Dude anybody can go there, tens of thousands do and post about it, believing something so easy to verify is some <insert american city>-is-a-warzone tier intentional ignorance.

Heres a pic I took last year, if you squint, you can see President Xi pointing a sniper rifle at me from the window.

Later I saw a picture of Whinnie The Pooh and Xi sent me to Silent Hill.

I don’t remember Japanese cars ever being called soulless.

I heard of them being called low quality, but the designs were always iconic.

As far as Tesla goes, they are Elon Musk’s passion. Its a stupid vision carried out suprisingly competently given the task of adhering to a passionless non-expert’s whims.

I find it particularly bizarre that a country with five thousand years of sophisticated arts behind it is being called “soulless” by westerners

I find it bizarre to experience. I basically live there when I’m not in Vietnam or Japan, so its not that I don’t want to like them, but none of bikes I’ve seen have stirred anything in me.

The architecture and urban design I see in public places has more creativity and passion often in the designer’s vision amd much moreso in the way they’ve been able to carry it out than anywhere I’ve been in America or Japan, but there’s often a certain coldness to public spaces, like the space wasn’t made for me.

Europe fucking over its own people at the behest of American corporations?

I’m shocked.

People who do crimes in foreign countries shouldn’t be free to just leave.

The one after that talks about propaganda tours, the whole article is using half truths and lies that someone who didn’t know better would think literally anybody couldn’t just go to xinjiang and if you did, the government would control what you see, and that uhigurs can’t get passports.

“Since 2017, China has cut off all communication. It cancelled all international flights between Urumqi and other countries, cut internet communication, and collected the passports of Uyghurs. No one could travel,” he said.

This is a lie, I’ve been there 3 times, not part of any tour, and I met Uhigurs with passports. Though China is restrictive, you have to have show them plans to leave the country to get your passport, but once you have it you can do whatever. If you’re with the government they literally might not issue it, due to a bunch of incidents where corrupt officials fled with a bunch of money they got through corruption.

A local seller who did the work of buying it off Alibaba, and making sure Jeff Bezos gets his cut.

Question, does the design of chinese cars come off as sorta well, soulless?

Like by performance metrics and features, CFmoto/QJmotors blows anything similarly priced out of the water, but nothing really feels like a passion project of the engineers, they all look like “just another bike” or a bizarre mix of aesthetics.

I don’t really pay attention to chinese electrics, though I’ve riden in a few.

buys the absolute cheapest thing

waow this 200USD lawnmower dressed up like a motorcycle is worse than a 30,000USD Panigale. I guess China only produces junk.

I tried to find a chinese equivalent but the cheapest Panigale is double the price of the most expensive chinese sportsbike, and is only a v2.

The closest to an apples-to-apples comparison at the same price point I could find was a SRK 921 RR vs cbr650r.

Meanwhile most everything on Amazon is on aliexpress for half the price, and Taobao for a quarter of the price.

Zelensky wants Ukraine to be “the Israel of Europe”, but he doesn’t actually love Israel, because each bomb we send Israel is a bomb we don’t send Ukraine.

British right-wing commentator Charles Cornish-Dale, known online as “Raw Egg Nationalist.”

Wtf why do raw-egg eating weirdos seperated by an entire ocean and half an America know, let alone have a take on political ads in Arkansas?

Paywall

I guess your history teacher didn’t keep up to date with history. Like it ended in the 90s or something :fukuyama:.

It might have been true at the tine, nk didn’t sucessfully test its first nuke until 2006. I suspect the US accusing them of selling yellowcake to Iraq accelerated things.

Oh fuck off.

Iran attacked vessels that didn’t pay the toll.

After the US murdered hundreds of children, Iran was willing to store excess enriched uranium in a third country. Its actually insane how conciliatory and willing to give the US an exit Iran has been.

If you’re not in an organization, you don’t do politics, you simply have some opinions.

That didn’t start with Afghanistan.

The scene from Apocalypse Now with “Anyone who runs is a VC, and anyone who doesn’t is a well disciplined VC”.

They would notify everyone in a village they had to go to the concentration camps, then designate the area a “Specified Strike Zone”, where every man, woman, animal, structure, and crops were considered to be enemies. Some of these areas had arsenic dropped on them to poison the crops via Agent Blue so nobody could move back in.

Before that, in Korea, standing orders for the airforce was to strafe any group of 5 or more civilians, because they must secretly be soldiers.