LaughingLion [any, any]

as soon as the israelis get audacity running on their computers theyll be releasing an album of nonpedophilia covers of rkelly songs

its not continuous. you stop and browse and so on

shrinking the countrys workforce while simultaneously destroying the economy through trade

honestly if the signature underneath this was harris, biden, obama or any of the other modern presidents it would be just as unsurprising and on par for course

I don’t think we can directly compare. Russia adapted because of China. China filled the gap. Russia cannot reciprocate in this way.

Look, you can be wrong. It’s okay.

The 2% GDP number includes all trade with the USA. Is around 2.8%. So you are wrong. I am including that.

Trade with the USA, imports and exports, is around 10% of China’s trade. That percentage has been trending downwards in recent years.

The articles that discuss this issue are all presenting it as how it affects each economy. If we want to understand that we MUST consider the percentage of the GDP that this trade is for us to have any inkling on the bigger national picture. Looking at trade alone tells us nothing. It’s missing key information we need to evaluate this impact. Without presenting this number, you are misleading people as seen in any other thread around the internet that discusses this topic. We can literally see it on a mass scale (not just one person making an off the cuff comment) in real time.

Of course China doesn’t want that 2% deduction in their GDP. I never claimed otherwise. You are once again presenting a talking as if it came out my mouth. Just shove your hand up my ass and puppet my mouth already.

I’m a millennial college grad who has never made more than $50k per year.

I never claimed that China is attempting to solely rely on their own internal economy. I also don’t think they are making the same mistake as Trump. See, Trump went into a trade war with the entire fucking world. China did not. This is an important distinction because China has the entire fucking world to do trade with. This isn’t “possibly” why China is doing OBOR, it is it’s explicitly stated reason as well as the obvious reason.

Why you would come in here and present these ideas as if perhaps I may have pushed them is strange to me because I did not. In fact, nobody would because they are foolish, ignorant ideas. Much like your insistence that we must isolate the trade portion of a country’s economy when we consider how a trade war might affect that economy.

I think a portion of what was lost to the USA can be diverted but certainly not all of it.

I think it’s misleading to only look at this in terms of their trade exclusively. This is a country of 1.4 BILLION people. The vast majority of their GDP, their economic activity, is internal.

Let’s break this down to something simpler. Let’s say I’m an artist and produce paintings. I sell 997. I give my wife 2. I give my mom 1. Wow, my wife is taking 66% of all my donated paintings. She’s such a big source of paintings I give away for free. Isn’t this a major issue for me? Not really. It’s 0.2% of the paintings I produce. It’s a drop in the bucket of my total painting production.

Now, 2% of a countries GDP is a big deal. If any sizeable country loses 2% of their GDP in the matter of a month that causes a load of pain. That can mean businesses closing, people being laid off, rents being unpaid, and so on. It’s an issue any government under any system will have to deal with.

The west is painting the loss of trade to the USA as some economic nuke being set off in China because they are using the numbers you present. Those numbers are fine. They only show part of the picture. When you start considering the Chinese economy as a whole you realize that while this trade war is a pain point for them it is absolutely one that is manageable for them. That’s why I point this out in regards to their total GDP.

i wouldnt say its nothing, the us is a significant portion of exports for china but as a total of their gdp its a small amount. a country with 1.4 billion people is going to have a ton of internal economic activity.

the harm will be managed very diligently by the chinese. they want to show the world that they cant be bullied and that they can insulate their producers internally. its about sending a message of stability and reliability for them. theyll just pour money on it if they have to becuase socialism with chinese characteristics has no issues with that when needed

as a former catholic i truly am on board with excommunication of global leaders who are heinous monsters like biden or vance. the modern church doesn’t do it nearly enough

another one i like and is kind of funny but the whole “yeah sex is fine and good but if you are unmarried you MUST use protection or it is a sin” i like because its just ridiculous enough in its contradictions to be a perfect religious rule but also it promotes good safe practices and public health even if a bit problematic

jack dapipi

reminder that trade with the usa is only 2% of chinas total GDP, so this would be a gross 1% change assuming no other countries pick up the slack and that seems to be trending that way

My father was in Vietnam in the Airforce. Was exposed directly to agent orange. One of the issues that is well known is that it causes deformities in the urinary tract of babies. I was born with such deformities. Kidney issues, chronic stones, and more. I’ve had a camera shoved up my cock more times than I care to remember (and they aren’t small, let me tell you!).

Thing is, even though my particular issues are exactly those covered by the VA in babies they are only covered if your mother was exposed. The US government does not cover any medical issues if your father was exposed and does not recognize them as being caused by agent orange at all.

So at no point in my life has the US government ever paid a cent for any treatment, tests, medication, or time off I’ve needed for my birth deformities even though other worldwide organizations would recognize these as caused by them.

In short, death to Amerikkka.

the casual bohemian lifestyle he lived lent itself to playing smash 100%

carrying a wallet with some spending money so you have something to give homeless people and the occasional desperate mugger is praxis