You can’t drink tap water in China. You’ve got to boil it first. Stick some tea leaves in there while you’re at it.

Was it really that bad in your experience? It seems hard to believe as someone who has not visited China but heard many great things about the nation.

I don’t have a particular top ten, so I’ll just list a few series that I’ve enjoyed over the years: Detective Conan, Jujutsu Kaisen, Code Geass, Death Note and Grand Blue.

You would have been more okay with this image if it was drawn by a person?

I recently purchased Skyrim, and I had a ton of fun; but I had began to realize a plethora of issues from game balancing to unimpressive story-telling that finally compelled me to quit. I spent a little less than 93 hours on it, which speaks great volume of how enjoyable the game can be, however.

Empires usually end up collapsing under their own weight due to sheer incompetence and arrogance.

Why is anti-vax a thing, again?

I think it’s more likely that we won’t be alive.

Is Russia Fascist?

No.

American media is disgustingly decadent; always publicly discussing about genitalia, sex, drugs and other yuck without a hint of shame.

You and I both know that is never going to happen.

I had thought that China was expected to abandon fossil fuels by 2060, but 14% of the total energy will still be derived from fossil fuels. Maybe that is a more realistic outlook on things, though.

This is a paraphrase of a comment that I posted on Reddit some time ago:

China certainly exports ideology. For example, the notion of “mutually beneficial win-win cooperation” as opposed to the “zero-sum game”. These types of ideals serve as the foundation for China-Global South (South-South) cooperation to industrialize and modernize former colonized and developing nations rather than simply exist as raw material exporters. This way, they can finally pry the grasp of the imperial core on their holdings and become an independent, sovereign power. You could consider that exporting “revolution” or “socialism”.

Has there ever been any incident where Huawei was illegally stealing information from foreigners and transmitting it to the Chinese government? Or is this another case of projection? “The Americans do it, so the Chinese do, too!”.

Western Maoists have never earned the hearts of the people and supplanted their dictatorship of capital and oppression, yet they claim to be the true heirs of “pure socialism”.

Furthermore to be Socialist would be to aid comrades internationally, yet China not only has not promised to ever do this (nor is this something Communist would ever dare hide from the Global masses), but they’ve actually done the opposite on multiple occasions."

But China does aid “comrades” by working with any country, regardless of the complaints of the imperial core, and promoting mutually beneficial, win-win cooperation and pro-Global South industrialization and modernization. Just recently, China pledged to help defend Venezuela’s national sovereignty and economic transition into an industrial economy rather than simply existing as a raw material exporter. China’s foreign policy in the past has not always been great, but that does not mean that we should let the mistakes overshadow the accomplishments. That would just be historical nihilism. The commenter’s idea of internationalism seems to be incessantly lending arms and money into so-called Maoist armies, but this is not China’s approach to diplomacy—China is not the USSR and shouldn’t strive to be!

I’m not even going to bother with the rest of this childish take—nothing but rhetoric and overzealous dogmatism over material reality.

They’ll change their minds if the US manages to attain them.

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Taxes are imposed by the central authority on the working population to get them to start working and producing real, tangible goods and services, which generates the value of the currency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75udjh6hkOs&t=1705s

Countries that possess monetsry sovereignty can always print their own currency. But I do agree that the currency will be deemed undesirable if it’s not backed by the sufficient quanity and quality of goods and services.

Sure?