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akfanta

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    Comment #41304794

    Western democracy is treated like a religion these days. You either adopt it or die. Seeing people claiming China should be destroyed because it's a totalitarian country is amusing…

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    Comment #30573686

    You don’t see any Russian propaganda probably because they were all filtered out by western media. Same probably goes the other way in Russia. Propaganda machine is definitely goin…

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    Comment #29928946

    > Mac are not friendly to a developer. And they never were. The only reason why developer use them is because they need to program on iOS and thus need XCode (that is a terrible ID…

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    Comment #29135562

    Politics are the modern day religions. You are either with the cult or you are the enemy. Really is a funny circle.

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    Comment #29033736

    > It has been a decline for a while now. What? Where did you get that information from? Their total units of sale is definitely not declining. And market share remains steady accor…

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    Comment #28572405

    Didn't know we are are Commerce News.

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    Comment #28150557

    I have been using this app for 9 years because of its polished UX. I don't even mind paying for subscription model because of it, but this is killing its top selling point for me. …

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    Comment #27945807

    > Chinese government is afraid of people getting smart and saying screw this totalitarianism You people can really spin anything China related to a conspiracy. The Cold War propaga…

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    Comment #25850063

    > like nothing has been going on Because nothing happened. So many westerners are so brainwashed on any China related topics that conspiracy theories are accepted as fact without a…

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    Comment #25212945

    What would Salesforce gain from this acquisition?

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    Comment #23835180

    "With tiktok and the chinese government's explicit approach of combining public & commercial interest..." You got to be kidding me for blaming the Chinese government for combining …

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    Comment #23640650

    I am pretty sure she was arrested for selling/profiting exotic sex content. Agree with it or not, selling pornography is illegal in China. I think her sentence has more to do with …

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    Comment #23633922

    > China is a great place to be if you've got the right connections This might be true for the majority of China, but for big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, no, connect…

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    Comment #22012751

    > Chinese citizens and migrants who didn't leave China for political reasons. According to whom?

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    Comment #22012739

    > People subscribe to overly simplistic thinking - if something is not perfect, it must be the worst. Sometimes I think this is a result of information explosion. People gets overw…

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    Comment #21577012

    You are being downvoted because you are talking nonsense. > Reddit is overrun with pro-PRC shills and trolls I challenge you to link one example in any popular post. My experience …

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    Comment #21448745

    > I tried to buy my $2.50 Old Spice deodorant in Shanghai. The price tag when translated to dollars was over $8. This particular case is likely because the usage of deodorant is no…

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    Comment #21448717

    > I only see Chinese netizens appear in huge angry voting brigades, spamming threads with proclamations, denunciations and flimsy claims. You will never see it anywhere on the inte…

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    Comment #21326429

    > He didn’t create a very valuable company. It’s deeply in the red (the opposite of what you are claiming). Unfortunately, in this day and time, sometimes company's value has very …

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    Comment #20932918

    not even remotely the same feature set, display quality and size. Garmin doesn't have magic batteries. It's all about trade off.

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    Comment #20879211

    > He was Cantonese What does that even mean? He's a dialect? Sun Yat-sen is widely regarded as the founding father of modern China(as apposed to Qing dynasty). This is beyond polit…

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    Comment #20176207

    "Unfortunately, we know that people are literally paid to post pro China activism on the internet." It really goes both ways. You don't see pro-government support from western medi…

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    Comment #19107313

    > I totally understand why big aircraft (A380, 747, etc) are disappearing commercially but I will miss them. Just curious, why do you think they are disappearing? I thought they st…

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    Comment #19106970

    Calling Tencent a Chinese censorship powerhouse is a bit of a stretch. Might as well call every Chinese IT company a censorship powerhouse because they are all censored by the Chin…

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    Comment #18939284

    > divvy, textual Neither of these are freeware?