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- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 4 days ago:
I mean it’d be more like if the confederate government ran away to Hawaii, then spent decades terrorizing/genocide the locals/anyone left of Nathan Bedford Forrest, while Russia gave them a bunch of weapons and ships and put military bases in Canada, Mexico, and Cuba.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 4 days ago:
I mean from the DPP’s perspective, that wouldn’t be a bad move. 100% chance the US’s “defense” of Taiwan consists of sacrificing as many locals as possible to make the war as long and expensive as possible for the PRC, while ensuring anything of value, including workers and factories, is destroyed.
If they handed the factories over, the US might make a meaningful effort to protect the island.
- Comment on I tried THIS and it actually works all the time 1 week ago:
Lets test that: 🧀
Are you a woman now?
- Comment on Not today 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, I will.
Pulls up a chair and starts eating your meal
- Comment on Fucking leeches 4 weeks ago:
He received over a million dollars for the house in the end, plus the 5-10K in profit.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 weeks ago:
Rent control tied to bottom quintile income. Everyone should be able to afford a home. If construction companies can’t afford to build homes at that cost, look at their material and labor costs; in China they invest in education and have state-run steel and concrete companies to keep the private ones competitive. It costs them avg ~50K to make a 900 sqft 2bd house or apartment in the major cities. Much less elsewhere.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 weeks ago:
I’m really trying to reconcile how the Chinese manage a more equal society while having a fraction of the tools we do; they don’t have property taxes, just a lease you renew every ~70 years, they can’t do QE like we do.
It’s like we have all the tools to delay the trajectory of capitalism, we just choose not to use it.
- Comment on Conservatism Saved As Muslim Sex Trafficker Brought Back To U.S. 4 weeks ago:
heartbreaking The worst onion clone has made a funny joke.
- Comment on Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told 4 weeks ago:
Why do you think every time there’s a school shooting, it’s a weird right-winger, and the only leftist mass shooting in the last decade was directed at congress?
If mass shooters were randomized among <30s, we’d expect way more lib and left shooters, because most <30s are lib and left.
- Comment on China aims to recruit top US scientists as Trump tries to kill the CHIPS Act 4 weeks ago:
You’d be surprised how many top level engineers are Chinese; there’s a joke about AI that it’s our Chinese vs their Chinese.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 4 weeks ago:
Leftism is when you don’t have any money.
- Comment on Can trump make it so I can sell my citizenship for 5 million dollars? 4 weeks ago:
Rich foreigners can already get an EB-5 greencard if they invest 500K.
- Comment on What the average maga dweeb look like 5 weeks ago:
Do conservatives actually think the EU is full of nazis and that it is a bad thing?
- Comment on Chad rule 5 weeks ago:
An effect of lack of T is not being able to feel any emotions, including crying.
- Comment on I disagree. 1 month ago:
Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.
- Comment on ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds 1 month ago:
Does anyone know of any metrics for measuring models political bias that isn’t just the political compass?
- Comment on Eatin’ on the roof 1 month ago:
That’s a thing on mainland China too. Apparently some of them think being sat with a big stuffed animal in the middle of a restaurant is a thing of nightmares too.
- Comment on If a 2M employee return to work order is declared soon, I could see us in the US finding ourselves with tent cities full of white collar workers. 1 month ago:
Take a minute to look through all the photos of hoovervilles. Tens of thousands of people in tents, often with the apartments they were evicted from and the factories closed or running at a fraction of capacity within a few hundred yards.
How would you explain to aliens why tens of thousands of people in every city were driven from their homes empty to live in squalor while being prevented from doing anything productive?
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 1 month ago:
What do you think would happen if he started doing things the people able to recall him didn’t like?
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 2 months ago:
It was a joke, Putin, being a fascist, wouldn’t support queer people, even in enemy countries. Your friend being nb and buying into that conspiracy is very silly.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 2 months ago:
It is equivalent to what they said.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 2 months ago:
Have they thanked Putin for supporting their struggle?
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 2 months ago:
The users are users, but the admin thinks foreign countries are using gender ideology to destroy the American empire from within.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 2 months ago:
They wrote an article from an unsubstantiated rumor on Reddit.
Meanwhile, China’s People’s Dispatch has praised the exchange, and Rednote has added a translation feature.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 2 months ago:
Why not use the app to ask Chinese people about the social credit score system?
- Comment on China’s Economy Could Soon Face A Massive Debt Crisis 2 months ago:
That’s weird, every statistic I can find suggests mainland China’s housing prices have been decreasing since 2022. The whole reason developers abandoned projects was the projected cost went lower than what they’d spend finishing it.
- Comment on China’s Economy Could Soon Face A Massive Debt Crisis 2 months ago:
For which people? The people renting 2bds in major cities for 3-400/mo? The people who want to build a 2bd outside a major city for 50K+land cost?
It’s devastating for the people trying to make money off housing, it’s great for the people who need housing.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2: Electric Boogaloo 2 months ago:
Why would .world be banned?
- Comment on Behold, world class engineering from Tesla 2 months ago:
- Comment on US to reportedly sanction 200 more Chinese chip firms — high bandwidth memory might also see export bans 4 months ago:
Chinese manufacturers build to specification. Most of those brand names are manufactured in China. If you don’t want the absolute cheapest shit, don’t buy the absolute cheapest shit.
