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1 posted on 07/04/2021 10:12:32 AM PDT by springwater13
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China continues to rot from the inside out. Infrastructure, buildings, people...


2 posted on 07/04/2021 10:15:46 AM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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Soon these people will find themselves in the PLA.


3 posted on 07/04/2021 10:16:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: springwater13

Understand the difference between needs and wants. Just be sure you can provide for your needs when you get old.


4 posted on 07/04/2021 10:17:32 AM PDT by FatherofFive (We support Trump. Not the GOP)
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To: springwater13

It almost sounds like it is year 1964 over there and the Chinese hippy movement has discovered Henry David Theoreau. And maybe it is OK if you misspell an occasional word cause perfection is not necessarily completely important.


5 posted on 07/04/2021 10:21:54 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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“Is there any more rebellious act than to simply ‘lie flat?’”

In China, especially, I would think that act of rebellion might lead to premature death.


6 posted on 07/04/2021 10:23:22 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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“Careers”

Factory work with very little pay. Not quite slave labor(unless you’re an Ughyur), more like crop-share farming pay.

I guess they’re not liking the “you’ll own nothing and be happy” thing?


7 posted on 07/04/2021 10:37:12 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: springwater13

Same thing as the Japanese and hikkikomori, but worse.


8 posted on 07/04/2021 10:41:23 AM PDT by struggle
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“In today’s society, our every move is monitored and every action criticized,” Liao wrote.

Liao should disappear in 3...2...1...

15 posted on 07/04/2021 11:04:48 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’

Not news. They call them Buddhists.

17 posted on 07/04/2021 11:10:55 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: springwater13

Sounds like China’s going to need more Uigher slaves.


20 posted on 07/04/2021 11:21:56 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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Screw the Chinese

Into the ground

Like an old golf ball

Teed up

For an American-made driver

TRUMP!

26 posted on 07/04/2021 11:46:31 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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Not so different from the lying low that Russians and Eastern Europeans did under Communism. Nobody wanted to attract attention to themselves. Succeeding meant accepting the party line and subordinating oneself to the government.

It also has some relevance to us as well. A lot of people opt out of high pressure careers to devote more time to their families, and that's becoming more common now with the mandatory wokeness and political correctness. People who would do anything to become doctors or lawyers in their twenties would do anything to get out in their fifties.

We have an ambivalence about success, celebrating achievement, dedication, and self discipline but deploring the ruthlessness and compromises that often go with material success.

31 posted on 07/04/2021 11:54:25 AM PDT by x
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Who’s going to eat General Tso’s Chicken?


32 posted on 07/04/2021 11:55:51 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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I have a brother that “lies flat” and he’s not even Chinese!


43 posted on 07/04/2021 1:37:13 PM PDT by Rad_J
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To: springwater13

Who is Giang Galt?


44 posted on 07/04/2021 1:46:21 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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