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Youth is wasted on the young as the saying goes. University students are the worst, the ideologically charged and for most of them living a comfortable life thinking they know it all, are easily manipulated.
There are several noteworthy memes like 'at what cost' and 'I do not hate the CPC (CCP for haters) but' that will need their own thread on SDF. We need to collect these beauties in one place.
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I know and use the publically accepted definition. I don't use your self-invented bullshit definition for quality of life and I don't use your confused 5 year old definition of soft/hard power. I debate by publically accepted definitions, not your made-up ones.
OK, then advanced/developed economy. Same conclusion. Your attempts to show that the quality of life in poor third world countries with low GDP and negligible technology and equal or superior to that in the US and Western Europe go against common sense and I will not let you worm into them. The oppertunities that are offered to the talented in advanced economies is unrivaled by what they can attain at home in a third world country.
No, if you are making losses, then you are failing at business. Nobody goes somewhere to open a business meant to lose money. That's an imaginary action for imaginary soft power.
Yeah, for example, Japan has its anime. It makes some money, but on the global stage, then interests collide, it has absolutely no effect on Japan eating America's shit and taking orders. Soft power is useless.
Totally random sentence connected to nothing.
Yeah, exactly, soft power is for other people to enjoy. It is not a real power that can force anything in any conflict of interest, which is what's important. Everything is easy and merry when there is no conflict. In other words, soft power is only "useful" when there is nothing to be useful for.
LOLOLOL This stupid crap again. You want to argue that the quality of life in Camaroon is equal to that of the US/Western Europe? Everybody will laugh you out of the room. What is your point going on off topic nonsense again?
Yup, that's hard power. That's what people come for. Willingly, but it's hard power, not soft. When you willingly work for money, that's the hard power of money. Your definition is broken again.
It's true. Growth of a third world economy is like a little girl's lemonade stand selling more every day. It can grow very quickly but it can also be finished easily, and it was never powerful or admirable. Static Western growth is like Walmart/Apple/Boeing having some bad times. It's still incredibly rich and stable; it has the reserves to eventually pull out of it and everyone is still civil and wearing suits dong daily reports.
That might be the most retarded thing you've said yet.
Make big bucks, spend big bucks. That's wealth circulating in the West. If an Ethiopian gets here, he suddenly finds he can't afford anything. If an American visits Ethiopia, the suddenly finds that everything costs peanuts. As a direct comparison, people in Haiti eat cakes made out of mud just to stave off hunger. Middle-class Americans can easily afford steak every day at the supermarket.
Why did you mention Malaysia? It has no consequence at all in the world. No hard power, no soft "power." At most, it attracts some tourism.
Same thing with computer engineers. They want to go to CalTech, GaTech, MIT, etc... and then work in Silicon valley, and recently, maybe Shenzhen. They have nothing to do at home where there is no environment or tools to grow. They need a powerful (hard power) host like the US or China to develop.
Lost argument? To whom, you?? LOLOL You have bad English, wrong definitions, don't even know if hard/soft power refers to countries or aspects of power, and your logic can't stay on topic for 3 sentences. I've never seen a person lose an argument with you, only get tired of your nonsense diarrhea-like babbling.
Perfect opportunity for China to conduct a false-flag industrial sabotage operation on TSMC and pin it on the US. Make sure to time it to happen right after the TSMC Arizona plant ramps up in operations, forcing TSMC to move even more of their high tech manufacturing overseas.
It'll be Taiwanese people's worst nightmare come true. Everyone will know that Taiwan is the US's pump and dump.
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Well, I won't say the filmmaker did a poor job. Scifi movie is a very risky investment especially in China, they have to compromise so the movie is attractive to as many viewers as possible, dumbing down the movie is kind of necessary to survive, TWE 2 barely broke even. The hope is the movie market will grow more mature so more serious/artistic scifi movies may thrive in the future.
I get it you don't like the premise of TWE, that is ok. For me personally I don't see it is any more fantastical than 40k or star trek, I can enjoy both.
It was answered in the original story, it was kind of contrived though tbh. Liu posit no spaceship can hold self sustaining ecosystem, it would have to be a planet. But then the planet's eco system is fucked in the journey anyway so.....
I can suspense disbelieve for the story, and Liu himself has said TWE is not practical compared to spaceships, however it is very nice premise for a story.
I mean Dune has personal shields that can stop any kinetic weapons yet go kaboom when laser shines on it.... extremely contrived excuse just so everyone fight with swords, it worked for me.
American conservatives are easily some of the dumbest people in the world, Rubio's take is not even the dumbest - yes, the bottom is that low. The fact that nearly half of the US keeps voting for them speaks volumes about the average intelligence of Americans.
I feel like these articles belong to funny thread.
Blame China, when the government and Congress fail to perform basic duty.
When you become irrelevant, provoke China to make yourself visible.
Daydreaming about the downfall of Putin so you can convince yourself that you should double down on your failed policies.
Blame China, when the government and Congress fail to perform basic duty.
When you become irrelevant, provoke China to make yourself visible.
Daydreaming about the downfall of Putin so you can convince yourself that you should double down on your failed policies.
Liz Truss? Is she even relevant? If her plane crashed flying to Taiwan, I think half of UK will be celebrating.