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The difference is that the worst that can happen to Zuck et al is having their company split up and paying more in taxes. Ma on the other hand could well end u
by konjin 6y ago
The difference is that the worst that can happen to Zuck et al is having their company split up and paying more in taxes.
Ma on the other hand could well end up getting Epsteined.
- monocasa 6y agoWeird that the example you used for what couldn't happen to Zuck was a western near billionaire killed in his jail cell in Manhattan.
- franklampard 6y agoExactly. How did Epstein got Epsteined not in China, but in the U.S.?
- zepto 6y agoWas he really a near billionaire? He posed as one but nobody seems to be able to tell where his money actually came from.
- konjin 6y agoEpstein more than likely tried to blackmail at least the British crown. You'd think that people wouldn't try and antagonize a family that owns their own torture tower and shows it off to tourists. Regular corruption is fine in the West though, it's a victimless crime. For people who matter anyway, not the peasants who have to drink drilling oil fluid. The point is that in the West there are clear and mostly unchanging rules that everyone knows. In China not so much. Today you're the richest man in China, tomorrow you're an enemy of the people, next week you have tragically fallen to your death taking a selfie from a ladder. All while doing the same thing everyone else in your wealth bracket does.
- hnracer 6y agoAnd that's not a small difference, it's the difference between a liberal democracy (with its many mistakes and flaws) and an authoritarian dictatorship. The both-sides fallacy should be avoided here and elsewhere.
- franklampard 6y agoWow that is baffling. So can you explain how exactly in a liberal democracy, Mr.Epstein got Epsteined?
- hnracer 6y agoWe can't honestly equate the Uyghur genocide, jailing of political dissidents, Xi's dictator for life status and the CCP's censorship apparatus to the modern US, even when factoring in the ongoing travesties e.g NSA surveillance, unequal policing, and I could even throw in Epstein's killing in there if it makes you feel better. These are not in the same ethical ballpark, and one doesn't have to be a US nationalist to recognize this.
- konjin 6y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted. If China was so great the Children of the US rich would go there to study. Instead they either stay in the US, or go to Europe/the Anglosphere if they want to be more cosmopolitan. The reverse however is very true.
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- justicezyx 6y agoJack Ma was not foolish enough to meddle the high power. Mr. Jack Ma got this status precisely because he knows the boundary. Those dared would have already been dead long before reaching the status close to Mr. Ma. One who think that secrets can coerce people, is treating the owners of the secrets as passive; which were never the behavior pattern of the powerful. One who rises to the top, practices control and manipulate over others. Not the opposite.