Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "laowhy86" channel.

  1. Really proud for our Lithuanian neighbours. I don't think our politicians have guts to do the same, as Lithuanians always have been special in our region, they are really stubborn and resisted any attempts to dictate, what they should do. Greetings form Latvia!
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  2. Being the only child explains nothing about cheating. With being a single child also comes a burden of responsibility and being the only hope.
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  3. I grew up in USSR, so I got some insight how it is to live in single party state with completely controlled media and made up heroic history. Somehow it always turns out, those Western "enemy voices" ("вражеские голоса") are always right. What a "surprise"! Of course, I mean it in a wide, generalised sense, not raking in account bullshit that FOX, "Daily Mail", "the Sun" and other tabloids or media with a specific agenda spews out.
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  4. Over a year ago BBC was asking hard questions to Chinese representative, a doctor on a conference dedicated to organ transplantation. Basically they were straight out asking him to admit, that people are intentionally killed to harvest their organs for profit, as there is no way one could get organs on demand in such large quantities in a very short time.
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  5. With freedom comes responsibility. PCR tests and lockdowns with reasonable limitations make perfect sense in democracies, but in authoritarian regimes there is no real feedback, thus they have no idea when they have gone too far.
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  6. When you are hungry, you hardly need any encouragement to clean a plate. I never knew a true hunger, but eating a cheap porridge a week in a row, when you are a growing teenager and you want meat, really sucked and was quite depressing. So, it wasn't a hunger or starvation per se, but could be called malnourishment.
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  7.  @JohnSmith-le5oe  Yeah, yeah, readily on demand, like a fitting donors just die when needed. People who have been rising alarms for years are not idiots, they are medical professionals and do understand statistics.
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  8. @UCArlYs23dAg_rjJrwT4z60A Which doesn't mean CCP is not trying to cover up their fuckup at the same time. I grew up in USSR, so I got some idea how that "keeping face" (сохранить лицо) and covering their own mistakes (не выносить сор из изьбы) works in authoritarian regimes; so it's not a question, if they are trying to cover up, it's an absolute certainty the are doing that.
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  9. She is really cute. And actually I was pleasently surprised by the video, was expecting mostly "noty authentic and doesn't taste anything like real Chinese food".
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  10. Callum B Yeah, if they wanted to "let people know how much government is taking from them", they would show both - the price without tax and the price with tax. So I call that complete BS and a lame excuse, as the only point in showing only the lowest price on the tag is to make things look cheaper and make bigger sales on people who are not good at math. Besides here in Europe we do get to see how big the tax is - recipe does show the price without tax and the amount of VAT. Besides by law sellers are obliged to show two prices - per piece and per one kilogram or one liter, so you would be aware, if you actually get more for your money, or is that pack of butter cheaper, because it's 180 instead of 200 gram pack next to it. However, some shops use this to fool you - you see a price in big digits for a cake, let's say nine euros. A good price!!! No! It's for one kilo, where the whole cake weights considerably more, and the price for it is in tiny digits underneath big ones. I hate this! So I rarely go to that shop.
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  11. Lack of religion? Seriously? Northern Europe - the most non-religious part of the world, disagrees strongly!
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  12. alexander5207 Yeah, Winston could be Shepard. 8D
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  13. So, pretty soon googling "ladyboys" will bring up pictures from China instead of Thailand.
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  14. Same with Russian so called "patriots", to them USA is all about abandoned houses in Detroit, an area in Chicago called "Chirak" (a portmanteau of Chicago + Iraq), homeless people, insane cases of political correctness, political corruption / lobbying , mass shootings and other crap. I don't know for sure, by I'd imagine it's more or less the same in some predominantly Muslim countries, and some regions of Africa and Latin America. All those where political regime needs some excuse or distraction, might even partly work in free countries as a part of populist propaganda and tabloid media.
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  15.  @Oravification  Yeap! Well... no! I'm sort of both, I do have siblings - a step sister and two step brothers, yet I grew up as the only child until 16 years of age, so... I'm sort of both.
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  16.  @PVAPPE  You are welcome! Just don't get that impression like Kremlin wants to go to war. They might be dreaming of great conquests and victories, but guys in military must realize, that Russia isn't in shape for any open war. But that craving for attention... Let's just say, it has made Putin a laughing stock. He desperately wants to be with "the big guys". So state controlled media (which is almost all big media in Russia) makes a big fuss if Trump has "met" Putin while passing through a lobby.
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  17. Lol, my relatives have a barn built before Napoleon's wars, and my school was established in 1630s
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  18. Well, not free, but it still comes easy here in the West - just participate in elections.
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  19. Not really, well, on one hand - yes, the virus and it's initial spread was caused by incompetence of Chinese authorities, which does make them worry. But on the other - no, they don't have to worry of it's origins, it's not a bio weapon(if it was, a meager 2% mortality rate... Common!), which every lab able to sequence DNA can see, which basically makes hiding it's origin impossible - everyone with access to infected people can take a test sample of it, and we already know which two viruses contributed to making this one (it's not unique situation, HIV also is a product of gene exchange between two viruses); and those two have origins in China, so the only place CCP can cover up something is China itself, to everyone else it is absolutely clear where the virus came from and that abysmal hygiene of wet markets in China definitely contributed to it.
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  20. I don't think sanctions is the only way to weaken CCP's regime. Read the book "Why Nations Fail", C-Milk you've yourself China's economy slowing down, that's not a coincidence , a glitch or just a short term misfortune, it's pretty much a certainty built-in in all oppressive regimes. Then they start to look for excuses and scapegoats, since they can't admit their own faults and failures, thus the dumb trumping up of nationalism and xenophobia.
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  21. Well, not my words, but: "There are many cultures, but there is only one civilisation - Western one". Every culture can be unique, just look at Japan, yet there are things like social security, ban on slave trade, rights, functioning justice system etc, which marks the difference between civilised and somewhat savage world.
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  22. The detest for small talk isn't fear of something, it's just annoyance. Why are you robbing me of my privacy, don't you have any respect?
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  23. Wasn't Canada the favourite destination for people fleeing Hong Kong before takeover by Commies?
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  24. WoW, these responses are weird, I'd even say alien to me. Why so many people presume "more is better" when it comes to number of sexual relationships? Why do you presume quantity to be more attractive than quality? Sorry for comparison, but isn't it like choosing several fastfood meals over one in from the best restaurant? I might be spoiled (not by money, my family had very little), but that's exactly why I prefer trust and love over short term excitement about novelty and adrenaline rush from risk of being caught. However, I also do realize, it is not completely rational choice, based on logic alone, it's also about the hormones and our brain, which dictates willingness to take risks and many other things.
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  25.  @PVAPPE  Well, then it is pretty obvious, that you don't speak Russian.
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  26.  @PVAPPE  Kremlin doesn't say that directly, that's true. But they have that sentiment, as if they haven't been paid the attention and respect they have "earned" by... by what and for what? Basically, that's a manifrstation of the sense of entitlement with no real basis to it. Also there are a lot of revanchist tendencies for lost Cold War, craving "to get even", for a payback to the West. Think of it as something like 1920s Germany, which led to the rise of Nazis. The closest to "hurt feelings" that have been said out loud was a phrase in Putin's Munich speech - "you didn't listen to us before, listen now then!"
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  27. Well... Sorry, but many guys in my country are definitely watching the Olympics, since we are a nation of less than two million, so it's not all that often we see some of our compatriots at such big events.
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  28.  @syncaudio2758  USSR existed for seven decades, so it was very different in different stages of it's lifespan, same with China - not as bad as during Cultural revolution, so I would not compare it to Stalin's era (as would be in the case of DPRK), yet on the other hand now big guys in Beijing have a share in the business of killing their own compatriots for transplants, "involuntary donors", so to speak.
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  29. @illegal_opinions They are, you Western shitheads, have no idea how it is to live under a single party regime with 100% controlled media.
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  30. Smells are very organic.
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  31. Wouldn't this doom guys from DPRK?
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  32. But she is right, that portion is insane. I'm 95kg 182cm tall (around 210lbs and almost 6 feet) man, who needs to get rid of some fat, but that portion alone could be my ration for a whole day. P.S. Just an idea, but... Doesn't drinking cold drinks burn some calories, thus compensating for large portions? Well, this theory would hold true, if the drinks themselves wouldn't be sweetened.
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  33. Thin, tall and pale?! No, just no! I'm not a chubby-chaser, but not into stick-figure girls either.
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  34. Are Chinese apartaments more like European style, when you enter a lobby / dressing area, or an American one, where you enter directly into a room?
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  35. I don't know about Chinese women, but Google ads are plain stupid, they show me all those Ukrainian and Russian women looking for a partner, despite the fact it's pretty clear from all my social sites, that I'm taken and have been in marriage for many years. So... WTF, Google, wasn't your algorithms suppose to be good at targeting specific audience? OK, it's not just Google, of course.
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  36. Did I hear it right, it's a model of 2001? Common, it looks very much 1980s indeed, even my 1995 Volkswagen looks several generations more modern. 8D.
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  37. Hmm, my VW has 60 liter tank (enough for a 600-750km trip, depends on the quality of road, load, speed etc), but it's a wagon.
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  38.  @kiattim2100  Well, sure, like flatearthers and creationists, there are all kinds of morons. But I mean - sane people should trust experts, not conspiracy shitheads.
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  39.  Jimmy Lynn  I wonder what you are talking about. If it s about DNA analysis, I've heard it from a man with phd in medicine (not genetics, thaug), who is one of the guys running "Science Based Medicine". No idea what politicians are saying in the subject.
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  40.  @wreagfe  If expert says bullshit, he is not an expert, isn't it? Or are you implying, we should trust anyone, who we just like, despite being a completely incompetent in the field. And it's nice you know the word "dichotomy", but that's where your "expertise" in the field ends. And yes, wetmarkets is still the only valid versiopn, nothing has changed, there is no need to chase any new claims, just because it's a novelty. New bullshit shouldn't have more weight than a proper hypothesis. Seriously, now I feel a bit like talking to a flattard (flat earther) or a Creationist.
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  41. Uh, fake confession videos... WoW, haven't seen something like that on local TV since 1980s, when we were still under Soviet rule. It's pretty scary, that something like that still is going on, especially because China is a big country. Another scary thought is - what would I do in such system? We just got lucky and broke free from USSR, so now we are a part of the West, but it could have ended the other way, like in Beijing in 1989, just on a larger scale. And there is little one can do, living under such regime, except escaping and becoming a refugee in a more civilised country or choosing to stay and live like everyone else under a single party rule and keeping mouth shut.
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  42. Yeah, even Jacky Chan's movies have turned to shit for at least a decade now.
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  43. China doesn't have true allies, only temporary partners, as CCP way too much loves to screw over potential partners. The one upside of China's attempts to extend influence into Central Asia is that ties with China helps Kazakhstan to keep Russia at bay to some degree by keeping Kremlin mostly out of Kazakhstan's internal politics.
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  44. Because now CCP's top dogs go like: "Oh shit, now a real politician will be in office, not that dummy!" A kind reminder, that so called "war" on China has ended in worse trade imbalance, in favour of China of course, than it was when Trump started said "war".
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  45. Wait, is it "roll" in Chinese too? In Russian, if you say "get away as fast as you can" sort of stuff, it's "катись отсюда" - literally "roll away from here!"
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  46. At first I thought it's stupid to riot against reasonable measures, but... oh... o_O IF those erre were reasonable measures like here in Europe or larger West as a whole.
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  47. Common, how can showering be annoying? I'm really sleepy now (it's 0:58 local time), yet I'll now go to brush my teeth and shower anyway.
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  48. I can partly understand Vivi's experience, even I'm from a "richer" country. Well, it was a different country back then - USSR. There were very few cars, out of 12 families in our apartment building, only one had a car. People mostly used public transportation. Upside if this was - space around houses was free, we, kids could play football and later basketball there. Now cars take up almost every possible space. And yes, sitting home alone was normal, we all went to school on our own from age 8-10, some even earlier. So I was drawing something or reading. We had TV, but only 3 channels (one Moscow TV and two local IIRC), of course, there was no a separate one for kids. XD Hunger... Well, no, I haven't experienced real starvation, only times, when food got really poor in early 1990s, like a week with no meat at all, not even soya substitutes, just some kind of porridge every single day, I was still a fast growing teenager, so it was depressing. And in early 2000s, that's after 1998 financial crisis in Russia and some if Eastern Europe, my wife (we were not dating back then yet) almost starved to death, but got saved by her parents.Thing is, she tried to save money in every way possible, even walked around 5-6 kilometers to work, which was in shifts of 12 hours, and only had like 3 sandwiches a day. It got so bad, she couldn't't phone her parents, since eyesight was impacted by hunger, luckily, the lady who owned the flat helped her and phoned parents. Yet China (at least coastal cities) has went through even bigger changes than my country. Sort of. We no longer are a single party state, we joined EU and NATO, in a way, our changes were even more radical than in China, it's just there can't be a straight, simple comparison between our countries.
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  49. I think I saw a TikTok of the 3rd guy recently, and yes, he made obvious bullshit about "the Evil West". Thing is, I'm not from the West, I grew up on the other side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, I know their bullshit not from the Western perspective, but from the inside. Only dumb westerners can believe they have state propaganda too, the is nothing even close to what single party states and authoritarian regimes have!
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  50. P.S. It feels like they are changing tactic. First I got several such CCP propaganda TikToks, left some caustic and salty commentaries under those. Today, instead of politics, I get only dancing girls and cats, even my favourite sceptic and science videos were fewer than usual. Maybe, just maybe they are tinkering with FYP algorithm to exclude those, who don't play along, from seeing and thus commenting under those propaganda videos, which would make eco-chambering easier.
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  51. Isn't the hype of learning Chinese a thing of the past already? Yes, there were talks about "you should learn Chinese" years ago, like IIRC it was even before 2008 economic crisis, but somehow it went away. Not all of it mind you, I know at least one Russian girl on Instagram, who studied Chinese and moved to Chine a couple of years ago, but that's about it.
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  52. Can we say Taiwan is now safe? Seeing world's reaction to Russian Nazi invasion in Ukraine, CCP might have dropped plans to "liberate" their so called "province". P.S. I don't use world "Nazi" here just as a slur, it is impossible to tell apart Kremlin's rhetoric form Nazi era one. (I do speak Russian fluently) People say similarities between Hitlers speech of September 1st 1939 (the day they invaded Poland) and Putin's one of February 24th 2022 (the OPEN invasion in Ukraine, remember, Russia started it all 8 years ago) are gut wrenching.
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  53. I happen to live in a country, which likely would be Russia's next target, if Ukraine falls, we directly border Russia. Except we are in NATO, while Georgia and Moldova are not, so...Who knows what would happen, if Putin's Blitzkrieg succeeded.
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  54. Well, I can speak in at least two languages fluently (my English, which is sort of my 3rd one, I believe, isn't all that bad too) and almost at the same level, but I have an accent in both languages, even my native one. XD Well... at least I have no troubles switching between three languages, when I need to use English, I just use it, instead of thinking a phrase out first in my mother tongue and then translating it.
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  55. In theory, English lessons at school started when I was 12yo, but in reality there were at least 1 1/2 years, when we had no lessons at all, so I really got into it only after secondary school, when I was around 19-21. Besides in school t felt like there is no need for English, it was back in USSR era, my native language and Russian was enough to communicate with everyone and anyone I knew.
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  56. Chicken can't be made tasty?! OMG, what is going on there in US? Don't you have any professional chefs and farm grown chickens? No proper seasoning and marinades? And "bland" salmon and pork? How come? Honestly, I'm not big on organ meets, liver and kidneys - sure, but tongue and heart are too chewy to my liking. And yes, the term "sausage" can be used quite liberally even in such strictly regulated markets like here in Europe, so I choose those that have at least 75-90% meat in them.
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  57. Japanese rock = Jrock Korean pop = Kpop Chinese rap = ... well, now you see, how it's pretty much impossible for them to be cool (same with Christian rap)
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  58. WTF, nothing can be too sweet?! Seriously? How about "oversweetened" then? Even candies can be too sweet. And then there is a proper chocolate - dark one, and bad chocolate - oversweetened, cheap crap that isn't even produced in my country (that would be almost a crime, if they did).
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  59. I guess currently it's not all that hard to score higher than USA in various ratings of freedom, according to "Freedom House": Latvia: political rights: 37/40; civil liberties 52/60, total score 89/100 USA: political rights: 33/40; civil liberties 53/60, total score 86/100 And my homeland - Latvia, is one of the poorest countries in EU and formerly was forcibly incorporated in USSR for five decades. Even before Trump came to power USA got downrated from "democracy" to "flawed democracy", Trump didn't start it, but certainly made much worse. Still, there are much more freedoms in USA than any authoritarian regime, which now tend to pretend to be democracies (like Russia and numerous others), and China is even worse than those, CCP doesn't even rig elections, they rule a single party state, that's it. I had enough experience of living in such regime, and USSR in many aspects had a milder system than China, that's one of the reasons they avoided large bloodshed (mostly, there were local incidents with numerous victims) in late 80s and early 90s, again - unlike China, taht crushed 1989 demonstrations by brute force.
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  60.  @hellishcyberdemon7112  I'm not even well aware who Fauci is, since I'm not an American and English isn't even my 2nd language. Here in Europe there was pretty dramatic differences between countries with and without limitations, like steep death toll in Sweden compared to very low ones in Finland and Norway, that directly border Sweden.
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  61. Every authoritarian and totalitarian regime has, does and will be blaming unrest on "foreign intervetion", China, Tussia, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, you can even find quotes of the top bastards of Nazi Germany blaming the West!
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  62. I guess CCP, just as Soviets did, hides statistics of crime, traffic accidents, alcoholism and some other health issues, and, of course, information about large catastrophes. Common, Soviets did try to sweep it all under a rag, like they did with such issues before, if only this time radiation hasn't reached Western countries.
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  63. Being "too Marxist" in supposedly Communist country is not weird, actually, it's the same and even worse in DPRK - one can not get Marx's and Lenin's writings in public libraries, only in specialized ones with restricted access. Thing is, it's likely based on Soviet experience with 1960s dissidents, intelligentsia who had read Marx, Engels, Lenin etc and found out, that there are a lot of deviations form the original idea in the Soviet ideology. Just as USSR from mid 1940s, China isn't really a Communist, internationalist country, it's an empire now, while DPKR has became a kingdom of Kim dynasty.
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  64. Harm+agony=harmony
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  65. LoL, good luck at finding my pictures on the Web! XD It's not like there are none, but they are very, very few. And each time when Facebook writes "add your profile picture, so friends can recognise you", I'm "fuck that, I'm not doing it!" Well... I might add a picture, I had a MRE scan of my brain done recently, so there is a picture of me, which I can add for LuLz, I just doubt it will e helpful for those, who befriend random people by looks, as those who I know are already in my list, despite the lack of profile picture at all.
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  66. Horrible story, but what's done is done. Funny, how when you read novels or watch, everything seems so clear - common, you like each other, you should get together for that "happily ever after", but it's not like that in real life, when you yourself are a part of it. I was madly in love with a girl since I was 11-12 y.o., she was one of my classmates. But then I as secondary school years came (which is from age 15 or 16 to age 17-18, depends if you are both in the first half of the year or the second one), I switched to another school (primary was specialized in music, while that secondary school was all about mathematics, physics, informatics etc), not because parents made me do it, I did it myself. A couple of years ago, after playing a romantic visual novel and then talking about it on forums with other guys, like a lot, since it had really deep impact on many people, then I realized, that if my life was a novel or movie, I'd scream at the main protagonist: "What are you doing? You love her, you should stay together!" But nothing like that in real life, nothing, no second thoughts until that very moment a few years ago.
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  67. LoL, I salute H&M then! There is one of thei shops in a local mart in a mere 10-15min walk from my house. Well, no wonder given I live pretty close to Sweden itself, so we have several of their chains here.
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  68. Well, US ain't perfect (especially compared to Northern Europe), but how insanely stupid and dillusional must one be to "prefer" China or DPRK over any American nation, even Mexico?! "Prefer" here means - talking that shot instead of moving there. I grew up under Soviet occupation, it was really mild regime compared to what was and still is going on in China and DPRK, but there is no way I would want to get back to Soviet "social security", it is much better now with free market and in EU community.
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  69. 4:26 - was that a "Red Heat" reference? -Are you Russian? - I'm Soviet.
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  70. It's just normal, they have no experience of living in oppressive regimes with completely controlled media. I grew up under Soviet occupation, so I got some idea, but USSR dissolved nearly 30 years ago, since then it's been completely different, where China has not went through such change. Weird thing is, in my memories old Soviet propaganda was not as while and plain dumb as current Russian one, but then I saw a couple of old records from early 1980s and late 1970s... nah, it was just as awful, it just didn't look that bad to me back then, when I had nothing to compare it to.
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  71.  @MatanuskaHIGH  And what is the media outlet of American government? Are you even aware, there is no equvalent to state controlled media in USA like it is in China, Russia, Iran and other "developed" nations?
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  72.  @MatanuskaHIGH  No, it's not the same, the difference being - is it one body, what controls every outlet, or are those different interest groups with contesting agendas. Nut a damn stupid shithead like you will not get it anyway.
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  73.  @MatanuskaHIGH  P.S. However I foulnd it quite hilarious how one people call Soros an agent of big business, while idiots like you call him a commie. It doens't matter if one is a rightwing idiot or a leftwing idiot, he is everyones grand enemy. XD
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  74.  @ninocavallaro9107  Which Americans? It's not like there is only one brand of "the Amercians" with no plurality of opinions.
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  75. China, Russia and some parts of Africa and Near East and Central Asia should be a lesson to the world how one can not uplift a country just by means of business - dictatorship will take all credit for improvements and deny the leading role of international cooperation. There aleays must be changes for democracy too.
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  76. WoW, CCP really are a bunch of shitheads! I grew up in a country occupied and incorporated into USSR, KGB was still around back then. I've seen and participated in anti-Soviet demonstrations (my mom took me there, as I was a little teenager in 1980s), at least one of them was so big, some 20% (500k of 2,5M) of local population participated in it. When some shootings and repressions started, unarmed people built barricades in an attempt to protect parliament and local government from possible Soviet Army and militia attacks. We got lucky, regional Soviet commander must have lockooked at the numbers and said: "fuck that, I'm not doing this!", thus there were only dozens, not hundreds or thousands of people killed. Now we got democracy. And we are wealthier than ever before. Well, still poor by European standards, as the Soviet era didn't pass without leaving some scares. But... damn, no massacres were needed to keep order and ensure prosperity! I wonder if those assholes in Chinese government buy their own bullshit and sincerely propose such lame excuses or are they just covering their asses?
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  77. I really don't think this could get huge consequences in China besides that man maybe losing his position. The only conclusion other CCp's old farts will make of this is - hide that stuff better, no witnesses!
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  78. I'm not that sure anymore, but at first I thought "Semen" is poorly transliterated Russian name "Семён", which actually should be spelled as "Semyon", if one cared to show it's pronunciation... but they don't, so you see poor guys with such name even in the West.
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  79.  @Progan666  It's quite different for generations that knew life before Soviets came and those who grew up in that situation. Of course, families are different, but I'd say many didn't tell their kids that not everything on media wasn't true, plainly out of fear, that kid will not keep the mouth shut, which makes sense. I was one such kid. Besides, for a really naive and honest person it was and sort of still is hard to believe, people can lie so terribly. On the bright side, because I went through that process of illusion shattering in 1980s, I grew up an anti-Communist and I hope also somewhat more resistant to propaganda, at least certain kinds of it, after receiving such a "vaccine". What I don't get is, how some older Russian people fell again for the same trap. They again are buying fairytales if Kremlin's TV. How?! I have a couple of such persons in my extended family. They should remember, how it was and how it ended before, and yet they don't. Obviously, living in information bubble, an echo chamber is to blame - only one source, only on Russian (I get news in three languages), and bias of preferences which makes them seek only certain kinds of information, refusing anything else. Pretty much the same as some right and left wing idiots do too, who blame here CNN for propaganda or call anyone not left enough "fascists". XD
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