bllguo

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by bllguo 8mo ago
western arrogance is truly astounding. somehow people who consume 0 chinese media and cant speak a lick of the language somehow are intricately aware of not only chinese media, but chinese society. but of course. the benchmark is minor infl
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by bllguo 1y ago
1. it is highly relevant outside the western bubble, 2. their domestic market is large enough that china does not have to whore itself out to the west like korea or japan, 3. you gloss over the deliberate suppression by the US regime. japan
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by bllguo 1y ago
> but your statement about China is straight from a CCP propaganda handbook. and? the Chinese people live and believe it. propaganda can be true, and governments can in fact live up to their statements. ofc with westerners' patholog
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by bllguo 1y ago
yea the government is scaring them, not anything the US is doing. sure. the mental gymnastics know no bounds
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by bllguo 2y ago
well apple silicon has only been out for like 5 years
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by bllguo 2y ago
..did you only learn chinese academically or something? anyone in china would think of Mao if you said 小红书 (well, at least before the app)
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by bllguo 2y ago
in what sense could you _possibly_ argue this from both legal and realpolitik lenses the Taiwan issue is fully legitimate. your country has done far worse to Cuba for far less. Even setting aside the historical context and the Chinese civil
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by bllguo 2y ago
and that has what, exactly, to do with the legitimacy of said grievances?
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by bllguo 2y ago
no serious fan of the sport would agree. not even truls would consider him to be the 2nd best in the world. but yes, he did have an amazing run to the silver
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by bllguo 2y ago
How insightful could this possibly be if socioeconomic variables are not controlled for? Clearly the socioeconomic makeup of "US Asians" is not the same as, say, the entire population of Korean students. Also, "US Asians&quot
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by bllguo 2y ago
Your first paragraph is 10, 20 years out of date. And you conflate the prestige & economic power of the US with its education quality. As your example exemplifies, those coming here for school are coming for economic reasons (an increas
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by bllguo 2y ago
The West controlled India to a degree that was thankfully not the case in China. This is basic history that the OP literally referenced > Just asking questions. Nobody is fooled. Have the courtesy to say what you mean instead of insinuat
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by bllguo 2y ago
when others get to dictate the terms to the US for once - "coercive, illegal" what a fun euphemism for "something that doesn't enforce US economic hegemony". you just can't help yourselves using this morally-co
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by bllguo 2y ago
this is quite hyperbolic. he has too complicated a legacy to dismiss this easily. some of the concepts he pioneered include talk therapy, transference, significance of early childhood on psychological development, the influence of the uncon
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by bllguo 2y ago
yes, there is a widespread awareness that this is all realpolitik . in the western public, everything is a moral struggle between good and evil, where the west is the good guy de facto to add on to this - far more chinese people visit th
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by bllguo 2y ago
in the major cities at least, there is significantly growing awareness atp that domestic infrastructure, technology, etc. is simply better than in the west. people meme about western cities as being comparable to villages however 1. they ce
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by bllguo 2y ago
gee what a mystery. how about no more bloodshed for starters.
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by bllguo 2y ago
yes of course, the enlightened Americans are so much better at handling crime. pointing at western justice systems to say that western values are superior - this must be satire?
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by bllguo 2y ago
this must be comedy? you think the chinese economy is down 50%? at no point did you question how unfathomably ridiculous such a figure is? i suppose this is the state of the west now, where literally anything negative about russia or china
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by bllguo 2y ago
an amusing fantasy. I'd love to see your western biases shatter when you do just that. do you think it's at all hard to find a 70yr old Chinese person?
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by bllguo 3y ago
ironic. they demonstrate the exact lack of empathy they think they are deriding
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by bllguo 3y ago
so why exactly did you skip the first sentence of the paragraph so that you could make a self-evident point? anyway that 5% hires a disproportionately larger # of "data scientists"
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by bllguo 3y ago
i think you may be overestimating the avg. past data scientist's software engineering chops, but it's definitely true that the term has become more diluted than ever you still find these kinds of people and roles at smaller compan
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by bllguo 3y ago
then admit that instead of fearmongering and promoting actively harmful sinophobic views. it's the blind and naive i am taking issue with, not the geopolitical realists. even if i disagree with both
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by bllguo 3y ago
for the price of a music streaming service, you get a music streaming service _and_ ad-free video. it's a fine deal even if YT music is not as good as alternatives. and you're putting your money where your mouth is regarding ads a
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by bllguo 3y ago
oh please, spare us. Do tell what china has done to the US citizenry. Consider that you're attempting revolutions, surrounding them with military bases, arming separatists, and instigating trade wars. Your government hates the Chinese
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by bllguo 3y ago
if you're actually interested in reality, that it's not controversial to a western crowd predisposed to sinophobic sentiment is precisely what should be setting alarms off
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by bllguo 3y ago
scale matters. i expect that to be obvious in a place like HN there _is_ an interesting discussion to be had about how far behind india is vs. china, but the average westerner refuses to entertain the obvious conclusion to be drawn there.
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by bllguo 3y ago
well this time it's the enemy du jour, China. you're not talking to a crowd that ever cared about the Hugo awards before this.
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by bllguo 3y ago
It appears the western public's understanding of geopolitical realities is always a decade behind. _Right now_, all of NATO combined can't even outproduce Russia alone. We don't need to be talking hypotheticals, it is literal

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