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Well yeah, but fewer people are easier to feed regardless. Works a bit like that with wealth, or so it seems it would to me.

I mentioned it helped. I didn't say it was why.

 

He said "addressing" which does not mean "succeeded at doing."

If China put together a plan to entirely end poverty in 1,000 years... that'd be "addressing it."

 

Sounds like a great place to emulate....

 

Yea, and remember this one?

 

True, VD, but I think it is safe to say that emulation doesn't have to be an all or nothing proposition. That said, a Presidential candidate should not be highfiving China at all.

 

good lord, I'm very certain no one is calling on looking at Tiananmen square for guidance

 

Yeah, and Sanders specifically did address their authoritarian practices as a preface, but saying "China is doing some good stuff...." is a challenging way to start a conversation.

 

The growing list of people ready to speak glowingly about both military and economic enemies (and that is what they are) is very, very odd to me.

Is it just recent, or has it been like this for a while?

 

I am not sure of the equivalence..

Bernie - China is Great

Bernie - US Sucks.

 

I think China is just a bizarre situation. We are addicted to $4 t-shirts yet don't like the way they do business or are expanding militarily, particularly with making all these artificial islands and claiming sea space as theirs now.

Post Soviet world has been hard for us to navigate, i think.

 

We need a clear and established boogeyman to measure against.

 

I have been saying that for years now. I think it is why we have turned on each other like a pack of wild dogs.

 

Cyber high five

 

Just musing on the abuse of powers by government, not really making more of a comment than that, because "well our abuses are fewer" is a Stalinesque comment.

I think it has been said better in Hong Kong thread: China wants a placated authoritarian system with minimal freedoms.

That we want more freedoms is enough for me. But we still got some authoritarian issues ourselves

 

Canada.

 

Renew Manifest Destiny and take over the Amazon region.

Who would have ever thought canned air from Spaceballs would be a thing.

 

seems like an odd thing to praise then

 

addressing poverty is a strange thing to praise?

uh, okay.

 

according to float they are just making a plan to do it.

 

and ironically for bernie, what got them out of extreme poverty was capitalism.