This morning, China's Foreign Ministry released a video explaining their position on the Tariffs imposed on that country by the Globalist Oligarchs currently in charge of our Government. The video is a little over two minutes long: unlike those produced by our White House it doesn't feature Golden Statues of the Chinese President built atop mass-graves; nor gloating footage of police raids conducted to sports-themed taunt-songs. It's title is Never Kneel Down, and is worth a view; although Congressmen and employees of our Most Free Speech-Friendly Administration in History, may have to use public computers since access to Chinese sites are blocked and, at any rate, interactions with Chinese nationals are likely highly monitored by our Secret Police.
Given that Postmodern Americans are in the habit of kneeling down to authority figures on a regular basis, the title alone would probably discourage much investigation. Statements from the video like "Bowing to a bully is like drinking poison to quench thirst; it only deepens the crisis," and "History has proven that compromise won't yield mercy. Kneeling only invites more bullying," and "All bullies are really a paper tiger," can't help but be viewed by today's effete and servile Americans with anything but contempt.
In earlier times, Americans also had a reputation for standing up to bullies; but that was then, this is now. In a sociopolitical climate where the likes of Elon Musk and Andrew Tate are held up as national icons; pastors preach that empathy and social justice are sins; and politicians run on slogans like "Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings," ruthless injustice and selfish opportunism are bound be the highest cultural values.For its part, China has taken proactive measures to deal with the economic assault: things more essential than lecturing the population on pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. For example, there is a major initiative by Chinese companies to facilitate stalled exports back into the Chinese retail market, banks are relaxing liquidity requirements to bring cash into the economy, and tax breaks are proposed to boost consumer spending. Meanwhile, the Government is successfully opening new markets to bypass the International Bully.
China has immense material reserves enabling it to transition away from unstable economies like the US. In other words, unlike the Neocons, they actually planned for such contingencies. Meanwhile, all that our financial geniuses can do is hunt for scapegoats while the American economy is about to undergo its second major wealth-transfer since the Scamdemic.
This is what happens when a whole political movement has no deeper plans or strategy than taking power and owning the Libtards. China claims that even without American imports altogether, the reserves that they have stockpiled is sufficient to meet any short-term shortages. Does anyone suppose that we have?
I doubt that to most Americans it will matter too much as long as the pot farms are producing and the media provides sufficient distraction, it won't matter if independent farms go down; Bill Gates will pick up the slack and we can all get American-made ersatz beef and coffee. It won't matter if independent trucking is finally finished off: Jeff Bezos is expanding into domestic shipping. Just accept the Great Reset as the New Normal; which we're certain will be sold by the 'Conservative' media as based and Red-Pilled.
I bet that there are millions of Chinese would give much to be able to sit all day in front of a computer screen instead of back breaking labor, or sitting all day killing their hands making sneakers.
ReplyDeleteThere are probably millions of Americans who are also glad that Chinese workers are doing that instead of them. Such textile industry as we have over here is dependent on immigrant labor, and that's going away too. Back during the Maoist era all the Chinese wore Chairman Mao suits and sandals. That may be what we all wear in the Smart Cities.
DeleteWhen I was a kid, we were taught in school how superior our System was to the Communist model. The fact that Communist countries are surpassing us doesn't mean that Communism is better; it should be a warning to us all that our System isn't functioning like it's supposed to.
There are also millions of American college graduates who already gave much working towards a career and have ended up sitting in cubicles for minimum wage, or doing back-breaking labor in Amazon warehouses or the local McDonald's. At least in China skills get used productively.
DeleteThat's very true. Our so-called 'educational system' is little more than a scam; and many after graduating figure out how badly they've been used by the system. As for Chinese attitudes in contrast:
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What happened to Sun Weidong isn't a unique experience. I think that you're right that our culture holds education in contempt. The billionaire lady wrestler running the Department of Education is proof of that.
DeleteOh, but the interests of the banking cartels are going to be protected. Today, Linda McMahon brought back the Bush Policy of aggressively collecting debts owed by all of the former students who got fleeced by Academia Inc. and are unemployed or under-employed. We're well on our way to Bush's dream of creating a Permanent Underclass.
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