"the current fad of 'Europeans are all racists and didn't appreciate a Black civilization', which is of course wrong."
The leaders of European nations fed and feed their populations large amount of misinformation about who they are and who people outside their borders were. If a monarch was chosen by god, how could the greatest structures in human history not be in Europe? The answer was to whitewash as much as possible.
You see this in the restoration of art for the last few centuries, many brown/black pieces turned white all of sudden. Some claim this was unintentional, but if we look at how Africans have been treated for the past 500± years, that claim seems suspicious and sounds more like ass-covering when the fraud was revealed.
I expect this exposing of fraud to ramp up as automated translation allows us to compare notes between the great civilizations of human history.
Western capital constantly coming up with phony narratives to engage in large scale global theft. Already stole $100+ trillion from the Chinese and Indians at gun point, now planning another armed robbery because the coasting on stolen wealth is coming to an end.
Should be glad these barbarians are being banned from Asia.
>I don't think anyone would disagree that she's a pawn in a geopolitical struggle, but it also sounds like she absolutely and intentionally violated US law
Someone that didn't visit the US was arrested for "breaking US law"...replace "US" with "China" and see how this sentence rings.
Sounds like a surviving version of Victorian "blame the victim" thinking. It was a popular and heavily flawed idea that the people the British invaded and robbed (of food in many cases), if faced with food shortages, should have just "had less kids".
When a parasite finds a good host, the logic can get really warped.
I find people's lack of knowledge about what makes Bitcoin valuable interesting.
The reason Bitcoin is valuable is because the work required to create one is significantly harder than Fiat currencies and it is one of the only truly scarce assets in human history (hard cap).
How much equipment do you need to counterfeit any fiat currency? Can you purchase the equipment for less than $10k?
Yes, easy.
How much equipment do you need to counterfeit Bitcoin? Can you purchase the equipment for less than $1 billion?
No, not easy.
You may think this is a trivial distinction but it has tremendous value knowing you have hard uncounterfeitable money with a hard cap.
The US treasury spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year fighting fake bills, that's only 1 of the dozen or so problems bitcoin solves. The second is that all the verification and security is done by the most powerful supercomputer in human history.
These things gives it its value.
Garbage company stocks, you can throw those in the trash if the central banks aren't busy helping pump them.
Hard money wins, soft money gets snuffed in the night.
Not whataboutism, if the case can be made that 350 million people need protection then the case can more easily be made for 1.3 billion people.
Wikileaks also showed us that US agencies were engaged in industrial espionage, stealing German/French industrial technology using the Five Eyes tools and giving it to GE & friends ...
The problem is, my more "reality-based" framing destroys the "China is uniquely evil" narrative that western media/gov is pushing everywhere for primarily economic reasons.
So China is publicly announcing that it's deploying what the Five Eyes have deployed in democratic countries under the cover of darkness across the world (while lying to their citizens, who have a constitutional right to know)?
> Calling our rights "privilege" is throwing out the struggle and sacrifice of everyone that fought for those rights.
Next South Park should do an episode that shows how greedy western leaders running opium/heroin for the better part of now two centuries, turned the most populous country into a paranoid dictatorial hellhole for the Chinese people.
US introspection would be too on the nose?
You ever ask yourself what percentage of the heroin/opium supply would be pulled off the market if China could extradite people from HK? More than 50%... and who gets hurt by that?