Yes exactly this!

Don’t forget the weapons!

OK I just won’t vote at all then 🤷

Genocide is definitely being funded by the US. We gives billions in aid to Israel every yeah, no strings attached

They’re citizens. They can’t be deported

My eyes glazed over before I finished the first paragraph

I don’t really understand your response. Of course I know why it’s that way. The only way I can see to change it is widespread refusal to vote

How’s that different from any other presidential race in the last 30 years?

Plays well in Australia 🤷

They’ll be forcibly conscripted to do labor for free

Mr. F!

All Cops are Cunts

Better?

Exactly!

Finally, someone who can clean my dirty boots with his tongue

Humans will exist. We will live in the sea and we will have flippers. Our brains will be smaller, but we will eat lots of fish.

He’s actually a nice enough guy, but he has a rose-colored glasses when it comes to China and the CPC. As someone who worked at China Daily, I assumed he works for state media! He said he doesn’t but he hoped to go to China someday.

Given how often he posts, I’m a little concerned about his mental health, but maybe this is what keeps him sane. Better than shooting people in a mall, that’s for sure!

I’d actually like to meet the guy and have a cup of coffee

You basically elaborated and confirmed what I said in my comment.

CPC is quite happy to have cars. Cities are all designed to accommodate cars first. Everything is now built to the scale of cars. It’s similar to the US, although an initial observation may not notice because there are no miles of strip malls or highway exits full of fast food restaurants.

Inside China Daily HQ, there are old issues posted on the walls. One photo struck me, as a new person in China. It was a mob of people on bicycles. It looked like a school of mackerel or a Where’s Wally illustration. The entire frame was full of bicycle commuters.

I asked around and learned that until the 1990s, owning a bicycle was considered a sign of middle-class respectability The entire workforce was riding to the office on bicycles.

The CPC, for whatever reason, allowed cars to dictate city planning and replaced that bike-centric society.

Many people still commute via bicycle and/or moped, and I’d would say that Chinese bicycle lanes are second to none, but as someone who commuted by bicycle in Shanghai, bikes are secondary to cars in both priority and prestige. Also, the bicycle lanes are a total free-for-all, subjecting “the poors” to various dangers that car drivers never have to deal with.

Chinese people love cars and aspire to car ownership, and the CPC encourages this through its city plans and development priorities.

All that said, if there is a spike in oil prices or some other situation that prohibits car travel, the average Chinese person has more and better options than the average US person. Moreover, should the CPC decide tomorrow to outlaw personal car ownership, people would not be totally stranded

China has the same problem… However, China is better poised to unilaterally get rid of cars if it was desired

What a fkn dork