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Cake day: October 25th, 2022

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  • Without even watching I will immediately say that Real life lore is an actual admitted fascist who has a litany of deranged and bizarre videos. Many of his videos are also poorly researched, clickbait, use blatantly wrong information, and are just neo-liberal out the whazoo.

    After watching the first minute… He just compared the population of mainland Europe minus Russia, with Kazakhstan, and poses the question as to why Kazakhstan has a significantly smaller population despite both locations being the same relative size…

    Does it really take a genius to figure it out? Is his next video going to be why the population of Northern Africa is a quarter of Europe’s despite also being the same relative size?





  • For a serious answer, it creates a form of protectionism for Chinese internet service such as social media, websites, news sites, game services, and so on. Allowing more money to be maintained within the Chinese economy instead of that wealth being transferred to international companies.

    This has allowed China to avoid relying on mega conglomerate services and develop their own home grown alternatives to every sort of website and services you could possibly need.

    While this wouldn’t be possible for smaller nation like Cuba, or Vietnam to do because they lack the manpower, population, capital, and resources to maintain such a large base of home grown alternatives, China lacks none of those vital items, and thus it makes sense for them to develop their own.

    For people that criticize the Great Wall, ask them how the Western internet developed. Due to being the first on the scene, the American internet essentially developed in its own bubble and “firewall” by extension of having virtually no other competitors until the early 2000’s. This allowed conglomerates like Microsoft, Google, Apple, and so on to take off without threat from foreign competitors. Was it wrong for China to design a similar ecosystem to support their fledgling internet based economy?




  • The hilarious part is that of course China is going to have cheap, shoddily-made buildings, builders that try to skirt regulations, local administrative corruption, and so on. Every country has that, it is simply impossible to have everything be 100% perfect, as there is no utopia and never will be.

    The thing is, those things happen in China at absurdly lower rates then they do in places like the US, where oftentimes it’s legal or entirely unenforced. For every terrible building built by a corrupt company, there is an entire housing block of such buildings in the US.

    It’s like using a magnifying glass to find a ding in someone’s car as proof that their car is about to explode… when your own car is on fire.