China launches mission to Chinese space station

Amazon was not a proper troll. Dayton was subtle enough to stay for years, and just persistent enough to make us question wether or not he truly believe what he said, or was just trolling. He was the very model of a proper troll.

If AmazonPrincess is the best SB can do nowadays, I feel ashamed

Though he tried too hard to troll, it was a good chuckle to read nonetheless. Kudos my fellow Chinese, TO THE STARS AND BEYOND!

It seems they were in such dire need for a skillful troll they invited foamy back...

Yes but it's also a biological weapon designed to attack my colon.

Actually if you look at the calorie count its better for you than most large hamburgers. For one it actually cuts out a massive number of carbohydrates by doing away with the bun. In fact lets to a compare and contrast.

Double Down
Calories: 540
Grams of Fat: 32
mg Sodium: 1380

Big Mac w/ Cheese
Calories: 704
Grams of Fat: 44
mg Sodium: 1148

Yeah. I'll take the Double Down thanks much have a nice day.

I don't care what your facts say that Double down did horrible things to my body.

Facts don't lie!

And Double Downs are Delicious!

That doesn't mean it's not an abomination

But sockpuppet for who?

Yeah yeah i know.

Zor

Hopefully this lights a fire under the West's pants to get their act together. We can't let space fall to the red menace!

Yay, hooray for China, happy space day everyone, even though the Tiangong is not a "proper" space station; it's more of a prototype cargo tug being used for preliminary life-in-space experimentation. Still, good for them. I'm skeptical, but maybe you're right, maybe a new space race would prove beneficial for humanity (as a whole, not just us rich fellows).

That being said, I've always had a bit of a bone to pick with China. If you haven't guessed, I'm not American so I could care less about whatever outsourcing they're doing that's ruining the US economy. No, my comment is a bit more stereotypical.

Okay, here goes: I'm all for being reasonable and not demonizing a nation over its blood-stained, communist past. I'm not and never have been a bleeding-heart hippie. However, whenever I see something that could lift China up in my eyes, a small part of my brain goes "but what about Tibet?"

I've long held the belief that nations can't be expected to have morals. Morals are for individuals or small groups. Nations, especially bloated ones like the Great Powers (USA, Russia, China, EU - yes I consider it one emergent nation) have interests, and are considered free by default to pursue them by whatever means necessary. Still, the problem of Tibet baffles me. What does China have to gain by stomping on those poor people?

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If China is seriously worried about a land war on their home territory, their higherups are either on too many drugs or not enough.

The opinion of Tibetan occupation in China isn't "why are we stomping on these poor people", it's "why the fuck are we wasting so much money on brown people Tibetans?"

I think this needs to be mentioned because that's the other side of the coin. Okay, China's been occupying Tibet for a while. On the other hand it's also been throwing a pile of money and giving teachers incentives to go there. And like every story, the other side is important to know.

No, they're just being smart and prepared for any eventuality.

Was not Tibet basically a feudal kingdom before China moved in ? I heard while Dalai Lama tries to sound like a saint life in Tibet was very awful under theocratic rule. I don't think the peasant there will enjoy going back to being serfs again.

So that cuts it down to Von Neumann Replicator swarms, a zombie apocalypse or a Posleen/Zerg-expy invasion. Good to see that China likes reading Ringo's novels. No human army is ever going to be a threat to them on their home soil, certainly.

Also, going by that logic, it is permissible to conquer Mexico and everything else down to the far side of the Panama Canal. Which, admittedly, has a plus side to it from my stand point... but somehow I don't see the action going over well on the world stage.

Which is fine. As long as that holds true for all possible sides and people remember that.

For fear of jumping in here, him not being an American by birth and then becoming an American via naturalization is not an argument to make against Amazon Princess, IMO. Though I guess it doesn't matter since she is banned now.

Right. Because China has not fought a land war with any of it's neighbours... Oh, wait.

Snrk. Yeah. They were absolutely on the cusp of being conquered.