China shitting bricks: stockpiles US chips amid fears of worsening trade relations. Imports of US computer chips risen strongly in the past three years, as the risk of a “silicon curtain” descending looms over tech firms.

Chipit · 2019-12-06T09:22:51+00:00

What? No!! DDG was my search of choice. Jesus, there's nowhere safe.

Chipit · 2019-12-06T22:46:57+00:00

This is what happens when the powerful feel thwarted by the little people. Inchoate rage. We saw it widescale when we elected Trump. Not surprising Pedo hair-smelling Biden did it too.

Chipit · 2019-12-06T06:29:44+00:00

So...about Trudeau's racism and your racism for supporting him...are you just going to spout Trump Derangement Syndrome all over the place? We've got to get the janitor in here.

Chipit · 2019-12-05T14:07:44+00:00

This is just propaganda to make you hate Iran. Let's see some of these bills, if they exist.

Chipit · 2019-12-05T05:53:32+00:00

It's not a competition. Who even mentioned Trump? If you're in favor of Trudeau, you're in favor of a sexual assaulter and a racist. What does that make you? A person who hurls playground insults at a completely different political figure? What kind of comment is "his hair is stupid"? Do you racist supporters even listen to yourselves?

Chipit · 2019-12-05T00:12:08+00:00

We're not here to be liked.

The rest of NATO has been free riding on Americans and sneering at us for having a military. It's a complete farce and high time it came to a screeching halt.

Trudeau is a racist who wore blackface in public. Multiple times. How he didn't get voted out for this I've no idea. Canadians are OK with racists.

Chipit · 2019-12-05T14:22:28+00:00

"I'm an addict with warrants riding a bike with a gun. Look, cops who are searching my ex's car. I'ma keep going and pull a gun on them."

Chipit · 2019-12-04T11:10:43+00:00

ORANGE MAN BAD

Chipit · 2019-12-02T04:07:51+00:00

You're in denial of reality, kid. Capitalism has produced the best, wealthiest society ever. In human history. Things are better today than they have ever been, literally. Even for the poor. Kings of old didn't live as well as today's welfare recipients.

But don't despair, you shouldn't worry about the future of the US. As a commie your entire thing is destroying the US. You must encourage things to get worse, much worse, only then will things be bad enough to justify the revolution you desire. Jeez, do I have to lecture you on your own philosophy? You don't even believe in countries!

Chipit · 2019-12-02T05:43:54+00:00

How can you even say that? We are fabulously wealthy, even our poor. I think you have been too long inside an echo chamber.

Either that, or you compare America not to what exists, but to some fantasy that exists only in your head. Then, when we obviously can't fulfill that, because it's a fantasy, you shit on us for it.

It's like the North pole; every other direction is south. You're at the Left pole, every other direction is right.

Chipit · 2019-12-03T05:27:27+00:00

OK boomer.

Chipit · 2019-12-02T08:42:30+00:00

Explain how our poor are worse off than people in the past. Try to use facts and citations to back up your assertions.

They're not, they're better off, fabulously better off. Consider the washing machine's effect on women. Or microwave dinners. It's not even funny the labor savings that has enabled women to be more productive and the families richer.

Chipit · 2019-12-02T05:45:29+00:00

One of the driving forces of the Left today is the destruction of the West. You can't build a social justice society in a capitalist one. You have to totally destroy the capitalist society first, then and only then can you start a fair and just society. You can't reform capitalism from within.

Chipit · 2019-12-01T04:19:57+00:00

It'll never have any appeal other than to a tiny sect of outcasts. I'd like saidit to be bigger than that. A thumb in the eye of reddit. No censorship.

Chipit · 2019-11-30T09:27:06+00:00

The problem is the lack of normie content, like cat videos and landscape photos. Reddit gets the middle of the road while saidit gets the fringes. It's a problem all alternative websites have. I don't know how to get over it.

Chipit · 2019-11-29T06:13:02+00:00

It's the fucked up cultures in "good" countries that manufacture mentally ill people.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T05:05:34+00:00

The delicious irony is that the real losers here are women. They fought like tigers to implement hard feminist ideas, and now an even further left faction is using this tyranny they created against them. Oh, it's such a great case of poetic justice.

Women used to be the winners of every women's competition. But now, they won't even have that any more. Worse, they're required to stand on the sideline and cheer, by the rules they created and passed into bylaw. Anyone who deviates is called a bigot and removed. Normal women have only feminists to blame.

Chipit · 2019-11-29T10:29:08+00:00

That photo always disturbed me for some reason. It makes me hate hippies.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T08:05:12+00:00

Oh, really? Hah! Didn't know you were into Chinese. For work, or personal enrichment?

Try the Chinese Grammar Wiki, it's tremendously helpful. https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar Chinese grammar does get more difficult at the end, when you have to sound like an educated person. But the dirty little secret is that most Chinese people aren't that good at Chinese. A lot of them suck at it, frankly. That's what happens when most of your population didn't make it past 9th grade.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T08:41:23+00:00

It helps a lot if you don't think of them as separate "tones" but rather completely different phonemes. That's how Chinese think of it, they would never confuse a second tone word with a fourth tone one.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T08:09:21+00:00

Yeah, John Pasden used to be the man, back in the blog era. But nobody goes for Classical Chinese except bonafide scholars. And the idioms are greatly overrated. It's just something that certain learners focus on for their "bling" value. They just want to look clever, which you already get plenty of being able to put two words together in Chinese.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T04:23:43+00:00

Which has absolutely nothing to do with protectionism of Airbus, like they've already been convicted of doing by the WTO. Supporting your domestic industries: only bad when America does it.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T02:34:28+00:00

Once you handwave away the characters (that's a big handwave!) Chinese isn't actually that difficult. It's SVO and most characters have a single pronunciation. Japanese grammar is devilishly difficult and every character may have 5 pronunciations. However there are only 2000 characters in Japanese and 10,000 in Chinese.

Chipit · 2019-11-27T19:03:30+00:00

So, your thesis is that China today is so profoundly different than it's ever been? And has no danger of breaking apart whatsoever?

Jesus you're ignorant. Modern China is only 70 years removed from a civil war and 43 years removed from its last revolution. The CPC enthusiastically flogs hatred of Japan to keep the country together. They constantly keep the propaganda humming lest provinces try to keep their own money to spend on themselves.

Chipit · 2019-11-28T02:30:38+00:00

No, why? Those people are deplorable and deserve no sympathy. They will happily destroy valuable things. They are uncivilized.

Chipit · 2019-11-27T14:38:17+00:00

So...do you think that "civilization" murdered those babies so they could mummify them? If so I've got a big surprise for you...

Chipit · 2019-11-27T20:39:17+00:00

Keep important artifacts out of the hands of deplorables. Put them in reach of intellectuals who can make use of them. I certainly hope you're not anti-intellectual.

Chipit · 2019-11-27T19:01:05+00:00

You mean where these relics could be studied by intelligent scholars? Some ISIS would just destroy these things anyway. In our countries they can be kept safe. Give them back, why? What are they going to do with them? Are they even asking for them?

Chipit · 2019-11-27T08:28:25+00:00

The USA has never had a history of breaking apart and reforming. China? Has.

Chipit · 2019-11-26T18:48:45+00:00

You're not familiar with Chinese history. The provinces do not wish to be ruled by the center that extracts their wealth for use on imperial goals. China isn't a nation, it's an empire. Left to its own devices it would break up into parts, as has happened many times before.

Chipit · 2019-11-27T03:51:10+00:00

Whataboutism. We were talking about China.

Chipit · 2019-11-26T09:26:09+00:00

Not a word, of course, about how the trade war is hitting China hard. In fact, this story is curiously absent from any news source. I wonder why?

According to the highly respected China Law Blog, "China’s economy is hurting right now."

I am writing about this now because China today is feeling a lot like Russia in the 1990s. I am getting the sense that many Chinese companies are pessimistic about their futures and they are acting accordingly. Our China lawyers are seeing evidence of this everywhere.

We have also seen a massive increase in what I call early IP theft, which also stems from Chinese companies’ lack of confidence in their future.

Chinese companies have become wary of their foreign buyers leaving them for tariff-free manufacturing outside China

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/how-to-conduct-business-with-chinese-companies-that-see-a-dark-future.html

Chipit · 2019-11-26T13:13:57+00:00

Spoiler: the questioner is Muslim.

Chipit · 2019-11-26T05:39:49+00:00

Leftists exploiting a tragedy for political power.

How shocking.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T20:27:52+00:00

Sure, journalists are great people with superior morals. Whatever you say.

So, did you hear about how ABC and CBS conspired to bury the Epstein story? They had it 3 years ago. Dozens of children were raped so that they could keep the story quiet. It would still be buried today except for a whistle-blower. One who, instead of being rewarded, was fired.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T15:03:35+00:00

Lol. Our media is corrupt and Trump is right to call them out on it. They protected Epstein and fired the whistle-blower who told us they protected him.

In any sane world, that whistle-blower would be a national hero. The mainstream media is the enemy of the American people. They regularly lie and attempt to tell us biased stories that harm our interests.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T02:12:59+00:00

But journalists are specially trained. They are society's best people (according to journalists). There have been proposals for laws that would give them special rights and make them citizens above everyone else. For them to be revealed to be worse than they used to be is highly revealing.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T11:52:40+00:00

You must have missed the gigantic outcry against bloggers. Suddenly anyone with a keyboard could report news, and journalists interpreted it as a threat. Remember when the blog Little Green Footballs broke the Dan Rather fake news story? The animated .gif heard 'round the world? His fake memo was exposed by rewriting it in MS Word and playing it back and forth with the document that CBS released. They were identical. MS Word didn't exist in the 70s. A major journalist, a highly credible and respected news anchor, got caught in a lie that they were accustomed to getting away with. It was a huge embarrassment, and instead of resolving to be better, they resolved to declare war on bloggers.

Then we were all treated to an entertaining cavalcade of people coming out with bizarre theories of obscure typewriters in the 70s that could possibly type the memo, when it was an obvious forgery. Journalists didn't take this as a warning to not publish fake news, they took it as an assault. One of them famously called bloggers "idiots in their pajamas", leading to the establishment of Pajamas Media, a thorn in the side of fake news until this day.

Seriously, this was a big deal and I'm surprised you're not aware of it.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T05:19:01+00:00

Journalists and their fellow travelers certainly do.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T02:13:22+00:00

If anyone knew who that was.

Chipit · 2019-11-23T17:11:25+00:00

Who, Tulsi? She's the only pro-American candidate on either side other than Trump.

She's getting completely smeared in the media because she thinks endless wars for profit are a bad idea.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T06:54:28+00:00

Google does more silencing of others than anyone else in our society.

Oh the irony of them protesting when someone does it back to them.

Chipit · 2019-11-23T10:10:36+00:00

Lol come on. People said he was going to put gays in extermination camps by now. How is it we still have a free press? Obama was the one who locked up whistle-blowers, remember?

OH, it's from Salon.com. I see. The short bus of websites.

Chipit · 2019-11-24T02:09:43+00:00

Oh come on, that was when she was a kid. Gimme a break.

Other than Trump, she's the only pro-American candidate on either side. That's good enough.

Chipit · 2019-11-23T03:29:45+00:00

This is so filthy and disgusting.

This is the future the Democrats have for America. Single party, no meaningful input by the people, and discredited social theories pursued to their logical ends.

Vote, people. It's the only defense we have against this destruction of everything we Americans hold dear.

Chipit · 2019-11-23T07:34:41+00:00

California is a one-party state. San Francisco is not just left but far left. We all see how they govern. Medieval diseases thought banished long ago have resurfaced due to filth on the streets. And still they would rather have that than admit they're wrong and change their failed policies.

Chipit · 2019-11-23T16:48:53+00:00

No wonder you got banned from Reddit. You are a real-live crazy person.

Chipit · 2019-11-23T07:39:08+00:00

She's a southerner and unapologetically so, which is going to make a lot of bigots angry.

She sings country music. You know how widely country music is hated among a much wider set of people?

Chipit · 2019-11-23T07:37:02+00:00

Ignore her or not, she's still a very influential person and when she speaks, people listen. Pretending she's irrelevant is whistling past the graveyard.

Chipit · 2019-11-22T11:05:07+00:00

You're right, Obama was pretty damn bad. He killed more children then all other Nobel Prize winners combined.

Chipit · 2019-11-22T03:13:25+00:00

Top comment:

Okay this has happened so much and so often, I have to speak up about this. Hope this doesn't come off as virtue signalling, clout chasing, or what-the-fuck-ever.

Male feminists, and SJW's embrace of male feminists, are the single, express reason why I'm no longer an SJW. I'm still progressive and support progressive causes, but I have nothing to do with nor want anything to do with social justice activism as such.

Here's the truth of the matter, based on my experience with the SJW camp. They know who's a sex pest and abuser, and who's not. In fact, they tend to welcome sex pests and abusers into their ranks, and actively cover for them for as long as they can or until it becomes more convenient and profitable to "MeToo" them. This isn't a case of mere stupidity or ideological blindness, it's active malice towards each other and those outside their cliques and enclaves.

The personal experience I had, which broke me away from that camp, was I knew a male feminist from my college who was a serial stalker, blackmailer, and date rapist. This was a known, perpetual, ongoing issue, and inside the circle outside his earshot it was all "oh that guy's a creeper, he does stuff, don't let yourself be alone with him if you know what's good for you"...when he was around, it was all sunshine, rainbows, and daisies. Outside the circle, on the other hand, the SJW's who out the other side of their mouths admitted they knew the truth would defend this guy to their very eyeteeth with every bit the slanderous ferocity you've come to expect.

Why? Because he had connections that were useful, and he victimized women outside the clique. In fact, women inside the clique would talk this guy up, and set him up with outside women, knowing damn well what was going to happen to them. Turns out, the easiest way to propagate the notion all women are victims, and all men abusers, is to set other women up to be victimized. They want men like this around, to perpetuate their own garbage in some twisted psychosexual self-fulfilling prophecy.

By the time I became acutely aware of what was going on, there were six or seven women on campus -- including one or two very good friends of mine -- who he'd date raped or otherwise abused, stalked, and slut shamed into oblivion. They were finally speaking out against this guy, two or three of them got restraining orders against him, and of course the response from this camp in particular was deadass the same rape apologia they decry in literally anyone else. I got out, spoke out, got "canceled" on campus, and never looked back.

Trust me, whatever you believe about these people, nine times out of ten the reality is actually way worse.

Chipit · 2019-11-22T11:04:07+00:00

Patriotic? WTF. You people hate America. Patriotism is just another word for xenophobia and jingoism. How do you make arguments like that with a straight face?

Chipit · 2019-11-21T21:15:12+00:00

Those dumb novels were just an instance of demand exceeding supply. They got some authors to whip up some crap and they wrote about whatever they wanted. People who read them had to know they were just reading fan fiction.

Chipit · 2019-11-20T01:00:22+00:00

How does a country of such massive wealth run out of money?

Chipit · 2019-11-19T02:00:33+00:00

Do you understand that having the same view as others does not make you them? This is a well known logical fallacy.

Hitler was a vegetarian and loved animals. If you are a vegetarian and love animals, you're a Nazi too. See how it works?

Chipit · 2019-11-19T09:37:08+00:00

Did you post in the wrong thread? This is word salad.

Chipit · 2019-11-18T04:00:30+00:00

How do you do that? Where you make the jump to accusing other people of being nazis?

Go and ask the Bulgarians if hating the Red Army means they're nazis.

Chipit · 2019-11-18T03:07:29+00:00

They didn't free Europe from the Nazis, the people of Europe merely exchanged one murderer for another.

I can see you're ideologically possessed and resistant to facts, so I bid you ask Bulgarians what they think. Unfortunately, we have to live on the same planet, disgusting though you are.

Chipit · 2019-11-18T00:25:47+00:00

Vivaldi is a skin of Chrome.

Chipit · 2019-11-17T23:14:56+00:00

I agree with the Bulgarians as they're in a better position to know.

I get the idea you really don't know what the Red Army did. Perhaps read some books or talk to people who lived in countries they occupied.

Chipit · 2019-11-17T09:49:56+00:00

I agree with the Bulgarians. They're in a better position to know than either of us.

Have you tried asking any?

Chipit · 2019-11-17T08:28:46+00:00

Nobody but you knows what mlp means.

Chipit · 2019-11-17T07:56:12+00:00

If only anyone knew what mlp meant.

Chipit · 2019-11-17T07:34:25+00:00

Where do you think I found the photo in the first place?

It was them who said it was as offensive as a statue honoring the Wehrmacht in Warsaw! Jesus Christ you're dense. Making up all this shit and accusing me of it.

Chipit · 2019-11-16T02:24:14+00:00

This happens to all of them. There was some man who stole a tank from a National Guard armory and drove it around until he found the only tank trap for miles. The Killdozer caved in a floor and found itself stuck in the basement. German tanks in Stalingrad often did the same. The other guy got high-centered on a highway divider and took the treads away from the ground.

All either of them had to do was avoid the extremely rare tank traps in America and all of them managed to find one.

Chipit · 2019-11-17T04:03:22+00:00

Sigh. It's like arguing with a brick wall. Go ask the Bulgarians.

Chipit · 2019-11-17T02:41:30+00:00

Yes, it's just as offensive. Source: Bulgarian people.

Have you bothered asking any of them? Or are you just getting offended on behalf of other people who never asked for your help?

You have consistently misrepresented what I had to say, every single message you posted. You restated it but changed the meaning. Look back to the top of the thread, and every single time, you restate something I said as something I didn't say. Seriously, WTF. Nobody is listening to this conversation any more, so you can be honest. What's up with that?

Me: having a monument like this in Bulgaria would be like having a monument to the Wehrmacht in Poland.

You: would you prefer your town to be attacked by the Nazis or the Commies?

Me: the commies would murder you if they came to your town, you are the harmful bourgois element.

You: Soviets didn't use gas chambers. You love the nazis.

Me: Soviets murdered with starvation. Where'd you get the idea I prefer the Nazis?

You: Wehrmacht built gas chambers

Me: They were the armed forces, not a construction company

You: You believe in the Clean Wehrmacht myth

Me: ???

Chipit · 2019-11-16T23:51:55+00:00

What's your problem? You keep literally imagining things I didn't say. WTF? The Wehrmacht committed all sorts of atrocities. But it didn't build concentration camps, it wasn't a construction company.

Can I ask you why you keep hallucinating things?

Chipit