its not clear that china's behaviour has actually been a benefit to the west - I think in many ways China has gotten more out of it than the west has

China has also been a currency manipulator hasn't it?

Grenade - that is basically the point of what I quoted - but it'ts a very complicated issue

artificially fucking with its own currency to keep it down low relative to the dollar

Grenade, the fault is mostly US' - not Chinas

well i mean, it takes two to tango so yes

> There is, in short, no way Japan could have benefited from People’s Bank purchases of its yen bonds. Only the United States permits unlimited purchases of government bonds by foreign central banks — not because, however, it is immune to the problems Japan and other advanced countries face. Like them, the United States can easily fund productive domestic investments without foreign capital, and so rather than cause productive investment to rise, foreign investment causes domestic savings to fall, which can only happen with a rising debt burden or rising unemployment.

Before we sanction China, we should do something about Venezuela

VZ is toast already

drop leaflets telling the poeple to move out, then carpet bomb the whole place, let nature reclaim it

Stefan, China is worse than VZ - I think VZ will sort itself out way before china - but yeah sure, VZ also needs sanctions (if they don't have already)

And how many people have to die in VZ and how many other Countrys have to be flooded with Refugees?

bill it as a "save the rainforest" act

no, Venezuela is the one of the worst situations we have right now!

there's no we

they fucked themselves

It needs to come from the inside

It really does unfortunately.

And I know someone in there right now.

or else it's just imperialist america not letting socialism work

See, why then sanction China? It has to come from within.

because china is a world power

you can't treat the two the same

It annoys the *shit* out of me that this "DON'T EAT PORK" shit is still going on.

We have learned how to prepare pigs.

So its OK if people in VZ die but China is a different story?

Why the fuck are people still avoiding pigs.

EAT YOUR FUCKING PIGS.

Because its an order from the Book!

https://youtu.be/7llLFbV97bs?t=9s

To be fair, in counties without a well developed pig farm industry, it could still be a bad call.

Like in the US it is fine, but in like Somalia? Eeeeeh

Did my excellent linkage just kill the chat.

yes, you should be charged with 1st degree murder

I mean, you're basically arguing that yours is the one true way and that everyone should conform.

(I'm back btw)

LOL; nice, Tim kinda proved my pro-Religion Point 😄

The way people's principles break down over particular topics is astounding.

(Just finally getting to watch Tim's video. I knew what his take was going to be on the headline. Pretty funny)

I argued the same points he did without seeing them. 😛

I've earned my avatar's beanie.