China is the shit (olympics thread)

[TagMor]

I can't really even begin to comment on on how senseless and ignorant these statements are.

All I was pointing out in my post was teh growing national pride of the Chinese despite the relative oppression of their society.. Similiar to the despotist environment of Nazi Germany or to a lesser extent today's U.S.

[genocidal]

ITT: Senseless and baseless historical comparisons

All I was pointing out in my post was teh growing national pride of the Chinese despite the relative oppression of their society.. Similiar to the despotist environment of Nazi Germany or to a lesser extent today's U.S.

What, do people in Australia hate their country or something?

[Cops]

What, do people in Australia hate their country or something?

Hot girls, awesome accents, nice beaches, and quite possibly the best starting point in Risk ... that is heaven if I've ever heard of one.

[paradise!]

Everytime paradise tries to argue in favour of my stance, I die a little inside.
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this is just priceless. you really are that stupid. What makes my argument weak? i just don't understand your reasoning.

lol relly who gives a fuk the only people i repsct less than chinese are gays and negros ROFL

amazing how you can say all this and none of it is edited, probably given a thumbs up by ph. I really hope people like you can just develop cancer one day and just die. Another thing that is amazing, is how truly stupid you are..."LOL RLLY FUK PPL lo respctss!"...and so apparently you didn't learn anything from grammar 101.

Oh shit! Paradise paid attention during his governments class today!

1st, congratulations on posting about 6 times in this thead alone btw (i can see how you spend your free time).
2nd, I love how you probably didn't know a single thing i mentioned.
3rd, congrats on make broad generalizations about people in high school.
4th, our government class focuses on capitalism and communism, we would never study a system utilized in Africa.
oh and 5th, I'm going out on a limb here but i'm about 95% sure your next response will not respond to anything i have just stated.:wub: B)

(i'm a little high right now so take this however you want.)

[TagMor]

What, do people in Australia hate their country or something?

Australia is similair to the U.S in terms of "fabricated patriotism".. although with a population of 20 million it's not really worth mentioning in relation to global socio-political trends.
Something interesting though is that the traditional allegiance between the U.S and Australia is waning in light of China's rise on the global stage..
An indication of this would be the exportation of the f-22 raptor to Australia, which was originally going to be allowed with the pro-U.S Howard government, but denied since the pro-China Rudd government took office..

[Cops]

Tagmor: with the rise of international threats and out right aggression from countries like Russia there has been a push to re-militarize. Australia and Canada are similar but also very different, but I for one believe that without a professional army we're useless. What's the political structure like in Australia? We have three main parties but it's always been traditionally one vs the other.

[TagMor]

technically it's a three-party system (Labour, Liberal and National) However the Libs and Nationals have been in coalition for a long time... So it is practically a two-party house.
There has also been a balance-of-power for quite awhile and has seen the major parties seek support from minor parties and independents..
It is also very unregulated and allows extreme left and right-wing parties to be heard.. although it doesnt matter with the controlled media and "fabricated patriotism".:fear:

[a2m+]

itt: people of chinese origin try to boast about how great china is and everyone else talks about how china is shitty

[Zerzera]

I mainly agree with Epi, you should look at what they're coming from. And even then you are only measuring them by your own moral, your own perspective, and what makes you so divine?

Inside China there's been many great achievements that couldn't have happened in other countries, could give them credit for that as you would give credit to the achievements in your country.

It was almost painful to read some of you people judging China on pollution while you are a typical consumer of their industry.
So your industry is capable of using newer technology and therefor could pollute less, your country wouldn't agree on cutting down pollution. You are only using new technology to produce more, not to decrease pollution.
Are your companies then willing to share that technology so poor China doesn't have to use the "cheats" you used to get to the level you are now?

[Zerzera]

Wow, I am currently watching a interview with Kishore Mahbubani about China vs the Western world. It's exactly about what's being discussed in this thread. And the double standard most of us Western people have towards China.

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/200805...-the-west.html

[Vatican Assassin]

I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet but the opening ceremony firework display was done by a computer graphics team. If you remember it, there were supposedly giant firework footprints going from the imperial palace to the stadium. Well, a company spent a year producing it and ya, totally fake. Anyways, here's a link to CNN, 'cuz it looked so real tyhat I would have a hard time believing it was CGI too. The interesting thing is, NBC and its comentators knew it was fake and tried to sell it to us. Swapping in a pretty little chinese girl to sing the national anthem is one thing, making it look like they have super firework capabilities is another. Probably wouldn't be hard to air-brush out pollution, too.

Edit: Forgot the link here ya go: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/12/fake.fireworks.ap/

[Troll King]

It seems that Australia pulled a fast one too at Sydney:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/new...v=ap&type=lgns

Apparently, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performance at the opening ceremony was prerecorded - by members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

[Vatican Assassin]

It seems that Australia pulled a fast one too at Sydney:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/new...v=ap&type=lgns

Apparently, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra performance at the opening ceremony was prerecorded - by members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

I thought that was pretty obvious.

[Galleleo]

The fireworks were real, some of what was seen on tv was CGI, BUT, those fireworks were also performed during the actual ceremony.

Those footprints for instance, were actually done during the ceremony, but what you could see on tv was CGI.

[Troll King]

I thought that was pretty obvious.

To whom?