"the most responsibly run economy on the planet right now"

BWAaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, you're serious?

Do you have any idea what the debt load is of the provincial governments? Do you even know that provinces and other lower levels of the Chinese government are taxing their constituents months, sometimes years in advance to try to maintain solvency?

Do you know that the statistics on things like the expansion of electrical power usage do not line up in any even remotely sane way with the CCP's claims of GDP growth and many economists believe that their rate of growth is now the same as the stagnant West?

Do you know anything about the economic reality in China at any level above shit you make up to promote your pet theories?

I'm not sure how that's supposed to mean anything... you do realize that the USN makes the PLAN look like a handful of plastic boats in a kid's bathtub right? Compare fleet compositions someday. We have so many carriers we can't even field them all, and the PLAN just barely manages to field one, which has never even seen combat.

The PLA and PLAAF are sizable, formidable forces, and a land war with China would be a nightmare, but the PLAN is a joke, at least to the US. To the small navies of its neighbors, it's serious business, but then they all ultimately depend on US intervention for defense anyway. SEATO4EVAR

As a historian, I listen to a lot of music as a matter of curiosity, and I have some real Nazi music (as in actual propaganda songs from the 1930s) in the same folder as other jingoistic things like Soviet propaganda songs from the same period and various national anthems including Hatikvah. So this makes me the world's first Zionist Nazi Communist.

Do you know the difference between a summary and an article?

Nowhere in the article is Gothenburg called the capital of Sweden nor is it the capital. Perhaps the submitter is suffering from Gothenburg Syndrome.

You sound like the kind of person for whom the Google Glass is always half empty.

Europeans' English is always so amusing. "Operating theatre" like everybody is having their spleen taken out in an old timey lecture hall surrounded by tiers of murmuring onlookers at a university. The 19th century called and they want their conventions back.

What you're failing to see is that if you spend decades adapting to a world of sounds, having that yanked away will fuck you up. Most deafness is either congenital or progressive, so it's either all you know or something you adapted to. If you look at cases of people who are suddenly deaf, you'll find similar problems adapting.

By the same token, people who were deaf who through new surgical methods are made to be able to hear, actually have a very hard time adapting to it. We who can hear take for granted the period in infancy when we develop the mental capacity to reflexively filter out background noises and such. People who were deaf lack the automatic mental controls, and in a sense, can't stop hearing, which makes it hard for them to focus on specific sounds (and hard to sleep). It's so bad that some even have the surgery reversed and voluntarily go back to being deaf because to them it's better than a sense of hearing that they can't control.

You have a lot less to fear from the yuppie with Google Glass than the lech with a secret pen camera, or button-hole camera, or shoe camera, or whatever they sell these days.

That's hypocritical as fuck for a place that actually encourages people to instagram their food.

You can get STDs for free, and human trafficking occurs plenty regardless of prostitution laws. There would be lot less beating (and to a lesser degree, trafficking) if prostitution weren't illegal such that its practitioners are unable to report real crimes committed against them to the police.

To paraphrase George Carlin, it's nonsense that something is illegal to sell that you can legally give away for free.

You are splitting hairs

"I would be happy to kill you personally and watch you bleed out. I won't do that, because I fear the consequences."

The only reason he says he wouldn't kill someone who disagreed with his viewpoint is because of the consequences. If he thought he would get away with it, he is saying he would.

At a certain point I realized that folks with a different viewpoint than mine aren't usually out to do me harm and are not evil people but simply have a different viewpoint. The vitriol becomes tiresome to read...

See the flaw there is that you probably won't be capable of handling all those hookers at that age.

You couldn't syllogize your way out of a wet paper bag. The funny thing is you're so dumb you don't even realize you're digging yourself a deeper hole and making yourself look even dumber. I don't often make this claim because it's way over-used and usually without good cause, but christ, you're one of the best examples of Dunning-Kruger I've seen in months.