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It's been my assertion for a while now that most people can't handle the level of power judges have.

Once you can order people to die, serve life in prison, have all their property seized, ect you eventually go mad with power or ego and start thinking you're a God.

I don't know how to fix this either.
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The Chinese have a huge complex about the Korean War as mentioned earlier since it's the closest thing they can point to as a victory in their recent military history. It makes it doubly hilarious because all wumao discourse about their military prowess revolves around China automatically winning any future Pacific War 2.0 against America because they have more manufacturing and that's all that matters. Yet when they crow about 'victory' in Korea despite the fact that Communist China in 1950 had no manufacturing compared to America just getting off it's WW2 high, all of a sudden none of that matters and it all came down to the indomitable bugman spirit and the willingness to eat bitterness.
And most Americans don’t even know the Korean War happened.
 
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China has 23 million tonnes of shipyard capacity compared to 100,000 tonnes in the USA.
Isn't basically all of that meant for civilian shipping? China has to keep pumping out ships in order to keep it's foot on the back of world shipping. Do most of their shipyards even have capability to build or service Navy vessels?
 
Do most of their shipyards even have capability to build or service Navy vessels?
No. Shipping freighters are quite literally giant floating tubs, the easiest thing to build relative to tonnage. They need an engine, control center, and a crew quarters for maybe 20 people max. Then basic navigation. They're basically giant uhauls.
 
Sam Harris would rather have Biden in a coma and a committee run the country.
This was de facto the plan all along for Biden AND Kamala. A figurehead while the Uniparty elites, unelected and unaccountable, ran things. In fact, one of the reasons they're losing their shit so hard at Trump firing the polyps feasting on the intestinal wall of the government is that even with a Republican in charge, things aren't supposed to actually change because the polyps are supposed to be making the actual decisions.

So this isn't so much Sammy boy being a bit out of line as much as Sammy boy saying the quiet part out loud.
 
No. Shipping freighters are quite literally giant floating tubs, the easiest thing to build relative to tonnage. They need an engine, control center, and a crew quarters for maybe 20 people max. Then basic navigation. They're basically giant uhauls.
China implemented a policy back in 2015 that requires a lot of ships to be built up to a higher standard so they can be converted to military use if needed.
 
What the hell is wrong with this guy's face? It's like a scowl has been pressed permanently into his forehead. What causes this
I have always fucking hated sam harris. he's the worst kind of gen xer. I went through phases where i liked everyone in the intellectual dark web, and frankly i still like things about all of them, but this guy was the one exception.
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His face is extremely punchable as you pointed out, but his angle on the world is just so obnoxiously "SCCCCIIIIIEEEEEEEEENCE!!!" i can't fucking stand it.
 
Did @WelperHelper99 see this recent China Uncensored video.
They are a rag. My Chinese racism is beyond mortal comprehension, but I understand propaganda. Half of China is dirt poor, and the other half is advanced enough to consider competitive to its American counterpart. The new USSR if you will. Nixons one and only mistake.
 
Can that channel be objective if their whole gimmick is about how bad China is?
Occasionally Chris can be objective. But its mostly how bad china is. Like nigga, are you seriously trying to say China is the good guy? I don't know how you can be objective about China. They're not good in the slightest. And they do more bad than good.
 
China implemented a policy back in 2015 that requires a lot of ships to be built up to a higher standard so they can be converted to military use if needed.
I'm not convinced that this was anything more than a propaganda move. The fact is there's really nothing important freighters can be converted into military wise other than transports, which have their uses in war, but that can be said of any ship. Electronic survelliance and helicopter platforms maybe, but you only need so many of those.

They're not going to serve any combat roles unless you build the from the ground up for that purpose.
 
I have always fucking hated sam harris. he's the worst kind of gen xer. I went through phases where i liked everyone in the intellectual dark web, and frankly i still like things about all of them, but this guy was the one exception.
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His face is extremely punchable as you pointed out, but his angle on the world is just so obnoxiously "SCCCCIIIIIEEEEEEEEENCE!!!" i can't fucking stand it.
Sam Harris had extremely wealthy parents and his mother had connections to a large publisher which allowed him to get his soy ramblings published despite them basically being a bunch of r/atheism posts stitched together.

He's basically the ultimate reddit success story.
 
This response comes off like you thought he was accusing you of using AI to write your post, but I think he was suggesting AI as a solution to the power-crazy judge problem you described.
Oh, if that's the case I apologize. I've been accused of using AI before because I guess if you're not using tons of slang and incorrect grammar than you must be using AI.
 
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