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People seem to be missing > The transition was announced a year ago.

curiousgal 7y ago
They are not missing it, they are just fueled by heir hate towards China. It amazes me how negative HN comments are whenever anything that has to do with China is brought up.
- throwaway8879 7y ago
  Why does it amaze you? We ought to be overly negative towards rising ambitious hegemonies with bad track records, even if the negativity is irrationally aggressive.
  - pgodzin 7y ago
    If they have such bad track records then those should be enough to be negative towards without having to create irrational conspiracy theories about something that had been announced a year ago.
    - devoply 7y ago
      How does it having been announced a year ago make it utterly legitimate? Jack Ma outright owned the company which was not funded by government money. And all the sudden he announces the company is going to be handed over to the government and I am going to become a teacher. Seems a bit outlandish. I don't know of many CEOs that randomly sail off into the sunset. Do you?
      - pgodzin 7y ago
        You had a post on this thread that started with > Tinfoil hat on... Maybe the CCP fucked him up somehow. Yes, a billionaire CEO retiring and staying on the board of the company he started is much less outlandish than your "tinfoil hat" theory.
  - skrebbel 7y ago
    Nobody ought to be "overtly" negative to anybody. There's plenty bad shit going down in China in the open to not need any unbased gossip and still be be extremely critical of the CCP.
    - throwaway8879 7y ago
      Overtly? Unfortunately, most people don't care about the "plenty bad shit" going on in China as long as their cheap imports are flowing in. In a Cold War 2.0 scenario, it is absolutely necessary that China be made out to be not only worse than they are, but worse than they possibly can be. That's my opinion. I'm in favor of any propaganda that causes friction in the rise of the Chinese hegemony.
  - scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
    Wouldn't this describe the US? I only support the Chinese state because it is a counterweight to the "human rights campaigns" of US administrations.
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enjoyyourlife 7y ago
He has been planning on retiring for a while now as he stopped being CEO back in 2013

They are not missing it, they are just fueled by heir hate towards China. It amazes me how negative HN comments are whenever anything that has to do with China is brought up.

throwaway8879 7y ago
Why does it amaze you? We ought to be overly negative towards rising ambitious hegemonies with bad track records, even if the negativity is irrationally aggressive.
- pgodzin 7y ago
  If they have such bad track records then those should be enough to be negative towards without having to create irrational conspiracy theories about something that had been announced a year ago.
  - devoply 7y ago
    How does it having been announced a year ago make it utterly legitimate? Jack Ma outright owned the company which was not funded by government money. And all the sudden he announces the company is going to be handed over to the government and I am going to become a teacher. Seems a bit outlandish. I don't know of many CEOs that randomly sail off into the sunset. Do you?
    - pgodzin 7y ago
      You had a post on this thread that started with > Tinfoil hat on... Maybe the CCP fucked him up somehow. Yes, a billionaire CEO retiring and staying on the board of the company he started is much less outlandish than your "tinfoil hat" theory.
- skrebbel 7y ago
  Nobody ought to be "overtly" negative to anybody. There's plenty bad shit going down in China in the open to not need any unbased gossip and still be be extremely critical of the CCP.
  - throwaway8879 7y ago
    Overtly? Unfortunately, most people don't care about the "plenty bad shit" going on in China as long as their cheap imports are flowing in. In a Cold War 2.0 scenario, it is absolutely necessary that China be made out to be not only worse than they are, but worse than they possibly can be. That's my opinion. I'm in favor of any propaganda that causes friction in the rise of the Chinese hegemony.
- scoobyyabbadoo 7y ago
  Wouldn't this describe the US? I only support the Chinese state because it is a counterweight to the "human rights campaigns" of US administrations.
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enjoyyourlife 7y ago

He has been planning on retiring for a while now as he stopped being CEO back in 2013