Yes, I want some slave labor RAM.

Are we reading the same thread?

Y’all are simping for Big Daddy Hunter B.

Sound just like Trumplicans defending Trump.

Where the fuck did I ever say that?

That’s some mental gymnastics to get that assumption there, buddy.

I’m not going to look the other way on anyone, regardless if the other side is “worse”.

People who are “winning is better than being right” are the problem.

Letting people slide on their bullshit is a slippery slope that got us here in the first place.

“In the fight”?! What is he fighting for, what does he have to lose? He’s another cog in a machine that is using him because apparently morons respond well to him, an entitled white male narcissist (Hunter, not you).

You are so mad about the current administration but don’t care about how shitty someone else is just because they stand up to the guy you hate?

You are no different than the dumbasses that voted for our current guy.

How about holding everyone to the same standard?

We give any platform to people like that and it will never end.

The number of people butthurt over you pointing out an obvious character flaw says a lot about them.

Dude was still married and boning his dead brother’s widow.

No one fucking called it rape, yet they keep saying it was consensual, like somehow that makes it ok.

I guess people are ok with being lying shitbags.

How about him getting kicked out of the Navy for “reasons” and have no other repercussions, while enlisted folks get jail for years, for the same “reasons”.

He has made TERRIBLE decisions his entire life and until his Dad was President, and he became a high value target, paid almost no consequences. NO ONE should give a shit about his opinion.

I appreciate his trolling, but putting him onto any sort of pedestal is an exercise in myopia so extreme, it has to be caused by brain damage.

I’m an EE with utility clients. If a lineman/wireman started making the same as me, I would feel the same way.

All the money is sucked out by equity holders.

This economy makes me think of Hamilton’s “Dragon”, where everyone sank most of their paycheck back into the company to get a high enough “stake”, to even get a chance at a meaningful job, at said company.

I’m not even sure when this good little Republican became radicalized. I’ve done pretty well for myself and yet I would happily watch it all burn down to the fucking ground if it meant everyone actually got a meaningful standard of living and healthcare.

I still can’t decide if the Republican leadership is so hellbent on grift, that they don’t care about the overall economic effects, or they really are just that stupid.

He got a personal burner as well.

He bought new luggage and clothes for the trip, knowing they would be paid for and discarded. He said it wasn’t that big a deal.

It’s not like they surprised him on the way back, telling him to throw his stuff away.

I assume they would sometimes plant bugs and it was just easier to discard than to sanitize.

Yup. Move all the production to China to take advantage of their slave wages/conditions, and instead of passing any savings on to the consumer, they push all profits to the share holders.

That has worked out so well for us, hasn’t it, especially now that we have such a hostile relationship with them.

Companies are the worst.

China’s gonna own us all.

My brother-in-law traveled a lot for work, from the early nineties, to the 20-teens.

He visited, China, Russia, the U.S., India, all over Southeast Asia, Australia. Maybe South America, but not sure. Anyway, the point is he visited a lot of places, and the big ones fairly routinely. China is the only country, where his company had a whole list of requirements. He had to leave his personal phone, any personal electronics, and his work laptop at home. (They provided him a phone and laptop that would immediately be turned over once he returned and he could NOT log onto the company VPN with the laptop/phone they gave him and had to have his work email forwarded. )

They gave him money to buy a new suit before he went over there and to replace his luggage and clothes when he came back, because it was all discarded.

He said it was not so much government spying but industrial espionage. And he just worked in human resources.

I was in the Navy and visited Hong Kong a couple of times and they never said boo to me outside of the usual, “Loose lips sink ships.” spiel we got at every port.

They let him take his phone to Russia, but they did made him take a different work laptop, but that laptop could access the company VPN. He said there is was more about the government spying. I did not visit any Russian port while in the Navy.

Joni Mitchell has some amazing poetry in her songs.

They made the gasoline tax raidable. In other words, they can use it for stuff other than road maintenance.

They can pull from it without much oversight.

It is also a way to raise taxes without the necessary votes to actually raise taxes.

Nevermind, looks like they fixed it since I left.

Easy. They are not mutually exclusive?

How many TP Link routers, were found to be compromised by China and had to be removed from U.S. infrastructure?

Salt Typhoon hack?

Why does China restrict access to the internet without massive censure?

Your link just takes me back to your parent comment.

Your entire argument is the pot calling the kettle black.

If you were just discussing the shitty things the U.S. is doing, I would be in total agreement, but you are trying to shoehorn “How great China is” into the discussion.

No matter how terrible the U.S. is and gets, it will not erase all the terrible things China has and is doing too. No matter how much you argue otherwise.

No one is giving the U.S. a pass. This is a deliberate mischaracterization.

Until this regime, the U.S. had some of the best solar subsidies on the planet.

The U.S., as a surveillance state, is still in its infancy when compared to China. So it is laughable that you are using China in any comparison to the U.S., in almost the same breath.

“Carceral State” is a tanky propagandist dog whistle.

Why don’t you debate faults on their own? Because you are deliberately trying to use current bad conduct, of the U.S. to whitewash another country’s bad conduct.

“Oh hey, the U.S. is super shitty, but we have made so much solar in the past year so we’re all about global stability.”

Ignore EVERYTHING China has done though, only look at the bad that the U.S. is doing.

I’m sure you have plenty of arguments that support or claim how China has been with: Taiwan

Uygher people

Support of North Korea

Support of Russia against Ukraine

Tibet

The horde of nonsense “technological breakthroughs” that seem to come every month but never amount to anything and just disappear.

The pollution that has been produced by Chinese industry that pretends to adhere to global standards but get busted when college students use basic satellite data.

Suppression of Hong Kong

China’s state sponsored industrial espionage.

China’s disregard of human rights abroad when kidnapping Chinese dissidents from foreign countries.

(This is just me pulling the random items I can just immediately recall)?

But that is all Western propaganda I’m sure. Feel free to break out your playbook responses.

I didn’t use bad language this time for you to get my comment deleted, since suppression is one of your biggest tools.

This guy would probably argue that the protest at Tiannamon Square was a CIA funded false flag operation. If he was allowed to even discuss it in a way that implied it really happened.

Don’t waste your time talking to tankies

At least this one gives it away with his name. Usually their simping for China gives them away.

They only accept their little cesspit of information as facts. Everything else is conspiracy theories or state funded propaganda.

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Same as how they passed prohibition.

It’s actually quite fascinating even as it is disconcerting.

They lobbied state by state, and focused on a few key legislators, threatening their seat, until the rest fell in line.

They didn’t have to fight them all at once, so they could focus their resources.

Can it be any worse than what we have going on right now?