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[Daywolf]

why why? Because they have been shooting shit towards Japan. This is purely provocative, and seems to be meriting some response, obviously.

Why the additional forces? Likely because of China and Russia's action over the past 24hrs. Is it an invasion force? meh no one knows at this point. Is it insurance for security? At least a minimum likelihood.

'Who is in control' conspiracy theories? IMO Trump. But some finger wagging towards Pence and even 0bama as a globalist shadow govt rises. Oh hell, they could have already swapped the real Trump and family with clones by now [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Then some calling Kushner the Antichrist and giving the orders before his ascension to ultimate power, though I highly doubt that. So yeah [insert your conspiracy theory here].

Hard to say at this point, unlike HRC's plan which began with blowing Russian jets out of the sky. You all didn't have a problem with that, now did you? That was a projected certainty. What this is is aggressive, but not purely hell bent on purposely starting a global shooting war.

[Baler]

I made a post about this when I was sober but I delete it.

Basically,.. NK is living in the dark ages. You got nothing to fear from them unless they decide to suicide nuke themselves.
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We have real countries to worry about.

[Lune]

Read some accounts of Westerners doing business in China, especially as it pertains to high-precision, advanced manufacturing. They have a culture of graft, swindle, and cutting corners that severely undermines their competitiveness in high-tech endeavors.

For example it's widely known that if you order steel from China with certain specifications (% magnesium, dimensions to the mm), it's a crapshoot what you'll actually get. California learned this when they ordered cheap Chinese steel for the new SF bay bridge and it was all barely usable or unusable. Tech companies that do successfully manufacture in China do so because they directly control the supply chain and oversee the production themselves, which obviously isn't scalable to an entire economy.

[maskedmelonpai]

they pretty good at terraforming though, ya know? more than nukes, i be worried bout them compromising the integrity of our continental shelf with 10 million tube divers and plastic buckets.

[Baler]

Originally Posted by maskedmelonpai [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

they pretty good at terraforming though, ya know? more than nukes, i be worried bout them compromising the integrity of our continental shelf with 10 million tube divers and plastic buckets.

Polluting our own planet won't stop us from populating space. But destroying ourselves before getting there will.

[maskedmelonpai]

Originally Posted by Baler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Polluting our own planet won't stop us from populating space. But destroying ourselves before getting there will.

i not talking about pollution... i mean they have 10 million tube divers swim down and chip away at our continental shelf 1 bucket at a time. i not sure how much shelf there is, but let's just say it's a lot, k? But here the thing, 10 million is a lotta buckets too. say they like 1cu ft, that 10 million cu ft or liek 370,000cu yd that they cut out of our shelf in one fell swoop. say it take them liek 10min to swim down and fill they buckets and swim back up. hat a production of 60million buckets or 2.2million cu yd per hour.

We KNOW china don't adhere to US federal employment guidelines even if they in US waters (not really sure where the shelf is, but it not matter it be too difficult to enforce anyway). so they liek probably do 12 hour days and spend another 2hr per day prepping on deck and stuff, mean they be chomping away at our shelf at a rate of 26.2 million cu yd per day. figure they probably work 6 days a week with no holidays except for liek maybe May Day or something, so that 312 working days a year, which equal 8.33 billion cu us per year! that is liek 1.5 cu MILES per year!

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Read some accounts of Westerners doing business in China, especially as it pertains to high-precision, advanced manufacturing. They have a culture of graft, swindle, and cutting corners that severely undermines their competitiveness in high-tech endeavors.

are you describing every business in a free market with no regulation? Recuse you are describing any business in a free market with no regulation.

Also if you want to talk about a culture of cutting corners and severely undermining competitors, holy shit welcome to the USA...

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by Ahldagor [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Nation building creates jobs. What's wrong with jobs?

If we wanted to create fake jobs we could do it by building a wall.

[Patriam1066]

Best way to defeat china is to mandate the seventh day Adventist faith under pain of death. They can't eat for 5 hours after a meal. Jesus this Easter please return and stop the fat people

Thanks and God bless,
Amen

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by mickmoranis [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also if you want to talk about a culture of cutting corners and severely undermining competitors, holy shit welcome to the USA...

accurate. has happened in the bio-tech industry too. vaccines for example contain adjuvants for no other reason than using less actual vaccine. pretty pathetic. You'd think a "public safety" product would be able to just present the federal gov with the corner-cut to manufacturing and say "pay us the difference or we will implement a change in manufacturing and produce a different sub-standard product". Sounds fair and reasonable. Congress would definitely authorize it. But they didn't even bother because its easier to make hatchet job vaccines and keep raising the price bilking medicaid and medicare, and with the adjuvant, the vaccine still works for the most part.

its foolish of Lune to criticize only China when we are the real dump.

should rename the country "assfucker" because thats essentially whats been going on the past 3-4 decades is just people lying cheating and stealing to get ahead, fucking all the ass they can. Reagan made a big mistake in the 1980's when he "legalized" assfucking in public opinion with that whole wallstreet fiasco. "Greed is good"? Probably the most underrated moment in modern history as far as cultural politic goes. The president told the people that being an assfucker was all good because....oh wait, he had no explanation. He stated it "Greed is good" without any real insightful remarks to go along with his obtuse statement.

Surprise surprise fats.