They are definitely contributing to his speed. At that level, people are shaped exactly how they need to be, and if you watch him run, there’s a whole lot of arm motion. AFAIK it’s basically the legs getting leverage against the arm’s opposing swing.

I don’t know, but somebody is going to have to keister some glitter for it.

Wow, I’ve never had this problem. The tricky thing is Australia vs. NZ.

I mean, every dialect is just a bastardised version of an older dialect, including your own.

Ah yes, the old “I own a book” defense. Or maybe the “I’m also vaguely non-Western” defence (maybe you have Tatar heritage?). Either way, you are what you pretend to hate.

So not off-grid, exactly. (Although the grid in any poor country’s cities will not be up bougie, Western specs on reliability)

No u.

If you’re actually interested in Chinese justice vs. American justice, and how that’s related to rule of law vs. party leadership, there’s interesting things to say.

However, a month old account coming in and fixating on race, which wasn’t even mentioned in OP but rather later in response to someone else, seems more like trolling.

I mean, you can argue with .ml about political philosophy or economics, but it’s a waste of time because that’s not their real motive. You might as well argue rocketry with a moon landing denier.

“These places you have funny ideas about are real places to me, and they’re not like that” is more productive. They can either actually engage, or run away to protect themselves.

That Russian сок birch sap drink. It’s super hard to find in Canada but nothing hits me quite the same way.

No, you got called out on basically being a left-themed orientalist, and now want to run away.

I have family in adjacent, politically similar countries. Most likely, you’re a white person with no connections to Asia who likes to project fantasies on it, which is why you’re on .ml.

It’s a Liberal concept, not a Western one. Tudor England or whatever worked the same way before the age of revolutions. As did everything else all the way back to prehistory, more or less.

Yup, you can write anything. The USSR also guaranteed freedom of speech in it’s constitution, IIRC.

People who are purely Western often forget it, but laws that actually apply to everyone all the time are a very recent phenomenon. Historically, and in other places, they’re more like guidelines for what to do when there’s no other major considerations.

I really doubt they’ll actually stick to this in practice. Keep in mind, China is not a place with binding rule of law.

When it gets in the way of whatever industrial expansion, workers rights to not have toxic rocket fuel falling on them or to get paid for their house being demolished aren’t even respected.

Do people still do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it IRL, but then again I don’t live somewhere that’s known for it.

Cool, thanks.

It’s a joke. Please laugh. /s

And yet, everybody smashed upvote on this rage bait without reading it. Education and wealth only gets you so far.

TBF they didn’t really make direct factual claims here, they just quoted the sources, so even if it’s not true it’s not a lie. I’m not sure how often Fox News just straight up lies either.

X to doubt.

The analyst in “says analyst” was a guy on Twitter.

It is mentioned that PCHR recorded similar testimony from a Palestinian source later on.

Again, maybe, maybe not.