containership traffic through the strait fell by 67% and tanker traffic has dropped by about 50%, according to Windward, a maritime-intelligence company.

OMG, I didn’t even catch that they said it was ineffective and then said that traffic has dropped out nearly 50%.

Nothing to see here folks. We’ve only had to drastically reroute all of our ships. But, truly, nothing to see here.

Damn that copium is strong.

Thank you, comrade!

God damn, Thank you for putting that boneheaded lib in this place.

Western libs are all confidence and no intelligence. We are the most propagandized people on the planet, and most people are so uncomfortable with the word “propaganda” that they refuse to even acknowledge its existence.

At the beginning of this conflict, I was a western ib all the same and though I didn’t speak about it online, I supported Ukraine. It took a lot of keeping my mouth shut and listening, and learning history, and just not being so over confident, to finally come to the understanding that the West is causing this problem, not trying to solve it.

Lame.ee is the fucking worst.

Thank you for being willing to speak out and being the voice of reason.

That quote is so relevant every time a Western politician opens their stupid mouths about China.

Westoids literally think it’s Lord of the Rings there! They took the orc comments too seriously.

Remember boys and girls amd non-binaries, both sides of the American political spectrum will say or do anything to get into power. Once there, they will abandon all previous statements and do whatever the fuck they want.

Yeah, when I saw their cheapest car was $10,000 and that would get raised to like 22 grand. I’m thinking that most people would probably still take that over a Model 3 haha

Based of course

I’m sure your cherry-picked website can find all those people who were picked up by unmarked vehicles during the chaos of 2020.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-use-unmarked-vehicles-to-grab-protesters-in-portland

Some transparency they have…

Ah yes, just proof positive that if you are any mainstream news media, you have to be influenced by the government.

No media attention for independents. Can’t criticize Gaza. Can’t criticize Biden.

At this point, I don’t know if I can trust a media company that actually makes money. Very sad.

It’s amazing when you listen to what the people want, you don’t have to violently beat them.

(Edit. To clarify, I actually liked the article for the most part. I just found some problems with his philosophy lower in the article.)

Okay, the guy goes pretty much full revisionist by the end of that article, but I think most of what he said is sound in terms of facts. His philosophy and political ideology is not exactly correct, though.

He tries to compare communism to fascism and says that communism failed because it ignored merchants. It all sounds like someone who read a couple of paragraphs of a description of what communism was by a western source, but never looked into it further (He has actually read a little more than that. He at least mentions Deng and quotes him as well. His arguments just smell revisionist.). I bet this person just believes that communism is authoritarian but without CEOs.

I always got to keep in mind that China has four and a quarter times as many people as the US. This still blows them out of the water. It ain’t even fucking close.

I’m not near my sources right now, But I also try to keep in mind that China consistently beats its deadlines and the United States consistently misses them when it comes to, well, anything really, but specifically climate change for sure.

China is using so much energy and still growing, that they’re not gonna be carbon neutral for a while still, but at this rate they’re gonna blow the pants off of the United States. I bet these numbers are in the report, but unfortunately I don’t have time to skim 168 pages.

Thanks for the reference Comrade!

Sorry, you have to admit that we get a lot of trolls coming in like that. At any rate, that comment was on the edge of trolling or being serious, and I wasn’t sure. I assumed the worst. I’ll take my response down.

My more honest response is this: EIther one. I still think Cali won’t get it done before Vietnam will. It seems like costs always go up for no real reason, and negotiations are always a barrier, regardeless of location. Frankly with the hyperloop derailing HSR in california (Pun intended) so easily, I can see some other reason popping up, even for a realtively “easy” rail build.

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I’m guessing that by the time they’re done, California high-speed rail will still not be completed haha.

Well fuck instead of denying it, now they’re just embracing it.

Hopefully history will remember this.

You can read the other responses. They have references.

You’ll be reminded of this when China’s GDP is officially twice Americas.

Ah yes, as a response to intelligent analysis, here is a meme.

The height of politics online… 14 year old boys yelling “nuh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”…

Ding ding ding, correct. If being factual and sounding “russoboo” is the same thing, that is a sign. I hope they come to understand what biases they have.