wow if the original guy spent the time doing research on topics instead of complaining he would become a "tankie" too. unless he's a fed, which is likely. I just don't get it. When people say that they believe something that is complete opposite to my beliefs I look into it, not just say they are wrong because the CIA says so. For example if I believed tank man was run over and someone showed me the full video I'd be like yeah that's pretty suspicious that AP and all news outlets show you an edited video. I wonder what else they are lying about. Or maybe my brain is just wired differently?
There's no video of forced labor camps obviously because they don't exist. The only thing they have is the picture of prisoners being blindfolded while being transferred between prisons and people/prisoners at a drug rehab sitting down listening to a lecture. All other forms of evidence literally all come from US gov employees. Like this https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e9ad4n/i_am_rushan_abbas_uyghur_activist_and_survivor_of/
How is Zenz a China expert? He doesn't speak mandarin, he can't read chinese, and he's only been to China once. Why don't they tell the audience he is employed by the US gov in a role that exists to attack "communist" countries (Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation)?
No, it's useless bullshit. It's common knowledge in Taiwan that buying useless arms from the US is a form of paying protection money. China also has no desire to annex Taiwan. They say so because it's a face issue that they inherited from the 60's. And current CPC policy says Taiwan is already a part of China. They even have fake Taiwanese representatives playing roles in their gov.
their brains are warped because they grew up in a special environment (probably) post ww2 where all other industrialized nations productive capacity was destroyed and American laborers at the time (as well as capital) hugely benefited from it so they may be stuck in that mindset
2014 was a low point in the housing market. There were HUNDREDS of houses available in the ~$150k range, many of them nicer than the one I rented. All I needed was ~$10k for a down payment, and I could have been paying $800 for a mortgage instead of $1,500 on rent, and all of that money spent would be retained in the form of equity even if I still had to move out. It probably would have saved my relationship too (my parents complain about not having any grandkids, BTW).
This just seems overly selfish to me. My parents paid my college tuition and they even bought a house during covid lows for themselves to live in, and put it under my name.
wow if the original guy spent the time doing research on topics instead of complaining he would become a "tankie" too. unless he's a fed, which is likely. I just don't get it. When people say that they believe something that is complete opposite to my beliefs I look into it, not just say they are wrong because the CIA says so. For example if I believed tank man was run over and someone showed me the full video I'd be like yeah that's pretty suspicious that AP and all news outlets show you an edited video. I wonder what else they are lying about. Or maybe my brain is just wired differently?