Friend of mine was dating a neuroscience PhD in Syndey, Australia. When they met, he was near flat broke and moved in just to help defray the cost of rent.
A couple years later, he was approached by a Chinese recruiter that offered him a $2M signing bonus and a $1.5M salary to move to Tsinghua University and join their $10M/year neuroscience program. They literally don’t know what to do with all the money and mostly continue to live these modest lives with comically oversized bank accounts. He gets to play with cutting edge equipment alongside a sizeable staff. She takes care of a small house in the country and raises bunnies for fun.
The OP to me was framing it in a way that “China Bad”, and that sort of thought terminating rhetoric is what gets us into terrible situations in the first place.
Calling out that two western “bastions” of democracy like the US and UK are going through similar struggles right now, re-frames the comment to show how silly calling out China for this as if western countries don’t also have their flavor of the same thing, really is.
Every country has their problems. Saying China doesn’t let you say bad things about China so that’s why you shouldn’t live in a country that pays for your healthcare, ensures its people aren’t starving, has a great educational system, amazing public transportation, is investing heavily in STEM, and is paying a wild salary rate while you’re there; is just a silly comment because there’s a lot of countries that don’t let you do that now, with more popping up every day.
The UK has never been a bastion of democracy. Lmfao. They still have a house of lords for Christ’s sake.
is just a silly comment because there’s a lot of countries that don’t let you do that now, with more popping up every day.
It’s not a silly comment. You shouldn’t move to fascist countries, period, nor give them an edge. No one should support fascism. How is that hard to understand?
China for this as if western countries don’t also have their flavor of the same thing, really is.
while it is trending there in 2(two) of the “western” countries, china is there. Don’t support places that are fascist. Don’t move to places that are fascist. With democracy dead in the states, avoid it, don’t move there, don’t support it. Avoid buying products from fascist countries. Avoid buying their oil.
Friend of mine was dating a neuroscience PhD in Syndey, Australia. When they met, he was near flat broke and moved in just to help defray the cost of rent.
A couple years later, he was approached by a Chinese recruiter that offered him a $2M signing bonus and a $1.5M salary to move to Tsinghua University and join their $10M/year neuroscience program. They literally don’t know what to do with all the money and mostly continue to live these modest lives with comically oversized bank accounts. He gets to play with cutting edge equipment alongside a sizeable staff. She takes care of a small house in the country and raises bunnies for fun.
Whatever you do, don’t ask them to talk about the government haha.
Also true of the US and UK right now.
Kinda, I can say Trump is a child fucker and Xi sucks Pooh cock online, and I (or my family) won’t be thrown into a jail cell.
For now… at least.
Can’t say anything about freeing Palestine in the UK or you’ll get arrested though.
You can scream it into a paper bag, sure.
But good luck keeping your job as a host on The View or a special investigator at the FBI.
“hur durr your country also bad”
We can make fun of multiple authoritarian countries at once thank you. It dilutes the point to toss it in every single time with those specifics.
The OP to me was framing it in a way that “China Bad”, and that sort of thought terminating rhetoric is what gets us into terrible situations in the first place.
Calling out that two western “bastions” of democracy like the US and UK are going through similar struggles right now, re-frames the comment to show how silly calling out China for this as if western countries don’t also have their flavor of the same thing, really is.
Every country has their problems. Saying China doesn’t let you say bad things about China so that’s why you shouldn’t live in a country that pays for your healthcare, ensures its people aren’t starving, has a great educational system, amazing public transportation, is investing heavily in STEM, and is paying a wild salary rate while you’re there; is just a silly comment because there’s a lot of countries that don’t let you do that now, with more popping up every day.
The UK has never been a bastion of democracy. Lmfao. They still have a house of lords for Christ’s sake.
It’s not a silly comment. You shouldn’t move to fascist countries, period, nor give them an edge. No one should support fascism. How is that hard to understand?
while it is trending there in 2(two) of the “western” countries, china is there. Don’t support places that are fascist. Don’t move to places that are fascist. With democracy dead in the states, avoid it, don’t move there, don’t support it. Avoid buying products from fascist countries. Avoid buying their oil.
I don’t know what we’re arguing about, it feels like we’re on the same page as I agree with pretty much everything you just wrote.
With that said, anyone in a newly minted fascist country calling China bad, is hypocrisy.
It’s hypocrisy even if they’re standing against fascism in their own country?
and a Royal Pedophile.
Ah yes. Talent programs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Talents_Plan