shalom...i was joking but yeah i do feel proud of what my people have achieved and you should be too. i love watching historical documentaries on israel, especially i feel a certain kinship towards both korea and israel because as underdogs surrounded by not so friendly countries historically have made it and fiercely protected by the people.
Kintaro Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome"[2] good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.
tldr--to protect the white women from the sick man of asia. being asian male in anglo parts of the world vs francophone or colombia really opened my eyes .... it taught me a hypocrisy of our society .... its socially okay in vancouver bc to be anti-asian or anti-semetic but god forbid if you make fun of muslims or black. i speak from experience working at a 'diverse and open' startup and witnessing racism homophobia.... from ppl who openly describes themselves on social media as champions of social justice....exclusive of those that perceive to not have it rough....sometimes i wonder what the fuck im still doing here....time to find a place where i feel proud to be a citizen....i certainly do not feel canadian anymore ithought i was canadian....but i was dead wrong. i dont belong here and lot of my asian canadian friends feel the same. some have led violent criminal lives but i no longer feel judgement infact i feel they have far more success than i ever will....its hard not to feel envy...while i toiled through university they were able to use proceeds of criminal opportunities to invest in thee local real estate and are now multi-millionaires ironically investing in startups themselves and crypto. meh, lifes not fair i need to be happy with what i lack. c'est la vie.....
I buy Samsung phones because I know they treat their workers very well for the most part both in Korea and abroad. In Vietnam, they built daycare, hospitals, school, park, housing for the entire workforce. In Korea, they give out huge bonuses to workers and will promote talented people.
I also buy Samsung for the same reason I buy Hyundai, it's not that I can't afford the more expensive brands, I do it out of patriotism for the motherland and scream "TRAITOR!" with the windows up when I drive by a Korean person in a Subaru.
You were probably never even looking at the correct figures. Given the track record of Chinese government at concealing the truth because it's deemed a threat to national security, how are they going to convince people this number is grossly understated?
If you cry you saw winnie the pooh irl, the 3rd or 4th time, people are gonna ask questions and demand you provide an independent inquiry led by a coalition of developed democracies.
Back when countries near proximity had access to conventional military gear with equal level of power, all out war made sense, you simply had to destroy the other countries gear to deter them from ever trying that shit again.
but after the development of nuclear weapons, this is no longer a realistic choice. Instead, look at the Russian model:
1) Infiltrate high society of an enemy country decades before saboteur activities. Helps if you have kompromat of sexual nature. Especially, if back home if the truth ever got out, you would be finished. Elites are used to doing whatever the fuck they want and getting away with it so there's little to suspect or take precaution. They are the perfect weak willed asset that can be easily persuaded to serve their own interests which is aligned with the foreign government's.
2) Use your newly acquired assets to spread misinformation through social media. Instigate separatist movements within the enemy country.
3) Wait for the enemy country to react and use it as an excuse to "protect ethnic minorities" or some other bullshit like pipelines.
4) Start arming the rebels, send professional soldiers and latest equipment to make the enemy hurt.
5) Occupy the rebel territory, sign ceasefire, and let UN sit on it's ass for decades until the rest of the world forgets.
6) Repeat.
The American model is a bit different and rarely need to involve the military unless other escalation method fails:
1) Bribe the elite, give out monopolies, lucrative contracts to further American interests at the peril of the victim country's citizens in the name of "Freedom". Target country is cleaned bone dry of resources. If you had oil and lived in the same continent, chances are high that the US is directly responsible for narco-economies in South America.
2) Let human greed corrupt the government inside and out so they are more open to electing a leader serving their own self interests that are aligned with American interests.
3) If somebody doesn't take the silver, they get lead or crash and burn. Make it look like an accident.
4) If all your assets are gone thanks to annoying rebels that took up arms to protect their country from corrupt foreign interests, send in the military to crush them, install someone friendly to the US, and this time give them the latest hardware and weapons aimed at their own citizens.
tldr: How poor and rich empires do empire things slightly differently in robbing the world blind.
That's not what they are doing here at all. This is a thinly veiled regulatory body which will pretty much ban/kill all PoW/PoS/or anyother pseudo science blockchain projects.
It will likely shut down once they realize corporate America has pretty much ditched blockchain and has moved on. The people who are writing optimistic comments are grasping at straws.
Blockchain industry had 5 years to go mainstream. All it did was create financial ruin for duped investors while enriching those who bought the pre-sale at restrictive amounts of capital to risk.
Blockchain is a shitty and slow database nobody asked for apart from the people selling it's tokens that is somehow necessary to appreciate and depreciate in value on terms dictated by the very controllers. SEC will blow you out of the water if you've been caught pumping and dumping. I am in the process of reporting/sending slack screenshots of people in Vancouver to the SEC for pumping and dumping.
I think it's far more complicated than that although environment plays a big role, on those that are susceptible to it.
For example, in my AP Calculus honors class was mostly East Asian high school kids, in a school famous for gang violence (class of 05, I recognized their faces in the newspapers), started joining ethnic street gangs during this time. Like this Vietnamese dude was a high achiever like the rest of us tryna get into a good university, then the cops showed up and arrested for attempted murder for bashing some white kid's head in the hallway with a baseball bat. It was like a gang initiation thing, I hear many many other such incidents. Honestly, I was tense all the time. It was only when I was threatened with a deadly weapon over a scuffle, did I realize what I was dealing with. I asked that classmate why he attacked the student in the hallway, he replied
"cuz he was askin for it"
Pretty shocking since not long ago we were studying calculus together. Well, I hope the thug life was worth a permanent criminal record that permanently bars you from partaking in the mainstream economy.
PavlovsCat wrote a very generalizing statement about what "Asians" eat and then tried to smear it on me. It was a thinly veiled racism but then again people from UK doesn't seem to have a good grip on what is considered racist in North America. What he wrote would fall under sneaky bigotry. Not full blown racism but I'm used to seeing dogwhistling on reddit.
I only wrote that the corrupt Chinese elite exploit the people including taking prisoners organs, prostitution, all sorts of human rights abuse.
but somehow it's been derived to that removed comment which implied that I didn't view Mainland China unfavorably, please don't try to conflate it with sinophobia, I haven't made that case at all, it's just apalling behavior from the Communist party of China that pisses me off because it pains me to see what my Chinese friends go through.
I didn't know my socially liberal city was secretly racist until I joined Tinder and OKC.
Unfiltered, unbiased, completely raw racism against Asian males.
Sometimes I wonder if it's worth continue living as a North American. There's just institutionalized racism from Hollywood, which everybody takes cue from.
Especially when there's a vacuum of identity due to the mosaic nature of Canadian identity, it creates ethnic silos, and just an air of unfriendly unwelcoming misery that is Vancouver, BC.
Or maybe everybody is house poor and blame it on Asians in Ferraris.....whyflag
The only reason you see so many electric car companies in China is because of money laundering, scams and non existant regulatory enforcement.
There's no chance in hell China is ever going to release a car that people will trust/forced to trust outside of China. That would mean actual due diligence, not chabuduo. Especially, not after they put ecstacy in lego.
Xi should ditch the "2020 made in china", create a whole new country to label manufacturer label, "Made in Xina"
Xina? Hey I'll take it over "Made in China" because I'm a dumb ass consumer who has never seen Google Maps before.
Not at all challenging, considering the average CCTV (what a fitting name for a chinese tv station) anchor's range of emotional expression is limited to a knob.
Might as well just produce a deepfake anchor with Xi's ugly ass face instantly traumatizing millions of Chinese children, who knows how many falun gong infants were sacrificed to save the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for supposedly viagra effect jesus fucking christ im outta here never EVER gonna catch me going to China)
I really don't think Tesla is going to make it out of this one. It's facing it's worst nightmare which is luxury car makers as well as mainstream manufacturers jumping both feet.
They have been building vehicles far far longer and have the experience.
Without Musk, I just don't see how Tesla is going to make it out of this one.