throw272109

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   by throw272109 8y ago

   Reading Nassim Taleb's article [1], I feel politics will become more and more extreme in the coming years. Where it will become the far-left vs the far-right. And honestly, the US "far-left" isn't really that extreme com
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   by throw272109 8y ago

   > The big difference between Chinese and American labor is that we place a much higher standard on human and worker rights. I used to believe this until I read up on how prisoners in the US basically work like indentured servants for pen
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   by throw272109 8y ago

   I always found the leaked reports on Xi were fascinating [1] > Xi is apparently painted by US officials as an elitist ‘who believes that the offspring of Maoist revolutionaries are the rightful rulers of China.’ > On the question of h
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   by throw272109 8y ago

   > ...South Korea and Taiwan as they made their transitions from poor dictatorships to wealthy democracies (and peaceful US allies). If I'm not mistaken, both these countries became wealthy during the dictatorship period. It was only