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Bellum_Romanum

Brigadier
Registered Member
Americans writ-large are busy fighting each other with their never ending culture wars. As of right now the current trend on American social media is the apparent doxxing of a popular Twitter account called "Libs of Tik tok" which essentially publishes a bunch of Tik Tok videos posted by cringed Liberal users themselves opining on things like this:


Which to most North American Asian dwellers on this forum would know that such video/opinion will garner a lot of attention to the conservative Americans that are feeling essentially embattled on social media for their "traditional" beliefs in God, Guns, less Government/less Taxes and then there are your flavourful right wing nutjobs that believe Mexicans are all rapists, drug dealers, China created the Wuhan virus, China genocide crowds.

The person in the middle of the culture war is none other than the infamous Washington Post writer/resident hypocrite/self-appointed moral arbiter on all things LGBTQ, Taylor Lorenz. She has apparently doxxed the real identity of the person that runs the aforementioned Twitter account which can lead to a lot of personal safety issues for the said person. Unironically, Miss Lorenz decried such practice not too long ago when she was interviewed on an American national channel for exactly the same reason:


American Liberals are essentially waging the kindergarten version of Cultural Revolution in America which is creating severe pushbacks in souther states/purple states (meaning both Democrats and Republicans can win the states) and Red States (Strong Republican majority voters and elected officials) that in places like Florida a state governed under Governer DeSantis just recently passed legislation aimed at curtailing the supposed assault on their traditional values by the Alphabet group LGBTQ which are synonymously tied to the Democratic Party. Even the recent appointed Supreme Court Justice has been mocked relentlessly on social media by conservatives fuming that now confirmed Supreme Court Justice Katani Brown Jackson's handling of the question regarding the definition of a woman coming up with attacks like this:

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Now, why am I posting these? It's important to post relevant issues of the day that's grappling the most powerful country like the U.S. to essentially show to others here who are not maybe intimately familiar with the U.S. system, American way of life, general thinking, and just the current general political discourse that's plaguing that country. Americans are far more divided than they have ever been which is why both political parties have to create perpetual enemies to be used as the escape goat for their political-military and business leaders failures.

Accepting one's own personal responsibility maybe a favorite mantra of the Republican party but that's just a mantra not practiced by the majority. Free speech advocates on both parties can Lol on this issue because they will literally shut you up if you go against their core beliefs.

China has a lot of issues no doubt, but it can't and must not take drastic or hastily actions that will detract it from achieving it's overall objectives. The country and the people (minus the cringed hanjians, liberal huggers, right wing nutjobs) should be confident enough on their country's political system and culture to see their country through. America may have been the best at everything and they were the shining city on a hill, but that's in the past. China is the future so long as it's always strive to seek the better path and alway self-correcting.
 

weig2000

Captain
Why delete the article when it speaks the truth? Zero-covid cannot continue in the long term, that's a fact. You can delete whatever you want, but we all know that Covid is here to stay.

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Some hint: the 20th Party Congress in the fall.

Oh I sent his article in the Coronavirus thread. I'm guessing it might have automatically deleted by filters, or its not the right time to be talking about opening up, when its still to be determined whether living with Covid is less costly or more costly than dynamic zero-covid strategies. But I do agree in the long-term, reopening must be done, just that we need to look at the situation first, because there might be a possibility of a deadlier variant in the future.

Here is a quiz: how long did it take China to switch from its one-child policy, to adopting two-children policy, to three-children policy and to offer incentives to encourage Chinese parents giving birth to more children? Do you know it's projected that this year China will have a negative population growth this year?
 

KYli

Brigadier
Some hint: the 20th Party Congress in the fall.
How about if China couldn't contain the virus now, then there would be 1.8 millions within 3 months. Of course, for people with a sense of entitlement, you just don't care if those elderly would died.
Here is a quiz: how long did it take China to switch from its one-child policy, to adopting two-children policy, to three-children policy and to offer incentives to encourage Chinese parents giving birth to more children? Do you know it's projected that this year China will have a negative population growth this year?
I wish CPC would have made the changes sooner. However, like it or not, every society would eventually have negative population growth. You can't just keep doubling your population forever.
 

gelgoog

Lieutenant General
Registered Member
lot of bravado but RU economy to stagnate: logistical blockade hurts even more than financial sanctions
This is pretty well known. But it won't affect food and energy inside Russia. Russia had already banned food imports from Europe in 2014. You will see issues in other sorts of consumer goods. Some medicines will be affected. The worst affected will be things like vehicle construction in Russia or other things which depend on Western parts supplies. But you are already seeing things like washing machine detergents which used to come from Europe being replaced with Chinese ones in supermarket shelves. And in the long run those things can be easily manufactured in Russia proper since all the raw materials are there. It is just a question of financing to build the facilities to make those products.
 

supercat

Major
Defending Ukr democrazy, freedumb and Nazism... but at what cost?

Hundreds of billions, plus massive inflation/drop in living standard...

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Well, I guess there won't be an European or American alternative to China's Belt and Road Initiative anytime soon.

So many mass shootings, is the U.S. going down the tubes?
The shootings add to the year's increasing toll of mass shootings in the United States, which stands at 144, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The archive and CNN define a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot, not including the shooter.
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