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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Leland Yee I mostly remember for his "no violent video games for minors" law that was ditched by the Supreme Court (with Antonin Scalia writing the majority opinion, which stated that freedom of speech includes video games).
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For the love of god don't remind me about Trump's opposition to China, as it actually gives me some sort of feeling in support of the man. Our elites have treasonously sold the nation to China to the point where they get a say in how we elect our Presidents.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:12:38 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.![]()
I'm not voting for the man, his policies on everything else are appalling. But we need to get rid of this idea that closer relations with China are a good thing, especially when they involve selling our allies, our economy, and in the future our democracy, down the river.
Edit: Hell Trump is one of those elites that sold the nation to China. At least Clinton called them on their human rights record, and Sanders wants to take away their golden egg, trade relations with the US.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:17:38 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Meanwhile...in Jacks nightmares.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:18:29 PM by AngelusNox
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The sad thing is that at one point during summer camp my tent mate told me that I had been taking in my sleep. He said it was "something about China." For what it's worth I will never shoot anyone in the nuts
edited 25th Feb '16 1:18:55 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Jack, you're getting pointlessly histrionic again. China is not a danger to us; they don't want to be. They like things as they are with us. It's part of why they don't want us to interfere in local disputes, even though we probably are going to anyway because Japan is our ally.
It's really hard to take you seriously when every post you make about China is about how you're afraid they're gonna hurt us.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:20:10 PM by AceofSpades
Now, but in the future they will be. They know their system is an anomaly, and in order to garnet their security, they will work to undermine and bring down Democracy around the world. Countries always try to imitate the most powerful nation, and in the future that nation will be China.
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They do it in their own way, like how most countries are democracies because the British and then US hegemonies made it "hip" to be a democracy. Of course most follow the British model, because our system only works for us, and even then barely.
The CCP once sold the organs of religious dissenters on the black market. They passed GI Joe villain status a long time ago.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:31:05 PM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.Funny thing: doing that whole "imitation" thing is natural, and makes life better. Whereas isolation and uniqueness breaks empires, and regresses nations, as anthropological studies on Papua New Guinea islands can attest to. There, isolated communities regressed and lost knowledge and those with better access to their neighbors were more fruitful.
Why be afraid of'em?
Now, if they were zombie commie chinamen, with guns in space, I would be afraid, but this is not the case.
And the U.S thaught people how to torture dissenters and paid the governments for learning this so maybe the "but they are teh bad guys!" is a pretty silly argument
Did I just hear....JOINING CHAOS?!?!?!? UH OOOOOHHH.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:41:55 PM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesJack, what existing democracy has China managed to make less democratic? Because from where I'm standing all they've done is prevent a move towards democracy, not create any moves away from it.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

I think the China "warning" is more about "for the love of all that's holy don't vote in the guy who's going to torpedo all diplomatic relations do you have any idea how long it took to build what little we've got here?"
I mean seriously, Trump would likely be quite hostile to China. As much as he could, because apparently he thinks that's good politics.
Edit: The Leland Yee thing was reported a while ago, this is just the richly deserved pay off.
edited 25th Feb '16 1:06:25 PM by AceofSpades