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nekandro OP , (edited )

Increased use of Mandarin, however, obviously infringes of Chinese minority rights.

Edit: just to be clear, many Chinese dialects have a lower lexical similarity than European languages. The standardization of Mandarin in education has had impacts on these dialects as well.

nekandro ,

China eats more poultry and fish. This was bound to happen. Poultry and fish are very calorie-efficient sources of protein.

nekandro OP ,

The new platform softened language on abortion, excised old language referring obliquely to gay conversion therapy and culled a section about reducing a national debt that Mr. Trump had increased by nearly $8 trillion during his term in office.

Mr. Trump made clear to his team that he wanted the 2024 platform to be his and his alone. He wanted it to be much shorter and simpler — and, in some cases, vaguer. He was especially focused on the language about abortion, which he recognized was a potentially potent issue against him in a general election. He wanted nothing in the platform that would give Democrats an opening to attack him, and he made clear to aides that he was perfectly fine with bucking social conservatives, for whom he had delivered a tremendous victory by reshaping the Supreme Court with a conservative supermajority.

Mr. Trump also stressed that he did not want to define marriage as between one man and one woman. Instead, the document contains a vague statement open to interpretation: “Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage.”

One person involved in the process recalled Mr. Trump saying privately: “Sanctity of marriage. Don’t define it.”

nekandro OP ,

This is a huge paradigm shift. The Republican party went from being an evangelical Christian, tax-cut whackoparty into…

well, without the platform, nobody knows.

nekandro OP ,

The lack of promises with regards to abortion and same-sex marriage is huge. It’s a colossal shift. Trump has always been more of a traditional Jeffersonian Republican than a Federalist - he’s in favour of shifting power from the federal government to the states. This is an increasing indicator that the states will be what decides on these social topics, not the feds.

That also explains why he’s getting so much funding and support from the elite in Silicon Valley - they would like nothing more than for California to decide legislation rather than DC.

It’s increasingly apparent that Trump views the role of the federal government as an arbiter of the economy and the role of the United States (as a concept) as a way of unifying the disparate interests of different states with regards to foreign policy. By gutting federal agencies, the only logical result is pushing power down to the individual states.

nekandro OP ,

I mean, yeah. It’ll be interesting to see if that means that they’ll still pursue those legislative ideals (just without a platform or unifying cry or whatever), or if they’re happy to push the responsibility down to the states.

My opinion is that the Republicans see the writing on the wall: why make unpopular decisions federally when you can make popular decisions at the state-level? They can maintain a christofascist state in their home ground without having to project onto states that’ll ignore their legislation anyway.

nekandro OP ,

You can’t make it to lead an American political party without being at least one standard deviation smarter than the average American.

nekandro ,

BYD already has plants in Canada. I’d really appreciate if they just expanded their Canadian footprint - good Canadian jobs, cheap EVs, win-win-win.

nekandro ,

“Heavily subsidized supply chains”

Let’s just call it what it is: economies of scale. China makes up 80% of the polysilicon market. The US? Barely 5%. Scale is the strongest subsidy of them all.

nekandro ,

Capitalism, survival of the fittest, free market, cut the laggards, etc…

nekandro ,

These are factories in the US. The worst case is, the US seizes and nationalizes them. Wouldn’t be the first time.

nekandro ,

Taiwan’s current government is incredibly pro-US. Trump understands that the DPP’s days are numbered given the rise of the KMT/TPP (which only lost the election because of a last second collapse of coalition). Taiwan’s government is pro-US in spite of the public’s interest, not because of it.

After all, Taiwan’s trade with the mainland and Hong Kong make up almost 50% of all exports. The bulk of this is in basic goods across the Taiwanese economy, not the product of one company.

In the past, Taiwan’s frigid relations with the mainland were due to sour memories (losing the civil war, getting kicked out, etc.) Today? Young people just want a prosperous life, and China is absurdly prosperous - especially for young engineers in tech. The US can either recognize that fact, or drag another country into war.

It’s pretty funny when foreigners care more about your own sovereignty.

nekandro ,

Do you see the shit going on in the Yuan? The DPP is corrupt and sabotaging Taiwan’s economic growth for no good reason.

Young people want money. A nice house, good food, travel. It’s not that complicated.

nekandro ,

The KMT supports normalization of relations with China. China was perfectly happy with the status quo until the DPP systematically stomped on the status quo and tore it apart

nekandro ,

sigh

Do you have the memory of a goldfish? Status quo under the previous KMT administration was very healthy. No talks of invasion, lots of talk about economic ties and cultural exchange. It was great, actually. Xi and Ma met, which was the first meeting between leaders since the start of the civil war. Ma is a true statesman and a symbol of what proper Taiwanese governance should be. Peace across the strait was possible for once.

Then, the DPP got elected, started sucking America’s cock, started inviting top US officials for state visits, received awards from American state-funded institutions (like the National Endowment for Democracy), increasingly remilitarized, invited the US to sail through the Taiwan Strait… And the rest is history. Odd how it’s always the US-backed government that’s the “victim” in Western media, isn’t it? Surely China violated the status quo with respect to crossing the median line on their own accord, not because just a few weeks ago a US warship was invited to sail through the strait? Do you even remember what the status quo was?

Taiwan claims territory that conflicts not only with China, but with: Mongolia, Myanmar, Bhutan, India, Japan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Pakistan, and also Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. Recognizing Taiwanese sovereignty violates the sovereignty of not only China, but also all of those countries… Which is absurd. Cut the crap and look at a map. ROC sovereignty would basically wipe Mongolia off the map. The funny thing is that Taiwan recognizing the sovereignty of the territory that conflicts with all of these other nations would have no bearing or impact on their sovereignty claim with China itself… Taiwan simply refuses to do so. The only claim that Taiwan cannot make freely is one that shrinks the borders of modern China (e.g. in the Arunachal Pradesh area and the South China Sea), but for everything else they have complete legislative authority to recognize foreign claims (after all, China has already done so, so doing so would not violate One China policy). They won’t, of course, because they refuse to recognize China’s negotiations in those territories as valid.

nekandro ,

Gansu, the poorest province in China, a province where “almost no one is living.” Qinghai, Xinjiang… Same story. Together, they have almost 60 million people. Many of them are minorities with historically poor job prospects due to their distance from economic centers.

By building energy installations in the middle of the country, they’re providing jobs to a group that’s been left behind by the rapid industrialization of the country’s East. Providing them with a surplus of electricity. Driving investment in the region. Moreover, this group of people is more than the population of New York and Texas… Combined.

How about you take your racism and your classism and shove it up your ass?

nekandro ,

Dude thinks Chinese people aren’t people. Provinces with a population that exceed some of the most populous states in America… “barely have any people”

nekandro ,

60 million people is almost no one?

Geez it’s like you people want poor people to stay poor. There’s more than enough capacity for solar deployments in the nations East - it’s explicit policy that’s put deployments further West. Beijing is happy to build some UHV lines if it means that prosperity can be driven into the West - it’s the same argument as for the HSR line to Lanzhou and then to Urumqi. It’s the same argument as for the HSR line to Hohhot and the HrSR from Chengdu to Lhasa. Beijing knows that these infrastructure projects are inefficient, but Beijing is more concerned with equity of growth than the growth itself - they’d rather see 10% growth in the West and 3% growth in the East for 5% growth nationally than 6% growth nationally, but coming entirely from already established tier 1 population centers.

It’s not only mutual prosperity, but also an effort to reduce internal migration towards tier 1 cities.

nekandro ,

They’re also poor and economically disadvantaged. Do you like keeping poor people poor? Jfc

nekandro ,

Does it sound like a suppressed .22 to anyone else?

nekandro ,
  1. How do you think China got so prosperous? Being outsourced labour is the foundation of the Chinese economy.
  2. Stop projecting your AmeriKKKan views on other countries lmao
nekandro ,

The Health Survey for England 2021 estimates that 25.9% of adults in England are obese and a further 37.9% are overweight but not obese.

NATO’s Pledges to Ukraine Fall Short for a Counteroffensive This Year (www.nytimes.com)

Despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance that NATO announced this week, allied officials said Ukraine would not be ready to launch a dramatic counteroffensive or retake large swaths of territory from Russia until next year....

nekandro ,

Lmao citing MBFC when the NYT is actively trying to unseat the sitting head of the Democratic Party

nekandro ,

Lmao Ukraine is about to become devoid of birds

Any radar sensitive enough to pick up drones is going to have an insane number of false positives

China tells NATO not to create chaos in Asia and rejects label of 'enabler' of Russia's Ukraine war (apnews.com)

China accused NATO on Thursday of seeking security at the expense of others and told the alliance not to bring the same “chaos” to Asia, a reflection of its determination to oppose strengthening ties between NATO members and Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea and the Philippines....

nekandro ,

What exactly do you think exports are? A DJI drone is manufactured in China. If it’s bought through Amazon or Alibaba and shipped to Ukraine, that’s classified as an export. The public market is how imports and exports happen.

nekandro ,

Ukraine literally praises the Chinese dual-use items that they received (drones, etc.) and calls them far superior to Western equivalents.

The problem is that if China were to pull out of trading with parties of the conflict, it would also deny Ukraine from much-needed dual-use equipment.

Meanwhile, Russia? They’ve spent decades figuring out how to skirt sanctions and their allies in Central Asia are more than happy to profit off of such dealings.

nekandro OP ,

Were you and I watching the same presser? He had moments of brilliance, but his fumbles were apparent throughout the night.

nekandro OP ,

His speech impediment is bullshit. Where was it when he was Obama’s VP? Where was it in the Senate?

nekandro OP ,

Run Harris. Run Newsom. Run Obama. Run Kennedy. Hell, run Gore.

There’s so many options here. This is the DNC’s election to lose.

nekandro OP ,

Then you live in a failed democracy and your only option should be systemic regime change. Viva la revolución.

nekandro ,

It’s a concern because Putin, Xi, Khamenei, Kim… They’re all well-spoken. They’re all quick-witted.

What kind of message does that send would-be American allies in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa, in South America?

nekandro ,

China just straight up doesn’t prosecute if they don’t have to, and when they do it’s typically following a civil law system that’s generally easier to prosecute than common law. It’s the same reason why Japan has a prosecution success rate of over 99.8%.

nekandro ,

Yeah some people are dying lmao

nekandro ,

Google isn’t the equivalent to Foxconn. It would be more like Ford or some Detroit automaker.

nekandro ,

NYU and Cornell have done so

Google has had suicides, but no prevention schemes

The real answer is that the Detroit car factories aren’t tall enough to kill anyone. People pick more practical locations like Hudson Yards or the Golden Gate Bridge.

nekandro ,

Only 10 US states have banned child marriage.

nekandro ,

Japan is not a serious country

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