The timing on this has to be deliberate. I am so, so happy that people who can use computers (i.e. people who can shitpost) are FINALLY starting to take over the Chinese government.
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China could check by replacing all players in the football (and basketball maybe) team with guys of African descent. I mean European and Middle eastern teams do this anyway so it's not new. If still no result, then we can see it's not a genetic problem and instead the entire system has terminal cancer and needs to be put out of its misery.
Too bad China could never perform such experiments to find the root cause.
Sounds like a major technological breakthrough in imminent. The law of equivalent exchange always works its magic between Chinese soccer and technology. Maybe this? Or maybe Elon moving SpaceX to China?
- Tesla depends on US lefties and urbanites buying their overpriced EVs. Because the environment and climate change.
- SpaceX and its subsidiaries depend on Trump government subsidies.
For some reason Genius Elon has managed to bite the hand of both groups.
Sometimes in life is better just to Shut Up.
- SpaceX and its subsidiaries depend on Trump government subsidies.
For some reason Genius Elon has managed to bite the hand of both groups.
Sometimes in life is better just to Shut Up.
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Chinese football’s problem is primarily twofold. Firstly, as you already identified, there is a massive talent selection problem where parents don’t dare bet their children’s future on sports and prefer academic excellence overwhelmingly over sports. So the Chinese Messi is never going to realise his football potential in that environment as his parents and school system will have been focus on his studies and have no time for his football.
The second more fundamental issue is that Chinese football is just too lucrative no matter how shit they are. It’s the only major field in China that is allowed to be too big to fail where money pours in no matter the results. So there is no real incentive to change as there is no real serious punishment for failure.
These two problems compound each other in that even if the Chinese messi is found by scouts and put into a training program, his potential will be limited by the sea of mediocrity around him. He won’t ever get to meet his own full potential because he is already king of the tiny Chinese football hill at 1% of his power.
But in a way, I think it’s actually a good thing that the national football team is so consistently terrible. It keeps the Chinese people humble and grounded, else if China is too successful in every field, it’s almost inevitable that people will start getting ‘gods chosen race’ delusions and start dragging China down, just like how entitlement and arrogance has sunk the west.
Having one perpetual national embarrassment is a small price to pay to keep the Chinese people forever humble and hungry so we stay sharp and on top.
Does this mean that China has a snowballs chance of beating US launch capacity this year?
Let say if Elon feud with short temper Trump escalate, SpaceX is pretty much inside the oven.
And the worst part is that he is probably doing it to gain the lefties back to buy Teslas. But I think that boat already sailed. Is incredible a the fingers and the lips of a single man can sabotage multi-billion dollar companies.
His best bet is to defect to the PRC. There are still a lot of Elon fans there and his good friend Li Qiang would love to gain some voluntary tech transfer on reusable rockets.
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