Imagine the reverse scenario happening and how that'd play out
as far as my history knowledge goes china had historical troubles with all of their population being opiate addicts so this tracks. No I will not check how this came to be or how it shapes chinese politics to this day.
Zizek makes kind of the same point and I'd hate to go to bat for either of them but I think they're correct on that one. All the philantrophy is just bullshit anyways, smoke and mirrors. The only thing it serves to do is obfuscate the horrible shit
how is there nothing left, is there kids bikes made out of magnesium?
dude we got so many people named something like Jean-Wilhelm Prszkorky-och-Hapsburg. They're all fucking great at Excel. Obviously it is upon on us to administrate the worlds dealings.
Glad I checked the date on this which is "Saturday 13 June 2020 17:06 BST" because this is the type of thing Boris Johnson was saying completely regardless of whether he was a journalist, politician or ex-politician
I have to disagree with you on that one. It’s not really a mystery why a pro-China comment is getting downvoted on reddit.
Oh no I agree, my point here was that it isn't necessarily downvoted for the Urbanism thing but the China thing. I think the same post just generalizing Asia would've gone much different.
It's not an improvement over the previous meme but I take any chance I get to post this image
I don't exactly want to go to bat for /r/fuckcars here but the reply comments have 5 and 1 upvotes and the original comment could be downvoted for any number of reasons.
A problem /r/fuckcars constantly has is that it attracts entirely too many people who think it's called /r/fuckbaddrivers, /r/fuckeverybodyelsesescar, /r/fuck the people going for unnecessary starbucks run, blocking my way to my necessary burger king run and so on and so on.
That isn't to say OPs take is wrong. But for that you also have to consider that basically everyone who isn't some type of urbanist in the west only has worse oppinions than that about the topic.
It's a mess. The whole thing is a mess.
I don't think you should uncritically believe this story as is. Any actual analysis that's worthwhile and more than "LOL, LMAO!" here is probably going to need a comparatively deep understanding of accounting rules surrounding the LAFD and such and political dealings. Usual thing for this type of stuff is you donate old equipment and buy new shit, somebody might've just thrown a wrench in that last part or whatever.
It'll never stop being funny to me that the UK claims to have special relationship with the USA, a thing that nobody over there has ever heard about or cares.
It's like them thinking they're the nemesis, in modern EU terms, to Germany and France, who also do not care about this
Honestly I think there is a window of opportunity here where, if you accept (far) less than market rate, that is feasible, right now. Before they find out.