huh?Look at this American being gay in China.
huh?Look at this American being gay in China.
I would think that as a Catholic you would want the church to be able to manage their own affairs like they do in the other countries in Asia without secular state interference - especially when the state is in China's case is officially atheistic.
Absolutely, China wipes the floor of America, they will dominate the landscape very soon no doubt about it, all i see in America is people of color, disease, decay, obesity, tattoos, strange paranormal behavior, a true laughing stock of a country, purely an economic zone and a passportBald and Bankrupt has 4.5M followers on YT alone, so he is not hurting for cash. He is also not the kind of personality to get along with Chinese officials, who are insular and weary of characters like him.
B&B's schtick is pure condescension, his vids essentially boil down to going to distant lands and making fun of locals, his Indian trip reports in particular blew up. He went into China looking for some of the same, any elements to mock local culture. That's why he first went to that dwarf theme park.
However as the rest of his trip unfurled, he was pleasantly surprised by the quality and upkeep of Chinese cities and infrastructure as well as their affordability, showing off his £11 modern hotel room in Chongqing. He was also taken aback by the simple charm and friendliness of the locals he interacted with, like the seamstress in Chongqing, to which he was pretty patronizing, thinking she was hitting on him asking for his marital status, as often done in places like the Philippines, when in fact she was just politely asking about his trip in China.
The contrast between his trips in India, his online bread and butter, and that trip in China is very striking, and must have taken him aback. He went from jam-packed filthy archaic trains in India to state of the art modern comfort high speed trains that put those from his own country to shame. He went from people constantly being pushy and trying to scam him in India to laid-back, polite and friendly people across his Chinese trip, also noting their sense of civic duty, for instance noticing the lack of littering and people taking off their shoes before lying on public benches.
Bottom line, you're the one who is being manipulative here.
No, the world's largest Jewish supremacy project ever attempted is modern day America. Blackrock is bigger than the GDP of Germany, Japan and the UK combined.
Modern-day China is the most independent and sovereign country in the world today, completely unsubordinated to any foreign influence. Xi purged the globalists that were in high places over a decade ago.
Once again, your takes here are complete bunk.
The article that talks about evangelicals being murdered by government agents because they had dollars in their pockets which was interpreted as them being American spies. Just so people reading this thread are clear about your stance, you are posting this article because you think this reflects what happens in China with how they treat churches and you think this is a positive?It might be helpful to understand the Chinese government's attitude towards the Church by looking at Russia, where the government restricts the activities of Evangelicals:
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Russia's War Against Evangelicals
Putin's Russia has led an at times brutal campaign against evangelicals inside Russia and in the occupied parts of Ukraine.time.com
They do this because they know that Evangelicals in Russia can be used as trojan horses to undermine their country, exactly like how foreign islamic salafists fostered anti-Russian feelings in Chechnya which degenerated into the Chechnian Wars.
Absolutely, China wipes the floor of America, they will dominate the landscape very soon no doubt about it, all i see in America is people of color, disease, decay, obesity, tattoos, strange paranormal behavior, a true laughing stock of a country, purely an economic zone and a passport
Technically it was for trespassing and setting a fire on somebody else's property. I don't mind if it was uniformly applied to all church vandals.The CCP will not sentence you to 15 years in jail for burning the gay flag.
Bald and Bankrupt travels from the Vietnam border to Chongqing:
Will they be better to live in when the money printer of the west finally runs dry and they are on their own?The American "colonies" of Taiwan, S.Korea, and Japan are so much better to live in.
My old man would always say "he who has 'production' wins"- he meant manufacturing and agriculture a distant second, real things. Those countries have that, there will be demographic problems but humanity has dealt with that before.Will they be better to live in when the money printer of the west finally runs dry and they are on their own?
Will they be better to live in when the money printer of the west finally runs dry and they are on their own?
Had prior convictions too, stupid thing to do.Technically it was for trespassing and setting a fire on somebody else's property. I don't mind if it was uniformly applied to all church vandals.
Come on. You don't get 15 years in jail for trespassing in a semi-public place like a church, they threw the book at him because burning the gay flag was a "hate crime". Had he grabbed and burned any other flag from that church he would have just gotten a slap on the wrist, if that.Technically it was for trespassing and setting a fire on somebody else's property. I don't mind if it was uniformly applied to all church vandals.
Watched about 10 minutes. Proves RLOS right, not that many beauties, where da 8s, 9s. and 10s at? The men also, Polykleitos, or his other two friends, would snatch his hammer and chisel to chase them away if any dared to show up at his workshop.
They did a good job if people are to live like ants in a mega city, which is the norm for E. Asia. I prefer suburban/small town living and don't like public transport, no matter how nice it is, so I'd rather live where personal transportation makes the most sense.
You need an app (Alipay) to buy anything, from your morning coffee after you wake up, until you go to sleep, WiFi and cell signal tracking seems like nothing, they know where you are at all times, how much you spend, where you've been standing, to whom you've been talking, with whom you've slept, the distances you cover.
Kudos for removing one's shoes before laying on a bench- I scoff at the people who keep their shoes-on feet on the hassocks in church.
Seems China is an open air prison meets a labor camp.
The Amish are the best bellwether for religious freedom in America- if it's good enough for them, so it is for me.
The government has been building state sanctioned Protestant churches there since the 80s. All within the state, you know the rest...
The American "colonies" of Taiwan, S.Korea, and Japan are so much better to live in.
Throwback to the days when member @expectation attempted to sell the board the lie that China simply *poof* transformed into a real high trust society couple years back, also a *poof* total cohencidence that this 'conclusion' coincided with one of the biggest CCP propaganda campaigns on the matter in recent years. Ergo yesterday Changs went to bed in a low trust society, today Changs *poof* woke up in a high trust society, only *poof* CIA operatives would go against this rocksolid narrative.It didn't used to be like this before covid and in fact it used to be very rough that people would tell you to stay away from certain areas. The transformation into a high-trust society happened near the end of covid.
Personal story. My wife had left her purse at a dessert shop in a mall in SZ. She had walked around for at least an hour before realizing she left it behind and when she went back, the table she was sitting at was completely untouched as if it was store policy.
The Hongqi bridge was recently completed in China. It's one of the world's highest bridges, and has been touted as an example of China's advancement and superiority.
Hongqi Bridge - HighestBridges.com
www.highestbridges.com
It just collapsed.
Edit: When I searched for the Hongqi Bridge, I got a link for the Huajiang Canyon Bridge which was also recently completed and very high. I think this bridge got a lot of attention, and the Hongqi bridge was not as famous. It's still a cautionary tale of hubris.
To be fair building standards worldwide have dropped a lot so its not only a Chinese phenomenon. In many western countries newly built apartment blocks are abandoned to to concrete cancer or other structural issues within 5 - 10 years of being built. The old school double brick or stone houses that could last 500 years aren't coming back any time soon. Always buy an older house if you can.The boys use a Hebei apartment casestudy as a guiding principle, in the video below a Chinese leasee complains about her newly constructed apartment block which is showing cracks in ceiling, supporting columns, floors and walls, has cement crumbling and inner walls collapsing, and the property's garage has also sunk.
What is communism, and how is the west not "communism"?If I ever find a magic lamp. And the genie only gave me one wish it would be to send all the people who praise communist countries to live there. Not riches or eternal youth. Just send all the people who praise communist countries to live there.
What is communism, and how is the west not "communism"?
The fact of the matter is, China is the closest to a fascist state we see in the world today. The fake right-wing "conservative" talking points like "they are communist" or "he is a socialist" or "we love freedom" need to die out and quickly. There is reality and there are buzzwords that mean nothing.Higher taxes in Europe than in China, lower level of public service and infrastructure, Fed/BIS-style private central banks - inflation and wealth extraction from the middle class is baked into the monetary system, resulting in steady decrease in purchasing power.
The other aspect is that "democratically-elected" leaders in the West like Macron, Starmer, Merz, Carney or even Trump work for the oligarchs who have created and funded them. Not the case in China.
What's being praised is progress. Not western "progress", but actual "I built something" progress or "I put a criminal in jail" progress.praise communist countries