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Poorly-constructed apartment pods that will soon collapse under their own weight. Not that it matters; because I doubt most rural Chinese would even be able to afford the rubble, considering how inflated the real estate market in China has become. Which is a problem from the perspective of a...

They were indeed both "evil sacks of shit", but Elon Musk isn't guilty of anything even approaching their crimes. The only thing he's guilty of, by your own admission, is the same sort of thing almost everyone in the business world (not to mention the media, academia, and politics) have also...

No, I am well aware that he is no saint; more a temporary ally of convenience. I mean, the guy is a snake oil salesman at heart (just look at the debacle that was the Hyperloop); we just lucked into the establishment tweaking his ego to the point where it forces him to oppose them at least to...

If all he cared about was money, he would have never put himself in a position where he had to buy Twitter in the first place. This is not to say that I think he is my friend, I just think Musk's ego is more important to him than money; which is a motivator too many discount when it comes to...

A surprisingly large number of martial arts turn out to be completely useless when used against anything other than another practitioner of same discipline.

What's funny about that is the fact that Han Chinese don't have much of a culture anymore; not since Mao did his level best to destroy as much of it as he could, in order to replace it all with blind worship of/obedience to himself the state. Most of what's left only survives because of those...

Stupidity and arrogance are a dangerous combination.

A few never will; the ones who bought into the propaganda and can't imagine such a powerful nation just collapsing practically overnight. They'll be caught completely by surprise, and most likely end up utterly ruined when all their investments in China (both financially and politically)...

Because they've bribed almost everyone in a position to help them do so; even when it's at the cost of their own countries' wellbeing. The problem for the CCP now is that they're running out of things to bribe influential foreigners with.

Which is going to be a huge shock to everyone who sees calling other people bad names as their path to ultimate power. Like a Yugioh protagonist when someone pulls a gun on him, instead of a deck of cards.

Are they? Because it seems the powers that be are dead set on protecting the Palestinians from the consequences of their own actions. Honestly, I feel like there's going to be a point where the old, more brutal ways of doing things become the standard again.

I don't disagree; I just think there was a chance they could have become something better if we had offered them an olive branch and compromised after the Soviet Union fell. But I guess we'll never know now.

Because as I understand it, the Chinese and Saudi Arabians always hated us, and wanted to destroy America and the West in general; while the Russian people actually thought positively of the United States for a time after the fall of the Soviet Union, and were entertaining the idea of becoming...

It's called compromise. And besides; we gave special privileges to countries like China and Saudi Arabia. Why not Russia?

Whether or not that was always the case is the issue; though at this point the argument is mostly academic, as the current reality is as you describe. There is no making friends with what Russia has become.

For good reason; but that doesn't mean we had to say yes. We've refused to help people before in the name of realpolitik.

We've tolerated worse from our "allies"; so there's no reason we couldn't have at least tried to bury the hatchet (beyond lingering fear and animosity), instead of taking the opportunity to sharpen it.

Neither were we; we kept expanding NATO as if the Cold War never ended, and so the Russians understood that it never had.

By they time Putin took over, it was already too late; if we were going to try and make them our ally, Boris Yeltsin was our best shot.

Mao and his successors have done everything they could to turn the Chinese people into psychopaths; and sadly, they mostly succeeded. Because not only are most of them racist bigots, they're also, for the most part, all thieves and con artists who will sink to any low for a few extra cents.