fronzelneekburm: Can you name one single instance where Chinese foreign policy had anywhere near the disastrous effects that, say, US interventionism in the Middle East had?
Tibet(is that foreign enough? I am seriously asking). Also internally...Hong Kong.
fronzelneekburm: I dunno, sounds pretty imperialistic to me. You can think about the Chinese system whatever you want, but it seems to work out exceedingly well for them.
So it sounds bad to want people to be free of dictatorships? And no, when a country's leadership locks people up for saying various things/implements a social credit system where one has to keep in line & act a certain way to get basic services/locks up or fines people for showing pictures of winnie the pooh....no, I don't think that is a country doing well in all ways.
(Maybe
China is doing well financially, but that cannot last forever)
fronzelneekburm: They have this thing that has become a distant, fading memory in the West: prosperity. Which is also the reason why Western companies are tripping over themselves to have a piece of the pie. So what makes you think you're in any position to dictate to other countries (let alone the one well on the way to dethrone the US as the number one superpower) what kind of system they're supposed to have?
The west has prosperity in many ways as well, and companies want a piece of the pie because they're greedy &
China allows them cheap goods/labor.
fronzelneekburm: As for the usual kvetching about muh civil rights: The names Snowden and Assange ring a bell, right? Also, you might want to check out the
Socialist Core Values as defined by the Chinese government.
They got locked up legally for breaking the law we already have, which the gov't did use to make an example....but they still did that within the framework of the law.
fronzelneekburm: Among them you will find such oh-so-Western concepts as "democracy", "freedom", "equality", "justice" and "rule of law". Now you can either stay in your sedated, bluepilled sheeple state and figure "It's a lie when the Chinese use these words!" Or you can realise that governments the world over are just bullshitters who like to throw around these fancy buzzwords in an effort to convince their plundered and exploited wageslave populace that people on the other side of the world have it significantly worse than them.
The chinese gov't throw those words around but they mean very little when the party says what goes and are basically in office for life.
And yes, most gov'ts do such things but at least we have protections that limit what they can do in many western countries, which the chinese/etc lack.
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Now i'm gonna drop it here, as this is going too offtopic and into politics. If you ever want to chat on it, though, my PM is open for honest and civil discussion on the topics discussed here at any time. ===================================
Elmofongo: STOP LINKING THE QUARTERING!!!
He is a bit clickbaity and whiny sometimes, but he can also be informative and entertaining on occasion.
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rtcvb32: Blizzard's Q+A section gets heavily trolled... Yep.... Half expected this to happen.
The bit starting at 1:55 is a very good point.....Blizz allows some good(i.e. lgbt or pc) statements but not unpopular ones....they should either allow all or none, like Jeremy says.
