where, if an affair is revealed, then that person is definitely guilty of the murder of their spouse. the jury will only need the thinnest of evidence and its a guilty verdict. (see, most of those 48hrs dateline cases)
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  853. That wasn't the complain though.
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  854. This is excellent! Amazingly, the only thing missing was some reference to the enduring warning "If this van is rockin' - don't come a knockin'" and it should be noted that was a proper problem (or no problem?) whereupon the shocks would indeed rock up and down if.. well, y'know.
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  855. So you're from China but living in the USA?
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  856. no, they don't push up their prices. we know this because its real life and has been for the last 8 years Trump and Biden have been doing these tariffs on Chinese products. the prices are the same for the American buying it at the counter. Chinese actually DO get the tariffs on them, the Chinese buyer. Now you know something new!
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  857. fun fact but my dad told me about this when I was a little kid (and yes I had a sling he made) but contrary to popular tellings of the bibilcal account, David was the one with the deadliest weapon. *somewhere here on youtube there's a video of a sheepherder (maybe Afghanistan?) and people are astonished how it looks like a long-range large caliber bulltet and he can hit bullseyes, absolute bang-on targets with his sling.
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  858. Just to reveiew: You believe its a big thing where US Citizens don't stop complaining about other countries education systems? The dumbest of this. really.
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  859.  @yuanSU-d1p  Chinese nationalists don't even believe China has anything but a couple of prototypes with superficial shapes. and yet, India is still CLOSER to being a superpower than Mainland China. That's how far China is from any such a thing.
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  860. @Flightman453  eww yuck
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  861. that isn't how it would work. We find out how has this strange 'more right' measurement and then voila they are not international waters anymore! that's not how anything ever works in these things.
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  862.  @smallfox8623  its probably because he lives there and everyone knows what everyone else is doing, who's who, who isn't, who doesn't even have any foreign worker hiring abilities etc.
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  863. do ya? like what?
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  864. This was disappointing. I dont know why toprank wants to replay this? To worsen inoues image or what?
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  865. The next step, a month from now, will be Canada opening, freely, to any and all US products. All the regulations that ever stopped them before will be undone this month. American banks, American everything, fast-food, major franchises to little ones will be 100% free to open anywhere in Canada. So you will be feeling silly and deprived if you actually did try and carry out your impotent promise.
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  866.  @billinsf88  I did and thats why I believe these things. Ive also been where Vietcong rebels invaded Laos and saw where American and Lao forces tried to expel the Vietcong invaders.
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  867. Increase political tensions with whom? I don't know why anyone else would be especially affected or see any special changes in their own political worlds?
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  868.  @benjaminnguyen554  Hi, now that I know you have a low IQ and say things like "phht you must have skipped history class". Anyway, you conceded and should probably delete your comment. You realized "Oh oh.. I don't know any special change" and then pretended you meant "In all of the wide world some political things happen somewhere' Shame on you. That was embarrassing.
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  869. 24:50 it's not just that he's got long woman's hair.The reason I don't want to trust him is because he's in a court appearance and has, for some insane reason, smushes his long woman's hairstyle into ... and it might be using 'wax'? into some weird ugly looking hair helmet of some kind. tell him i hate him, thanks.
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  870. I'd upvote this 100x wait.. now its not syncing with my other devices, password, hang on scroll, what number, okay wait i got to dick around on 'devices' and settings for 30 minutes.. oh shlt its updating,. I hate the world this created. absolutely hate it.
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  871. youre so.. such a beautiful superiorite. uh, must be so hard for you?
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  872.  @AustinGauthier-y1f  It's not so much intelligence as it's your gnostic enlightenment, your infilling of the Holy Empathy and the true spirit of Reddit you can't help but embody. but what do you think your IQ would be? In a proper test?
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  873.  @RealCaptainJaws  the important thing is that you'll be ok, after all. You're going to be okay, right?
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  874.  @beatboxmanandbeats  Uhh and you must pity me, yes?
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  875.  @gunplasm86  take your meds .
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  876.  @gunplasm86  stop taking too many meds.
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  877.  @mechanical_chaos  Sir, this is a Youtube, not a Reddit r/fakePsychologists subreddit. smarten up.
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  878.  @sireraen7884  well said
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  879.  @PariahTheMassiah  Yes, you should call your dad and tell him you only wanted to make him proud of you. and a hug now and then. make that call!
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  880.  @KateCarew  you're one of them.
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  881.  @kiraoshiro9251  You shouldn't say things you know are untrue.
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  882.  @kiraoshiro9251  You don't believe the accusations you made towards me. You wrote things you hoped would hurt my feelings. The problem is that you'll start to wreck your own insides the more often you say things you know not to be true. It will start effing up your cognition, scrambling up your soul and confusing yourself. Don't be that guy.. if its not too late?
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  883.  @EvanCurtis-kc8hg  Yes, if I can get one goof to stop looking for videos about 'the stupids' so they can make a comment like the original one here? Then it was worth it. Even if only one redditor midwit smartens up - I've done a good deed.
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  884.  @huntrgonzo9116  "You're Stoopid and Ghey". there ya go, 94iq boy!
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  885.  @loneshine  Kiddo, pay attention: I'm not being attacked. I AM the attacker. I am that which attacks. anyway, back to your roblox games. don't reply, thanks.
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  886.  @loneshine  You were told to stop engaging with me. do that now.
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  887. Ultimately, nobody can ever know the truth but there are some major observations and calculations that strongly conclude 'beyond a reasonable doubt' that China's population is easily below 1 Billion. Maybe as LOW as 800 million but most seem to aggregate it to around 970 million. Why? 1000 different measures but some of them: - The Shanghai Data Leak (err.. probably not actually 'hackers' but a vengeful leak during the Shanghai gang persecutions). This is so massive that still 1000s of of online volunteers are combing through it and it seems impossible to calculate over 1 billion people from this. - People think this sounds funny but many exporters carefully note things like salt (no, seriously) tampons, baby formula and 100 other things China imports that are reliable indicators of a living person. - Seemingly simplistic but: Google Earth. Nope, not just nerds trying to 'count people' from the sky but what they can do is monitor how (example) 20 rural villages were removed at least 3 years ago. Replaced with industrial farmland. They can even see "20 villages worth of newly opened high-rises" in a nearby city. However, China's official numbers STILL count the population of that rural area AS IF those people still live there AND then the real people who've moved to the city. - Officially China has agreed it's previous census over-counted and there are some wacky reasons for that and yes they blame local governments for doing it. So they will say, yes, there was a 200 million overcount back then, 15 years ago, agreed! YET, While ammending that number at that time, they do NOT amend the following years. If you see what I mean, they carry on estimating population grown AS IF that '200 million' must have still existed, had 1.8 children. I suck at math but you get the idea, the math is screwed up and can't be right. While it's true that no single given area can conclude the entire nation, we do things like count the decline in NEW kindergarten signs-ups which have been consistently less and less for going on 5 straight years. Then we make a dog-walk game of counting lights or activity in the apartments or hotels around our neighborhood. 20% occupancy, this might be 50% but that one is still seemingly 100% unoccupied like it was 3 years ago.
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  888. In retrospect, put in this way, you can see like its the most obvious thing on earth "OH no... this is NOT good and this cannot go well" but that's easy to see looking back. At the time, surely it was just crazy fun, who can complain about being on MTV and 'VIP service' and all the coolest tattoo people ever woooot. But you look at this in retrospective and I think 'oh nooo that poor kid was heading to nothing but torment and burnout and unhappy things'. he seems like a good man so I hope he keeps having that good normal life now.
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  889. I don't agree with this. Take the one in my hometown. It used to be that men came to town seeking their middle-class jobs but until they could, one could work at the bottle recycling factory for enough money to get food and rent a place and set up a bit. Instead, they took people who were already getting social services and gave them these government subsidized jobs in a 'DEI'. so what happens is, the healthy high school grads or the men needing to 'stop gap' for a few months were eliminated and cannot work there anymore. This is a kind of DEI that hurts the most vulnerable: people who do NOT HAVE monthy SSI checks coming in.
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  890. At the moment and forseeable future, which only sees so far, other Asian countries are on different trajectories and most of them are as 'viable' as it can get. Japan is finally on a slight up-boost, Taiwan is fine, Singapore wealthier, The Philippines are on a gradual uphill rise while Vietnam is still on its 'China 2000 era' boom taking on massive manufacturing (mostly from China's plate) and Cambodia is a bit of a 'rising little star' that may very well be one to watch over the next few decades. Laos is still an impoverished charity state though but Thailand is cruising long pretty good! Myanmar.. ya thats.. thats not so good. The Asian countries are all doing fairly well and 'should be'' (assuming nobody massively screws it up) but should be steady uphill rolls for decades to come. China's Mainland is the one that's on the slide and there is something about the others becoming a 'conglomerate' and they're already moving this way: They may well start working together to take what they want from China's downfall. Including, for some, revenge.
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  891. When he stops making massive money off China via his tariffs on China. until then, he is delighted to get more and more money from China.
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  892.  @curthing  He's done it for 8 years. (Biden just kept all Trumps China tariffs going). What is to understand about it?
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  893.  @CyrusJanssen  This went on for 4 years, then Biden carried forward all Trumps tariffs and 8 years later that isn't coming true. but sure, you keep believing it will happen. A remind you moved out of China and to the USA at right about the time those Tariffs were kicking in and stayed ever since. (don't blame you, you did the right thing esp for your financial security)
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  894. Nope, that's a lie. People, no serious analysts every said this (did you listen to the topic?) and no serious analysts ever said anthing in 1990 other than: The next 2 decades (at least) will he the MASSIVE RISE of China. So don't keep spreading that lie, okay?
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  895.  @fuzzjunky  I'm legit interested in your thinking here. You tell us 'completely removed from reality' and what do you mean by that? Do you mean, as Peter explains, he doesn't actually think China will get in a hot war with the USA but is giving a 'hypothetical'. Of course, its not "reality" because China has just stated a hot war with the USA. Or, Do you mean its 'completely removed from reality' in that China has WAY WAY more of those resources stockpiled, not just 'some more' but so much more that you'describe his figures as 'completely removed from reality'? and, What did you mean by you don't see the Americ 'faring well from any of it'. From what? China's stockpiles of oil and grain? What do you mean there?
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  896. A reminder that the 'engagement ring' is not some long-running tradition and a modern Marketing Invention. Hopefully this is the end of this made-up commercial fabrication and it just fades away.
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  897.  @wwbren  The name is Tibet and you will use 'Tibet' when you speak my language and write here on my Western Media.
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  898.  @nanyanguo1  That's a bunch of commie gobbeldy-gook and crybully nonsense about the utterly disgusting self-destruction Chinese imposed on themselves, however, In English, in the Anglosphere it will be Tibet, in Chinese I will call it Tibet (pronounced a little like 'Tee Bet' and you can call it it Tibet. We're not doing these commie word games here in the outside world. Chinese can manipulate that cheap stuff on you and their own Chinese but its really repulsive they think they will now do this here. btw, this kind of cheap stuff is why 'The West' is going to decide to make Tibet independent or give it over to India. Remember how you were one of the crybullies who made that happen okay?
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  899.  @bumbengtey8464  the powers in Peking think its clever and get off on it.
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  900.  @PChan-yt4uf  There aren't 1.4 billion Chinese and they call it Tibet. except party members who just recently got the word to start saying this fake name. most of them forget and say Tibet. you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh
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  901.  @tthscrolls7772 Wait.. what official documents? You understand this is the English speaking world in The West, the Anglosphere. No, never saw or heard anyone outside of the Chinese government and its media and party members writing it anything but Tibet. Now what?
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  902.  @tthscrolls7772  English comprehension problems are strong with you. You need to stop talking now. you're an 86IQ and this will get annoying fast.
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  903.  @tthscrolls7772  hi, you were warned about using your half-wits to be annoying. you don't 'get it' and then youre just half smart enough to smirk and think you're really doing something. Dont take this personal but I might have to block you if you keep this up, ok?
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  904.  @araara4746  Why, I didn't lose the name 'Tibet' and won't need to call Tibet 'xizang' like a ridiculous party member. I wont be calling the Zodiac dragon a 'Loong' either. I don't have to embarrass myself with those childish things like you do. Anyway, as Chairman Xi, recently speking in Pekinghas asked everyone in China and Tibet: prepare to eat bitter melon as these hard years get harder.
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  905.  @araara4746  It doesn't work that way. now go eat your bitter melon.
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  906.  @araara4746  u mad, sis?
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  907.  @lagrangewei  16 months ago the government of China called it Tibet. the only people in China who say 'xizang' are party members and 1st graders. Nobody here in the outside world is going to start calling it anything but TIbet. know that. You aren't being asked. you're being told. mark this and come back and tell me I was right 1, 4 and 20 years from now.
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  908. This has and currently is happening all over Mainland China (The PRC) where I have great difficulty separating my video clips from around 20 different Chinese cities, from north to south, criss-crossing and large parts of 20 cities look nearly identical. In some ways I get it, yes i get the familiarity part and the other sense I have is death, soulessness, the end of adventure forever :(
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  909. I don't see the MISCALCULATES but this is going to be rough on China PRC at a time of brutal economic problems. I do believe Trump is also looking for some drug and illegals agreement from China though. Same as Canada and Mexico, if they show something that stops Fentanyl (actually the ingredients in China's case) and agree to take and repatriate the deported Mainland Chinese? I think Trump suspends the 10% Tariffs. btw the latter 'seems' to be happening already. For those who don't know, China will often reject planeloads of returned citizens (but without ID) saying they can't know if theyr'e Chinese so how can they take them? HOWEVER, it seems that they have been taking back at least 4 or 5 planeloads this last few months. I believe Trump is going to want a blatant and public pledge to take back everyone sent to them. ID or not, Chinese beyond a reasonable doubt. I guess we'll find out pretty soon.
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  910. Nope. 30 years ago (which was 1995) and Maher was already a liberal lefty from the 1970s era. (He's 70) and this would have been the default, the common viewpoint of his era. He didn't 'take 30 years to...' but was 30 years EARLIER than when that became a thing.
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  911. This only convinced me that Alberta ought to become a 51st state to get away from the dishonest globalist gobbedlyg-gook like that.
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  912. I do travel around the world and my side-passion is visiting ancient and other historic sites. technically speaking I studied history in school too but it's not like I actually attended classes. Anyway, one of the things Hancock can get some credit for is bringing up some former truths that are being abandonded. - Nothing to do with him or Joe Rogan 'upending establishment' but for many decades it's being more slowly concluded that the pyramids were certainly not made to be tombs. [even if someone did, later, intern their body inside one] and there is some good reasons to suspect they were used to store grain. because... because some smaller ones did exactly that. but either way this isn't some crazy controversy anyway. It just happens that, yes, one of the ideas of being solely as tombs is being disregarded now. - There are some good reasons to believe proper cities were once and their remnants may be in the Amazon Forest. Why? because only recently a LOT of massive cities are being discovered and most agree that the Amazon Forest is crazy abundant living BUT it's not like someone 'refuses to believe' but that it will be extremely difficult to find remains due to massive overgrowth. But may someone happenstance upon some city? great. This isn't something 'the establishment refuses to admit!' it's just physically difficult and resources can be spent on easier to find, more accessible incredible new cites that are still years down a list of things to excavate. - Id strongly suggest that the timeline of Egypt really does square with the Hebrews account and that will be resolved when it becomes increasingly impossible to keep up the missing years.
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  913. The USA is doing fine. slow and steady growth, relatively stable on all the usual civilization standards. Why are you saying the USA is in some 'decline'?
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  914.  @judithermer7969  Lets see if I can sound like you. You may need to stop being ignorant and learn to watch what's happening instead of being so ignorant and not knowing anything about the outside world so you can see whats really happening. Need to stop following communists.
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  915. I'm not sure why a mandatory attendance movie is being counted as some proof China has become a Technology Economy 2025 or why making a copy of OpenAI is either. Or 1997-era Japanese trains. All I can say is I hope trillions of the people's wealth wasn't used for these gimmicks and that somehow this helps China PRC have a softer landing in the current economic collapse.
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  916.  @PlanetCHINA.1  Lots of sneering and dancing from you but the question remains: What are we supposed to do now that some 'China 2025' promise hasn't happened? Do we make more dancing robots like its Japan 1992? Spend 1 trillion on another 600 kms of 90s era high speed train tracks nobody uses? Make one go 602 KM then claim it as 'making the world jealous' high score? You don't know. Nobody seems to know. and you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh.. a LOT to learn. good luck on that!
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  917.  @milexiangyangli5666  for you, coming from a toxic hyperfeminine 'shame culture' you can only interpret the world around you through some materialistic and social status 'shame' and 'envy', however, we are still left with a problem: Its 2025 and everyone in China is poorer than they were 7 years ago and far too many are unemployed/under-employed, there is no 'new era' and only less and less available and we need to find out what can be done so food and medicine don't become problems for 800 million Chinese? Any answers, toxic schoolgirl?
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  918. Yes, well of course, because it benefits them more. Still laughing?
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  919. I think he exists because the anti-christians got the run on things and must keep evolutionism going but more importantly making sure nothing squares with the book of Genesis. They can't pull this off anymore but Hancock exists so they don't got into that Genesis 'creationism' room. He puts a room up with some other convoluted explanation.
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  920. OMG you are like a kind of Saint or 'godlike' pure being on this earth!!
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  921.  @glw5166  right, he's actually as close to a holy saint as the earth has ever seen! A prophet really.
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  922.  @reubennichols644  wowww.. in a way you're even holier than all the others because you were the victim of hatewashing but using your own power, your own will, without outside help you transformed yourself into salvation and purity!
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  923.  @veganath  Yes, you believe that Social Engineering can work as a replacement or stand-in for (what we used to call) God. In a real way, we can become 'like God' through knowledge. I may not need to read much about this because I've lived half my life in societies that took it seriously enough to implement it and some are still doubling-down on it too. As we speak, Uighurs were just seen on transport on their way to their assigned residences and new employment. Come join us and learn about all this theory you dream about but never lived in.
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  924.  @markgarrett3647  I'm told homosexual men are the new 'Holy Virgins'.
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  925. Why did you think this told you about spending on unimportant things?
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  926. Europeans made the American suburbs that way. That IS where it came from originally and it never really stopped being Europeans as millions of European immigrants, consultants and European engineers and builders ... made them.
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  927. What would be misleading? If you're saying "The Chinese" as if the nation or somehow all Chinese agreed then that's misleading but this context is that some (not alllllllllll) but enough Chinese wanted opium that Chinese went looking for it from British merchant ships, bought it, brought it into China, created distribution networks so they could get lots of opium to the demand, the 'demand' is the Chinese who wanted to buy and use that opium. There was a point in time where smoking opium could be compared to cigarettes today, it was absolutely widespread in China, soldiers routinely smoked it, retired folks sat around smoking it. It was a 'national addiction' and the more opium Chinese could get, bring in and distribute the more and more it sold.
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  928.  @RdghxbnkpyTdbk  No, seriously, Chinese builds are terrible for nearly everything. It's a deep 'cha bu duo culture' and this goes for everything new today. Arguably, the quality is getting worse all over again as China becomes poorer and poorer.
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  929. @dt_2  in China this American rule doesnt apply. Strangely, some cheap knockoff products will be surprisingly durable. Some where the Chinese counterfeit is actually stronger than the original. Conversely, something very expensive, like Zhengzhous trillion dollar 'sponge tech' was garbage that drowned 1000 citizens who paid very high prices for it. Chinas mainland is very inconsistent this way. I can tell you this, you are so ignorant of the outside world you thought chinese materialistic shame culture would work to shut me up as you held big face in my own home [this western media] so i can say for sure you have a lot to learn about the free world and how it doesnt work hehe a LOT to learn. Good luck on that hehe
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  930. @RdghxbnkpyTdbk  hello again foreigner. Youre poorer today than you were 6 years ago. So is everyone in China. You still cant drink tap water. 70% of those students are unemployed though a few have Meituan delivery gigs so they can eat 50 cent dog meat bbq skewers while looking for the job that will never come. Are you really sure you want to keep lying to yourself?
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  931. Of course not. The USA varies a lot by State and then obviously where in that given State but overall the US is doing well and it's on a steady upwards swing. To put this in perspective, the 'gdp per person' of the USA is 10X higher than (example) mid-ranked China. Of course there are other factors but generally speaking their on a good steady upward improvement. That's especially remarkable because much of the world is on a downward decline or stagnant at this particular time in the decade.
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  932. @lornamackay4069  we dont know because Chinas official numbers are always rigged but yes at this time, with wild deflation, Chinese can (example that skews hard) can rent an empty retail space for less than 15% of the average income. Theg can also buy a months worth of street food and sidewalk vegetable for 10% of their income. Deflation is a helluva thing and why any Chinese with the means to do so try to go live in the USA but yes, PPP they will spend more for safely packaged real safety inspected beef in a warm supermarket and renting a store or apartment will cost more in the PPP sense. If you ever visit the two countries you will notice the USA is the far far more wealthy nation.
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  933. @barnabusdoyle4930  nope, you had a Trump vote revolution and nope, there isnt that kind of dissatisfaction anyway. The french revolution.. that BLM thing the Left did wS already tried, failed and passe
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  934. @vulcansaur  yes, considering all that, yes the USA is doing well in the sense better than nearly every other nation on earth. So well that they whine and fret about things that a nation like China only WISHES it could have and get outraged about their medical insurance not covering ALL their wants etc. Rich kid problems.
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  935. it's cute how Chinese are pretending Americans live in a 'firewalled' country and have come as 'refugees' to the arms of China. When arriving these American are SHOCKED to learn China is wealthier and more godly than what their regime told them!'. Now the tables have turned and America's government eats bitter melon ahahhhhh!!! but its all fake and disgusting :(
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  936.  @jxy7096  that sounds good until you realize it produces the bad kind of colonizer
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  937. I wish they'd run the names of the speakers on the screen.
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  938. It's around 15% and that is absolutely massive when that is the bag of gold that keeps the country from descending into lower levels of poverty. If China could be selling 15% more to the 'rest of the world' they'd have been doing it already.
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  939. @SCC.1233 China is a developing nation but no, nothing you're saying here is how anything works in reality. Youre imaginary US Led NATO 'The West' is who decided China would produce these kinds of products for them. This week, their deciding that India and Vietnam will do so instead. And really dozens of other countries including some of those from their own countries. Your last sentence is just nonsense fantasy that isn't based on real life. IF China could be selling 15% more (in money value) to other nations they would have been doing that by now. Do you think China has been turning down a trillion dollars in exports this entire time? and this is why the trillion in products stuck in Chinese warehouses and on ships is being dumped back onto the Chinese domestic market. It's why China has already maxed out its exports to the other countries and is getting the SAME complaints from Iran and Malaysia and others about way too many Chinese products being dumped on them. Same problem ensues. btw: The 'US-Led NATO' and 'The West' if you want to make them into a single grouping, a single thing? Vastly vastly bigger, wealthier, far far more powerful than China. If you want to make all these powers into one single entity they become a gigantic superboss where China is a peasant farmer in comparison.
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  940. hah yes! Oh, the good old boats, I've owned 3 of these cars seen in the video but when they were old cheap used 'beaters' and yes indeed you had to dump a lot of fuel to go.. ..well not very fast or powerfully. Not relative to the massive V8 gas guzzler's roaring work. weird times!
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  941.  @terryparker1694  Hi. Jesus died in 33 AD. Derp!
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  942. Where do you see it? I mean what is really occurring, where are you encountering the beneftis of Chinese AI in anything you'd do in China?
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  943.  @cyberchef8344  It's not a rule.
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  944.  @user-tz5uq2bt1s  theres no such thing as that measure.
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  945.  @mildredfranks1980  No, its not more 'advanced' than I think and I didn't just learn about this debt holding from you ffs. No, including that, something Chinese want to keep and don't want to lose, this does not bring them close to be a 'Equal Rival' to the USA. China is much weaker, much poorer, much less powerful nation on this earth that is not 'near' the USA, its not the upcoming new contender who might be able to beat the champ, the USA and China are NOT 'two superpowers clashing'. Yet, China has convinced it's people that must be the case and that is a very dangerous belief. btw about 85 years ago another East Asian nation did just exactly that and ended up getting badly badly wrecked learning the hard way that they were not the 'Eastern USA' and the great 'rival superpower' of the Pacific, as if two great equal rivals. China wants to FAFO for some stupid reason.
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  946. Regarding the last part: THANK YOU and could everyone please cool it with the online hyper-fad of attributing everything to 'Narcissism' and Dr. Grande rightly points out its as if people are just typing this term repeatedly for the sake of saying it over and over again. Can we all just try and use this term FAR LESS for a while?
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  947. I've heard of non-stop horror stories from Salvadorians trying to live a simple normal life and instead having scumbag evil gangsters destroy everything. He doesn't need to be dictator for life BUT just long enough to see some 6000 death penalties and find a good convict island where they grow old and die off.
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  948. If only the rest of the world could have such holy and righteous emotional feelings as you, your holiness.
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  949.  @genelynsinson5453  the last news I checked seemed to all agree civilians can leave the designated zone and go to the safe half of Gaza as much as they want as fast as they can.
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  950. China has around 070 million people and it will be 900 million by the end of 2025.
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  951. Don't like the way he cheated by holding onto the ropes and throwing 1-2s like that. That's not something to like.
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  952. for 8 years the USA has had Trump Tariffs. for 8 years most things never cost the American consumer more money. In China, for example, on *most products, China paid the difference. For a month the new US Trump tariffs are doing fine on *most things. the US isn't suffering from anything but collecting money. SO FAR none of this 'Dumb Trump haha.. he is really stupid and failed and actually the 'global south' is laughing as they win'. No. No, that hasn't happened and so far the US is winning things and money. So in a few months, does this 3rd worlder want to come back on CGTN and admit he was mostly wrong about it and actually the US is still doing better and overall just fine?
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  953. I swear, this is not a made-up thing but I legit, sincerely, I had a flashback to being around 11 years old and somehow this was the only unread comic I had left. At 11 the name itself annoyed me. 'Kraven' why would that be the name? 'Craven is 'lacking courage, defeated, given up'. Then he is... not a cyborg, not a demigod, not magical or super but.. A hunter? Koward the animal killer? and I loved animals so the comic is a normal guy with a stupid name who kills animals? Anyway, I swear, all this came back to me, nearly to the flashback very moment I discarded it after 2 pages and stopped reading comic books. I'm not even joking, I mean, this is what actually ended my 11 year old love of comics.
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  954.  @wangjue6120  no, the CCP is not the sole representative of China. You're here in the outside world not inside your China PRC world lol
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  955.  @wangjue6120  Yes, the UN, which doesn't decide what China does or will be, the UN decided to use careful wording and acknowledge 4 parts of China (China, not the PRC part) then decided they'd consider The PRC as a representative. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan weren't given official UN acknowledgement. This docoument, carefully worded does NOT tell the PRC that Taiwan is a 'province of the PRC'. Chinese Mainlanders keep telling themselves this because apparently thy think the UN is the boss of China and owns China and cannot grasp the carefully worded concepts involved. Meanwhile, Taiwan still insists its the true government of China and so does the PRC make the same claim. You asked how many allies does Taiwan have and its a very long list but includes Japan and the USA. Mind you, I don't know that this changes anything on the UN's carefully worded 'legal concepts' statement from over half a century ago.
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  956.  @wangjue6120  I need you to grab this: Indeed, the UN decided to count ONLY ONE CHINA. It does NOT tell you 'Only ONE People's Republic of China'. This is the part Chinese mainlanders simply cannot figure out and they need to get this They do NOT consider the 'one China' to be 'The Peoples Republic of China. You need to get that. 'One China' is all the parts (50 years ago) which was one part being The PRC and another part of China is the RoC. You need to grasp that. Not hta ta UN resolution decides what parts of China do or don't do. You asked about who is really living in their own world. This is the meaningful question after all, what is 'de facto'. 'de facto' is what is really, physically, actually the situation? Taiwan has its own mlitary, is own land mass, its own currency, its own passports, it has it's own ruling government and systems, its has its own name and flag and then it has zero obligation to the PRC part of China, it doesn't answer to them, it doesn't follow it's instructions. So the question is a good one: who is really living in their own seperate, independent nation or 'country' and that is Taiwan. Likewise, The PRC (sometimes called West Taiwan) is also living in its own separate independent state, own currency, its own passports, its own military, its own governing systems etc etc. It's true that both claim to be the true rulers of China (the UN China, not the PRC part of China) but practically, realistically, we say 'in material real life practice' in 'De facto' they are really living in their own world and so are the Mainlanders.
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  957.  @wangjue6120  I can't tell if you're replying to ma but I'm not going to use meaningless terms like 'diplomatic allies' and will agree that these two parts of China have never signed a ceasefire treaty and its not just a 'technical sense' the civil war never stopped but is that 'defacto'. It's carried on in real, material, physical ways. I'd also agree that some careful wording of 'concepts' by the UN 50 years ago in a "declaration" isn't what decides things for China. The UN isn't anyone's boss, lawmaker or ruler. The UN says a lot of things about a lot of countries. I can tell you this, if you think China is ruled by UN declarations then you've got a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a lot to learn and UNlearn. good luck on that
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  958.  @wangjue6120  Can you do me a common sense favor? Can you please stop pretending you and i are having a chess match and you've got me boxed in with your 'Diplomatic Allies' game-killer. Then stop pretending I'm a Chinese opponent who's now groveling and sweating and 'gulp...' oh ...ehhe... and now you're strong hand and powerful winning movie has got me cornered! Can you take that and put it up your bumhole for just a few minutes becuase its really gross? It's making me feel nauseous it's so cringe inducing? If you want to tell me why you think it matters just do that instead? go.. try that?
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  959. In all seriousness and I can ask people to look at it objectively (so don't get hung up on your political team) but it seems abundantly clear one of Trump's biggest 'mandates' was to "clean the swamp" and this is to say, a massive undoing of the most expensive, arrogant gatekeepers on the planet: Bureaucrats. unelected Karens and Kevin's who RULE THE NATION and do it in the crappiest most expensive little ways. They are beyond convinced they are untouchable and see themselves as deciding who shall be punished, canceled, harassed and that they make-or-break lives. In fact, most Democrats who voted for Kamala WILL actually agree that a massive number of these 200k a year (and the sweet juicy benefits, retirement schemes would make most working people sick if they knew). An absolutely chunk of them have to go. I'd say most Democrats would agree they would like to see a whole lot of these big money 'Big Pharma' big medicine, big insurance these too have decided they are now a 'branch of government' and are our lords, out bosses, who we grovel and beg to, who will decide politics, social rules and money allocation. Elon Musk might be a wacky autistic socially awkward nut with goofy ideas but he absolutely is the guy to set upon government employees and orgs with cost-cutting hell. He found Twitter BLOATED with 1000s of do-nothings who were eating snacks and deleting comments they disliked and acting like this turd kings and queens. ZOOP! A week later he had it down to a hardcore team of just a few hundred. Say what you want but he is a genius at running lean mean machines without offices full of middle-management goofs doing nothing but take massive salaries that make the end product cost more than people can afford. RFK is a guy to let loose on cutting back on govt health departments. and the USA doesn't need to fund 'WHO' anymore.
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  960. Similar, traveled across by bus (the bus part was horrible) but Laos might be one of the most gorgeous countries I've ever seen. Green gorgeous beauty to the horizons.
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  961.  @tuananhtranhuu  Laos was an ally with the USA and the government of Vietnam. Yes indeed, they were bombing the Vietcong who had invaded Laos and were transporting weapons and soldiers through it. Once again: Laos and the USA were the allies.
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  962. but they aren't lol? are you that satanically desperate, is this some severe insecurity inside yourself to get to that point?
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  963. Good info and yes I have been watching this for months now. Something was definitely up! It was going on before Trump's tariff 'Liberation Day' thing too. Few noticed it but Vietnam had ALREADY made a '0-0' proposal AND Vietnam, as far as I saw on reports what the very first Trade Team in Washington. The 'sus' part is that Trump didn't mention Vietnam, nobody did. Its as if they had a meeting then said nothing to anyone about anything Vietnam. So.. there was a reason for that and I think we know 'who' that reason was. The obvious things though, without a doubt, Vietnam refusing to '3rd party trans-ship' is going to be the massive thing about this. Thing is, Vietnam only wins by agreeing to utterly block out China 'trans-shipping' because Vietnam is going to be, very often, exactly who is there to start making and shipping that very product to the USA. So ya, great updates. this is one I've just sort of been wating... waiting.. i know something is up with this.
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  964. Ok but I don't know what the problem would be? The UK has 10% tariffs on certain US products. The US just matched them with their own 10%. So what about it?
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  965.  @magnacarta740  You lack reading comprehension. I taught you the dispute is over the Philippines claim to this as their waters. There is no need to repeat it back to me, however, This is, otherwise international waters. China is duping fools like you into beileving that IF the Philippines conceded then somehow 'It's therefore Chinese Mainland territory'. Anyway, youre too goofy and too brainwashed to obey your Beijing owners that this is lost on you. you'll reply with more confusing inside-out goofy irrational blather.
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  966. We are going to be seeing the world turn on China as it weakens. It will be a very ugly thing.
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  967. Few people know Usyk is 0-1 with horses. btw that horse got a big attitude after that and walks around giving people the finger like a cool guy big boss now.
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  968. ok but the murderer was not 'doing so good' was he? no he was not.
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  969. people would be enraged to find out the financial security, the benefits, perks, the 'holiday post' lack of work she does to collect social glory, priesthood status. I mean seriously, people who actually work for a living should be infuriated to know their tax money, their earnings goes to people like this to live like that.
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  970. 'waterboarding' isn't even a proper torture but a terrifying psychological trick. It doesn't actually do any physical damage or pain. 'the fact that' (as every redditor starts sentences) the fact that you believe it is torture and its some sort of intense torture SAYS ALOT about how easily brainwashed you are by the leftist media types.
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  971. We might remind everyone of something: These Russian soldiers are almost always just some young men who were told this is what they're going to do. They aren't Putin, they won't be the Russian version of the SS who are viciously trying to genocide innocent people, many of them may very well have Ukrainian friends and family, they are 19 years old and were put in uniforms and no they can't disagree or leave. This is quite seriously horrific. This isn't a video game or movie scene. Damn Putin and his Generals but you're watching teenagers and college boys getting horrifically mutilated, suffering and dying in the most ugly excruciating ways. Let's keep that much in mind now and then.
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  972. They do not. Nobody in American culture has 'dowries' and you and about 100000 'mgtow' or 'redpill' teens are absolutely wrecking this comment section like you didn't even TRY to watch the video and get the context, culture and how these things really work. 'HAHAH See IN teh USA and stuff ALSO WOMEN want MONEY!!!". you idiots.
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  973.  @JustABucketOfIdiots  Oh ya, what parts of America? hmm?
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  974. Now we need more well-spoken people to explain how in most cases (not all, not every case) the tarifs, the cost of that is *passed back to the manufacturer*. Not passed forward to consumers. As we speak, the 'chi po' widget factory here in China has to reduce the price by another 10% per unit. (but whatever that loss is to them, actually the Chinese government will reimburse aka subsidize). this is why the 'importer' pays the fees and its still the same price it was before the 10% tariff and passes forward to the consumer who still pays 9.99 at walmart. China pays the difference - not americans.
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  975.  FrankWarrensLawyer  Thanks coach casual, but I'm more surprised at the poor judging not the actual fighting.
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  976.  @damiengriffiths8934  Oh, its because sometimes humans, even if they're just fans from afar, sometimes they care about other people's health and safety. I know, that doesn't make any sense to you. It's because you are a 'psychopath' which is really just a cool sounding word for a very weak and selfish character.
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  977. no, that didn't happen. It's a fake social media 'narrative' that was and is fictitious.
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  978. You're on the internet where some 200 different countries on earth watch and comment. So if you say "..here" nobody would know where 'Here' is. So you're from Canada?
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  979. Oh, Oriental Pearl is getting popular yay! Well, she might remember similar things in China or at least I do. I took a proper Chinese class and it was so strange I was bemused, not condescending but it was just so strange (some similarities to this video) then I think I got the giggles and got scolded harshly. I just couldn't. I could not do it lol
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  980. @ please be more specific, thanks.
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  981. Something to think about: On the same day a deranged teenager mass-murdered children in 'Sandy Hook Elementary' in the USA: A deranged man stabbed 23 children in a Chinese elementary school. There is the usual suspect behind the phenom: 'Infamy Lust' after seeing how someone became an infamous legend via relentless news reports. In the Chinese case, its believed the man was desperate to leave some mark of power and effect upon the world and was repeatedly interested in the horrific 2010 mass school stabbing in China. That's another one where PRIOR to that a horrific Chinese school mass-stabbing received nothing but attention, 24/7 attention and turned the attacker into the most infamous man in all of China, relentlessly see on TV and media and I think it was actually on the very day he was sentenced to death: Another man went on a horrific school stabbing. The USA still had the same non-stop relentless problem despite 10000000s of experts bltantly telling media to STOP posting the photos and making 'monsters' out of the attackers they would not stop and continue playing ominous music and zooming in on the attackers like they're THE single most important and powerful monsters and we need to know how they think, read manifestos and keep saying their name and posting that big big scary picture of them. China actually DID start doing this very thing and he attackers are no longer 'glorified' as great evil names and faces for all to remember. but THESE things, keep in mind China has a very different kind of social culture and operates in a 'Shame Culture' (as opposed to Christendom's 'Guilt Culture' really, almost opposite). but the point being they do these things from a different way and there is a reason why it will be a man but NOT a teenager or deranged youth but a man who failed to get social status over others and when they mow down children there is a social reason for this aimed entirely at the parents and to reduce their social status (thus, he is at least bigger than them by lowering them). and sorry if I'm not doing a great job articulating the Chinese mainlander mindset. It's something very hard for us Westerners to easily explain since we don't even have certain concepts that they do.
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  982.  @BenLee-xj7zm  but it can't be extreme poverty. That IS experienced by about 30% of mainland Chinese and there hasn't been more or less incidents than in China's top 10% or middle or any levels of wealth or poverty. Recently, the two most 'successful' Chinese mass-murderers were relatively wealthy or 'upper-middle class' and the attempted cement truck guy was just 'middle class' and enraged his lifestyle was sinking down to lower-middle class worker levels despite years climbing up that hard work ladder. but really, he was far FAR from any kind of extreme poverty.
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  983.  @rap3208  Nobody told him all factories are closing.
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  984. I came to find out how massive new tariffs on China might hurt China's economy and how that might affect its current economic collapse... .....instead I saw a half hour where the USA is China and the USA just got SLAMMED with devastating new tariff policies that are going to hurt Americans and devastate their economy in so many ways and all the brutal 34% punishments and hits the USA is now suffering from. Amazing.
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  985.  @freedom4life123  Please re-read my comment before you delete the reply, thanks.
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  986.  @ronnyMcAuley  I don't understand your Pigin English but there is one thing I do know - Carl Froch once knocked out George Groves in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.
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  987. I acknowledge I'm now a grumpy middle-aged man but one of the best/worst examples was the old neighbourhood just outside Liverpool where maybe the last of the old school world of the UK was largely untouched pre-2000. On the downside, the pubs were crumbling or closed, some places were kept well preserved but you sure knew you were in England. A decade later I return and entire swathes were British versions of 'Lowes' and "Michaels" and the sportswear stores and all had the exact same glass and metal build and layout as 'anywhere north america'. Yes, there is a style of .. i dont know the name, the 3 story skinny? they were just slapping them up utterly everywhere. Mind you, those weren't so bad. I think its the glass/metal box store thing that I hate more than anything else.
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  988. I think its cute how everyone is pretending that Ukraine got punished and now we all know how the Ukraine (the west nato) learned a strong lesson from the Chineserussians about getting beaten up for darin.. Ukraine? China would be Russia? sooo.. they'd fail to invade the Philippines other than some islands and then get into a horrifying 'meat grinder' where 4 years later with thousands of Chinese PLA being chewed up and dead, China weakening and watching its future die off in a 'forever war' where they can barely advance and then suddenly the Philipinos invade and TAKE an actual part of Chinese land in China (like they take over Sanya) and China cannot even push them out.. .. i mean are you people even listening to what you sound like??
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  989. I would suggest that boxing fans see the fight in this very context. It's possible Bakole does NOT look so good. If that happens, don't run around announcing it like its everything Bakole. Put an 'asterisk' beside this because sleep or no sleep, he's not coming out of his training camp where they've been preparing to take on Joe Parker.
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  990. You've never been to the USA or Europe. What country did you come from before visiting China? Or are you just lying about everything you've written?
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  991. I try my best to avoid stereotyping. Some of the backpacker youth are just nice young people sincerely wanting to have adventures, fun and learn about the world. There is a nefarious type of arrogant smarty types but then again they are self-involved enough they aren't going around hurting anyone either. I enjoyed a backpacker who, months into it all had become terribly aware this was absolutely his worst choice ever in life, lol. The other thing is that I remember being 20-something too and I'd probably be doing some of the same stupid things (now I do more sophisticated stupid things) so I can't really say a thing about it. Really, while there is a certain annoying streak among backpackers - well, that's people. Among a busload of business guys recently and about the same % of really annoying types. Vloggers - same fraction of really annoying types. So, I think we're all just about equally annoying and good too.
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  992. I'm surprised that went on so long.
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  993.  @WingkKong  Chinese are easily mind-tricked by things like "number one" as if that in itself is a gaokao score then they must be wealthy and successful! but still being the number one trading partner is the 'number one curse' when more of that trade is selling at a loss to Chinese. when more of that has to be kept that way with massive subsidizing, when more of those 130 are putting tariffs on more and more things. Using the same measures, I suppose China, under the Qing Dynasty collapse may have been the number one trading partner of 100 countries while its government was collapsing, while nations moved to take ports, while terrible social uprisings were decimating China. While Japanese were annexing parts of China and taking islands. at that time, an impoversihed Chinese in great distress, seeing it all fall apart could also say: "ya but China is the number one trading partner of the most countries!" you see?
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  994.  @puinsos2025  hello teenager, my iQ could be 76 and yet anyone with an IQ of 76 would be able to walk around and realize China has stagnated and only bcome poorer since 2019. They could even see 5G towers rusting, unfinished conrete buildings where they stood 5 years ago, and more closed shops than ever before. A 76 IQ can figure that out. Why can't you?
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  995.  @kingseiryu929  The US is putting sanctions on China to start competing with China's sanctions on the USA that have been going on for 20 straight years. Until now, the USA and most wealthy powerful nations didn't counter-sanction China but instead let it go, believing China would be grateful and use the imbalance for good. Now, after trying the biggest 'market dump' the Tarriffs will soon 50-50 match China's tariffs on the USA. here's the stupid thing on Chinas failing account: Even TRUMP in 2016 said he didn't even need it to be 50-50 AND further more, he would not even collect the imbalance dfference of the last 20 years from China! So he was very generous and easy! He said he was just happy with '60-40' still allowing China to have more. but noooo China couldn't STFU and say 'Xie Xie' and move on. Instead it tried gaming rules playing Chinese cheater games and use it's people's wealth to try and recreat a Korean style 'Automotive Market DUMP'. and what is your question? What you asked was this, thinking you are such a clever little mind: "hehe.. if the USA is so much more powerful then why don't they allow China to cheat them and use their own rules against them heheh?" That IS what you have said. "heheh then why not allow China to cheat and sneak things??" Do you think any Chinese would behave that way with other Chinese? Can you cheat China Telecom every month and when they ask you to pay the proper amount you say "hehe.. ohhh if you're so powerful and I'm so poor then why are you desperately trying to stop me from cheating?". Disgusting. By the end of 2025 Trump will make the US-China trade balance 51 (usa) and 49 (prc) and then you can see how competitive China is now that there is an equal playing field? Now see how powerful the Chinese heroes are when they have to play by the same rules? I'd suggest you're already finding the answer IF you live in China where you're getting poorer and poorer.
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  996. As mentioned, I was asked to do these kinds of things being a foreigner in China. I told the recruiter, sorry but what will happen is foreigners will be angry with me AND then locals Chinese will also get angry with me. She signed and seems to fully understand and thanked me. Yes, they realized its not good to use foreigners familiar and living in China who are already cynical and know better. But if you sponsor one who's never been to China they arrive and have that buzzing 'honeymoon' type of fun factor and they don't know what is actually going on. They just think everyone is super nice and all these Chinese vloggers are around being super helpful! and besides - isn't it a GOOD THING that we're supposed to try and be ambassadors, 'citizen diplomats' and bring countries together in fun right?!
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  997. Beijing is so SO vastly improved from the early 2010s when it was just pea-soup fog, it stank so bad it would saturate your hair and clothing, you could not see through a weird yellowy-brown haze 10 meters away. They moved most of those factories downwind circa 2015 so the city itself is wayyyyy better! Zhengzhou 2015 was the worst though. Its' not 'chemical air' as it was 'Particulates' and I was not exaggerating when I said I coudl wash my face, go outside for 20 minutes, take a wet nap and make a brownish "shround of turin' kind of painting of my face. On the wet nap. A newly washed white car would be dusty the next morning. that was during a massive construction phase. however, in a thing that is somehow NEVER FIGURED OUT by 80% of people, they simply CANNOT GRASP this for 50 straight years it seems: - The electric vehicle itself doesn't expel the emissions. The coal plant does it for them first then send the energy to that electric car. "Ya but electric cars... SEEEEE... no pollution coming out of the exhaust'. I have literally, physically rode eBikes past the coal plant that had a big grey puff coming out of its stacks... THAT IS MY EBIKES EMISSION. THERE.. see that? That was a puff of emissions TO POWER MY BIKE DRIVING BY. Nope? People somehow CANNOT comprehend this can they? "that's dummmb... my EV doesn't burn coal.. lol.. you think it has a little coal plant inside it lololol?"
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  998. Why do you believe you'd pay more money for the chips?
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  999. Why do you believe China is exceptionally safe?
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  1000.  @jeffcahill5722  That's disingenuous as all over Canada adult men walk home at 3 and 4 am all the time, you'd see it tonight in Toronto or Airdrie Alberta and then there is something else: You, like many, just describing your FEELINGS instead of what actualy is or is not objectively happening. Then you have another distinction you're failing to make with your 1970 New York vs 1970s Moscow thing: You're also describing a foreigners walking home at 3am in China (or the original Moscow Alley'. Then you need to keep in mind this 'New York Alley vs Moscow Alley' was NOT the confession that Soviet propagandists (and now the Chinese repeaters) think that it was. Yes, in the 1970s New York did have dangerous alleys, but, The "I can walk home at midnight through any Moscow alley and be safe (or 'feel safe') was as much a criticism of the harsh surveillance and police state, the authoritarianism and how the foreign authors were aware KGB and such were monitoring their every move. HOWEVER, HOWEVER, You weren't even being asked about any of that but rather why you think China is exceptionally safe. put aside whatever you think 'safe' is and why you'd believe its 'Exceptional'. There are some 200 nations on earth. yep, some (and some places in some times) are worse. Honduras or Mozambique are 'exceptionally unsafe' but about 170 nations are pretty average. Not how you 'feel safe' either but objectively and statistically etc, you are almost certain to never get assaulted in Japan, or kidnapped in Korea or murdered in some alley in Laos or Canada or Switzerland and actually MOST nations are within a few statistical points of each other varying up and down but overall close. but, you believe China PRC is 'exceptional' and is that because of something else but you, as a foreigner, once walked home at 3am and felt like you weren't going to get assaulted?
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  1001.  @weibite6495  Hello Laowai and welcome to our global media. I have lived, worked, traveled and married across China for more years than you have been an adult. More places than you're going to see in China and with more different levels of Chinese social status, low to high, villagers to party members. But I've also been to Germany, Japan, criss-crossed North American, lived in 3 other countries and all this longer than you've been an adult. China is not 'especially safe' and it's certainly not at Japan's level but its safer than Myanmar. China has recently had a series of enraged Chinese stabbing foreigners in the streets so this is not a good time for you to talk about about China being 'especially safe'. I can tell you this much: You have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. good luck on that.
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  1002.  @weibite6495  From this comment you made it tells me you don't know a lot about the Soviet Union and where this propaganda piece comes from. It does not come from China. It comes from Cold War US vs Russia days and in particular New York media in the most specific case. This is when New York (and many bigger US cities) were having a lot of problems with crime and a public more obsessed with criminal paranoia. This journalist was in Moscow and tells the US audiience how he could walk down any alley in Moscow at midnight and never so much as worry about being robbed. However, certainly people misunderstood this and believed he was 'confessing' that the great Communist Russia was actually superior and the USA made a confession it was inferior and all this. The quote was relentlessly replayed on Soviet State TV "Seee even the American CONFESSED" and so on. but... there was actually something 'between the lines' that YOU don't get either. He was, in part, telling the audience about how he was fully aware a small army of KGB and undercover police were watching his every move. He also was aware that even the worst Moscow criminals knew better than to get near him (as they'd be arrested in a second). however, the "I can walk home at midnight in Russia and never fear getting mugged.. unlike the dirty lower USA" began to become 'Russia is one of the safest countries on earth - unlike the most dangerous country the USA". but... actually there was a kernel to that because in peak authoritarian USSR it was true (to some degree) that in a 'Police State' where everyone is under government surveillance - there really can be less violent crime... or... at least less on the streets. China has recently discovered the 'Cold War confession' and how that really got Soviet Russians proagandaized about how great their government is and has borrowed it like they buy 1970s Russian aircraft carriers and shine them up as Chinese. The problem is that it's not 1970s New York anymore and most inner-cities aren't the same anymore and actually very few people get mugged in American alleys and but lots of people gets stabbed to death in Mainland Chinese ones. and sidewalks and parks and so on. BUT.. it does remain somewhat true that most Chinese, even the baddest of baddies will NOT want to engage with a foreigner seen walking around at night. They are also aware cops are watching the foreigner too and that in China, if you mug a foreigner and hence cause international disharmony and lose face for China? Oh.. it will be a bad bad year before you get executed. But yes, China is becoming more violent and is losing a lot of foreigners and tourists and so they have borrowed this 1970s propaganda. It works. I mean, it works on YOU and those people in China where the ONLY purpose is to keep Chinese believing their government is a protective parent and without it they'd be unsafe. and that it's surpassing the USA and Japan. ............The reason I can teach you this about China is because I've lived and worked and traveled (and done media and everything else) for more years than you've been an adult. that's why I can tell that you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe... a LOT to learn but good luck on that. Now I've taught you some '1st grade' about China you can keep studying!
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  1003.  @weibite6495  No, I'm very Chinese, I live abroad and learn just enough of the local language to get by. Like Chinese people do around the world. Likewise, most of the time I ate my Western style foods and rarely Chinese foods. You see? I became very Chinese in my ways.
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  1004. It's difficult to follow someone who is in a perpetual state of saying all-truthy yes-nos and 'we CAN...' in some sense it's theoretically possible and "hey words say stuff so there we have it" and using the words 'Solutions' and 'help solutions CAN help solve help solutions" and every objective question makes him sort of have a mini-stroke like he's being unfairly held into a corner.
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  1005.  @trustnoone318  no seriously, you take a risk if you buy Chinese food in China made by local Chinese. Everyone in China knows that. A Burger King that once used buns 7 days past 'recommended expiry date' is absolutely the LEAST thing you'd get by an Chinese franchise's dodgy food risks. The LEAST thing.
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  1006.  @trustnoone318  but 100 new ones opened elsewhere so, China is still down just 100 BKs. I don't know what he would find in the UK but 99% of what is dubbed 'Chinese food' in the UK is not really anything like actual Chinese Chinese food. It's a kind of Westernised version of Cantonese Authentic Chinese food may be one of the least popular foods on earth outside of Mainland China. plus the UK has some pretty strict food safety laws.
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  1007.  @XmasTablet  In China? It's possible. Not the McDonalds thing but the Subway thing could have happened in China, yes.
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  1008. I wouldn't recommend it. China is in the middle of a severe economic collapse and people are getting a bit fried and punchy about it more and more every day. *mind you, with their deflation - your money (dollars?) it will, in effect, be worth a lot more in what you can buy. and more 'luxury' types of things like that apartment seen in this video? You can, within reason "Name your own price" and they may very well take it because fewer and fewer Chinese are paying that kind of money in the middle of their economic recession. so, in that sense good for you.
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  1009. I love Utah, Salt Lake City (a car is mandatory) and Mormon are some of the nicest people in the world even if they don't realize the severe damage and division they caused but I'm going to say something. Fair warning: once you hear this for the first time you won't be able to unhear it: Mormonism is the Christian version of Islam. Joseph Smith is 'Muhammad'. The Book of Mormon is the 'Koran'. The more you think about it the more impossible it becomes to deny and soon you can only understand that it's very obvious.
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  1010. The young man arriving from Vietnam might be the most female looking man I've ever seen in my life.
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  1011. It's because China is doing worse than anyone else on earth with a severe economic collapse, declining population, aging demographic and still feels the need to (see your comment) shlt on the USA. which is weird since the USA is what lifted 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty 30 years ago and is who can take it away.
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  1012. Yes, the ending brings up something important: Boxing is, in this case, rewarding those who earned their way, who kept getting wins and ought to be having the biggest fight of the contenders. (and the winner the biggest fight vs Usyk) and that does not always happen. Parker deserves to be there and he is. Fans do need to give some props for when boxing does it right. My guess is Dubois just carries out a rampage to stop Parker around 8 or 9th.
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  1013. I strongly disagree, Taiwan can and probably will take back the Mainland. I'd strongly suggest it will happen within the next 5 or 6 years too.
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  1014. I strongly disagree, Taiwan can and probably will take back the Mainland. I'd strongly suggest it will happen within the next 5 or 6 years too.
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  1015.  @philmccollough4437  Ok so how many years were you abusing alcohol?
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  1016. Like so many more, she is an absolutely selfish grand victim but also a beautiful spiritual teacher, the greatest among women and men alike but also the most abused victim and yuckkkk.
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  1017. What's going 'downhill'? can you describe it?
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  1018. @ again, you haven't got a fellow shlttalking 14 year old gamer to get off on some toxic hyperfeminine crappy talk with. Go do some MMA kombat sports gaming.
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  1019.  @TBWDavid  you aren't boxing fans. you're toxic hyperfeminine fan boys who want to have shlttyboy HEE HAWW and post toxic emojies like your from developing countries. Its gross.
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  1020. Cranston is a real 'slice of life' to be seen: He will gratefully tell you he's the luckiest man on earth having 'won the lottery' 3 different times. He will graciously tell you that talent doesn't explain it because here are 100s of actors he knew and easily calls more talented but Hollywood didn't grab them. He landed a recurrding role on Seinfeld when that was absolutely MASSIVE. No, really, I mean not just the show Seinfeld but a recurring character was the 'equivalent' as if you had been in a major three part mega-blackbuster movie in terms of views and fame. Later, Malcolm in the Middle took off like a rocket and piled awards on them for 6 seasons. He will tell anyone he is fully resigned to never get another job again and he'd have won the Hollywood lotto and someone asks him to be in 'Breaking Bad' which is an absolute phenom.. ... and he will tell anyone it's utterly insane and beyond any wild dream. 3x lotto winner. and yet? I dont' know if I've ever seen a grown man his age so utterly and easily glommed into the cheapest Kendi X 'white fragility' crappy peak wokian wokey nonsense in my life. Mark Hamil would tell him to cool it with the peak college woke stuff. Kendi X cringes watching him go off on this stuff. It's wacky how deeply duped and NPC he is. There is something amazing about that, something challenging what we might believe about success, wealth, grand social respect. Is the latter because of the former? Is it deep pathological guilt, what made him be this way? would the rest of us be this way too given the same insane lotto winning and super success?
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  1021. Any channel that talks about this as 'chicken-dancing' gets my downvote and I use the 'don't recommend channel' option. I don't care if you're a sneering little shltty-kid gamer but I don't want to see my sport boxing disrespected like that.
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  1022. It's good to see that nasty god-hating Dr Oberg succumbing to TDS. He deserves all the madness and self-destruction he can take before he becomes a blathering old fool knocking on Hells door.
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  1023. The Ukraine was able to defend itself from a Russian invasion. So... yes they do?
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  1024. No, this is not what has usually happened (most things). The increased price (to the importer) is passed back to the exporters or in this case to China. The exporter will (again, in theses cases) they are often subsidized by the government so the exporter (or that business rather) doesn't go out of business.
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  1025. That's very strange because I've never heard of this. You have mates (Australians?) who refuse to believe there are Chinese Christians? That sounds so very very strange. Right here on YT you can find 1000000s of videos of Christians in China, how the State Approved Churches work, there are 10000s of Christian Chinese in Australia who tell people how things work. A LOT of Australians have visited China as tourists, for work purposes or marriage over the last 20 years. Yet, somehow you met some friends who REFUSE to even believe it if you tell them???
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  1026. This is Western Popular Media. Its the most 'western popular media' you can get.
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  1027. To the socio-political world, the defeat of Hezbollah, Hamas and now the near end of Iran as a dangerous anti-western regime its these western domestic marxists that are the most devastated. Oberg there, the agony shows through him, the absolute existential sorrow as he realizes his entire life was dedicated to killing god and capitalism and it was all for nothing. He lives his last years seeing all he believed in weakening, being upturned, being 'set back' as his mind could only believe some secular humanist socialism would, obviously progress and progress. Then you have the young communist. For him, the realization this imagined block of Marxist anti-western Islamic Jihadis would be one of his SS type resources. but now? in less than a year they're being slapped into the ground and made to disappear. Sure it sucks to be Hamas (well, whatever remains of them) or Hezbollah that was just about embarrassed into surrending and doesn't want to talk about it. Sucks to be Iran and realize it was pretty easily beaten by Israel/US who had less of a 'war' and simply decided to end them 'at will' like it was just a normal work week for them. HOWEVER, The two TDS-infected commies on this panel, for them its proper, demon-screeching existential hell on their minds and souls. for them, they are really the hardest hit.
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  1028. Or... the Philippines continues being allies with the US (and Japan and Taiwan etc) and then the USA does way more good than harm by removing China PRC's military bases. Soon after China certainly does give up it's claim and signs all documents saying 'We give up any claims to these islands' and that's the end of that.
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  1029. More people in more 1st world nations started to realize that far far too much of this 'foreign aid' was actually facilitating all kinds of evil and oppression. no greater example was seen in Haiti after Canada, US, dozens of the wealthier countries dump millions to 'Help Haiti'. A year later a reporter goes to Haiti and is promptly made to pay a 'protection gang' so he can find out how the new schools are going. After all, 10 million Canadian dollars to 'rebuild schools' yes. As best anyone can tell, there is a lot of former schools STILL piles of rubble. As if left exactly as they fell. However.. There was a warlord who had, somehow, surprisingly, a pleasure Yacht and a 'captains hat' and also a gang of 'rubber necklace' enforcers and some sweet gold jewelry. Though, months later there was an update that 'Captain BigPussy' or whatever his name was apparently overthrown and so was his crew and apparently some other murderous warlords took over. No word on the yacht yet. 1000 examples of this. That money ends up causing murders, slavery, evil crimes of all sorts, all kinds of mischief and over and over again does nothing but hurt the actual innocent poor people it was supposedly intended for.
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  1030. It's strange because for a month now CCTV and other Chinese state media have been CHORTLING about how the goofball, the idiotic USA fool is so dumb because tarrifs HURT THEMSELVES. SO its strange because China had tariffs before, during and now added more. So their tarrifs don''t 'boomerang' and theirs aren't paid for by Chinese consumers??
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  1031.  @lordumas  Yes and it's amazing you weren't really embarrassed about that dishonest attempt but yes indeed, in order to get past the Great firewall, millions (so, that is a TINY percentage of Chinese) can use illegal 'VPN' software so they can see the outside world. yes indeed, that is suppression, obviously.
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  1032. @happymelon7129  all taiwanese can watch all the CCP propaganda they want. They can see all of that with one click on their phones.
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  1033.  @jenniferga  Hello, you were told this video, this youtube video is blocked. youtube has to be blocked from Chinese. Yes, because it's made for Mainland Chinese to get jacked on, I realize it will be taken and put on some Douying etc with subtitles. You have no idea if its rarely seen in Taiwan but even if it wasn't, its freely available to them. The government of Taiwan doesn't review it and decide to allow it play in Taiwan as it did in the PRC. but you just made up the part 'its rarely seen in Taiwan' lol.. ewww grross.
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  1034. Yep, Rob was the first I ever heard call this out and its perfect, its the perfect term to describe it. It's the comfortable middle-class kids who discovered they could buy (then more expensive) 'pre-worn' jeans and thus take the 'working class status' the grit badge of the poor kids. The other thing I found so soooo strange is how many lily white suburbanites found a way to 'confess' they are of a higher social status. As a relentless example, I was watching a 'Charlie Kirk' channel where students take turns coming to a mic to challenge his right-wing type beliefs. Over and over, you'll see upper-middle class Jennifer make sure she introduces herself and saying things "OK so Frst offff.. I know I'm priviileged because I'm white, so ya, of course I can only see things through my privilged class experience as a white person.. Wow. Look, just a few decades ago, EVEN IF Chad and Lisa thought of themselves as privileged and above those 'poors and brownies' Chad and Lisa DIDN"T ANNOUNCE THAT TO EVERYONE PUBLICLY LOL!? I suppose they spread it around that 'actually my great great grandfather came off the Mayflower'. but in a public event they didn't take a microphone and start by introducing themselves 'First off, everyone, just so you know I'm Chadley from a wealthier white family, hey guys!'. Anyway, yes, a lot of these things we came to call 'Woke' but Rob is bang-on right these come out of a 'luxury beliefs' kind of social status game. What's actually yuckier imo, it really spread around where the 'wannabe status' people starting doing it. The slightly lower middle class Jennifer knows to talk that way AS IF she can afford such a luxury belief (she cant but appearances appearances).
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  1035. Chinese aunties gonna auntie!
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  1036. I don't really get this narrative that he was somehow disrespected or downplayed or 'finally proved' something. Terence Crawford has been picked as one of the Top 3 and easily top 10 pound-for-pound boxers in the world for many years now. Find whatever magazines and all the 'fan picks' and Crawford has been called a Top 'P4P' in the world. The ONLY complaints was that he needed to fight a Spence or Garcia and fans might have preferred this fight happened about 3 or 4 years ago. Otherwise, no i dont see this narrative about how he was doubted or 'not believed in' or whatever that is? No. No, boxing fans never had that, the boxers didn't, boxing commentators and pundits have had him as one of THE top fighters in the world for years now.
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  1037. I find the food propaganda to be just that. For many many decades China was a country of starvation and a lot of their foods are poverty foods. That's what is eaten (your farm dog, weeds) that's food when you're about to die from malnutrition. A good many countries sent tremendous amounts of food aid. Chicken feet from Canada and a thousand other donations. The minute they get some money they are chortling about the 'food poverty' of 'the west' and how pathetic our bland simple foods are compared to the god-like level of THE worlds most complex, tasty and highest-level 'cuisine' that is China. I find this more offensive than funny and to be a kind of nasty propaganda.
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  1038. I'm with Mrs. Peterson on this. Throughout the 1970s,80s it was a declared movement to have females invade male spaces. Men Only gyms were taken on by some feminist invaders and then sports, high school teams everywhere would have some feminist mothers or yuppie marxist parents get off having their daughters try and join the boys football team so they could get a lawsuit going .Boy Scouts of course. They had Girl Guides but every city and country had some girls used to invade and threaten lawsuits and on and on. They were invading men's spaces. They were 'smashing the patriarchy' and they were VERY SUCCESSFUL. Mrs, Peterson is right about this being a backlash. Personally, when I see a woman's swim team is wrecked because some men joined I just think that's real equality after all. How do the women's teams like this? Good, I think that's necessary as what's good for the Gander is good for the Goose and if not then what's bad is for both too.
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  1039. The USA didn't lose either war. you're insane if you actually believe China is stronger economically or military-wise. I mean, its as if you don't know what reality even is.
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  1040. It's in the middle of a massive economic collapse. it hasnt' even hit the ground yet.
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  1041. I'm sure he, legit, couldn't understand her thick accent and that was pure class saying she had a lovely accent and blessed her and moved on. Also, weird that people would think THAT question is the one thing on earth that would 'stump Trump' and have him trying to avoid an answer. really? No, come on now.
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  1042. yes and they heard 'Canadians just won't do that kind of work anymore' and relentlessly fear-mongering about 'we NEED them to take care of our old people' (keep Boomers rich as hell so they can die richer) and Canadians CONSTANTLY FELL FOR IT OVER AND OVER.
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  1043. That is wild. I had no idea the extent of this, the size and money. I actually assumed porn was more like some undergroundy dark business schemes and its 'big money' to the gang of porn producers in a LA nightclub but not THIS level oooof. Ya i guess I was still stuck in the 80s, the 'Boogie Nights' view of the world heh
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  1044. Who the hell would care about a cashless thing like that? What does that have to do with anything?
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  1045. Chinese students absolutely, desperately and as the highest order want to get into 'MIT' and a dozen other USA Universities, now more than ever before. What can you come up with to reconcile that with your little narrative here?
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  1046.  @hkfoo3333  No. Are you just 'announcing a reality you want to be true' though? thats weird. are you a kind of 'wizard' or 'god' who think you can just 'Say a STory!' and it somehow 'becomes reality' lol weird.
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  1047.  @hkfoo3333  Nope, you're just writing a kind of 'narrative'. "I will say no actually the OPPOSITE story as you wrote', however, The US embassy and consulate knows. They are perpetually jammed with astonishing numbers of these applications as are those schools themselves. You can't just change reality by 'creative writing' you know?
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  1048. @Anonymous------  no
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  1049.  @morganangel340  What should I COPE with? My Chinese friends and family being poorer and losing hope? How should I COPE with that? By lying. being a liar and telling lies "China is actually the richest country and about to be richer than ever!!' Just tell THEM that lie over and over until it becomes 'real' because I made it real? Or what advice do you have for coping with this economic downturn in Mainland China?
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  1050.  @morganangel340  There is no Orwellian country called 'The West' but at the moment, most of the nations in the so-called Western World are holding steady, a few are lagging (Canada for example) while a few are doing quite well (the USA, France) and overall most have steady or stable trajectories. Chinas mainland is currently in a rather severe economic collapse and recession. This would usually be something we could call a 'downturn' but would 'upturn' in a typical Western world economy, however, Its much worse for China because the massive collapse of the Real Estate Bubble is pretty much ALL their economy. This isn't like the US 2008 'Bubble collapse' where they had many other things keeping them afloat. (the tech boom for example) but instead China was running almost solely on that and exporting products. This is why China's economy is failing so badly with no special hopes in sight. It might even be able to pin hopes are exports but... 10% tariffs across the board (thats 10% MORE on what is already tariffed) is going to be a dull thud on that way out. None of what I'm telling you is some secret. Its not a 'debate'. We aren't having a little creative writing 'Battle of Narratives' but instead we are observing wha is very obviously happening. I'd like it to be different because as China fails so do I lose more and more income and opportunities. But what I don't do is 'cope' with it by saying "Oh yaaaaa watch me DENY reality and now I will CREATE reality by being a shltty middle-school boy sneering and jeering and just 'creating a truth' against someone else. Like you are doing. Its so gross btw.. it makes me want to puke a little. I feel bad you're that dirty and crapulent inside. :(
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  1051.  @elliekwong3180  I've noticed some Mainland Chinese have been trying to pretend that even though China Mainlanders have not YET defeated the inferior Americans - but ACTUALLY notice most of the American ones are 'Chinese American's so in a way China just proved ts racially superior etc, but anyway, yes, some 6% of IT wizard Americans are from Hong Kong and Taiwanese families.
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  1052.  @D_2_M  Nope, that isn't what's happening in the real world. I can tell you this much - you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. Good luck getting started on that lol
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  1053.  @jessicayoung1190  50 cents a post and 70 cents if I get a reply. hahah you're so jealous.
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  1054. 8:56 comes one of my great annoyances as terms are misused and the original helpful definition is erased. The term 'snowflake'. Some insist the use (for a generation) came from a New York sociologist and I mention the location because to New Yorkers a 'snowflake' is a DANGER SIGN. To most of Canada and much of Europe a 'snowflake' represents 'the heartiest of times'. Get hearty!! Winter is coming. In the mountains a 'snowflake symbol' means get ready to risk death. At some point people in California and Britain decided "snowflakes are things that melt easily! so it must mean a generation that we laugh as they easily melt down. HOWEVER, despite a 'snowflake' being a sign of danger, a long long lasting challenge (winter) that actually has nothing to do with anything. The term 'Snowflake' generation is a summary of a new and radically different childhood education shift that takes place in the 1970s when the Boomer (doesn't mean' people who explode easily) the 'Hippy' generation become the new bosses and admins and child-shapers of the world. 'Snowflake' points to the childrens book, replacing 'Dr Seuss' and replacing the 'little Engine that could' with a new belief that you don't need to attain confidence, you don't need merit, you were not born sinful but intead you are like a SNOWFLAKE and did you know every snowflake is unique? No two are alike! and yet, every individual is inherently, as formed, each as beautiful and wonderful as any other! and when ALL the snowflakes come together... (flip the children's book page to a 2-page 'Christmas' beautiful scene of a fresh new snowfall) They area ALLLll beautiful together! wowww. Barney is not another term for 'wimp'. for 'softie' but a similar term was used 'The Barney Generation' which is the same idea but in children's programming. A big purple dinosaur goes around telling chlidren in a mantra, a chant; You are PERFECT and you are beautiful in EVERY WAY becasue You are YOU!. Same as 'Snowflakes' are each perfectin their own way because they are formed that way so they are. A reminder that a 'Snowflake' is a symbol of hearty and longsuffering challenge, dangerous road risks across half the planet. Not a symbol of 'warning: something wimpy that melts easily ahead'.
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  1055. Yep, while I feel for a lot of honest hardworking Chinese I can tell you that in 2016, when they pretended America was 'starting a Trade War' with China (in fact, Trump only ever responded to their 20 year long trade war) but the number of these students at the time, the sneering, the twisted glee, the arrogant pre-boasting of how.. and this was the phrase... "Hehe now China will punish Trump!". Smirking grins about how the USA was about to be 'Punished' for daring to try and fight God-Nation China. Nowwww the USA will learn it's lesson and be punished. the sneering grins. This disgusting arrogance, the "Now CHINA is the Captain NOW!!" , the arrogance so grotesque they believe they can command reality to change if they wanted to make the 'USA Virus' become believed by all. PLENTY of these now unemployed 30 years olds were, just 10 years ago, many just 5 years ago and STILL many today think nothing of boasting about God China and how they will 'punish' everyone and fantasizing about 'The West' now being humiliated by their Godlike superiority as they grovel and squirm at what they deserve from GodChina. Funny but it only took a few years of NOT giving them lots of money, aid, special charity status and lower standards and their already a little less certain they will 'Punish The West' immediately. But, they STILL believe that 'soon', eventually, Chinagod WILL make them have more money than 'The West' and punish them and Japan and India and ... not now. but its prophecy, it WILL happen eventually.
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  1056.  @rayhou4542  In Mainland China?
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  1057.  @topspeed9004  Chinese? Yes
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  1058. well that does sound like the low and more immoral backwards culture of the Global South.
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  1059.  @PeterSedesse  and they believe that 'The West' somehow 'loses billions'. They really think that! They think 'haha we cause the West to lose billions in a day!". They do not seem to comprehend how the stock market people are just moving their money in and out of different 'The West' stocks. The sniveling desperation to create 'punished the west' and 'humiliated inferior america' narratives aren't just gross but stupid too.
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  1060. Great guests and so far a great fun sitdown. As to the 'Simulation' thing. Yes, I am convinced its because, in fact, people are 'simulating' now. It would NOT shock me to find out that comedienne really did simulate the fall. (thats why it seems like a perfect movie moment) and all kinds of social media people are simulating things. They are getting friends and others to create entire fake scenarios AND even fake outcomes. When someone finally contacted 'Retail Freakout Karen Employee' she admitted she was fired after the boss got enraged calls from the public. Oh? She didn't work there. She was a friend of the store manager, they did the skit after closing hours, she knew to say she was fired so the story had a big social media 'justice' angle etc. and yes the Wendy's kid standing in the salad bins was well aware they were told to throw the salad out, that was not salad you're going to eat. The white kid prankster who was shouting the 'N word' and got punched by the big black guy? Those two have been friends since the first grade. mind you, despite putting a magazine under his shirt, it was a real solid punch that kind of hurt. The two are still best friends today. The snobby social media woman is.. actually simulating it. She is fully aware the 'vegan' thing is hot fire and she isn't actually like that in real life. We are 'living in a simulation' because we are living our lives in simulations.
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  1061. Its much much worse than this video would have you believe. much worse.
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  1062.  @Charvo75  Last year was rough because in my area, they finally fully closed the Foxxconn factory the final work day of the Lunar New Year. Now, it WAS expected to come inevitably but it was still a downer for the 1500 last remaining empoyees. Worse than that was the Tire Factory that had them move their 'zombie cars' saying it was a 'fire hazard' (a forest fire in the rain really did happen here and it really was parked cars), but i digress, the 3000 workers did not learn that the factory was closed, their jobs gone until AFTER they went home for the Spring Festival. So basically they were kind of 'tricked' into leaving and finding out smack in the middle of the festival. btw i know this because for the many suddenly homeless newly laid off people they made a deal to give them x-months rent in my community. years ago they also closed down all the after-school training centers over Spring Festival too. Hence, I think this is why it's now spoken about like a 'doom'. like some impending job loss coming everyone's way.
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  1063.  @mrhdebater1607  No, it wasn't. Why lie about that?
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  1064.  @mrhdebater1607  but you would be the one who doesn't know what they're talking about. You wouldn't know that Harbin used to have 200,000 people turning up for the fireworks and that the shops you saw opening are far less than the ones you didn't see closing. China is definitley NOT fine.
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  1065. Wait.. what's stopping her children from going with her to her home country? She's talking like they're banned from the Honduras? I'd suggest they'd easily have visas to live in the Honduras with their mother if they wanted.
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  1066. I thought this might be the fight of the night on the condition Smith didn't show up to 'spar' and found like 'fight to win fight of my life' fighting. It happened and mannn that was probably the fight of the night!
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  1067. hehe you are so jealous 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1068. Sorry to post two different 'can confirm' cases in the comments but another: I was living there and fully aware of the local beer incident. What happened was a local beer company ran out of proper water and being on the side of the river, they ran hoses and pumped water out of the river. Coincidentally, a nearby Uni student had innocently gone to the river excited to use the new water testing gear and knowledge he got at school. The video went viral as the river tested FAR ABOVE pollution standards. At around the same time the Beer Water hoses were discovered and for days every store was being ransacked and raided for any six packs or cans of that river beer. I saw them frantically unloading fridges in our corner store. Students were all talking about it. now then.. for months afterward, the dodgy storeowner near my place kept trying to "gift me" free 6-packs of, you guessed it, all the 'River Beer' he had hidden away in the back room. I think that he believed I was a foreigner who would not know about the river beer scandal so he'd unload them on me. xie xie dodgy storeowner.
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  1069. I see, so you're just announcing some fantasy future? btw, there is no 'day of reckoning'. China is more than welcome to start widescale production of them tomorrow morning. Nobody is going to get 'reckoned with' because of it.
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  1070. I agree with the popular sentiment is that Biden just pardoned.. himself. He's the 'Big Guy' in the charges. probably his brother too. Not really 'Hunter'. Some Democrats are going to regret hooting this as a 'victory' when they find out the 'SA' and 'Rap' charges many women will have wanted to press against him. Oh, not just some 40 year accusations but like actual things recorded on HD video BY Hunter.
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  1071. You're onto it now Isaiah, you got this now. now go forward and rumble young man, rumble!
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  1072. This was so helpful I forgot about the hair.
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  1073. Nope, Russia sees itself as the Big Uncle, the Father, they are THE 'hammer and sickle' and China is their vassal, their assistant, China is their nephew who asked to join their Communist dream, China is an 'employee' of Russia.
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  1074. They should just remove that fake border. nothing but a tremendous waste of time and all those people could be better used for international flights into north America.
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  1075. Nope, China pays the difference in Tariffs (most of the time). In China, the Chinese people pay the difference on 'shelf taxes' the Chinese have long put on American products. how do you not know that in 2024?
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  1076. China didn't come a long way. It lived in poverty as a 3rd world failure until the USA and friends bought trillions in labor and capitalism flooded in to live 800 million Chinese out of extreme poverty. They gave it to China and they can take it away. 2. Chinese do not have savings. They are all deeply in debt for real estate investments and to their Alipay. 3. Objectively, as a well documents fact of life, fully available via Chinese State reports and every other reporting on earth: China started putting tariffs and trade impediments on the USA 20 years ago. You don't have a 'debate' about this.
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  1077.  @dfv671  Imagine how bad this was for China that they went from seeing if they can handle some new trade deals to pledging to eat tree bark to 'not die'. amazing failure.
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  1078. Ok but the communist ones invaded your country, tore down your forests and killed a whole lot of Laotians that got in their way or tried to stop them.
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  1079. The Vlogger is really the most sly kind of dishonesty. He, like many Chinese who desperately want to live in freer countries pretends it's just good ole Chinese who like making some money. Ya, they just go because its one option in making some money, gettin paid. hey and some actually stay longer getting that Western money, even 5 years. This is dishonest. They'd take those work visas if they made ZERO money and go directly to (his case example) Ireland and they don't just stay 'up to 5 years'. They try and stay permanently IF possible. However, many will find 3 to 5 years was the maximum they could do work visas, some do 'asylum' which adds a year or two years before finally exhausting all possibilities. Then they have to go back to China. They were NOT just grabbing paycheckes (but hey, if they could in China they would) and they just enjoyed their holidays too long but after 5 years came back to China deliberately. No. His was the most sly kind of dishonesty. but then again, as a Vlogger I suppose he has to do that or the government will delete his vlogging days.
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  1080. What do you mean "nothing like The West would have you think'? What does that even mean? You think there is a 'The West' media and its state-run with a 'Firewall' that blocks out China news and 'The West' State played some misleading 'Anti-China' news inside your 'The West' bubble? I mean seriously, think about what you're even saying?
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  1081. Trump and Biden have imposed many many tariffs and it didn't and still doesn't come at the expense of average or any Americans. So why would you believe new ones would?
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  1082.  @rogerstarkey5390  Nope, if you lived in the USA you paid the same money for the Made-in-China plastic spatula at Walmart before and now during the 15% tariff Trump and Biden put on it. Consider this, YOU didn't even think there were any tariffs because ... well because you didn't notice any of those products go up in price for the American consumer. Otherwise you would have said something like 'IT will make the prices in America GO UP AGAIN EVEN MORE" but you didn't. It's because the American consumer won't pay more for it, they haven't and currently do not.
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  1083. Find out what the actual complaint was about then come teach everyone again?
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  1084. I see he's in the phase of 'waving it away' and trying to come up with number-babble and using lots of soft downgrade terms with smiles and glossing over things. But what happens as Chinas economic collapse gets much worse and to the point where he starts to pretend he never claimed China was going to become a litlte God that slaps the jealous Americans? In fact, when a lot of Chinese start to realize they believed him and see him as the blame, the blame for making them feel so defeated and being so poor?
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  1085. 9:20 and it we have to end this persistent myth: Bars on windows are NOT to 'keep people from jumping' as much as: - To keep thieves/cops/certain people from scaling the walls and ENTERING the rooms. (and yes, spiderman thefts is MASSIVE in all of East Asia, its nearly THE number one method of robbery). - To keep people from CLIMBING DOWN not 'jumping'. they are not 'S-Word' prevention bars. Nor are there any 'S-word nets'. I'm picking on that because, otherwise, this is actually quite a decent documentary. (full disclosure, my screenname indicates I've seen a whole lot of this)
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  1086. I'd like Mark to talk about something I can only see as confirmation of the scam: Here we are turning to 2025. The results are in, time has passed. Did anyone ever see any of the Scammers lose a thing? Were any demoted? but the converse as well. To the many people, healthcare world people too, many said that these masks would do nothing, '6ft distance' was fake nothinginess. Did any of them get promoted? Raises, better resumes, going up in the world? No. Ok because at any place I ever worked - if you were wrong, if you're ideas proved to fail, if you screwed up on predictions and preventions you would then LOSE something. Actually you might be outright fired. At least you no longer got to be the head of the XYZ department. Because, y'know, the company wants 'better rather than worse'. Likewise, the guy who was criticizing it all along, who said 'that isn't right, doesn't work', MIGHT be given that promotion, become the new head of XYZ because, y'know, they really want the person who gets things correct to be getting things correct going forward. But yet, in my country (Canada) not a single one of these people has done anything but fail upwards. Many have been given awards for how they 'battled covid' and 'saved millions of lives' and are STILL the same authority they were before they got everything wrong. Never saw the others who were 'canceled' or penalized or just ignored, the ones who were CORRECT I don't know, they don't seem to be getting more authority and positions of greater trust. Which tells me and really confirms to me that they still do not truly care about 'protecting the public' and trying to stop anything because, should an outbreak occur again, the same people who were WRONG are stll going to be in charge.
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  1087. Westerners aren't just Chinese people with different faces. They don't have a 'Shame Culture' so they don't get off on the idea of China being poorer than them and sneeeer and jack off over how someone is poorer than them. But yes, Gordon Chang is far more realistic than this panel of creeps.
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  1088. uh nope, he's been pretty much correct on everything though most of it is simply making observations that anyone following China would be able to make. His descriptions and predictions of China's current severe economic collapse are pretty much right on.
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  1089.  @DK-yz9xk  i hope so
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  1090.  @DK-yz9xk  Im not a rival 'gamer teen' so you can stop embarrassing yourself and start thanking me for telling you the truth about China and how things work (and dont work) in China these days.
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  1091.  @DK-yz9xk  One of the factors in Chinas current economic collapse is the declining population. You could get away with massive overbuilding if there were as many people as officially claimed and there was population growth. However, there werent as many and Chinas adtonishing population decline has already begun and steeper than claimed (if admitted at all) So this is part of the reasons Chinas real estate bubble has collapsed and is even worse than it seems. Gordon Chang is just one of many who predicted this but its not some bold guess... you only needed to observe and describe the inevitable. Likewise, you can predict China will become exactly poorer by what tariffs the USA applies. One to one. Nobody needs to be some prediction wizard but instead simply describe the obvious consequences.
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  1092.  @DK-yz9xk  in my case, ive traveled across China, lived, worked and toured China for more years than youve been and adult. More years than youve been an adult.
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  1093.  @wangjue6120  Why are you pretending China isn't in an economic collapse? It's been one of the worlds major news stories. Do you think you're in 'Thewest' internet bubble and we don't know for sure what China is doing so you can bluff like this? Yes, its a massive economic collapse and coincidentally (or partly because) a population collapse.
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  1094. Things that never happened.
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  1095. I tend to agree with the conspiracy theory going around saying that the complicit mainlstream media and pollsters are purposely gaming their polls to show Kamala SLIGHTLY ahead in a few key states. The ones where Biden had the exact numbers, just SLIGHTLY for his world famous oft-talking about incredible 3AM surge of votes in precisely mathematical formula places. They are providing a kind of 'cover' in the event Kamala needs a stunning '0.03%' uptick to also, incredibly, win by a hair in precise key states. So that it doesn't seem suspicious IF that is what happens. "ya we already knew that, it was reported she was slightly ahead in those places all week.. so that's perfectly normal".
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  1096. Yes, high-speed trains were from 1978 world and have long since gone out of style. So have 'the worlds tallest skyscrapers' and other outdated '40 years ago' innovations and ideas.
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  1097.  @stevenliew2507  How humiliating, Vietnam doens't need or want to talk to him. but on the good news, Vietnam is hiring a lot of unemployed Chinese refugees.
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  1098. They could but the China would remember it needs the USA to keep from being a 3rd world shlthole again. Then China wouldnt do such a thing.
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  1099. You call it Tibet here on our Western Anglosphere Media. Call it Tibet.
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  1100.  @thungwalaen548  hey foreigner, you can go along with the phony thing and say that in Mandarin but here in the Anglosphere, here in the outside world its going to be Tibet. You can use some phony word if you want to suck badly at communicating and using goofy foreign words but that just means you suck and are a bad communicator, foreigner.
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  1101. So.. Egyptians, and this is the great pyramid era, as far as we can tell they would have certainly been part of the same Mediterranean world, the same trading, sharing, even though we don't classify them as the same 'people' you're pretty much talking about the same peoples of their time. Rome and it's great works are going to show up a whole lot later and Egypt would be a part of Rome and the Roman world. So, what you're trying to grab at here doesn't really work how you'd want it to make you the anti-racist hero catching racists. As for American natives, this is also awkward because you'd need to be talking about 'Meso-America' because there really isn't any such things elsewhere. You'd be talking about much later (mind you, still crazy ancient times era for some big buildings). Anyway, you're the racist, after all.
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  1102. There isn't actually a nation called 'The West' nor is there a 'battle of civilizations'.
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  1103. Nope, Trump can afford to be arrogant and make China help him 'or else'.
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  1104.  @Blixey-r9z  It isn't because China is not an equal power to the USA and would promptly lose far far more than they'd ever hope to gain. You need to stop believing we have two big superpowers China vs The USA and stop believing China is in some position to 'punish the USA' or 'teach it a lesson' or think it can go 'tit for tat' in a rumble. China is currently in a severe economic collapse and cannot afford to lose even MORE incoming flights. They've already lost several routes and the 'visa free' thing isn't hauling them in and that's all you need to know.
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  1105.  @vivizy  eww gross.
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  1106.  @nsng1298  There is no such thing as 'The Century of Humiliation' other than a recently made-up propaganda that works to instil deep deep hatred in Chinese. Its made so that you get absolutely TOXIC inside and want to GRRRRR just stab the eyeballs of your evil 'The West' and be willing to starve and get malnutrition for your rulers but believe you are being powerful etc. You have a lot to UNlearn about Chinese history hehe.. good luck getting started on that.
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  1107.  @jackshultz2024  It seems the customer USA is going to other stores and finds their full of the China store items. the "or else" is simply not shopping there either. The USA was never the only customer in town and doesnt' care, it just wants what it wants.
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  1108. Yep and this at a time when China was happily and falsely detaining foreigners in their brutal prisons. Ask me about it one day. In fact, I would not doubt before the incident in Syria, dozens of Syrians were suddenly being detained by PRC police and its NOT FUN. So, they 'retaliate' in kind. I would NOT be surprised to find out this was actually a response to detainments by the PRC of Syrians. I nearly presume it actually.
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  1109.  @paulc6766  tell me why you believe they would lose?
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  1110. It's surely layers of factors. the obvious one being its really a sick game on single men who might have finally realized its a joke on them. 2. they turned it into a very expensive evening and someone probably realized they could take a friend to a very exclusive theater play and/or buy a new car. 3. If they do 'lockdowns' over that last phony shlt then its better to stop investing in any such activiites that can be shut down for nearly any reason by government powers whenever they feel like it next. 4. culture is supposed to change with generations. the absolute exact same thing 30 years in a row. exactly unchanged for 30 years is unhealthy and the new young people should come up with entirely different kinds of pop-culture than their 55 year old parents did.
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  1111.  @landlord-g5y  Thats all good and wonderful or not but what I'm pointing out is a Chinese State Media to have everyone carry out this strange narrative that 'we all know what a failure Ukrainians/Nato were and how they got beaten and learned a harsh lesson". They use the word 'Ukraine' as if we all obviously know how thta turns out for the Ukraine losers!'. This a strange choice but especially if we keep pretending China is the 'Russia' in this analogy. 1. love them or hate them or don't care but its legit astonishing that Russia didn't just fail to take over Ukraine but they actuall invaded a part of RUSSIA and still havent left. Really, wrap your head around that, they actually invaded Russian land and took over Kursk region. Russia is actually fighting the Ukrainians OUT of Russia. 2. If Russia finally broke through and took Kiev tomorrow its a case of the 'Most horrible victory in the modern world'. They "won" by having a significant chucnk of their young me killed off and more with meat-grinder life injuries. Wow what a victory! 3. Can you imagine the national embarrassment China would have to endure if, after 4 years they had only taken control of a clump of Pinoy Islands BUT lost a a southern part of Hainan, literally Philipinos putting their flags on Sanya buildings and running around Chinese soil, AND, this was 4 years in with absolute mountains of dead PLA bodies being piled up years after year/ and they're hiring North Koreans and Mercenaries and at best they've grinded out a few more islands but day after day the world gets 'PLA Chinese WRECKED by Pinoy Drone AGAIN!!' like its normal to see that on youtube. and a reminder: Not China vs Russia or Japan or some large equal power but The Philippines! A relatively small, poor country that every Chinese believes would easily bend their knees and beg the PLA Wolf Warriors to please 'take our women but please don't hurt us' as they feel the true power of earths mighty Godwarrir... ...no instead they are in a horrific stalemate with The Philippines, the PLA Navy is pretty much sunk. Good gad, if I was a the Chinese State Media guys I'd beg putting out a new directive: DO NOT Mention 'Ukraine' and DO NOT make any reference to that where ANYONE wold think of China as 'Russia' getting absolutely wrecked by a country 1/10th its size in a meat-grinder foreever war. DO NOT say a word that makes anyone liken China to 'Russia vs Ukraine' just do not do that. but yet, here they are doing it like its a reall clever thing and everyone should like making the comparison. yikesss
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  1112. @PhiloSurfer  ohhh no, you really low IQed that 😔
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  1113. Can confirm worst case. Bought a case of bottle water, in the shrink wrapped and cardboard. we got to the end (dogs, people drinking) and the last of three is when I realize it smells weird. 2nd last bottle is visibly dank. last bottle (I'm not exaggerating this) was 4/5ths full, absolutely smells of an actual mop bucket water and had proper mop water debris at the bottom. now our theory if you think of that... they were actually filling it with mop water buckets and that last bottle was where it ran out and dumped the bottom crap AND think about this: they still put that bottle in the pack to sell. folks, I don't mean 'sniff sniff... hey this kinda smells like mop bucket water.." no i mean PHEWW WTF this IS filthy mop water! levels. Can't imagine how many fake mop water cases were sold to everyone else in the building either.
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  1114.  @MegaCavatina  There is no such country as 'The West'. How come prices keep rising in "The East'. Well there are various reasons why some things in some places are rising (and some go down) but inflation is one of them. but what does your question have to do with Kevin waking up to realize China's economic collapse continues and China (not 'The East') is still in deep DE-Flation and he needs to do more mental gymnastics to maek 'economy porn' for you?
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  1115. One of the main reasons it could only make things worse is that, by and far, the evil-doers ARE fellow Chinese passport-holders and will no longer need to worry about bringing the attention of someone else upon his doom.
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  1116. The Self-Deportation is a big mysterious question but there are good reasons to believe it can be as high as 2 self-deports for everyone 1 deport. The obvious problem is that illegals tend to not want to register as such nor register their departure. Keeping in mind, the ones who actually use the app, register, collect the $1000 and free flight may be a relatively small number. There are some who do believe there really is a very sudden, an immediate flood of mass deportation. These might be a big group who never really intended to live long-term in the USA (and previously didn't rush to leave either) but seeing fines, arrests etc will easily self-deport pretty much as soon as they can. but all that said, right, that is a real mystery and estimate vary greatly. difficult to count that which is not countable type of thing.
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  1117.  @darylfoster7944  that has been true and I dont see it with the younger generation as much. that said, yes this is one reason they 'hole up' and try not to spend anything for the 2 weeks knowing they have to eat next month. I've assimilated into the same thinking now. Spring Festival means save beforehand (if possible) then 'lock down' and don't spend a thing beyond needs because its like losing a month. its being 'unemployed' for a good 2 weeks.
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  1118. It's true there are some morons in our world who actually believe the highest number is a 'score' that gets the superior social status to shame lesser scores. Now just say 6000 years of history. haha.. are you jealous with your lower score of only 5000? but back here in the adult world, having the 'highest history number' doesn't actually mean 'highest gaokao or money amount score'. The Congo of Africa has 6000 years of civilization. This is, in itself, not 'high status' or 'low status' or good or bad. China aka Qin, the Qin can be traced back to 897BC or we can say 2922 years ago. We just 'round off' the number to 3000. This is the formation of Qin-a or China. Morons hear this and think "HEY! Why are you DENYING my Higher SCore!? You must be Chinese and are Trying to SHAME me below you!?! but in real adult world, this is simply all we know of Qin history. That it was founded as a 'culture' a kingdom, as an identifiable people group around 900 BC aka 3000 years ago. Around 2200 years ago Qin defeated the non-Qin kingdoms to expand into a massive kingdom stretching to the pacific ocean and established 'Qin' all over East Asia, established Qin rules, Qin writing, Qin laws, Qin roads and etc etc. Yes, of course, like everywhere on earth, whole revolutions overturned rulers and kings, of course massive waves of admixture, borrowing and change happened. Yes, the 'Ming' took over then others took over and then it became 3 countries then it became one again. But we still regard the Qin formation, 3000 years ago as 'China' because they did indeed establish culture, governmance, rules, weights, writing, measurments and those that follow also follow the rules of The Qin aka China. Yes, even the Mongols who defeated and occupied Chin-a for a century still used the Qin in Qin and were aware they ruled Qin. Hence we say 'Mongols conquered China' instead of calling it 'Mongolia'. it remains 'Qin' in that sense and finally in 1644 'Qin' is conquered again by the foreign Jerchen aka 'Qing'. We could say Qin is 2600 years old since it was completely and utterly conquered by the 'Manchu' but here's the thing, even the Manchu still keep Qin writing, Qin measures, Qin systems, they change many thing yes, they even make Chinese dress like foreigners but actually they keep using Qin systems, Qin language. Hence, we don't say China was wiped off the map and gone. We still say its the remains of the Qin who we only know were established in 2,992 years ago. Morons with simple brains are nice people but they need to understand 2992 years of history isn't a "lower score". It's not more 'humiliating' nor is 5000 years the 'highest gaokao score' and thus make your moron peers 'jealous'. Please grow up.
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  1119. So many Boomers fading away in the wrong side of history.
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  1120.  @directxxxx71  Hah no you are 🤣😅😂
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  1121. Yes, this is a kind of 'Porn production' for you to feel pleasure.
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  1122. This is why China's real-estate bubble collapse is far worse than the 2008 housing bubble collapse was for the USA. A tremendous amount of the Chinese economy ran on these 'speculative loans' nonsense where someone starts a massive community build and 5 minutes later has a billions in loans to open a chain of 200 restaurants that don't need to make money and then millions of loans against it for 300 coffee shops that are more like money-laundering/stock bubbling schemes.. etc. So economists use that term 'collapse'. there is a massive 'evergrande' mega floor and when that and all those other massive top floors falls it takes half the country's economy out, below. You're entirely right btw, its worse in the sense that all those empty malls, 98% finished, the skyscrapers abandoned at halfway, the 60% occupied (seemingly at best, thats the most) communities opening. That could have been a LOT of other things. People think I'm joking when I say this but I am NOT joking: IF only they put just 5% of that into opening a nationwide investment in Maintenance Workers aka Repairmen. A school full of 7000 future Elevator repaimen who denounce using tape and cheap parts for quick fixes aka 'cha bu duo' culture. no joke, if today the one thing China was known for? Brotha.. if you want your elevators fixed you go directly to China because mannnn those guys will fix it, your escalators, your buildings plumping and they do a danmnnn good job! I'd take that. I'd take that over 50% of the buildings being concrete skeletons sitting around doing nothing.
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  1123.  @alexjeffrey3981  to do what, transport Chinese workers for cheap labor to the wealthier Mediterranean nations? Get lots of 'coolies' to build their bridges and roads I guess?
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  1124. @cheungchingtong  maybe you shouldnt have smirked about an 'Italy Virus' and lost big brother Italys support, 3rd worlder?
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  1125. @nicolem889  China isnt rising.
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  1126. Vietnam doesn't need anything from China. China doesn't 'teach Vietnamese' anything but yes Vietnam will allow China to earn money by selling them resources and Vietnam will hire and pay lots of Chinese to work do work for them.
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  1127.  @blacksmoke6292  by putting it in The Flash movie.
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  1128. Its because he did tariffs 8 years ago, Biden kept them and for 8 years, Americans didnt suffer from them. So, why would you believe it would magically start now?
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  1129. This old lesbian would stroke off whoever pays him enough to hate the USA but putting this vile person aside: I hope this helps soften the fall of China's current severe economic collapse.
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  1130. I don't really care about John Belushi much. He was great as the Blues Brother and most everything else he can f*ck off for all I'd care. I think he was a pretty damn good actor. Otherwise, we don't need to go on and on about his short career like it was so damn important in the world.
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  1131. A real question: Did they make 17 of these Seagal movies at ONE SINGLE Shoot? Because it really seems like.. and think about how this would require some clever stuff... like they spent 2 weeks and really what happens is they do 20 takes at any given spot. Example, an actress runs in and says a line, he says some line "its Marquez" then she takes off and another actress comes in, Seagall says "Jordan King is behind this!". she runs off, another actress... that afternoon he is told to fire upwards at the sky 'a helicopter is there, shoot at it' then take 2 "Ok, Sensai, now CIA goons are running at you, spray shots all over', this is done 20 times. you get the idea. Then, for months, some editing wizards are splicing ALL of those into 20 different Seagal movies. That's what we're seeing these last 17 or so Seagal movies yes?
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  1132. It's close to 12% but you need to keep in mind, just like a person, like in your life, something close to 80% of your money goes to 'food, medicine, blankets, rent, utility bills, socks' which is actually most businesses too. 90% of the corner stores income is leases, inventory etc etc. Only 3% is the actual profit that makes it worth staying in business. Like you, me, most anyone, 7% or 12% but this is nearly all that is left over for things like improving life, maintenance, 'spending money'. If you lost 10% of your income you've lost almost all of what we'll call 'non-necessity' money. all expendable money. some call it 'disposable' money meaning you don't need-need it to stay alive just fine. you can spend it on a Netflix subscription if you feel like it. this is China. They are just poor enough that it takes 93% of their GDP to 'survive' to meet basic needs, to feed people and not freeze to death in winter, to have some hygiene and clean socks. Losing 7% will be just devastating to the Chinese people. It will be a very significant step down into increased poverty.
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  1133. There is no such thing as 'Free healthcare' in ANY countries.
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  1134. So far, so good for the USA. Trump does have the proverbial problem some elected governments have.. "you need to break some eggs to make a great omelette". For almost a decade there is universal agreement that 'onshoring', bringing manufacturing back and equalizing trade imbalances is going to requrie, no escaping it, some short term pains in order to get to the gains. So far, the American people are accepting that as long as Trump also runs some of the 'short terms gains' too. DOGE and removing millions of the most expensive (see, criminal) illegals does just that, so does and so will impressive tax returns. As for the 'Isolating' this is fine and what a good many Americans voted for. The USA and more broadly speaking North America (hence some rough stuff getting Canada and Mexico more onboard) but they are a VERY RARE nation that can actually supply itself with nearly everything known to be needed or wanted by mankind. obviously they'd also like trading and selling, importing, exporting BUT the USA is a very very rare geographical place that can actually run entirely independently with zero need for anything outside itself. Lumber, water, power, minerals, farmlands, oil, gas, etc etc everything. and just for fun, they even have a vast landmass where you can live or visit and tour or move to an arctic world, then a hot arid desert world, then a tropical world, then vast farmlands or to mountainous world or to rainforest world. but to get to their America First types of goals things will need to be undone. things will need to be in flux, some things are going to require a little upfront cost before you get the future gains. In the case of stock markets, there are CEOs who will need to wait a bit before they can make their plans while DOGE and friends redo some things. Its going to cost 60k to get rid of an illegal who costs 40k a year if they're not deported etc. SO FAR, Trump's been playing it out pretty well and SO FAR most of the voters are with him on it. As long as they see rewards popping up (gas prices going down for example) they will accept some other items being a bit more, or their income tax at least doesn't go UP this year. btw, CGTN has been really playing up on stock markets dropping as if that is the new 'GDP' imaginary gaokao score to see 'The West is failing' and this horseshlt but if we play along with this? Ok, lets play along: Stock markets arent down 3% because the world is saying "grrr.. I disapprove and America is worse Hrmphh.. see how its worth less now!". No, This is happening because a lot of people with fists full of money go to extraordinary levels of planning around policies, budget summaries and knowing what WILL be the new '2025-2030' way of things. So they are holding back a little because these big CEOs want to wait a bit to see DOGE final results, what agencies are done and what Trumps final maximum tariffs are. and so they should. they are prudent that way, good for them, but, make no mistake they have all the big wallets of money they most definitely intend to be filling up the US stock market with, oh they have plenty BUT yes they are going to hold back, wait for a bit. I hope that helps. I don't know how any of that can help China's current economic collapse and inevitable road back to poverty but hopefully that helps understand why the USA doesn't need to have things manufactured in China and while it may happily buy lots of resources at low low prices it can actually produce it domestically if need be.
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  1135.  @xinbai.caifeng  There should be a funny internet name for people like you. People who don't just refuse to read something but they actually feel the need to tell people 'as if' they just did a winning thing. "words phht.. I aint readin' no words!" like they did a good thing. You know how those meme names like 'Frien-emy' or 'In-cel' but we need one for this type that needs to brag about ignoring reading words. I dont know, like 'Ignories' or maybe 'Iggners' something like that.
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  1136. ​ @xinbai.caifeng yes, i believe youd also be the type to leave sneering emojis like that [the lowest of low things] but then feel the need to tell people as if you just did a winning thing that got them! You dont get to 'we shall see' as if you are some adult with valid opinions
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  1137. Prof. Huang is the only one who 'gets it'. Trump will be announcing what he will (or wont) do with China, for China, what he will have China do or not do for the USAs benefit. That is all. There is no world where Trump negotiates but instead starts by explaining the worst case for China but then barters down to least worst outcome for China. That is all.
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  1138. Uh huh, and what exactly is this 'consensus'?
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  1139. The USA is an Elephant. China is not. It is not an equal power scenario. One, the USA is far far more powerful than China so this will not be 'two great elephants'.
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  1140. Ok but their economy is not doing well and they are in financial collapse. That is what is actually happening already. So yes, you can make trade surpluses AND do those at the same time.
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  1141.  @jackyee7511  You can see the most interesting things by jaywalking.
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  1142.  @kashresident  The massive collapse of Evergrande and now every other real-estate company are just about the biggest of big deals that can ever happen. Massive deflation is also a pretty big thing. 60% of all shops and restaurants being closed, forever, and 50% of all residences being unfinished and unoccupied is a very very big deal. These are such big deals they are called, by economists an 'economic collapse of the entire economy'. Which is considered a big deal.
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  1143.  @vegamoonlight  Yes, having to sell off exports for lower prices to more of Asia is a downward trend. No, it doesn't have strong domestic consumer demand and this is another very serious problem at this time. How to get it back up? Nobody knows yet.
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  1144.  @jmchng9662  Yes you can keep buying those things for lower and lower prices as China realises it needs to take whatever it can get for those products. This is a problem when many of those things are selling at a loss. You get that right? The Chinese EV is subsidized by the govt so every sale in Vietnam or anywhere is China's people losing a little bit of their wealth. That said, getting $1000 for an EV that cost $2000 to make is still better than geting $0 and having it rust out in a field somewhere in China.
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  1145.  @vegamoonlight  They don't have to believe me. They can see, obviously, as one of the biggest international news stories in the world, China is experiencing economic collapse. At the moment, one of the most serious issues is unceasing 'Deflation': https://youtu.be/VJ8mYOUC21w?si=zqNKTX-Dt5EwXIvK
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  1146.  @boweihuang3246  it will be if you're counting up until February 2025. You know why this is right? It's moving everything that can be moved as fast as humanly possible before Trump ends the trade imbalance. Mind you, that might still be a few months away depending on how long Trump takes to invoke massive new tariffs (or... maybe just minimal tariffs).
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  1147.  @rap3208  Nope, the US is essential and makes the difference between severe economic collapse or less severe economic collapse for Mainland China. It won't be able to do your fantasy of creasing a smirk and saying 'oh well if you don't want it then hehe.. tuff luck USA". Nope. no sir.
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  1148. I would like some of the under-employed to ask themselves if, 7 years ago, they remember doing things like: - Smirking about how China would punish the USA - Chuckling about how the USA and The West were drooling with jealousy and little cowards scared of Godchina. - Calling something 'The American Virus' - Self-congratulating themselves for already surpassing the USA to be number one! - Getting into masturbatory fervor about smashing the 'roaches' in Hong Kong and then punishing Japan? - Crowing about how Trump was going to get forced to his knees and peed on as punishment for DARING to challenge China. etc, etc, etc, For those who were doing such things, maybe you want to stop and think about that for a minute or two. Was it really a great idea that the MOMENT all the Western money, Western investment, the USA and 'The West' started to bring you to modern standards you decided 'HEHEHE NOW WE THE CAPTAIN NOW!!" and reveal that actually now we don't need you anymore and will PUNISH YOU! Was that actually a good plan, after all? Maybe, let me suggest: Maybe that kind of shltty Haitian boat pirate attitude wasn't actually a good move and might even be one of the singled dumbest, most embarrassing, most face-losing, public shaming Low IQ choice any people have ever made in recent world history? and for the many hardworking Chinese who didn't participate in that disgusting display: Sorry for you. I just hope you don't have to keep paying for what a bunch of rubbish Xiao-ren countrymen did to everyone.
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  1149. Why? The USA has some of the greatest science labs on the planet. So good that scientists from around the world try to work for them. You think that will change?
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  1150. @scholarssolutions6735  hi, that was some fun creative writing but to be clear, begging Americans arent asking Chinas godgrads to please help them. I know you get off on that idea but the reality is Chinas best scientists desperately hope they can get hired in a superior 'big league' lab where they get crazy good money and opportunities. You would too. Chinese mainlanders are.. and this you know.. they are NOT somehow deciding these inferior lower US jobs are too small and returning to China which is now the leader of the world and seriously? I know youre just writing yourself a masturbatory fantasy but in case you actually believed that? Oh dear, you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh a LOT to learn. But yes, the US is so good it can hire the top talent in the world and 100% of them will go there but especially Mainland Chinese who see it as nothing short of winning the lifes lottery.
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  1151. @ Ok but I have all kinds of Chinese students who are desperately trying to get jobs in the USA. It's considered a kind of 'lotto win' when they do. In many cases, the family has been putting all their hope on the Chinese kid to be a science wizard with crazy good grades SO THAT they can get that ticket to the USA. reality indeed. This is the very very real life on the ground in China. You write 'fantasies' like you're making video games and writing 'fandom' battles. I tell you what is really happening with the flesh and blood breathing air.
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  1152. Unfortunately it's also entering severe economic collapse and what might be some very dark and unaffordable years ahead.
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  1153. @ The reason i can describe what is happening in Chinai is because I live, work and travel in China. That's why I can let you know China is in the middle of a severe economic collapse. I'm sure your friend Gordon is just fine too.
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  1154.  @JKENLAO-pi7to  Yes, they'd be much better and they'd finally be able to claim they were the economic 'rival' to the USA with the same high standards of living. Their lives would be so much better than they wouldn't keep wanting to live in the USA instead of China..
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  1155.  @JKENLAO-pi7to  it is because the Chinese firewall blocks you from sending messages?
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  1156. Was it 2 years ago? That was sad when they had these Black Americans, though, its not exclusively segregated but you can call it a 'black neighborhood' and they'd take their kids to school and be stunned to see hundreds of illegal's kids sleeping in the gym and being put into classes. Then they'd go to rent a house but 100% had been bought with taxpayer money to house migrants and literally weekly something that 'was' their neighborhood subculture was removed and replaced with something Central American and so on. I was told that area was what is dubbed 'historically black' for something like 150 years and was being dispersed and undone in what took less than 3 years until it wasn't really 'anything' but a kind of migrant housing zone.
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  1157. Nope, overall they're doing well by any kind of world standards. Europe isn't a country but within Europe some countries will decline while others will see a strong century coming on. The USA though, is by far in the best possible place as will Canada and Mexico beside it. But they aren't Chinese so they don't have a 'Shame Culture' and don't think about 'shame' or name periods 'times of shame' etc. That's what East Asia people do and low-thinking types.
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  1158. Everyone thinks the stairs lead up to something mysterious. Few realize the stairs are there to go down into a mystery.
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  1159. I tihnk the reporter and everyone would have liked to hear what China plans to do as it puts 'the foreigners first' and Chinas needs 2nd. How much money will China increase in foreign aid? Enough to replace the amount reduced from the Americans? Will China use it's military to carry out more protection of merchant ships around the world? How much?
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  1160.  @SagittarianArrows  hi goof, The question is about the removal of US foreign aid and then 'will China fil lthat gap'. He told us how China is now loyal to 'The foreign international world ABOVE Chinas own interests. great! but we didn't hear any of the actual substance. You can list them or go sit down, 3rd worlder.
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  1161.  @theblackhawk7907  do you mind if I ask, what is your ethnic background?
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  1162. "you're supposed to help the poor." _ "Okay so you're saying I should buy a new car, right?" humans really do have difficult grasping certain Jesus' concepts lol
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  1163.  @PChan-yt4uf  Of course not or there wouldn't be separate names and separated states. Here's a tip: don't just write the most 2D dumb 'SAY OPPOSITE' like that lol.. its so goofy.
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  1164.  @PChan-yt4uf  In a few short years, Taiwan will retake the mainland and rule all of China. You should be prepared for that, Nong
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  1165. You should think about what you're believing. You'd believe that Trump is creating a new kind of Tariff where the American buyer pays the extra 25%. really think about what youre saying.
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  1166. @ Ok, Karen
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  1167. Something else, a lot of this audience could send the complain to Youtube/Google in a 'suggestion' (i can't remember how) but somewhere you can send 'feedback'. I want them to know that I'm suddenly getting searches where the first and ONLY videos are these "We ViSited CHina the West MEdia LIED TO US" idiotic shill travel vlogs.
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  1168.  @AG-ig8uf  Oh ya, what's going wrong? Are you having a severe economic collapse and a 'housing bubble burst' 10x the size of the 2008 collapse? You do not have a worse country FFS. protip: if you're going to lie, sometimes 'less is more'.
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  1169. @yt-qg8ui  how do you know about USAID and what it spends money on?
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  1170.  @kamsunleong6648  Of course not and Chinse don't have a 'rich culinary culture' or 'cuisine' but what is called 'poverty food'. Things like 'chicken feet' which were sent by North Americans who don't eat such things but as to help Chinese stop starving to death. Then things like coating everything in Chile Peppers, that Western chile pepper so strong you can't taste the dog meat sold to you as beef. Dog meat is from starvation and malnutrition when people killed their own farm dogs just to get meat. Most of Mainland's China is 'poverty foods' but that isn't the actual problem. It's the 2-part double-unlucky and extreme ways its cooked, with basically zero food safety standards (all the e-Col, salmonella and bird flu you can gobble down) but ALSO the amount of 'fake food', the plastics, poisons, foreign substances, metals and non-edible chemicals that are so so often inside that poverty food. There is no 'mass boycott of starbucks' but there have been mass arrivals of 'Cotti' and these highly subsidized money-losing 'loan and stock scheme' coffee shops while at the same time Chinese get poorer and poorer so they are definitley NOT going to Starbucks anymore where a cup is 39yuan but the Chinese kiosk next door is 8.99 for an even bigger cup of coffee. McD's is definitely not being boycotted and they remain fairly busy despite fewer and fewer Chinese young people who are more and more often unemployed and can no longer pay 37 yuan when they can save money by buying kerosense grilled dog meat skewers bathed in South American chile peppers so you cant taste the neighbors stolen pet that was bashed with a hammer and cut up into grizzle and tendons. a wumao for 6 little chunks on a stick! Also, Fast Food. It is and never was deemed 'Junk Food'. 'Junk Food' is QQtan and Dove Chocolates and Chips'. Fast Food is NOT 'Junk Food' but you go eat some of your garbage 'cuisine' and don't ask about the shocking rise of stomach and intestinal cancers in China.
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  1171.  @Cruz831sc  there is a shortage of doctors but that's just abour 0.4% of the jobs. can you imagine a country so stupid it didnt' make enough doctors? how embarrassing is that?
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  1172. Return to pious Christianity. No joke.
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  1173. Question for the audience: How many believe that Goofball was deliberately pretending his cellphone was a gun in the hopes it would trick, scare and take control of a driver who assumes it was a gun? Just going by this video, I believe Goofball TRIED to make it look like a gun. But what say you?
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  1174. You watched this here on Youtube, an American Media platform. This entire platform is blocked in Tibet.
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  1175.  @Max-l3z  it is really hot!
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  1176. In 2024, there is no longer any good reasons for students to be moving to different cities, dumping their family saving and then taking out 45 year loans to live for years walking to campuses for 1 hour here, another class days later for nearly ANY of the 'liberal arts' aka 'humanities' (which are great and wonderful too). when at least most of that can be done online, via digital courses, downloads and video, zoom and so on. A lot of good arguments can be made its SUPERIOR to be doing these fields via the internet but its at least as good.
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  1177. ya but they saw 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' (50+, the age of most civil servants aka Leaders) and the younger ones totally agree because mental asylums.. i mean the are the youth's version of 'hell' in any video game. So, that option was removed.
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  1178.  @kqilim  There isn't actually a kind of rival to The People's Republic of China called 'The West'. and 'The West' gives money to report on China's econimic collapse because they are just like Chinese mainlanders in a 'Shame Culture' and in a disgusting little propaganda war. but it's interesting how many of the most disgusting immature type of Chinese really do believe in such things.
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  1179. He says this to masturbate the Chinese who are getting very turned on by it yes but.. its objectively untrue. The United States is the only superpower. China is not a 'worlds great power' and Russia isn't anymore either. The United States, IF it was presumably with its allies, most definitely could defeat Mainland China, conventionally.
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  1180. One reason this wasn't released is in your own description ".. a haunting.." because although they reported this before they didn't say it was, specifically by name, his wife who was among those who heard a bang noise. It is indeed, very emotional, very difficult to watch for the obvious reasons of social and emotional power. And then there is a question of respecting a family's privacy and upsetting loved ones. There were JFK files they didn't release without redactions solely because we had a belief that living relatives and loved ones and private individuals didn't want to have the social and emotional consequences. This is normal that we do this.
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  1181. If I can chirp some observation into the mix: I'd suggest, by Western standards, we would would consider most of the rural villages in China and maybe moreso in those southern rice fields, most are 'Matriarchal' to this day. Having lived through it, mostly survived so far, I have to try not to overreact whenever someone suggests that anyone would marry a Chinese villager because they just want a 'submissive wife'. Ohhhh haha noooo. no sir, no, that is near 'opposite wrong' lol
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  1182. On paper its 3 years automatic exclusion but in practice, he will not see an Australian Visa (for which he must apply) he wont get approved for the rest of our lives.
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  1183. I find it all annoying, this kind of social circle I mean, not the natural beauty. but it's worth letting people know this really is California too. Indeed, most of California is rural and what we see here. Of course, we all tend to think 'Southern California' and the famous (infamous) big cities.
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  1184.  @beaulieuc8910  my old aunties in the UK still think of those characters as sort of devilish "naughty lads" and I guess it's a thing where you had to be there in the 70s to understand it
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  1185. I think most people would be very very surprised to learn how much kidnapping goes on. Children, I mean little kids getting kidnapped. It's so common that a lot of Mainlander Chinese have a kind of 'normalized' view as if we all know its just a 'thing' that goes on of course. someone owed money to someone probably. so ya, that's life.
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  1186. A thought about 20:00 but for a few years I worked alongside Drug Rehab/Police/Justice system world and by 21:00 in this walkthrough I'd suggest that The King in Yellow could be 'Fentanyl' today. Drugs. Bear with me.. although it wasn't the first time this thinking ever happened, around 2019 our North American city was absolutely at the lowest of lows with a seemingly uncontrollable supply of deadly drugs and people dying from them. At wit's end, at a point they were just 'decriminalized', things got VERY deadly when Covid "lockdowns" happened and I guess you can look at it this way: - Severe addicts were suddenly given 'covid money' to stay inside their house of 5 other junkies with (what is to them) a massive windfall of money. They bought bags and bags of drugs and the deadiest part is they didn't have to go out every morning stealing, scamming and working their legs. Death after death. and a lot of people, behind closed doors though UNSAID but in a kind of eerie 'knowing' wanted to accept: Let them. So be it. Some likened it to 'Darwinianism' and really the best thing, even the 'right thing' is that those who'd eliminate themselves with the overdoes 'ought to' and remove themselves. For others, it just simply benefits more of the responsible contributors if the takers, the madmen, the drug fiends remove themselves, and so be it, that is what they wanted and why pay to extend the miserable inevitable? For others, no 'social good' needed. These nasty, intimidating criminals are filthy, toxic, break into my car, kicked my dog and they'd be happy to boo them as their bodies are pulled out of the alleys. Decriminalize as much as possible because nothing better than letting them walk into their own execution chambers. Though there was no such politically incorrect acceptance ever spoken by anyone, any elected, any justice people, not any media and YET: a strong belief that it was better to let those who 'would go mad into addiction' to simply let them. If Im just that far into this story, I'd strongly suggest the 'Yellow King' is.. heroin. Opium. (heck, to make it fun, at the time, opium may have been associated with China already (?) and Qin Xi Huang is 'The Yellow Emperor' and we still think of the emperors wearing the yellow silk roads. just adding that for fun thoughts)
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  1187. @pflernak  thats not currently the problem being discussed. Remember the population problem
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  1188.  @Elephant_King_Gj  eww gross. don't reply to adults that way anymore.
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  1189. @ you're source is what? ..Your imagination?
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  1190.  @Mildau30  haha no you should take your meds and whatever you're smoking hahah!
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  1191.  @Mildau30  hah that's funny, you should be a roastmaster standup comedian herr derrr!
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  1192.  @Mildau30  Yes but by then, there might be few Chinese males to attend the show. Lots of comfort women you can get zingers on.
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  1193. There is no single 'the healthcare system' but yes everyone could have private personal in-home healthcare for this condition. You just have to get everyone to agree to pay $18000 more a year for insurance. Okay with you?
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  1194.  @eveningchaos1  nope, US cities look pretty good but he's telling you about how 95% of China is well behind, is still in relative poverty and is in a state of '50 years ago' by most international modern standards. This is correct.
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  1195. Oooof the cope is getting stage 4 TDS levels with that
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  1196. but there are serious consequences now and a major one has been 'capital flight' where investement capital is, as much as possible, flying away to the USA and Japan. China is actually very unique in how it carries out government mistakes and consequences though. nothing. nothing happens. nothing really happens... then the Emperor makes more mistakes... obedience.. nothing.. nothing.. Emperor effs things up... nothing nothing really happ.. OH SNAP!! HOLY EFFING SHIiiiii! Massive mobs of Chinese SNAP and a 'peasant rebelion' carries out a HORRIFYING uprising. I mean 'consequences' so horrifying they make the Ukrainian 'meat grinder' seem civilized and orderly too. After absolute CARNAGE and then some of the msot twisted 'social humiliation rituals' and then actual tortures and deaths etc... a new regime or 'Dynasty' refill the gap, takes over and restarts China where, for about 100 years no matter what they do, even if they screw up badly with major mistakes.. nothing much... nothing.. not really anything... the people obey... nothing really happens.... Rinse and repeat. This is really the history of China for the 2,900 years its been around and constantly, routinely and until very recently too, just 75 years ago they did this.
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  1197. You mean genetic segregation and yes. nothing wrong with that.
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  1198. ​ @MotherOfCivilization317 redlining laws dont exist.
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  1199. they can yes but why? why just make a copy of Openai? there is nothing new so why recreate Openai and rename it 'DeepSikh' or whatever? yeesh no, the other AI companies are going to keep building up a much more massive next level AI instead. But I dunno, maybe after they're done China can copy THAT version with anew name?
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  1200. "Here in the West". There is no such country as 'The West" and the farming practices across the Western world vary greatly so it's senseless to ever try and say 'The West farming practices'. And no, China's farming practices are not 'way beyond' or even 'slightly beyond' any of them.
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  1201.  @comingviking  It's interesting to see your sales. You tell us about ancienti practices and finish with '...and that is an ancient practice'. As if "OHHH so it must be EVEN MORE advanced than the 'West' now? Anyway, no, they are not way beyond anyone and they aren't 'beyond' the West she pretends to be living in. Knock it off. This isn't China. You don't need to 'Shame culture' someone else in order to feel some insecurity alleviation ffs
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  1202.  @comingviking  I don't think you know about ANY farming practices where the Chinese are 'way ahead of the West' and are making up nonsense with poor reasoning. Also, there is no country called 'The West' and you need to stop believing in that.
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  1203.  @comingviking  hi, no, China doesn't have the longest continuous documented history of development and not even in SE Asia. and now you are up to your usual intellectual dishonesty and manipulation pretending I've insisted China has some inferior farming and weirdly 'based on your criteria'. I don't believe you know ANYTHING about modern farming but instead you just saw someone claim Chinese superiority over the inferior 'West' and wanted to upvote it and just agree out of some shitty emotions inside you. In reality world. 'The West' isn't a single country or kingdom and if you went through 'The West' you'd find all kinds of different farming practices.. ..most of which, todays PRC copied in an attempt to become a modern society. and that is fine. nothing wrong with that. but you can get rid of this stupid idea "I saw some Nationalism Porn that China is WAY AHEAD of the pathetic little 'The West' so i will keep repeating it and chanting it until it 'becomes true' because we say it over and over. Hee haww. and then post sneering laughing emojies and believe 'The West' much also have 'Shame Culture' so its soooo jealous. GTFO with that already. Just hope dumping salmon on markets helps Chinas collapsing economy enough tha they don't need to eat those fish out of starvation.
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  1204. Agreed, they're fairly effective.
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  1205. Now I have one of those Leftist Cause ugly warning stickers making sure I know The Great Replacement Theory is a "white nationalist conspiracy theory". Anyway, Wikipedia antiwhite propaganda aside because this isn't really a "theory" but a practice. Roman's did it and back in China you can try and find Manchurians? Currently, Uighurs hold to a GRT partly because they ARE being replaced by Han and it really is conspiracy aka organized by their own government. The Russian USSR really did some attempts at this and hence provinced in former USSR Ukraine are almost entirely Russian ethnicity and the result is seen. I don't know any of those folks are "white nationalists". The idea of a great replacement has been and really is an idea proposed and supported by many Leftists who believe it will replace or reduce the evil white Christian population and thus the last blockade to the glorious new Progressive democratic socialist world ahead. Doesn't Dr. Grande hear that in his academic circles? He does hear how the progress is coming because, after all, most of those old white racists will pass away over the next decade anyway? Really? Dr. Grande doesn't hear this common belief? Not that this had anything to do with our utterly insane teenager who actually stopped himself when a cowering victim pleaded "NO no no!" Saying to the man "oh I'm sorry, sorry sorry!" And left as if he made a terrible mistake with his boss. The shooter did that utterly randomly while blowing people's heads off before and after. That is utter insanity.
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  1206. ​ @SlimJim3082 please, you cant just speak alternate reality into existence, silly
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  1207. @joshpike3450  too late means what? China has a civil war on itself?
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  1208.  @anthonysmz3  on day one some goofy little protest and someone thinks they saw some US strawberries wilting. this is your proof some sort of global punishement of the USA, the world does a mean girls and refuses to deal with them.. no you're creatin ga fantasy.
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  1209.  @thejeffinvade  Why do you say those who aren't sick (not expressing symptoms) have a real high risk to be contagious'? I suppose the question is what measure, what do you tally as 'high risk'? Compared to what?
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  1210.  @thejeffinvade  We have something different now: 'obviously you're at higher risk if its anyone who tested positive'. This had nothing to do with my question or inquiry, sorry. thanks for writing about other things though.
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  1211. Trump has decided its 'Win or Lose' and he intends to win. China had better realize that.
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  1212. I've wondered about this too. As he noted, when the Boomers come of age they 'rejected their fathers uniform'. To be anti-establishment they change daily fashion to 'tune-in, drop-out', counter-culture, everything is 'slack' and loose and casual mannn. It almost seemed like the mid-1980s made a swerve back as the Boomers kids became teenagers. The 'New Wave' fashion trend was a kind of retro-1950s neon dream version. also conservative with 'skin', lots of high necks, womens jeans went high high up. but whatever the case, is the next cycle going to be the kids wear something more like a suit, a uniform, more proper gear and then we oldies are so funny with our old man pyjama clothes and sneakers?
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  1213. You'd think Pastor Bonheoffer would be one of the single most read and most celebrated heros on campuses everywhere. He was a person who really did stand up against the Nazis, had a choice, went to find them, and hanged against the Nazis. What every college student thinks they'd do.
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  1214.  @johnsimpson6670  Ask yourself why you felt the need to rub some shlt on the Christian post?
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  1215.  @djalfordnz  If you lived in China you're poorer than you were 5 years ago. Ugly home truths indeed.
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  1216.  @NopWorks  They do not.
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  1217. Deliberately obfuscating illegal trespassers' and legal immigrants is the spellbinding scam that never stops.
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  1218. From a strategic angle, the USA should ban pretty much all Chinese apps, software (unless they make a US version?) and remove Chinese language from most existing apps and most any Chinese based websites. maybe create a kind of 'firewall' that will specifically block any coming or going from Mainland Chinas internet. Then, after doing that, start negotiating to 'unblock' one for one. Unblock 'red note' but China must unblock 'twitter' etc.
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  1219. I think they drooped the White Nationalism a day after Liberals won again.
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  1220. But Trump DID say he was aware it's not even clear if Greenland belongs to Denmark or not. You say 'He didn't understand' but he DOES understand that. He says so in the same speech you're criticizing. He is aware of the vague, ambiguous, yes-but-no nature of Greenland and Denmark. So, what you can expect is he will rescind his offer to pay Denmark anything. As for Greenland voting? I'd strongly suggest to you the majority will vote to join the USA as soon as possible and it's going to be difficult for Denmark to say a single word after touting they are 'independent' and don't even belong to Denmark anyway and all the talk about how Denmark supports their right to freely choose their own desires etc.
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  1221. Hello. I just want to understand this mentality okay? You're belief seems to be that what the USA has announced is their promise to carry out a full genocide of the Chinese people, yes? That their plan is to siege China until all the Chinese starve to death? This is the premise, this, you think its the US intention.
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  1222. Oh dear, this is going into State 5 TDS if you're really trying to spin this as Trudeau OUTSMARTS Trump. oh son, no. this is not good.
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  1223. This channel and all of youtube is blocked by China. it is unwelcome to be seen or heard by Chinese in China. not very 'welcoming' is it?
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  1224. Nobody forced any Chinese to buy and sell opium.
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  1225. Nope, the American consumers don't pay the higher prices.
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  1226.  @mikew764  Hi there, nope, they don't pass it along to me. Can you figure out how it happens that its not passed on to the American consumer? I dare you mr. basic stuff. Let me know the basic answer? because again, most of these are NOT passed on to the consumer. Think.. think...
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  1227.  @mikew764  nope, the sellers eat the difference. That is why you paid 10 for the made-in-cihina gizmo BEFORE the tariffs and currently and after. Can you figure this out? Was it magic? how can it be?
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  1228.  @ddelin100  No because 8 years ago Trump put big tariffs on all kinds of products. Then I paid the SAME price before, during and currently since Biden kept those going. So we aren't actually having a discussion you THINK we are. We aren't having a "WE WILL SEE" debate. That's too late. We already knew, currently know that what happens is the exports eat the difference. It passes BACK to them. There is no 'We will see....' because its now, already happened 8 years ago and the 'seeing' is already been here for years.
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  1229. By this time next year, there will be as many or more illegals and refugees and even more immigrants that will have arrived since today. it will make zero difference who you voted for, what you said in surveys or ranted about in the street.
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  1230. I agree with much of this. A lot of the bad manners are the twisted outcomes of Maoism, planned poverty and terrible social engineering ideas with layers of hateful propaganda soaked in. this is why you will not see such rude behavior among Hong Kong or Taiwanese Chinese but then its' absolutely the worst rude behavior on the planet over in the Mainland.
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  1231. I've strongly agreed with Peter (and for my own observations too) but he's correct that North America will become a much more unified trade zone with Mexico becoming THE manufacturing base, replacing much of China's work today. Add to all that as many open roads, borders and pipelines. UsCanMex is inevitable, obviously the way forward. Is this part of that? This is really the biggest single showstopper and impediment. Canadian companies are simply NOT sending execs and people to Mexican Widget factories so they get kidnapped. Ohio companies would be 100% onboard switching from Guangzhou to Mexico City but they are NOT going to do that and find out some Savage Cartel is suddenly holding someone hostage and needs payouts. To my mind, this starts the beginning of the end because CanMexUSA simply cannot be working until Mexico is largely free from this. Cartels may very well carry on at the level of biker gangs, subversive mafia families but we cannot have China Manufacturing and massive 3-Nation networking as long as Cartels are nearly a kind of government level power able to carry out massive controls over large sector of the economy and transport world.
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  1232. at 40:00 Rogan has to think about when and where he gets his 'bursts' his comedy bit thoughts. The answer is when he watches a nature video of animals having sex then thinks 'FCKKKK they FKKING GRRRRNN and then he sees a stool and works out the bit where he yess 'FKC IM CUMMIN' and rap-elike grunts as he POUNDS it with bulging eyes. That's about 80% of his comedy.
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  1233. @endlessnameless6494  pushing it for what?
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  1234.  @calihipechik7657  'baby ripped from her mothers arms at the border'. No its babies being ripped out of their mothers wombs in abortion clinics. Get it right.
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  1235.  @roberthooper8883  I did look it up on 'Roblox' and it does seem to be a rule written by American 17 year old suburban Roblox gamers.
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  1236.  @roberthooper8883  no YOU cAn't 😂😂😂
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  1237. The USA quickly stomped The Taliban1 and Al Quaida then took over, occupied, carried on annihilating massive numbers of ISIS, built a lot of roads, schools and electrical grids and then decided when it would end operations and leave Afghanistan. So why would you make up a crazy 'opposite world' thing about a US Defeat when no such thing ever happened? Do you think you're a magician and you can 'speak reality into existence' by just announcing a new truth?
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  1238. well done buddy. Yes, there is something lovable about these people, these chain-smoking Canadians and aging tall men, something is 'right' about them, something we 'ought' to admire and maybe that hotel is where they almost, but never quite, find a place they belong.
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  1239. If they can keep it going at 1000 per day. I'm just going to go with 300,000 a year. Lets say. Not everyone knows this but there is a fairly strong 1-1 rule with Self Deportation. (some say its 2-1 but lets just go 11). So, at this rate, we could suppose 600,000 a year. we could expect to see something like 2.4 million deported in Trumps 4-year term. So keeping in mind, the number given is usually 11 million illegals at this moment. This isn't really what it seems like. 11 million is only the number of "known illegals". Which is to say, there is, at least, SOME kind of accounting of them, some paperwork, some count happened on someone at some time. Some of our best experts believe that there may be as many as 30 million. No joke. others say its 20, almost everyone agrees that '11 million' cannot be them all because (obviously) a big thing is never being seen or counted or documented in any way. Question now, Is 300k a year really enough to make a real significant difference? Now keeping in mind that there is going to be constantly replacement illegals. (not just border runners but those on expired visas for example). IMO, I would say they need to strongly consider ramping up the money from congress, tripling those beds, even if for a year at a time and really aiming for something much closer to 2.4 million PER YEAR not the entire 4 years. That gets very very close to the actual 11 million. Of course many more will be around BUT you've removed the large identified bulk of the problem to where it's more like small cleanups for whatever Vances terms.
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  1240. Foreigners conquered Chinese and made them 2nd class slave-servants in their own lands for most of the last 400 years.
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  1241. This is correct and they'd do this by no longer interfering with homes, home construction, home assignments, housing the homeless or ANY further manipulating of the entire thing. As many pointed out, this 'home shortage' is 100% purposely made to be that way by government controls.
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  1242. There is no comparison to the United States for ethnicities. You need to stop trying to pretend they are just as easily the same thing and you can say the same of either. You have to stop with that because it doesn't work.
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  1243. Unfortunately, China PRC didn't transition into the pre-planned 'tech sector' economy and I can't see any way it happens at this point. One thing it still has - a lot of manufacturing plants and still a lot of people it can sell as cheap labor for all kinds of low-priced products people around the world want. Will it have to sell them at very low low prices? yes. will it keep China afloat and away from the old world of extreme poverty and malnutrition? Yes, it can!
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  1244.  @PaulaDautremont  Working when?
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  1245.  @Njeri.Weru24  exactly, so whats the problem?
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  1246. You will if you lose the referendum. Then Trump will be your president because most Canadians say so.
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  1247. 2:45 wasn't necessary and gross. Yes, these are everywhere by 'Easterners' and 'Africans' and 'Westerners' but sure, thanks for the Wokeness I guess.
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  1248. Bukele is making El Salvador Great.
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  1249. Hey if you're gonna be lost in the jungle you might as well do it searching for a dinosaur. Good stuff!
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  1250. The problem is that you can't believe anything David Icke says after he was exposed as 'the football guy' on the Epstein Island pervert list. Icke is known to have molested upwards of 300 different 'lolitas' and has been reported by several TOP insiders as having laughs with Prince Philip over it, obviously they are close partners in crime.
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  1251. ya but here's my question: How? How is it possible that almost every single time I'm on a bullet train I am sat beside a villager that promptly takes his shoes and socks off and gets those browned feet all over the seats AND/OR someone who is shouting into his video wechat about 'orders, big orders' and yes shouting into the screen because, as many Chinese believe, the person is actually behind the phones glass and you shout into the center of the glass so they can hear you. AND, how, how on earth did i go on a perfect 6 trip losing streak where either front, back or beside, they got themselves a huge piping hot bag full of ultra-steam noodles and soups so that steam, in that small sealed cabin, can saturate my clothes and skin so I stink like 'Old Friend Noodles' for the rest of the days. Once I got a 'Hat Trick' where I had phone shouting guy, stink noodles AND shoeless joe getting those legs right up on the seat fabric, really grind that foot dirt in that seat felt... ALL SIDES. It was amazing. How can this happen by random chance? It cannot. My wife didn't believe me, we get on together, right beside us, grubby fee guy who gets those shoes off so he can stand on that chair putting his bag up on something. She just looked at me like 'holeeee shlt you were serious" We took a picture of his feet. How can this be random? The ONLY thing I can come up with is for some insane reason, maybe they hate foreigners? Or its some kind of 'Prank' Chinese ticket sellers pull on us? It cannot be random that's how every single time thats right beside me. OR, Is there something about a kind of Chinese travelers that was NOT going to do that, saw they were seated beside a foreigner and thinks "you know what.. I'm going to impress this foreigner by shouting into my phone and/or BLASTING douyin videos with that 'HER HERRRR HER HERR laugh at the volume of 11" AND one thing I was always told is that foreigners love is seeing blackened raw feet smearing around on the seats SO I better do that now to help this foreigner feel comfortable!". Though, since I have that streak: I really do get seated beside a nice looking single lady traveler more than not. Not that I'm going to hook up but it seems more than not.
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  1252. This channel is usually really good with research and avoiding internet BS but I have to call this out. I'm just 2 minutes in and there is a LOT of the currently trending 'anti-Megachurch bigotry' and urban legends and propaganda going on. Since I have been in church circles all over the place let me call some things out: 1. The term 'Megachurch' is actually meaingless. It's not a 'Thing'. There is no such denomination as 'megachurchian'. I'm playing Anti-Semantics because there is no point to 'megachurch' anymore than 'Minichurches'. 1.a) The only thing 'megachurch' is describing is any large church of any denomination of which there are many and some have 'Minichurches' and then they have lots of 'Midchurches' etc. 2. But they aren't necessarily wealthy churches per congregant. Like 'GDP per person'. India need not be called a 'Megacountry' but yes in total they have one of the largest GDPs on earth. BIG MonEy India! but no, per person they are one of the poorer countries (ranked like 110 out of 200?) Likewise a 'megachurch' may be no 'wealthier' than the minichurch of 15 old ladies or the Midchurch of 100 members. 3. I wouldn't cross the street to visit Joel Osteen but you're repeating the sneaking thing: He lives in a 10 million dollar mansion. That isn't his. I lived in a 100 million dollar hotel. Osteen is living in the churches headquarters which does indeed have a church mansion and that mansion does indeed have some other clergy and congregants living in it, likewise, so they have emergency shelters, they have 'retreats' where 100s of members live in a 10 million dollar resort for a weekend and so on. and Osteen did indeed make 2 million dollars over the last 20 years... the same way Bernie Sanders did... and Obama... by writing a book and having a LOT of people freely pay for his book. Which had nothing to do with the churches income, wealth or donations. 4. BS when you make a nefarious tone around employeeing people. 'Midchurches' will hire full-time pastors, secretaries, administrators and cleaners. Maybe 1 or 2 of each. 'Microchurches' may have employed 1 part-time pastor. the 'Megachurch' (just describing a very large church) do indeed hire as many 'per congregant' so yes they have 10 admins, 5 full-time pastors, 4 secretaries etc. This is not 'nefarious' or 'like a Megacorporation' anymore than anyone else needs staff. 5 Is the biggest BS callout I can make: There certainly ARE 'Prosperity Gospel' churches, Microchurches, Medichurches and there is a few that have a Megachurch. however a 'Megachurch' is not therefore a prosperity gospel church. A number of these 'Megachurches' (which is not a denomination just a size description) some are strictly ANTI-Prosperity Gospel and have been militating against such things for 30 years long before anyone on the internet pretended they were 'exposing' this old thing that has faded away.
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  1253. @Valdemar135  why bother yourself by doing that tho?
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  1254. Sometimes it's a good thing to simply take a break from making Vlogs and let it sit, let it rest and it might be that a year later you come back with some new approach and everything is better.
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  1255. I'd swear this is made by 'AI' ??
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  1256. @markc6714  no, the USA made a one time negotiation with Kurds. So that doesnt count in your shltty anti-American story.
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  1257. @ Yes, would you?
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  1258.  @MsStar266  Yes, you are part of 'Mainlanding Hong Kong'. You are that which absorbs and ultimately will 'Han-ify' Hong Kong's disappearing culture. yes, Xinjiang will continue to have ever increasing Han and Mandarin speakers while more Uighurs will be dispersed to large Han majority cities. Yes, there will be more 'disney-fied' versions of their Turkic language, and more of the new Han population will learn their language in schools. Soon, you'll be all for having the Hong Kong minority learn their Cantonese in schools as a 2nd dialect and even point out how the govt lets them sell fishballs and speak in Cantonese at home!
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  1259.  @levin36  Black people in American is most definitely 'cultural genocide' which is to say the African population brought to America, yes, absolutely. Their original African languages disappeared, customs, they are mixed into the greater popuation and took on the identical culture of the surrounding 'Southerners' aka 'rednecks' aka what were really a lot of Scot-Irish types in those states and for that matter then dispersed across the USA. This is the fate of the Uighurs (so far so good) who will indeed learn Mandarin as their 1st language while Han imports will take Uighur language classes but it will all be forgotten as they are reassigned to living locations spread out all over the Eastern predominantly Han region. As a living real time example: the young Uighur couple recently sent to Nanning (around 23 years old) primarily speak Mandarin most of the time. They newborn (born in Nanning City) will probably know just a little. Not unlike most of the ethnicities in Guangxi, Zhuang for example where only grandparents might actually speak the ethnic languages. In around 15 years, all these newborns, though both parents are Uighur who grew up in Xinjiang, but will be indistinguishable from a local 'Han' high school student. (or Zhuang for that matter who are already indistinguishable) and in 20 years will marry a 'Han' and so even genetically aka 'blood' will just admix into the greater Han. Because this is being done, organized, intentionally made to be this way by the PRC ruling regime, its directed, planned and done FOR the point and purpose of disappearing Muslim Uighur culture inside China - thus the UN describes it as 'cultural genocide'. You'd also find there WAS very very German enclaves in the early USA. Culturally German, spoke German, were DNA German, German was ALMOST the USAs 2nd language at one point, and yet, today, and you would find in regions once very very obviously Germanic, german culture, maybe only a German surname. Even that might have been 'Anglisized' where Mueller is now 'Miller' or the Braun family now the 'Brown' family. Why isn't this dubbed 'cultural genocide' by the UN's people? Because there was nobody 'doing it to them'. They simply found it helpful to speak English, soon their children married other ethnicities, then they decided to move across the lands or stay and for that matter some stayed ethnically German in enclaves because they felt like it and nobody can tell them what to do or where to live. but yes indeed, the African slaves most definitely had their culture 'genocided' and in some horrific cases it was done by other African warlords in Africa before they were culturally genocided by being sold and sent to a far away land. Like Uighurs are being sent across China to Han populations so they will disperse forever into the mix.
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  1260. @Sigma_Grandma Why shouldnt they?
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  1261.  @ddsferd1628  That is such a good point. A tremendous amount of time, energy, money to have these 'little pink' types get on the outside world media and make China come off as a backwards thinking 1960s style or even 'Tokyo Rose' culture. often lying and manipulative, deceptive and sneaky in their comments too. It's a helluva thing!
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  1262. Why what do you think was happening? Enduring what? French builing homes all over the place? They endured what, having US military aid them in suppressing commies?
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  1263. Bishop Mari makes a very key, important, a real big and essential point about Christianity that will sound strange to us: Christianity starts with death. It might sound terrible but what a great truth about it all. The moment of conversion to Christianity is 'die to yourself' and 'die to the world'. (here, the 'world' is material things, social status things, fleshly desires etc). So that's some profound stuff. The first of things is to 'die to yourself then live in Christ'.
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  1264. So you just felt you needed to shlt on 'The West' and denounce them as bad and stupid. Weird.
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  1265. Always this guy
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  1266.  @UkrainianBullwinkle  why are you talking as if there is a job they can work at?
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  1267.  @DavidQuaid  Why did you ask me about banning EV cars, though?
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  1268. The USA doesn't need to ask China for help. That's a fake headline for your insecurity.
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  1269. Jealous?
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  1270. the problem isn't about young men. The problem is is things these young men are seeing as so dangerous, deleterious and depressing that they will choose loneliness instead.
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  1271. So far, these are my best explanations: - Population shrink is greater than anyone is letting on. There are, literally, physically less people. - Far far more grandparents and old aunties are dying off and many of those in their 60s. - At the same time, the vast overbuilding of GDP bloating communities has dispersed the populations too far away. - in 2025, its not just that younger people no longer like Spring Festival or have less aunties and grandparents to visit (or none to visit) or that there are far far more divorces making family reunions uncomfortable OR that many are uncomfortable returning somewhere to be humiliated by a lack of family, marriage, no children (this is a massive deep issue at Spring Festivals) but they are really in 'Survival Mode'. They have to go two full weeks, half a month without any earnings. They are actually in Beijing but they have set up two bowls of rice, don't use heaters, blanket up, keep any expense to full minimums, eat a little meat and just try and get through the financial darkness and hope to climb back out after its over. (then they are 2 weeks behind on basics). They are in an apartment trying to go without 2 weeks worth of income.
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  1272.  @jessewhittemore784  Recently, and this is unlike China but the government and media really did bring up a major social complaint about fake and ineffective medicines. This is important because usually if they actually publicly acknowledge this and the government agrees it needs reforms then it means that was a MUCH MORE serious problem than we know. Over the last 5 years I have watched every garden patch and every square dancing group of old aunties depopulate. Now this is post-Wuflu too and I mean its monthly there is one less. Monthly there is one less uncle sitting on the corner smoking while they dance. One of THE explanations I can make is they will not stop using 'folk remedies' and you may know this but many don't know the hospitals here will prescribe them boxes of TCM herbs and grass and teas. Not 'The TCM hospitals'. The alophathic hospitals will do that. but even worse, that generation will not even bother with a hospital and treat themselves with "heat" and "Cold" and teas they grow in ditches outside. This doesn't actually cure cancer or their heart disease and they are dying off in stunning numbers. and no, of course China's life expectancy isn't 'the highest on earth +1 year' but worse its really WAY LOWER than average. There are way way too many Chinese passing away before they see 70 years old. Yes, CCP party members live until 94 to skew a stat but this massive generation of Chinese, these Dancing AUnties and Evil Uncles, they are absolutely dying off at 63 and I have no doubt that its not just lack of medicine (often their choice) or the useless 'TCM' prescriptions but yes indeed they are getting fake mediicine, counterfeit medicine or the quality is very inconsistent and the handling is improper hence the medicine lost the potency. and again, when the government really does post a public pledge to address a problem like that - that means OHH yes indeed they have a very very serious level problem.
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  1273. The USA never 'fought back' because it was a defensive action. That said, when the US did launch their one offensive aka the Tet offensive, it devastated the Vietcong worse than US/Vietnamese intelligence thought. Many decades later Vietcong reported being sure they were doomed, very very badly wrecked.
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  1274.  @alexlee1501  Nope, the average American, who was already 10X wealthier than the average Chinese is currently doing just fine. They have relatively low unemployment, the whole stock market world is doing great, they have had a boost in capital investment lately (some coming from China to the USA actually) and overall the USA is doing as fine. It's better Chinese Mainlanders stop believing this desperate lie that actually the whole WORLD is in economic downturn and if anything Chinese are leading the way showing they are actually still becoming Gods and will shame the other jealous countries etc. The West and The USA are doing just fine, they are not in recession, they are not in ANYTHING close to the current economic collapse in China. Neither is Vietnam, SE Asian is doing better than ever before. China PRC is definitley not.
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  1275. It's driving Chinese mainlanders into a massive economic collapse. So yes, it does get your somewhere - down into a hole.
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  1276. Ohh.. okay because she said ALL Western men are like that. Wow.. so you just dismantled this by pointing out its not ALLLL Western men! Hero. that's a word for you.
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  1277.  @KenHubbard-jz1vq  Nope and here's how we know: You and readers and the original poster, imagine you found you lost your home citizenship. You are stranded and living inside an international airport. {no kidding, this has actually happened to people). But good news! A representative from the UN arrives and says that the 200 nations of earth made an agreement that YOU can accept one passport and citizenship of ANY country besides your own. There is a 'catch'. Whatever country you choose? You and your family will have to live, work, retire and pass away inside that country. you will be a citizen so all its laws and rights etc apply. Ok, you are allowed 2 weeks of international travel a year BUT you must stay, live, reside in the country of your choice. Before you even finished reading this you already know you would choose the USA and the US Passport and Citizenship AND you'd get on a plane to your new country The USA as fast as you could. mehhhh you might have pondered Canada or France or Australia.. maybe, but, nope, you chose the USA. I know you would. You know you would. I know that YOU know you would.
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  1278.  @dimiberberu  some advice: doing the old communist thing of 'Say the OPPOSITE' isn't as pursuasive as you'd think it is. and, No, we know this because of what we call 'real life demonstration'. It's not just that 100% of Chinese who CAN move legally to the USA will do it and are trying to do it today, in 2025. It's not simply that but more, 60,000 Chinese will actually risk their lives, safety, all their social connection, their own Chinese citizenship and then their health and safety to UNLAWFULLY cheat themselves into the USA through dangerous South American journeys that will leave them in poverty IF they even make it across the US border, get arrested by the US border police and sit in a refugee camp for 6 months. Indeed, this will be true for 100 other natins who will actually risk their LIVES, often face brutal physical injury, from crime or just the livign conditions to live ILLEGALLY in the USA. You just did an embarrassing thing. "I will say THE OPPOSITE!!' hehehee Don't do tha anymore, ok?
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  1279. @ lots of Chinese mainlanders prefer to be homeless in the USA than have a home in China. calm down sis
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  1280.  @edwardpierce1032  One of the single largest overstay groups in the USA are Mainland Chinese. This means, they got there, maybe tourists, students, work visas and then after their visa expired they kept living there, illegally, instead of returning to China. Now what?
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  1281.  @whatabouttheearth  First up: don't engage with me if you're staring with shttyboy sneering laughing emojis. I am NOT a fellow toxic shttyboy gamer teen. Next up, no, the NY Subway isn't the best of the USA which has moderately good 1st world public transport, HOWEVER< Heeee hawww hee🤣🤣🤣 the battle for 'best public transportation' is for developing countries and people who think super tall buidings are the future etc. The USA was made on private cars. You know, the next level up. The more advanced transportation, the 'future' of all these other countries who hope to have a world where they have their own cars. What else do you lower, poorer countries want to brag about? Having the most pack animals? "Hee ahaw.. ThE USA has pathetic donkey travel compared to 10 other countries with more and better Mules and Camels!!!" then add shittykid sneering laughing emojis? a remind that NY subway is 100 years old. That's how advanced they are. Things you think are 'NEW modern 'The FUture' is what they did a century ago. They advanced to these 'cars' long ago. you don't own a car.
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  1282.  @ugl933  It's why I know better than you, toxic teenbrain.
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  1283. Boomer generation?
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  1284.  @JohnJaneson  Yes I understand China is blocked from high-end chips since they were inevitably using them to make weapons that, ironically (if that's the word) would be aimed at TSM high-end chip manufacturing plants in Taiwan. however, You're talking 'as if' the USA was worried about or wanted to stop China's PRC from making a kind of clone of the large language model AIs (there seems to be like a dozen of them already). Ok. Well I don't think anyone wanted to stop them and like Trump said.. okay.. well great, if China wants to spend big money and time making a free open-sourced vrsion of 'OpenAI' I suppose that's a good thing for the USA? Great. okay. So, no I don't really think what you're saying explains much. Keeping in mind, all of China was fully free to get a $20 subscription to OpenAi. Download 'Lama' or whatever the other already existing Open-source ones and have at it. Nothing prevented that. The ONLY thing I can see as far as any US military interest might be breaking down Deepseek to figure out how many high-end Chips they still have stockpiled. For whatever that information is worth.
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  1285.  @francisnopantses1108  We don't know what it was made on though. Some people are telling me it can run more efficiently on a sweet computer (meaning, if you installed it) than (for example) the previous version of OpenAI. but its not that meaningful for any utiliatrian purpose either. People don't need to install the entire thing on their laptops. I'm told that this itself isn't actually an 'innovation' but that most of the things more efficient are already known to be possible. 'OpenAI' could, IF they were to put out a big release, they already knew they could do that. They didn't see any meaningful point or purpose for that though. So really, I have 'OpenAI' (or some kind of version) that if I wanted to install the entire program on my laptop might run better and faster? Nope, still not seeing why this matters that much. These other bigshot AI silicon valley people still seem determined to make a next generation one that will definitely not install on a laptop but run on way higher level superchips. (and im not even sure why I'd care THAT much about it but good for them i guess)
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  1286.  TheChickenGuy-ts1vu  Far too long but we're now talkng about today and the future and a good thing happening for Canadians. (arguably not good for China's PRC tho) but certainly good news and a boost back up for Canada. That's what's happening now. in today's news. Not yesterdays.
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  1287.  @SaretGnasoh  Yes, it's a good thing as his disapproval ratings were down to 15% with the population. When a bad thing retires we cal it a 'good thing they retired'. also, this isn't a teenage girl chat room.
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  1288.  @DDDrumpf  It's a sure sign that the current Liberal Party is doomed to lose the next election and be replaced by a Conservative Majority. As a rule, as they stand, Conservatives tend to work closer and better with the USA and in this case more closely with the USAs Republican President. (In a way, they are both the right-leaning types of political allies). As Trump gears up for more penalties and trade wins againts China PRC he will likely have a strong(er) alliance with Canada in doing so. We have to see what happens of course, Canadians still need to actually hold that election BUT nothing about this is good news for the PRC and is mostly bad news for China PRC.
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  1289.  @Grunge_Cycling  WTFF!?!?! Men being bald.. that is something IM SO ASHAMED OF and I try and hide it and ggggggg shllllt man.. .You just teased my most shameful thing in public!!!! Anyway, tell me again why you're buying a home in Mainland China so you can never possibly get back what you paid for it?
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  1290.  @Shenzhou.  No,this is a bunch of nonsense. stop it.
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  1291. Youtube IS Western Media.
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  1292.  @George-k6o9t  You stay in touch with China by following the most virulent anti-American Chinese 'shill' vloggers. Amazing. but yes, for over 30 years, before and since China PRC really opened up, there are absolutely a million hours of vlogs, reports, documentaries, articles and even just tourists 'vacation recordings' to the big mainstream media coverage, and, of course with the internet, we can see every State Media article, every newspaper, watch 'live webcams' around China, uncountable vlogs filled youtube and everywhere else. I mean much of this is blocked from Chinese inside China but anyone outside has always been able to do this. a decade ago you could do extensive 'virtual tours' through Chongqing, as if you were walking the streets yourself in real life. but yes, you're really enlightened by watching 'Andy Boreham' ffs lol
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  1293.  @nancyhuang553  Why did you think it was okay for you to come here on Western Media and make nasty insults about Westerners? You shame China with that.
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  1294. @nancyhuang553  you are allowed to make your insults. Why do it though? Why shame yourself as a rude Dama who laughs at peoples? Arent you ashamed of your low behavior?
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  1295. Its not unusual for people to get drugged in China. There are public warning campaigns around this. Some die or have permanent brain damage.
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  1296. O'Leary brings up something that is very interesting. Put it this way, at my company, when out manager had a terrible idea that cost the company a lot of sales and reputation? Ya he was actually fired fired. He lost his job entirely. When a supervisor kept screwing up and over-ordering expensive supplies they were demoted and it was noted they failed at their job and they lost stuff. Weirdly, as far as I can tell, people that implemented 'DEI' and it caused a lot of lost sales and damage to the brand's reputation? They simply stay there. They may be told to STOP doing it but next week they'll show up in the boardroom with the same salary. A head mechanic insisted on hiring all his friends and relatives and things got worse. He's no longer a head mechanic and doesn't work there anymore. When the other shop asked about it the manager honestly said he was a GREAT mechanic, excellent top guy BUT he hired his friends and family and things went bad as they all covered for each other, some weren't good, wage costs, customers didn't feel comfortable as much etc. but the DEI HR Dept cat ladies and CEOs 'woke niece' will just carry on with no penalty.
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  1297.  @Shenzhou.  China just recently declared The South China see belongs to the PRC and nobody else. The USA insists they remain international waters that every nation (including China) can use. Now what?
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  1298.  @DianeS-p8k  yes, you have Trump Derangement Syndrome too. TDS is real and liberal white ladies, and especially post-menopausal are HIGHLY susceptible to it. Sue wont recover and risks going to hell for it.
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  1299.  @joshuachandra6677  Was he? When and where did such a thing happen? Was it 'The USA' or did a fort somewhere under siege and desperate to survive suggested trying such a thing in some small section of the wilderness?
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  1300.  @invisivble7483  Nope, Canada never did any such thing.
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  1301.  @ObjectiveAnalysis  are you ok?
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  1302. Can confirm stunning rainfall and flooding in Nanning, Guangxi yesterday 9.11 and we were on a ebike with no visors and it was absolutely a miracle we made it home. Everyone agreed we'd never seen that kind of relentless non-stop downpour and for what was 12 hours of just waves of torrential rain. our entire 'fu 2' aka basement underground 2nd lower level flooded and the poor guards were up all night with squeegees desperately trying to battle the 1st underground floor. it's remarkable because Nanning has had two previous stunning downpours that were proper typhoon events. Both were harsh but fast as it blew through. THIS was just stunning borderline supernatural downpouring over 24 hours and to put the degree in a picture: At one point it was not just ebikes pulling over but delivery drivers (which is astonishing) but also cars and trucks pulled over to the side of the road as the visibility went to near zero. not wind or debris, i mean he rain was so heavy you could no longer see the road and that's even those with windshields and wipers.
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  1303. It's also a world where people no longer refer to real life but 'statistics' or some discussions about it. You can simply do this (and it varies over years) but there is a sport women are at least as equal biologically but actually better at than men: Figure Skating. Women's figure skating was getting MASSSSIVE audiences and those crowds were jammed with men and women alike. back in the crazy days where some figure skaters were 'kneeing' rivals - holy eff women's figure skating had to be one of the single biggest audiences on earth. I got into it! btw... it will sound ridiculous to young people today but I swear this was a real thing: Synchronized Swimming was an actual massively watched Olympic sport. Biologically, women are better at it and yes it got massive audiences, men and women alike actually got psyched for it. IF 'Male Sync Swimming' existed (seriously, i think it did?) but I don't think they even bothered airing it on the TV presentations. nobody was watching that, not men or women. some swimming nerds once told me why.. something like women's body mass, hips etc, its why women's bodies were superior in this particular sport
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  1304. Okay, so hasn't this been debunked already? There is a reason why they kept finding all these surprisingly healthy '90 year olds' in what were usually the most rural far-flung South American nations: - its because they inherit and use the ID of their parents. This is also why she couldnt remember how old she was and had to show the man the ID. It's her deceased mother's ID card. This is also why they do indeed look like the person in the photo. becuase it's their mom or father. The reason you see less and less of these extraordinary aged people the younger the population is simply because in 1950s and even 2000, these South American nations still had nowhere near the ID and database and tracking capablities. Now more younger ones, even in the more rural areas have modern (or more modern) ID assignments and records. This is not what it seems and I was also pretty sure I've watched a BBC documentary on life-extension where this 'ID inheritance' thing I described was gone over and debunked too. Like 10 years ago this was found out and disregarded.
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  1305. If you know nothing about economics, trade or money you can know that Trump is winning and has a significant winning strategy that will boost American life and power. How? By the MASSIVE onslaught of the so-called 'Copium' going on. The relentless need to pretend American consumers will be paying more for goods (its a lie, told repeatedly and is working so far) to the smirking and 'eye rolling' panels of TDS guests do. From the response, stupid things like pretending China is laughing as they become more powerful to predictions of all kinds of failures: That is like a meter telling you how much they know Trump is winning and The US is getting stronger.
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  1306.  @timmyturner013  and to repay society for the 7 years of shlt she did to everyone around her and society.
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  1307.  @ChristineKikiMac  That's a great 'everything-is-nothing' but with a Karen attitude but how about we don't live in a world where wrong is right and good is evil and hey, there is no truth but whatever I feel mine is but its not true for another. Instead, how about we don't let you or anyone go around giving higher social status, more respect and attribute some 'holiness' to people who did some bad things and then stopped doing bad terrible things? You actually do this. Here's an example, I'm your neighbor who blasted obnoxious music and parked in front of your driveway for years and years. I haven't done that for 3 years now. Now youre "hey everything is different and the same" unjust worldview changed didn't it? I'm not supposed to be doing those things. Now, you can be glad I did stop wrecking the neighborhood, stealing your peace and making life unbearable at times BUT you will have more respect and admiration for the opposite side neighbor who doesn't do those things and never did those things. So you should. The 'never did burnouts on your sidewalk' neighbor is the real hero, the most admired, the neighbor we respect the most. Not the one who 'hasn't done it for 3 years after Bylaw warned him'.
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  1308.  @bodyfitt67  lol
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  1309.  @ChristineKikiMac  one reason you get hysterical is trying to have contradicting truths and trying to reconcile them. Something can be wrong but also valid. You insist there are many truths and thats the truth. You say we all make our own rules and say it as if that is the strict rule. Your opinions are invalidated by themselves and your beliefs are perversions. Try and recover and get sober minded asap.
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  1310.  @5thethriller  because you think these people are holy and you attribute some specialness to them.
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  1311.  @Annilee79  I'm aware of the weakness it takes to become "addicted" and I reject your claim that these people are so powerful, so strong, they must have some superior willpower little weaklings like me and those who don't succumb to drugs cannot understand. I'm aware that people who stay sober are the powerful ones. They are the 'Willpower Warriors' of our society. Right? not that ones who can't stop doing it and struggle to stop and then do it again as soon as possible. The order goes like this: The most powerful, strong, most admired, hardest and best strugglers: Those who never had any drugs or alcohol addictions: 2nd place: Those who did but then quit and don't do it anymore last place: The weakest, least willpower, least hard working: Those who do alcohol and drug addiction to get by.
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  1312. haha jealous?
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  1313.  @vladimirleninputin  You wouldnt do that because American dollars a very valuable, as always.
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  1314.  @DK-gj5sp  I'm not sure why you're talking about some other countries in some other places but this topic is about China and how many rocket failure accidents blow up around China. Specifically, Mainland China, the PRC. Not only are you talking about some other places in the world but you're talking about some other accidents, you insecure toxic 3rd worlder.
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  1315. Like Tokyo or Seoul if they were to decline, become grimey, bleak, in disrepair and filled with Mainland Chinese instead of Japanese or Koreans, yes.
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  1316. The brother worked his entire life and somehow saved up 300k and this would be an absolutely admirable way to remember that man, the good he did, what a great life and great man to leave behind enough to take care of the disabled sister after he was gone. Instead, that's what the evil one did with it. Id' like to think the brother and the disabled sister are in heaven and the evil one is... welp. not welcome to join them.
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  1317. ​@dons6556what county are you from, originally? Also, youtube doesnt tell you safety of a nation. It is stacked with China shills stealing Japans reputation as one of the safest places to visit. But that isnt how you decide things, by looking up on this western media platform. Are you originally from China?
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  1318. They say it because several years ago China announced a Social Credit score system and believed it was a very good thing to show off to the world. When it wasn't received well by the outside world they made the news and announcements disappear. It's true that nobody knows if it's stll implemented or was abandoned. https://youtu.be/Dkw15LkZ_Kw?si=owcuXG1kw1zcPUZz They ask about it because the news of such a thing 'disappeared' and is never mentioned again.
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  1319.  @araara4746  Yes, Taiwan is one of 3 major parts of China. One of the other parts of China is the People's Republic of China. Another is Hong Kong. (some also count Macao as another part of China).
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  1320.  @Mofo2008  You seem provoked.
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  1321.  @Jan-mu6vs  with these, I dont think they really expect to open new communities and instead its like they get the value of the real estate project. Which is weird since it should be about 'zero' but somehow its worth 25 million (or whatever the number assigned to it).
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  1322. Probably 10 or more years ago. I hadn't been to a gym in years, tried a one-time pass. It was swarmed with guys trying to walk away just enough so you start using it so they can come back "BRA.. In the MIdlle OF SeTS" and for the first time I realized what people meant by 'latent homosexuality' and finally the only smile of the thing. I just pack up and leave, stop and say to the girl at the desk ..."I cant. I just... " She says "wait, cant what?" and I just look over at the grotesque show of dudes screaming some deep psychological problems and "Bra.. in the middle of sets.." and "I cannot." without saying a word she knew exactly. She absolutely knew and was with me and sighed and I won't put myself in that world of puerile shamesmanship, creepy anger issues, shltboy strutting and weird prison homosexuality vibes. It has, obviously, gotten 10X worse since then. I cannot believe any normal adult would subject themselves to being in these places. Then again, probably many don't know, just wanted to try it out.
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  1323. Just recently I had to retake a drivers test. They give you four of those spots-tests deals. The new girl says 'okay read the numbers' and I say "hmm.. gravel, beans, maybe some pebbles, oatmeal" and she freaks out confused for a split-second before I hear an older lady whisper "no hun.. he's very colorblind... can't see them". I've never tried these glasses but it seems like MAYBE certain kinds of colorblinds MIGHT get something from it if they're in the right lighting?
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  1324. It seems to me they comb through the bible and highlighted anything that is noted as holy to God, is loved by God, is described as important to God and things God dilikes or hated or condemned. Then, they work on creating the very opposite to every one. One of the most significant things God does is create man and woman and calls it 'good'. Later Jesus reasserts this, created man and woman and one man was for one woman for life. The wording itself, interesting, really makes clear these distinct. Reaffirms they are distinct, they are different. They see 'for whatever reason, in Christianity, in their bible, this is a 'thing' where men and women are the only two distinct genders SO THEREFORE go hard on this fundamental Christian premise! What's the opposite, they are the same, there is no difference, go on that like its the theory of evolution defeated creationism, go on it! and so they do.
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  1325. Rogan pulling out his wallet saying "Oz, I'd like to buy your magic rock!"
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  1326. Yes, you are right! this was something people said.
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  1327. ewww he's doing this little money-maker 'boomeranged on the USA!' masturbatory fantasy again.
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  1328. China can be difficult. Then and now they couldn't understand that it wasn't just Beijing 'teaching the world a punishing lesson of its might' by deciding to show everyone how it can host the Olympics better than 'the west' and all this attitude. They didn't realize that the Olympics were chosen for Beijing as a kind of reward and modern welcome as (what was then believed) to a China with major trade deals and coming out of it's hermit kingdom. Then almost EVERYTHING Olympic is done by, planned by, engineered by international teams. China didn't make that but instead 'hosted' a massive event foreigners make. But they can't seem to do things without this attitude and this scoffing arrogance and smirking that China should host all the Olympics so foreigners can learn how it's done. Yes, btw, they did wreck a lot of neighborhoods. I've been in them 2009/10 where you'd see whitewashed walls with 'childrens olympic paintings' on the outside but behind it Hutongs halfway into rubble, walls torn down (a Michael Jordan poster on an exposed bedroom wall funnily enough) and no I wasn't supposed to be in there. That said, many of those places were due to be rebuilt with highrises no matter what. Olympics or not.
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  1329. Seriously though, Trump should take the entire thing back, as he says, no conditions, no negotiations, entirely with all rights of all ownership and declare it US landmass, the end.
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  1330.  @tokaitrading8335  nope, it was never Chinese territory. They are international waters and you are being instructed and notified they will remain and WILL BE international waters and never China's PRC waters or 'territory'. Understand? even if you do not understand, it will be that way now and in the future. There is no 'border dispute' here.
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  1331. As for the warning at the end, I would suggest that Trump has 'thought twice' and will 'wage a tariff war against China' whenever he feels like it. in fact, I think he is currently doing it. again. What is China going to do about it? Lose money then say "See the power of Chinese to be poorer and not die!? haha.. now you see they will eat grass HAHA!". What's that all about?
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  1332. One of the reasons why Chinese Mainlanders find themselves in these situations isn't just their spitting, bad habits, and their infamous rudeness. It's the arrogant attitude. Chinese never arrive as 'guests' but only as 'Head Office Inspectors'. They show up with some ideas: China is who decided they get to go there whether the locals like it or not. China is showing it's power to come here and China decides I will stay here. They can only believe these nations must be pretty amazed to see the real highest social status faces arrive. They strongly believe that if anyone dares to give them much trouble guess who wlll get reported to the Chinese embassy? So you'd better be careful or China will punish you. Chinese mainlanders frequently travel in other nations in what some described the 'Diver Suit' mentality. If you can think of the old iron divers where a hose connects them to their ships air supply? So, this is a sense they imagine they may be inside a foreign country but they are still inside China in this sense. They are not actually subject to the laws or rules of that land but actually are still under the rules and laws and rights of Chinese in China. They refer to locals as 'Foreigners'. If an African company was permitted to run in China, Chinese will proudly point out themselves as the 'benefactors'. See, we allow these Africans to take some of our wealth and bounty as they serve us. If a Chinese company is in Africa, it is also the 'Benefactor' that shows China is helping and teaching the locals its ways and allowing them to share in Chinas wealth. Vietnamese laborers in China subway projects are China's workers. Chinese laborers in a Vietnamese subway project are 'giving Chinese technology to Vietnam' as a charity and mentorship gift. Keeping in mind, a lot of these Chinese only knew this. They only knew that when the CHINESE show up.. hehe.. oh yes, the locals are honored and kneel because finally the real gods of the world have arrived! This is trained into their brains from childhood onward. Id easily believe a lot of them go through real bewildering culture shocks IF they realize the world doesn't actually work that way and Chinese mainlanders have a notorious reputation as some of the worst tourists and not because locals are so jealous of China either.
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  1333.  @MissAstorDancer  Nope, I'm old and I've been fascianted by how a certain kind of person has difficulty discerning a difference between something they saw in a movie and real life events. Did you know in the old days, the monks used to keep all the food and then secretly they'd send young women who'd get food if they had sex with the monks?
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  1334. ASEAN might vote China OUT of the group. Then you go around hooting and eating tree bark when that happens.
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  1335.  @brianye964  I see, do you like to think of yourself as a 'Lord' who smirks at little fools beneath you, 83IQ?
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  1336.  @Olsens-CN  Thanks Deepseek but no, most Chinese are not 'hobbyists' in the sense the original commentator is using the term. very few of them.
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  1337.  @ZxSpectrumplus  indeed, they play phone games with their free time. not hobbies. LOL
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  1338.  @danielchew8739  in the same way masturbation or smoking weed aren't hobbies.
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  1339. The claim was 500 million lifted out of extreme poverty which then became said 600 then 800 and its disgusting that you think the CPC is the hero that 'lifted them out of extreme poverty'. WTF would 800 million Chinese even be in extreme poverty until 2014 when that announcement started being made? and so you know, the '1.8 billion' that were 'lifted out' (as if they didn't do it by their own work) pulled themselves out of extreme poverty when, coincidentally, massive numbers of 'The West' factories opened in China trading them massive amounts of American dollars for their labor. You are really nasty and insulting to Chinese people. Shame on you for shaming China that way.
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  1340. regarding around 7:00 and Peter Santenello's channel was a little part of me making a channel, sorta. I recognized Peter as being very much like me in some ways and naturally I was subscribed. The thing is, I really did see Peter make 100 long-form videos for 2 years for free and I know they were good because he legit liked this, he's just himself wanting to know, he has to be a wanderer and curious and find out what's really going on. You can't fake that (not often). IF he ever makes money its a 'side-effect' and repays a tremendous grind. I'm still stunned at how many hours I put into my crappy little homemade walkabout phone grab videos! His videos require remarkable organization, concentration and time! As the hustler points out - nobody tells the 15 year olds this part. Nobody tells them you need to work for free (actually, pay into it) for years of grinding and work and MAYBE you'll get a viral video or monetized channel. I have 100 teenage girls who are convinced they make a few videos dancing around and youtube and tiktok will be their new lucrative career. They are sure if I have a video with 3000 views (which stuns me quite frankly) but they believe I made $3000 USD from that video for some reason lol. On the upside, I like and admire the youth for trying to get creative, trying to think of ways to vlog something unique or different or show and explain some corner of their world. It's just that they need to know that cannot replace a job, work, I mean like actual work-work jobs and climbing the ladder and wages and so on.
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  1341. You're a little behind on the news but: "Street drug deaths in the U.S. are dropping at the fastest rate ever seen, according to a new report issued on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Preliminary data shows roughly 97,000 fatal overdoses over a 12-month period. That's down roughly 14.5% from a year earlier. Public health officials say the drop translates into more than 16,000 lives saved and marks the lowest level of drug deaths in nearly four years." Needless to be said, as we all know: This doesn't mean the whole problem will simply disappear now. This is the current trend for the last few years but a lot of people are also trying to make sure they know WHY and HOW and then try and double-down on those things to ensure this KEEPS DECLINING. Sometimes these trend down...then wooooops... go back up. but for now, at this particular time, Fentanyl and all 'street drug' overdoses are on a steady decline. and I agree with you, the consequences of drug use and abuse now will definitely have consequences in the future so that has to be dealt with. Personally, I like the Chinese approach where they execute drug smugglers and distributors and they do it quickly, within a year, not some '14 years on death row' where they die of old age or cancer long before being executed. Otherwise brutal penalties for the lower level drug possessors and users and then having persistent junkies gassed and their organs used for science. Especially marijuna.
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  1342. right but none of Trumps firings or hirings have anything to do with THIS particular incident. If this happens a year later because there wasn't enough AT controllers at a desk then ohhh yes we can talk to Trump. but this, so far as anyone can tell, this has nothing to do with Trumps reforms. as far as we can tell, they were all fully staffed etc, it wasn't 'too few' or some change made 'due to Trumps new regulations' etc.
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  1343.  @GirlApplauder  its thought of as Eastern. An eastern european nation.
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  1344.  @GirlApplauder  ridiculous
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  1345. nope, he's been mostly correct but most of it has been simply describing and observing.
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  1346. I think it's doomed and cannot recover. About 10 years ago (Dad was a hunting guide) there was all these guys showing up in groups who wanted to be 'bow hunting'. They also had sleeves of tattoos, beards or attempted ones and they would would have very intense policing of what the other looked like, if they had 'skinny jeans' or 'wore a purse' and weirdly, and you'd think this is 'hyper feminine sexuality' would sit spread their legs wide open. I cannot overemphasize how much fa**onemetry this is to someone like my father. He refused to guide them anymore. He doesn't know what Joe Rogan is. One explained 'MMA' and my father was infuriated that men would actually choke each other? choke each other? There is a very large number of these men and we're doomed because they don't know what it means to be a man and instead decided to become toxic hyperfeminine weirdos who analyze each other's body shapes, they think you just have 'testosterone levels' and do a lot of teenage mean-girl snickering and sneering and also buy some watch jewelry and necklaces. We are doomed and can never fix this. It's too late.
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  1347. Southern China, no special colds or flu action. Most people got what I'd call a common seasonal cold over the last few months but seems to have mostly dissipated.
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  1348.  @rexsand1321  should we listen to what a crazed killer said? To what end?
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  1349. If Taiwan was a 'Ukraine' that would have China PRC failing to take Taiwan and instead in a 'meatgrinder' battle where as many Mainlanders were being killed off AND Taiwan invades the actual Mainland of China and starts taking 'Kursk' territory. Just think about what that would mean lol. The Mainland would be reduced to a deadlock equal battle with Taiwan? but, No of course that would't happen because China would be fighting Taiwan, Japan, Philippines and probably India so it would just lead to the absolute destruction of Mainland Chna in a very short period of time. The comparison to make: What just happened in Syria. Taiwan as the rebel takeover, PRC as the Syrian regime. THAT is what would really happen.
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  1350.  @alexanderfretheim5720  Why do you say that?
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  1351.  @seunmoses  Taiwan, Japan, India, Philippines, pretty much making enemies of every single surrounding nation :(
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  1352. Lots of dumb people on the internet think the reason Trump keeps referring to getting a personal call from Xi is that they're being immature kids having a "I dare you to blink' contest. however, If you follow this world of Xi via Leis channel and others you know there is a very real and specific reason Trump is using the media to ask Xi himself to call. It's because Xi is effectively 1-Man Rule, isolated, he does not tell anyone anything other than his wife, there is no other 'intermediataries' who can actually enact things AND/OR be sure to tell Xi everything (or maybe more things they add). Trump needing to talk to Xi in-person has WAY MORE implications than the stupid schoolyard interpretations childish minds are squawking and sneering about online.
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  1353. I cannot believe this does anything but devastate the Democratic Party. Wowwww this was optics disasater
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  1354. Ya this is not good. and like a lefty type, while he suddenly politicizes and invokes 911 he also shouts 'DONT YOU POLITICIZE 911!!!" which is exactly what he was just doing. 'he touched ashes' is great but the question remains.
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  1355.  @emileriksen2481  This belief seems to have hit peak popularity somewhere in the 1980s and it comes from the Leftist academic world. For them, these Marxist types, they have firm beliefs that everything can be socially engineered so you can 'create the social conditions' that make them not want certain behaviors. In a hand-in -hand way, they're also convinced you can re-educate anyone to behave in ways that fit the social engineering. shany is still hanging on to this but the cold hard demosntrated outcomes have proven it cannot happen and won't happen. Nobody did more brutal psychological hellish brainwashing and mind-manipulating struggel-session re-education than Maos China (actually Republics before him already started) to end massive widespread opium addiction. So have a million others. These communists who are far far advanced at this than the 1987 college professor who says "actually what we need is a lot more funding of my leftist union social workers and teachers to be in full-time salary position of power to 'educate' these little Plebs about why drugs are bad AND we need to swtich to more socialism and social engineering..'. The communists think its cute how Westerners believe this because they long since proved, demonstrated, retested, 1000 demonstrations (not theories) an concluded the way to eliminate most drug addiction, the ONLY way is to shoot them in the back of tthe head and thus that ends that addict and his or her addiction. gone forever. Thats what the real world found out and did.
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  1356. China can build and trade because the USA's massive cache of weapons protects China and permits it to do so freely.
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  1357.  @basilfoster3107  You can see lots of Chinese ships coming and going from the USA and then see lots of US Navy ships protecting them.
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  1358.  @The-J-Net  The video is about China and Chinese. So that is not 'whataboutism' lol
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  1359. I'm not sure who you mean by we but you're correct this is considered a 'pause' because there are about 50 different scheduled negotiations. This is standard business practice, to suspend and pause while negotiations are carried out. Some commentators are pretending 'Trump changed his mind - ha ha! see he was wrong'. NO sir. no, that is not what is happening at all. There is a pause during negotiations (which is good and normal)
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  1360. Are you prepared to fight like a UKrainian, tuffguy?
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  1361. I take no joy in "I told you So" mentality but I can tell you I worked on a provincial university campus in 2014/15 and that might have been the absolute peak of anybody and everybody was in University. There cannot be places for 7 million landscaping engineers. and 7 other universities in the same city. masses, they would put in students who were mentally slow. I'm not making an 'insult' here, i mean, students who had, sadly, some cognitive impairment. Adding to that, I have never see so many students who were literally, physically, barely bothered to interrupt their League of Legends gaming to do some mandatory class attendance. [btw, full disclosure this was me and my buddies in Uni so.. I know what I did lol] now, 10 years later there is only about 50% of the students on that campus and that is still too many. Today, those students are 28 and some turning 30 and most are delivering, Didi driving, a few got some office jobs but those are not proper white collar 'career' jobs but 996 grinders in a cubicle for some delivery facility or insurance company, some of the girls are married and a good many of those young LoL players are back in their home villages. BTW, Canada is confronting this too: We have 7000 new 'Marine Biologists' graduating. There might be 7. SEVEN marine biologist job openings a year. We have 1 million Literature diplomas... and... ? nobody knows what that does. Canada once broke the record for the percent of population with 'post-secondary' education of whatever degree at 54% (that's been surpassed) and I recently read we'd have 64% of our population with a diploma. For what? Anyway, really China just has to do this. Now, open TRADE SCHOOLS all over, great. plumbers, electricians and they could convert entire academic campuses into Elevator and Escalator Repair schools. but China simply cannot have 150 million computer engineers, 10 million Music PHDs and it just can't work.
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  1362. I get that this is the internet and everyone wants to shoehorn a 'karen' likening but this was not that. This is something where it would seem Zelinksky (if anyone is being a Karen) is purposely refusing to be thankful or say 'thank you' because it would then imply that the US has to do this 'or else' it will get harmed too. You see? He is going on as if the US is obligated to pay them. Let me show you a comparison: The security guard outside our building does not need to be 'thankful' or thank us for giving him his salary. in fact, we pay him because we need him to protect us. Zelinksky is taking the political stance that the USA is obligated so there is no 'thank you' involved. "Or else you will feel it (Russia) threatening you". Vance wasn't having that. The USA does not need him to protect the USA. They are helping Zelinsky and its largely 'gifts' not obligation. Its 'charity' not Zelinksky's RIGHT to be given this suppose 'or else' bad guys will get into the USA. I wouldn't bother likening Zelinksky to a 'Karen' but IF you insist on finding one its him. Indeed, a Karen doesn't thank anyone but if anything expects them to thank her! Zelinksky went that way here.
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  1363. ​ @bobofei3 how so?
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  1364. Agreed, EWS is one of the movies that sucked and while I get the idea it's intending to show us a picture of 'New York Elite world', open secrets, surprisingly devoid of personality, superficial, hollow, okay I get all these things BUT, but there is something missing. He's right, there was meant to be a narrator. Yes I suppose then some things were removed. What I'd like to see is a simple challenge put out to fans everywhere: write and do a narrative for it. Don't worry right now about missing scenes although, yes, actually someone could do some clever AI/photoshoppy type of magic but don't worry on that too much: Fan Editors everywhere, film students, film nerds: Take the challenge, narrate and upload it.
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  1365. ok, commie
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  1366.  @WDH-mh4or  well he doesn't really know what 'chips' means and these plants were well under way before Joe stumbled around
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  1367. I'm going to put time aside to get through this. This is a heavyweight match so I want to watch closely but I swear it was either Tony Robbins or a referral by him but I recall reading this proper scientific experiment done by a quality pro psychologist in which he took something like 20 clinicall depressed people into proper therapy sessions. 20 others? He got funding to take them to Disneyworld. No joke, this wasn't a 'doge' scam, he openly funded a 2 week (whatever the time) all-inclusive, all-expenses, all-special access etc etc dream-of-a-lifetime vacation to Disney with all the hotel rooms, all the celebrations, etc. It was all full-on professionally documented, whatever 'double blind' or all the fool proofing and serious Peterson level reviews to find.. the Disney adventure depressives were found to have the same improvements as the long clinical psychological therapy sessions 'laying on the couch'. I'm getting old and that was maybe 40 years ago I read that so if anyone knows what that was about feel free to drop a link. What is made me think, so there is no 'diminishing' the traditional therapy but it made me think that actually yes, sometimes it could be changing the way, the day, just having a fun adventure might be all that is needed.
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  1368. the most fascinating thing to come of this: The conservative Poilievre was dubbed 'Trumpian' and he is now groveling, posturing, taking every line the Liberals are, saying the same fake things like 'the tariffs are passed on to American consumers' and "We will PROTECT our litttle Canadians" etc. He was 'uniparty' the entire time wow.
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  1369. Yes, this is a 'reality check' for The PRC. Yes, Japan is raising up its military forces. Yes, it is allied with Taiwan and the USA Yes, its a very very powerful offensive power. So, its good that Mainland China 'sees the reality' of this, accepts it as real and carries on accordingly from now on. 'Reality Check' is good for those living in 'wolf warrior' movie fantasy dreams.
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  1370.  @AmauryJacquot  no, that isnt how you determine nonsense with any other thing in life and society, by pointing at the most extreme failure you can think of. Ships are bad ideas, just look at the Titanic? Look, one of the only reasons a hospital in the USA treats all emergencies without having to close down is because it has money in the stockmarket. Unions can donate millions to the Biden campaign by also having money in stocks and so on. Yes, we all hate the evil old white millionaires at the shareholders meeting who wont give poors money BUT they are just a small number while aunts and teachers and plumbers are a huge beneficiary.
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  1371.  @kabysummit5801  Yes. China also has an extensive 'rule of law' system, jury trials and that 'freedom of speech' thing the Chinese always go on about. not like 'Thewest' with their Spring Festival and Hukou system.
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  1372.  @LenAttard  I would guess he or she has never been to China's Mainland or the USA.
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  1373.  @eddiechan2116  Nope, that won't be how it works. It didn't work for Japan and it won't for China. These will remain international waters.
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  1374. 11:38 reminds me that when I was in school it was spelled 'Dilemna' but it seems to be spelled 'Dilemma' now. But I have a serious question related to this and for another video if possible. What are the relentless wars and uprisings doing to the Muslim population rates? Around 15 years ago it was repeated everywhere: Islam is the fastest growing religion! (actually just saying 'fastest growing' in itself doesn't tell you much) but for sure, the demographics showed Islam was growing by the sheer number of Muslim birth rates, then higher than most. I heard this all the time, read it all the time. "Islam is the fastest growing religion" and charts of birthrates for the Muslim world. However, I want to say around 5 years ago I also started hearing reports that the more modernized some Muslim nations were getting - just as everywhere else, birthrates were declining! so in a more modern affluent part of Saudi Arabia low and behold they were as low as a modern affluent British neighborhood. Ok but finally I ramble on to my question: There has to be a massive population problem in the Middle-East by now? Almost ALL of these deaths are very young Muslim men. Of course many are going to be young fertile women I suppose. I would also suppose those with severe injuries are far less likely to have 3+ children depending their injuries. There is no way this isn't drastically reducing population growth? OR... is it?
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  1375.  @myintmaunmaun  Nobody said otherwise. So why bother saying that?
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  1376. There is no such thing as 'taking it seriously' like that. It's an imaginary thing people make up and doesn't actually exist in the real world of boxing. EVEN IF such a thing existed and Fury was such a shltty fighter that he somehow didn't take the fight 'seriously' he WOULD HAVE very quickly into that first round when Usyk stunned him with a very 'Seriousness Awakening' left hand and then started punching his guts in. You better believe he would take it seriously' very very quickly from then on.
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  1377. Bang on criticism: conservatives are very very bad at propagating a 'vision' to youth. Pathologicall bad at it. If they ever figure that out theyd change the world but they are just utterly stumped on that angle.
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  1378. How long will your popcorn stay warm? You're going to have to wait a very long time. mind you, if you were watching it from China you would easily find good seats in the nearly empty movie theaters across China.
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  1379. China would have been selling to those other markets by now, if they could.
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  1380.  @gambler942  MAGA is on a massive winning streak off the starting line. Remember what they voted for?? They are living what they voted for and can't get enough winning (for now).
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  1381. @robmcnaughton6918  like what? I live in China and i dont see much of anything other than Chinese versions of things already around the world.
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  1382.  @minhaoyuan4811  No, I routinely travel China and the USA. for the last 5 years China is in a financial collapse so little is happening but I try and keep up on things. Where is this 'shaping the future'? Can you try and describe what I'd look for because at the moment a lot of things in China's mainland are dreary. like what?
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  1383. thing is, Trump has the right idea about erasing the phony US-Canada border. What you do is look at all the resources, customs, inspectors, the massive amount from both sides on that border, ok? Now, it would be far FAR better than you take all of that and you now MOVE IT, all those choppers, people, money, time, resources along the North American border. the OUTSIDE perimeter of Canada and the outside perimeter of USA. Now, Canada does a far far better job stopping 1000s of Sikhs ad Chinese and whoever else before they GET INTO North American landmass. otherwise, yes it's difficult to stop once they are INSIDE Canada because that border is so long, so vast, so sparsely populated, wilderness forever, forests, it becomes extremely difficult by that time. Erase the phony border.
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  1384. My expectation is that Trump is saving China for last and is likewise looking for a deal instead of the 10% added tariffs across China. 1. Will be Fentanyl and really its the ingredients of such. 2. although it appears China has already conceded, Trump will want a public and official agreement to take back and repatriate Mainlander Chinese deported from the US. ........actually that might be all and nothing else for a while.
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  1385. Yeesh, Jan 9th and Peter was already going into deep TDS hysteria flurries. It's the 17th so I hope he's coping better. 3 more days.
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  1386. Much of the world does not have this weird Western white lady obsession with having special allergies 'served and accomodated' by the restaurant. You are not being 'screwed over' but rather 'you screw yourself over' if you are going out to eat other people's cooking like that. It's your responsibility, blame, your right or wrongdoing. not the cooks.
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  1387. Well yes this is more devastating news for The PRC and it will weaken China's already slumping economy. However, consider this: for 20 years The PRC section of China has been taxing American Products at that 20%. Just now The USA has begun to counter it and match China PRC so it's becoming 'Even'. But what about the previous 20 years where China PRC started that trade war and has been collecting for 20 years? Some might argue that the USA has to NOT JUST MATCH but actually start putting even higher tariffs to make up the 20 years difference China owes to the USA in 'back taxes. What the USA seems to have settled on is Trumps magnanimous policy: They won't even bother asking for the previous 20 years of China's Trade attacks. Consider it 'forgiven' and forgotten. The only thing is that starting now, the USA will simply match China tariff for tariff. Include in that blocking and banning various Chinese products as much as China blocks and bans various US products. China locked out Google (and youtube and dozens of other IT products) so the USA will block and ban tiktok, maybe wechat and/or simply something like EVs or any other products as long as its a 'Matching Ban' of some sort. As much as US companies have difficulty being in the Mainland of China and businesses are hampered with rules and various Chinese demands - The USA will make it 'Matching' difficulty for Chinese ones. As much as Americans cannot own any land in China - China wont' be allowed to own any land in the USA. Match-Match. or? The PRC could just agree with the USA that they all remove all those things and 'Match' at full free trade and full rights to open businesses and buy land etc? I suppose the bigger overall problem is that the USA doesn't need China (maybe would love those things, freedoms, free trade) but does not need them. China PRC definitely does need those things from the USA though and cannot afford to lose this much at this time.
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  1388. Please don't allow Chris Maddox near the commentary for any of the fights. I realize his father owns shares in DAZN and all that but just keep him away from calling the bouts. He can do interviews before and after to keep him employed. thanks.
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  1389.  @LeftLaneDreams  in modern warfare there is no benefit to having massive numbers of people. In this case, there could only be something like 2 million conceivable positions factoring in everything from a commander, the tank driver, the fuel runners, the transport vehicles maximum occupancy, the cooks to fill every kitchen, etc. one of the hosts is correct that the USA has a far far superior 'tech' advantage meaning, for example, there is a fully functioning refurbed Chinese ex-soviet aircraft carrier but its nearly empty. It has an array of old-tech defensive missiles, a basic radar etc but the US aircraft carrier(s) are utterly crammed with insane high-tech new crazy goodies from the drones to the railguns to the freaky new missiles and stunning ammo capabilities. Even at lower levels, yes China has many many corvette ships and China will admit they are almost all empty, really unarmed (yet) and almost all of them are currently used for training purposes (so far). In comparison, a US Corvette (or many of theirs) are jam-packed with rather stunning offensive capabilities. It goes on and on Mainland China isn't even trying to exaggerate this either and will openly discuss this as their single biggest military issue in that they simply don't have the 'potency' and goodies. Recently they sure did buy a lot of Russian tanks but China actually needed to hire the tank mechanics and engineers (so, a Russian soldier needs to come with each tank) because they just barely trained drivers and do not (not yet) know how to actually do the tank maintenance, replace parts and (so far). This principle carries on with, for example China's fighter jets. Here again, China's normally braggy govt will openly admit they may have many jets but they simply don't have the sweet goodies, the latest refueling planes, the kinds of radar planes etc etc yet. (not yet anyway). As a general rule, if China's govt itself will actually make public this kind of admission then, in a weird way, its probably the thing they are telling the truth about.
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  1390. There are terrible mistakes (like Mariah Carey) and then there are well over 3000 shows so you will find a dozen segments that went badly. These dont' add up to much but what you can find is former staff traumatized by her bossy terrorism and 'pranks' which are more like those 'prank videos' where they sucker punch someone and run away. She's the Johnny Somali of 'boss's wacky pranks'. The first guy I ever heard break this was podcaster/comic Greg Fitzsimmons on Carolla's podcast many years ago. Now you'd still say that's just one guy and he's a dick so thats a 'him thing' but weirdly enough he didn't say she was bad to him. It was her being a cvnt to others. Then you find a LOT of staff have a lot of things to say about being bullied, terrorized oh and 'pranked' in some cruel humiliating way. Right, its beyond a stressful workplace where over a decade of course she (like anyone) blew up at a person or someone hated her, fired quit. Personally, I think you'd find that she has severe mental problems, is a sexual degenerate and a twisted leftist so obviously she's toxic inside and would be toxic outside too. *btw i find her a perfectly good standup comedienne.
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  1391. Yes, this again. repeated non-stop in 2017/18 when Trump started counter-Tariffing. 6 years later, China this secret genius 'chess master' is poorer and poorer every year.
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  1392. I wish we had many more men like him in china
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  1393. China has a relatively weak Navy though and it's not capable of keeping up with the Japan's far superior Navy and it's production. The US is worried... there is nothing good, only ugly things about having to sink PLAN ships and know that Japanese who rescue them might be cruel to Chinese PoWs.
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  1394. @t_w_7821  no, you think im very well aware of reality. Its because i experience the real world consequences and so do my Chinese friends and family. And.. im not a shltty little gamer fandom kid who tries 'say thr opposite heee haa!' Like you would. I care enough about Chinese that i wont lie to them. Try it
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  1395. It's worth mentioning there are no 'US gun laws' and by that I mean there are many different states with many different gun laws. Canadians would find it about as difficult/easy to get a gun as New York State and many other states. Some US states are more restrictive. Canadians have very high rates of gun ownership. One difference of note: Canadians tend to have 1 high-powered gun. Americans tend to have many more pistols but of course Canadians buy and own pistols too. After studying stats, a study summed it up a little like this: Just as many Canadians own a gun as Americans BUT the American has a rifle and 2 pistols. The Canadian has a hunting rifle. If you see what he's saying, you can only be shooting one gun at a time so 'in that sense' Canadians and Americans are close to equal in gun ownership. That was a study done at least a decade ago so things may have changed but I'd just mention again, there really isn't any 'US Gun Law'. They have State by State gun laws which can vary from shocking strict (stricter than any in Canada) to liberal guns laws. Not the 'USA' but States.
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  1396. China started the tariff war about 20 years ago when it started putting tariffs, shelf-taxes and all kinds of 'national security' barriers against the USA. The USA took a very very long time to actually fire back so I don't know if you can call it a trade war when it was just China 'shooting' and the US doing nothing. finally, around Trump1.0 the USA started to engage the attacker.
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  1397. Nope, its by far the wealthiest nation on earth, was fully successful in Vietnam, Afghanistan and it's only funding Ukraine who've already stomped all over Russian land. You can love it or hate it but they aren't being 'taught lessons' as you smugly roll eyes, superior to them, so smart. nope, they're still very very wealthy and incredibly powerful.
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  1398. at 12:00 that was hard to watch and that poor guy, he tried evreything. In case people are wondering why there are so many accounts of the emergency systems being empty or so very low on water it's becuase local aunties drain the water out for their vegatable gardens. I can tesify this happened in our building where they figured out how to drain it. They fill old plastic jugs and take them across the street to water their construction site and ditch gardens.
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  1399. Canadian watching this for a few years and I"ve insisted that the ultimate plan here is that Canada and Mexico and the USA simply must carry out a 100% free trade, ZERO tariff block, the end, no concessions or dicking around anymore. And this MIGHT even go to a single US dollar but never mind that now. Trump is driving this so the USMCA is full-on, no 'asterisks' 100% zero-tariff trade.
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  1400. One of the cheapest propaganda tactics Chinese LOVE is you simply take whatever is China then reverse it and say USA! but this doesn't help when the Chinese citizen is poorer and poorer every year after year after year.
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  1401.  @donnalawson6236  China put massive tariffs on the USA. Why was China giving itself self-inflicted wounds??
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  1402. You don't worry about your child being stabbed by a crazed nationalist or mass-stabber in the school?
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  1403. @ not any more.
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  1404. @ You've never been to the USA
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  1405. @ It's a big hassle getting them and no, 'so many foreigners' are not going to China to work. There are more leaving than arriving. It's because China became more authoritarian, made work visas more difficult and is currently in an economic collapse. Not to mention the hostility towards foreigners because people like you are getting jacked up on anti-Foreigner propaganda.
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  1406. It's absolutely mind boggling isn't it? from the information given, he is a HABITUAL traffic infraction guy. He is intent on driving without a license, he continues doing it over and over despite getting caught and severe consequences. Gets a pardon, is KEENLY AWARE that he cannot go back to jail AND he's going to kill himself if that happens. Okay, fair enough. Drives without a license. The cognitive dissonance is something to behold! I don't know how much marijuana he needed to brain-bathe in to get to that point but its just astonishing to see it happen on video.
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  1407. One of the problems is that China's PRC (and this guy) have gotten off on the idea they can and will do this whenever they decide to do it. They haven't even conceived of the possibility they cannot and furthe rmore that Taiwan and friends are now going to have military live fire exercises and maybe around Kinmen island. Then Taiwan is going to give The Mainland fair warning: It intends to unify the Mainland one way or the other sooner or later. Then they start reminding everyone in Beijing that the UN has confessed that the Mainland is a province of Taiwan and belongs to the Republic of China. Then some more live-fire exercises around Hainan, Then Taiwan reminds you again they intend to reunify the Mainland, which belongs to them. Never thought of it that way have you?
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  1408.  @armanasaintclair8962  nope, not true.
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  1409.  @armanasaintclair8962  Do you know you're a very sick person inside?
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  1410.  @armanasaintclair8962  ewwww gross.. its still puking at me :(
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  1411. @ ewww its spamming for attention now yuuckkkkk
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  1412. Ferguson was something of my academic hero until he got TDS and I'm told some mid-life crisis divorce but since then he's breaking up a lot, he waffles, like Maher or Sam Harris he's just blinded by some 'Jan 6th' imaginary revisionism they cannot break out of.
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  1413. One of the reasons they did that and have stopped doing it (less and less) is because the moment they open the blueprints for their product in a Chinese factory, a camera up above sends that blueprint to some Chinese who start making it (or not) but if its a great little product it will be made and already for sale BEFORE the foreigners first production line starts.
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  1414.  @JWscandi  Hello Clown, nope, I can't make with a ballpoint and pen. this has nothing to do with anything I taught you about China, IQ 92.
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  1415. In fact, the toilet Winston highlighted is a terrible example but he's correct that you can get a gauge on a society by their toilets (and how they treat animals) and these China is miseralbly nasty and cruel with both those things. You can make some judgement that most cannot have toilet paper or it will be promptly stolen. You can make a judgement about a people when a 'sit down lid' type toilet has filthy shoe prints on it. (if you think about that it says soooo much about how they think of anyone else but themselves) and you can get a measure of their sense of hygiene and public health safety. You can even get an idea of how they see 'privacy' (or lack thereof). China's filthy toilets DO tell you quite alot about everything else you're going to see, smell and experience in other aspects of their country. btw Canada has the same national park toilet laws as the USA seems to have too and its really a stupid bureacratic thing: (this sounds insane to write it) but the park is considered a kind of wildlife territory and we are not allowed to build an actual 'plumbed' toilet in a national park. It cannot have electricity, plumbing or 'mechanical machines' AND technically it cannot even be a 'permanent structure' hence a hole in a seat and a wooden or fiberglass 'port-a-potty' type of build. Wihich i find insane and a great example of North American regulation nonsense making all lives less convenient. in China, they would just build an actual working building with lights and whatever else. China wins on common sense national park toilets. but China's toilets, broadly speaking, across their country range from really unappealing and yucky to some of the most disgusting shltholes i've ever seen created by mankind.
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  1416. Landed at that airport not long ago. As a survivor, I thought about something I read around Korean disasters and their strict cultural devotion to 'filial piety', the mandatory obedience to the superior authority. In a horrific Korean airplane crash, the pilot had made several errors but the younger jr. co-pilot was fully aware of them and nothing could stop him from correcing the pilot or even taking physical control corrections. yet, even into certain death, the junior pilot never once contradicted or even questioned the senior pilot. In fact, this is determined to be the 'cause' of the accident in that sense. Socially, they cannot even say something like "are you sure, captain?" as this is a kind of unacceptable loss of face and 'shame culture' no-no. something like this also happened on a sinking boat where dozens of teenagers were left in the bottom of the ship to drown when, at many times, they could have simply gone to the deck, put on life jackets and probably lived. In a chilling cell phone video, the students sit in a room waiting for an adult authority to instruct them to leave. Finally one student asks out loud "shouldn't we get out of here and go up?" but another boy chides him saying "no. if they wanted us to leave here then they would tell us that. they haven't told us yet". Will we find this happened again? It wasn't the crew panicking either but the senior pilot 'choked' and the crew has absolutely no social right to question anything nor do anything but obey the pilots choices nor do anything unless instructed by the senior pilot. also, the brick wall at the end of the runway does indeed appear to have saved the lives of the people inside the communications tower. purpose well served!
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  1417. sometimes i dont know what is AI or what is 'AI assisted' but overall this was a damn good summary, its about the right time, hits the major points and is correct and not 'clickbait' but this was (for a time) truly one of the most evil empires, the first major evil human civilization. I guess humans had to 'give it a try' and at the time had every reason to believe evil was working great! who can deny it?
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  1418.  @ParaBellumHistoryChannel  I didn't mind the AI voiceover but it can be true that a unique human voice give your channel that personal touch. Ya this was well done. One of the things you get right on your channel is the right 'volume of information' for the typical history nerd on youtube. You don't miss key moments but you dont overwhelm with too many details, too many asides, too many titles or dates. our brain has 27 minutes and you do a great job with a solid summary at good easy pace that drops the most meaningful things to know.
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  1419.  @HOXHOXHOX  There's still a chance a Chinese State media company could pay him some 'patreons' if he can make anti-USA pro-CCP videos from his home studio in Portugal.
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  1420. No you wouldnt if you saw how much of your money it costs just to have those exist unused. You say it but if they asked for 5% of your income AND actually of all your neighbours and stores and community to stare at a unused unneeded train station you would not. Nor should you, because you cant eat tracks and fiberglass.
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  1421. ​ @hengongchua6250 its becoming less populated.
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  1422. ​ @ralphzoombeenie2330 no, but if you ever visit China you will see how many projects just sit and rust and fall apart from lack of maintenance.
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  1423. I've found many many workers in Canada are on cocaine and other versions of drugs and especially those who are nearing 40 and see the end of income, losing everything if, in spite of their body, cannot work a very tight, exhaustive 40+ work week.
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  1424. Oh, ahhhh this is really just any day in mainland china lol..
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  1425. heya laowai, welcome to the outside world. I have some well-meaning advice for you, friend. This Party membership you speak of? I'd suggest you make a careful plan on how to make sure you are NOT mistaken for a party member in the event, somewhere in the next 3 or 5 years, that day when a classic Chinese 'peasant uprising' takes place. An obvious first step: make sure you delete every single one of these posts you made, then delete the VPN you used and then hurl the phone or laptop or any device you posts 'Pro-CCP' messages from. 2. Make sure you discard absolutley any documents, cards, ID, anything that they think connects you to the CCP party. 3. Make a 'Go Bag' This is like a bag that is fully of whatever fake ID, cash money, yes even food, medicine, anything that you can take instantly and depart and run with. 4. Think carefully and preplan where you can be safe. Do not make foolish plans thinking something like Vietnam because ohhhh how they may very very happily hand you back over to your peasants. Don't assume Cambodia is going to let you in Or they might and say "well wel... look who's come groveling to us to protect you.. what power do you even have?" and so on. So you think about North Korea or maybe Myanmar? These are just suggestions because as we know, there is nothing more horrifying than when the Chinese decided to have a peasant rebelion and change things. You know this right? that it starts with horrific humiliation, social humiliation, you made to stand on a rickety old chair for hours with a 'dunce cap' on your head saying 'traitor to China' and aunties slapping your face with their shoes while you stand trial and THEN the really horrible long agonizing end is still far away as you know your family wlll be made low, some cannibalized, your grave will be a pit, our name removed from books so even the memory of you disappears but for a while you will be a 'viral video' being dragged naked through streets and made to bend the knee to being slapped and forced to eat your Air Jordans to cheering pointing crowds, chanting shame on you as they point at you.... ....so to avoid that please consider my suggestions, foreign friend. Just to be safe and prepared!
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  1426. thank you for sacrificing the last of your graphics budget to bring us the best graphs. I hope Sky can find a slush fund for the rest of the year but for now it kept us informed!
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  1427. Nope.
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  1428. What are you thanking? In a case of 'shame culture stubbonrness' China is willing to prove it can make its people eat grass and tree bark, eat their pets for meat, stand firm in the freezing cold homes and endure great poverty to SHOW THE USA it refuses to NOT carry out unfair trade advantages GRRR ! That's what you're thanking? You go live it with them and then see how thankful you are?
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  1429. Hopefully this helps Chinese in the current economic collapse.
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  1430. Heroic couple.. athletic couple.. that was a great catch. Probably the couple is the parents
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  1431. The biggest difference is the USA is a superpower, fully modernized, far far wealthier, with a much more powerul military and a tremendous selection of allies around the world. The other is a developing nation that's currently in a severe economic collapse, hoarks phlegm, kicks dogs and shouts loudly on their phones in public.
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  1432.  @disastrousemouse  You don't have State-Run Media (only) and a massive firewalled internet that blocks outside information.
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  1433. I noticed this too. It seems like the last year and especially now, all those 'ChinA IS NOT what We EXPECTED THE USA MEDIA LIED!!!". They're doing the oldest internet trick in the world I think called 'topic stacking' but basically just flooding 100000s of these videos so a search or whatnot just STACKS pages and pages of these CCP sponsored "TEH West MEdia LIED TO ME China is NOt WHat They SAID!!". actually the search is kind of useless now since it will be 2000 of those.
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  1434. He was correct though. not that it took some special insights to see China had peaked by 2015 (actually, it was being artificially boosted up by that point anyway) and that the collapse was coming by the 2020-2025 mark. which it did. So , he was correct but not that you needed to be a genius to see the obvious thing obviously coming and happening.
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  1435. In 2016, Trump started countering China's taxes and tariffs by announcing he'd start evening it out and Chiense everywhere got big sick grins across smirking faces, almost 'sexual' grinning about how 'Trump will be Punished'. Never happened. Trump added more. Chinese announced that the only reason America wasn't punished was because Chinese were a superior race who chose not to cause too much trouble. - At the same times, Trump announced he'd be sending aircraft carriers and warships through Xi's claim to the South China Sea. Chinese smirked in glee at how America would be punished. US drove by giving the 'eff you' finger to Chinese bases. Literally, American pilots did 'fly bys' of Chinese who could see them actually giving them the 'eff you finger' from their cockpits. Never once. Never once a 'punishment' came. Then China set a 'Red Line'.. if the USA DARES to sell Taiwan a billion in military equipment then America will see the full iron fist of China. The USA ilterally dropped off 4X the amount of weapons and sold Taiwan twice as many more. No 'punishment' ever came. If the USA dares to give Japan missiles to load those islands it will be considered an act or war that Xi wiill PUNISH. Never happened. The USA just dropped off another 100 anti-China missiles on southern Japanese islands. No punishment occurred. If the USA dares to support Hong Kong they will feel the punishement of China. Nope. Never happened. No 'punishments'. If the USA dares to add more tariffs there will be strong punishments... None. Doesn't happen. Last month China conceded on repatriating the thousands of Chinese deported from the USA. They agreed to take them back. Was that the iron-fisted punishment?
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  1436.  @Liesterminator5  China needs the USA, the USA doesn't need China.
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  1437. Nobody likes economic volatility (well some do) but we'd better hope all the worldwide collapses on this channel don't happen because China's PRC is currently in a brutal economic collapse and since it relies on 'The West' and the wealth of the outside world it cannot afford to take that kind of losses in addition to its own extraordinary collapse.
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  1438. British men have never done anything, they haven't been there yet and won't be. they will not actually DO any such things to stop it. They will watch it and decry it. Only.
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  1439. no, and there is no such country as 'The West' but no, they didn't believe that.
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  1440. The slogan "America First" does not refer to making American 'first place over all other countries'. Its for americans who believed most or too much US Policy was 'serve the world first - US people 2nd' This can be seen in the DOGE audit where billions of US taxpayer money was going to the world, to others, to global causes. 'America first' is a promise that American interests are the priority and after those are fixed and solved the global world is next. Its embarrassing if our spokesman mistakenly thought it was a Chinese style concept of being the highest score over all others. Its really a 'domestic' american issue and domestic slogan
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  1441. @recondax  oh theyd blow up coal deposits if they needed to. Really, i dont think the electric trains are such a great military asset because theyre very fragile, its not like a road, if someone sabotages any small part then its a major job to fix. But..that remains the idea and electrifying as a national security in case the oil is shut off.
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  1442. that's strange but then again if you stick to tourist typeareas and routes you could miss them. One of the nice things about massive unfinished buildings everywhere is that homeless people can sleep in them.
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  1443. A compassionate defense or explanation: The mob attack in Cairo was HORRIFIC. I saw it live and again online and it was absolutely one of the most terrifying things anyone could ever experience. A FREQUENT comment seen online was complaints that the left-leaning media was a problem as they were sending pretty blond ladies and trying to frame the Cairo Uprising as a 'Progressive 'liberal' type of uprising. They'd NEVER sent pretty females before and/or without burkhas or veils etc. They sent HER into the crowd as part of a narrative that now a free socially liberal world was winning the day. This was NOT what was going on and even worse the crowds were full of criminal convicts who'd been broken out of various prisons. IF you consider the internet's take, that a kind of left-leaning 'narrative' was part of what sent her into that crowd? IF she saw things that way? I can understand how she'd turn her back on the media, suspect them of creating false narratives (which, at the time many observers said they were doing to her) and I could see why she'd fall into that kind of psychological trauma. A reminder: do not gloss over that gang-rape/assault attack. That was HORRIFING.
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  1444. ya what about someone else in some other countries! the most childish of all things. Whataboutism.
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  1445. hmm nope, he's been pretty much right about most things he's observed or predicted.
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  1446.  @Zeta-y3c  As we speak of course, we're still not at the bottoming out yet. You haven't heard about this? the most massive real estate collapse in human history? Oh dear, you dont' know much about the world do you :(
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  1447.  @Zeta-y3c  Yes, not the really shltty boy thing where Chinese pretend the term 'economic collapse' means everyone is dead and China is wiped off the face of the earth. So they can put rows of emojis. but yes indeed, China's PRC started collapsing 2020 but the real harsh drops are this last 2 years where (at last count) all the major real estate bubbles, Evergrande to Vanke are done. This is why 1 million yuan apartments are now 500k. Not that you'll sell it anyway, and, its not just that, its that government law prevents it from selling for less than half the original price. The collapse coninues when you realize that absurdly inflated real estate bubbles are the main way restaurants and makeup stores are funded. Which is why now some 50% of shops are gone and will never open again. btw all of this is why there are uncountable half-built, unfinished concrete skeletons everywhere. it's also why there is a stunning 50% youth unemployment and why everyone in China is poorer than they were 7 years ago. you never heard abou tthis? it's one of the largest economic collapses in the world today. actually one of the only ones. It's massive and its devastating.
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  1448. Hmm this doesn't make any sense. Again, I'm told that Americans PAY THE TARIFF so its such a bad joke these idiots just made their own economy and people suffer, YET, China already had tariffs and just put 34% on the USA. Soooo? So China is now hurting its own people and a fool who's ruining their own economy with a 'boomerang'?? How are both things the same but the opposite??
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  1449.  @sagn1962  hmm no, that can't explain why the Chinese tarifs aren't going to be paid by Chinese and hurt Chinese farmers for example. I mean, according to the last months and years of CGTN it only means Chinese farmers have to pay 34%. I mean what you're saying isn't even true in real life but in theory the Chinese tariffs still hurt Chinese and are like a 'self-defeating' thing where they apply.
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  1450. why do you believe that?
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  1451.  @iwanagohome326  but we don't have to wait to see. Trump started putting all kinds of tariffs on China through his 2016 administration. lots of them. For the next 4 years, Biden kept them in place and added more. None of these did a thing to 'hari kari' the USA. Now what, laughing child?
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  1452. The standup comedian Brian Posehn had a bit where asks the audience to consider the opening part of a story "so, im brought a birthday cake to a chimp.." nobody would believe how that opener is going to end. Im usually against more regulations but flat out, all states need to straight up ban any possession of Chimps, tigers or pitbulls in any kind of residence, hone made zoo or anywhere but by licensed zoos, labs etc.
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  1453. just wait unti they realize Tik-Tok is banned and blocked in China.
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  1454. My best guess is that the Israelis 'probably' carried out boots-on-ground level inspections and will get a fairly reliable idea of just what is or is not damaged. As mentioned, they may very well return to carry out some more types of strikes. Not necessarily a tactical nuke or US MOABs but may very well find ways to install explosive 'by hand' (probably by robots) and then implode or burn up more. I would say, no matter what remains, this goes a very very long way to ending the enrichment program EVEN IF they managed to run off with semii-complete uranium. It's not something you just toss into the next backup machine and pick up where you started off. I don't know but I'd say they appear to have done, at least, massively gigantic setbacks for Iran.
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  1455. The 'got mines' importing brown servants phenom is nowhere more rampant than in Canada. She mentions the boasts of 'rising GDP!'. Yes, well in one town the 'gotmines' smugly corrected the complaining working class that actually the more brown servants coming in the better the economy! so there! except.. What they don't tell you is the motivating factor to the guy who put a hose in his car and deleted himself after a foreign worker denied him a minimum wage and he gave up hope is that the 'GDP' and 'Economy' going up was indeed very impressive for the upper-middle class. and yep, they're almost ALL in the 'liberal-progress' camps or at least their college-aged daughter is and she's who runs the social and moral rudders. It's true, Karen and Ken saw VERY impressive growth in the McFastfood franchises they co-own and in their Real Estate Group investments. They turnover temporary brown servants from the Philippines and India every year (and those people work and never complain!) and on the other side, rental unit income is going very well AND here's the gravy: they got a whole web of government-backed grants, funds, welfare whatever kinds of govt guaranteed 'New Canadian something-something'. Sociologists have been flown in to try and find out what could have caused a string of young white males to carry out a self-deleting rate that shocked the nation. Some explanations have been 'group formation psychosis' while others investigated 'gas leaks' causing them to become depressed.
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  1456. What? Ohhhhh i thought it was only in mainland China!? Soo.. you mean its everywhere? Wow, thanks 85 IQ man!
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  1457.  @youngspaghettii  Please don't do that. It's really annoying and so lame. No matter what anyone says you just finesse some "ya but it happens a LOT in 'the west' you little weasel lol No, there is no comparison and he is right to ask why there is exceptional crisis levels of economic collapse in Mainland China, vast under/unemployment and 'A LOT' as in half the shops, stores and restaurants are closed and closed forever. Smarten up and stop doing that weaseling slimy little thing anymore.
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  1458.  @anonimosu7425  ignorant Chinese blocked from the outside world believe in this magical entity 'Thewestern Media'.
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  1459. Ok, and why would Trump care?
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  1460.  @kaimanyu586  more and more people have been relocating OUT of China to other countries for well over a decade now. Its 2025 not 2015
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  1461.  @daan3536  Foxconn doesn't hire for cheap labor. These are basically the highest level assembly jobs and relatively speaking the highest paying jobs (with the best benefits, etc) in China. Mostly hiring IT grads and.... ....whatever Tim Cook said, most of them have been moved OUT of China and into Vietnam and India. There are, literally, physically, 500 of the last of the last Foxconn (apple) workers living in my building after they finally closed the facility 2 years ago. (fun fact, they briefly re-opened last year to do a month or two of work before re-closing again). now what?
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  1462. No, he does not.
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  1463.  @OldSmellerFeller  lol no sir, China is the worlds most disliked country. but you keep writing yourself creepy porn like that. just dont use me for it. yuckkk
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  1464.  @wnklee6878  hah no China has two: A goof and an insecure dictator hahah BOOM mic drop!
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  1465. Oh, may this US plan be such a massive success that Canada calls Kevin O'Leary to head a 'ministry of excess spending' parallel mission in Canada! PLEASSSSE Let that happen! Mr. Wonderful cutting Canadas massive, bloated, insanely overspending government... PLEASSSSE let it come true!!
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  1466.  @decaniman  but far more deceptive.
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  1467.  @mosthated.e.2422  it's essentially Jacobianism (from which we get the term "leftwing') and Marxism but in the Woke Incarnation it's more properly 'Identiarianism'. The previous Identity categorizing of 'Capitalists and Workers' was recategorized based on more outward physical appearances. 'white' and 'black' and the 'male' and 'female' and the premise will work on a points system. credits and debits and while those can be converted to money the real currency is power. social power. They still retain a lot of beliefs from old days and for example they believe wealth is assigned from an external source somehow. If the society (nation) has 60 trillion that is like a pie to be divided by its government and so too the power. a key feature of 'Woke' is anti-Christianism but really running a 'counterfeit' Christianity so they will have their own versions of any Christian concepts and for example, instead of 'The Holy Spirit' they have The Holy Empathy. being 'filled with Empathy' is their version of indwelling purity and righteousness (and beauty we can suppose - however - there is one Christian concept they do not have a version of. Forgiveness. it does not exist in any version of woke. For you, the more important starter explanation is to know it is 'identitarianism' and that the identity categories work on a debit/credit system.
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  1468.  @mosthated.e.2422  wait.. are you actually doing this internet good thing where you pretend the answer is the first known use listed in your google search. The etymology. "Acshuallllly google says it was a word first found in use.."? Ewwww. And you also thought to say "pseudoscience" lol yikes. Ooof that little trick you saw [hehe ask them what woke means hehehe] really really backfired on you lol
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  1469. I'm very impressed he made an actual helicopter. The entrepreneurial spirit!
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  1470. Whatever is the Vietnam Tourist Department - I wish this was mandatory viewing for the agency. Very very good suggestions and really this has to be 'The GOAL' the very aim of Vietnam if they want to see a massive improvement in tourism. It's difficult to explain to certain SE Asia (and Mainland China) difficult to convey that most of the tourists you'd want to attract DO NOT think an absolute cacophony of noises blasting their eardrums as a 'good thing'. I know this seems like a 'festival feeling' in some cultures BUT tourists coming off 26-40 hours of travel usually cannot enjoy horns, shouting, plastic speakers set at 1000 volume etc.
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  1471. @lilin-j8z  they probably will after this little skit put on for Chinese by Chinese.
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  1472.  @dysfunc121  China isn't a superpower.
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  1473.  @Skyfire-x  Why do you believe Rockefeller carried out a lifetime of cut-throat business practices?
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  1474.  @SeeHang  but they didn't. they did not go from 9 to 11 despite the tariff put on them. yet, Rocky seems convinced that they must have and yet they did not. How is that possible, Rockys77?
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  1475.  @rockys7726  Hi, I'm not you and playing 'interenet theory' about this life. I've lived and worked in China (and the USA) for well over a decade, before and after tariffs. YOU know Walmart doesn't pass it on because YOU can go to Walmart and you never saw the Gizmo price increase. Please stop trying to pretend we are having a 'debate'. Stop pretending this is that thing where we have 'internet beliefs arguments'. You listen to me and say "OHHHH okay wow I made a mistake and believed that the customers pay the difference ... WOOPS... hey experienced adult from China who's exporting some things as we speak: Thanks, okay I get it now. that was a good explanation! You do that. You should STOP with this thing you MADE UP and don't pass untrue information to people okay? Is that a deal?
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  1476.  @rockys7726  Hi, you're still living in a delusion where we are in 'internet arguments' to decide this. Reality has and currently does decide it. You still pay 9.99 for the Gizmo despite the 20% Tariff Trump and now Biden have put on it.
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  1477. You said you're living in Europe. I'm sure you cannot wait until you can get out of that inferior 'Europe' and back to the more advanced, superior in every way and aspect China, more than the 'Western World', I hope you aren't made to live in Europe much longer, however, I have a question you may be uniquely experienced to answer: 'Europe' isn't a country I know but of the those countries, especially the 'EU' members, there is a stunning number of Mainland Chinese Immigrants. Legally, either they've immigrated to Citizenship or PR or long-term work visas or student visas etc etc. When I've asked about this, people tell me 100% of ALL forms of visas are 100% full 100% of the time in ALL EU nation embassies and consulates in Mainland China. So really, the MAXIMUM legal ways and the MAXIMUM amount of Chinese go to Europe if they can. next, Every European country has 1000s of Mainland Chinese who sometimes risk their lives and lose everything in order to get to that European soil and declare 'Asylum'. 'refugee'. Then they apply for a kind of temporary visa so they cannot be sent back to The PRC. next, Every European country has reported an increased number of Mainland Chinese illegals. So these Chinese are preferring to live there illegally, 'underground' type of living without any kinds of rights or documents etc. What's up with that? Why do you think that keeps happening? Again, I know YOU can't wait to leave that inferior lower civilization to the more superior mainland godnation world, but, What explains nearly any and all Mainland Chinese who CAN get themselves into Europe and stay in Europe?
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  1478. yes this again, always told to us with this 'smarten up you naive fools' and the ridiculosu threshold of 'all or nothing' with you. As if anyone on earth every says "We have to STop 100% ALLLLLL of it or else ...welp.. may as well allow all of it'. what a goof 2D brain with that. and you couldn't even say 'Shaming men hasn't stopped it' ffs. Anyway, no I don't want to increase the safety of the people invovled so now what, Lord Reddtor? Now what does your 'lay donw the facts' attitude want to tell us now?
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  1479. ​ @A-fz5kx .. and yet have no problem giving it to others. Now what?
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  1480.  @Max-f3f2l  Yes, sometimes Trump breaks into New York Business guy from his era. that's an expression for how they'll be asking for deals. I find it hard to believe Chinese care about that kind of rude language. Who told you they don't like rudeness at all?
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  1481.  @Max-f3f2l  Yes and that's rich humor from the people who started the tariff war wih the USA, act as if they are little emperors insulted by the lack of 'tribute' being brought to them, then carry on abou thow they will 'punish' the USA if it dares retaliate. (really take that in, they start putting tarrif and then warn they wil 'punish the USA' fo rdaring to counter tarrif), this is a regime that has found ways to cheat, scam, delay (so... just not do)) nearly 100% of any agreements. The stunning arrogance from this .. this is China, the country the USA lifted out of Japanese invasion and then recently lifeted 800 million of them out of extreme poverty and now these arrogant peasants are talking as if they aren't the most criminal traders on the planet but little gods warning the USA they will not allow such insolence. Really tak that in
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  1482. 30:00 sorry but that man has that wrong. Legal Insanity does not work by things like the defendant knew to turn left, knew to drive a car. It doesn't work that way. Legal insanity could very well be someone who certainly can take a left turn, drive, purchase tickets, hide a knife and even knows to kill the evil space alien disguised as a fellow human bus passenger with strikes to the neck. Why are they deemed insane? They waited for the police to show up, tried 'high-fiving' police as they 100% totally believed they'd successfully killed an evil space alien. Far from fleeing from the crime they mistakenly but sincerely believed they were being taken to the police station to receive awards for saving the human race. The entire time they were fully capable of driving a car. What he might have said, a better and correct explanation is, for example, they murdered someone, saw police cars on the way and knew to turn left and drive the car to a dark road to hide and avoid the police. Then they are demonstrating they knew 'right from wrong'. Its not 'left turns from right turns'.
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  1483. Sure but those were analogous to being a 'dopamine addict' and a 'screen addict' which you may well be highly addicted to.
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  1484.  @billinsf88  Ok, lets sayI am from Japan. Did reality change because I'm from Japan or did reality in China continue to stay the same?
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  1485. really, just think about yourself. Just think about what you did here? Here on our Western Media, hosting a perfectly nice New Years visit by Xi, cute kids. YOU decided "I will use this to shit on the USA and Western European nations, I'm going to use this to really push a hot shit on their faces". really amazing. technically what you're doing is illegal in China if you were posting that from China.
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  1486. Are you pleasuring yourself while you write that ... yuckkkk :(
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  1487. It's going very well but I hope people don't lose interest a few months later after many of the worst criminal types have been caught and deported. They have to keep this going for millions of people, nobody needs to hate them, but they cannot simply carry on illegally.
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  1488.  @jykl608  Why does it need to be 'gullibiity' tho? What you could say is they lie and mislead and take advantage of the trust of others (some do).
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  1489.  @GatoLuver00  What do you think an 'Excuse' means? an 'excuse' ffs. I don't like you're character you have have a crummy little character.
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  1490.  @alice.wonder  Dont do that anymore.
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  1491. @taiwanstillisntacountry China is a far weaker country than the USA and do you really think you're doing something with utterly childish rows of HEEE HAWWW smirking emojis? also, protip: Western countries don't have your 'filial piety' and aren't 'shame cultures' so your 'little brother and big daddy' things aren't good choices. Chinas PRC couldnt even colonize Taiwan at this time. It will only be less capable in the future. Know your role, 3rd worlder
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  1492. and again, yes they can in the sense it would be physically possible to do such a thing. They definitely cannot in that it would be a brutal loss of income for a China that desperately needs those ships coming and ideally more and more of them.
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  1493.  @User-t-f4b  'no problem' we reroute everything through the arctic in some 'collaboration' with Russia. pretend to have 'owned the USA once again!'. oh boy, this cannot go well when you stop and understnad what a Port Fee means in this scenario
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  1494.  @apolloyang1036  There is no such thing as 'The Western Media' and it's not a parallel Media to Chinese media where they are actually the ones with State-Controlled Media and then a firewarll blocking outside media. There isn't a 'Western Media Portrait', however, if you noticed, you're here on Western Media. This is youtube. This video on youtube is on an American Server on the USAs youtube. This is blocked by PRC China so Chinese people cannot see this video or any on youtube. but all Americans can see this, They can watch CCTV news, they can easily meet and talk to Chinese living in the USA if they want. Many many Americans have been to China. It's been a massive business and tourism destiniation for a million of them.
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  1495.  @g9n646  OpenAI was open source yes. What about it?
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  1496.  @YXZ-ry3kr  probably because they wanted to get some monetary reward for their work.
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  1497.  @BeckyRoth99  hi, we already went over this (see above) but why do I care if Deepthink is a Chinese version of OpenAI?
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  1498. @APDM_Analysis I'm going to delete the comment because many comments ago I accepted that corretion but really insecure little shlts like you are jacking off on it. grosss
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  1499.  @bingbing3464  Right but none of these things weren't already known to be entirely possible somewhere by someone. These aren't innovations but rather taking the best of all the currently innovated possibilities then making a clone of 'here's where we are at now'. Also, i notice you added this 'humlliation' thing at the end. So the idea is to take things from US then 'sabotoage them' by making their code open source then sneering about how you 'humiliated the west' and (hopefully) made them less wealthy? If that's the 'win' then I don't know what to tell you? The capital will still stay in the 'greedy West' and wont go to China if that's what you want?
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  1500.  @onepuchok5789  Why, what do you think they'd say?
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  1501.  @onepuchok5789  I dont think we know what they're doing but probably part of the rush to make the Next Generation AI. They probably don't care that China made a comglomerate of alerady existing AI and they probably think its strange that China dumped its money, time, high-end chips on something that is given away for free. while they stay rich in the USA.
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  1502.  @MbisonBalrog  wait.. who's fault though?
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  1503.  @MbisonBalrog  I just realized you must be about 21 so you think the world must have started whenever you turned 18 and became aware of the world. Anyway, Hong Kong, though still superior to Shenzhen and Guangzhou was indeed much superor to them all the way up until.. oh... around 2012, 2013 when it was first starting to be truly 'Mainlandized'. When the PRC really started taking control and when there were starting to be so many Mainland Chinese moving and living there as to make it so. Over the last 10ish years Hong Kong just sunk and degenerated and lowered and went down until it was just another Shenzhen. but you think all this just appeared as such now because its the first time you are aware of the outside world. it worries me you actually though you ... wow... you thought we were saying Hong Kong was the lower city all along and IF ONLY it stopped resisting the superior more advanced influence trying to help it improve... wowwwwww. Wow that is... that's amazing in a way. but also worrisome because it means you can be made to believe anything, easily.
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  1504.  @Andrea-Art-Adventure  It's stupid in all those academic circles and that's why nobody else needs to parcipate in such a low-brain thing. You shouldn't either.
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  1505. Well yes, it does have to do with something other than the attack itself, detective iq85. go on, try and figure out what it might be?
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  1506. Can you tell me something, specifically, that is 'behind in technology' with the US cars? Like what?
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  1507. Eh, well yes the PLA through its governing branch the CCP owns 100% of all business, land and money. Always. They are also who decides who will be billionaires (and who wont)
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  1508. The important thing is that trees and forest around above-ground powerlines was NOT CUT DOWN!!
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  1509. They overuse 'the church' and 'congregation' far too often and to this day tards on reddit think its an actual Christian church and he was a 'televangelist' they can burn on. What ought to be far more talked about is that Jim Jones and friends were far far ahead of their time and doing what we called 'Woke Left' (radical 2020 peak leftism) long before their time and they took it to the radical conclusion far faster and more furious than our current johnny-come-latelys have.
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  1510. For China's PRC, if they decided to invade them then it will be the next 'Vietnam' for the PLA
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  1511. Nope, China is in economic collapse and most of the outside world is not. it is not a worldwide problem. but don't tell the Chinese young people that.
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  1512.  @miltonmerlo4103  lol.. oh you poor ... lol.. nooo. not even close.
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  1513.  @Jay79060  Hello Laowai, welcome to The Western Media, foreigner. Your strange primitive language is fascinating! Nope, China is actually doomed to economic collapse BECAUSE it's foolishly investing (so, spending its wealth) on foolish 'track' they fantasized would happen by 2025. It is certainly NOT happening but yet it will lose a billion bowls of its people's rice to build fields of unused unsold EVs and desperately try and make 'photovoltaics', meanwhile, it will need to start selling ships for low low prices fast in order to keep any kind of money coming in. I can say this, your Chinese writing is perfect but.. you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. Good luck getting started on that!
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  1514.  @henli-rw5dw  It's not a good thing when they are electrifying everything and running massve electricity consuming high-speed trains that aren't necessary but cost them a tremendous amount of money. Creating 'GDP' by bogus 'consumption' is exactly one of the reasons China is currently in economic collapse. So is counting traffic jams as GDP.
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  1515.  @turtlesoup8134  What you're really telling me is that China is pretending it meant to carry out nationwide economic collapse because it wants to become 'Japan' (circa 1980s/90s) where it makes it's money selling some high-tech innovations and high-end products. really, not so much 'want' but that's the only possible way out of the sinking ship of mass manufacturing and exporting the usual things. but it can't and hasn't and there is less capital than every before and they can't use massively inflated real estate anymore. and no, no, you are telling a huge untruth about China to pretend that all those shuttered and closed businesses have close becuae they were old uncompetitive businesses and they're being reopened as the new high-tech China. No. That is simply untrue and you shouldn't be lying about China that way. and what an insult to the injury of the massive amounts of businesses that are now gone forever. but no, they are not reopening as anything.
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  1516. 'the rise of China' was ranked THE single biggest news story of the last 30 years... yes in 'Western Media'. China is not doing so well these last 5 years.
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  1517.  @duinay3  Insecure Chinese believe this means 'China is USA's equal power!' heee haww now THEY SCARED China can punish them! It really means the USA no longer has any serious threats from anyone but China is the 'biggest' current threat. My neighbors 14 year old is also my 'biggest threat' because he seems to want to steal and vandalize my eBike He is my 'China', my biggest current adversary.
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  1518.  @tothelighthouse9843  No, the USA has a massive array of food from the ultra-healthy, raw foods, cheap foods and all the fresh fruits and vegetables, meats and dairy anyone can ever choose from. and youre Food Religion worlds 'processed' (means nothing) and then trying to invent a new religious term 'Ultra-Processed' dont mean anything. Its a food religion belief.
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  1519. @pliashmuldba Why do you believe illegals were the ones manning presses or would be needed to do more?
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  1520. yeesh you are in a world of fantasy
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  1521. I'm not sure if you heard about this but that's been happening lately.
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  1522. @ The original post and how manufacturing has been leaving China for quite a few years now. More and more all the time now.
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  1523.  @yt.personal.identification  You've now snuck in a new thing: "most civilized nations'. interesting, you had to sneak that new thing in and pretend I told you that ONLY the USA is the number one nation! That tells me you're intellectually dishonest and a midwit kind. Can you see that?
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  1524.  @keiths.1444  nope, i travel around the world routinely and no such thing is happening.
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  1525.  @maryiced3931  well yes, women have come to believe that money is love and I don't know if that can be broken anytime soon.
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  1526. You're more likely to get your liver damage from alcoholism while the USA carries out a military takeover of your publ
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  1527.  @charleendavis8171  there was no such thing as "their country" or any such nation. There were many many different tribes in different places with no federal relation to one another. Also, plenty of overseas tribes were welcomed and invited to stay by various native tribes. Lots of those folks merged together. You can see their great great grandchildren by the millions walking around what is now called the USA today.
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  1528.  @charleendavis8171  hi, yes many of them didn't just welcome them that to this day, the majority that stayed and married, joined and merged are seen all over New York in the DNA of millions. If you're an American with a few generations there, you may even be one of them.
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  1529.  @tat2mommie  would the world be better if the whites were replaced?
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  1530.  @ZakiHaider-y9o  the US isnt but their 'recession' would be a fantasy of wealth for China PRC. And nope, the USA isnt under any Chinese anything. The one good the the CCP ever did was buy US debts to help keep itself afloat. There is no 2 sides, no comparison, no commie antithesis works here - the USA is vastly richer and stable. To our story, China, which is far poorer per person even at its peak isnt going to be worrying about debt or anything but massive unemployment, hunger and poverty so ugly that a violent overthrow looks very likely soon. If you gave a damn about Chinese people youd start sending them US dollars so they can eat enough every day. Its getting that bad now. Again. As it was before the USA lifted 800 million out of extreme poverty.
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  1531. I think Valuetainment has just achieved some kind of special breakthrough moment with Dr. P because I don't know if I've ever seen him laugh and smile that hard ..ever. I mean, that is a real, loving-it, truly enjoyable grin and that's a good thing, after all.
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  1532.  @maka6134  Nope, your gym is you buying a service and so the driver has income. The church is none of those things. To help you figure this out: Your and your friends take their already taxed money and start your LGBT non-profit book club. You don't "buy a membership" but you ARE the members who buy, for the group, your rainbow flags and LBT books and bumper stickers. You're not going to have your donation taxed. IF you do hire staff they will certainly pay taxes on their income. IF you buy some LGBT chairs you will pay the taxes on those chairs at the checkout like everyone else, however, what exactly would you propose be taxed? Like if you all donated 10000 to your club you think the govt comes along and then taxes that 10000 you all pooled together. So the answer is no.
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  1533.  @maka6134  Nope, church members are not buying a servrice. nope, you're a member whether you donate money or not. These churches don't have 'dues'. It's time for you to give up this stupid thing I've heard for 30 years on the internet blurted out by people who just get off on the idea of 'doing something to punish churches' and have communist tendencies and like repeating this. guhh... we should TAX THEM and then 200 upvotes. Knock it off. If you have a 'Mega church' in your town then I promise you, that brings in far far more tax revenue that you will ever pay in your entire lifetime.
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  1534.  @rebellion6331  Nope, I'm definitely not but we're talking about the bizarrely arrogant Indians who are challenging Chinese mainlanders for the 'lowest quality'. I'm not Indian.
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  1535. 16:40 "..and Dave didn't turn up because he had a big party last night" well bless them all anyway lol
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  1536.  @bobevans9996  Not really but 'yes' in the sense most people on earth have some common ancestor. Japanese and Koreans would be included in your list. really you're just describing a mega-haplotype given the name 'Han'. 'Han' is a genetic pool that can be best described as 'Everyone and Nobody'. there would be so much 'admixture' that 100 other gene pool would Venn Diagram it into a graph of bubble clumps. Some gene pools like 'Mongolian' (itself a mixed pool) would have saturate in while 100 ethnic peoples from Huang to Miao and many more would have mixed and mulled in. In some places, European, British genes swirled around, over in Macao a sprawling mix of Portugeuse, Spanish and Singapore, swirls of India and a dozen others. and a common ancestry? I dunno? in theory, somewhere in North Korea is the most 'Pure Han' which is a weird thing to even say since that's not really a meaningful identity. 'the least broadly saturated Han'? Korea somewhere, however, maybe to find a common ancestry we have to find Huang Di? He might be something like the SE Asian "Noah", a grand Patriarch, one who established the civlizations of what is today the region of China and 'East Asia'? Maybe, today, everyone in East Asia and that list you made has SOME genetics that are from Huang DI and his royal family? Even if it was only 2% of their DNA or 20% but probably everyone on that list has SOME genetics that were from Huang Di? That doesn't mean direct ancestors but would have, by now, had some parent's parents with some of Huang Di's DNA, thus, in tha sense, yes, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mainland China, North Korea, Japan, Vietnamese, etc etc, dozens of nations in SE Asia have SOME 'common ancestry'. Which is... The most UNremarkable thing in the entire earth. Yes, probably all of Europe from Ireland to Moscow has some "common ancestry". No matter how mixed and mulled and swirled and added (and subtracted) there is, somewhere way back there, a "Noah' had a 'Japeth' who moved North and so yes, in some massive genetic type, something dubbed 'Caucasian' maybe, in the same ways, everyone from Italians to Swiss to Ukrainians shares ... and it may be just 1% or 10% and not necessarily in direct lineage but somewhere a parents parent, they are all descended from their 'Huang Di' or 'Noah' or 'Japeth' type of thing. of course, you realize what this means right? It means everyone on earth is, ultimately from the same common ancestry right? We are dubbing that ancestor 'Noah' or 'Huang Di' but a kind of last known 'Patriarch' who almost certainly (almost) lived somewhere in the 'Middle East' somewhere at some time. and, actually that, just in itself, isn't really that meaningful to anyone about anything in our modern world (or really any time in history) and doesn't help or hinder or change much of anything or anyone. It didn't stop Japanese Imperialists from executing 60,000 Chinese on a Nanking beach, it didn't stop the Guangxi Massacre (fair warning, you don't even want to know what that was). It isn't stopping China's PRC from salivating at the idea of mass-murdering Taiwanese and subjecting them to evil humiliation, its not stopping Hamas from killing Israelis it's not stopping Ukrainians and Russians from 'meat grinding' each other etc. nor, it doesn't make the USA carry on as China (the region) as its biggest benefactor or stop Chinese from producing massive amounts of products for Ireland and etc etc.
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  1537.  @hclee5563  yes, 'China' is, in this case, referring to a collection of states within a region dubbed 'China' (not the people's republic of China). Parts of China include The PRC, Taiwan (Roc) Hong Kong and technically Macao too.
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  1538.  @shermanchu4444  Hi, Manchu Death, that's a funny screen name. You weren't told that Hong Kong is a country forever, you little liar and false accuser. and you should't ask ChatGPT like its an oracle that 'tells the truth' or you're going to be both a liar and lied to.
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  1539. You should visit soon but to see the Chinese miracle (which was massive international money for labor) you'd have to have visited about 10 years ago.
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  1540. Also find myself liking some of the ones everyone hated. Ishtar was was as good as any and man others. I really liked 'The Golden Ticket' which apparently everyone else hated. People did that thing of hating 'The Cable Guy' after the Carey money got out. I thought it was very very well done and didn't pay anymore or less depending on his salary. People hated 'Battleship' but to me it was a perfectly fun popcorn movie. I've also disliked movies everyone raved about. To this day I hate 'ET', i did NOT enjoy 'The Karate Kid' even when i was myself a Karate-crazed kid. I don't find 'Showgirls' to be 'so-bad-its-good' but just a bad movie. I could not get past 20 minutes of 'Avatar' and hope I never see another minute of that shlt. and with the exception of 'Jackie Brown' (and maybe 2 other earlier ones) I find almost all of Tarantino's movies unlikable crapfests that get way too much street cred and credit than they deserve.
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  1541. yes. if you were to go north across the border in Canada its like that. What the people get is a very generous lease deal to put the oil rig on their land. It's like winning a very nice monthly income but not the lottery. I forget the actualy numbers but in Canada you only own something like the first 15ft of soil. Its something like that (some legal rulings, etc) but the land owner doesn't get the oil or gas or gold or whatever is below that is considered 'The Canadian government' property.
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  1542.  @sagepirotess6312  In California, i think you mean you may or may not own 'mineral rights'. You might, if you (the landowner) did indeed get and buy and own mineral rights. I'd suggest never be pretty sure its the same in other states though. Its almost never the same.
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  1543. 1, There is NO REASON to believe in the John Wayne 'Radiation Myth' and yes indeed a whopping 40% of people will eventually get cancer the older they get. There is ZERO reason to believe that. 2. There is GOOD REASONS to believe Ghengis Khan may have looked like John Wayne and good reasons to believe Khan DID NOT LOOK LIKE MODERN MONGOLIAN PEOPLES. 3. Nuclear Radiation isn't 'good' or 'nothing' but its not a special danger with the kind of nukes we'd use as weapons.
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  1544. The strangest thing is that, for some TDS reason, people decided these were Trump's 'MAGA Fans' but the event and these dedications are obviously apolitical. It just happens Trump is the current president. Biden didn't pick 'Biden voters' either, this is just an American family and the story is nothing to do with 'republicans' etc. Anyway, its a great moment and they represent an awesome and admirable attitude: Keep it rolling. they don't have 'bad days' they just roll through, do what they do, get 'er done, trust God and roll on. That's what we want, they're the model we want to look up to.
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  1545. If you're Chinese (PRC section) you're poorer than you were 8 years ago, poorer than you were last year and have less and less opportunities you can see to ever become wealthier.
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  1546.  @fengzheng888-l6m  Chinese people most definitely do not have more money. They have less money than they did in 2018 and less every year. Chinese do not save money, they have lost tremendous amounts to their severe real estate collapse, spending it through the psychotic and stupidity of 'lockdowns' and trying to keep their life going nd Alipay paid while they make less money than they did a few years ago. There is no comparison. You are NOT talking about 'Two Equal Rivals'. There isn't a little head-to-head between the two big rich boys. The USA is much much wealthier and China is much much poorer. Yes indeed, Americans will complain and complain when their favorite kind of grapes or toys become 20% more. Chinese on the other hand cannot complain when they eat bitter melon for dinner and sell their pet dog to be brutally tortured and bludgeoned into 50 cent bbq meat skewers. big differences. inequal powers of wealth.
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  1547.  @WongPeter-tx7qq  Yes, this has been a big social phenom in China recently as Chinese, mostly 'upper middle class' type of demographic have been rushign Costcos and 'Sams Clubs' buying out as much international quality bulk food as they can get. This is what happens in economic collapse and fueled by increasing numbers of poorlly regulated or even counterfeit local Chiense food and products.
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  1548.  @lykTFIH  Hello Foreigner, welcome to the outside world. In fact, China is not a 'Secret Kingdom' like North Korea where you have a GREAT way to deny anything: Just ask 'have you been to CHina?' anyway, I've lived, worked and traveled around China for more years than you've been adult. This is why I know these stupid 'ofifical numbers' are obviously worthless and why I know everyone in China is poorer than they were 8 years ago and is poorer especially since the severe economic collapse which hasn't even bottomed out yet. 'Deflation' is NOT a good thing and thats why China's government has been trying everything to get inflation, obviously. You have a lot to learn about CHina and how things work in China hehe.. a lot to learn. I'd just ask you stop lying about China and the Chinese people, okay?
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  1549.  @prajnasamadhi60  that is incorrect. smarten up please.
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  1550.  @WongPeter-tx7qq  Saying 'middle class' doesn't mean anything though. China's 'middle class' doesn't have drinkable tap water and drives eBikes in winter. China's middle class has the average GDP per person as a poor south American nation, somewhere around 100th out of 200 nations. 8x less money than an American middle class and 6X less than a Japanese. 'Middle Class' is relataive to that nation and then there is this: You are not arguing against the obviously severe economic collapse by saying "look at all these middle class people!' What does that even mean?? Yes, look at all these middle class (by China's standards) who bought their homes for 1.2 million and now their home is worth 600 thousand. And its only worth 50% because the government made a law forbdding them from listing it for sale for less than 50% of purchase price. Yes indeed, look at all the middle class (who'd be categorized as poverty class if transported to most any 1st world democracy) look at how they are racking up their Alipay Credit buying massive amounts of bulk foods. You know, how people prepare for upcoming economic hard times.. like say... the largest real estate bubble collapse in modern human history. Which is happening in China. You can't change our minds but reality can. If I see the real estate collapse bottom out and everyone stops getting poorer, everything older, wages declining, less unemployment, less loss of wealth in China then my mind changes accordingly. and btw, you are fully aware I am correctly describing the obvious state of China. Please don't play dumb with me and please don't lie about China anymore, okay?
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  1551. @ don't do that here.
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  1552. @ Chinese have absolutely filthy toilets and very low hygeine standards (really. almost no such standards at all). Yes, just as it's been the last year, fewer and fewer Chinese will be traveling around and they will be spending less and less this labor day weekend. This has been the constant trend and a lot of this is due to China's current economic collapse. and in part from overbuilding 1997-era high speed trains that are draining the nations wealth on these things almost nobody needs or wanted.
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  1553.  @SSTan-cz7eo  what about it though?
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  1554. One of your problems is you call them 'leaders' (instead of our public servants) and you demand they "provide an..' so, are you from a communist country? Where you have 'leaders' and they are like a parent who provides you with stuff to live?
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  1555. Nope, US Farmers are subsidized for any losses incurred by Chinese trade moves. Where does the US government get that money from? Tariffs on China. Chinese are making life comfortable for US Soybean Farmers. In fact, since then, US farmers in all regions have been doing better than ever before. Now what?
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  1556.  @davidwong5197  I looked it up and subsidies most definitely went to all the farmers. As for 'bankruptcies at a 10 years high' but this doesn't mean much if they were relatively low for 10 years and then 6 years ago were slightly higher, however, you, like seemingly 90% of internet commentators don't understand that farms can use 'bankruptcy' to win and the opposite of 'losing everything' but they use this to 'keep everything'. You are going to need to accept something that might hurt your feelings: No, China did not 'Punish the USA' and ahaha.. now crushed their farmers who have nothing. Learning that China punished them etc. They are much much wealthier now, the American farmers who used 'bankruptcy' ... just that they CAN have all their debts wiped out is something Chinese cannot even believe is real and can happen. Those ones are better than ever with farms making far far more money than any Chinese farmer can dream about. Sorry. It's better you know this now. Its' not a 'debate' so just learn about it and accept it.
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  1557. ChinaPRC is 75 years old.
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  1558. @ When its a massive civil war that defeats the other, introduces a new ideology, declares China of the past dead, starts a campaign to 'destroy the 4 Olds' and if you don't know that means destroy anything 'Chinese' its history, culture, everything and reinstitute a new China then yes this is why there are '75' flags everywhere in China and they have galas celebrating their 75th birthday. maybe add some 'sneering laughing' emojis?
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  1559.  @myew4481  Yes, 100% of people's civilizations have 'roots the go back thousans of years'. anyway, lots of banners with 'Happy 75th' around. It's because that's how old The PRC is and it's very specificailly meant to be 75. It needs people to know this is NOT the previous CHina.
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  1560. Boomer lady, for her it ultimately comes down to 'the global world' and the hurt caused to the global society. As if she cares for ALL the babies in the world.
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  1561.  @Cryosxify  they may even realize that but they are being told (or are told to say to foreigners) that the dirty USA is far worse and Europe is far worse and actually the whole world is in economic downturn and that China is actually smiling as it gets through better than most anyone else, esp. the USA that is jealous of China.
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  1562.  @havocrein  No son, sorry but I do know what I'm talking about and I understand you've been constantly brainwashed to believe the outside world is even worse than China and that China will eventually surpass them. You need to give that up okay? It's better you know this, the USA is much much wealthier, stable, growing and is in now serious economic problems at all, neither is most of the world. This is not a debate. This is not where you do your communist 1960s 'Thesis vs Antithesis' games. Don't do the 'Whatever is happening to China SAY THEM' reverse it nonsense. It's better you realize that right now, China's mainland, as it has for 5 significant years, going into SEVERE game-changing economic collapse. There is no comparison. There never was anyway, the USA is 10X wealthier with massive economic power and a century of collecting and sitting on wealth. So is Japan far wealthier BEFORE China's economic collapse, but, at this time this is China's economic collapse. Vietnam is rising. Cambodia is rising, China is NOT rising anymore and will only decline for decades to come. I'm sorry, you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China . I know you need to believe 'The West' is actually WORSE so actually China is the best and all that crap to keep you from losing face and all that, but, It's better you hear the truth now and work on it from there.
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  1563.  @justadad6871  It is absolutely all over China and every city. If you've lived in China for 5 years, from the start of the economic collapse then you might not realize how much worse things really are, however, Surely you're aware of the Evergrande collapse? The massive widespread unemployment? You realize half those shops aren't opening right? It's not like their just waiting since Covid to reopen. You are almost certainly aware that 50% of residences are empty yes? You can't really be trying to play this dumb with me?
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  1564.  @HKim0072  Let' hope they don't. If they are a foreigner they can't own any but possibly through marriage (spouse owns it by name and registration). If they did, the value has plummeted to half what it may have sold for a decade ago but there is that asterisk It's stopped at 50% by legal decree, by the goverment making it illegal to sell for less than 50% of the value. If not forced by law, then his property might sell at around 10 to 20% (of former peak price). Mind you, people need to live in a home so if they ive there and like it then that's fine, why not.
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  1565.  @avnidvyi  yes because China has 0% growth and everyone including and especially Chinese citizens are fully aware of this. and yes, countries who can clock actual real life 3.1% growth are much better off. That said, bloating GDP (which actually worked for China before) can't save it anymore. Hence the current economic collapse it's enduring.
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  1566.  @justadad6871  Stop pretending this depends on what city you are in. Today, if you followed the news, Vanke, really one of the last giant real-estate companies collapsed. (fun, police took the boss away to .. somewhere yikes). Did you hear about that? because its described as 'economic collapse'. expat protip: Don't play dumb with me. it cannot go well.
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  1567.  @havocrein  If you were going by every statistics you'd easily and quickly conclude China cannot possibly have 5% (or even 1%) growth. Of course, its nearly impossible to trust any official Chinese govt statistics but meanwhile everyone in China is poorer than they were 8 years ago. Much poorer. You don't need statistics when you can just walk around and see shops closed, buildings unfinished and lines to get 50 cent dog meat kebabs.
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  1568.  @justadad6871  Hi, it would be things like the collapse of Evergrande and yesterdays collapse of Vanke. What's annoying is you and your 'playing dumb' attitude, pretending you've never seen or heard of this? Meanwhile, China's severe economic collapse is one of the biggest stories in the world. But hey, you keep it up. Walk past those shuttered shops, pretend "Oh.. what city are you in?" as if you don't know its across the country. Walk past those unfinished buildings and pretend you don't know every other apartment and office space is empty, pretend you don't know anyone who's unemploye. Otherwise, you might have to come to a realization you didn't bet on the winning horse. You might even have to go back to Australia?
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  1569.  @tsgu8728  He does mean 0% and every Chinese citizen who would follow such things knows full well its not 5% and of course the govt number is ALWAYS 5% padded on. Even when it was 15% it was 10% with 5% padded onto it.
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  1570. just so everyone knows - this happened around 7 years ago. I understand the reporter may have left PRC around that time but Christmas and even 'Santa Claus' was banned from schools and public etc for 6 or 7 years now.I think it was 2017.
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  1571. @Showmatic  lol calm down, sis
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  1572.  @Showmatic  but you're life is going to be full of missed opportunities, failed relationships or 'non-starters' because you've convinced yourself it's good to be a high-fiving smart-alec smirking, slapping people upside the head and havin' a laugh at the fools. Actually it's pronounced 'Jh-eah Jhe' and their just mad because I owned them when they tried to flex on you. It's not going to go well and you don't even want to know what women will do to you. ohhhh those pesky women. Smarten up! For YOUR own good, you smarten the hell up now.
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  1573.  @qiangjustin7342  i have doors on my home because, if not, aunties would come in and start taking things when I wasn't looking. They just did that with some items I put outside my door for 90 minutes while I went to the store and when I came back they were gone. It would be obvious they are not garbage to be taken away. That was my favorite sweater and it cost me 80 to replace the much needed items they stole. Then I also have bars outside the windows. Futher more, downstairs there is a locked door and you need a card to swipe into the building. (there is a video phone too). Outside the building are 10ft walls and large iron gates and all but 2 are bicycle locked one has a 24 hour guard. On those 10ft walls is 'razor wire coils' and along hte outside wall some metal pipes have these 'razor sleeves' so you can't climb up the pipe and some plastic pipes are greased. (so you can't climb them). Outside all of that is the parking lot gate with a 24 hour guard and the up-down things. In the underground parking about half the ebikes have locks on the wheels but the other half don't. (woops i just remember there is 3rd guarded gate, its the kind with those spinning bars you push to walk through one at a time) These are all in place to prevent things from being stolen from people's homes. Theft prevention. I live in Mainland China. All these things are normal and seen everywhere.
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  1574.  @bobsmith3983  It's not twitter so you can use more than a sentence of characters to describe something. I don't remember anything about 'theme cities' being brought up here, sorry. I was describing my community buildings in Mainland China. They are not theme cities but typical normal use communities.
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  1575. I don't by these explanations and it worries me how many people believe Connor McMMA had an erection. What you probably could have done is mention the 'knee phallus' right? Why do this and go "well there's other stuff I just didn't mention' and you could have noticed how many were 'Hips'. Artists aren't R-words. It's not like the carver was 'herr derrr' and then it's very obviously sticking out of a lower hip.
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  1576.  @squirrrely  is there a law against that in Canada?
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  1577.  @karenneill9109  When you say 'you' you're referring to Peter Poliviere and the Conservatives deciding what thoughts and speakthink. As well, you don't get to say 'No' but rather a government panel will tell you what's 'still no' or 'is now yes'. That's the part you should start to fear.
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  1578.  @karenneill9109  I'm talking about the future and how you should be careful about you're allowed to wish for.
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  1579.  @karenneill9109  Mexico has it's problems but its not that bad. I don't know about overall systems but I can tell you -I was in a place that banned conversion therapy. It's not unusual for people to be beheaded for converting people. They'd say, sometimes you have to save people from themselves. -Another country has recently started (restarted) re-education camps. So to be clear this is government and codified laws on what thoughts and what conversions will be allowed/disallowed. After all, its for their own good. A few years ago a Canadian visitor was arrested when their group got off a train and their cell phones were examined. They found conversion therapy videos on one of the group's phones. Some Iman who spoke in Chinese and taught the reasons Uighurs should revert to Islam etc. The Canadian and group were soon released but warned not to bring conversion teachings into Xinjiang again. They say the conversional propaganda brings disharmony and screws up the locals minds into confusing hatred. This is happening right now as we write about this. - We have a small group of Russian expats here and they've explained how 'gay conversion' is illegal in Russia now. (sometimes dubbed 'Russian anti-gay laws') but they explain its not actually against any laws to be gay and unlike Canada, any adult would be totally free to think anything they want in the privacy of their own homes. What they can't do is put any kind of 'pro-gay' media, words, adverts, posters etc anything that 'advocates for' homosexuality in any public places. Government experts have decided this helps save people from themselves. - At the moment, I have official Canadian government warnings to stay away from a border of a certain country due to brutal violence and strife, hostage takings and where a government routinely carries out 'school hangings' and took their ban on 'conversion therapy' to the next step where they actively seek out these 'conversion therapists' and persecute, jail or worse them. Their government has decided what people will believe and what they won't and I don't recommend even looking it up online because you won't sleep that night. It's stunning horrors. - I did have a stopover in a country that is great today but I learned something about their recent history that somewhat aligns with Canada in this sense: Years ago they also had all parties vote to codify into official law a kind of national 'anti-conversion' law around 'hate speech' and deemed it for the good of the nation. It was a kind of 'anti-racism' law and in this case you could not publish, you could not give speeches or write books etc denouncing certain treaties and international agreements. the anti-hate law was put in place for their own good and to keep the 'anti-versailles' types from converting the thinking of innocent peace-loving Germans and that kind of thought manipulation. Now get this.. whats the problem? all political parties signed on and supported it so Germans could be grateful to live there where hate-conversion laws prevented harmful thoughts and feelings etc? Except... it wasn't long before a certain 'third party" came out of nowhere and consolidated power. Surprise! Here's a thing though - you've probably heard stories that they had laws against thinkspeak? they arrested people for things like seditious thoughts and so on. Real nasty fascist 'thought crime' stuff we read about in school, however, one of the ways they did that was using already-built already accepted 'thought conversion laws'. After all, everyone in government had agreed before right? Sometimes you gotta save people from their own thoughts and make laws over what they can think about some things right? It's just that they didn't expect governments can change and maybe 10 years later Tamara Lich is the PM or a new 'Freedom Party' takes over parliament. So, besides being impossible to monitor thoughts there are all kinds of horrors that can ensue when you have government with power to control what two consenting adults choose to think about. One of the problems is that Canadians, by and large, (and I was this way) never had to experience real horrors, corruption, Orwellian think-crime society and so they are naive and even think they've 'progressed' if they try little samples of it and say "see.. nothing went wrong!?" whereas in much of the world the horrors of that are far too well known. Here is a fun thing for you to think about: As we speak, right now, In the society I'm standing in, codified into official government-enforceable laws I cannot perform 'conversion therapy' on a citizen who asks me, out of their own free will to change their mind about His Excellency. So for example, all homosexual pornography is banned by law and from the national internet (so just say that for example) and I told this citizen why, in my opinion, why His Excellency is wrong and made a mistake about that. Myself and the citizens who challenged me to 'change his mind' could be arrested and physically detained (and worse possibly) for that 'conversion therapy' we both agreed to participate in. For real. I suppose you can think that's a good thing but I'm not sure it's such a good thing and it could become a horrifyingly bad thing like in a neighboring country where 'belief converters' get strung up by piano wires and so do their children. "But its fine now, actually the leaders are all nice people" is a very very short-sighted and potentially deadly way of looking at upcoming hazards. We've been warned.
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  1580.  @karenneill9109  Hello, 'Conversion Therapy' is not some external person 'attacking' and trying to accost some rightful homosexual though. It's an adult who decides they would like to change their own thoughts and seeks out someone to help them do what they want to do. They are not forcing someone to listen, they are not using psychological mind games to destroy self-worth etc. Why do you keep believing there are marauders who find a victim and then 'do conversion on them'?? Here, let's use a real life example so you understand this: A grown adult woman has decided she wants control over her own body and mind and she knows what's best for her. following? ok.. This adult woman has experienced some psychological trauma. When she was younger she was molested by a couple of adults who used her for sexual etc. (this is just a given example) One thing this adult woman is sure about is that she identifies as a heterosexual. This is her choice and her decision, however, She finds herself having difficult thoughts about lesbian sexual desires. * at this point, i understand YOU and the man in govt think "GOODDDDdd that is BEAUTIFUL and HOLY and its WHO she realllllly is and its her identity!!!!", however, This adult Canadian woman has, until recently the right to decide for herself, her body and her sexuality what she wants and doesn't want. This woman has decided these intrusive homosexual thoughts and physiological changes are NOT helpful. She decides they are slowing her progress in life, they are interfering with her family life with her husband and children, career and her self confidence. Got it? She decides that about her own thoughts and body. That's her choice. A conversionist doesn't somehow 'set upon her' like you seem to believe (weirdly) but instead she decides she would also like help and seeks a therapist. The therapist.. and this is like an old cliche but "how many does it take to change a light bulb? 1 but only if the lightbulb wants to change". Seriously tho, the therapist cannot 'do' something to the client. There is nothing the client does that the client doesn't choose to do. The only thing that matters is our adult Canadian woman has decided she wants techniques, coaching, CBT, whatever the techniques because she's decided what thoughts will be in her mind and what her physiology will or will not choose. Do you get that now? She wasn't set upon by a 'conversionist' who 'did things to her' and somehow she's unable to fight them off etc. Now, again, I understand you love that handsome white 'CIS' man in Ottawa has decided that woman should not be allowed to choose to undo those thoughts and lusts, however,, until 5 minutes ago Canadians used to hold it in high value that a Canadian woman was solely and sovereignly holding every right to decide what thoughts she can have. Now that's over and lets go over it again: Be careful what you're grateful for because you just might get told what you won't be allowed to think or not think sooner or later.
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  1581. Well yes, they will soon learn how many high-end chips China used and even how much of it was just cloned and reverse engineered from hacks of other free and paid AIs.
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  1582.  @Sonofsun.  nope, there isn't really such a thing as a 'private company' in the Peoples Republic of China. All companies are owned by the PLA as administered by the CCP. What they call 'private' is just necessary for integrating with free market systems. This is why China is sometimes called a 'Capitalist Dictatorship'. Everything about this is made by, instructed to happen, managed and done by the Chinese government. Its funded by the government, its supplied, directed and approved by the government.
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  1583.  @moisesgoncalves3019  I'm not a money guy but even I understand what a LOT of people online misunderstand. When they say '500 billion' this isn't actually telling you what they are spending on their AI model at the moment. This is like a bunch of people betting that over the years and decades, this or that AI company is going to be more valuable and so they put their money down. I'm not into this world of stocks etc, yet, even I know this. half the internet obviously does NOT and thinks "one guy built a model for 500 billion! another for only 6 million wtf?! No. 500 billion is something like 'available'. btw, almost everyone seems to agree tech bubbles need to get deflated so at least some correction seems to be a good thing.
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  1584. Unfortunately, the last few minutes of hopeful thoughts will have no meaning, no sentiment among The PRC or Taiwan, I hate to say it.
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  1585.  @earthwizz  He did and spoke accordingly, He mistakenly thinks he read the UN position and admit that Taiwan belonged to 'China' (PRC). this is not what it says. Cheny and the USA did take more than 1 Billion from China and so did Trump, Biden and now Trump will take billions more because he can and said so.
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  1586.  @AlexxAMV  Lets see if I can be like you, because you are very ignorant of the world of bonds and don't know what you're talking about. Sure, you're allowed to have an opinion but your arrogant lack of knowledge is foolish. China was allowed to buy US bonds and is grateful for it and is lucky that was able to happen for them. So that's why you're thoughts are profoundly backwards and someone has to correct the foolish thinking and simple mistakes you have. Ignorance is bliss but you and your low IQ ideas about this aren't even going to be taken seriously. Wow that was fun and so easy!
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  1587. Unfortunately for China and those of us who wish it well - all of this is 'fake talk' and The PRC is reverting back to its 'preWestern benefits' poverty. At this point, the only things left are something like 'going out of business sales' and the last possible hope: conceding ports and signing agreements with the wealth advanced nations giving them free trade, free access (that means, no conditions, they open whatever they want, do business, no 'chinese partners'). There is very little left now, its fate is sealed and 'controlling subordinates' etc, 'controlling harder' isn't going to work now
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  1588. Sorry to hear about the policeman and even more sorry for the non-police
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  1589. Coincidentally, homosexuals were forbidden from being clergy by the same pope who put the conclusive ban on the death penalty.
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  1590. I remember talking to Pearl about this when she was still one of us little YT vloggers but we agreed it was kind of strange that a young man was ordering something in mandarin (in a New York Chinese restaurant for example) and absolutely astonishing numbers of viewers could not get enough of this mind-blowing thing. Like many expats, my Chinese is ... well actually I can't say I speak Chinese BUT I have near fluent native-levels if I'm ordering some food or directing a taxi driver. Of course, its because I've had to memorize, listen and practice those very specific daily scenarios and words thousands of times lol I had no idea, it never crossed my mind that if I recorded myself 'shocking locals' by ordering fried rice that I could become a viral youtube sensation lol. All that aside: I don't think I have ever blown someone's mind? Definitely not in China. In North America I can surprise SOME Chinese who are new arrivals and tourists because, at that time, they might believe there's now way green-eyed white guys in Canada could speak Chinese? I've never gotten the jaw-dropping HONK HONK Stunned WTF!?! I've seen in some of these videos though.
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  1591. @ Nope, its just the way things are. Objective reality.
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  1592.  @troutstalker7855  I dare you to try and do that? go ahead? You try and tell me what isn't real, sis?
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  1593. @ lol no, Chinese ships are not trying to 'evade' the US navy and that's why it 'takes so long' lol wowww Yes, there are more and more US shps in the South China Sea to make sure it stay internatonal waters.
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  1594.  @troutstalker7855  The police the ocean you riduclous children.
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  1595.  @higi3987  uh no, China definitely does NOT 'surround US troops' lol. China is a 'miltiary threat' n the South China Sea because it announced it will annex the entire South China Sea and then started building military bases on islands and sending military ships declaring this is now China's newly conquered ocean. Thats why. that and fighting fisherman. No. No the Chinese most definitley do NOT 'surround US troops' in any way at all. oh no.
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  1596. @victorpan6126  anyone whod try and interfere with shipping in those international waters. No more questions from you.
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  1597.  @bbbear2900  Hello Laowai, welcome to Western media. No, you need to get this understood: No, the USA will not 'demilitarize' the South China Sea because that is very obviously its job. This is why China is allowed to exist as a dveloping economy: Because the USA Military patrols those shipping lanes day and night. You're welcome, ungrategful little foreigner. and yes, they will 'escalate' whenever they decide to escalate and you say 'xie xie big boss' and be thankful that Russians aren't seizing Mailnand Chinese ships and Vietnamese aren't doing the same.
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  1598.  @ronnylim7907  Probably lots, Phillipino Pirate for sure. Vietnam would have seized some. Japan used to love doing that to Chinese vessels until around 1945 when the US was tasked with policing the world's shipping lanes. China's PRC, today is the biggest benefactor of US naval policing. The biggest, gets the most benefits.
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  1599.  @yichiz9703  The Chinese are fooled into being ungrateful and that's one of the reasons the Chinese went back and reunited iwth their family here in Spring festival poorer than they were 7 Spring Festivals ago. 7 years is the time Trump started tariffing China and using the money to improve his US Navy and the Taiwan part of China. You will be 10% poorer next spring festival. see if you can sneer and cackle laughter as much next year?
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  1600.  @kerbodynamicx472  China does not attempt to drive their warships away.
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  1601. Hancock and these other similar Rogan people exist to stop people from figuring out Genesis (that bible, those creationisssts) to make sure to net anyone who figures out that is the best explanation. It's a 'counterfeit creationism, minus God' that stands on the road to scoop up any heading to the real one.
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  1602. I'm baffled that in 2010 you had such an astonishing narrow worldview and believe that it's what 'American News' was telling you about Mainland China? In 2010? In the USA? Weird. Very weird.
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  1603. I dont find it funny. Its that cruelty streak in a certain subculture that wants to torture and hurt animals.
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  1604. Nobody believes China is experiencing 5% GDP growth and especially not Mainland Chinese. Even worse, such 'growth' is still on unfinished 'fuer dai dream projects' like 1997 Japanese bullet trains that are sucking up 5% of the nations economy and will cost a billion bowls of rice to keep maintained. We are not looking at some 'challenges' but full-scale economic collapse has already begun and there is no way to stop it. People in China's mainland (PRC) now need to start thinking of ways to protect their safety and be careful about their social status, party membership and where they might be when it gets much worse.
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  1605. ​ @horridohobbies China would only go back to the early Qin which is 3000 years. China [the chin] dont take over and establish China until 2200 years ago. China is then permanently conquered in the 1600 by the Manchu and end China. So its weird you peolple keep saying 5000 years. Of course, the world doesnt think its a Gaokao score and the highest year number is the highest score. 5000 years of mass murder, poverty, endless stupidity, mismanagement, being at war is not something to brag about. Likewise, needing only 250 years to become so successful a nation can give China charity, rescue China from Japanese invaders and be the sole reason it has any wealth is far far more excellent and becomes more amazing if they needed only 250 years. Anyway, Taiwan is 2200 years old. The PRC is a newborn 78 years old. Only 78 and it still gets charity from the USA
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  1606.  @tobiasrekker5376  why should it?
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  1607. I've often wondered why more political pundits didn't talk about that far more often. But then again, its like something "we all know" anyway? it's like everyone just sort of knows it's Obama (Obiden) and Dr. Jill, probably the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi and then it's a small group of those elite advisors, actually most of us don't recognize their names but they've been those real inside-insider advisors for decades. The other thing is that it may be more 'committee' than any single appointed chosen ones. Obama is called on for X, Y but not Z. The Clintons get more say on Economic policy but maybe Dr. Jill gets more say on how to handle some Trans and social issues. Obama, Clintons and 5 insider type Advisors is my best guess. But stil I'm surprised far more pundits didn't speculate on that way more than they did.
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  1608. it's really the Lunar New Year (though, its true Chinese also celebrate it) but it sure seems like it's being promoted more than ever and yet it's just such a non-event now. I don't really see much of anything going on? Weirdly, people seem 'apprehensive' like some kind of 'chore' is upon them?
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  1609.  @JWscandi  No, it's the way things are in China. It's remarkably quiet. Almost none of the local stores are closed, relatively few firecrackers (very happy about that) and just the minimal decorations. One of the reasons might be that last year, many people were laid off and their companies closed WHILE they were already home for Spring Festival (surprise!) so that may lend to the odd sense of apprehension. one day you can visit China and see for yourself instead of listening to The Eastern Media lies about China.
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  1610.  @yenphung8809  nope, it's Lunar festival and there is literally nothing going on anywhere. You must have even less to do if you're asking me inane questions.
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  1611.  @theconspiracyfactualist.144  any use is abuse.
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  1612. Why China has become so backward?
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  1613. The reason the world found Ur and Sumeria is because they read a bible (genesis and more) describing Sumeria and Babylon and these ancient places. 'the bible of archeology' was... well.. the bible. Consider how strange this sounds. "The bible, the Hebrews records were correct and accurate and here it is. Then asking "what a mystery, how can we know where they came from?" The same bible, the same Hebrew author that told you where this place is also told you where it came from.
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  1614. The plea sounds nice but it's incorrect. Realistically, no matter what we wish was true - in fact there are winners and someone can win and in this case the USA will win things and China will lose things. One will be a big winner of stuff and things at the expensive of another. 7 years ago the CCP spokemen were smirking as they announced Trumps counter tariffs would result in 'No Winners'. We found out that was wrong and the USA won lots of money and China lost lots of money. Also, I think it's time China stop speaking about this as some future thing that may or may not be avoided. It's past that now and the USA is already carrying it out. So tell the Chinese people what you ARE doing not announcing some vague future promise.
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  1615. I am massively relieved and excited to see more and more 'citizen journalists' the vloggers the Shellenburgers, Johnny Harriss's this channel doing the work to present people with the money trails and yes the 'industrial complex of these things': - The Rehab - The Trourbled Teen Industrial Complex - The 'Homeless' massive Money Industrial Complex and Oh yes this. This is a monster. In Canada there is a significan number of gated communites full of social workers, academics who do 'studies', 'job centers' and more who are the real welfare earners in order to dispense 'their' crumbs of welfare and social services to the little goofs they despise.
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  1616. There is no such thing as 'The Collapse Theory'. China's economy has and still is in economic collapse. The only questions now: What can China do about it? Can they SOFTEN the collapse?
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  1617. Ok but it's not collapsing. Just 'saying a thing' is weird. Are you into witchcraft and just think you can speak words to change real life? No, there is no collapsing of anything in the USA. They are still the wealthiest nation on earth and have a fairly strong upward trajectory. Their worst financial problems are things countries like China or Pakistan WISH they could have on their best days.
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  1618. The history presented is nothing but evil whites murdering Natives and boarding schools as nearly satanic whites molesting, torturing and killing native children. That is relentlessly the non-stop presentation. so what are you talking about?
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  1619.  @nuanced8225  Yes but in closed societies (like China PRC) they absolutely assume all other societies must do the same things. They also believe the BBC blocks out news about China and 'The West' has a media blockade about news from China. They assume everyone else must do wha they do.
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  1620.  @blcheah2672  China was experiencing massive starvation and malnutrition when 'The Imperialists' shipped massive amounts of food, medicine, charity to save the lives and health of millions of Chinese and they did that non-stop until around 1989 when, China still being impoverished and poor - the 'Imperialists' offered trillions of dollars in exchange for labor. Indeed, no longer keeping Mainland Chinese alive just by the massive amount of charity they sent to save Chinese but by making a deal of the century so that Chinese could earn money and modernize. Now what do you have to say?
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  1621.  @vegamoonlight  worry about what's true or untrue.
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  1622.  @vegamoonlight  You don't get to have a 'he said - she said' about this. Never mind that I live and work and experience this in China and have for 15 years, put that aside. These are objective truths the world observes. It's not a 'theory'. You and I aren't in a vacuum and if you just deny it and the readers won't know which of us is telling the truth. Instead, they are well aware that a massive inflated real estate bubble has collapsed, they are able to know capital leaves and they can tell by the business on their own end. You don't get to 'deny it' lol
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  1623. I'm with you on most of that but it's worth mentioning: Contrary to leftist 'anti-western' victim-status revisionism, there wasn't anything called 'Opium Wars' but instead some trade wars between the UK and Qing Era China. 'Opium' was JUST ONE of the many things but if you named them anything you'd name them the 'Silver Wars'. Chinese went out to British Merchant ships and purchased opium, then they brought it onshore (for most of this time it's not illegal) then Chinese, after brining opium into China then create their own distribution and networks and sales and Chinese buy it etc. There isn't some easy comparison or some 'two equal wrongs' in the Silver wars and the opium trades either. not to manufacturers in China who work 'de-criminalized' and produce fentanyl (or ingredients) and mail or smuggle them directly into the USA after numerous strong agreements.
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  1624. there is no more perfect 'Midwit' test than seeing who 'debunks flat-earthers' and who upvotes it.
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  1625. I'm still just amazed Russia tried to annex the Ukraine and 4 years later is in a 'meat grinder' at the same places and then... and really take this in... Ukraine annexed RUSSIAN LAND and actually invade a chunk of Russia FFS! I mean seriously, I just can't get past that. last I checked they are STILL in Russia killing Russians on Russian soil ffs! It's not like I assumed Russia would defeat Ukraine in a weekend but holy efff 4 years later and LOST Russian land lol wtf?
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  1626.  @betoperez7263  no, its just about perfect but I have no doubt you are one of the many many 3rd worlders with the low IQ who CANNOT grasp the concept of analogy. but let me try and dumb it down: A group of your friends always meet on the same street corner together. Some of them say "we're going to create a new group and move over that other corner". Who is 'isolating themselves' in that case? Who has 'moved away'? No, i dont believe you are capable of handling this lol
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  1627.  @jimn1023  Congrats on agreeing with me, The Big House is not the one that is 'isolating itself'. Words and language need to have 'meanings' not be used 'opposite meaning' or 'other meanings'.
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  1628.  @Ellesar925  Yah, he is right it became a major financial hub for financial services. Nah, you didn't read him tell you Its BIGGER than Hong Kong now". Nahh
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  1629. downvoting anyone using 'the LEO'
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  1630. It's strange that you'd paste the character (hanzi) instead of the pinyin. As if you know everyone here obviously knows how to pronounce the Hanzi??
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  1631. The women with the $4000 dollars looks like she's already eaten that much in taxpayer funded food the last few months.
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  1632. China is currently in severe economic collapse.
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  1633. I'm all about Trump from well before the escalator but this was easily his one big ongoing failure. I don't believe he fully grasped just how determined that swamp was to make war, stay stuck in and they only suffered a few setbacks (some only termporary) and Trump himself spend too much time on 'We spent...." and those programs. SOME had the right idea to short-term invest to remove long term swamp (Urban investmnt zones) but Trump didn't win the overall battle (and not counting Covid either)
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  1634. Alberta51 proponent for around 15 years already. the thing is, we need to see more organized campaigning and so far the first steps are making the case for it. why, what benefits and what good can come of it. so far so good.
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  1635. Everyone will agree that a story could just so happen to have a black, brown, a Tunisian, yes there was a black boy in Hitler's germany and so on.. but Graham and Hitchens have caught on that this is always being shoehorned into stories insome "woke" some manipulative way, I suppose to teach us lessons about our intolerance or whatever they think it does. It's annoying. They actually do this relentlessly in American films to where, for a good streak of films, seemingly ALL films taking place in America before 1970, regardless of the plot and characters, no matter how historically accurate or not, a filmmaker was obligated to make at least one victimized blacks scene. A 'evil white cop chases a little black kid away from the television store window' scene. This has to be inserted for some reason that seems like contractual obligations. sorry to see this is still going on in Britain in 2024
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  1636.  @hrep14  Ugh so sick of this thing. "only" 15% from online parrots who have no idea how 15% aka 500 billion (or een a trillion) is THE absolute difference between China staying a relatively modern developing nation and delving back into an impovereished shlthole. Chian is not the USAs 'equal' in wealth and gdp per person. Its far far like you and me where (try this yourself) where you lose 15% of your income. Considering 90% of your income goes to your basic living conditions, basic foods, basic medicla needs etc, heat in winter. now figure out where you cut back on those things, can't pay your rent or stop eating as much food or no longer afford to have a car etc. There was nothing to 'literally prepare for' and then this: IF China could be exporting that massive 15% of products and selling that much to some other markets they WOULD HAVE been doing that years ago. Do you think China has that many orders fo rtha tmuch money all along but just turned it down? Enough with that dumb take being barfed out everywhere and we're past that now as it didn't work and that is NOT what is happening.
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  1637. yes, some have agreed to do so. yes, there are replacements, no, the American consumers (in most of these not all) don't pay the tariff at the cashier. Worst post ever.
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  1638.  @chrisdown9241  Do you ever feel some cringey tinge of embarassment with that 'PeePee' thing?
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  1639. @chrisdown9241  think about what you sound like announcing Kevin OLeary is a moron. Really try and .. actually, your 84 IQ isnt going to be able to do that level of conceptualizing so just carry on lol
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  1640.  @SherriFlemming  The OP didn't tell you O'Leary should become Prime Minister but rather 'help take Canada back from Trudeau'. They didnt' tell you 'instead of me voting in a Federal Election'. There isn't a super-authority that decides it's mandatory for a PM to be biliingual and previous PMs were not bilingual. Some 'higher authority' didn't take their PM position away from them or block them from entering the PM office.
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  1641.  @Spiral.Dynamics  is 18 an adult in New York state? He is a teenager. 18
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  1642.  @nubiannile4606  I wonder if these teenagers do this, pre-planned, knowing they are just barely legally adults? The last few spree killers were 18 and 19 years old. Depending on their state, it seems like these teens wait for that legal status? Or.. maybe it's just coincidence
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  1643. Just to clarify, she want tripped by anyone.
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  1644.  @chunniu3936  No but if you need to believe you are 'shaming' someone else and they are CRazy with jealousy ans social shame then you keep that masturbatory fantasy going, xiaoren
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  1645. This grabbed me at the end because there is a part of me that is sure I caught her meaning and ironically where she asks us how we think about a thing we're saying. "Teach them critical thinking skills!" but then few people seem to have any follow up on what that should look like. Ok, how? Lots of blank and nebulous replies. HOWEVER Right, there is no need for any "one or the other" because we already have a world where they will carry out classic knowledge attainment and lots and lot of that. It might have been Gladwell who was challenging some of this never ending bend to 'teach them how to think and critical thinking skills" when 'rote' learning may not be nearly as bad at doing that as we believe. Oh well, that was just a few thoughts on the end thing in the video. good stuff.
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  1646.  @SFO14  No, of course not, nobody wants to wait 18 hours in the ER like it's Canada's backward killer government insurance programs. They're broken. You smirk it up but every single day more Canadians are talking about how to do this. Trump may be your president (offically not just realistically) sooner than you think.
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  1647.  @novacomputerss4036  sorry there are 113 comments and I don't know who 'both of us' refers to.
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  1648.  @jeffspicolli593  what will?
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  1649.  @dankaroos  No, this is something you believe because you read leftist internet propaganda and its gross. don't reply.
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  1650.  @patrickmulroney9452  Canada doesn't actually have 'universal healthcare' rather each province has it's own government run health insurance. those who live in that province pay via taxes and fees etc into their single government only health insurance. most all the provincial healthcare systms are broken hence you will hear about Canadas 'healthcare crisis'.
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  1651.  @yvesdaigle3840  it would be mostly blue because its mostly south-central Canada population and yes they are not unlike the nearby US states, mostly voting for the left-leaning sides. of course its hard to say what would happen because if Canada joined the USA there would be some population movements.
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  1652.  @bytorsnowdog2132  no, at any given moment there is a percentage of Canadians without insurance. it could be becuase they moved but ddin't register, forgot, various reasons. Same in the USA. at any given time some in the USA are without.
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  1653.  @rustyshackleford5560  and its worth mentioning you have a family doctor. this is becoming a thing of the past. I don't. You just go to whatever walk-in clinic and whatever doctor is on shift.
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  1654. this one hits home because, for much of my life, I lived near '0 ave' which is the Western US/Canada border. People abroad think I'm joking but I might be at a neighbours house and you don't know that the house across the street is actually the USA. 'across the street' is literally 8 foot steps. As in the American neighbor and Canadian neighbour speak (not yell) just speak to each other from their driveway. Growing up, 'border runner' is silly stuff like the nearest gas station was the US side so we illegally drove across at 2am to get gas. If you get the meaning, it's really just comical. cars with US plates might pull aside and ask for directions then realize they somehow are in Canada and we'd laugh and try and get them back over. they took a wrong left somewhere. now? masses of international crime aholes, Indians, Somalians, mainland Chinese whatever just use this as a shortcut or some way to game the system and get their stuff. The original laws weren't intended around the idea of 50000 3rd worlders using airports and student visas schemes to exploit loopholes and legalities. So, in some ways this is all just disappointing. I feel for the 'old stock' American and Canadian people who were never about this kind of thing.
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  1655. While this panel does 'Smirking and Chortling Theater' it remains objectively true, as demonstrated in real life, a highly disproportionate amount of the ingredient for Fentanyl and 'analogs'. have been seized and found coming out of Mainland China. Don't try and be cute. "technically, that is not processed fentanyl so.. seee.. ". Yes, Trump uses the umbrella term 'Fentanyl' but this does actually refer to the ingredients for fent and fent-like analogs. Smirk and roll eyes all you want but the reason these three were specifically grouped and related to Fentanyl is because there is, demonstrated, seized, seen, recorded, litigated, confessed over and over: Ingredients are coming almost exclusively The PRC where they are being mixed or 'cooked' in Mexico and Canada and then distributed from those places too. Interestingly, much of the actual substance itself is Mexico for sure BUT Canada is a strong hotspot for the administration and money laundering of the Fent world. Have a panel wave it off laughing at old fool Trump, that fumbling dummy and his ridiculous 'fentanyl excuse' but the hard cold facts on the ground, real objective substances, real bags of product, real postal and airport seizures, the very real arrests of gangs mapping this out, really happen. I' m not happy for anyone, im sad for China, USA and everyone involved BUT its better not to lie about this with smirking laughs and pretending we all know its a silly excuse. It is based on very real things you can hold in your hand, see, smell and observe. yes, of course, there are other issues but this is something Trump believes China can better mitigate and so that is something China can do now.
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  1656.  @mranonymous9034  Nice Grade 2 student insult! Also you are a dumb dumb head and you say garbage from your mouth her herr!
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  1657.  @masnur7007  No but I do know that Chinese drug organizations used to take boats and find British merchant ships, purchase opium from those ships then those Chinese brought their opium onshore. From there these Chinese who brought that opium created Opium distribution centers where Chinese could buy opium from those Chinese and distribute to Chinese buyers around China. I know about that yes. Never heard about your story or any USA involved but I can tell you that currently and for a few years now, a significant amount of the ingredients to make Fentanyl and Fentanyl-like drugs have been coming out of Mainland China. Nobody can stop everything but Trump is convinced that Chinas government CAN do more to stop some of it. Hence the Tariff and negotiations and potential deals. Again, its no coincidence that his 'Fentanyl Complaint' was against those specific 3 countries: Canada, China and Mexico as real policing on the real ground, real results, real siezures are primarily happening in a kind of triad of those 3.
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  1658.  @alhassangangu4357  The USA can help many many Chinese mainlanders buy handguns and meth by simply not policing their exports, packages, criminal gangs. What would you say to that? Yes, you're not wrong to say Mainland Chinese should stop buying handguns and rifles from the USA, however, You'd fully insist the USA has a responsibility to proactively try and prevent such exports. (They do, they are constantly and routinely siezing handguns, bullets and handgun parts from being sent to China).
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  1659.  @jsyo9639  Many Chinese try and buy handguns from the USA. Can't they control their own violent gun-loving Chinese?? However, despite Chinese constantly wanting to buy guns and have them sent to China, the USA does not allow it and proactively polices this and there will be severe penalities for sending guns to China. But I suppose they can take your advice and say "Hey.. teh greedy Chinese mainlanders want guns so badly that we will let them and say its their own greedy violent problem". No. Likewise, China has to proactively police Fentanyl ingredients being sent to the USA whenever possible and stop it.
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  1660. You aren't an American but no, they don't hurt Americans. They hurt China and to the point it now has to turn to Russia in a 'backup plan B' to have any kind of food security.
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  1661. China has around 960 million people. Please stop this bizarre thing of mistaking Indias population as China's mainland population. (its weird, its like how suddenly everyone spelled 'lose' as 'loose' and won't stop doing it). Anyway, Yes, if you take 960 million people but there is a little bit of a problem with China's demographic. A massive number of them are turning 60+ years old and far less that "20-50" zone where a 'genius IQ' would be making something out of the IQ power. (almost all geniuses that ever developed something did that from 20-50 years old). but China does have another mitigating factor: It vaults people into positions of authority, the 'gatekeepers', the money, career etc by 'guan-xi' aka their complex social status relationship systems. *this is why you'll find so many stupid low IQ people in all their levels of management HOWEVER, China, which runs some of the old soviet-era style mass-filtering systems will screen and push through the highest IQs like promising Olympians. A great example is Jack Ma. He was found to be an extraordinarily high-IQ computer wizard so they Party assigned him to make the Chinese versions of US tech. but then again, there is the mitigation that far too many Low IQs and Midwits who decide such things do not want to be forced to give things to lower status people, including some villager who's got a freaky high-IQ and they'd rather not give him or her any social status positions. and then.. ....the other mitigating factor, more like the most obvious of them all. A Chinese mainlander who may have a 'super genius' kind of intelligence is very often the one who figures out how to emmigrate to Europe, the USA or even Japan or Taiwan if they can do so. Then they invent some super-code with Elon Musk as American Citizens. but its also worth mentioning that 'High IQ' does not in itself, by itself, really do that much and can do nothing. Really, it's a curse for some who will degenerate into neurotic weirdos or simply not do much of anything but become 'gamers' and nobody ever really knows (not even them) they have some high IQ anyway.
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  1662. i'm going to start paying you to fix your autospell so that it renders 'BORDERS' (a perimeter) instead of 'BOARDERS' like a wooden board or a 'snow BOARDER' or even tradesman who works with boards. please FFS FIX THAT. You cannot believe the number of people who cal lfor the 'closing the BOARDERS' and it hurts our cause.
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  1663. Nope, it isn't and hasn't been.
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  1664. Let me dream big: Canada sees this and a year from now Kevin 'Mr.Wonderful' O'Leary is given all power to cut wasteful government spending. It's something so good I dare not even dream it. But could it actually happen?
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  1665. Have you ever thought about trying drugs again? You must have really loved it to do it all the time. What if you just tried a little to see if it still feels good?
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  1666. In many ways South Korea is one of the most astonishing success stories in history. In only 20 years it went from an absolutely devastated 'rubble" to becoming one of the most advanced, modernized and developed nations on earth. From 1963 and by 1983 is a wealthy modern 1st world power. Amazing.
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  1667.  @nonyabusiness4151  Then what about it?
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  1668. Great but he is essentially correct. 'Peasant' is the textbook term but in China they call them (in the most literal translation) 'Migrant Workers'. I'm not convinced the Chinese name for their peasant class is somehow more or less derogatory? I do know that Vance calls himself a 'Hillbilly'. I also know that in China, there is a very different way of seeing who is higher social status, who has lower value as a human, who is seen almost like a 'subhuman' and it's far far more racist than anything an American can engage with.
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  1669. When I first moved to China to work at a University I was just astonished that this nice young lady confided she could never marry her boyfriend. I'd met him and he was such a nice young man. There were 2 dealbreakers, she explained: 1. She was taller than him. this was esp crazy because she was maybe 5cm taller at best. I said if he wore higher shoes and she wore lower heels its the same. Nope. 2. He went to a lower ranked university. like the height, this is just 1 level really. As if that would matter. but OH YES it did and her parents wouldn't accept he went to the lower university. mindboggling. She really liked him a lot. He was really good to her. She just shook her head. No. it would not happen. It did not happen. They had already agreed graduation would be the end. Yes these things are normal in China. A niece had a big problem with stewardess school because of something called 'X' and '0' legs and i forget what terrible 'deformity' she had. X legs. The standard is (weird to foreigners) Chopstick Legs. One day, i was just sitting there in the office when it dawned on me that of the 30 young people they hired, all of them were either: Tall White So you could be less tall but have pale skin or be tall with darker skin. If you were tall and light-skinned with perfect bilateral chopstick legs I guess you went directly to assisant CEO of Huawei I don't know? yes this presents, in effect, the same problems 'DEI' race-based hiring has. You get incompetent people hired because they are a 'black female lesbian' or 'not hired' because they are a white normal male. In China, of that office I mentioned, I swear half the staff were, if tested, legally retarded and/or mentally unstable. I'm not joking when I tell you, if I got to my building management office I go directly to this short chubby darker skinned girl because for her to be working there at the front desk means she must REALLY KNOW what's going on. And she does. and the pretty presentation models (i suspect the stewardesses who just didn't make it) are simply baffled by any request, don't 'get' anything and say 'ting budong' a lot. Chubby girl always knows what to do.
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  1670. 'The West' (where al those building come from) doesn't want to build high-rises and skyscrapers because they grew out of the childish 1970s 'Look TALL BUILDINGS wowwww!' mentality.
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  1671. I believe that it's usually a good thing when people change their views over time. If you legitimately find new information, you have new life experiences, youre suppose to change. I have already seen certain pundits move where the money is. a decade ago, 'woke' media was peaking out on big money and popularity and some showed up there. NOW these 'woke leftist' angles are out and yes a more 'MAGA' world is where the action is. Bill Maher suddenly has a 'right wing type' writer and starts becoming more 'MAGA' and less radical leftist. Cenk is another. I suppose Rubin gets more cred because he did that when it was NOT so lucrative a decade or so ago. but, If Cenk is really reconsidering the way he saw things before that's a good thing.
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  1672. he became quite the leftist in old age. (or.. maybe he always was?)
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  1673. On the ground I have a wacky theory about why the 'western new year' was suppressed and dampened. Spring Festival is dying. Since they cancelled it during the society-killing 'lockdowns' a whole lot of people realized they didn't miss it, the insane travel times, youth exhausted by yet another CCTV Gala playing all night and there's more. 30 years later, the youth who were sold to city manufacturing plants don't actually have the connection to their hometown villages. Many of those villagers have passed away now. Add that, for a lot of people, they have a 'shame culture' in China where they don't enjoy going back to a hometown when they are broke, under-employed, cannot bring nice gifts. So.. my theory is that China in its usual 'Suppress something else so the other thing is bigger' mentality went heavy on suppressing Solar New Year's Eve and HOPE... they hope... the money, energy, travel and enthusiasism is saved for a relative short period of time to Spring Festival. Interestingly, those effing smash-crackers showed up on the evening of January 1st. As if every storeowner was told not to sell them for New Years Eve and now those horrible things are back and kids are smashing them all over the place NOW.
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  1674.  @bubba842  Nope, they did not pay more. China did.
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  1675. I mean, China's economy has gone on a consistent downward decline since around 2018 when those tariffs were started on China. So... I mean whatever you think a 'serious impact' is supposed to be?
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  1676. Now comes a big cultural change for these matchmaking events: The era of 'women attend free' and men pay.. nope. That is over. in fact, you can't do 'Men are free too'. Now, you need to have men are free (and tempt them with free food) and you may even need to ask women to pay a fee.
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  1677. Thank goodness the Americans saved them and preserve them or we never have known about them or they'd be destroyed by natural degeneration by now.
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  1678. For anyone who actually paid attention to the topic itself: We actually do get a pretty good explanation for his years. "Is this not Joseph the Carpenters son?" (another 'isn't that Jesus the carpenter) so right away we solved his job and further more that he was his father's apprentice and then of course becomes a carpenter too. As pointed out here, we have some pretty good implications here. Indeed, Joseph seems to be passed away at some point. Ok, yes indeed then Jesus would have become the head Carpenter and traditionally he does not go anywhere. We also find he is well studied, taught as a kid, is called 'Rabbi' and speaks one-on-one with Rabbis as equals. You've just accounted for 12 to 30 and here again, those surprised by his prophetic ministry don't say: "Is this not Jesus who went missing" or "Is this not Jesus a great Magi who's traveled to the East?" nor do they say "huh is this not Jesus the Prophet and miracle worker?" no, They speak in disbelief or amazement that they had known Jesus the regular guy carpenter as being a regular guy from town. There is no 'Missing Jesus'. There is no 'mysterious years' and its not in an explicit timeline but implies or strongly solves itself that Jesus was indeed just being a regular human being in a regular family doing a job and yes he seems to know the local fisherman who probably knew him, at the very least in some local small town way. notice: The fisherman don't say "Who are you?" and "Stranger, why did you know who we were" but instead 'seems' as far as the text reveals, seems to be they know who each other is already.
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  1679.  @juhajuntunen7866  they do now but in our wild west world the foreigners have gone back to the 1800s and can do whatever they want without any Chinese involvement. those were the days!
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  1680. Ok, but we can already see what actually happened in real life over the last 7 years. Understand, we don't need to theorize but can see the actual results: - Chinese manufacturers reduced their price to compensate for the tariffs. In many of these cases, the Chinese government then subsidizes that loss. this is why the American consumers (most things, more products) did NOT PAY MORE for the products. We aren't having some 'debates' or 'different opinions' but rather this WAS and IS currently what is happening. The cost is passed BACK onto China. This is one direct reason why China is poorer today than 7 years ago.
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  1681.  @MichaelSharpBLACKDRUMMIKE  Nope, no you haven't. the 9.99 plastic spatula at Walmart is the same price as before there was a 10% tariff on it and I can tell you why. its because the 10% cost was passed back to China and the factory price was reduced by 10%. and either way you were never 'forced to pay' anything ever lol
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  1682.  @MichaelSharpBLACKDRUMMIKE  you made all this up lol 'things that didn't happen'. cringe.
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  1683.  @milexiangyangli5666  You believe I'm telling you the truth about China.
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  1684.  @OneBiasedOpinion  you invented these nasty people who wanted him to give a negative response so you can really hate them and what they do. That was from your own imagination. Think about that.
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  1685. the obvious difference is: China needs the USA. The USA does not need China. This is the everything of everything in the trade war China started.
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  1686. The thieves were Chinese. The Peoples Republic of China didn't exist at the time a Chinese collector obtained it. The provenance of the Chu Silk Manuscript is uncertain, like many illicit antiquities. Sometime between 1934 and 1942, grave robbers discovered it in a tomb near Zidanku (literally "bullet storehouse"), east of Changsha, Hunan. Archaeologists later found the original tomb and dated it to around 300 BCE. In 1946, the art collector Cai Jixiang (蔡季襄) owned the manuscript. John Hadley Cox then transported it to the United States. How John Hadley Cox acquired the manuscript from Cai Jixiang remains a controversy: Cai claimed that Cox had been asked to help scan the manuscript only; Cai's efforts to have the manuscript returned had persisted till the late 1970s but failed.[1][2] The philanthropist Arthur M. Sackler purchased the ancient manuscript in 1965, and it is preserved in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. Museums, contrary to the beliefs of undeveloped cultures, theya re not 'War Booty' showoff demonstrations. They are there to preserve important historical items and everyone is welcome to go see them. but yes a lot of peasant-brains from dullard cultures actually think its a king or president 'taunting' his enemies and bragging about his loot and wealth he conquered.
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  1687. This was my immediate 'wtf' and stayed that way throughout the story. Thre are 1000s of Kim Chis who have all kinds of degrees in engineering, 1000s of would-be rocketeers, aeronautics people with years and decades of proven work who would LOVE to get a dream job at Blue Origin and live the life in Kent, Washingtons sweet upper-middle class suburbs. Someone at Blue Origin saw this nice suburban girl gone 'woke alt-left' via the University, probably known for every blue-haired campus protest who's just graduated from English Lit or whatever liberal arts nonsense, probably working as a part-time Barista and that HR Hiring Team at Blue Origin decided: YES. This is who we want to sign for a very secure, very impressive position at our Rocket Science company! Welcome to your 1 million dollar 'American Dream' life and job security, impressive 'golden parachute' and benefits up the ying-yang and they hired HER. Probably 7000 applications from people with FAR MORE relevant experience (actually ANY kind of related expereince) and most weren't psychotic looking campus leftist radicals with crazy lady eyes. THAT is what I want investigated.
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  1688. So far, and keep in mind you and I are here on 'Western Media' (this IS western media) but all reports just mention how there wasn't some nuclear retaliation when "Nato" just invaded Russia and then they used some British missiles to blow up and burn down massive amounts of munitions, access point bridges and a boatload of Russian pows.
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  1689.  @minebabble  It's been getting poorer for 5 straight years and is still in the middle of a free falling economic collapse that hasn't bottomed out yet. As for 'fooling people' the GDP per person is what matters, its the least foolish thing. 'China' being 'extremely rich' doesn't even make a lot of sense in any meaningful way, as if a government vault called 'China' is full of gold coins'. no, the thing that matters is 'Chinese' and how wealthy or poor is the average Chinese person. The soil of China doesn't need 12k a year but the living Chinese person does. Yes, 'India' is extremely rich but again, that doesn't really mean anything when what matters is what does each Indian have to buy food and clothes etc.
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  1690.  @kevinrich5222  Yes it most definitely and logically could be just that while obviously in the middle of its massive real estate collapse. I know you think you're in Western Media so nobody can actually know for sure if you pretend there is a gamer boy 'He said she said' but you need to understand Chinese in China's mainland are getting wrecked by this. It's why almost everything 'private' is bankrupt and now taken over by government, why half the businesses are done and shut down, its why there is a severe and actually danger-level amount of youth unemployment and why the deflation still hasn't fully bottomed out. YOu don't get to be a little shlthead kid pretending to be smirking about one of the single biggest and most obvious and documented stories on earth right now. I'd know all about it, its devasted my income, business and our personal finances here in Mainland China. It's much worse for most of my Chinese neighbors. Don't bother replying, goof.
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  1691.  @Leoq-zk6wt  Incorrect, its been in free fall for 3 years. this collapse can start with Evergrande of course and its been every other developer since with Vanke recently collapsing. this then collapsing around 50% of all businesses in China. That causing the massive unemployment across China and obviously how real estate homes are worth half what they were new (by law, its really less in real market value) and its why all Chinese are poorer than they were 7 years ago. It hasn't quite bottomed out yet, this severe economic collapse. This month the 'Wanda' and massive cinemas bankrupted and were taken over by government so that actually gets us pretty close to 90% of all "private" business has collapsed. (by value). All this being why there is just massive Deflation that still has just barely bottomed out but doesn't seem to want to go back up much either. The "good news" is that in the last few days Chinas stock market finally CRASHED and i mean it crash-crashed, HOWEVER, this can be a sign of the collapse finally hitting the bottom. You didn't hear about this massive international story and how capital is fleeing China, the worlds 2nd largest economies companies collapsing and all this? Did you just wake up from a coma? If not, then you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. good luck getting started on that.
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  1692. This is newsworthy because someone stood up to a queue jumper karen. Not because she is a karen.
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  1693. Just out of curiosity, why would you write this in English but for just ONE single word you switched it to Hanzi? Can you walk me through the reason why you'd do that?
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  1694. people haven't had enough and they'd have done something before. Have they had enough? No, you know this because you will NOT SEE any Native Brits or any others take to the streets and actually DO something about it. None. No men will show up and stop the foreign rioters. they won't do a thing but go 'BAHHHH people have 'ad enooof!' and then do NOTHING. They will do NOTHING but watch as their country is burned and stabbed up and then moan about it.
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  1695.  @arthurchen8162  I think you've told us something disturbing about Mainland Chinese culture. :(
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  1696.  @RobertCrandall-ce8gv  nope, they are not equal powers, they are not the '2 big powers' as China is a much much weaker nation than the USA. No, both won't suffer. Chinese will. in particular those Chinese peasants (migrant workers) who are most definitley going to suffer with hunger, lack of medicine, harsher living conditions.
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  1697. Why what problems do you think the US Military had exiting Vietnam?
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  1698. verisimilitude oh brother :(
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  1699. Deep or any kind of empathy (the new Holy Spirit) but this, in itself, is nothing. It's describing an emotional experience. "I really felt something" in and of itself is nothing. and then it becomes a bad thing if (and this happens far too often) someone mistakenly believes they did something to help by 'feeling deep empathy'.
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  1700. well mainly because this video is fake news. its made to get popular with Anti-Trump types aruond the world. its kind of like a 'porn' for them (you)
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  1701. The only thing that happens is 8 million Chinese are unemployed and live poorer lives of less hope, you ridiculous person.
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  1702. @ funny because the PLA never seems to do this? Over and over 'last chance warnings' go to Taiwan who just buys billions worth of missiles and jets from the USA and then PRC make a new 'final punishment warning' and YET never sets sail for Taiwan. all talk no action
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  1703.  @catsNcode  that's a difficult thing to quanity because then those people would be Americans, not Chinese people. Also, I'm not sure why you'd bother telling me that? that doesn't 'erase' the hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and I mean Mainland PRC Chinese who were born and raised in China and are recent immigrants (or other visas, work, students etc) and then visitor visas. Depending on how you will count it, you have, at least 2 million PRC Citizens or BORN and raised in the USA. Millions. (this doesn't count the 200 thousand illegals from Mainland China). so, If you are sure there are 3X as many 'Chinese-Americans' from several generations back that doesn't 'erase' the Chinese. It may vary from city to town but its VERY VERY COMMON most Americans routinely see, interact, work with, study with PRC born Chinese. Everywhere, at the gym, working at the store, in their workplace, all over the college campus, next door neighbors, their son is dating a lady from China, there are Chinatowns. It's NORMAL and 'Daily life' any given American meets and asks a PRC Chinese from China questions about their home country. What's it like in China? Is this expensive in China? What kind of cars... etc etc etc. Normal. Daily. I would actually be surprised to meet an American who has NEVER talked to a Chinese. Seriously, I'd say that would be the strangest thing. I can go to ANY given tourist site in America and there isn't just one busload of Mainland Chinese visitors but sometimes they are the vast majoriy with Americans being the smallest group. This ridiculous belief that Americans have found a 'VPN' named Red Book that has finally allowed them outside of their State-Controlled internet firewall to FINALLY be able to see 'Real Chinese people' is absolutely ridiculous, silly, so laughably untrue.
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  1704. I'm not an economist but sometimes sociologists have good guesses and I'd agree with the aggregate of the panel: - Trump will invoke some kind of broad all-China tariff. It might be small, like 1% but Trump will announce he's going to double it every year until he gets some more concessions. At some point, China will quietly drop 'shelf taxes' on American products and Trump will drop the Tariff. It may even get solved midnight before the 1% tax goes into effect. - Prof. Goh is right, the 'decoupling' process is going forward no matter what. Thing is, it could be managed well over the next 20 years so there is no big speedbumps and potholes. Just an incline/decline over the long road. - China probably could do a better job of announcing the concessions it has made over the years and the declining trade imbalance and (at least) trying to disallow as much blatant IP theft as it did before. The problem is China doesn't see that as helpful and instead a humiliation AND doesn't want Chinese to think they made concessions and worked to solve US problems. They need the Chinese public to think they are 'Punishing America' and that America is humiliated in another 'boomerang bungle' like the stupid clowns they are.
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  1705. It would be a 50-50 but DDD has a strong jaw and AJ doesnt. hence id say DDD is the 67 percent fave to win. AJ does have a very realistic chance of winning though, maybe he can do it! But my guess is DDD is too much and wrecks AJ like he did Hrgovic
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  1706. Some have observed that the unvaccinated were largely 1) Aboriginal (Native Canadians) 2) Black Canadians 3) Asian and East Asian Canadians and a sizable number of Muslim Immigrants. Now hear his dehumanizing 'final solution' words again. Yes, Trudeau.
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  1707. He now has upped China's tariffs to 35%.
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  1708.  @kxht  describe what would be 'chicken out' so we'll know what you think it is. Describe it? So far, you seem to think its putting increased tariffs on China.
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  1709.  @MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou  Ive lived, worked, traveled and married into Mainland China for 15 years and usually live with them outside of China in several different countries. you are.. and im sorry to say this.. a very very low IQ if you're still in your mind "NOT ALLLLLL' people derrr... he is saying ALLLLL of them are... you need to smarten up and grow up, okay?
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  1710. No but Cheney will teach Li how finances work.
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  1711. I'm astonished by how many people think Trump claimed the entire Gulf of Mexico is now US territory.
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  1712.  @122223333111  Nobody else noticed that but that is correct and a harder one 1:32 (there are other back punches before that) but you are correct its 1:35s back punch when Doheny looks to cramp up and react.
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  1713.  @CMCut  yes, way too many people here watching highlights and many Casual fans believe that the stoppage is just from whatever last punch. In fact, even in just the highlight reel you can see Inoue hit him in the back numerous times. I'm not saying it was on purpose or anything else but he repeated puwer-punches Doherty in the spine and in at least one part of this ighlight reel you see it twice and the 2nd time he winces and arches his back as if in pain. In boxing, you are to be limited to the front section and are not to hit opponents in the back of their body or head. Yes, referees decide what to let go or not.
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  1714. Rogan caps it with dumbness but I'm just astonished he could hold all that information in his head and recall it with such appropriate precision. For sure, the resurrection is a massive showstopper because, without a doubt, Jesus was crucified and yes indeed when they said he was dead, you have Roman centurions as pretty much the worlds greatest experts as being very very certain he was definitley dead. There's no 'maybe he was in a coma?; with this. Okay, then you have a LOT of people who would absolutely LOVE to disprove any claims Jesus was seen walking around alive. No way, not one minute does that happen before that gets debunked by any number of Romans or Jewish Zealots for that matter.
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  1715. Sad to see Hong Kong become a kind of tax and money moving capital for 3rd worlders and this 'Brics' aka 'Plan B' for things if and when they get worse. I'm old so in my lifetime Hong Kong was the '1st world money center' but now that's moving to Singapore and Hong Kong the '2nd world' center. Oh well, the world marches on and always changes.
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  1716. Just to clarify: the 40,000 Syria asylum seekers living in the USA and being among the most insolent, ungrateful most undeservedly arrogant people on earth, those people are now being processed OUT and back to Syria yes?
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  1717. So he's not tight?
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  1718.  @Alexpktang  There are a lot of reasons but the main one is because Japans economy is not collapsing while China's is collapsing. So you see?
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  1719. sorry but im 2 minutes in and you're already doing great misleading and confusing messes with this. If i didn't know better I'm being informed this is Chinese history, Chinese culture, its part of China's lineage and unless you're purposely tying to mislead people (incl the title) you're just confusing people: These 'Sanxing Dui' people ARE NOT PART OF CHINA'S HISTORY. They are not 'Chinese', this DOES NOT 'question where China began' or 'challenge Chinese origins' okay? and just 2 minutes in and that is how you worded this and youre presenting it. Once again: These are NOT CHINESE, they are not even thought to be any part of 'Proto-Chinese', this wasn't in China (of those days) and may have NEVER had ANY INTERACTIONS with ANY kind of Chinese. centuries later would the DNA of some of their ancestors find the way into the massive 'Han' expansion, sure maybe but this isn't China's history.
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  1720.  @ranfak  low effort reply. do better and I will allow you to talk to me. do better.
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  1721.  @ranfak  you were instructed to do better and that was even worse. now STFU and go eat some bitter melons, goof.
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  1722. ​ @yunhanchen eh, no, why would that be reason for a good guess? And what would 'related' mean here? What i described as some DNA admixture over centuries? Yes, some remnants of the sanxue melded into the lands as some expanding Han Chinese sprawled over time, yes surely some proto-sino linguistics seem to run through. But back to meaningful distinctions, these people were no more Chinese than Mohawks are British though Mohekan village sites are found in Ontario Canada. Yes, today this location in the earth is whats inside modern China borders but in their day theyd have been as foreign to each other as any separate races could be. And as much in common as Roman and Chinese would to Sanxui to Arabs as to Chinese etc. Also, i just like to gripe about things. Yes i have dug into this and the museum displays etc for 10 years for fun. But i dont like misleading people. I dont say the narrator intended to do that but the title and wording could easily do that.
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  1723. The US could, at any moment, easily compete with China. They would take billions of the nations wealth and subsidize all the American cars so that they'd sell to a consumer for half what the lowest price Chinese EV would sell for. Done. Voila! That's how easy they'd compete with Chinese EVs. (this is how Chinese EVs are that price, you understand?)
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  1724. ok but he doesn't need to have 'PTSD' alrhough I suppose he can collect money that way.
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  1725. high-speed rail is a massive money-loser for most countries and neither the USA or Mexico want 1997-era high speed passenger trains draining their wealth. Oh and 'the worlds tallest skyscrapers' are no wanted anymore either.
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  1726. @Elementaldomain  those are 1997 era Japanese trains yes. Hahah you must be in grade one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1727. @ good but you weren't running the border illegally hoping to find an 'under the table' job in Tijuana.
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  1728. @ Please delete that comment. thank you.
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  1729.  @djgene5621  Really, you don't think it's wierd? I'm not asking people "Does anyone else do this in the world?" I'm asking if that doesn't seem utterly strange, invasive, actually kind of a 'wrong thing' to do? I'm not asking 'does anyone else do this' though.
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  1730.  @bigmouthgolds1604  For a lot of families and occupants this is a great way to confirm allegations.
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  1731.  @DogsDogsAndMoreDogs  It seems like something a wife murderer would do.
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  1732.  @samueljburnt9307  eww gross. really, just yuck with that. Don't talk like that to anyone ok? its repulsive.
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  1733. Many viewers from outside Mainland China might not believe what they're seeing. They will think these must be some outrageous extreme examples. I can assure you this is NORMAL in Mainland Chinese culture and its as basic as you see described here: for MANY wives, the husband is ONLY worth whatever income he brings. The end. DO NOT start invoking "...but they just need to communicate" and "...well if they really loved him they would.." Get that out of your head now. He is loved and respected to the degree he earns what was expected at marriage. Any less and she will dial down the respect and love accordingly. If he earns little then he barely gets any respect. but if he earns 'zero' aka unemployed it goes the OPPOSITE direction and he will be treated as human shlt, the most humiliated little piece of garbage and an ongoing correlating list of disrespect goes and adds each day. To many viewers you are still scrinching your face and thinking of ways to not full accept this because you don't believe normal humans.. no... "No, I knew a Chinese couple and they weren't that way soo.... what you said here...." Get that done and out of your head because I can promise you the men in this video are MOST Chinese mainland men and women. this is the MAJORITY the rule, the 'cultural norm'. nobody told you ALLLLLLL but this is the 'Standard'.
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  1734. He's not a Chinese who only understands the world by money and 'face' and 'shame culture' but if he has NVIDIA shares he is doing really well since they only had a freak selloff and then bounced way back up.
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  1735. Lucky you but when did you leave China?
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  1736. The USA is a far bigger, better, more advanced and superior nation than little China so you don't need to talk about them as if they are 'equal rivals' anymore than I'm heavyweight champ Alex Usyk's 'equal rival' ffs.
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  1737. @dt_2  well i do live in China which is isolated and firewalled off from the outside world but then again thats why i know the pinduoduo quality and chabuduo culture. Its been worse lately as China goes into economic recession. Cut corners, cheaper materials, quicky refurbishment of leftovers. I can tell you this, you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh a LOT to learn. Good luck on that hehe
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  1738.  @patriot-h3f  im smart enough to know who creates some evil enemies to blame. Its not rich people in the USA and if you like smart Chinese people? Smart Chinese people know exactly who does that 24/7 on CCTV. Hopefully, so do you.
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  1739.  @blinoldluv  Yes, we are here in 'The West' on American Media YT but I've lived half my adult life (more years than you've been an adult) in China. that's why I was able to teach you those things about China. You have a lot to learn about China hehe
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  1740. The Morally, Spiritually more Godly guy.. Mishigna Mshznovitz there.. The Lex Luthor of Hebes can smirk at the fantasy groveling litlte 'collective west' shlts all he wants, however, the real life problem is that Filipinos are absolutely monsters in warfare who are highly motivated to give China's PRC a century of humiliation's worth of punishment the moment they get the chance. I'd do less smirking and masturbatory fantasy recitals and spend more time worrying about what to say when things go very very sideways in China. Plan ahead, get a 'go bag', wear a Lex Luthor wig as a disguise and stay safe out there!
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  1741. The Mainland aka 'The Peoples Republic of China' are the separatists if anyone can be called a 'Separatist'. This is the part of China that overthrew its government in a rebellion and joined China to the Soviet Alliance as one of its new runaway children. Taiwan isn't "separatist" but instead declares itself THE proper and true rulers of China. Yes, we all agree the two parts of China both claim to be the 'True' government but BOTH are 100% for Unification of China. Its just that the RoC part wants it reunified as their team and the PRC as theirs.
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  1742.  @sarahlee9979  and today we still wonder how it will end. :O
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  1743. I mean, that's great stuff for all the big America-based tech companies, Japanese ones and all of them. Great, Chinese pay for them to get cheaper, faster better AI they can use to do whatever they want. This doesn't seem to help China get ahead since whatever they come up with is just used by the rest of the world. Weird business plan but okay, i guess?
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  1744. When and why did this 'Scream at the Sun!!!!!' thing get so popular in sports? Soccer player scores goal, trots to a spot and does the elbow smash and GAHHHHHHHHH at what I guess is the sky? Lady tennis player 'elbow pump' one arm and raised fist and werewolf howls 'YAAAAAAAAFKKYAAAA' at the moon or sky i guess? often the ball up their fists and hold their arms downward then werewolf howl at.. God? the Sun? Primal scream victories. Why is that THE thing now? Ping Pong players are doing it. Runners. Chess masters now. Sowell is right that you cannot even imagine Joe Louis doing that. Elbow smashing and primal screaming at the ceiling "GHHHHHYESSSSFKCHAAAAAaaa!!!!!". I mean, people would worry he was brain damaged it would be so bizarre.
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  1745. there is no 'USA healthcare system'. He purposely chose against his healthcare system to do personalized 24/7 home care, private care at home. Okay? Do you get that?
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  1746.  @kennedyazul9704  Canada does not have universal healthcare. For the 1000th time, in Canada there are provinces and each province has their own provincial government run healthcare insurance systems. Nobody in any of these provinces believes they are 'amazing, the people and the services' but instead, terms like 'healthcare crisis' and 'waiting times crisis' are used. The belief in 'Canadas universal healthcare' which is 'amazing and its totally free' is deeply persistent in a lot of American 'leftwing' types. It is a fantasy belief that doesn't reflect what is the harsh reality in most of the provincial healthcare insurance systems.
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  1747.  @fernandofernandito3055  I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Yes, we all agree the USA will stop or 'effectively' stop importing (buying) as much from China. There is no 'boxing match' or 'slapping' but instead China just remains China and can do whatever it wants. shouting "I STAND WITH CHINA' doesn't have a place in this.
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  1748.  @srappytrex3946  China is one of the single most disliked nations on earth in 2025 and are you doing anything to change that. Maybe starting a fake narrative that the USA is 'going down' doens't help China's cause, does it, garbagebrain?
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  1749. I can only promise you - you don't know what you're saying. I suppose, i wish it was true but no sir. No, this is not what is really happening.
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  1750.  @Zeta-y3c  I will do better than you who thinks 'what I see in a video is therefore how things are!'. Let me do better: I've been the teacher in Chinese kindergartens, 100s of them, for over 15 years. Now what sneering middle-school goof?
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  1751.  @Zeta-y3c  It's dozens at a given time, its dozens of kindergarten summer camps, winter camps and uncountable substitutions and temporary gigs. now that we established that - lets talk about how wrong you were?
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  1752.  @Zeta-y3c  are you replying two times to every one reply I make to you? but to answer your questions, yes I am your authority and teacher about Chinese kindergartens. and yes you saw some videos online. Now what?
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  1753.  @gphuang67  No you don't, you want to know why he was just caught being mistaken about schools and now you''re trying to help obfuscate. Instead, let me tell you why Chinese become mentally ill before they get past the middle school exams? I can tell you all about that if you want to learn about China?
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  1754.  @Zeta-y3c  Yep, I am just about the most credible authority on Chinese kindergartens over the last 15 years as you've ever met. but then again you did watch some videos on youtube and were like 'WTF.. hahah wowwww'.
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  1755. @strongchallenger2269  i dont, i dont turn Chinese children into 'trained monkeys' to drive them into mental duress to make me 'super children' sales videos. Shlthead adults who dont really care about China do such things. As for that, I am the hand that feeds them and i need to make sure its healthy food, not mental illness inducing 'stunts' for people like our shlthead OP here.
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  1756.  @Jerry-zd8gd  It's confusing. You're pretending to be an American in 'reverse world' or what are you trying to say?
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  1757. China isn't rich and its experiencing the 6th row of economic decline.
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  1758. @Aanthanur  youre entire population is one american city and your eggs twice as expensive but indeed your junkies simply go to portugal to do Fent.
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  1759. @wwbren  good for Singapore, Trump has decided to make it the new pearl of the east. If youre lucky the massive superior power of the USA will keep protecting your teeny tiny little island
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  1760. @dragongeraldb  that was superghey and also goofy. Why burp words like that? Just stop it.
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  1761. @haniahannslew4108  canada is probably the fentanyl queen in all of this.
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  1762. @Jo3W3stThe USA doesn't have 'egg problems' as if its some 1960s Soviet country where the citizens line up with 'eggs vouchers'. But yes indeed, almost all countries in the world will have 1 of 100s of agriculture related food price increases or scarcity or if there is a bird flu in the USA and its mandatory to 'cull' henhouses you can bet eggs will go up 19% and some Karens wiill talk about it even though they rarely buy more than a single carton of eggs in a given month. your other 'teenage commie grasper' stuff was cringe.
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  1763.  @WarsOfate  No, the things you are saying are simply untrue. You've made these up in your imagination.
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  1764. It's a funny thing (strange) but that suddenly in 2024 I'm supposed to pretend there is a massive 'Race War Division' and apparently suddenly a 'Gender War' and 'this is the time we are at'. Uhh ok? I didn't notice America was 'divided like never before over race and gender' and if it is then why did that just start during the Biden/Harris admin? So they did that? But okay, apparently suddenly the lefties and Democrats are staring a 'race war' AND a 'gender war' out of nowhere. How odd.
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  1765. The problem. For the ego of Chinese viewers we pretend ther are '2 Great Sides' and the graphics show us 'Equal Powers' as the 'Two Economic Powers' and 'Go head to head'. That's for Chinese to feel strong but... ...the harsh reality is that the USA is a much much bigger power. These are not 'equal powers'. They are not 'the two big superpowers'. The USA is far far more powerful, far more economic might, the USA is what made China a developing nation (rather than a horrific starvation hole) and it can 'taketh away'. As for the ever repeated "but Both sides will lose" is also for Chinese insecurity and ego but you have to realize: The USA can lose LOTS. The USA can lose 10% of their entire economy and they are still wealthy. China cannot. China CANNOT lose half that before it's collapsing into actual 'lack off food and medicine' levels and severe 3rd world conditions. It's better we get real about this. There are no '2 powers'. There is not 'battle of the giants'. There is only one economic superpower and its the USA and China is not even close.
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  1766. There isn't much 'dispute'. China can pretend to have annexed a massive swath of earth's oceans but nobody else is going to pretend along with it.
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  1767.  @grantdavis2381  no to that reply. No
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  1768. You have to stop having Francesca on the panels. It cannot work, it doesn't work, she isn't being 'a polemic' or some spicy firestarter but it's just a c-word type of girlfriend who's sneering, being toxic hyperfeminine. I have to skip anything where I see she's invited back.
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  1769. @ What are you even talking about?
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  1770.  @Letmedescribe  So it's just IP theft and then laughing about it? Isn't China scared of ensuing punishments for such a thing?
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  1771.  @5t0ryte11er  meh, too soon to say. So you figure its just national sabotage?
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  1772.  @Walter-travel  First off, nobody knows how much it costs but going by the outrageously high sums of money China's government subsides other things we can be sure its much more, however, that's not important but rather what it 'is' after all. The reason nobody bothered making a seconed 'OpenAI' upgrade is because they are attempting to build something much much bigger. A 'next generation AI'. That's why.
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  1773.  @ngoyemichel5406  It doesn't it suggests that China used a lot of high-end chips to make a clome summary of the latest exiting AI abilities and while that's a lot of fun it doesn't really do anything that isn't already known to be possible. On the upside, if China did use up a massive amount of it's wealth to find some ways to optimize, ways nobody bothered finding before - they can just find them and use them if they want. thanks, i guess?
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  1774.  @Mito975  How much money did China make from this? I know Silicon Valley has the same massive wealth and capital they had yesterday.
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  1775. She interprets his words through her womanbrain that these two social rivals are 'calling each other names' but Miller was describing what this man has done and does. I was disappointed by her.
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  1776. @ but they won and took over the USA. what you should expect from them is to be better than you.
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  1777. this fake news program is great fun and all that but I'd still like to know how this will affect The Peoples Republic of China and the wealth, savings, food, medicine, the poverty levels, the lower standards of living over the next decade? What to do about the increased number of unemployed Chinese (so that's less money, less food, less clothing for them), and, How far does it go before it can be leveled out? Back to the 1960s era of brutal 3rd world backwards starvation and stunning poverty OR is China's mainland going to level back down to a kind of 1980s where fewer people die of malnutrition but its still a kind of poverty-hole barely hanging on in a poor developing world kind of state? I realize all of Chinese state-controlled media is ONLY discussing the incredible end of the USA and what a big mistake and the impending poverty and hurt of the USA that jsut got all this bad news etc etc, however, Maybe someone can be asked where China goes? Does it start selling off its goods ASAP? Print money? Desperately try and get deals to sell things for half price? Should we worry about national security as China becomes poorer and poorer while the Japans, the Vietnams become wealthier?
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  1778.  @chenjiang3031  you dont have 5000 years of history but 2200 and add 800 more for preChina if you want. China was ended 400 years ago when the foreign Qing conquered it and subjegated Chinese. This isnt any different than most nations on earth. The English are 3000 years old had conquerors just like China, Greece, Italy, Nigerians are 3000 years old. They also had conquerors and so is France and Mexico and so on. There is nothing unique about China, its age or how it was conquered or how its been divided up again. China knows much of its history because Western nations brought historians and archeologists who discovered and uncovered much of what you know today. Thank a westerner next time you see one. Sadly, most was destroyed and denounced in a cultural revolution around 100 years ago. The destruction of the 4 olds
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  1779.  @WingkKong  Oh good, the usual Chinese revisionism where not only were they not the losers BUT actually China defeated them and was the real winner! The foreigner conquerors TOOK whatever Chinese traditions, structures they wanted because they owned them now and Chinese didn't. Nope, China didn't have a tradition where Han Chinese were made to dress up in foreign clothes and hairstyles and be 2nd class (slave class) inside their own country. but yes, for example, when nearly any nation conquered another they used the existing government structures bureaucracy and the language of the conquered peoples. Just the same when China was conquered by Mongols (who were absolutely NOT Chinese nor Han nor any kind of Chinese at all) and later when the last Foreigners defeated and conquered and took over China and ruled and owned and enslaved the Han. Same. Same conquering that always went on everywhere though Chinese were especially humiliated and more thoroughly turned into lower class conquered people. Good news: Western Powers defeated the Foreign Rulers and the Han were finally liberated and given their country back. Thank some Westerners next time you see one. They lifted millions of Han out of extreme defeat and slavery. (then did it again a few years later by defeating the Japanese conquerors).
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  1780.  @pursuitolikes5217  it ended when the foreign invaders conquered China and made it a Qing land for 400 years. 75 years ago, you could say the Chinese finally took back China except the peasants were Moscow backed anti-Chinese rebels who promptly started erasing not only the Qing but all of the 4 Olds, from hanging corpses of Confucius to destroying Ming tombs to poetry and books and every idiom, religious rite, cultural traditions and not just destroying the 4 Chinese cultures but erasing the very memory of them. This might be why you felt angry and confused when the history i described didnt match what youve heard or.. what youve never heard before.
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  1781. The US has a red-hot economy right now. So why would you say the opposite?
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  1782.  @MrCarloszeca  You're probably from a developing country but yes, the US economy is doing very well right now. Nobody needs to care about 'prices going down' although I realize you've decided that must be how everything works and I suppose 'gdp year on year growth number' lol but yes, the US is rip-roaring good right now by 1st world standards. Obviously, its an entire 20 leagues of wealth above developing countries but even by its own standards the US is going very very well right now. You can even look at the news if you want?
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  1783.  @CyrusJanssen  I don't know what you think 'Asia' is (thats a lot of countries) but at the moment 3 of them are experiencing such stunning rates of population decline that they will be HALF their year 2000 number of people before 2060 and one of them (S. Korea) will vanish before the end of the 'Asian Century'. At the moment, despite a horrific bloody hell in Myanmar, only SE Asia looks to be steady and increasing (slightly). "Truly in Asia's century' are you sure?
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  1784. I have no idea what weird 'park battle debate' was going on and between who or you or the Serpentza guy but I have criss-crossed around 30 or 40 parks in the USA and maybe the same in China? I don't have some official count. Maybe 40 in either country. - The USA would be the winner if we took the 'Top 5' of either (that ive been to) with really the most beautiful parks. I don't know though, I might have 1 China park in there. - HOWEVER, China might win out in the category of 6th to 20th place with more higher quality newer parks with more bells and whistles though more fake grass and green spray paint (which i happen to love). - Then China would 'win' the worst tier. the 'bottom 10', the 'least attractive parks'. So far, I have never really found a dirty dismal park in the USA. (hang on... no, i can think of one in the outskirts of LA) but China has some ...oooof... like the park itself is more pollution than park. more dangerous than the street, more depressing than the dump. Overall, and I can only go by the ones I've walked through, about 40 in either country, I'd say the USA wins for the most high quality parks and least low quality. *I'd put the UK way up there and holy hell when you find a good UK park its a damn masterpiece of green beauty, its a work of art really. Canada is up there but the only quibble is they are really intense on keeping them as 100% natural so you aren't getting manicuring, gardening as much as 'untouched natural beauty' but with some woodsy trails etc.. (so it depends what you like). but one thing i really like about China is they use flourescent green dye and they are also good at hiding things like a toilet or maintenance sheds etc. anyway, carry on with your weird debate. oh, the 'gofundmes' in the USA are not because the hospital will not do the surgery on a child (or anyone) until they get paid for it. They are, instead, asking people for help with all the other peripheral expenses, the living expenses, for optional care, extra and special needs that may not be covered (or in full) by insurance. This is NOT the same as Mainland China which will request the money upfront and that is strictly for the basic cancer surgery and tumor removal and etc.
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  1785. On the ground in Southern China. I immediately got the upper-respiratory virus (aka a seasonal 'Cold') which wasn't that bad by seasonal cold standards in the many many people who obviously had it too. more like coughing, phlegmy, sinuses but not bad otherwise BUT that damn thing took 3 weeks to finally clear. As for the hospital thing. I'm going to very confidently report this is the common 'Little Emperor' + Neurotic moms/ social hysteria. where every parent needs to show off taking their children to the hospital. Yep, the kids got a sinus full of mucous and red eyes and is also running around the hospital like its a playground and having a temper-tantrum because the stores are filled with Spring Festival candies and they damn well wanted candy.. why can't I have the candyyyyy!!? it's a standard seasons cold that I got every year as a kid and adult. Yet, yes again, every parent is pulling their kids out of class because they're sick (makes zero difference, all the kids get it anyway).
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  1786. Yes well part of the problem is the Mainland China convinced its own people AND much of the rest of the world at time, convinced them that China is the USAs 'equal rival' or 'rising and near equal rival'. It is not. It's not even close. China is a relatively poor clunky country that is nowhere near the wealth, the powers, the influence, the ability or the size or skill or alliance or the 'old or new money'. Yet, someone like Jonathan talks 'as if' China is somehow the 'Eastern Equal Rival'. but it isn't. btw not that long ago Japan was the 'China' and much much better at it and came closer to a 'US rival economic power' and there was no special interest by the USA. German wasn't that far behind in a massive rise of wealth and success, growth and tech and etc etc. There was no special rivalry from the USA.
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  1787. What makes you think they needed to keep him imprisoned and ensure he'd never escape under any circumstances? you think after enough time passed they still needed to keep him for ..for what now? I'd suggest they were tired of the Fishdude stinking up the castle and were plenty happy to let him get back in shape in the swimming section where, 6 months later they all agree 'Hey, if he leaves he leaves' and that was just fine with everyone.
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  1788.  @williamlewandowski129  Yes and think about what you're saying. Your western money is so much more valuable that by moving to China, where its such a lower standard, you can live comfortably on your western capitalist retirement money. I'd suggest something: don't boast about it too much to the locals.
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  1789.  @mihotleenkwei3884  Ok well you've never lived in Mainland China. We know that now. I can also tell you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe.. a LOT to learn. but isn't it weird that you're writing as a fake Chinese mainlander and think you can just make up stuff? It's weird. here's a fun fact in the news: China has conceded to Trump and has started taking back the illegal Chinese who fled to the USA. There are some 200,000 Mainlanders being sent back against their will. This is only the ones caught living illegally in the USA and have been processed to deportation. Of course, there are still many many more who haven't been caught yet. Really think about why a million Mainland Chinese were willing to give up everything to live ILLEGally in the USA? They'd rather live there, illegally than in China. There's more. legally, 300% of every visa application in every American embassy and consulate in Mainland China are full 100% of the time for 100% of ANY kind of visas to get into the USA. but anyway, that should help you get a start on learning about China. good luck, your fake Chinese mainlander character needs it!
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  1790.  @eustna_astraea  Hello Laowai, welcome to my Western Media. I've lived, worked, traveled and studied all across China, all parts, for more years than you've been an adult. More years than you've been an adult. So I can tell you this much - you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe..a LOT to learn. good luck getting started on that hehe
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  1791.  @thechloromancer3310  China's life expectancy , IQ levels, covid deaths and 'number of millionaires' will always be at least 1% 'surpassed' any and all countries on earth and at least the USA. What I just wrote there should tell you that I know far far more about China and how things work in China. It tells you that at this point you should stop trying to lie to me and start getting very honest. and yes, since China's mainland had, and this is well into the 1980s some of the most horrific, deadly lowest standards of living on planet earth, malnutrition and starvation levels, such low levels of living that by the 1970s concerned Asian nations, the USA and UN became concerned the world could not progress with a massive Chinese mainlnd living in brutal poverty and death and 500 years behind. So by the 1980s and we can say 1990, the USA and world stopped merely sending massive amounts of chicken feet and dollars to help Chinese stay alive, to stay at 'zero' standard of living Because the world was allowed to buy massive Chinese labor we saw China, which is from ZERO. Actually 'minue' standard of living improve consistently until some 7 or 8 years ago which was the end of that. For the last 3 or 4 years consistent declines in the standard of living. You have a lot to learn about lying about China to people who know better.
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  1792.  @thechloromancer3310  In 2005 you arrived as massive amounts of US dollars were absolutely flooding China for it's labor. For he last 7 years you have only seen a gradual decline in living standards. everything is '7 years older' including you and me.
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  1793. How long is this going to take? 2 generations?
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  1794.  @davidrichards1741  It's like that around the world. In China, the difference is that the govt doesn't cater to the 2%. It IS the 2%.
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  1795. What about the illegals taking up 1000s of homes?
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  1796. There is way too much variation between what the public seems to think height measurement is and what it would really be in a proper barefoot measurement. A standing but alert posture that would clearly hit the 6ft line would be a notably taller man. 5'8, again, if an actual barefoot proper clinical measurement is simply not 'short' and in shoes would be perfectly well in average.
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  1797.  @LucienCanon  The USA is ahead of all those countries though, taking in more immmigrants and more per capita. It's well aware of the problem BUT the difference is they are now, proactively doing some start by removing the illegals and a president and congress that is, at least, trying to modify the legal immigration issues. Canada, UK and Australia were also aware of the problems and continue doing nohing much about it. They should start doing something about it. Like the American who've already started doing something about it.
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  1798. OK but maybe you don't want to mention the "last 10 years" so much. :(
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  1799.  @Presso99  I'd try and say something like 'look how far they came in the previous decade!' but maybe don't bring up the last 5 years. uhh.. ya. not so great.
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  1800.  @ericma3768  No, the utterly insane 'zero covid policy' that destroyed the economy and then the economic collapse that has followed.
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  1801.  @RoyVickers-s8d  Donald Trump is sending immigration agents to the street of America trying to deport 200,000 mainland Chinese who prefer to live there illegally than in China.
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  1802.  @khanhchan5234  Oh there was definitely winners of trade wars. 20+ years ago China's PRC started a trade war with the USA and they most definitely won lots from it! We have to say, Trump said he couldn't call it a Trade 'War' because its not a 'War' if its just one side, China doing it. It was just China putting huge 'shelf taxes' on American products but the USA did not counter tariffs so... its not really a "War". Previous administrations didn't "fight back" because they held the belief that this would count as 'Charity' to China just as 'developing nation status' which was (they argued) a GOOD thing that will benefit everyone because it helped China modernize faster and thus that would be good for the USA and manufacturing etc. however, That isn't what happened. Chinese didn't say 'xie xie' thanks for letting us have this massive trade imbalance and now we will take more and IF you try and stop us then we will screech about how the 'USA is attacking us starting a Trade War!". So, in 2016 Trump started to counter the Chinese trade imbalance. Interestingly, Trump stated he didn't want to collect the previous 20 years imbalance and he didn't even need it to be '50-50' either! But something closer to even. Something within reason. I can be '60-40' to China that's fine but within reason. Since then, the USA defnitely 'won' more back. not actually 'winning' China's trade war but you see? Getting "20" less losses is a kind of win. What about now? Yes, if Trump goes ahead with plans to engage in more 'Trade War' the USA will definitely be winning more and China losing more. There will definitely be a winner and yes indeed China 'won' the trade war (at least the one where the USA didn't fight back) and the USA will definitely be the winner and China the loser if this keeps going the way it is. and yes this is very much a big reason why Chinese have less money and they spend less money and will have less money 4 years from now. I have no reasons to believe the Hamas vs IDF war is costing Chinese anything. Some pro-Palestine forces have attacked and tried to hijack or sink some Chinese ships but overall the Americans protected the Chinese ships that were able to transport their products just fine. I'm not sure that the Russian invasion has caused China to lose much money. ? If you know how, I'm open to hearing about it. generally speaking I don't know that China had much to lose or gain by that war but I suppose it always affects some trade somewhere.
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  1803.  @araara4746  No, that is incorrect. I'm sorry to say this but you need to stop listening to The Eastern Media lies and visit China for yourself. Realistically, China peaked in 2015 for prosperity but I like using 2018 as the peak of the peak, massive money printing and debt, larger Alipay credits. by 2019 it was obvious that more stores were closing, more schools, more training centers shut down, that this was the end of the good times. 2020 saw the worlds dumbest response to a flu: "Zero Covid" with the absolute destruction of the economy and for far far too long, too strict, to relentless. It never recovered. Oh yes, we can even deduct for the utterly insane covid closures yes? 'Does not count' because of course everything was purposely shut down, however, That wasn't really the issue. Covid or not, lockdowns or not, the economy was pure 'Balloon' by 2018, pure money-printing, GDP Bloating, nonsense speculation bubbles. So, forget the dumbest economic mistake in human history, the idiotic 'zero covid' and relentless ending of businesses etc, 2023 was STILL going to see the inevitable collapse of Evergrande, Vanke.. well basically all the massive real-estate speculation bubbles. and this is (was) pretty much THE Chinese economy itself. This is why everyone in China is poorer today than they were in 2018. This is why, in 2018 they were almost starting to remove food carts and eBikes and now they're all back again. This is why, if you time traveled back 7 years everything looks the same but newer and then today looks the same but 7 years older, more worn out and dirtier. This is why our apartment could have sold at 1.2 million in 2018 and is now valued at 600,000. Actually nobody would buy it for that 600k but the government has made 50% the mandatory minimum to try and keep utter fast collapse. (i think it would sell for 80,000 IF that was allowed by law). There is no 'progress' at all. The ONLY thing you see, which was actually true in 2018 already, you can see projects that were started in 2015 (maybe if lucky) get completed. Some of these are actually 'bad signs' because they are bridges and final high-speed rails lines that will cost the people a LOT of money just to keep them maintained and provide next to nothing in any returns. So if you want to talk about the American Dollar Miracle Rise of China you can talk all you want about 1989 to 2018. Sure, go ahead. but you really don't want to mention the last 5 or 6 years of China's brutal economic decline and current collapse. Why? Partly because it's cruel and unnecessary for you to taunt and antagonize Chinese people who are watching their entire life's saving and their future crumble. They are living off wumao dog meat skewers and sticky rice and they are unemployed and their homes are worth nothing (less than nothing, they're in debt more than the home could ever sell for) and they're alipay credit has been cut off, real life, real struggles, real poverty, real hopelessness. So they do not need YOU showing up to mock them announcing 'haha.. no they are fine.. see how lucky they are to be so wealthy!!". You don't need to mock people like that, not Chinese or anyone.
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  1804.  @jonathaneagle3554  Usyk always performs at his best. We dont have a world where wins or losses get reduced or changed based on who wasnt really really trying.ok, well Fury fans do live in such a world yes.
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  1805. Harold Solis looks like a man that is worried about getting arrested or at least prosecuted for something . Probably for good reason, he should be.
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  1806. Tell us what you think some of those words would be? Hmm?
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  1807.  @sambeckingsale2542  theyve been building significant alliance with the USA and they dont expect China to be the next USA. What could get those kinds of smiles is something like watching a lower ranked boxer start "trash talking" the Champ with insults to the point their only going to make their beating worse. Cheneys smile, especially. Ooop.. PRC just lost another billion.. oops.
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  1808.  @RichardCui-lg8qw  no, they dont tell us that anymore than what you read into it. But its kind of intriguing to see how your hateful fandom brain works.
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  1809.  @asw654  your reply is what concession looks like.
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  1810.  @asw654  hehe okay whatever you're smoking must be good haha
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  1811. Americans have personal cars now. Its not the 1960s anymore.
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  1812.  @guestonearth1274  crying from memories of 1997? The chinese one is Japanese anyway. But with 7km walking distances
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  1813.  @kewan2045  nobody but yes corporations nowadays buy tge rights to the invention. Japan the same these days and yes the Chinese who bought Japans 1990s bullet trains also have all kinds of obligations, corporate legal BS etc. Bjt yes the USA has awesome personal cars and use 'airplanes' if they need high speed travel. Personally, i dont like bullet train travel at all other than yes its as fast as 30 years ago when the Japanese went with that American invention. Now you know, creep
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  1814.  @inh415  yes of course it is. The USA has the longest network of train tracks of any nation on earth. Its expanding large track transport, its famously part of US culture, expanding into the West, (lots of movies about it) and it innovated hifh speed rail. Now what, goof?
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  1815.  @inh415  hmm but in Japan and around the world there is nothing more iconic than a Western movie with big locomotives, the anglospheres americanism catchphrase "the wrong side of the tracks", uncountable American action films running or jumping trains, runaway train movies and so now youve had to change your goof shit lies to a sneaky switch where you pretend I claimed in a poll about whos best known for trains its the USA but Japan would really get first place aha! You are a dishonest person. Yuck
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  1816. Was it Ben Stein who said "every movie in Hollywood has either made money or lost money and sometimes both at the same time'. I had an uncle in the business and the entire thing is quite the baffling, money-laundering, magic taxes, weirdly somehow involved diamonds and modern art and none of it makes sense to us normies. But this video helped a lot! good stuff.
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  1817. Nobody can guarantee anything but as a general rule you're way safer eating at any of the international franchises like BK when in Mainland China. They have to keep the exact same high standards of food safety no matter where the franchise is and no matter the country's standards. They also carry out that same training, procedures the 'fail safes' and 'fool proofing' systems with monitoring. EVEN IF Corporate HQ doesn't pay a visit - they could drop by for a surprise inspection so that keeps them alert. If you go outside those International Food Safety Standard places ... ohhh boy... its basically a free-for-all, a 'wild west' and you the manager stretching buns out for a week past 'recommended best used before' expiry dates will be the absolute LEAST of your worries.
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  1818. Stop going to these places. It's weird.
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  1819. ​ @starchunkss  why are you repeating that thing from TV? Can you even start saying why it would be ridiculous?
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  1820. This is like 'Hyper-ChianShill' output!
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  1821. Since a lot of VPNers here don't know what this is about. Upon becoming Secretary of State, official Chinese govt reports changed the spelling of Rubios name, in Hanzi, in the chinese characters. Some wondered why? An explanation was that China is going to have to 'save face' to their own people and say 'This is a different Rubio, not the one who was sanctioned". A kind of trick on the Chinese public so they don't see the CCP as weak. The reporter was right to ask about it so she can dispel it or explain it.
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  1822.  @星凪ch  No but in China if the government wanted to find a way to sneak the ban past the Chinese public they really would do something like this. Wow indeed!
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  1823. I have no doubt that somewhere some evil Jews swindled some Natives out of money. Somewhere an evil white Priest hurt a Native kid. Somewhere at some time, some cigar smoking 'Boss Hogg' had his men murder an uppity Native. Somewhere at sometimes, any given thing happens. that said, Though it sounds exciting to find this book and present the Guardian ledger and then 'death, death, death' but doesn't tell you if the guardian also died because this was written years after their lifespans.. ...it also doesn't help to read out the handful of 'death, death death' but don't mention 80% obviously lived long natural lives and/or obvious natural deaths. but still, he does tell us there is a disproportionate number of early deaths (or were there if the ledger was old, did it say at what ages?) Lifespans in 1920s Oklahoma. Childbirth death rates too. The ledger probably included babies, teens yes? You'd suppose that is why some Guardians have 5, some had 12, I suppose that includes 80 year old grandma and grandpa too yes? So now that ledger isn't especially amazing but will get FAR LESS suspicious when someone compares these to the sometimes horrific early death rates on Native Rez's all over North America. He supposes "But they had money.. they could buy medicine". Wowwwww, nope, there are reservations here in 2025 in Canada where massive money, clinics, social workers, you name it they got it, you name the social service they get it free, they have lots of money and... ..the more money the more die young. The more riches is the more alcohol deaths at faster rates. As many or more suicides and murders when windfall money shows up. Not ever Rez is the same but I'd easily believe if I saw the stats for comparable reservations in the region that disporportionate early deaths becomes FAR FAR LESS REMARKABLE in terms of any kind of special suspicions. Oh and what of murders? I don't know how to tell people this but Native Reservations, then and now have some of THE HIGHEST murder rates - and I mean Native rivals offing other native rivals. and yep, add money and you'll only see those rates go up and up. To this very day, EMS, cops and others who'd live in that world can actually prepare themselves, extra staff etc based on IF a lot of money is about to be transfered to Natives AND you'll find this is why some governments have ways of paying out over different amounts over different steps so that they do NOT have all 200 or 2000 Natives get a big paycheck at the same time. This is absolutely why they were given money through these various schemes, why they had to put in requests for specific payouts along the way, why stores were asked to participate etc. Its so innocent Natives wouldn't get killed 10 minutes later.
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  1824. Well, credit to Chisora for keeping it weird. Feels like old times.
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  1825. No, they do not live in equal 'bubbles'. The USA is not in a 'bubble' nor does it have a Great Firewall and 'Red Note' was not like a 'VPN' for Americans who could look outside their bubble through it. China has a bubble. the outside world does not. Americans do not.
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  1826.  @King-vj1mc  Write a better reply, goof.
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  1827.  @King-vj1mc  Shush or I have to block you, hysterical lady. I don't like to do that so smarten up!
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  1828. sorry but what does that mean?
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  1829.  @rogerstarkey5390  Yes of course they do. smarten up.
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  1830. This tracks to this very day in Liverpool, England. Ostentatious, gawdy, a kind of compensation for some insecurity through boasting and noisy behavior. Sowell is right this 'bling culture' sort of thing was very much part of the lower working class subcultures of Britain. He is also correct that much of that has dispersed in the modern days but you can still see this stuck in. When I grew up, if a satirical TV show wanted to show you a stereotype of a Liverpudlian? They travel about in 2 or 3 or more, they have perms or 'fro' like hairstyles, they wear cheap sunglasses, track suits and loud gold chains with medallions on them. they are boisterous, chatter and shout, they don't seem to have anything to do but loiter around looking for stuff to do AND they will fight you for daring to insult them. For 'lookin at em funny ya?!' or some perceived slight of disrespect means its fist-fighting time! They are notorious for pulling insurance scams, notoriously cheap but if they did win the lotto they'd get their trailer gold-plated and and wear 3 large gold chains and gold plated sunglasses. This is STILL a stereotype of a kind of Liverpudlian working poor class type. oh and stereotypes exist for a reason. it really is kind of like that lol. Mind you, even that has been fading away over the last 30 years. Still, you can find enclaves of the big-poofy haired, gold track suit oboxious noisy types to this very day.
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  1831. Triggernometry has some pretty good stuff. (just type that into YT search i suppose) and this was a good interview with JR!
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  1832. Accurate numbers, realistic ones will be very difficult to attain but the 'Shanghai Data Leak' is, so far, the best source for realistic estimates which might have us (here in mainland China) somewhere around 990 million. 2018 was the first 'official numbers' (don't confuse that with real numbers) of Guangxi province having the first ever negative growth. More deaths than births. Having been in China since 2009 I wasn't surprised because this squared with what we see and live in and experience daily over the years. Just hours ago we visited a shopping center we first visited a decade ago, had routinely for years but haven't been to in around 3 years. It's remarkable how you notice what 'is not there' as much. It used to be full of old grandmothers and now there are very few. There are surprisingly few children for ever adult. Most adults were 35+. There are less people and less young teen/college age people. In a way, we thought it was so nice. No cranky villager oldies and no screeching kids or obnoxious teens but a world of 40-50 year old people with it all to ourselves. Of course, the thing is, in about 25 years WE will disappear. There may be a huge shopping center with a sparse number of 35 year olds wandering around and who will all the stores be for? I'm still not sure if this is entirely bad or good or what to make of this. On the good side, nobody spends 90% of their income on sharing a home with other adults because every week 1000s of new immigrants are brought in to keep real estate prices and a home to live or rent at outrageous life-killing prices.
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  1833. So really, its this imaginary country 'The West' that is really to blame. Got it. well done.
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  1834.  @seds94  maybe but China has plenty of people who won't be able to afford much food.
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  1835. President Xi is offiically in a war with the Chinese people in Taiwan. It's officially a war and he has been sending warships and fightrr jets to encircle them and alhtough the war has never ended, he repeatedly reminds them he will use force against them.
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  1836.  @adalineproulx9773  You have two different things there so you can say 'yes you do!' because you added: Improper Emotion. Now you'd be pressed to identify and determine what is 'Improper Emotion'. But that wasn't in the original comment. You added something else besides 'lack of emotion'. That said, having been able to take in a whole lot of interviews and intakes and sit at the feet of the masters - this belief that you watch to see how 'emotional' someone is or isn't is something entrenched in detective show viewers and in particular females but not limited to only women.
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  1837. oh boy, just as before and it turns out the suppliers, Chinas side has the cost of the tariffs passed BACK onto them. Not the American consumers. Which HAS and IS what happened (most things, most times). Yet, I still see a massive portion of the internet still absolutely KNOWS that cannot be how it works FFS
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  1838.  @DmoneyS44 So, what you'd have is several of the working class form a linked chain and shout things like 'down with billionaires its time we take a stand!'. Really good stuff.
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  1839. Bring back large scaled long-term insane asylums.
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  1840. China is currently in a very severe and massive economic collapse.
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  1841. It's a good thing to carry out trade missions and talks. It's good for Xi go and pay tribute to the SE Asians. Next comes what we all know is going to happen: - All of them are either in Washington or on the way to Trumps office where they ware going to negotiate a deal and a Trump condition is they choose not to help China. And it will be every SE Asian country to themselves. Realistically, of course they're going to find ways to get in on Trumps new world of trade.
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  1842.  @BoltarThePirate  Do you ever think of yourself as 'cowardly'?
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  1843.  @vladimirofsvalbard9477  and there didn't seem to be much for radiation fallout before.
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  1844.  @GrimReaper...  Yes, your there for the knockouts, i get it. Yes, struggling is something of the heart of what most boxing fans consider a good fight. the parts where they struggle. sometimes call 'highly competitive' or 'battled' but I get what you want to see.
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  1845. Yes, it was throughout his career from the earliest days to the last days. Which as a pretty good chin.
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  1846.  @Michael-u8p9h  I see. then conider my reply to that commenator (being quoted)
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  1847. ​ @Michael-u8p9h you dont need to. That isnt the request
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  1848. Around 8 years ago someone who's opinions I trust suggested most of this was going to happen as "de-globalizing" carried on.They explained that there are actually a number of counties that would not even exist if it wasn't for a globalist UN world agreement to keep things this way. Syria. Libya. Egypt. They stay nations with flags because its made so. However, As 'de-globalizing' carries on and (and WW3 carries on removing Russia and Iran) we should watch for a number of these nations to disappear. I mean, they could be 'States' of some kind or 'protectorates' but we will eventually see a middle-eastern world where Turkey is on big boss. Over there Saudi is the other big boss. Israel will be the big power of the levant. So far, it seems to be panning out that way. Obviously 'Gaza' is gone and will never be a 'state' ever again. it will just be Israel now onward. It does seem to me Syria is just going to be a Turkish something. 'protectorate'? Province I dunno. right, Libya doesn't need to exist as anything anymore. It will be interesting to see how it all breaks down into 3 major powers and how many fewer nations there will be 10 years from now. or maybe just 4 years from now?
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  1849. Taking no sides in this particular case but objectively speaking there are most definitely winners and losers. China was most definitely winning and the USA losing for some 20 years while China PRC had all kinds of tariffs on US products (or sometimes cleverly called 'shelf taxes' etc) and then China most definitely stopped winning when the USA started counter-tariffing and now the USA is winning more and more. I'm just saying, oh yes, of course, demonstrated, there certainly can be big winners and big losers.
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  1850. I really wish people could figure out that the EV Car market is NOT THE CAR MARKET and makes up a very small number of the car market.
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  1851.  @cw5437  nope, EVs are not in high demand in Canada, from anywhere.
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  1852.  @terrymckenzie8786  i will pay you to fix your autospell thing so it renders borders [perimeter] instead of boarders [wood boards, snow boards]
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  1853.  @cw5437  no YOU are and MEHH! that was the childish reply you gave. Here, do this, tell me what % of new car sales were EVs in 2024 in Canada? You have absolutely no idea do you? and no, Chinese EVs are most definitely not built better. You have no idea you're even making up from your imagination.
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  1854.  @cw5437  Hi, well YOU need to go google opinions online while I ride in Chinese EVs nearly every day of my life and have for over a decade, including the ones I've owned and everywhere else. Your first goof thing is "they are..". Do you think there is a single brand named 'Chinese EV"? There are dozens of them and if you bought certain brands they've already gone out of business so too bad you'll never get parts and upgrades again. The vast majority are low-grade. What you probably did was look up some highest end goofy car and were going 'wowwww it has lots of electronic cup holders'. No, NONE of them are higher quality (you dont even know what that means, what a chassis is, what the measure would be) than Tesla, and then, you are talking about something else with 'cheaper than Tesla'. Yes of course because the government of China pays to make them that way. They subsidize everything and want to 'market dump' (a shltty thing) so they'll sell to you at a loss. Basically, a Chinese citizen pays for you to buy one. Chinese lose wealth. now what?
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  1855.  @BrianMax  No and please stop spreading ridiculous lies about the USA, Trump or the deporation efforts. The only possible way you can get away with lying to people like this, desperately wanting to feel some 'power' in this life by trying to scare some in-Laws or stir some hatred would be; someone has found some very strange legal case where authories believesd they deported an illegal alien and LATER some court ruling made a ruling that (various visa, immigration techhnicalities etc etc) the subject was technically a permanent resident or had some right to reside. The only other cases have been problems with Fake ID. In one case, ICE determined a passport to be fake. Later, a judge ruled they had not sufficiently proven it was a fake passport. (later it WAS proven to be fake). but you are absolutely trying to lie and some sick little part of you gets off on the idea you're doing something to 'control feelings' and getting some hatred against Trump riled up by lying and scaring someone. The ONLY people being deported are those determined beyond a resonable doubt to be illegal aliens. YOU know that because everyone knows that. Hence I easily call you as a 'Liar' and a deceiver. What amazes me here isn't that you're lying but the 'dumb' choice of lie. someting so blatanlty obvious to the world but you think some readers are so stupid, so ingnorant, such low IQ and superstitious 3rd worlders that you're really going to try and post these lies and believe its a great lie to get them on. You actually tried to make it 'racist Trump' stuff too by pretending they're now deporting 'The Hispanics' you very desperately silling person, you. on the upside, the average Vietnamese and really almost ALL vietnamese are not nearly as stupid as you think they are.
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  1856.  @nh251  Wait.. so you think the writing is like a video camera. You have to do the writing WHILE Jesus is there alive or what are you.. lol.. what are you on about?
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  1857.  @smykulec  Very credible, for example, without a doubt some of the very best accounts of WW2 were written down 40 years later.
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  1858.  @smykulec  I don't know what 'capping' is supposed to mean or your 'gimme a breakkk' attitude is supposed to do but what is this 40 years you speak of? What have you decided must have been written 40 years after the resurrection? Luke's gospel?
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  1859.  @smykulec  Hi, you're the one on trial here and you don't need to have a little fit because I questioned one of your beliefs. You kept referring to something written '40 years' after something and you were asked to clarify that. You just told me about something written in 50 AD and not whatever you think was written in 70 AD. And you were already told that either of those is reliable and trustworthy so why keep asking? Yes, i feel very good about Mark if it was written 17 years after the resurrection and I'd feel a lot of sweet confidence if Luke wrote his '40 years' after the resurrection. What about it? Are you going to start crying because I just shattered your beliefs or something? Start tipping your fedora super aggressively or what?
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  1860. Ohhh brother, if thats not for you then you do not want to live in China. They even became officially materialistic.
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  1861. She's not wrong and that's why China has to keep conceding and accept any punishments the USA gives them.
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  1862. You make such an intriguing observation at 2:00 and I legit wonder if that has a lot to do with arrested development? Now to counterpunch that: for 1000s of years across the world it was normal that people lived with their parents in the same house and indeed until the parents become grandparents and so on. In much of East Asia today this still entirely normal. We didn't have this problem before and you don't see this perpetual childhood issue in East Asia. What usually happens here that the children simply become the adults of the house, marry, kids, the parents become 'grandparents' and so on. They don't stay '17 year olds' despite living at home forever.
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  1863.  @TheMarcuslindberg  Are you somehow living in 2008?
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  1864.  @Cordycep1  It wasn't a case of the naughty people abusing real estate speculation and finally the responsible father government 'clamped down' and purposely made a wise move to stop it. The real -estate speculation bubble was China's govt largest economic driver subsidized , encouraged, a kind of government economic pillar it made and oversaw and inflated. Until it finally became so insane that it could not longer be work anymore and had no choice but to collapse. But Im sure they told you a different narrative that life-loving Uncle giovernment proved it so clever and wise to spank these naughty developers who were hurting China.
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  1865. I think I can help: Over the last 30 years since the USA arrived to transform China from a 3rd world malnutrition world into a US style market world there has been ONE major thing almost anyone ever says about doing business in China PRC: - Chinese do not work from a 'rules based order' nor do they themselves like 'contracts' in the sense the 1st world businessmen think of them. Chinese may or may not change things as they go along. Chinese do things like play a kind of scheduling game to get social power and hand, deliberatley saying one time, then arriving early, they asking why you are late, then being late but acting as if you being late has spat on their mother its so offensive, but then pretend they forgot about the last negotiated price and talk about their original price, then act confused, then pretend there is a lot of confusion and a new deal needs to be made, then, Chinese will negotiate by literally ignoring something for long long periods of time, delay tactics but then urgent emergency level asks that need an answer immediately, Chinese will stall and stall, then demand then stall, then fall over and lay on the ground crying about being hurt. Then get up and ask for compensation then sidestep, then hurry then delay. Chinese mastered these games when nobody had any power or advantage of any material things so these are how they get 'hand' over another, can take power and control over others. The simple (to Chinese) act of showing up too early can give one tremendous power over the other. You see all those things? Someone even wrote a book on how Chinese mastered this kind of social negotiation from the long stretch of having no money and no social class system. It's actually kind of fascinating even thought it has driven Western business people insane with frustration for 30 years including Trump's business people who've been doing business for Trump Corporations for decades. You don't need to theorize, speculate or wonder about this. There are 100s of hours of Trump as far back as 2015 in large events speaking to press and the MAGA crowds, loudly and clearly: Trump says if elected, he will deal with China the way they deal with us. He knows how Chinese negotiate and he will match them. He can speak to Chinese in "their language" meaning ways they understand. There is no mystery here. No need for a panel of experts to try and explain it. Trump has openly said he's going to negotiate and deal with China the way Chinese have with him. He's going to play China's games with them. How do you like it? How does it feel negotiating with China Trump who does China games and tactics? Enjoying it? What's wrong? Trump is simply doing what Chinese do. Shouldn't you like it? Trump didn't do any of these things, making 'vague' demands then specific ones, deliberately leaving out one thing while over-specficying another then acting surprised, then delaying and then asking for more with Great Britain. It was very clean, clear, concise, all of them stepped through the contract, agreed and all know what happens when. Trump does this with China for 30 years of China doing this to the US businesses. He does this to China PRC because its the language they understand and indeed its working. Get used to it. Next month he may or may not hold up one detail of a contract. Next month he might propose a 'Shelf Tax' on Chinese products. hehe.. see, its not a 'tariff' but a shelf tax on retailers. USA so clever! then he will act like China failed to do something. Then he will say its too late. Then he will demand China conceded something else or not, maybe. we'll see. Then Trump will delay. How does China like it? Fun yet? What, this doesn't taste good? Oh, i thought that you loved the taste of this since China always orders this flavor? There is no more need to wonder about it. Trump has been saying this as openly as possible for a decade, that he wil deal with China PRC exactly this way, the way they deal with the USA and just watch him do it. He is doing exactly what he promised and what Americans voted for.
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  1866. For me, at my age and life experience, I legit feel much more sorry for these women. I don't walk around blaming them but instead i blame lies. Far too many people lied to them as they grew up and misunderstood the world of men and dating and marriage. They believed these lies. The entire time, their old grandmothers at the village were correct when they compelled them to be married by 23, maybe 26 at the latest, at least one child by 28 or else you're lost and they will lose their lineage too. Here's what men find attractive, even though, full of misbeliefs themselves, this is always the premiere, this is THE factor: - The woman could best take care of his children. His future children. That's it. That is EVERYTHING. If I unleashed 1000 women to an audience of men to keep rating the most sexually attractive women who make them get some feelz in their heart and crotch area this is what would happen EVERY TIME around the planet earth in any time in our history: - Instantly the 'I want that!' goes to the most physically fertile women who it will happen, if you looked at ID would be ages 18-32ish yet no man in the crowd knew their ages. - During a series of interviews it would filter to the ones with the hips, babyfat, lush hair (fertile) to which ones seemed the most emotionally stable and least likely to thrown their own baby off a cliff until it was the ones who showed a 'nursing' type personality, attending to their niece, motherly, adoring puppies and feeding baby goats AND loving it. - Then this group would filter to SOME degree of intelligence where the hourglass shaped 21 year old who dutifully helps her elderly grandmother but is around a 83 IQ will fall behind the same woman but who is around a 103 IQ. That's that. This is THE absolutely 99% attractiveness formula for women around the planet. The end. Does not matter what some guy wants to now reply as contradicting it. I've told you THE massive central formula. Someone lied to women and told them that actually men will be a higher standard of potential mates when they see a woman with a diploma, a successful career, how she has attained a nice material lifestyle. NOPE. No maam. This reminds me of a standup comedian bit about relationships and this was way back in the 1980s so he can say "I Tried To WARN You!!" if he's an old man today. basically the observational bit was: Men and women are different, amirite? A woman goes to a party and men become more or less attractive by our jobs. She meets a man, he seems really nice, looks good. He's a supervisor at a fast food place and suddenly he just became ugly to her eyes. the next one reveals he's a CEO of a fortune 500 company and he becomes a damn good looking man. vs This is a man, he meets this smoking hottie and wow she's got a nice figure, sexy eyes.. woot.. she starts telling him she's the CEO of a fortune 500 company and he feigns interest "oh ya.. well that must be interesting work?" while he can only look at those sweet jugs. If she said "so, I work in a mortuary, y'know, I'm clean up dead bodies for minimum wage..." the man, still infatuated with her sweet jugs and gorgeous eyes "Oh ya... well that must be interesting work?:. What most didn't realize is that the joke wasn't actually a 'zinger on men!' as were most 80s jokes. "men are pigs, amirite ladies!". no, nope. Actually his comedy bit was an absolute message for WOMEN and if only more women didn't see that. men do not care about your diploma, your 'accomplishments' your job titles. They are looking at your sweet jugs and fertility and how hot you might look naked. So many of these women didn't realize this and mistakenly believed that what they would do is become the man they wanted to marry and wait for the consequent matching man. Nope.
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  1867.  @Cobalt-88  They were desperately poor well into the 1980s and the only time China ever rose past a an impovershed food-poverty zone was when massive amoutns of the 'The West' money showed up and got a kind of version of 'The West' system . so wtf kind of revisionist history are you actually trying to sell here lol?
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  1868. A few months ago I returned to Canada (Calgary) after being away for over a decade. I check into a downtown hotel and at some point wander into them setting up for a conference. - 25 brown servants are setting up while a single 55+ yo white guy in an expensive tailored suit is being cool with around three super well dressed white ladies (45ish) and then I figure out there are a lot of posters celebrating what is one of these nebulously defined org/ngo/corp/gov something like "UNCFE, we impact the safety of abled and unabled climate aware". Brown servants, just every single employee is a brown servant except the Slavs (Ukrainian refugees) working the front desk. The hotel, i find out, has some scheme where all the brown servants live in servants quarters. None of the Canadians seemed to notice this. No journalists were outside trying to find out how, in 2024, suddenly we went back to white corporate people and boomers holding self-celebrations in hotels staffed by many brown servants. The boomers weren't there with their anti-racism hippy morality taking up city council on how hiring asian servants could possibly have made a comeback AND incredibly taxpayers can even pay for part of their servitude. Nobody seemed to think anything was unsual but having been away for so long then returning to North America and seeing that was just shocking to me. Also, I have no idea where the local white people work but I can tell you there were MANY of them living in parking lots in tents about 6 blocks over.
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  1869. There is relentless dumb stuff said in this episode. It's just a train of wrong, goofy, jock-brain, dumb stuff. :(
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  1870. stop paying for onlyfans , you creep
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  1871.  @m.b.62  these are surprisingly effective ways to see into the mentality of 'johns' and how they justify the sinful vice they engage in. and the way they understand women and relationshps even if they haven't paid a woman to use her holes to masturbate. I'm not being a sarcastic jerk either, I'm seriously saying comments (like yours) are a wild window into this.
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  1872.  @unturned6066  Yes, by now we know better and seriously not joking, IF you're plan was to wreck a people, to make their world awful, brutal, socially messed up then there is no more effective thing than to create for them a kind charity and aid culture, a benevolent 'parent' who subsidizes them and have them dependent on this. Everywhere its been done for a generation or two has resulted in hapless people, strife, hopelessness and a next generation who cannot grasp the conecpt of anything else but waiting for some 'UN/WEF' or whoever it is dispense money and stuff on them. I'm convinecd if they were left alone they'd find their way. Maybe its not large commercial farms either, maybe they want to be a culture of a million small family farms. A million goldrush types where every man seeks his own minerals or mine or river gold. So what, I say , good for them. Maybe they never rise higher than a kind of rural tribal economy OR maybe they do become experts in negotiating mining rights but whatever they do - let them do it. Let them live how they want. people think Im being derogatory when I say maybe in a few decades they revert to a kind of ancient world culture where a big king has a throne of his enemies skulls and a literaly pile of gold and gems while millions of loinclothed Zimbabweans have a dance and praise and welcome foreigners with great drumming shows etc. No, I am not being sarcastic at all, I mean, really, that's awesome IF that is what they are actually and naturally wanting to do. Good! and I'd be honored to visit their kingdom and King AND I think it would be awesome for Trump to invite the King to his White House and so what? Good. God bless them. but this relentless need to somehow force them to become 'Toronto Canada' because some UN people obviously assume that is the highest thing everyone must want? No, this is ruining their lives.
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  1873.  @gorillionaire-c2e  btw the screenname makes me happy but to this thing about genetics. Even if. Even if there are natural inherent genetic propensities, and even if there are not and then to whatever degrees geography played in developing all kinds of socially adapted propesity, and then religioun shaped those into habits and preferences. Maybe this gene pool really does have a natural tendency to impatience and short-term planning but also a strong ability to run in short but very fast bursts. and then that might even get strained by weather, geography, the predatorial animals. So, yes, maybe, by the time we get to this century all I need to know is these people are that way. This is what they are best at, they lean into, this is where they are the most comfortable and the old common sense wisdom: What works for them works for them. but I say good for them! let them lean into it and do what works for them, God bless them for it. I'm now convinced the worst thing is for me or the UN people to show up and announce that from now on they need to get used to competing with a Germanic propensity to organize and engineer over long-term planning. I don't need to drop in and explain they have to learn to defy their natural tendencies by following short, tight, and relentless rules, gates, social stops and procedures called 'university' and so on. btw, I was reading some journal accounts of early European arrival in what is now Zimbabwe, the Congo and they do indeed encounter massive tribes and a super king and have drums and chants as they welcome them. how cool is that! The Europeans describe these as amazing, with admiration. being fascinated by these great African warlord kings and the way they rule and how they are painted or adorned, how they live off the land. I say COOL and I wish! Why did anyone decide we need to damn well end that so they are just another generic global society in adidas and ministers of parliament.
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  1874.  @InDadequate  Some will say "Oh.. and then in a few years they're gone backwards 300 years'. But then I think 'what was wrong with the way they lived 1725?'. from any early descriptions i can read, they lived just fine. They had tribes and close family, they foraged food just fine, they had all kinds of their own unique cultures, dress, I suppose songs and rituals, they had zero pollution, nobody was 'unemployed', every man had his own hut on a piece of land that was his 'castle', the men hunted or trained during the day, the women had their things. "ya but its primitive!" some balk. So what about it, i say? So good for them. actually i kind of admire it, in a wish i lived like that too sometimes.
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  1875.  @Member_zero  Nope, we aren't having a 'he said-she said' and 'you say your opinion and i say mine and.. No, I am telling you what has and is happening. This toxic woman stuff "hnmmm well if it makes YOU happy and feel emotions to say a false narrative whether its true or not.. gtfo with that.
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  1876.  @nicholasrockall7308  seriously, history might recall this as one of the dumbest, most selfish, stupid moves ever made. Once getting peak benefits of massive western dollars and then turned on them for sheer crappy reasons
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  1877. There is a thing where an audience will just cheer and agree with a phrase that 'soundfeels' true. At one point she establishes that her society is quick to forgive men who cheat but is very hard on women who cheat. No. That's not a 'thing'. That isn't a social truth. That is definitely not how the culture is. Indeed, society is brutally judgmental of men who cheat, cancels them, publicly shames them and so on.
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  1878. Dogs are literally the greatest survival species in the entire animal world.
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  1879. This happens because you want a man to kneel before you. Putting a man on his knees and demanding he kneels and even 'lays prostrate' is and has been the ultimate humiliation or choose to die move for centuries. He won't kneel down on the ground and knows he will have to die for it or, to save himself man's most humiliating thing he has to make you do it. You're making this happen.
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  1880. it's wild because Columbia as well as many of these similar universities are SHOCKINGLY WEALTHY with what are economies the size of small countries (not joking). yet, for some reason they get 400 million in federal money??
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  1881. Nobody told you otherwise. Why are you the 20000000th moron to post the thing nobody is complaining about in the first place?
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  1882. It can be both. Hopefully.
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  1883. This is horrifying and I think the reporters and editors know what once any kind of sexual allegation is floated about a man - that is permanent damage forever. I'd easily believe, even after the judgement, Stephan Elliot will rarely be able to work again, not in his field or in most any kind of job either. I agree with many commentators there has to be some kind of penalty for false accusations.
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  1884.  @Crabbadabba  so, even now, you still think it means a ratings system like gold, silver bronze, 1,2 and 3. You saw this video explainer and STILL decided to carry on in the error. Wow
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  1885.  @Crabbadabba  Hello AI Bot, it's not a ratings system. It doesn't refer to 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place. Smarten up, AI
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  1886. Right, I have been using some of my own daily life measures. For about 8 years we already knew that there are less and less new kindergarteners showing up at our schools. 2022-23 school year was when we hit zero new '5 year olds'. We know 2 or the 3 buildings of a newly built school haven't opened. I now measure Dancing Aunties. This is now become very obvious. For those who don't know, China has a huge population of very public and often aggressive grandmothers known as 'Da-Ma' (big moms) who are actually the most dominant and fearful demographic. The old uncles are like their mules and they love square dancing at nights. They also love annexing construction sites for their vegetable growing day jobs. Just 5 years ago there was a peak of 20 Dama and a corresponding uncle defying police and volume controls in our neighborhoods and my usual routes. 2022 saw a return but not as many as before. 2023 I noticed a significant drop. Whereever there was 50 dancing aunties was 35 and that's been dropping like mad now, there seems to be a serious lack of uncles delivery their water or carting off the recycling they collected. The police have finally claimed conclusive victory over their construction site vegetable farms and that is just down to numbers, only 12 or 15 were left. A local shop was giving away little samples and just 10 years ago they'd have been absolutely savaged by grab aunties in gangs of 50 strong. Now, only a handful bullied through to grab a few free samples. This reminds me, sorry but there is no way in Chinese hell that the amazing life expectancy rates were EVER what the CCP official numbers claimed, which I assume they picked 1 year longer than whatever was the longest average life expectancy of all countries on a list. No way. its not real. Most of these Dama generation (think of them as China's 'baby boomers') are today in that 62-72 age group and I we know they are passing away, I mean, personally we know the Old Uncles who famous smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a morning and homemade rice wine for lunch are not making it out of their 60s. Actually 60 is a good old age for them. The Dama are simply not living to '88' and those hard lives, their relentless eating of gutter oil and construction site vegetables is not letting them out of their 70s. I would easily go with the many many extrernal and 3rd party monitors who estimate 970 million and that is dropping faster than any official numbers admit.
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  1887.  @tongwu4667  It really started 2017 when Trump started countering China's massive tariffs that were unanswered for 20 years. really Biden didn't stop, however, Trump started competing against China by matching whatever their government subsidizes (nearly everything really) with counter US govt subsidies to their industries and... ..enjoy that 10% ADDED tarrif that is no long on just selected producted but 100% of everything. If you lived in China, you're poorer today than you were 7 years ago. Trump did that, he won your money. Now he's already started with Mexico and Canada and Europe is obviously next. Enjoy the competition!
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  1888. Wendover now fully indoctrinated into the Climate Change 'Extinction Rebellion' mindset. Anyway, no China isn't going to worry about "Carbon" (as in Carbon Dioxide, the stuff we exhale 'Carbon')
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  1889. 'Jane' and her husband will not be retiring in another country.
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  1890. I enjoyed the hero valet for a nice right the busted up rageboys left eye. Some heros wear white tshirts
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  1891. A kind of new belief, a kind of anti-Christian believe fell into popularity in the early 20th century but it really became the established worldview in the 1980s and maybe peaked by now: one of the fundamental worldviews of our 'Christendom', our biblical worldview is that of 'inherent sin' and the 'sin nature of man'. Biblically, its as you described, there are those who chose to become evil because they liked it. They profit from it, they get a glee in it, they want to be evil for evil's sake and their own earthly passions. but that faded to something we dubbed 'The Left' this kind of 'opposite idea' that humans are born good and it's social engineering that matters. In fact, if we only socially engineer the people, all would be good. and conversely, to have an evil character it can only be explained by some kind of malpractice of social engineering, some oppessor or oppression engineered them that way. Thus, once we get to our 1980s, 2000s this view, held by a vast majority of this entertainment world's writers, directors and most others, it has to be that way. I also miss the days when evil characters were seen from a Christian worldview but mainly because it's obvious to me that is the most realistic. Indeed, most everyone who is evil chooses evil, they sear their conscience, they justify evil choices, then eventually they are not troubled by it. They are not in some anxiety and psychological twisted state because of some wrongdoing done to them and 'if only they could work it out they wouldn't be evil!'. No, they would and are and they sleep like a baby at nights and further more, they are proud of the evil they did and even further more take some delight in convincing othes to agree and go along with it. and then they sleep like a baby at nights, as pleased with themselves as they can be. This is what I'd suggest is realistic, what we do see, what we know to be true and therefore we are more, legitimately, more frightened at the fantasy version.
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  1892. Americans aren't just Chinese people but who look different.
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  1893.  @adamiskandar5107  Nope, the USA is still the leaders in almost everything and vastly wealthier and more stable with a clear path to steady growth. Nothing you've said ever happened and no reasons to believe it could happen in the future.
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  1894. @Global-yt Maybe but I can tell you that Chinese mainlanders can only DREAM of living in an economy that can afford to have all those things. For them, they have to watch everything they have decline, they become poorer, there is less of everything and you need to keep in mind: At their best, China only got to an average place of wealth around 100th out of 200 countries and for a very short time. They weren't one of the wealthiest 'GDP Per Person' for the last 100 years of acccumulation. That is why, or partly why, China PRC's economic collapse is so bad and severe.
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  1895.  @RoyVickers-s8d  I heard you like to smear your own shlt on yourself? Is that true?
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  1896. @Global-yt Hello, no China's infrastructure is most definitely NOT any better or even equal to Americas and yes much of that is called 'Tofu Dreg' and you can crash out if you want but there is a reason you hear that. Did you ever think there is a reason why Chinese people call it that?? Ya I think your numbers are cute but the problem is, the 5th biggest real estate Vanke just collapsed yesterday with police escorting the CEO out of the building. Did you read about that? It's dubbed the 'Real Estate Collapse' and it means a LOT when you realize China is run on ridiculously bubbled real-estate speculation. So, This is what is currently happening. Not a theory. Not some 'derrr.. what are you talking about ??? derr playing dumb. This is what IS happening.
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  1897.  @Jackie-1512  Hello Foreigners, welcome to the western media. If you lived in China you'd verify this by knowing you're poorer today than you were 7 years ago. Everyone is poorer than before.
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  1898.  @rap3208  Heya, yes China overloading the patent office with every damn application they can spam it with has been a recent 'nuisance story', and, Yes doing the same with the now worthless published journals getting spammed to death, HOWEVER, What I'm asking about is the actual stuff? where's the stuff? Chinese can't 'google it' because google is blocked from their use so you tell me where this actual technology is? There are 1997-era japanese high-speed trains nearby. I don't know many people who use 5G but this European upgrade of a very old American technology is on huge dirty trees down the street? It's a bit of a problem since they over-built 5G towers which cost a lot to run and almost no Chinese even use the '5G lite' mode. hmm. I have been in a LOT of Chinese electric vehicles including riding my own around all day BUT I can't find any whizzy technology that isn't everywhere in the world and has been for decades. Lets see? Well, I dunno, I mean the newest Lenovo (and I had one for the last 5 years and it was fine, bulletproof) but it's pretty much last years specs if I was in a Best Buy. Chinese seem to like a GPS Map APP where it will show how long you wait at a traffic llight. It's like living in 2045! So now you tell me what technology you think you see happening in Mainland China? Hmm? Talk now, say what you think it is google boy?
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  1899.  @yellowbird1170  Can I give you some advice? Sometimes "less is more". Sometimes just saying 'THe Extreme Opposte' loses every bit of seriousness and makes you look ridiculous. No CHINA is the world leader richest best and hte USA is now CHINA 1960s!!! This is stoopid. Anyway, since China is economic collapse and I cannot find a single one of these "advanced technologies' in China that hasn't already existed in the USA (or somewhere else). Cannot find it. So you now get to tell me about this Chinese 'advanced technology'? Go.. tell me what it is? remember your boast is not some theoretical thing in a lab that the loser Ameica can't bring to the masses Name it? What is is? Where can I see this more advanced technology in the Chinese public world?
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  1900.  @Jl3215TOR  Oh, the current economic collapse in China where all the massive real estate companies are gone and so are the massive loans against the bubbles that financed all the restaurants and everything else. You should read up on it because its massive and it's why many Chinese are struggling now. 'Western Media' and most of the world was aware the jacked-up bloated bubble of the economy would collapse from around 10 years ago and it certainly did. I know you think it's funny but it's pretty devastating to the lives and dreams of some 970 million Chinese. You also need to stop pretending China and the USA are two 'equals' and we have our two rivals, both claiming good and bad etc. China is NOT the USA, its not near the level, its not their 'equal rival'. Use India if you want to make a comparison. India is Chinas 'counter rival' not the much much bigger, wealthier and far more advanced USA>
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  1901.  @Trace-l7k  That might be self satisfying to the person who feels their empathy emotions but it's worth reminding everyone that 'strong empathy emotions' in and of themselves are worthless to anyone else.
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  1902.  @Trace-l7k  Sure, you will take your own strong emotional feelings. You will also take joy and laughter and other strong feelings inside you. We all do. It does nothing for anyone else if you 'feel empathy' though. Only helps yourself.
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  1903. ugh.. this went full-redditor fast. :( never go full-redditor
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  1904. China hasn't changed since 2018. there is nothing you'd see that isn't 2018 but just 7 years older than it was in 2018. It's pretty much at a standstill and the only things you'll see still being done are things that were started before or during 2018 that weren't finished but already scheduled, planned and started in 2018. a 'new subway line' opening today was already in the works 7 years ago. but MANY of those things are abandoned projects now.
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  1905.  @lollymanna  Not anymore, this isn't 2017 anymore. Yes indeed, China went insane inflating a massive property bubble, building and expanding and now, and I think I said this already: the only things you'll see still being done are finishing off a number of buildings or projects started 5+ years ago. The cruel irony - all those 'bridges to nowhere' are now massive liabilities. NONE of this is 'rapid'. This is not 2010 anymore. Get that word out of your head with China, there is nothing but stagnant and VERY SLOW changes. Will you see some 'rapid' changes that 'change spatially' again? Yes, you may very well see as much as 40% of all these unfinished buildings imploded into rubble as the need to cash in the steel rebar increases. the most 'rapidly changing' deconstruction seen since WW2 I suppose. Well.. and then whatever just collapses due to age and weakening foundations etc.
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  1906.  @lollymanna  You've told me about villages being removed. I don't think that is what you really want to 'No' refute me with but yes many villages are dying out or being removed. Not 'rapidly'. Interestingly you admitted "..you can still see a lot of construction going on..." As if that's a thing that has slowed down, that doesn't happen as much anymore. You're correct. You wrote: "China still remains a massive construction site" Yes, that is the claim I've made to you, it has stopped and almost everything remains exactly that: a construction site. The Evergrandes and Vankes have all collapsed and China is resemebling a massive unfinished construction site. You're drving past construction sites that are frozen in time, abandoned and many have been there for over 5 years. And yet, despite this you CONTINUE just asserting 'China is changing so rapidly". See, that village has been demolished and see, so many bankrupted construction sites are still standing around, look at all the concrete skeletons and cranes they can't afford to dismantle! The guy in this video is right? Wrong and he can prove it. He left his city in China around what.. 5 years ago. He has, undoubtedly, hundreds of hours of video or photos from that city and around China yes? Have him dig up whatever he can from lets say 2018 onward. Now in 2025 have him walkabout, bike about and challenge him to tell us what is different 8 years later? I believe he may well find a village that is now rubble and being mowed over for an industrial farm. I believe he will find a dozen construction projects that were started 8 years ago and then you can say 'See.. this subway line didn't even exist 5 years ago!!". He most definitley will find a 'rapid change' in that 40% of all the shops seen open in his 2018 videos are now empty and bicycle locked? Almost EVERYTHING he reviews from his 2018 photos and videos will look identcal except 8 years OLDER and more worn out. Ebikes are the same but most are 8 years old now. I dare him to do exactly this and try and say 'China is rapidly changing all the time!'. No, it's stalled and has been for nearing a decade soon. You try it yourself? Do you know why I know this? This Sanyuesan I chilled at home and decided to really organize the hundreds of hours of video and photos I have from all around China: - I can no longer tell what is from 7 years ago and what was recorded just recently. that's how I know. besides actually living in this and I didn't flee China like the guy in this video to the USA but live in this every day. Do you know how I can glance at photos and video and maybe tell which is which? The buildings, clothes, eBikes, cars, buses etc etc from the 2018ish videos look shiny and new. At a glance, an almost identical video clip I took last year could be picked out by my eyes in that all those things look a little older, dirtier, worn out, the building in the background is now dusty, the windows grubby, the 2017 ebike in the photo is trashed and junky etc. Decide if you really want to keep trying to hit back with this "China is rapidly changing!' rightful stick you believe you get to use and own forever? Are you sure you want to keep this line of debate going?
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  1907. @ Ok well if those are actual Australian rules that country and eff right off as ridiculous. I'd strongly suggest that nobody with any sense should want to work in such a low IQ authoritarian rule-monger state like that lol
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  1908. @ Why is that, Karen? heeee haww heee haww... what do you GOT ME on ??
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  1909. @Schnipps  thats amazing, i think Australia needs to make that clear in adverts and even on ticket purchases so people dont keep walking into that kind of brutal inconvenience. Wow, i would plan to visit that place but that is all the confirmation more of an absolute Karenocracy little fash craphole.
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  1910.  @dw620  I don't know if Hong Kong benefits as much as the Mainland does by exploiting that charity but either way this is why Hong Kong, from now onward, does need to be treated as it were just another PRC province. Which makes me sad in the sense of sentimental feels but is the cold reality that must be dealt with accordingly.
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  1911. Brics is the box
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  1912. 'illegal' as if we all know there is a global police and justice system? Anyway, they just invaded a Russia and Russia hasn't done anything but get firebombed and struck for two more days. Now what do you have to say other than '..oh yaa...well... it WILL happen one day". I mean, really, now what?
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  1913. It's fascinating to see this state-run media position over the last week. It's what is NOT said that reveals so much. In this tariff event, Chinese NEVER mention a word about how this is going to affect China and even presents the story 'as if' China is obviously not involved so all it can do is have motherly worry about the poor people around the world. IF a viewer didn't know better, they would assume that obviously Trumps tariffs excluded China and none of this makes any difference to China. That's why they speak and present and DO NOT talk as if this has anything to do with China but only 'everyone else BUT China'. Its wild and so fascinating to see this being acted out on Chinese media!
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  1914. Antoine Doubines name should be on that screen and that man is the kind of everyday hero we need.
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  1915. Why bother writing that (or pasting it). Why?
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  1916. I don't know what application this might have but I hope it helps pull China out of the severe economic collapse it's currently going through. Maybe these can be sold to the 1st world countries? Let's hope!
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  1917.  @siddharthanayak1013  If we have to pick a year, and of course this was happening since 2019/2020 but lets pick 2023 as our start and 2025, today, his is still the middle and it won't stop collapsing for a few years before bottoming out and then see what can be cleaned up from there.
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  1918.  @BrainStar2007  Yes, great but back to the hope that whatever application this might have, whatever practical use, whatever value it creates can help China pull out of the current economic collapse. of course, you have absolutely not idea what that is.
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  1919. Podcast Cringe did make me laugh out loud though, just the ridiculousness of Joe Rogan being stumped and angry over it lol.
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  1920.  @PrimericanIdol  Midwit is your first language.
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  1921.  @PrimericanIdol  There, their, they're Midwit, you'll be okay.
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  1922. It seems to be a massive money-swindling, laundering money and tax transfers, money switching operation for elites and govt insiders. Many athletes are just wealthy children of many of those big money big influence people.
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  1923. Oof, well if that's true that's another big loss for China and another win for the USA.
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  1924. I don't care about 'restorative justice' and can't see any reason why its 'essential' or important in any way for these people to 'learn how they impacted the family' or any such things. God can deal with that, not us.
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  1925. ​ @Supernov4 yes, its superior to the irreligious. Classic superiority
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  1926.  @Supernov4  Irrationality is inferior and the opposite of 'religious'. also, stop engaging with me. this isn't 2008 reddit r/teenAtheistwarriors ffs
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  1927.  @Supernov4  eww that was so cringe. you're begging me now, its gross. nobody cares about your stupid 'atheism garbage anymore. its 2025, welcome
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  1928. thank you to Mike for explaining something that has been a strange baffling thing in my mind: Yes, like seemingly out of nowhere, Democrats and the left were banging on and over and over 'Save DEMOCRACY!' and Trump being a 'Threat to Democracy'. Marvel heroes tagged Kamala as being FOR Democracy! This is weird to me since the Democrats never banged on about this before and seem to be far more likely to appeal to government bureaucrats and authority than some pure democracy enthusiasts? NOWWWW I get what they meant. Yes, Mike Benz cleared that up. They (as they often do) loaded a different definition. What they meant is 'Democracy' is made by government branches, departments, authorities. 'The Experts have spoken and 97% concluded that... climate change... vaccines.. ". Everything makes sense, obviously, when you realize they're using the word with THEIR new meaning. Yes, Trump is a threat to 'Democracy' when (to them) democracy is powerful government oversights, the 'department of education' is for them 'Democracy' and so on. ya okay that solves that thing that I kept being weirded out by.
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  1929. I never cared about that stupid Drone Panic thing because it seemed to me, like at face value, New Jersey, I just presumed these were hobbyists and sure, some could be police drones meant to be there and others some commercial experiments prototypes and then a bunch of drone geeks.
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  1930. I think it has something to do with him being Jewish and probably coming from Russian pogrom refugee families. this is some vindictive contempt he has for the UK and 'The West' and probably hates Christianity.
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  1931. Australia is a tiny population but recently an Australia carried out one of worst mass shooting massacres and out the Australian Shooting statistics among the worst in the world.
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  1932. I can tell you this for sure - you have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe a LOT to learn. good luck getting started on that.
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  1933. I've had some odd experiences with them abroad incl. - They will be on a Canadian campus but seem fully convinced that China decided to put them there, they are only subject to Chinese laws and instructions and are 'Guests of China' (China in Canada) - They call local people 'Foreigners' when in other countries. In SE Asia they really do see themselves as if 'landlords' or the business owners, the real owners showing up in some franchise. - They will often claim a kind of rightful ownership because China is who made them. (China made the Vietnamese, they are why the Tibetans exist because of centuries of... the land actually was China back in X-year.
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  1934.  @tomtube1012  Is 5.3% higher or lower than 18?
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  1935. The trade war started 20+ years ago when China was sooo clever and 'outsmarted' the free trade agreement because they didn't put a 'tariff' on US goods.. they put a 'Shelf Tax' on them inside stores. hehe.. see Chinese so clever! Anyway, yes, of course China will continue turning its production and sales to Pakistan and Russia etc. I don't even think I saw a single American and very few Europeans at the last depressing Canton Fair. it was mostly 3rd worlders, south Americans, Pakistanis etc. yes, of course China will have a great time with an economy relying on selling cheap goods to other developing countries. Good for China! Enjoy!
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  1936. The MAGA guy is the most correct. People are getting hung on on who pays the Tariff but he is correct that ultimately, for most things, (in the case of China) it will be China that pays. Why? Because the buyers (say Walmart) won't and cannot pay more, the refuse to have the cost passed on to them. The seller, Chinese Widget World LOWERS THE PRICE the difference of the Tariff. "but how can they stay in business??" Well for about 6 or 7 years the Chinese government subsidizes them the difference.
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  1937. What country are your from?
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  1938. Can confirm - this is a very well researched and very very accurate collection of statements.
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  1939.  @krimmer66  Oh no, they do not. the Qin (Chin aka China) is establised around 900 AD. you can do the math. there is no '5000 years' lol. Chinese used to say 3000 (which is rounded off correct) then just started saying '5000' because they think its an Exam Score about who's the best and has the largest number to 'shame' the lower numbers. but anyway, it is 3000 years. This is the beginning of the Qin Kingdom that would go on to conquer many others, expand and establish 'China' all over the place. 2922 years to be exact about it.
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  1940. @Shrekisdaboss  no, that isnt how things work.
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  1941. @question5011  you can do that or even the newly popular story that actually Chinese defeated the Mongols by absorbing them! But you just cant carry on with this claim to some superior 'unbroken history' that is no more or less continuous or unbroken than Germany or Italy or Georgia or 100 others who would just as much or moreso uninterupted and his new boast nobody ever made much of before Chinas communist party decided this is a big face competition gaokao score
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  1942.  @giannis_toupolemou  of course not, its 2992 years old.
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  1943.  @CocoLovelock-cf8yo  Hello Laowai, your foreign language is quite interesting, it reminds me of 'chicken scratches' and is fascinating. You wondered where I got 2992 years and why for a very long time you and all Chinese always said '3000 years of Chinese history'. [up until last year when it was exaggerated to 5000 and as a Nationalist Pride narrative you must defend] This is because the world has some historical record of the Qin Kingdom. There were many non-Chinese kingdoms but one Qin kingdom. In fact, we believe it's where we get the word 'Chin-a' from. From the 'Chin' kingdom. There is some confusion for you because some Western scholars broadly refer to the massive mainland land mass as 'China the region' but you are asking about China, the culture and the state. The best known records in China by Chinese historians is that the Qin didn't exist as any distinct nation until 897 BC but you can just say 2992 years ago. We can round the number to 3000 years ago. You bring up the mostly legendary 'Xia' and you are correct this is, as best anyone can tell, the pre Qin roots. The Qin Nation would be formed from some of the big players children and great grandchildren in what gets called the 'Xia' era (not the Qin era since Qin didn't exist yet). For some 700 years, the Qin, which only existed as a people, a nation, an identifiable country and kingdom until 700 years earlier, They started a massive imperialist expansion eastward, conquered (and genociding and culturally genociding etc etc) eastern nations. Which were not 'Qin' but other nations. Soon they mandated Qin language, Qin measurements, Qin governmental systems, Qin citizenship (or .. slave status for the unlucky) and announced a much broader area as Qin or 'Chin'. Happy to help explain why everyone in China, Chinese scholars, everyone in the world always said 'China has 3000 years of history!' Until 5 minutes ago when you started misbelieved its a 'higher gaokao score' to make the high score '5000' then defend it as if you're helping 'defend China' lol silly.
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  1944.  @nahe-s5y  Hello Laowai, Yes, China has been conquered by the Mongolians and later conquered by the Manchurians. The Qing rule ended Chinese dynasties. there were no more Chinese dynasties after that. There hasn't been a Chinese dynasty for 400 years. The '56 ethnicities' is silly and nothing to do with anything.
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  1945.  @shanerooney7288  lol yes I hear this revisionism where actually the Chinese DEFEATED them by 'absorbing' them thus actually the Chinese conquered them! Yes, they very much changed many things in China and the Qing made Chinese a kind of 'slave class' or 2nd class citizen and forced them to dress in foreign clothing and hairstyles. The Qing was not a Chinese dynasty, it was a foreign conquerer who annexed China. but anyway, happy birthday to the PRC: 75 years old!
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  1946.  @ALFINGERBOARDS  75 years ago a peasant rebellion with some Marxist ideology utterly destroyed China.
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  1947.  @ALFINGERBOARDS  why are you two pretending that the USA tariffs are the USA attempting to conquer China??
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  1948. incorrect
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  1949. @ you replied to the wrong person
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  1950. Well, since that 2016 period (which Biden just kept going) the USA has made massive money from China. So.. what now?
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  1951. Why would you argue that Vietnam withdrawal was worse? Im not even sure why you'd think leaving Afghanistan was some massive blunder but Vietnam was about as flawless as it gets. What possible complain could you make?
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  1952.  @TheRange-w1u  No, nobody did a 'cut and run'. What they did do (and it probably wasn't the best plan) was move far too many people far too fast. Though, it was an astonishing record for the amount of flights. It's normal to leave a tremendous amount of leftovers. i mean its normal for the USA and for many countries and you don't have much to discuss because its not abnormal. That said, suggesting this is some kind of 'worst blunder in history' is beyond exaggeration into goofyland. Trump would have done a better job but the planned departure from Afghanistan went about as well as most and not as good as many .
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  1953.  @TheRange-w1u  Its normal to leave equipment behind. you found out i was correct and then, like a lying leftist, a fake media, you manipulated it to a 'the most equipment' or 'above average' so you could squirm out of this. further more, getting a lot of flights out is difficult when throngs are attaching themselves to planes. anyway you're a goof.
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  1954.  @scottyler2903  US manufacturing is on the rise.
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  1955. This was some damn good stuff. Peterson has the right idea with the real online university which is to say its actually made to be online. Almost everything else is, as described, its more like a Uni just posts some dull obligatory 'web-a-like' stuff and calls it an online course. Realistically, if we're talking the 'liberal arts' and 'humanities' almost all those can now be done online.
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  1956. You should find another religion, Christians don't need toxic women like you poisoning everything.
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  1957.  @leedavis6343  Ok we get it, you're morally superior to, not only Christians but any of the religions.
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  1958.  @mejuliie  Oh boy.. welp.. good luck on that joining a church thing :(
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  1959.  @Drebolaskan  No, its a full step down to crazy sideways with goofs like you who interpret the world as cvnty little fandom jealousy/flexing battles done with shltty emojis. acckshually
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  1960.  @anhkhoanguyen8562  yeesh the child-like brain you need to come up with this. 'He IS' because you'r brain cannot comprehend he isn't a teenager like you and this does tell me you'd do absolutely anything, sell out anyone and carry out grotesque evil for money and power if you could.
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  1961.  @RickJaeger  Sir, this is a youtube, not a reddit. Anyway, little logic lord, realistically none of these people are going to prison, nobody would care if he was 'impeached' but you've sentenced yourself to being a f-word.
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  1962.  @kaspermcleish5255  Yes, that's right, somehow is carrying out this war so he doesn't have to be arrested in Switzerland as if that would ever actually happen. really, take a bit to think about what you're saying and how you imagine the world and people work and don't work.
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  1963.  @Lullanic  Oh, why not now? or the last 20 years?
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  1964.  @pointfrogg  Its more shocking how many of you think he is a King or Emperor or Mulah and not someone who is elected to serve the people's interests. "he's sacrificing his own people' is something you'd say about a commie regime leader, Xi Jinping or and Islamic Califphate. but anyway, carry on dimwits.
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  1965.  @7ayin  I'm smarter than you, more worldly, more knowledgeable, wiser and you're S and G. that's all you need to know, sheeple goof
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  1966. He appeared to use Canadianisms and Canadian accents sometimes "...so Buddy over there, he goes.." and even looks like some McGillivary's I knew from New Brunswick/Maritime area. That said, I suppose he's been traveling around North America so long he's picking up any and all regional accents as he goes along and soaks up wherever he is for whatever given time.
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  1967. Ya but you were rewarded by being able to pleasure yourself with drugs then at some point get a wife, kids and home.
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  1968.  @AngkarYearZero  This is correct. The ones who never abused them should be getting the 300 upvotes and encouragement first. The ones who are 15 years sober (which is good) but that is lesser achievement.
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  1969.  @AngkarYearZero  It's a strange infatuation that seems to come out of the Christendom world (formerly) but where a repentant sinner is given some sort of 'holiness' not granted to the ones who never sinned. I worked for a company in Canada where the boss himself was a recovering alcoholic. He introduced, as if a kind of righteous religious mission, a program where he would hire recovering drug and alcohol recovering addicts. This just enrages me to this day thinking about the injustice of that when a dozen men applied who DID NOT turn to drinking and drugs to waste half their life, yet, He'd hire them and let me tell you: They were in a special priveleged ittle level none of the other employees were. If the former drunk didn't show up for work a kind of 'rescue mission' was launched to make sure he was okay. a kind of 'holy prayer circle' was formed around him the next day. He was given support and the rest of us should go mind our business because the Important One got too drunk (oh, 'relapsed') and didn't come to work, meanwhile, the ones who did NOT drink themselves stupid show up 10 minutes late and get a real talking to about how they need to smarten up or else - there's the door. Another got warned severely for taking an extra 5 minute smoke break out back but one of the ex-druggies disappeared for a full afternoon to go get self-pleasured on meth or whatever his buddy had a bag of. Oh boy, that 'Holy One' was given all kinds of love and hugs and lots of 'understanding' because after all, he'd only been out of prison for committing crimes against people and society for only a 3 months and was on probation. The boss agreed they needed to 'help each other' get through it. Enraging. and just look at how many are here posting their brags, their boasting, coming to cash in on the special praises and huge respect they earned by stating the years they are sober. Oh, brother, I am with you on this, 100% and we need more of us to start turning this around. Someone post: "Im turning 35 years old and marking my 35th year of not abusing drugs or alcohol" and that's who I respect the most.
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  1970.  @dashong8912  Yep, pretty much as well as they've been in the 45 years I've been traveling or living back and forth between their, North American and East Asia. Come off what? They've had worse times, recessions, lower and higher but they are what China's PRC Would UTTERLY FANTASIZE about having HALF if it were possible. If at its PEAK (around 2015) China could have 25% of that economic stability, that much durability, that level of wealth 'per citizen', have that much stored up in reserves and acquisitions.. China was just dreaming orgasmic dreams. Today, in China's economic collapse? They are no longer even fantasizing they could be 1/4th as wealthy and stable and what the UK and EU are. and that's just their 'fairly well' average economies. Now you know better.
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  1971.  @jeremyk6560  It's because you're used to be so wealthy and having sweet amounts of 'Disposable Income' and now having less disposable income for movies, vacations and chocolate bars. We could call this a 'First World Problem' and yes it sucks because before you used to upgrade to the newest X-Box every year they came out and now you cant and are barely able to afford your 'steam' or Disney+ subscriptions anymore. Meanwhile, China is entering a 'cost of malnutrition living' stage.
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  1972.  @LHITShappy  I'm sorry to hear about your first world problems. Your counterpart in Mainland China could only DREAM of living in the 30k quid a year world with social programs, NHS, the standards of food safety, social welfare, workers rights and just the stability. You don't get to 'disagree', its just the way things are.
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  1973.  @jackji4370  Yes, most of them are doing fine. Likewise, most of SE Asia is doing really well now, rising and dynamic. None are anything near the economic collapse happening in China's mainland.
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  1974.  @lijackson-x6r  Oh no, China is most definitely relying on manufacturing and exports, this is nearly the one and only big thing that keeps it from descending into the poverty hole it was before it agreed to be a massive manufacturer. One of the reasons for the current economic collapse is the slight reduction in that one single lifeline to stay a semi-modernzed 2nd world country. These other things are the fantasy and the thing they planned but there is no way on earth these things can outrun the gigantic losses in mass producing and shipping toys and sprockets. speaking of how things collapse: Investing massive amounts of the remaining wealth into these things (they require the government taking money and losing money at first) this is how it happens. You end up with massive amounts of crappy 'robot dogs' that have to be sold at a loss, fields full of EVs that get sold at a loss and 80% of the population stands around wondering why they're unemployed and have a little less food in their bowl. not good. This is NOT a good thing.
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  1975.  @lijackson-x6r  China could only wish they still had such a luxury. Unfortunately they are far far beyond that kind of easy living and 1st world wealthy problems.
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  1976.  @jienz1990  Hello, I'm referring to the massive economic collapse in China and how bad it's been so far. This is using the term 'collapse' in the sense economists use it. In China's case, a great deal of it's economy was based on highly inflated real estate bubbles. In just the last 2 years, this massive prop of the economy has 'collapsed'. Which is to say yes 'bankrupt' (for those companies like Evergrane and yesterday Vanke). Out of business. Yesterday, police actually took the Vanke CEO out of the building and locked the doors. This doesn't just mean millions of Chinese constuction workers, millions of real-estate people are unemployed. Because this was all a massive bubble for financing (well really a massive amount of things in Chinas economy, long list) it means those are now going to fail. and of course they are and it's why China's streets are now row upon row of closed retaurants, cafes, clothing shots etc. Those were being 'bankrolled' by real estate money (well, money that didnt' really exist so to speak). So this then see's massive numbers of those owners and workerss without jobs and income. Next up, because massive numbers of Electric Vehicle companies were also bloated, bubbles of speculation and also funded by 'Evergrande' etc they are also going to go bankrupt. Thus 3000 more EVs will be ordered removed from the sales lot and show up in the field behind my apartment. I guess it's fine since there are nothing but unfinished high-rises and weeds back there. The workers will be outside being poor and unemployed so there will be more riot police doing walks around my apartment so keep them in order. What you can do is stop believing that 'The West' must live inside their version of a Chinese media Firewall and this thing where you're pretending 'What... I don't know what you're talking about??" thking (hhehe.. the readers won't be able to know who's telling the truth since they can't see inside China). Knock it off. Its stoopid and ghey. Meanwhile, this is a real problem for a lot of Chinese people. Not just because they are unemployed and thus poorer than ever but because they also thought their real estate investment would be a kind of security for them and instead their home is worth 50% of what it was a few years ago. by law. It would be worth less but to prevent the economic collapse from getting worse the govt makes it against the law to sell for less than 50% of the purchase price. Any other fake questions? If you really wanted to know and readers wanted to know they can type in 'Economic Collapse of China' in this Youtube Search bar and choose the 100 best and newest updates. The economic collapse of Mainland China is literally one of THE biggest news stories in the world.
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  1977.  @anjuna_deep  That doesn't make any sense. why would I have 'Sour Grapes' syndrome? I dare you to try and explain?
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  1978.  @cloudwithwind  nope, what Im telling you is an open book, verifiable and obvious if you want to be someone like me who travels and lives in different countries (so far 5 different ones last year) including Mainland China. IF Vietnam just did a China and posted these fake GDP digits that would be one thing but its another when I physically, personally see Foxconn China close and lay off people then a few days later see Vietamese who cannot build and hire enough to get the new Vietnamese foxconn factories going. I get to see and experience Japan finally having a little boost, a little surge of prosperity from 20 years of flattening out. I get to experience Cambodia on a wild surge and for the first time becoming modernized. I can see and feel and touch the USA rumbling up to a new 'golden era' and finally renovating and people have a bit of money again. and then China PRC. Really the only one that is in economic decline, a recession, in the crater of severe real estate bubble collapse. and there is nothing but aging and leftover projects and now the population decline is very much evident in real daily life. You can just shout 'nonsense' but this is very real hard living and a harsher reality for a lot of Chinese who have to suffer through this. Not suffer 'inseurity shame' like the wealthy Chinese (who are as wealthy as ever) but looking for food, medicine and heating money to get by another month.
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  1979.  @jkw6196  No, their debt is definitely not spiraling out of control anymore but this hasn't stopped their dollar from being very very valuable. Its still very prestigious. We don't have to debate it and make shtty little 'narrative creation' stories at each other. You can simply see its the premier currency, on of the most valuable in the world. This is people who put their money where they're mouth is, they confirm this, not us.
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  1980. @davidwong5197  no, its me telling you about things currently happening.
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  1981.  @KayyHong  That's a downgrade
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  1982. @ The Truthhole!
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  1983.  @晴天-k2t  Hello Laowai, well, yes actually it will be but then again China isn't nearly strong enough to carry on being wealthy AND have 35 trillion in debt. Economic powerhouses like the USA can afford to carry 35 trillion in debt and stay far wealthier than China ever was. What's worse is that nearly all of Chinas economy relied on a massive real-estate bubble. Keep laughing?
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  1984.  @Auzzzie82  China's PRC is only 75 years old. As you know, that is a 'Gaokao score' and the lowest scores feel 'social shame'. Thus you are jealous of the USA's high number and China's baby 75 years hee haww hee haww
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  1985. what a meaningless observation though? Why even make such a comment? "ya but pretty women exist in he west too" "I watched your video and 11th floors exist in The West too.. and everywhere in the world" "It may not be as much but Chinese language is spoken in The West too and most countries on earth have some Chinese speakers". What is the compulsion to write these kinds of comments? Did you really think a lot of viewers are so incredibly stupid that they might be misled and think "Derrrrrr?? wowww this ONLY happens to ANY degree in these 4 east asian countries!! Derrrrrr?!" then you think "oh oh.. i better help out here... I better make sure I tell people that it also happens in OTHER countries but i better say 'The West' so they know the blame points all cancel each other out". can you explain your thinking?
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  1986.  @colorfuljosh  wtf HERRR DERRR!!!
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  1987. I'd like to see a documentary series on people who've done outrageous jail sentences, seemingly, because they were well-known public characters. Nobody says they were 'innocent' but do some comparisons and find out why that televangelist Jim Bakker got an insane 30-something year sentence for what 1000 others have done and seen fines and/or 3 years at most. Martha Stewart wasn't innocent but sending her to actual prison for five months was insane. I'm also astonished Felcity Huffman did 2 weeks in jail. In an actual jail. People won't like this because, on the internet or real life, they think they're going to 'take a stand against SA' but Bill Cosby, at age 80-something did actual prison time, a shockingly long 'life sentence' for something thats done every saturday night everywhere, consensual sex while getting blasted on drugs. None are innocent, nobody says the accusations are 'ok' but when you look at some celebrity convictions and sentences some stand out as bizarre bias as if making some public lesson out of them.
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  1988. IMO, the Chinese are correct to believe Trump isn't really interested in some champagne uncorking 'We did it!' negotiation where everyone lays the new numbers. It won't stop from Trump. If tomorrow they announce some new deal '0 for 0' and China agrees to remove x-taxes and barriers AND the USA agrees to buy XYZ. Hurrah, everyone toasts and goes back to work, Trump reminds everyone how he got a great deal from China and.. No. Trump will then start turning screws on others to isolate China, he wil start carrying out Chinese container ship levys, then wreck their stock exchange benefits, lobby to remove them from the WTO. EVEN if Beijing finally makes grand agreement, ok ... everyone, Trump and Xi did it again! 'Yes, but..' Trump then finds a way to start replacing anything from China from soybean sales or bringing in tshirt and shoes and it won't stop. So, yes, I can see why Chinese would rather skip all that and go directly to what they know is coming no matter what. Why prolong it? Why get Trumped in several phases when they know he is going to the final endgame now.
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  1989.  @MarianaMoreira-n6j  good stuff, thanks.
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  1990. Nope, they are usually 'less vulnerable' whatever creepy thing that means. They aren't 'children' or like some 'pets' where they are to be talked about as 'more vulnerable' like they don't know what they're doing or not doing.
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  1991. I'm not trying to be a Thomas Sowell here but I'm old enough to remember being a teenager in that 1970s/80s era and like a lot of boys I always looked at construction sites. Many of the men looked like Marvelous Marvin Hagler. I mean, there were lots of Whiteys but lots and lots of Black American men. tough guys, muscles, lean. got the hardhat on. The supervisor was a Louis Gosset Jr guy, a no-nonsense middle-aged black dude who was watching everything. That was normal. If there was a 'stereotype' for black men in my youth, they were 'construction workers'. They were 'tough working class guys'. That actually is where Hagler (the middleweight boxing legend) that's his 'story', he was famed for the toughtest hammer-throwing construction worker on the site and that's how he became the toughtest hardest working boxing legend of all-time. That was a 'stereotype' of Black men back then. These jobs WERE solid middle-class jobs. you won't get rich or 'upper middle' nope but you made a damn solid middling income with a rancher home, 2 kids and a 7 year old but reliable used truck and a damn good Thanksgiving turkey, thanks. Oh and just to be clear: There were plenty of big old white guys throwing hammers just fine. maybe more than half of them would be some sweating white guy. No, I don't mean temporary cheap foreign workers from Poland but your everyday 20/30 something local Whitey American and they were good at it. Just fine. but to joiin the choir: Yes of course they'd do that today just fine and proudly but they can't do it for barely enough money to go in debt and then have to declare bankruptcy and barely make enough to pay ONLY the mortgage on a home never mind everything else. They can't do that so they become poorer and poorer every year they swing hammers.
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  1992. We can very safely assume this will make things worse, more expensive, more difficult and that will be a huge success to the many people involved in the scheme, resulting in exactly what they manufactured and want happening for themselves.
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  1993.  @kstephenson9465  that's adorable you did a little superficial visit to the shiniest tourist zones in China. Me too. uncountable times but then most of my adult life has been living, working, touriing, criss-crossing China from top to bottom, from rural to city and everywhere in between. China is currently in a severe economic collapse and you wouldn't know that but it peaked in 2018, stopped leveled and is now on a very rough downward slide. Also you shouldn't lie and insult your own self and culture like that. You do NOT think Sydney is 'much more backwards' and its gross you thought you should say that, you mouth little creep.
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  1994. India is the '1.5 billion people'. China is around 960 million people and has one of the lowest rates of domestic consumption in the world. This is one of the main reasons it's been getting poorer and poorer for years already and why it will be even poorer by the end of 2025.
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  1995.  @sulf49  You don't need to be smart to know this, 3rd worlder
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  1996. The opening question in this video is actually a very very keen question and so much so that all three instantly swerved to anything else and talked of how things are. But that question is a double-edged sword that forces the Leftists and the Righties to some confessions. I'd suggest something though: - As a general 'right-wing conservative' type of worldview, ideally, IF it were possible, the end-game, the goal, is YES they would love a world where every country is wealthy. (democratic.. hmmmm...maybe not actually but probably yes, mostly). Versus, - The Lefty gets stumped on this. The typical left-wing neo-marxist gets stumped because what you just asked them to imagine is a world where she isn't a little goddess who 'invests in people' and 'helps them' and is white savior AND to the communist there a world where there is no 'Worker vs Capitalist' or today 'PoC vs Whites'. Then they lost their mechanism and their status and then what when there are no 'victims vs oppressors'? BTW this reminds me, Triggernometry guys. I once posed this kind of question on Reddit before getting massive rage replies and banned for racial incitement etc but it goes like this: - I ask them to suppose the year is 2040 (or any year) but the point being is we all wake up one day to the news; for the first time the dream is reality. We tripled checked identity cards and the central monitoring of race/gender/sex lusts/transmen etc etc and guys.. we did it! Exactly 50% of CEOs are women. Not only that there is exactly 50-50 wage equality across the boards. The digital monitors confirm exact number of homosexuals per position, per capita, there is flawless income equality for the black class, the brown, we double check and in fact, we cannot find a minority, class, color, gender, that hasnt, AT LAST it worked, we did it!! It's not just a fluke, incredibly the number of perfect equality of gays, penis, vagina, 50% of scientists are female, everything actually just stays that way for years and decades.. ...Describe what actually happens? Meaning, what benefit happens? what is the advantages we start seeing. Is there new inventions? all people become wealthier, happier? We see murder and crime rates take a meaningful decline? Foods, cars, bridges all get better faster and pollution, cooler global temperatures?
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  1997. Almost all uses of 'Boomers, Genx, Z, etc' are meaningless and nobody even uses the term 'Gen X' properly anymore. I get called 'Gen X' even though I am the children of Boomer. Oh, we definitely did NOT 'screw' and are absolutely the first generation utterly wrecked by the Boomer rampage. We. Us. worst hit. no doubt. But there is some great information in this and how things work. This reminded me that about a year ago I was visiting my family in White Rock, BC. Little India. So, I am just astonished at the absoluteley RAPID build of these condos everywhere. The locals tell me that Condo Construction sites were the only place utterly unaffected by Covid. non-stop from 2020 relentless activity to get those up. We also happen to know the main real estate Singh. You can see his face on his adverts everywhere. So we were telling him how he's famous and he must be exhausted running and showing home after home. NO! nope. He lets us in on something... almost ALL his sales are right there on his phone, calls from India and the majority of the condos have sold sight-unseen and further more most have never even been to Canada. The day that condo is officially on the market he gets the call at 7.59 AM and an Indian drops his offer and at 8.06 AM the next and next and its sold that day. They only ever needed to look at the online blueprint and photos. done and done. he tells us many won't actually move in for a few years. some are occupied by his daughter or an uncle that lives in Canada comes by etc but they actual owner may not take their first ever visit to Canada until maybe 2 years after purchase over a phone.
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  1998. tbh I really dislike this 'bends the knee'. This is what Chinese shame-culture people and 3rd worlders like talking about (and toxic gamer boys). What if we tried being Christendom types and had some respect. yes indeed, Trump convinced them and so much respect to the Panama govt for seeing it this way.
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  1999. The 'shockwave' is when you realize that that is 40% less money China gets for them. Think about it... think....
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  2000.  @ZweiZwolf  Not all chips are the same. indeed, 28s are going to be cheap and so on. but 8s and 2s .. these are going to be very expansive for a long while. Taiwan and the USA (and Switzerland?) will be producing these. The PRC section of won't.
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  2001.  @goldriverbank6647  I have been waiting a year and so far there's no reason to believe it's happening. So I am making that judgement now.
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  2002. One of the easiest and first things would be removing the artificial US Canada border. You just removed that unnecessary line and that's the end of that part of the problem. You simply make an agreement any American/Canadian can live in either as long as they like wherever they like to buy it or rent it. Then you make an agreement any American company can hire any Canadian and vice-versa and there are no 'visas' involved. You've done almost everything necessary immediately AND its so smooth and unremarkable that nobody even seems to notice. 5 years later nobody thinks about it anymore.
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  2003. but they aren't better.
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  2004. No, you don't.
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  2005. ​ @kevak1236 nope, i dont believe you.
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  2006.  @GreGmcGuinness_  super casual take
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  2007.  @larrysellers7891  I suppose we'd have to define 'well-schooled'.
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  2008.  @ashr704  keeping in mind Fury was the best of the best Fury has ever been in the last bout. so, somehow he has to be better than his best ever.
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  2009. @bingzhao9314  hello foreigner, yes they would like the US importer to pass it onto US consumers but that isnt what happens. What has continued happening for 7 years [most products] is China loses the difference. This is partly why everyone in China is poorer today than they were 7 years ago.
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  2010.  @JessicaJohnson-mv7lb  Hello, once again someone is so sure because they heard 'the importer pays the tariff'. but YOU added "and passes it on to the consumer". Wrong. in most cases (not all) the importer is going to tell the supplier these wont sell (they wont) and the manufacturer sells them for less. I'm not 'debating' this with you. We aren't having a 'theoretical argument' or a 'he said - she said'.This IS what has happened, and is currently happening over 7 years. You don't get to say 'NO youre wrong' because anti-trump types dominated your social media with that made-up thing they never said when Biden kept ALL the same tariffs on China. I promise you, this is what actually happened (done, not will, but has been already done) in much of China on most things. not all but most of these products.
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  2011.  @xjfify  hello laowai, welcome to our western media. no, nothing you said is ... lol... no. that is definitely now how it works.
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  2012.  @bingzhao9314  and yet, China is not happy about US tariffs.
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  2013. ​ @st3ppenwolf oh ya, whats the reason?
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  2014. ​ @JeanGunnhildr88 chinese pay for them by reducing the price and usually govt subsidies. If i add chikdish emojis will it help? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  2015. ​ @st3ppenwolf your explanation is to say a thing you jist kinda think you heard: 'because cross the board tariffs hurt everyone' lol holy eff.. you need to stop. You dont belong here lol
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  2016. ​ @JessicaJohnson-mv7lb nope, we arent debating this because for 7 years we see where most (not all) are passed back onto the manufacturers in China. Im not asking you. I am telling you this as an current fact of life. You were lied to
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  2017. I was already convinced Twitter is a toxic garbage dump. If it disappeared one day - earth becomes 3% better overnight.
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  2018. about 16:00 minutes in the myth that won't go away. No, the experts did NOT think the earth was flat. people didn't think the earth was flat, this is not a 'thing' in human history, throughout the ages, from the Hebrews to the Chinese from Greeks to Assyrians anyone who was every recording any such things seemed very sure the earth was some sort of 'globe'.
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  2019. speaking of dishonesty. 'there were not bodies being diescrretly removed from homes'. Well a keyword there is 'discreetly'. In ways that you, in lockdown wouldn't be able to see happening (not likely). Right? Tell me, how often have you ever seen bodies removed from homes, anywhere, in the UK or China or elsewhere? ALmost never? yes because its usually done "discreetly". One of the reasons I know something about this? One summer I worked for a funeral home and I was the assistant 'discreet remover'. If you lived in big cities in China, populations of over a million then you realize that 1000s of people die every day right? do some loose math, population, life expectancy, births + deaths divide by 365 days a year etc etc. 1000s. No, I dont mean covid, I mean naturally. any time, any year, any day. Tell me how often you've ever seen a body being removed from a home or hospital? Maybe once or twice? Now what?
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  2020. I don't believe the premise that 20% will self-deport. This would be true when it's 1 out of 5 who, in the previous decades, they were aware they were being caught, they were facing trials etc. IF (big IF) but IF Trump's admin really does carry out relentless dedicated mass deportations then it won't be long before some 60% self-deporation happens. This is based on the previous dedicated mass deportation of Mexicans in what was that.. the 1920s? When the dust settled the numbers said something like 65% had simply self-deported. but again, if you're using numbers from the recent administrations then yes, it would be like 20%, no doubt. That's of the ones who were actually aware they were in line for deportation, either offiically were or even just knew they would be sooner or later. but IF IF IF the Trump plan actually does carry out as they promise? Then it peaks at 60% self-deporting again. and, I'd suggest IF they reform the court system as they say? The self-deporting might go faster than it would. If you realize it could be just 3 months instead of 2 years? A 'self-deporter' may just decide to leave sooner rather than later.
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  2021. I was relieved that Chris '90s Wrestling Circuit' wasn't one of the commentators but unfortunately he interjects and with his stupid scoring. But at least he wasn't allowed to ruin it with his 1990s Morning DJ self.
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  2022. I don't know how to tell you this but Americans have crazy rates of car ownership and 'cars per capita' and it's normal for their poorest people on welfare in 'ghettos' to have a running vehicle, its normal to see a family home with not just two but three cars (mom, dad, son or daughter) and there is no shortage of good used cars for sale for low prices. For others, 'Uber' is widespread and used all over the place. NEW cars are overly expensive now. Americans didn't just develop roads and now the only way you can drive is to buy a new car lol
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  2023. Why do you think the term, the concept 'Democracy' means well kept parks??
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  2024.  @TonyW-z9w  incorrect
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  2025. Congrats on military weakling China for overbuilding way too many 1997-era Japanese bullet train tracks in a GDP bloating world record that now takes a whopping 5% of their yearly wealth just to keep running. for almost nobody.
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  2026.  @brentfisher6484  I see, and did you tell your older brother that the cost of the tariffs is passed on the US consumer? even though in most cases that has no, did not and still isn't happening or how it actually works, prof economics?
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  2027. @ The USA puts massive taxes on the rich. The rich pay just about 50% of all taxes in the USA. So why did you say the US doesn't tax the rich?? Did someone tell you that?
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  2028. @Minris1  a billionaires 5% on personal income is massive but they pay gigantic taxes through everything they buy, trade and sell. Its gross you have this 1st year college kid understanding but now talk like a chortling knowitall who pities the fools. Yuckkkk
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  2029. @Minris1  i will pay you to fix your autospell thing to render 'lose' (not win) instead of loose [not tight]. Please fix that
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  2030.  @Minris1  this is embarrassing now. someone who's barely able to put food on the table pays 0% tax. In the USA at least (actually most western 1st world democracies) but certainly in the USA. Zero. 0% tax and is very likely to qualify for food and social servics paid for by the billionaires taxes. btw the original comment is about 'gross taxes' not individuals mrs 'just wow' changing the subject when you got wrecked on the first angle. now what? you've hit the wall on BOTH your attempts?
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  2031. @Minris1  youve been bluffing your way through this and whats hapoened is you were wrong and cant 'argue' with anything anymore. It was weird how you showed up talking like an ole world finance professor. That was weird.
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  2032.  @Steven87915  It's amazing how many people do NOT see the bizarre contradictions in these 'Trump tariffs actually hurt the USA!' narratives. They say this AND a sentence later talk about how they need to 'counter-tariff' and 'battle back with their own tariffs'. Wait? Huh? Didn't we just hear how that allegedly wrecks the country that does that? "Beijing laughs at US tariffs only hurt the USA!' and "Beijing warns the USA it will put China Tariffs against the USA!" nope, they don't even acknowledge the contradicton coming out of their mouths.
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  2033. Yes, of course it is.
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  2034.  @scottb32a  Of course it was. You could also find television documentaries, movies about it and then no shortage of all this in museums across the UK. Question: are you from a communist or formerly-communist country?
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  2035.  @scottb32a  Yes, of course it was and you've heard and knew all about this from your earliest memories. You also saw it referenced in movies, TV programs, plays and cam across it in Museums. What happened to you? Were you suspended from school or sent to special classes or how could you have missed it?
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  2036.  @scottb32a  Where did you really grow up and go to school?
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  2037.  @jchock7503  Nope, they teach all about the victories over the Qing and how they conquered China. Always have.
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  2038.  @scottb32a  Yes, I am funny but I'm also wise to the world on some subjects. What school system were you raised in? Was it in Mainland China?
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  2039.  @scottb32a  You didn't go through the British school system so I'm curious which one you did? Was it The PRC?
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  2040.  @scottb32a  No, you didn't go to school in England or you'd know they certainly did cover the Opium Wars in the 1980s. Tony Blair absolutely knew all about the Opium Wars throughout his schooling. You and I aren't having a 'debate' because this is found in textbooks all over the UK so it's not some 'argument'. So why are you doubling down?
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  2041.  @scottb32a  was it the peoples republic of china?
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  2042. Annelise is easily one of the most 'easy on the eyes' presenters on the planet. that said, I'm still madly in love with Rita, as always.
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  2043.  @sciteceng2hedz358  oh good, if you have a link to recommend please post it.
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  2044. I'm going with the theory he simply died of old age aka heart stopped. She discovered this and went into hysterics and ran to take some benzo pills to calm down but she simply panicked and took too many and went out before she ever got to phoning 911. sadly, the dog, which may have been older (?) but it succumbed to dehydration or maybe it ate some pills on the floor? I found him to be a very boring actor in almost everything he ever did.
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  2045. @ What, specifically, do you think is nonsense? Go on?
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  2046. China PRC is nowhere near 'surpassing' the USA. It's not even close, it's impossible. Are you that misinformed you'd actually belch that out?
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  2047.  @creatrixZBD  Nobody asked about length.
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  2048.  @dazeychayn  shhhush
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  2049.  @Tsenq  eww yuck
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  2050. No. that isn't real. China has been putting tariffs on the USA for 20+ years. Trump decided to start putting them on China. You didn't know this? How do you not know this?
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  2051. nope, what will happen is China (or whoever) will eat the difference and take '10% less' and you'll pay the same price. but WOWWW this lie is working wonders on people. amazing how you believe this and keep believing it.
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  2052.  @richsmith3120  stop agreeing with them. that isn't how it works.
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  2053. It sucks for China and its a big demotion. Not long ago was given the keys to the big 1st world economy of the world and lots of its money. now its going to be shipping giant to the unstable 3rd world poorer nations and a handful of developing ones too.
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  2054. So youre just shouting 'What about somewhere else!' and 'Why not talk about ALL 500 island disputes!?' Childish.
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  2055.  @myintmaunmaun  Why, because it's off-topic?
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  2056.  @rollingdownfalling  The topic today is China, Vietnam and Philippines.
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  2057. China isn't Americas 'Equal Rival' though.
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  2058. @flyrodmike  nope, im not wrong and neither was he. China is currently in economic collapse.
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  2059. @grounddove  no, you dont think that.
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  2060. @lilacer6841  lets hope not because China is in the middle of severe economic collapse. It wont be much help to Britain.
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  2061. @sandycampbell447  its in a very difficult place at the moment.
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  2062. @rap3208  at the moment, the G7 could decline 50% and still wouldnt be as poor as Chinas mainland was at its peak in 2016 but.. the problem is that a relatively poor nation like China cant just lose half its value before real malnutrition, real severe poverty shortens lives and these levels of poverty. This is the real life world for us in China while you do childish lies online.
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  2063. @georgewilder7423  dont talk to adults that way. You do that in your shittykid gamer chats.
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  2064.  @jwoods6585  All they need to do is look up China (PRC) official public disclosures to see that the real-estate market has and is collapsing. This is the official government position.
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  2065.  @scroopynooperz9051  Nope, about 10 years ago he correctly predicted the economic collapse China is currently going through. He figured around 2030 but has since agreed it obviously happened sooner than he thought. Mind you, by 2015 it was pretty obvious a massive real-estate collapse was obviously destinied to come. More recently, in light of the economic collapse happening now and the speed and the things ensuring it gets worse (like bloating GDP with 1000s of kms of Japanese bullet-train tracks) Zeihan predicts China as we knew it in our lifetimes won't exist as such before the end of the next decade. This isn't as much about the current ongoing economic collapse but the stunning population decline as well.
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  2066.  @jimthain8777  You're mistaken and don't understand Peter has had TDS for quite a while now. It's actually apparent when he has to make his mind disagree with things in order to reconcile the TDS with what he knows to be true. You on the other hand just tried to do something. You thought it sounded like a snarky internet guy "this is how people talk so watch me and I will add a capital LOL" but you don't know what you're talking about.
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  2067.  @Jay-vt1mw  nope, that's not a thing that we all know happened, its not a narrative.
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  2068.  @slappyabromowitz  TDS doesn't imply histrionics. Keep in mind TDS is a spectrum just like most psychological disorders. Peter is just coming out of a kind of apoplectic shock (Trumps win) so the first reappearing symptoms are going to be mild 'mitigation'. This is where any talk about Trump requires at least one mitigating counter. I'm making up a classic exaxmple: -- "So, Trump did win the electoral college but lets be clear this wasn't quite the 'landslide' he'd like to boast about. A win, yes, but ...margins 2%, states by only.. this was not Reagan ". -- the TDS sufferer CAN acknowledge a Trump win but it must be mitigated by some 'didn't win' observations for at least as many words or more Should a Trump trade policy prove itself undeniably effective? TDS has to be sure to minimize, truncate and backhand compliment. like this: ------- "welp, despite all the flubs, and there have been a few!, but in spite of all that let's give Trump credit where it's someimes due, at least he got this one thing right... well.. for now, until he finds a way to screw it up" ------ Zeihan has 'Long TDS' which can be a slow burn and takes a while before he starts mentioning that something Trump is "playbook" and 'Hitler' and ends up ranting 'hysterically' from a basement broadcast. No, it's really a myth that TDS invokes histrionics. TDS sufferers are far more likely to be the victims (of themselves) in relentless life-draining mental chess games of mitgation, obfuscation, caveats, invoking self-blindness here but hyper-awareness there, playing dumb, exaggeration, conflating and more likely to wear themselves down into 'fog states' than hysteria. Granted, 'histrionics' could appear in menopausal females and/or celebrities afflicted with TDS.
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  2069.  @jeanaprewitt9658  Yes but you were being told about how it squares with his many bodybuilding meds.
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  2070.  @pugsymalone6539  but can you?
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  2071.  @pugsymalone6539  no, it was never truly your home. you lived in your investment property.
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  2072.  @bogwhopet1032  Why do you believe he did it to "feel good about himself" though? Wouldn't you SLOWER FASTER FACTS give you reason to believe he's embarrassed and feels worse about himself?
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  2073.  @oggyoggy1299  It's especially baffling since his times are very carefully recorded as would be all the times on the female team. He would already know he's faster. He'd already beaten, bested all the women's swim times. I mean before he became a woman, he already knew this and had done that.
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  2074.  @bogwhopet1032  Eh, he had middling times in the men's but those were already faster and had beaten and bested the women's times. sorry but your explanation doesn't fly.
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  2075.  @SarahSmith-zj2ek  Yes and being ranked in the middle of the worlds elite swimmers isn't being 'Mediocre'. It's not a synonym (middle rankings = mediocre rankings) and Sarah is correct that s-he was an excellent, winning and often championship level winner when she swam in the men's.
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  2076. You're student visa is expiring so you need to go back to China.
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  2077. wow that totall cleared it up. of course, he was "some kind of mountain man". well done, Detective Clarity!
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  2078.  @dougmah2564  No, they are not and that isn't what you saw.
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  2079. yes, the 1997-era Japanese high-speed train overbuilding is one of THE main reasons China is becoming poorer and poorer. They are useful for military purposes IF China has it's oil supply shut off.
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  2080. What if you just went there to shop and at the counter they said that your money has to have a 20% surchage and further more you can only use their store credit card if you want buy something? Tell me what you might do then?
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  2081.  @Soul_of_a_Robot  It's more the culture and how they percieve ours.
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  2082. Eh, well yes they MUST do this 'plan b' as they are shut out from 'The West' global alliances. it sucks and it's worse, its lower, its less good BUT they have to figure out some way to get food as they're closed off.
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  2083. "and does not render CPR after the child has drowned? " If by 'drowned' we take that as 'already deceased' then CPR would nearly make a mockery out of things. Anyway, yes, I agree she is horrible, what with the murdering of people.
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  2084.  @RonyHO-kd4lh  No, they don't need to but they don't start live firing exercises on a short notice thus distrupting commercial flights full of passengers. Learn about how different things are 'different'.
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  2085.  @tweedy4sg  They don't have to give any notification at all but Oz can see to it those warships disappear and the PLAN floating in the water need to confess "Taiwan is the True China" before they will be lifted out of the water.
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  2086. @Gretz70  ewww so you are howling with sneering laughter i dont know its about humiliating people because it WAS about humiliating people. Disgusting
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  2087.  @freedom4life123  ewww grosssss
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  2088. They once invaded Vietnam.
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  2089.  @sohon6609  But yes, China invaded Vietnam. "BUT THERE WAS A REASON THEY GAVE!!!" is not contradicting the invasion or the retreat.
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  2090. It continues to amaze me how often I see people glued into their phone while riding eBikes, driving cars, walking in traffic or public sidewalks, my favorite in elevators, often at maximum volume and utterly engrossed. In some ways it's almost amazing like a high-wire walker when I have seen a young man exit a bus, walk 2 km, crossing intersections, into a restaurant, eat, pay and leave without so much as breaking gaze for a split second. The entire time some cartoon blasting away.
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  2091.  @KsChiu-z1f  In the US, they aren't communists with a 'Parent government' who's job it is to 'take care of the livelihood of its people'. the people are really supposed to take care of their government. (lately, they're doing a better job at it). but its cute you think its a 'Parallel to China PRC' to see which 'Daddy Rulers' take care of their children civilians.
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  2092. @timothyrockwell2638  what was he talking about when he said those things?
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  2093. I'm slightly in love with the young lady at the 15:00 mark. common sense, reasonable, not a fruitcake.
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  2094.  @MVPA-io5ee  just so we know 'ASEAN' refers to a trading 'association of southeast asisn nations' but yes your nation may well be a member of this economic and trade group. What do you think of women that go for these Passport Bros. I guess you can call them 'Passport sisters'. Any opinions on them?
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  2095.  @claytonbouldin9381  Where are you seeing this? 'Too many ' now? I don't think I'm seeing this thing you described. I'm sure somewhere we'd find men like this in some Western country but I would not call that something being seen 'too often' and needing to be 'called out'. Are you sure you've see this happening?
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  2096. Canada is the bully
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  2097. Ok but what the hell is going on with her hair. Maybe she's worried if she did any kind of style, brushing or a 'part' then she'd be distractingly beautiful. and btw, by British standards she's a stunning 11 out of 10 with the wtf hair? Also why does the man in the video have really long woman's hair? Is that part of a Roman character for the video?
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  2098. Yes, a great point about how rarely Featherweights get the massive 'Superfight' status but there was something about this, a kind of 'zeitgeist', a kind of representation: The Cocky Super Slickster Vs the Humble Working Man? Some sort of social morality play captured the public's imagination. I remember being amazed how many watched that, everyone and the most casual of casual fans loved that fight night.
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  2099. Yes but contrary to the acartoons and depictions, I've never seen young, single and attractive women report men for being 'creepy' and making them uncomfortable. So that's something to think about... well, actually a lot of women readers know this at a glance what that means and what's going on.
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  2100. 'Blame' has nothing to do with anything.
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  2101. These guys just saved the weekend. 3 or 4 of the big weekend fights were lackluster with fighters seemingly 'going through the motions' and then we cap it off with this crazy war!
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  2102. wow you are a very special and beautiful soul, although you did nothing we get to know your pure and holy stand for... not killing children.
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  2103.  @felhomaly  Ok but I don't know that it's Israel's responsibility in the first place. That would be Hamas. That said, it sounds like they are making some progress (Israel is) organizing safe crossing into Egypt that announced it stands with Palestine. Of course, the responsibility is on HAMAS to care and protect it's civilians.
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  2104.  @jessicah3782  oh you poor half-witted soup. poor reading comprehension and just making a mess of squabbling out if too.
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  2105.  @felhomaly  Yes, third countries take refugees all the time. Keep in mind, we're told Israel is murdering innocent Palestinians so that is not an option to send them to the enemy that is trying to murder them. but yes, Hamas can make other countries take it's refugees. Of course, this happens all the time, everywhere. Western countries have taken 1000s of them already and there isn't a need for "a" second country but rather dozens of them can take some. If 20 nearby safe countries take a share then its easy, only around 50,000 temporary refugees. Keeping in mind, almost all 'Palestinians' are Jordanian, Iranian, Lebonese, etc. Those are their home countries anyway.
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  2106. China was absolutely winning the trade imbalance non-stop. they still have astonishing inequal trade win advantages. Now what?
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  2107.  @cinpeace353  Objectively, as a demonstrate real life and well documented fact of life, 20 years ago China started putting tariffs and what are other gates and taxes on American products. Nearly all of them were rules, regs, tariffs and taxes, economic blocks that the USA never once had on China. Now what smirker?
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  2108.  @vivianoosthuizen8990  China is in severe economic collapse because of an insane real-estate bubble speculation game that was keeping it artificially bloated. Chinese do not have retirement pension plans. Chinese are unemployed and it doesn't matter that capital and investment is crashing because the stock market is not the economy and nobody 'lost money' unless they sold their stocks at the bottom. Get real.
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  2109. Wow... they tried to hide the truth that China 'Won' but thankfully you were able to go to the USA where there is the actual secret presentation of Chinese products!! how did they allow you to see the Chinese booths though?
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  2110. Thumbs up and great video summary! I would love it if you would stop using the goofy 'CE' and 'BCE' though. never mind how lame it is, it sounds.. like audibly.. it sounds annoying too. these 'Ee-Eeees' flaking in the sentences.
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  2111. Im sure the USA will continue. Rumor has it they are working to hack and dismantle the Great Firewall. One day Chinese Mainlanders wake up and they see the entire internet including this site, google, x, tiktok etc.
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  2112. @ ewww please tell me that's not what I think it is? grossss
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  2113.  @AU-ic7ur  Why? Jim Jones group were hardcore Leftists. Your reply was incredible stupid.
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  2114. A good many people voted for Trump because they want someone to be 'the first" who broke some lineage. At this time that can be a LOT of things a president gets to preside over. Someone needs to be 'the first' to see what happens when most illegal aliens are deported. See what happens! Let's find out? Let him be the first in generations who actually reduces the size of government! Let him be known as the guy who removed the FBI and others and then re-rolled it into a NEW acronym dept. Lets do it! A whole lot of these things are well overdue for a 'First to' president for a while. Some might go wrong, some might be surprising successes and if it doesn't really pan out - don't worry, millions of politicians are ready to glue it all back to the way its been for the last half-a-century.
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  2115. Nothing. but there is something wrong when the only way they can love their own country is to 'shame' some other country. Can't love their own family unless they are making a neighbor family 'lower'. This is what goes wrong.
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  2116. @ China. the subject was China. The Chinese people you mentioned. The Peoples Republic of China part of China.
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  2117. I don't actually want JFK (jacked food karen) to be telling anyone what 'seed oils' they can or cannot use BUT he'd going to be a very good disruptor and I'm told 100+ leftist types already quit before he's even approved. That's worth it!
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  2118. Years ago Canada Immigration asked me to be part of a survey and suggestion project and this was what I wrote to them, along these lines. You cannot be a proper Muslim AND a take the Citizenship oath without being dishonest. I'm Canadian and if I lie about an extra 10 packs of cigarettes I'm in a room for an hour. You can't have people getting visas to Canada, the USA or UK who are blatantly and openly 'Pro-Hamas', the end. Cannot. do people think other countries are jokes like this? If i apply for a visa in China next week i sign a document pledging all kinds of things. IF IF I said "oh and I'm totally FOR the East Turkmenistan separatists?? They'd look at me and say 'ok, well then you are admitting you will NOT follow our laws and alleigiances so therefore gtFO of China, bye. Of course they would. Can I get a student visa in Ukraine but by the way, I'm going to do Pro-Russia anti-Ukraine shouting and protests. but also let me live in Kiev with a visa? NOOOO sir. no sir. so its just mindboggling this carries on in the western democracy countries like its their right and like its normal.
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  2119. Joker 2 guy is all wrong about China and so is his Fear Factor buddy. 56:00 no guys, no.
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  2120. I realize a lot of MMA experts are here to be creeps but it's worth noting that in boxing, punching people in the back is not allowed. A Referee has to use their own judgement and if opponents turn away then that's on them, however, if one is purposely aiming and hitting the other in the back this is wrong.
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  2121. here is a suggestion: Since a great deal of the wealth comes from the USA, from 'The West' and used to come from Japan - maybe, just maybe.. hear me out: Maybe stop relentlessly shltting and pissing on those countries then taking over the 'South China Sea' and having a Spokesman who sneers and make cvnty comments and then MAYBE stop firing rickets around Taiwan and getting into hyper-toxic cvnty vows to kill them all etc. Maybe just MAYBE vowign to 'punish the USA' day and night isn't actually helping? and maybe, Just stop doing that for a minute and maybe some of that wealth stops leaving your economy?
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  2122. This is another one of the most suspicious fight cards I have ever seen. I thought people were joking but it turns out, for real, all 3 judges actually gave Tyson Fury the 12th round. this is absolutely baffling. It's the point where the organizations have to review that and ask what exactly justified that?
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  2123.  @tylerrobbins8311  no
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  2124.  @tylerrobbins8311  Hi, professional boxing isn't like the traditional amateur sports game of 'tag' where any contact within a certain white part of the glove counts as a point. This is good because watching Fury's punches being 99% blocked by some glove-foam boop Usyk (despite commentators hooting FURYYYYY WITH THEH ONE TWOOOO) this doesn't need be worth the same '2 points' as Usyk getting 30% of his one and 100% of of his head jarring next punch also count as '2 points each'. Now, its true that Casuals are utterly convinced it works by what the ringside 'punch clicker' guy is tapping on his laptop but that's not how it works. Which is good because Fury half sliding a weak couple of popping shots out of twice as many attempts shouldn't thus 'win the round' and Usyk doesn't win the 2nd round because he got in 2 extra zappers but more because 2 of them were sweet clean shots controlling the fight. so the answer is no. No casual fan, no that isn't how it works in professional fighting and no, compubox isn't actually working with 'pressure points' inside their gloves like some old Olympics style of scoring points either. Here's some advice: from now on, never enter a boxing chat mentioning compubox 'landed punches'. Don't do it. The moment you do that you just about eliminated yourself from being taken seriously and while there isn't anything wrong with being a 'Casual' (in itself not a bad thing) you come across as the most annoying casual who actually thought "wf.. i'll prove these guys wrong by simply looking up the compubox punches landed.. boom, case solved!'. No. The answer is: No.
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  2125. The sausage, of course. The little sausage.
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  2126. I'm not sure if I've just randomly fluked into odd social circles but I am seeing far far fewer people having proper weddings with the receptions and all that. The Comfort Class might be making up the difference with wealthier weddings? I know during Covid many of the Covid-closures people at the top had amazing weddings for their daughters. Otherwise, for example, in China there is the big rise of the "naked wedding" which is really a wedding with no accessories, no special venues, no expensive suits or jewelry. It used to be a big story like a novelty, a remarkable new surprise trend. Now, it seems to me it's just half the weddings are 'non-weddings' like that.
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  2127. Oh, no no, Trudeau resigning is a very good sign for Canada. He was the 'WORST' problem and now will be less of a problem. Still lots of room for improvement but that as a big step up for Canada.
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  2128. Yes she was playing word games and counting on some audience to then 'imagine dragons' the fictionalized magic creatures of fairy tales and movies. Rogan's guest is very much onto something of course. while looking at my Chinese heritage i found it very interesting to learn that when they go over (i think its the early Han dynasty??) the 'Dragon Handler' of the 'dragon stables' is just listed as an actual 'real life, real place' job title. Like there's a horse master, a bird master, a dragon master, a dog master type thing. In the Chinese zodiac take note: they are just normal earthly animals. tiger, pig, dog, mouse, dragon, rabbit, ... the dragon is just one of 12 normal animals. It's just there as if they include it as a nomal living creature. Right, nowhere is the ancient accounts of dragons 'supernatural' but basically just some kind of large serpent. there really are Komodo dragons. There really are gigantic massive crodociles. there are even gigantic massive snakes too. So its not some CRAZY WTF to think that. but she's playing on the audience to think 'fantasy artist dragons' of course. its so cheap and ghey.
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  2129. This mentality is absolutely real and I remember seeing interviews with 'Al Quaida' Jihadists types who'd been captured and held in the USA. They were remarkably honest about it too. A commander agreed they'd attempt to raid an American outpost but it was considered a sheer suicide mission for them and almost certainly lead to terrible deaths of locals and other Muslims. The result may be killing 2 or 3 American soldiers. To a normal thinking person, it's obvious insanity and even a horrible war crime to knowingly send dozens of their own men to die AND even be sure they'd kill many of their own civilians. To them? This was absolutely worth it because they could surely kill 3 American soldiers and damage their outpost! The glory, the lust to see a few great American forces dead, the chance to maybe be the one who shoots them dead? This justified everything. It did not matter they were captured as every single day as a war captive was part of what ultimately killed an American soldier somewhere and they gloried in it. This kind of insane mentality is real and happens.
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  2130. Just to clarify: You're investing any money you have in China, yes?
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  2131. @ its a question. what about you?
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  2132.  @wangjue6120  You're not waiting for my answer. I answered it last week. You never replied.
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  2133.  @wangjue6120  weren't you warned about pretending to be a smirking lawyer who now has me trapped in the corner and you're making me grovel and humiliate myself as you force me to confess? I think you've been warned about that twice haven't you?
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  2134.  @wangjue6120  Do what I say 3rd worlder, go reply to me as I instructed you or eat bitter melon, nong
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  2135. because almost everyone is 'Han' sometimes 'Chinese' is used for 'Han' and yes its difficult to translate common parlance ike this. China's PRC is almost all Han and 'Han' sometimes refer to Uighurs as 'foreigners' though they are Chinese PRC citizens.
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  2136.  @FBIXHUNTER  right, only Uighurs or Tibetans might have a different facial appearance, a 'distinct' different look than the broad vast majoriy of 'Han'. It would not be unusual for a 'Han' to say they look like foreigners.
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  2137.  @orangetube1  nope, Han will refer to Uighurs and Tibetans as foreigners who are allowed to be cared for in China by Chinese. China PRC (mainland China) does not consist of many ethnicities in any meaningful sense. 95% are just 'Han' . Meaningful. There is no meaning to pretending 2000 people in a southern village are 'monolgian ethnicity' or pretending 17 Russian families on the border are one of Chinas '56 ethnicities' or pretending there are the 'Hui people ethnicity' that MAYBE if I went around Anhui taking DNA sample have 5% 'Hui DNA' from generations ago etc. You wouldnt even be able to tell me who is Zhuang or Miao and they'd be mixed and are, by this new generation 'Han' for all realistic meaning. China is very monocultural and almost entirely 'Han' by and far. Theres notihng wrong with that.
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  2138.  @tonglianheng  The meaning of ethnicity should, above all, have some meaningful distinctions. Otherwise, there is not point or purpose to designating someone as an 'ethnicity'. Example, if I go travel around Southern Guangxi province and its not just that someone dubbed 'Zhuang ethnic minority' doesn't need to have classic Zhuang facial features. But to be 'ethnic' of any meaningful sense they would have a Zhuang language, customs, some kind of distinct music or culture, foods, etc. But if the only meaningful difference is that their grandparents had these things but they themselves couldn't even distinguish themselves from any other 'Han' Chinese nor could any 'Han' identify them as Zhuang? That's not much of an 'ethnic minoriy' but rather that is integration. In Chicago, a lot of people may well have irish family names and so genetically, yes, by some facial features and DNA they may even be over 75% Irish, however, They don't speak a word of Gaelic or know where Ireland is, for 5 generations they've long since admixed into the greater American population? They are simply not an 'ethnic minority'. Not of any real meaning. When I'm in Jilin province I find myself in a neighborhood where suddenly signs are in Korean. Actually some of their faces do look Korean though that's not important, they speak Korean language, they are cooking and eating in a kind of way that 'Han' don't and they do, they have some shared stories, culture, some festivals nobody else does. Now they do live inside China's borders, some are PRC Citizens with all that comes with that. They speak Mandarin too, they even have a Vivo phone, but, This is an 'ethnic minority' yes. 'Josen' or whatever name they're given. versus, I'm going to look around Jilin for some kind of 'Manchu'. There isn't any 'Manchu' ethnic group beyond our 'Irish' of Chicago. I mean, sure, maybe they are 70% Jurchen if we did a DNA test? Sure, I suppose 100 years ago their great grandfather was identifiable as a distinct ethnicity, a Manchu... but today, in 2025 if the person even knows, they are indistinguishable from any given 'Han' Chinese. Do you know what does NOT make an ethnicity an ethnicity? creating an 'ethnicity card', handing it to vilagers then having a Shanghai theater company createt for them, in 2018, some Han clothing designers government approved 'Ethnic Costume' and then assigning them the Shanghai Theater composers 'ethnic songs' they're told to memorize and then having them put on this fake 'ethnic performance' at a Sping Festival Gala even though its as unfamiliar to them as if it was given to any given Han Chinese in Hebei province and told its their new 'ethnic culture' but pretend its really old. I dont' even ask for much, just something, some way someone can be identified as having some cultural distinction. The minimum has to be more than "well they have 51% DNA from a previous era". Yes indeed, if I'm in Chicago, there is a Pakistani restaurant where .. and many may be born in the USA, even 2nd generations... and its not because they are facially different.. they are an 'Ethnic group', they speak some Pakistani language, have distinct customs, festivals, rituals, songs, foods, be it cooking or traditions etc etc. Down the street I can still say this has some reason to be called an Italian Ethnic group. Its not much and its not because they look Italian in their faces (or they mixed so they don't really look Italian) but there is SOME degree of distinction, foods, customs, they dont even speak Italian but they use Italian words, apparently some Italian hand-waving body language, live with their mothers, have specific ways to cook that are not like the greater population, they seem to share songs, customs. There is SOME meaning to distinguishing them as an 'ethnic group' besides simply being '35% Italian DNA' on a test. Walk down the street and the fact, the very point that I can reognized this is an ethnically Chinese neighborhood, that I'd evne know to say "Im in Chinatown" is because there are actual ethnic distinctions. When nobody who lives in Anhui could even tell if their own spouse was 'Hui' nor could anyone being called 'Hui' tell anyone else as Hui that's not an 'Ethnic Group' and not just because nobody would have anything more than 10% 'Hui People' DNA in a blood test either. I hope this helps. Mainland China has so few 'ethnic minorities' that it seems to be contriving them in the silliest of ways. Finding a greater ethnic group but then someone in Beijing decides they will divide those up into 3 or 5 'distinct ethnic groups' when there is no important distinction. Dozens of them are enclaves of just a few remnants of border changes over time and that doesn't mean they are NOT an ethnic group however China doesn't need to declare '56 different ethnicities.. can you believe how diverse!' because 17 ethnic Russian families still live on the Chinese side of the border to Russia, because there are still 30 Thai-speaking Thais on the China PRC side of the border of Thailand. Here's something you can do some math with: Figure out the percentage of the lower 50 ethnicities? What would ALL FIFTY make up in Mainland population combined? Would it be more than 3%? 2%? Zhuang and Miao (arguably the same but made into 2 different but forget that) combine them. That's the two largest ethnic minorities in China, combined might be... what? 2% of the population. Neither, you, me, Han or even most 'Zhuang' (on a government ID card) would be able to identify most young Zhuang today as being anything distinct from the 'Han' population. maybe 3? But you see my criticism yes? "China has MANY Ethnicities it has to deal with with all these diverse groups!" this is the tone of voice, the insinuation, yet, 30 of those are teeny-tiny little enclaves who, certainly the under-50 year olds, have 'Han-ified' anyway but would be, COMBINED something like 0.09% of the total population. China's Mainland is one of the single most homogenous 'mono-culture' mono-racial mono-ethnic nations on earth. in 2025, nearly 98% of everyone is the 'Han' ethnicity for all meaning. The 0.09% Uighurs were the only 'meaningful' distinct 'ethnic group' and the Tibetans 0.5% the other where you can certainly see they are different enough to be called an 'ethnic group'. These are the only two significant numbers. Uighurs are less and less and less every years and in a decade will be mostly 'Han-ified' and absorbed and admixed. and there is nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly fine. Japanese are pretty close to 99% Japanese. Good for them. So are Koreans nearly 100% a single monocultural people. good for them! So is China. Good for China! No need to pretend China is a rich and diverse tapestry of so so many ethnicities! no. No need for that. It's not a 'Gaokao score' whoever can get the 'highest ethnicity score', that's not a thing, no need for that.
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  2139. Oh, about the China Nationalist types of propaganda vloggers. For those who don't know already, there is a reason you never saw 'Johnny Somali' and other Insult Vloggers in Vietnam clowning on Vietnam, doing some insult thing on Vietnamese memorials etc. The reason why you DO NOT see that is because of things like 'pocket knives' and 'blunt objects' and actually you won't see such videos because the Vlogger will disappear along with their 'Roasting Vietnamese' videos though possibly their body parts found in the lake months later. Vietnamese, and I cannot over-emphasize this - they do not play around and they are not Koreans or Japanese, they do not have that cultural thing where they must be polite etc. They will remove. They will remove anyone shlttalking Vietnam. When I say 'they' I really mean, like if Johnny Somali did this on a bus or a park - pretty much any and maybe even ALL the Vietnamese on the bus. The women will be especially vicious.
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  2140. Turn back, this was much more the settled-science of the pre-1990ss for Neanderthals, a kind of 'ape-man' predator.
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  2141. It's weird that on the day absolutely devastating tariffs start in China we get videos about how its actually the day Trump was a big loser and the USA is now getting wrecked by the big tariff destruction. Meanwhile, I'd really like to know how these stunning tariffs are going to further depress China's economy? put aside the big loss, the BIG HIT the USA just got stunned with (so its seems?). What does this do to China is the convo I need to learn about.
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  2142. My social theory is that Mickey Rourke is considered a real Mike Tyson in the Hollywood circles and fruity artist scenes. He legit did boxing training for roles. He really did practice wrestling for roles. He's become a Sean Penn who believes they must be able to beat up most anyone.
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  2143. Wait, but CCTV and for 8 years has been laughing about how the US tariffs only 'boomerang' and 'shoot themselves in the foot' and the biggest laugh is China watching as tariffs do nothing to hurt China but really hurt the USA. So are you saying something different now??
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  2144. What's the host's f**cking problem? Was the guest deserving of your snitty little interruptions and glib interruptions like that?
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  2145. Did you just get a VPN and this is the first video about China you've watched here on Western Media aka 'the outside world' media?
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  2146. You are actually there seeing the housing market collapse, admitting you're 'amazed' they report 5% growth but can't seem to go the next obvious step in cognition?
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  2147.  @portmoneul  You don't matter anymore.
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  2148. So, to summarize: China should LOVE this and hope for more. There would be no reason to 'retaliate' by putting a 34 'dumb math' tax that only hurt Chinese either. Except... Wang Gang's real actions dont' match with his scoffing victory laps on how China just BEAT the USA and can only laugh as China is now THE number one smirking superpower etc etc. Wang Gang has not only a very detailed 'Plan B' to move out of the PRC, but more, Wang Gang already has a 'Plan C' if necessary. Mr Wangs actions, his 'putting his money where his true beliefs are' is correct and he's right to try and plan his way out of what's coming.
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  2149.  @mikew764  what a great retort! meanwhile, i'll be here in China exporting things to the USA.
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  2150.  @ashleybanks-wm4cg  You're a gross teenbrain goof and I don't want to interact with you because if feels gross and yucky.
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  2151.  @scottxiong5844  Well I don't know that it's getting bad over there in the USA, it's pretty stable and on a bit of an upswing. We definitley know much of the world has a lot of confidence in the USA because they are upping their investments and increasing their capital in the uSA. So, I really don't know what to tell you, you're pretty much in the most stable, wealthiest and most durable economiies to ever exist in the history of the world.
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  2152. It could be noted that rich people rarely do 'own-own' these things - they lease. Well, in some sense leasing is like legally owning but then again it could be called 'renting' too. My understanding is that almost nobody owns-owns a plane but Boeing which then leases them them to insanely rich people who never really 'sell' the plane but instead give the lease over to some other insanely rich person.
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  2153. Is that what happened with you?
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  2154. No it isn't. Dont repeat that lie. Nobody has ever been hearing that for 30 years. 30 years ago everyone fully agreed that with the massive influx of US dolllars for manufacturing China was going to rise form the poverty-hole it was to become something like 100th out of 200 nations in 'per person wealth' and even surpass Japan for total GDP. For 30 years 'The Rise of China' has been THE biggest news story on earth. 30 years ago, some economists correctly predicted that China's 'boom time' rise would peak around 2015 and start it's inevitable decline around 2025. They were correct. but you and 27 upvoters don't get to 'rewrite history' and lie about this. You won't be allowed to 'make it become true' beause you lie about it enough.
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  2155. Try and explain how?
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  2156. Tik-Tok is banned in Mainland China.
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  2157. This is a bit of a BS view. Never mind the thing "so called comedians" and the 1000s of people who'll comment "they aren't even funny" but put all that Boomer facebook take aside: nobody is 'exposing' comedic actors and presenters as somehow phony because they're actual job is to translate written material into presentation. Contrary to popular opinion, this can be more difficult to pull off than a joke they had in their own head.
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  2158. why, what 'came for you' in 2016 to 2020?
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  2159. Nope, most everything will remain the same price just as it has since the many many tariffs over the decade. feel dumb now?
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  2160.  @ConfiscatedZyra  stop agreeing with his lie. stop it. You just say 'Yes you're right it will but..." no, it won't.
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  2161. this is the most stupid of Karen takes.
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  2162. Agreed on the KZ900 - one of the best looking and IMO greatest Japanese bikes ever made.
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  2163. You voted for someone who had the same surname as you. clowns indeed.
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  2164.  @jojo4061  Why did that experiment stop?
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  2165. @ Yes so you need to stop using that experiment from 20 years ago as if you're telling people how China has free elections. Right? You shouldn't be dishonest about China and mislead people to think they have carried on. Yes, the experiment did fail due to corruption.
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  2166. Everyone is poorer in China and will be poorer by the end of this 2025. Nobody needs to believe a word about the relentless false statistics China games up in math and wording tricks but the reality remains: All Chinese are poorer and poorer and that is less food, medicine and warmth, declining health, more diseases, more illnesses and that is not a good thing for Chinese.
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  2167. @ I can find 800 unemployed Chinese who are suffering from unemployment outside my door. 20 million are now getting poorer and poorer in unemployment from the massive closures of factories and shipping world jobs as a direct result of the tariffs.
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  2168.  @CrayCommerce-pp1wg  Yes but before the CCP you would find generous amounts of blues and not often a soviet red and hammer-sickle yellows but other more festive versions of those. (Id say the Qing era flag is a pretty good example). then its just a vast wall of that particular red. ya their website always have that bleak anti-art vibe going too. They manage to do this with subway signage too. I asked a Chinese friend how much they think a little more 'ink' would cost to make the 'You're Here' text larger than the smallest thinnest font Windows allows including the 'arrow' that's actually just part of the text sentence. like someone said 'its suppose to have an arrow' so the guy added it like "you're here <----". Someone come up with a name for this ... 'anti-eye comfort' type of graphic style??
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  2169. oh, i never thought that the reason i got pulled off a bus by Chinese military strapped with rifles was because my Canadian passport makes them so in awe and they wanted to make sure I was getting safety and protection! This ridiculous 'God-level Passport' thing is going to be the deaths and (maybe much worse) arrest and confinement, torture and abuse of far too many Mainland Chinese and it needs to stop. And yes indeed, the delusion that they believed the Iraqis were so amazing 'The Chinese! Everyone...its our God People please give them a Private 300km VIP access!!" holeeee shlt with that.
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  2170. So, you mean the Japanese.
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  2171. Levine's theory to mitigate this anti-evolutionist trait just doesn't work well imo. A better explanation is that mankind was created to have no sense of lying, incapable of lying, no hardware for this and when it entered our world we just cannot sort it out. Gladwell is very right about this though, people can only guess '50-50' who's lying and its a little more because some people are just the worlds worst liars. 1 in 20 people are really bad at it but would still become 50-50 if you they just practiced lying a little more.
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  2172. The People's Republic of China (A part of China) is only 75 years old. It's an ideology from 'The West' and vowed to destroy the '4 Olds' (this is basically all Chinese history, culture, teachings, religions, buildings, systems etc). You have a lot to learn about China and how things work in China heheh.. a LOT to learn. Good luck getting started on that!
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  2173. @kashe747  no, they leave after 6 months to a year. Many will have sino-rage syndrome, very very few will last past the 3 year mark. Son, you dont know of that which you speak.
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  2174. Can I clear something up about all of these graduates, these diploma holders, these Masters degrees in Mainland China? For at least a decade, and please believe me I know this intimately, as my own job, for a decade now: - Like many things in China, a lot of university degrees are just superficial nonsense. They are cheap plastic toys in quality, they are often just outright 'counterfeit' but there is also a problem of massive over-production on levels that would even make the insane overabundance of diiplomas in the western world surprised. Many of them did not work hard either. Unlike some other countries, Chinas students actually go through homework and exam score hell through their primary and eventually 'Gaokao' exams. University? those kids flop over that campus gate like a marathon runner falls over the finish line. Thats the Finish Line for them. They fall down, exhale, they MADE IT and now they play video games and glue into the phone for the next 4-8 years and in a real way they see it like this: I already did this. I made it to the (choose major) diploma. I got it! Now, its just a case of waiting 4 or 5 or 7 years until they give me that paper I have already earned. For a MASSIVE number of those graduates that is what this is. They couldn't actually do 'the thing itself' beyond what most could google and fake their way through anyway. I don't blame any students either. 10 years ago they ram-crammed any student who was living and breathing into campuses and now there are 100 million Landscape Designers ... well so the Design Engineering diploma says so. I don't blame them. but seriously this is why very little of this can ever translate into any kind of actualy career of any substance.
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  2175.  @verumverba5711  Ok but at the moment the USA is massively wealthy and the center of high-tech and on the way with massive capital to more and more.
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  2176. Wow that was a helluva battle!
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  2177. I'm with you in spirt but the height thing is neither here nor there because women vary in height and so there are an equal number of 4'8 to 5'3 women out there.
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  2178.  @impudentdomain  no, its because i live in real life pill and its why, around the world, shorter men have shorter wives, beautiful women have handsome men, ugly dudes have.. and so on.
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  2179.  @joejoejoejoejoejoe4391  yes but when you look at real world results you will notice a consistent pattern of around 3 inches difference. For example, go to.. a church.. a movie theater... a couples cruise.. count the real world results in real life and it will be almost always what happens.
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  2180.  @impudentdomain  except your stating internet theory against what actually happened and is happening in real life. We arent debating this because you were already shown where to go and see the actual real life proofs. You are also still talking about what women might want. What they want and wish for isnt what as and does happen. Hey wait.. i just saw the neighbors girlfriend. What do you know, hes around 5,8 and shes around 5,3.
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  2181.  @impudentdomain  why are you repeatedly telling what women prefer lol?
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  2182. Neither is China.
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  2183. These polls are almost always playing games BUT as a proper campaign they really do need to go into the 'Iowas' and Trump has to put time in with seniors. That 65+ crowd. He has indeed done massive work with the dudes and 'Zs' and young people but that could go far with the big and very-likely seniors voters.
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  2184.  @endoflis  still that eh? Your belief that reality isn't real but its all about Chinese 'shame culture' toxic feelings and then sneering and jeering etc. meanwhile, your nasty toxic 'social shame' shlt culture aside - you know as well as China does that this IS how business works. Why, do you think Malaysia will give China 'charity money' so China 'saves face'? no, Malaysia sees China has a big problem and needs to unload products and yes of course they'll negotiation a lower price. Which China will rightfully take. A giant warehouse full of magnets in Dongguan aren't edible, toxicboy
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  2185.  @haerafh  Malaysia is one of the world top coconut producers. Feel dumb now, desperate shillboy?
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  2186. He is, by taking lots and lots of money from China and moving that money to the USA.
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  2187. It's so strange how that was 'Disappeared' considering what happened weeks later. The story was Chinese style 'disappeared' yes
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  2188.  @BallyBoy95  Japan is closer, yes in part because it has a superior military, is ore advanced in all areas of technology and has far more money per citizen/soldier, HOWEVER, That isn't all that would make a 'superpower'. It's deeply and broadly integrated, networked and allied around the world with influence and being able to call on and utlize their influance, from sanctions to buying 1000 missiles and loading up islands to borrowing money and getting favor. This is really the massively important part to being a 'superpower'. Japan is not a 'superpower' but it's most definitely closer to being one that China's Mainland can ever be. In fact, one of Japans most locked-in Allies with very strategic 'geopolitical' power and massive technological power (like for example high-end sophisticated computer chips) actually IS a part of China. So that solves that and has Japan 'closer' than China can be. India? a lesser version and yet despite being around equal to China in wealth it's less per perons/soldier, it has 1.4 billion people and it's military bigger, better and more experienced than China yes, HOWEVER, India being *closer to a superpower is... see the same reasons Japan is. Although sometimes a rocky and spotty alliance - India does have one with the USA and is (kinda, mostly) with good international influences and friends, allies, networks with much of the Western world as well as the Pacific Rim (Hong Kong, Taiwan, mostly). This makes India a long long way from being a 'superpower' but is why its CLOSER to being one than the PRC part of China. all that said, there is only one superpower in the world and its the USA and Russia isn't even close. There is no close 2nd place. China is nowhere near 'superpower' status and with it's economy imploding, decoupling, making enemies all over the place and a population thats not just in stunning decline but entering a 'sick old man of Asia' demographic where it has many many old people but very few young 'working years' people in comparison. You've got a lot to learn about China and how things work in China hehe a LOT to learn (and unlearn) but maybe that helps get you started!
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  2189.  @baili-s9i  Japan has lost some of it's country and independence since WW2 including it's Mankuokuo and a few islands. The thing is, while Japan can't lose even 20% of it's business with the USA it's still so wealthy it would be able to run like a modern 1st world economy where the average Japanese is 6X wealthier than the average Chinese mainlander. This makes it *closer to a superpower than China's PRC that is wholly reliant on the USA and upon losing just 5% of its business with the USA has to think about starvation and malnutrition risks and how they can eat the 1997-era Japanese bullettrains they overbuilt. Hence, while Japan is NOT a superpower - it's still CLOSER to being one than The PRC is.
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  2190.  @baili-s9i  You aren't being challenged by me or anyone saying 'They WILL be superpowers'. You are being told they are CLOSER to being superpowers than Mainland China, country that desperately needs the US Navy to keep the global shipping lanes safe for Didi China or else it would be devastated the moment Japan, India and others started seizing PRC ships going OUT (where it must sell stuff for American dollars in order to eat) and must have ships bringing China's mainland nearly everything required to function. Hence Japan and India are CLOSER to being superpowers than China's PRC section can ever be.
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  2191.  @araara4746  sorry you mistook this for one of those toxic hyperfeminine gamer-boy shlttalking chats. This isn't the place for that, rotten teenbrain.
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  2192.  @margaretcaine4219  No you aren't and no you didn't. I'ts not a 'debate' either, its an observation of the very real world we live in.
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  2193.  @NatureLover36963  and yet, its still closER to being a superpower than China PRC.
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  2194. Objectively, realistically, there was absolutely nothing crazy about that scorecard.
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  2195. Yes but you knew where Biden was and it was because he had dementia so yes it was kind of a big deal but that said... China's PRC is not just a 'parallel' like so many other countries. There are all kinds of very significant differences, all kinds of complex 'guan xi' Chinese relationships, social, political etc.
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  2196. You're not wrong, China has a different mentality. Xi is prepared to show longsuffering. Indeed years ago they used to 'defy the West' by proudly starving to death. Now the West will see the true POWER of the God of China as they get malnourished and eat tree bark. Here's the thing. the US doesn't need them in order to carry on a a modern 1st world economy with hot showers and pizza delivery. It doesn't have to 'hold out' against China. would the US ENJOY having a free trade with China as a normal country with rules and balance etc? Sure! but the US does not need-need to "hold out" like its necessary for living.
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  2197. I'm going to take one single strong defense of China, who, whether by good or bad intentions was one of the countries that correctly listed 'covid deaths' and being those where THE direct cause was Covid itself. This was far more responsible and better than 100 others who caused insane hysteria, fear, used jacked-up numbers to control and abuse and misuse including ANYONE who died but also happened to test postive for Covid within the prior month even if they had no symptoms etc. That was unacceptable and I STILL havent seen any of those people even called out for it. 92 year olds in comas literally in the dying phase of cancer with 10 other severe deadly diseases but a hospital test kit pinged for covid 5 days earlier? 'Another SPIKE in Covid Deaths!'. China was far more realistic and responsible. You had to properly die FROM Covid to be a 'Covid death' not just 'happened to ping positive 2 days before the motorcycle accident that caved in their brain' being a 'covid death'. The ONLY person in the USA who did NOT 'die from Covid' was, weirdly enough, St. George Floyd.
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  2198. eww gross, you're masturbating yourself over a fake interpretation of this. yuckkk
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  2199. When I was younger we had an incident like that at a local obnoxious nightclub. It was another of the pettiest 'someone dancing with my girl' excuses for a 19 year old to sucker punch an imaginary foe. Similar to Jacobs incident, this time the victim, drunk at the time, but he fell and his head bounced off the dance floor fairly hard and he didn't make it. He died. The kid who punched him (and they were really still kids, still boys) that kid was, at that moment, oh he was a mouthy, insecure fighty-boy but see.. he didn't 'stay that way. Once the sobering next day came, the manslaughter trial (he did not serve time in jail) but he was NOT THAT SAME 19 year old fighty boy anymore. He became a very serious and a very 'old' man in his 20s. He was NOT good. He did NOT get over it. By all accounts he was said to be a damn good and responsible man in his late 20s but I wondered if he became more ashamed of himself the more he matured and grew. I can't confirm this (tried asking old friends) but we seem to remember reading a news report that he died of drug overdose around what would be age 30ish. One could easily believe that in a way he took his own life via drug abuse all stemming from taking someone elses life. Well, not that he meant to kill the victim but that is what happened.
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  2200. but they aren't.
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  2201. @ We'll have to wait and see if any consumers pay higher prices.
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  2202. Suggestion: Just direct all Chinese or Vietnamese Aunties to the Food Safety Inspection. Hire extra staff and yes I'm aware not ALL of them are smuggling shelves of food but for the 90% who are.
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  2203. I can confirm this to a smaller degree. Like Pearl, I lived in China and one of the first things I had to learn was ordering food. I mean, IF I wanted to eat then I had no choice but to get increasingly better at it. If a visitor arrives in China and I order food in Mandarin? They are just WOWWED and can't believe I'm so fluent in Mandarin!! I'm not, not even close. It's simply repetition of key tourism-level conversation, specific vocabulary around taxis, restaurants and super basic "I want/we want" stuff. Nevertheless, the typical monolingual person thinks I've solved Mandarin. (Pearl really does speak decent Mandarin btw) but you get the idea. I don't really speak Mandarin other than specific stage scenarios with predictable words like ordering food at a typical restaurant. 'Fluency' is something else I don't have.
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  2204. No because they aren't banned in Europe because they are 'Poisonous' but for all kinds of insane bureaucratic and political and trade reasons. Likewise there are things disallowed in the USA that are used in Europe. STOP SPREADING THIS LIE PLEASE
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  2205.  @privacyfig  and it's not a golden standard anyway. There are all kinds of EU rulings on ingredients, labeling, trade wars. These people CONTINUE SPREADING THE LIE that 'Europe bans these poisons because their so poisonous". NO. That is NOT what is being done or happening in Europe. Oh and the USA also disallows all kind of ingredients that EUROPE DOES. Sick of these Food Religion liars spreading that rumor.
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  2206.  @trex9263  you have a paranoid delusion about it and you would fair the same in any of the many blind tests done. If you were NOT told what sweetener you were eating and given high fructose corn syrup for a year - you'd notice ZERO differences. Nobody does and its easily one of the most massive long running studies on the planet. You won't get sicker or any more or less ill, if they changed it to sucrose you'd carry on with the same body health.
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  2207. It's not 'taunting' and fellow boxers do things like that.
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  2208.  @sinigangpapi3379  holy shlt this is bad. Did all the Tyson Fury toxic fanboy goofs decide to flee to Inoue video comment sections now :(
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  2209. That sucks for China as Australia moves to rely less and less (spend less aka give less money) to China for these minerals but I suppose its the way of things as they 'decouple' and find ways to produce their own things.
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  2210.  @brianliew5901  It's true that Chinese ate grass during the decades of starvation and malnutrition. At that time Australia would send food and medicine as a charity to Mainland China so that helped a little. Australians are very wealthy and have a high quality food supply so as they decouple from China they'll probably keep eating well. Though, yes it's interesting that China, before Western corporations lifted them out of extreme poverty, they really did eat grass. Many older ones still eat grass and dirt from the habit and upbringing.
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  2211.  @brianliew5901  Oh, for many decades Australia sent food, medicine, money and then doctors and more to try and ease China through its horrific period of brutal extreme poverty. This was known as 'The Great Famine'. Australias contribution, in particular was their wheat. " Australia agreed to supply substantial quantities of wheat to China – potentially saving the lives of many, many Chinese who would now be in very senior positions in the Chinese government and industry. But few Chinese would be aware that Australia came to their assistance, as their government at the time consistently denied China was experiencing a famine." You must be young and from Mainland China where you weren't allowed to know about this?
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  2212.  @rogerfaint499  5000 years.
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  2213.  @brianliew5901  The USA There was a thing in Mainland China called 'The Great famine'.
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  2214.  @brianliew5901  I'm not sure why you started taklng about other countries but in China this was called 'The Great Famine' after some of the worlds worst ever farming and agriculture plans ever known to mankind including the great killing of sparrows and more. If you were born then, you are almost certainly abnormally short and small due to 'malnutrition'. There was a great problem though, in theory, Western nations aka 'Allies' weren't supposed to trade with the then communist nation. However, countries like Australia found ways to send massive amounts of wheat (and more). To this day, Mainland Chinese will eat 'chicken feet'. This happened because Canadian and US farmers, at that time, they didnt' use chicken feet. it cost more to dispose of them than to do anything so in a kind of desperation to help the starving Chinese get protein shipped them to China for free. (China would later tax the free chicken feet in a show of gratitude). So, a tremendous amount of ways were used for Australia to keep people like you from dying or being alive and severely ill and suffering from all kinds of malnutrition diseases. Now you know.
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  2215. I could be misremembering this but does anyone else feel like, around 10 years ago at least, a kind of national mandate went out that said, from then on, police were to immediately and directly engage and stop school shooters. They were not to follow procedures like that, they were mandated to immediately and always engage ASAP? I swear I remember that became a big national new policy? Anyone else?
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  2216. uh but you forget about illegal aliens taking up all the homes
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  2217.  @blakemeads9225  wtf.. I thought they would feel bad. I said it because I wanted to hurt their feelings and dimish them but now I guess I feel dumb knowing it won't do much!?
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  2218.  @sportskipacino7256  Because you're thirteen years old, that's why.
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  2219. the correct answer is Asian Student of course
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  2220. When you say 'should not be allowed' I wonder what you mean? You'd like government forces (ultimately at gunpoint, at physical force) you'd like some government powers to forbid certain people from establishing a new religion?
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  2221. Can all the video game people PLEASE STOP spamming the comment section with "I PLAYED that Video Game and need to let it be known here!". holy eff with that 100s of spams on this thing.
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  2222. Someone challenged this channel to scare people away from New Mexico and they delivered! (pssst... its actually pretty awesome but there are problems with a certain status/reservation world)
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  2223. Seriously, this is so bad its really a kind of pathological social illness. They grab like its their absolute right, they will dump garbage bins over and surely spread disease. Its bad.
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  2224. I've seen this in Canada but it seems so disorganized, undefined, untracked that nobody even bothered coming up with a name for it.
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  2225. There is something to the phenom of whoever you idolized as a kid retains that star power forever onward. I was not overly amazed to meet a celebrity closer to my age who become famous when I was an adult. If I met Lee Majors I'd also go into a stuttering fit of amazement. Same for sports stars. I'm happy to see Chris Eubanks Jr but when his Dad (this is boxing btw) happens to walk into a candy shop I go into Rogan's surreal state "Nooo way.. no, he's standing right there, for real, that's the real guy. and utter brain blank. he said something to me and I have no idea what he said or I said back to him.
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  2226. One of the greatest things we could ever do, a real 'Reset' would be to strike down every zoning regulation and bylaw in every city. Reboot. As if we just went back to 1900 where pretty much 'whatever people do they do' and that's that. Our world would improve 1000% overnight.
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  2227. This is a major issue that needs updating. Hong Kong legacy rights and privileges after Hong Kong is gone and it's all Mainlander now.
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  2228. In a certain way, teenage students can be very very clever and smart IN THAT some of these have really mastered how to throw a teacher right off their game. This is what happens, yes indeed the have their head down, you may as well be talking to the back wall and then many teachers get frustrated, lose their place, we can't work with that, soon everything we wan to do isn't right, we lose our own trains of thought. Mind you, I recently saw a teacher, and I admired this, the classroom was exactly these kids in the video and yet, almost comically, he'd do 60 minutes AS IF he was in a normal engaged class. AS IF at least one student was there agreeing, asking questions, trying to sort it out. He'd do a really good 60 minutes literally, physically AT the back wall. He once said something like "why should I become a terrible teacher... as far as I'm concerned its free practice time for when I do get engaged students". But if you see what happens - in a way they have developed some clever skills to dismantle a teacher until it become a kind of self-fulfilling loop. The teacher does eventually suck, can't do it, wont do it, gives up and THAT is exactly what they wanted to prove they have no reason to give a damn and engage after all.
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  2229. Blesed are the janitors for they go unthanked and yet the world can't function without them.
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  2230. duly noted, if the store doesn't have my favorite cookies I should not start a fist fight with the stockboy. I mean, I 'can' yes but then the cookies problem will be dealt with while I'm in custody.
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  2231.  @d1492ay  in China . Are you sure you want to keep bluffing?
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  2232.  @TRICHOMETRIST  full paid servants
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  2233. @ZIGZAG12345  you know im correct but are using a cheap old tactic of denying and say the opposite to pretend there is a 'both sides clash'. Anyway, i am the real life verification you deserve.
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  2234.  @ZIGZAG12345  Well the original high speed trains in China are 1984 era Japanse bullet trains. Later, they sold China the 1997 versions. The fun thing is that you didn't bother looking this up online and now anyone reading this can and will be pleased to see that me, the guy who rode the first HSR train line in China and all over China since then is very much correct. Now what, liarboy?
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  2235.  @applebee9060  I just came off a Chinese high speed train. One of the fun things to do when bored is look at some of those boring dedication/information walls and read up on what you're riding, how it came there etc. My country is China and the purchase of first 1984-era Japanese trains was huge here and that is many first lines that I rode in 2010. Years later, Japan agreed to sell China its 1997s. These are massive deals and involve tremendous cooperation, contracts and agreements. Yes indeed, Japan constantly upgrades them. Japan is already into their new generation (2021s i think it is). China broke it's agreement with Japan so they make their own parts and copy whatever upgrades the Japanese would have done. High speed trains, though invented and innovated, much of that was done 100 years ago in North America, some actualy working tracks and others engineering blueprints however, in the 1930s/40s era, cars became a thing. High speed rail is consider a 'new cutting edge technology of the future' to Chinese peasants though. I don't really like them BUTif one doesn't have a car they're far faster than then the slow trains. (which i prefer but time is money etc).
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  2236.  @speakz6935  thank you! Something else that I never hear said much: those people, the ones that lose the year of life progress: they never get those years back again. Its not like we somehow add 2 years of extra life to our lifespans. But what you said - that's a lot of years of 'doing, making, progressing, building, advancing' that are forever lost. Forever, they aren't added or given back ever again. Can I add another thought? That also includes a year of work our greatest little developing minds, our soon-to-be medical wizards, our would-be next-great virologists, our would-be next great surgeons lose. There is a 'Madame Curie' or our next 'Norman Bethune' who lost a year. They are not 'delayed' because in fact they can't somehow have extra years added to their life. Those years are gone forever. Anyway yes bang-on what you said there.
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  2237.  @pedrolinares9214  India may well have 1.4 billion. There were reasons to believe India had 'under-counted' so it may very well be more if anything. China is NOT the '1.4 billion country' and for some reason the internet CANNOT figure this out. China was never even 1.3 billion (official claim) but slightly less and has since officially redacted those overcounts to being 1.2 billion at its PEAK over 10 years ago. Now that is the official government numbers and China is absolutely infamous for that being a gross overcount for a lot of very very convincing reasons. But today, in 2025, there is no possible way China has more than 1 billion. Conservative estimates and aggregates of those have had it at 970 million in 2024, however, as more and more investigaion goes into the Shanghai Data Leak and other angles there are some saying it has to be far closer to 800 million. but to clarify, since the internet can't seem to get this straight: INDIA is the "1.4 Billion people Country". India. China is NOT the "1.4 billion" country. again, India is the 1.4. that is their thing, their number. Not China.
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  2238. So many sexual spamming adverts coming up on the screens that the children don't even notice them anymore. Oh, those were the days. that was spot-on yes lol
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  2239.  @daknytt  why do you believe Chinese have free healthcare?
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  2240.  @scottadams2977  it paid trilllions to buy Chinese labor. Thats one way.
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  2241.  @JWscandi  It depends on how much Trump decides it will (or not?)
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  2242.  @wsmithe2209  eh, no Hong Kong is still in decline and of course more and more as all the capital and wealth from the 1st world countries has to migrate to Singapore. Why the hell would Hong Kong suddenly start growing? As some 'pearl of the eastern BRICs or something?'
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  2243.  @wsmithe2209  Well yes of course they have to worry about losing a tremendous amount of wealth that was used to enrich Mainland China. 'Worry' or not it makes one poorer and poorer. Thats 'bad' for them.
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  2244. China became a developing country because massive free-market 1st world Western companies paid the CCP trillions in exchange for assembly plants and manufacturing. The end.
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  2245. Hopefully this will somehow help China soften it's current economic collapse. I don't see how but maybe it can slow the loss of rare-earth sales to the US for a little while?
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  2246. The MP is still right in that the Australian Olympic board and Raygun simply had to know her routine was a 0 points routine. They knew it but they passed it anyway. Yes, i have no doubt she intended to use that taxpayer funded event so she can apply for yet more taxpayers earnings to do ... guhh.. it pains me to use the word for this.. academic papers. And yes it will be on some idiotic 'male bias in olympic judging' which will of course be all about her.
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  2247.  @tanaaz7593  nope, don't lie about China or The USA people like that, sis
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  2248.  @lxstbxys4565  why do you read any of my amazement as 'Proselytizing' and yes, as you confessed here - they actually invaded Russian soil! That's crazy and yet, as you mentioned, they took over actual Russian land. Last we looked they're STILL running rampant on actual Russian land, inside Russia. Wild.
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  2249.  @lxstbxys4565  They're running rampant on Russian potato fields yes. In Russia. That is astonishing. Still. they are still doing it too, a month later.
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  2250.  @AAC2446  thats not a good reply. You just announce 'not a chance'. The problem is Poland did take over once before and Putin wants us to know thats a reason why he is very aggressive about Russias borders. And yet, Ukraine, this tiny blob just invaded Russia, is occupying the same spot a month later and Poland, seeing nothing more than a surrender of Kursk is wondering if it should get in on this. Also, land mass itself isnt full of soldiers and weapons and defense shields. Just announcing land mass doesnt mean much if (for example) Poland has seized Moscow and all its institutions.
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  2251. The social violence thing is a real concern. China has a long and consistent history of going from '0 to 1000' in 10 seconds. This is actually how nearly any fight, physical injury or murder I've ever seen goes in China. There is some 'loss of face' in public, then it's seemingly defused, they even walk away, you sort of think over and then HOLY EFFBALLS one goes into a horrifying 'death scream' and will not stop and WILL NOT STOP even after he's dead already, stop.. just STOP but they carry on bludeoning or hacking or stomping them in outrageous rage. This is the same way their uprising and strife have gone. From Boxer rebellions to Taiping Uprisings to down here things like the Guangxi Massacre. nothing, seems to be nothing but angry tension, maybe nothing will happen I think its.... HOLY EFFING OVERKILL WTFFFF! Last Spring Festival one of the most horrifying mass murders happened in a relatively small Chinese village and as far as anyone can tell this kicked off when someone was made to lose social face amid the family reunion that is spring festival. I personally know some horrific violence that occurred the same way when a family member from the city returned and 'Face' was insulted and it takes a long time for 10 police cars to arrive in remote villages.
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  2252. I remember chatting with Pearl about this years ago but there is a sense in which I unintentially fool people into believing I'm 'fluent' in Mandarin. or that I seem to 'speak mandarin'. - They have me order food. because I had to order food (or go hungry!) when living in China I had to memorize hearing and saying standard food or store counter words and sentences. - Sometimes I do know what they are saying BUT ONLY in the context. So I only knew about 3 of the ten words the mechanic said to me. In fact, I can then know he is saying my left turn signal light is not working. HOWEVER... It's because I'm in a mechanic shop and I was already there to replace a headlight. but IF I just receieved the same sentences from him on an unexpected voice message with no context? I wouldn't be able to figure it out. If it was just a recorded sentence on an exam I wouldn't get it right. 'Fluent' is something else. Fluent is that they can order noodles but then a 'sideways' conversation about forks and unrelated issues and the speaker can take those as spoken, on their own, even if they've never heard that sentence spoken before. Also, I rely on 'luck' too. Someone asked me something in Mandarin and it just so happened I knew it and how to reply. An almost identical question an hour later but ONE WORD.. i just 'blanked' like I missed that class. I mean a basic word but ... nope, I could not figure out what they meant at all. so tha isn't 'fluent' even though I just happened to know the earlier conversation.
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  2253. They tried once but Vietnamese beat the living hell out of them and chased them back to the Chinese border. Then the Vietnamese took a chunk of China and moved the Chinese border up into China so China was smaller.
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  2254. Why do you believe that?
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  2255. Another WW2 era sniper was utterly convinced he would hear the 'gasps' they made and they'd match "SHise!' accents, what he supposed they sounded like, matching injury (a neck shot 'gurgllle kahhh' and a head shot silent exhale as they fell etc. An olympic high jumper swore he absolutely hears the bar 'buzzing' like an electric swishing noise as he bends over it in mid-air. but it cannot possibly make such a noise yet his brain makes it happen. It does makes sense in the way the brain needs to reconcile seeing them that close but needs to create a story or natural glue of things. We do that watching movies. You've probably done it. you are 100 for sure, you know you heard the baddies body make a sound 'thump!' but if you watch again and pay attention it did NOT make any sounds and that includes the original VHS copy. We had to 'fill it in' so that it made some kind of cohesive meaning to match our eyes and the scene.
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  2256. Uhh.. well maybe from lesser developed countries I guess? They also think really tall buildings are amazing.
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  2257. Acquiring Greenland IS literally 'the border' and is about 'the US border' and where it should be.
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  2258. It's worth noting the title. These woudn't really be 'Chinese characters found on bones' but the presentation is more correct these are characters from which Chinese characters would have developed from (at least in part). 'proto' Chinese characters. before they were Chinese. which is a very cool thing!
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  2259.  @conho4898  Wait, why would we believe people in the Shang were speaking Chinese?
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  2260.  @conho4898  and you decided to name this 'Old Chinese'?
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  2261. He told China to start taking back plane loads of the illegal Chinese he's deporting. China said 'Yes Sir' and now takes them all back. As Trump instructed China, so they will do it.
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  2262. One thing Lindsay has been absolutley bang-on correct about and far more people need to get this: What we know as the 'Woke' cultural revolution (which they purposely never use the words 'cultural revolution') but it is absolutely a deliberate Americanized version of the Maoist Cultural Revolution. Which itself owes a tremendous amount to the Soviet Russian days anyway. There is no mistake, those of us with Chinese roots and who've lived in communist China, (and Vietnam and Laos) but there is simply no mistake about this. It's all there including the 'cancel culture' and if you don't know this part, at a peak, Chinese cultural revolutionary students would identify teachers and administrators who did not praise communism ENOUGH and fly the red flags 100% of the time etc. Then those were deemed 'Anti-Chinese traitors' and then students that did NOT persecute those teachers with maximum vengeance were ALSO deemed a kind of traitor and 'supporter of traitors' because they should have been there slapping the teacher with shoes instead of just watching and weakly applauding. I really don't know why more people haven't caught onto this but Lindsay was among the foremost to call it out and shout the warning and point it out.
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  2263. What is this 'American Propaganda' that you listened to and then 'had your eyes opened!'. Can you give some example?
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  2264. yes and everything in China started to decline 8 years ago, everyone is poorer than they were 8 years ago and China is having a serious economic collapse 8 years later (today, now, currently).
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  2265.  @ptssw5395  Nope, China is notorious for 'cha bu duo' shoddy construction. You've got a lot to learn about China, the USA and Europe my dishonest kiddo.. a LOT to learn hehe.
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  2266. This is Western News. You're on a US-Based 'Western' media platform right now. In 2010 there were hundreds of videos of foreigners in China raving all kinds of positive things. At that time, a good amount of 'Western Media' was about China being the 'Rising Giant' and 'Economic Miracle' and a lot of post-Olympics hype about how far China had come and was opening up.
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  2267.  @IsleNaK  What do you mean by 'news outlets'?
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  2268. Yes, every report tells you that. Nobody told you otherwise. Pay attention please.
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  2269.  @dragondescendant1  No, like most things China does its this foolish 'highest score' nonsense and they have the 'highest gaokao score' of ships (boats) which is about a zillion unarmed 'corvairs'. It's "bigger" by the usual goofball game of 'China have HIGHEST NumbA!' but it's just a bunch of tin ships yes..
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  2270.  @dragondescendant1  Aussies don't get scared. They aren't insecure teenagers like you lol
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  2271.  @yawn369  Live Fire exercises without helpful warning thus causing a lot of flight pattern troubles.
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  2272.  @sugarpuffbutty  there's nothing China PRC can do but watch.
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  2273. Not enough is mentioned about the sudden heart attack which surely prevented him from carrying out the necessary actions for the suit to work. Thus, the worth of Franz's invention remains undetermined. (or possibly proven to cause heart attacks). A remind, he did not die from suit's failure. yeah, think about that hmm
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  2274. The very concept of K9 Units is cruel abuse of dogs. Its not his 'cop partner' it's a dog he uses as a meat shield so he or she doesn't get boo-boos, punches or risk their lives in anyway. It's actually one of nastiest kinds of animal cruelty the more you think about it.
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  2275. Nobody complained about freedom of naviation, foreigner. Do the homework and come back when you see what the actual complaint was?
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  2276. @YongLi-np3wg  to return the courtesy of giving early and direct notice just as the Australians do. If not, China may not be given that courtesy anymore but the people of China will be told, widely told about it for a change. Then they may be very upset about it. Bad for China.
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  2277.  @YongLi-np3wg  You don't even follow the law around VPNs and China's own laws against causing social disharmony including with non-Chinese. You're here masturbating yourself into a frenzy about how you're now 'punishing The West' and with a big smirking attitude. The problem is, the choice China's PLAN has is either be courteous outside of your own waters, or, have an 8-Nation alliance carry out another 'century of humiliation'. Decide which of those you're asking for and I'd suggest the first choice: Be courteous and obey. One of the reasons you and your family and all Chinese are poorer today than you were 5 years ago is because of this smirking n-word arrogance and toxic anti-western antagonism. Don't make it worse on yourself.
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  2278.  @somethingaccessories  No. this isn't that kind of thing. In this case, the most likely subject is someone who develops their brain and their understanding of the world while routinely playing video games. This is when their very brain, the very 'wiring' is developing. really, by definition, a game is something for which there are solutions. there would be a way to answer a given problem. So even if you keep losing a turn, by great determination, practice, skill improvement there is a combination of buttons that will, if you work at it, defeat the boss! level up. Indeed, if a player becomes convinced that no matter what they do, no matter how often how hard, how well it keeps failing they 'Rage Quit'. If a game has you make the right choices, do everything perfectly and nothing happens its a 'glitch' a bad game, a flaw in the game. So what happens is we have our 12th grader who's logged in more hours of game solving than anything else in life and certainly any other activity outside of school hours. He is now becoming an indepenent decision maker. He asks an ideal lady to the prom but she refuses. He tries again, this time putting a really good effort, she refuses then tells her friends he is 'creepy' and they sneer at him. He applies for a job he is perfect for and they don't even call back. He gets a job that he's not good at and tries to romance a coworker and gets fired for it. He was driving home perfectly, absolutely following all the rules and yet loses 10 points on a ticket that nobody else doing far worse ever gets, He upgrades skills, invests in some degrees, starts to work out and dress better and gets told to eff right off and what can happen.. .....His entire, his axiomatic comprehension of the world, the only way his brain can 'cogitate' is that this cannot be. This cannot compute, it has to be a gross personal attack on himself or what? Rage Quit this effing game! Like slamming the monitor its a kind of way to physically put things right, where there is a reward for effort and skill and doing the right things. because in this world, outside of games, the so called 'real world' we live in, much of the time, there is no reward for effort and you may get leveled-down. There is no solution to a challenge, none, it has no answer. practice leads to failure or nothing much. So this is the way video gaming can, for some people, develop them into a way of understanding and solving things that cannot work in the rest of their lives.
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  2279.  @TrutherAudiobooks  It would be your exposure to chess to the degree in which you believe you should try that, that it can solve it, the idea you can fix something by just making more correct game moves, this would be exposure to chess to a degree you don't know any other way to understand and cogitate, to 'think through' anything else. It would be your fault yes but if this happened throughout your formative years, lets say ages 11 to 19 then I'd say it might be your parents fault.
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  2280.  @TrutherAudiobooks  In fact, we normal humans do impart the responsibility of children onto parents. You do it all the time, people put it on your parents instead of you 5 years ago and legally we do it across the world. So, no, it wouldn't be blamed on the 11-to-18 year old, as I taught you. When you get into adulthood, you're around what, 22 now? then you 'rage-quitting' right now because you can't just win this level, get past me by clicking the right combination of keystrokes? Yes, then that is on you. However, as i taught you earlier, the video games were the tool, the machine, the misinformation you believed in. btw, just so you know, no adult is superrrrr stupid and was insisting the actualy game itself, the 'CD' or the electronic codes and pixels were 'hypnotizing you' and ordering you to be enraged or drive the van through the crowd. In a similar way, when we say Maos 'little red book' is what compelled the teenage girl to report her parents to the government for punishments etc, we didn't actually think the physical red book itself emitted 'control rays' and like a demon it possessed her body. Just so you know, that's not the actual concept, gamer
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  2281.  @TrutherAudiobooks  I'm sorry you have a low IQ and cannot grasp concepts this far removed from you, however, what you need to do is stop trying, ok? Stop letting your creepy little ego tell you to engage in concepts beyond WWE or flavors of gum because look what's just happened? So you need to stop trying to engage with these topics, gamerboy?
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  2282.  @TrutherAudiobooks  You were already warned about trying to engage in concepts beyond your capability and, like a true 89 IQ you decided to keep trying. and it was so grosssss. ewww you actually did the 'dictionary definitions' thing lol yuckkk.
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  2283. Yes, what about it?
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  2284. months, a year, 3 years from now will you come back here and admit you had this very very wrong?
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  2285.  @lagnicourtd.c.m.8919  you might have bipolar disorder. have you ever been diagnosed with something like that?
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  2286.  @naruto6918  I've traveled to China and for more years than you've been an adult. Some of these video clips look like they come from my own videos. This is very raw realistic China. In fact, almost all the clips here are Chinese posting on Chinese social media. But you HE HAWWW and make screwy sneering childish laughing faces will make it 'disappear' and actually AMERICA is who's like this! Good, you keep doing that. It will work!
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  2287.  @alexaez2946  You can go there yourself and it will be an even bleaker and more depressing experience than you had watching these Chinese social media posts.
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  2288.  @daveg-Vancouver_Island  No, not really. We can do it this way: Lets say you lose your Canadian passport and find yourself stranded in an international airport 'counryless'. no joke, this has actually happened to people but GOOD NEWS! the UN met and finally 2 countries agreed to give you a passport. There is a condition: whichever one you take, you must agree to live there the rest of your life and any family. (fine, you get 2 weeks vacation a year) but you really have to stay, live and work and retired in the nation you choose. USA or Netherlands. Even before you finished reading this you know that you'd choose the USA. Yes indeed you would because among other things, there is nothing in The Netherland you could not find in the USA anyway. Heck, you can even find enclaves of the many Dutch who immigrated to the USA. You can have all the tall big-headed people, foods, wear wooden shoes, be weirdly arrogant and paint trim in your houses in the USA. but yes, you would choose the USA passport. You did in your mind, You know it andI know it.
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  2289. Things aren't always what they seem to be. Indeed, Beijing's Tiananman area (seen here) has been kept very clear over the last 10 years. You'd also see some really revoting things and ugly dirty alleys but overall that district is their showcase zone. Yes, you will also find new places still look.. well.. new! They are literally un-dirty yet. On the down side, China, as in most places in China, outside some showcase downtown malls or maybe a newly completed project will be grimey, dusty, some are just utterly disgusting shlthole messes and then overall its not so clean and tidy. 'Safe' is something to define. China is overall dangerous for being hit by vehicles, falling items, electrical, awful sidewalks, sinkholes, really watch out for 'jagged metal' often at body level so you can slice open on it and then the next most serious danger: contaminated food, counterfeit food, tap water (do not drink without boiling) various e-coli, germs etc in foods or drinks. This might actually be THE most dangerous thing but again careful around faulty elevators or even just obstacles you can trip and fall on. 'Crime Safe' as in 'physical assault type crime', China is pretty goof for foreigners. Generally speaking, you may get cheated or tricked out of money, maybe intimidated but the average thug tries to avoid foreigners. Now, more recently, some foreigners have been stabbed to death (or survived) again. These are usually some anti-foreigner psychos who stab foreigners or throw them off a tower or something. The other thing is that you want to watch out for mass-stabbing and mass-vehicle murder attacks which won't be specifically at you. They aren't aiming for a foreigner but usually Chinese children or Chinese and you would just happen to be in th way. Otherwise, besides 'taxi scams' or some 'tea house intimidation' the average violent type of Chinese thug will purposely AVOID foreigners because they are foreigners. This is kind of the opposite of LA where I'd say the thugs, if anything, would look for foreigners to mug or beat up. China is not necessarily safe for Chinese and like anywhere there are certain places they know to avoid and certain things you do not get involved with either. If a Chinese avoids those things then overall, much like LA, they would rarely be victims of any kind of physical violence.
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  2290.  @goofygrandlouis6296  Eh, no this is not what's happening lol
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  2291.  @ShannonDavis-eq4fj  We have to go by whatever the referee called it as. It's "legal" by his decision. oh well, onto the rematch!
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  2292.  @Right-Is-Right  sorry but you are incorrect.
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  2293.  @rockingtraining  fun fact: Tik-Tok is blocked and banned in China by the govt. Whether you 'need it' or not, you won't be getting the choice to use it.
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  2294. there isn't a country called 'The Western Nation' anymore than China is some region of 'The Eastern Nation' but what, specifically what country did you find unfriendly and unsafe? Turkey?
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  2295. but they don't. why keep saying that over and over?
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  2296. Gebekel Tepe is for the 'Creationists'. This is a massive find verifying their Hebrew's account of the world and very specifically Noah landing in the mountains of Ararat and then building a temple to sacrifice animals (it was a big part of the whole animal thing, 2 of this, 7 of that etc). Here we are, not too far from the mountains of Ararat where Noah, a massive mega-project filled with all kinds of animals and built in grand scale that many future generations would consider a tremendously holy spot. Yes, it would be the earliest known man-made kind of structure, this all squares with Genesis. Hancock exists to put doors and exits and other things blocking the gate of the Creationists door.
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  2297. One of the reasons the Philippines is doing this is because China's PLA will not even dream of instigating warfare with the Philippines knowing there are US bases and an alliance. China PRC is not wealthy and doesn't bequeath gifts of luxury on anyone as some grand benefactor. The US can do that because its far far more wealthy and prosperous with far more opportunities. For you it's all about the money. You'd make a good Chinese.
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  2298. Why is China trying to contain the Philippines? China has to keep 'containing' all these other countries growth because its so jealous? Because it can't succeed on it's own so it needs to try and contain Vietnam and Philippines.
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  2299. Nope. Almost every country is having a level or increase in middle-class consumption EXCEPT Mainland China which has an extraordinary problem with it to a much greater degree than usual.
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  2300.  @santorizzuto7360  ok there is no hope for you then. You shouldn't participate in these discussions anymore, ok?
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  2301.  @SeruraRenge11  Ok.
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  2302.  @crosslink1493  It's evening for them and most of them are currently unemployed due to the economic collapse.
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  2303.  @santorizzuto7360  Hopefully, so you don't keep embarrassing yourself (tho, you wont know that you are). Maybe there are some 'WWE' fandom chats more suited to you level?
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  2304.  @volfi123  But it's not absurd, its being discussed and negotiated in public discourse and there is no objective reasons why its absurd. Incredulity isn't a reason lol
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  2305.  @santorizzuto7360  heh U mad Bro?
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  2306. Here's my gripe about Canelo: He has been on this kind of 'tour' phase and the yearly Cinco De Mayo fight and the opponents who ARE legit Top 10ers but are also good fits. Canelo has still been really good in these until... ...and I suppose we cannot blame him but it's starting to become 'just enough to win' with the least risks and maybe he's done enough 'touring' the Canelo Show for now. I don't want it to be 2030 and its Canelo May 5th vs good but 'safest' Top 10er doing 'enough to win on points'.
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  2307.  @r3dpuma  I see, and were they recently recorded podcasts?
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  2308. nope, you dont. you sell each other out, you throw each other under the bus like its a national pasttime, you are extremely divisive and there is nothing to 'unify' in an atomized multicultural nothingness region.
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  2309. This guy is one of the reasons Canada became a post-national state of no unity or meaning. but Canada will join the USA soon. It will be for lots of reasons but mainly just removing the artificial border and more efficient living and moving for everyone.
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