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Buddy that looks worse for you. The Chinese have been dealing with it for thousands of years but haven't managed to do anything about it? If this was some kind of flex, it's a weird one.
Why do you think it's "a flex?" Are you by any chance a relatively young man? (Because taking everything as a competition is most often associated with that demographic.)
It's not "a flex". It's people being worried about the US. I am too, because while I'm not American, I also know that the US is a significant world power, especially military-wise. (As in lots of expensive gear, although the soldiers are second grade.)
Why do you take someone worrying for you as them trying hurt you?
Trump is hurting you. This guy isn't. He's trying to help.
This guy tries to hurt me when I go to sleep at night. He hides under my bed with one of those electric tennis racket that zaps bugs, or in my closet, or another inventive place, and then zaps me and runs away chortling. And he is always naked. Always.
"look how I'm making fun of political violence even existing"
Youre hilarious, brother
Don't be a gloomy Gus, be a sunny Sam!
I don't think you understand context he's giving, or the gravity of the situation in the US right now at all if you cannot parse and understand this statement.
Regardless of whether you've had a chance to fully realize and experience what these freedoms are like, they are being taken away from you as you type here, and you're too jaded to feel it happening and respond properly.
That's his point. Like a rich kid who has been rich all his life, then slowly becomes poorer and poorer until completely out of money. Only until he's actually out of money will he realize that.
There's an Americanism. There are dictatorships all over the world for millennia. They are incredibly hard to overcome. Source: world history.
Oh, no, poor willing slaves, born into a world they apathetically accept...
Is this the Chinese equivalent of the American "I'm too overworked to participate in politics"?
There's that Americanism again.
Ok boomer
That doesn't even make any sense.