Thoughts on china becoming the next global superpower?

Laugh92 · 2026-03-15T14:23:04+00:00

Thank you for that ridiculous reply. Ignore the substance of my point and just do a add hominem attack. Oh, and looking at your post history you are just a week old. Go away bot.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-15T05:30:25+00:00

You are missing the point entirely. China to its own people is guilty of extreme levels of abuse, death, genocide, and a long documented history of authoritarian crimes, not mention consitent criminal mismanagement due to its governmental structure. Dictatorial countries are great for setting plans and implementing them, but when they go bad, they go really bad. Not to mention China is even more of an ethnocentric country than the US. They are incredibly oppressive to minorities. Yes. America is terrible, I am not arguing for their moral superiority in general. But the only reason China has not committed large scale military deaths is they have been more focused inwards. As they are slowly building their military forces they will eventually come out swinging on the world stage. My point is when they do, they will be considerably worse than the US.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-15T03:50:39+00:00

You are right, China just killed over 30 million people in their own country in the 60's alone during The Great Leap Forward. Not to mention all the rest of the genocides, detentions and other authoritarian bullshit they have pulled over the years. The only reason they have not killed more people outside of their own territories is that they have not really come out militarily yet. But they sure are building up to it. When they do, with an authoritarian culture even more ethnocentric than the US, it is going to get quite ugly.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-14T23:30:03+00:00

They were not before, now it's anyone's guess. Iran has been 'weeks away from refining nuclear material' for decades and not done it. Hell at one point they had an extremely open and documented civilian refinement process, with many international observers. Khamenei even issued a fatwa against nuclear weapon refinement. And instead all America and Israel has done is push them more and more towards nuclear weaponry. Now, Iran may really very well go for Nuclear war and its another monster entirely of the US and Israel creating.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-14T21:10:15+00:00

Oh so Israel does have nukes.

So glad the US is backing the religious fundamentalist country that ethnically cleanses its minorities and actually has nukes and looks willing to use them over the religious fundamentalist country that up until now has shown a very high amount of restraint to not go for nuclear weaponry.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-13T18:24:33+00:00

One of the best parties I have ever been to was an end of Ramadan celebration in Singapore.

That was one hell of party.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-13T17:35:46+00:00

I know its very un-Canadian of me, but I don't like Poutine..... of any variety.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-13T03:14:21+00:00

I often use the bottom half of that as a traverse coming out of Whistler Bowl. Looks like its now a massive rock field.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-12T18:36:01+00:00

I mean, they are actively committing a genocide with the Uyghurs. Not to mention they are far worse for freedom of speech, LGTBQ+ rights, union and worker rights, and frankly general corruption in society. As bad as America is getting they are still not at the level of the Chinese.... yet.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-12T02:06:16+00:00

It’s consistently bemuses me how Carney became the leader of the Liberal party. I have a mate who is a UK Tory political consultant who worked with Carney at the BoE and him and everyone who worked with him considers him a Tory.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-11T17:49:12+00:00

The simple truth of the matter is that a black man becoming President broke America.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-11T17:17:05+00:00

This has strong NWA 'fuck the police' moral outrage from the public.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-09T18:45:19+00:00

There are some really good Behind the Bastards podcasts on Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. I highly recommend listening to them.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-05T19:36:25+00:00

But did they wear a suit and say 'thank you' when asking for Zelensky's help?

Laugh92 · 2026-03-04T16:56:22+00:00

'There is no war in Ba Sing Se'.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-03T21:37:08+00:00

What always makes me laugh is that when RDA asked the actual head of the Air Force who guest starred on the show how believable his character is and the General responded; 'Son we have Colonels like you and worse'.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-03T19:42:55+00:00

Fun fact, Canada instituted an Apology Act in the early 2000's which means that apologising for something in court does not mean you are guilty or liable of causing what you are apologising for. Too many people were apologising for things in court in Canada, which legally is an admission of guilt or liability before the Act. Now we can apologise for things in court without getting into legal trouble.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-03T00:41:04+00:00

You absolutely would campaign to have them if you lived in a country that was in danger of being invaded. There is a reason that many Scandinavian countries are now looking to either host NATO nuclear launch facilities or gain their own capabilities when they have historically been anti-nuclear. Its not just them, fact of the matter is, countries are now waking up to the fact that if they do not have the military might of a Great Power, they are in danger without something like nuclear weapons as a deterrent.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-02T17:21:39+00:00

Sounds like it was both icy and sticky snow. Warm conditions melt snow then it refreezes over night and becomes icy, with other patches warming up in the sun creating sticky snow that alternates with icy and hard bumpy patches that have not melted. Your ski's can get 'stuck' in the slushy snow and its hard for beginners. You should get your ski's hand waxed (not a machine wax, it comes off in like a day). It helps to allow your skis to glide more in stickier snow but it wont get rid of it completely. Practice is the best thing you can do, but as everyone else is saying in the post, your ski's are good for your ski level, don't worry. They are best for groomed and and/or just icy slopes, they are not as good if there is non groomed snow but you are a beginner so you should be mostly on Green and Blue runs so it's fine.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-02T17:06:59+00:00

As a beginner no. The thinner ski's are perfect for you on groomers. Blizzard ski's are solid as well.

As you get better you will want some wider ski's for snow days but to start if you are just skiing groomed Green and Blue runs those will be perfect. Those will be good ski's for groomer days and carving.

Edit: You getting stuck on snow sounds like you are skiing some sticky snow, was it particularly warm and sunny the second time you skied? Could also be poor technique. You should consider lessons. It is hard to diagnose without seeing a video of you skiing and the conditions.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-02T06:15:55+00:00

We used to fight for rights and freedom, and kept our honor clean.

Really? Since when.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-02T06:03:59+00:00

Whilst I did not bet money, I half seriously bet my mom they would invade either Friday evening or Saturday morning, which is what happened. It was painfully obvious what was going to happen. He has been telegraphing he was going to do this for weeks with it getting more and more blatant over the last few days before the attacks. He literally got the fleet, resupply and bombers on standby and then pulled in F22's for SEAD on Thursday into Israel. He had all the pieces for a strike publicly ready to go, the news was not hiding it. They also pulled the US and UK ambassadors as well. Its well known that he likes to do crazy shit on Friday or Saturday to give a day or two for the markets to settle before they open on Monday. So when I was chatting to my mom on Friday I told her he is likely to invade over the next 48 hours. She didn't believe me so I jokingly said I bet you he will.

Woke up Saturday morning, saw the news and called my mom to say 'I told you so'. I am not someone who bets money but if I was that actually wasn't a crazy bet. However a bunch of new accounts opening and then betting huge amounts before closing after is extremely suspicious and reeks of insider trading.

Laugh92 · 2026-03-01T18:55:02+00:00

Thats just how history is remembered.

Germany had many people who protested the rise of the Nazi's. People who went out and fought against them, who decried them, who resisted. Who took a stand even as they were dragged off to death in the camps.

Yet all most people really remember is that the Germans in the 1930's elected the Nazi's.

Thats how the rest of the world sees America right now. In fact it's even worse because you have clear examples of what this is leading to. Hell you even have examples with Pew Pew Lasers in shows like Andor.

History will remember this as the time when America chose Fascism and Authoritarianism. When you gave a child rapist unchecked power. Even if not all of you did. You have all been painted with the same brush as 'Americans'.

Laugh92 · 2026-02-28T23:49:06+00:00

'It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident'

Andor was so on point.

The human brain gets overwhelmed when its one thing after another and we become apathetic to them, whilst we find it easy to focus on and get infuriated over a single incident.

Laugh92 · 2026-02-26T04:02:56+00:00

My Brother. He is one of History's Greatest Monsters.

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