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The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by DangitBobby »

alavesto wrote: post #75
inquirerofsorts wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> would rather let the leadership grow old and senile than promote a competent person Sounds a tad familiar? The US just elected the oldest President ever, who has spent decades in government. Honestly confused by Americans pretending they have anything that different to what the Chinese do. Bushes, Clintons, it's like you've all harked back to royal lines while pretending it's something else. It's truly terrifying t…

+1. Biden and Trump both sounded so much more intelligent in their younger days; I don't understand why we insist on only allowing people to lead our country when they're at their worst. And despite billing himself as the alternate to the dynastical system, Trump quickly used the presidency as a vehicle for advancing his family's careers. Biden did the exact same thing as vice president - you can tell me what Hunter…

I've heard the Biden stuff is all smoke [1]. What's the part of the story that I'm missing? What was the corruption?

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-h...

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by andrekandre »

timwaagh wrote: post #73

So basically what it says is Xi is a non-traditional leader who hands all the positions to his friends and would rather let the leadership grow old and senile than promote a competent person, because old friends are not a threat.

> hands all the positions to his friends and would rather let the leadership grow old and senile than promote a competent person, because old friends are not a threat

not trying to be faceitious, but sounds like just about every office ive ever worked at....

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by justicezyx »

ghostcluster wrote: post #32
burnte wrote: post #26

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China isn't ignoring climate change, understands geopolitics, learns from it's mistakes, etc. The US is falling behind in all of those areas.

China isn't ignoring climate change in their rhetoric . What they are actually doing is building record amounts of coal power plants, right now, this year. https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insan... The US' greenhouse emissions peaked years ago and have been in steady decline. China is the #1 emitter, #1 coal consumer, and building record amounts of new coal domestically. And not just in China, b…

Well, us peaked because it’s a developed country.

You cannot require a developing country to reach peak at the same time as the developed one, can you?

Also, please consider the per capita number as well

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS768US768&hl=en...

Everyone deserve the good life enjoyed by anyone else. Unless China is 4x of us emissions, I would not consider them less responsible than the world leader.

Look at US track record in the past four years in climate control, and think about how US can lead instead of excusing for its own slack...

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by CapricornNoble »

DangitBobby wrote: post #81
alavesto wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+1. Biden and Trump both sounded so much more intelligent in their younger days; I don't understand why we insist on only allowing people to lead our country when they're at their worst. And despite billing himself as the alternate to the dynastical system, Trump quickly used the presidency as a vehicle for advancing his family's careers. Biden did the exact same thing as vice president - you can tell me what Hunter…

I've heard the Biden stuff is all smoke [1]. What's the part of the story that I'm missing? What was the corruption? 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-h...

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3896812/posts

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/10/22/bobuli...

Search on DDG for other statements from Tony Bobulinksi. He was one of Hunter Biden's business partners, and a former Navy officer (unlike Hunter, he didn't get kicked out of the Navy for drug abuse). Bottom line: Hunter's income stems almost entirely from foreign powers buying access to his father. Most dangerously, the Chinese.

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by DangitBobby »

CapricornNoble wrote: post #84
DangitBobby wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard the Biden stuff is all smoke [1]. What's the part of the story that I'm missing? What was the corruption? 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-h...

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3896812/posts https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/10/22/bobuli... Search on DDG for other statements from Tony Bobulinksi. He was one of Hunter Biden's business partners, and a former Navy officer (unlike Hunter, he didn't get kicked out of the Navy for drug abuse). Bottom line: Hunter's income stems almost entirely from foreign powers buying access to his father.…

I'm more interested in the evidence he says he has than his statement.

> I have extensive relevant records and communications and I intend to produce those items to both Committees in the immediate future.

Where is this?

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by CapricornNoble »

DangitBobby wrote: post #85
CapricornNoble wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3896812/posts https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/10/22/bobuli... Search on DDG for other statements from Tony Bobulinksi. He was one of Hunter Biden's business partners, and a former Navy officer (unlike Hunter, he didn't get kicked out of the Navy for drug abuse). Bottom line: Hunter's income stems almost entirely from foreign powers buying access to his father.…

I'm more interested in the evidence he says he has than his statement. > I have extensive relevant records and communications and I intend to produce those items to both Committees in the immediate future. Where is this?

Here's some of it: https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/the-biden-rat-year...

Strange that the Cathay Bank wire transfer document has the amount redacted, of all things.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-evidence-b...

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by gurkendoktor »

Supermancho wrote: post #56
woah wrote: post #7

Interesting that their map seems to include Taiwan, although it is marked "NA", and no representatives come from there

The US tells the world that it subscribes to a 1-China policy (taiwan and others are recognized as part of China in theory) but militarily defends it as an ally against China. Taiwan does not participate in the CCP directly.

The US only ambiguously "acknowledges" the One China Policy.

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by sudosysgen »

oh_sigh wrote: post #57
chrisco255 wrote: post #31

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Yeah we fought a big war over it 160 years ago. 600,000 people died.

I think it's kinda cute (but mostly sickening) that far left ideologues and far right ideologues can at least come together and agree that the Civil War was not actually about slavery (despite every fact contradicting that view).

I don't know anyone on the left that thinks that the Civil War wasn't about slavery. That doesn't mean that they think that it wasn't just about slavery - because it wasn't just about slavery, and even less just about the moral issues of slavery.

When people say that the US hasn't confronted its legacy of slavery and genocide, they mean things like personality cults of people that owned slaves, institutional racism - that persisted a hundred years after the civil war, not recognizing that there was a genocide of natives, and so on.

It's perfectly consistent to say that the Civil War was mainly about slavery (and, of course, also for economic reasons as an extension of that) and to say that the US still hasn't fully confronted its origins of slavery.

Also, there is still a lot of people in the US that are sympathetic to the Confederacy, even amongst the government - the Civil War didn't even go all the way.

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by pydry »

peteretep wrote: post #21
mdorazio wrote: post #19

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Worth noting is our own rather poor showing in elite politics in the US. Around 25% women in congress. And if you look at only Republicans it's under 9%. Yes, you read that correctly.

Something I’ve noticed about UK conservatism — and maybe it’s true for the US too — is that women and minorities are much better represented at the very top than at the MP/Congress level. The Tories have 25% female MPs, but are also responsible for both female PMs. Half of the Great Offices of State in the UK are currently occupied by minorities. And if you look at the historic willingness of the Tories to run ethnic…

Running a minority candidate who shares your politics is a good way of deflecting (or even co-opting) a lot of 'woke' criticism. As true in Thatcher's day as it is with the supreme court today.

I wonder if Biden isn't the same thing in reverse (an attempt to appeal to the curmudgeonly older white voters who are attracted to Trump with somebody who looks like them).

Re: The Makeup of the CCP Elite

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Post by [deleted] »

timwaagh wrote: post #73

So basically what it says is Xi is a non-traditional leader who hands all the positions to his friends and would rather let the leadership grow old and senile than promote a competent person, because old friends are not a threat.

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