Can you tell me what your ethnicity is?
If people in ancient China supposedly couldn’t communicate with each other in the same language, then explain this to me: how did people from all over the country who passed the imperial examinations and entered the central government communicate with the emperor and with their fellow officials? And how did officials who were assigned to govern in completely different regions communicate with the local population?
What I find strange is that I can’t exactly say you know nothing about China—but almost everything you think you know about China is completely wrong. I’m genuinely curious where you got these ideas from.
For example, the idea that Chinese students can’t understand Classical Chinese, or that Chinese people from different regions in ancient times were unable to communicate with one another.
And there’s one more thing I really don’t understand: when a Chinese computer engineer who can not only read Classical Chinese but actually write it takes something he personally wrote in Classical Chinese and uses it to prove you wrong, how are you still able to insist that Chinese people don’t understand Classical Chinese?
@TheEconomist A China that has turned most young people from traditionally Muslim ethnic minorities into supporters of a secular government is basically the idol of populists everywhere.
What? There’s a conflict between Gaza, a minority-populated area within Israel, and Israel’s majority ethnic group, and you want Muslims worldwide to be held responsible?
Fine, I guess we can play by that logic. Israel can go pick some random country like Indonesia and kill ten thousand people there to even the score. Indonesia has roughly one-eighth of the world’s Muslim population, after all.
Before AI came along, as a Chinese person, I thought population aging was China’s biggest crisis. After AI, I’ve started to think a large young population is basically useless. No matter how smart young people are, are they really going to outsmart ASI? If most young people can no longer be turned into economically useful labor ten years from now, what exactly is the point of having a large population?
I’ve said this before: up until Yahya Sinwar was killed, I supported Israel’s military campaign. But once Hamas’s senior and mid-level leadership in Gaza had been largely wiped out, what exactly was the justification for continuing the indiscriminate killing? Go ahead, explain it to me.
And by the way, I’ve run into MAGA people on X screaming “nuke China” far more than once or twice. What exactly makes you think they’re any better than Yahya Sinwar?
Though I do suspect a lot of these MAGA types may actually be even dumber than Hamas, because many of them don’t even seem to realize that China has a pretty formidable nuclear arsenal of its own.
@Azzanator1@FuckPalestain@PamphletsY I’m sure Australia has murderers who haven’t been caught yet. So why don’t we bomb every neighborhood in Australia? After all, if there are murderers walking free there, apparently that means their women and children don’t deserve the right to live either.
LMAO. Could you possibly be a more textbook victim of propaganda? You seem to imagine China as some Soviet-style police state where everyone trembles in silence. In reality, ordinary Chinese people mock Xi Jinping and call him an idiot far more often than your cartoon version of China allows you to believe.
And seriously, use your brain for five seconds: do you honestly think a society run like the Soviet Union or East Germany could have produced anything remotely resembling China’s economic rise? Your entire worldview sounds like it was assembled from Cold War clichés and never updated.
@notkeenonislam@FuckPalestain@PamphletsY LMAO. A textbook victim of media brainwashing.
I can guarantee you this: outside the United States, China is probably the most capitalist major economy in the world. Britain is far more socialist than China is.
LMAO. So there really are people who’ve been brainwashed by their own country’s media to the point of becoming complete idiots.
China is visa-free now anyway, so why not actually go there and see it for yourself? And since China keeps its currency seriously undervalued to support exports, your money goes a pretty long way there. Spending money in China is honestly pretty enjoyable.
Even here in California, there are already quite a few areas where we’ve fallen behind China’s top-tier cities. And if that’s true for California, then imagine Britain.
I guess evangelicals need Israelis as useful pawns so they can get raptured straight into heaven during the apocalypse brought on by some world war next year or the year after.
Then they can sit up there watching billions of people who didn’t believe in their evangelical gospel die in the war, laughing themselves silly.
@notkeenonislam@FuckPalestain@PamphletsY So, do you want all Chinese people to think the way you do? Because if it is, then we may have to start seriously settling the score with you over the Opium Wars.
Looks like you’re pretty sympathetic to the Nazis.
Is it because you think your own race is safe, so you can happily sit back and watch women and children in other countries get slaughtered?
Which raises a question: if we Chinese ever learn to see the world the way you do, what do you think is going to happen to you over the next few decades?
Do you remember how you British once beat the hell out of us because we destroyed the opium you were selling into China?
In a world where people don’t slaughter women and children, we can treat that as history, leave it in the past, and move on.
But if we adopt your worldview, then that history becomes a much more complicated matter.
I was still basically on your side up until you killed Yahya Sinwar. But after taking him out, after virtually every mid and high ranking Hamas leader had been eliminated, you kept killing indiscriminately. Do you seriously think that is justified?
More than 300 people were killed in the music festival terrorist attack. Fine — for the sake of argument, I’ll even assume that every single Gazan man you killed was guilty.
So how many Gazan women and children does one Israeli life have to be worth before you decide it’s enough? Can you give me an actual fucking number?
One Israeli life for 100 Gazan women and children? Haven’t you already gone past even that?
Then fucking tell me: how many is enough? Give me an exact number, you fucking piece of shit.
No one should be held responsible for the atrocities of a previous generation—unless their government chooses to celebrate those atrocities as a source of national glory.
Imagine a Germany where Hitler and Goebbels were enshrined in a national memorial, the entire cabinet went there to pay homage, Auschwitz was officially denied, and senior government officials subjected the victims of the countries Germany had attacked to relentless ethnic humiliation.
How many nuclear bombs do you think that country should be hit with today?
@elonmusk@KnowledgeArchiv Even Lee Kuan Yew couldn’t change the collapse in fertility that comes with higher levels of female education. Singapore’s fertility rate is just as low as those of other East Asian countries. The technologies that could actually solve this problem are gene editing and ASI.
@MadMadSecurity@Wilsoncrat For example, there are programs featuring Kuo Cheng-liang, a former senior DPP member who was once part of the current ruling party, but whose political stance has now completely reversed.