Tiananmen Square 25 Years Ago

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  • mattsl1983
    mattsl1983 Posts: 711
    No victim card. I just think it's entertaining that you resort to name calling when you get called out on how you act here.

    But I'm still glad to see that none of this bothers you.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited June 2014
    mattsl1983 said:

    No victim card. I just think it's entertaining that you resort to name calling when you get called out on how you act here.

    But I'm still glad to see that none of this bothers you.


    Do you really think that I should be bothered by the fact that you have a problem with people who support their comments with facts, and with source material? Really? Why should that bother me? I don't know you, and i have zero interest in you. Do you suffer from ego-centrism? Most people evolve beyond ego-centrism at around the age of two, or three.
    I understand that there are morons in this World who like to toss around personal opinions, and personal fantasies, with no basis in reality, and with no relation to the historical record. But that doesn't mean that I have to behave like one of these morons too. I prefer to interject news articles, pieces from respected writers, journalists, and political commentators, in these here threads, because they can add something to the debate.
    I've posted nearly 20,000 comments on this forum since 2006, compared with your 300, so don't chime in here telling me what to do. If you took that chip off your shoulder and took the time to read back through my earlier posts, you'll see that the majority of them are my own words. (I've said it before, and I'll say it again - only in America can supporting your comments with source material, and checking the facts, result in criticism and abuse). Clearly the anti-intellectual, Mickey Mouse World you inhabit has instilled an aversion to such things.

    And at the same time, you think you're in a position to educate me, and show me the 'real World? Really? What real World is that? Is that the real world between channel 5 and channel 7 on your t.v screen?

    As for name-calling, and breaching the posting rules on this forum, anybody with eyes to read can see that you came into this thread spouting off like someone with a huge chip on his shoulder. You said you felt sorry to have to bring the real world to me. (Like your closeted little life, blinking in front of your Mommy's t.v set, puts you in a position to teach me anything?) You then asked me where I'm from and what I support, and why I have DB Cooper as my avatar, e.t.c, (like any of that has anything what-so-fucking ever to do with this thread topic). before addressing me as 'byzine', and 'benzine', and then criticizing what I choose to post here, and denigrating England, like England is obliged to kiss the ass of the U.S....

    And now you play the victim card, and pretend to be offended.

    Listen pal, I've been posting on this forum a lot longer than you, and I've met many people just like you on here. (Unfortunately all too many. Maybe why so many people have left this place). You have nothing intelligent, or constructive, to add, and so resort to lame, personal digs instead. I've seen it time and again, not just with me, but with many other posters. It's not big, and it's not clever. And if you don't like what I post, then don't fucking read what I post. You can use the ignore feature to shield you from the terrible burden of being confronted by any article, quote, study, video, or picture, that I happen to post.

    Pretty simple really.

    Carry on.
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  • whofeelslikeadrank
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    he's a cynic Byrnzie, don't spend too much time trying to talk sense :-B
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,707
    I read an article or heard an interview where, and bare with me as it was years ago, but it really changed my perception of China. Basically the article or the interviewee was stating that China's populace is made up of many different ethnicities that was being held together by a strong arm communist party. I know there are Chinese Muslim Ulghers (sp?) in the north and a Tibetan minority being subsumed and others that I can't recall throughout the country and that if the communist party suddenly ceased to exist and western style democracy were introduced with free and fair elections, that the country would explode into political/ethnic violence. I remember thinking at the time, because I didn't know any better, that that was odd, why would that happen? So it got me thinking now because of this thread, what would happen? Would it descend into chaos like Iraq or would it be more like Eastern Europe after the fall of communism? Or something else entirely? I honestly don't know.

    Any insights?

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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    edited June 2014
    Halifax2TheMax said:

    I read an article or heard an interview where, and bare with me as it was years ago, but it really changed my perception of China. Basically the article or the interviewee was stating that China's populace is made up of many different ethnicities that was being held together by a strong arm communist party. I know there are Chinese Muslim Ulghers (sp?) in the north and a Tibetan minority being subsumed and others that I can't recall throughout the country and that if the communist party suddenly ceased to exist and western style democracy were introduced with free and fair elections, that the country would explode into political/ethnic violence. I remember thinking at the time, because I didn't know any better, that that was odd, why would that happen? So it got me thinking now because of this thread, what would happen? Would it descend into chaos like Iraq or would it be more like Eastern Europe after the fall of communism? Or something else entirely? I honestly don't know.

    Any insights?

    Peace.

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Halifax2TheMax said:

    I read an article or heard an interview where, and bare with me as it was years ago, but it really changed my perception of China. Basically the article or the interviewee was stating that China's populace is made up of many different ethnicities that was being held together by a strong arm communist party. I know there are Chinese Muslim Ulghers (sp?) in the north and a Tibetan minority being subsumed and others that I can't recall throughout the country and that if the communist party suddenly ceased to exist and western style democracy were introduced with free and fair elections, that the country would explode into political/ethnic violence. I remember thinking at the time, because I didn't know any better, that that was odd, why would that happen? So it got me thinking now because of this thread, what would happen? Would it descend into chaos like Iraq or would it be more like Eastern Europe after the fall of communism? Or something else entirely? I honestly don't know.

    Any insights?

    Peace.

    It is made up of a lot of different ethnicities, but I really don't think it requires a strong-arm Communist party, or any other form of totalitarian regime, to hold the country together. The only reason the Uighurs in Xinjiang province, in the North West, along with the Tibetans, are resorting to violence, and/or dissent, is because the strong-arm Communist party keeps fucking with them, and trying to destroy their respective cultures. Maybe a less strong-armed, less rigid leadership, would see an improvement in that situation.

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