they are content in their position

they dont mind oppression

@Tonight at 11 - DOOM people in HK are

Silly

Don’t rock the boat.

HK is tiny and doesn;t matter

in the grand scheme of things

And what ideological suppositions?

HK is extremely important to China lelwat

HK was run by the UK for a few generations. Their culture is different now.

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the party controls that country. they think long term. we can't think till next week

I honestly dunno what level would wake up the Chinese to overthrow their rulers.

The US can only think 4 years ahead.

very easy to sow dissent and pad the pockets of western politicians

This is not quite true

but to some degree it unfortunatley is true

The lingering depression builds up and breaks out eventually

Even for docile peoples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ej2BFBCbo

and they are sitting on an untold amount of USD

it really depends how bad it gets

dude

More a function of time

ppl don;t just revold every time there is a depression. lol

Not just intensity

One would hope.. but the spirit mighta been bred out of them.

they never had spirit to begin with

are you aware of their famous philosophies?

Yes they did.. at least in ancient history.

Historically, even those kinds of people can rise up

one and all devised to keep the peasants in line

If they start starving, and dying in the millions, they may, *may* overthrow their government.
But they’ll just replace it with yet another form of despotism that promises bread.

just hoading the USD, waiting to the day when they flood the market with all that inflation from 20 yrs of quantive easing

you think confuscianist chinks were anything other than a slave to their nobles?

theyve always been like that

Not in a *timely* manner

content to lay down and be kicked

But eventually

We have a much smaller world tho

And exposure to other cultures