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81  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Which US presidential candidate is the lesser evil for BTC? on: November 27, 2019, 08:03:40 AM
Undoubtedly Andrew Yang is the number one pro-bitcoin candidate for 2020 presidential elections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang
Though his chances may be less even among the democratic, he'd be a voice of pro-crypto lobby in the presidential debate.
And he is accepting donations in bitcoin.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/08/27/andrew-yang-2020-us-presidential-election-issue/

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/47382/2020-us-presidential-hopeful-andrew-yang-details-his-plan-to-regulate-crypto-at-a-national-level

https://cointelegraph.com/news/andrew-yangs-pac-accepting-donations-in-btc-via-lightning-network

Can't agree more.

And considering his UBI policy...It could be carried out as intented benefitting most people in US, otherwise it could deal a heavy blow to US dollars which will benefit BTC. A good bet I'd say.
82  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Your thoughts about Greta Thunberg on: November 27, 2019, 01:07:45 AM
Some Indians on twitter found from a photo that she doesn't eat bread crust.
Their vision are quite sharp.

I'd say it is hypocritical that one who wastes food claims herself a fighter for ecosystem.
83  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Help I came home from school and my parents are gone - Chinese reeducation camps on: November 21, 2019, 08:59:40 AM
Reading through the article, I just get a feeling that the CCP is trying to brainwash the detainees in the camps.
84  Other / Politics & Society / Re: South Park Band in China + NBA pandering to China + Labron James on: October 18, 2019, 08:18:35 AM

What would happen to the Chinese people if their government was destroyed?  The government that brought them to where they are as .a country today? What would it be replaced with?


History showed one Chinese govt overthrown by violence, a worse one would be established.
The Chinese Commies were shouting freedom and democracy as hell back in 1940s. Many commies died fighting for freedom and democracy until their last breath literally.
And one couldn't say what those Commies claimed were all fake. The mainland Chinese govt controlled by nationalists back in 1940s was indeed corrupted and brutal. There was neither freedom nor democracy under such a dark regime. And that regime on mainland China was crashed by a civil war.
Once the revolution succeed, the winner CCP who claim the power as a prize would not share it to people. Thus the revolution failed at the same time.

History repeated in Iran in 1979 after the Shahanshah's regime was overthrown.
85  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kim Jong Un’s rode a horse to send out a message to people. on: October 18, 2019, 07:56:58 AM
Well, does anybody have some sympathy for the horse?
I feel damn sorry for the horse to carry such a fat ass big bone.
86  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Kim Jong Un’s rode a horse to send out a message to people. on: October 18, 2019, 07:51:52 AM
I feel so guilty of helping to deprive those poor people of food.  We need to end all sanctions and allow the north korean people access to the global economy.  Punishing people because their leaders are bad is a double blow. 

But Russia and China don't fulfill or even care those sanctions proposed by the US at all.
You are not a friend of the US. Well, I think that is fine.
But NK is neither friend of the US, nor Russia or China. Then I think NK should be the one to blame.
87  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The ultimate weapon of radical feminists in India. Article 375. on: October 11, 2019, 08:59:23 AM
Dude, don't be so surprised. Everything is possible in India.


WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
--from the very beggining in preamble of Constitution of India.

Well, when I saw that first time, I can't help saying WTF Huh
88  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What to do about people who believe that stealing is ok on: October 10, 2019, 03:29:43 AM
The solution to theft in most of the world is to discourage it through shame and punishment. But some parts of the world do not really see it as wrong. There is no point in shaming and while it may be technically against the law, it is not really enforced because it's "not that bad".

In Ukraine many people think that stealing from rich is normal. To steal something from rich guy or store is normal. It follows from  marxist theory (communists, socialists) in which "capitalists" already stole from you (without it they wouldn't be rich) so it normal to take from them what "really" deserves to you.

In some point this is true in reality of all post USSR region, where oligarchs in most really have stolen from other people.  


But shouldn't robbery even be ok in the Cossack tradition?
89  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 800,000 Californians To Lose Power After Midnight on: October 10, 2019, 03:21:14 AM
Lucky that my cousins chose to live in TX years ago.
90  Other / Politics & Society / Re: China is getting a lesson in the "Streisand Effect" on: October 10, 2019, 02:51:44 AM
China is a very fervently nationalist people. I think it is important to make the distinction between the peoples of China, the Nation of China, and the CCP which is largely responsible for most of the abhorrent crimes coming out of the nation. The CCP is not so much popular in China among the people as it is feared. It is essentially a mafia, and that makes them dangerous to oppose in public, creating lots of lip service and public support where it may not actually exist in the minds of the people. I don't think the people of China deserve to suffer, they have already suffered greatly under the CCP, but the CCP needs to be destroyed if China is going to enter the modern era with the support of the rest of the world.

Some of the crimes are actually welcomed by the majority of Chinese, for example the re-eduction camps in Xinjiang. Some Chinese even think the CCP is such a retard that those camps should be set up much earlier before 2014 to prevent several attacks such as the one happened in Kunming Station.By making conflicts,stirring nationalism and censorship CCP is gaining popularity from majority of Chinese inside. However stirring nationalism is like playing fire, they may get burnt in the end.

Besides,some of the crimes are hated by Chinese not for the reason westerners think, for example extracting organs from executed criminals. This is hated because the govt or some related organizations take away all the income by reselling them and most Chinese think the income should go to the victims and their families while the whole process should be transparent. Most Chinese don't care about the human rights of a confirmed murder.
91  Other / Politics & Society / Re: China is getting a lesson in the "Streisand Effect" on: October 10, 2019, 02:15:18 AM
I can confirm Winnie the Pooh(维尼熊 in Chinese) isn't banned in China at least not on taobao(Copycat of ebay in China)
However strings like bitcoin(比特币 in Chinese) and team Rocket(火箭队 in Chinese) are banned on taobao FYI.
92  Other / Politics & Society / Editor-in-Chief of HKFP asked his followers to confront Toby Guu. on: September 29, 2019, 04:16:52 AM
https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/1176316993919545344

The reason is the latter endangered him. I guess it was done by revealing the other side of some HK protestors.

Toby Guu's youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj3HeX7DsZZsexH02u_73Iw

I think this Canadian can't say it is funny any more after receiving quite a few death threats.
93  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 9/11 terror attacks on: September 18, 2019, 02:13:50 AM
Dude, not a third option?

I want to choose stupidity if there is.

Don't forget that it was the USA&China who helped those jihadists in Afghanistan in 1980s to fight USSR.
They just thought their enemy's enemy must be their friends at that time. How stupid it was.
And some of those jihadists formed the predecessor of Al-Qaeda which launched the 9/11 attacks later.

Besides, China didn't play better than USA either in this case. Its Xinjiang province next to Afghanistan has been under severe infiltration of radical islamists since 1980s. Now they have to use extreme or you could say inhuman methods such as re-education camps to brainwash the muslims (a ccp version brainwash vs islamic brainwash competiton) to correct their own mistakes.
94  Other / Politics & Society / Re: U.S Sues Edward Snowden and You'd be Surprised to Know Why on: September 18, 2019, 12:40:18 AM
Not surprised considering the rape charge used against Julian Assange.
95  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Sick or mainstream media crying racism for everything on: September 17, 2019, 02:02:47 AM
We need more immigration. Let them work at McDonalds and Burger
King, etc.  The rest of us can get the better paying jobs.

Cool

Their jobs at McDonalds and BurgerKing might be wiped out by automatic machines in the near future.
Robots endure much more than immigrants.

BTW: Watched American Factory days ago. Those Chinese workers work damn so harder than US ones thanks to the low labour right protection in China. However, their hard work is futile. Automatic machines fuck them all in the end.
96  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Will Replace Gold! Here's Why... on: September 17, 2019, 01:54:22 AM
I believe it will in the end.
However it won't in a near future.

Notice this, gold could have some 2nd layer networks built upon which may solve those inconveniences of physical gold.
But there is a cripple point that none of those networks could be pegged to physical gold by code or I should say a decentralised method.

On the other hand, we could build 2nd layer pegged with bitcoin by code (Lightning for example).
We can also build an alternative 2nd layer pegged with bitcoin by builder's credibility (Bitpay for example).The latter one is just like gold's 2nd layer.

Which of these two kinds is more popular? If the answer is the latter one, then bitcoin won't replace gold at all.
97  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is Global Warming Real? on: September 17, 2019, 01:42:55 AM
I think it is real and inevitable.

But it seems too arrogant to contribute the major cause to ourselves.
The earth had multiple times of global warming and freezing during geological history.

And the major greenhouse gas seems to be water vapor other than carbon dioxide (though the latter one forms the major part of man-made).
98  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Interesting Graffiti in Sheung Wan Hong Kong on: September 15, 2019, 02:32:58 PM
A communist regime being accused to be capitalist, hilarious.  Grin

Whoever made that graffiti, I wonder how he would have felt about capitalism had he/she lived during the Great Leap Forward.

I think the poster knows better than most westerner as he or she knows about the change of China since 1979 and 1989.

If you don't understand, I recommend you to watch some documentary films.
The People's Republic of Capitalism by BBC would be the perfect one.

Know your enemy before you fight it.
99  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [2019-09-10] CNBC’s Ran NeuNer Nails One of Crypto’s Biggest Flaws on: September 12, 2019, 09:26:20 AM
If a lay person just goes to Bitpay and Coinbase using their custodian service then the explanation of bitcoin to him are totally nothing.
 
After being fucked by those centralised 3rd parties, he may even claim what you said about Bitcoin are totally lies.
100  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Interesting Graffiti in Sheung Wan Hong Kong on: September 12, 2019, 08:25:23 AM
I guess the post is an anarcho-syndicalist or anarcho-socialist.
But he or she can't be an anarcho-capitalist.

same bullshit, different wrapper

true anarchy means leaving everyone alone to do their thing, whatever way you (or someone else) chooses to do it. Then we look at what works, what doesn't, and make our choices again (or keep them the same Wink )

But,is there really a thing called true anarchy?
Should I leave the defination alone to ppl who participate it?

BTW: Are you an anarchist? If you are, maybe you do have some right to define it...to some degree. And I am not currently so I just quoted definations made by others.
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