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Veteran China-watcher Bill Bishop has tweated several items in the last 12 hours or so that are worth checking out.

1. Advised kuhnadians to get out of Dodge. Similar advice has been coming lately from less credible commentators, but this is the first time I have seen it from someone relatively mainstream.

2. On a different topic, retweated some concerning videos allegedly from a neighboring city.

Obviously please be mindful of the environment if posting any replies here.

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A possible alternate explanation for seemingly routinized upvoting: maybe at least some of the posters you reference have accumulated social capital on the forums.

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This is grotesque. Do you believe that newborn babies, for example, have a karmic debt to work off? Are you really suggesting that they (not to mention the other innocents) are somehow deserving of "karmic justice" in the form of "guns, bombs, wars, poverty, incurable illnessss...." ?

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I am not particularly a fan of the Democrats, and I don't have trouble believing somebody posted something that was misleading (although I can't find the postings the OP references). If so, it would have been sufficient to simply point that out, and maybe remind people that attending political gatherings here is unwise.

But the original post goes well beyond that -- it amounts to an attempt by an expat to intimidate other expats, which is gross and despicable. And it's common knowledge that the local authorities don't give a hoot what Westerners say about Western politics. So leaving aside the meeting aspect, the insinuation that misleading posts about American voting procedures could result in legal sanctions is transparent BS.

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@sean1: The thing is that it's a weak field, so I don't really support anyone in particular enough to sing their praises. But Buttigieg (fake), Biden (senile) and Klobuchar (bully) are all just blatantly awful. I suppose I could live with Sanders, Warren or even Bloomberg, although they each have serious flaws.

As far as Pete's donor stats, yeah, a lot of people seem to have been bamboozled, which is disappointing to see. And I don't think the fact that he's the poorest candidate gives any reassurance that he won't cater to the interests that have ravaged the country over the past generation. Maybe the opposite.

Also, while I am not a huge fan of Sanders and therefore am reluctant to carry water for him, I don't think the UK results necessarily translate to the US. Corbyn was abysmally unpopular, due in large part to his humorlessness, links to violent extremists and allowing anti-Semitism to fester within his party. Sanders has none of those faults and polls as the most popular active political figure in the US. Plus Labour's traditional electorate was fractured by the all-important Brexit issue, and there is no comparably powerful wedge issue at stake in the US.

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@viyida wrote: "MAD (mutual assured destruction) leverage"

An oxymoron. MAD is bi-directional, hence the "mutual". Both sides have reduced leverage over each other under MAD, because threats to use conventional force have low credibility in light of the extreme risks involved.

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Turn that smile upside down, sezuwupom. Expressing positive sentiments about fast, comfortable, affordable and environmentally-sustainable new rail connections is not allowed by the comments police. Anyone who is not sufficiently glum will be ridiculed.

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