Mighty shiny and purdy. Must've sucked to be the poor schlubs who got chosen, having to practice, and practice, and practice.

Nice straight lines, perfectly starched, even putting on the seat belt with such precision, such enthusiasm. Party fathers must be so proud.

Such a nice day for a fly-over, wish I could've seen the planes. Gerta should've been invited to provide commentary.

Yeah, you know, I can't remember the last time I publicly criticized President Trump, but this tweet of his congratulating China on 70 years of brutality, misery, and evil really had me scratching my head. I actually laughed at it despite myself wondering, "what the hell is he doing?" He's greasing someone's wheels I suppose. Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on it.



China going to the communists was one of the great tragedies of the 20th century.

Mass murderers.
#1 Mao
#2 Stalin
#3 Hitler

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Yeah, you know, I can't remember the last time I publicly criticized President Trump, but this tweet of his congratulating China on 70 years of brutality, misery, and evil really had me scratching my head. I actually laughed at it despite myself wondering, "what the hell is he doing?" He's greasing someone's wheels I suppose. Anyway, I'm not going to dwell on it.



China going to the communists was one of the great tragedies of the 20th century.

he is playing the long game,


surely some Dem's heads will explode, which he will be laughing at

My first question was “Where are the porta potties?” My Second was “There have to be some troops that locked their knees and fainted.”

Somewhere a squadron's worth of A10 pilots are sitting around salivating like Pavlov's hounds.

Neat new rifles - wonder if they'll suck as bad as the QBZ (major redesign and all) are supposed to?

The thing that gets me is that some poor fool must've scoured every branch of the PLA to make sure he could put at least a handful of dudes in the front lines with the talent (or mutation) to provide that perfect look of dedication and adoration I've never seen anywhere except a Mao-era poster - and then train them to hold that look!

You guys need to travel more. I just booked my fifth trip to China a few minutes ago. It's far from a miserable place and there are not a lot folks still around who have much memory of the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution. That was a totally different country.

Yes, those days sucked for most living then, but several generations since are living pretty well by comparison. And every peasant from the countryside who moved to the city to work in a factory only did so because that was a better job than subsistence farming. Previous generations didn't have that option.

It's a very cool place with a super rich history. The last 70 years is a minuscule percentage of China's history and what there is to see there.

Really I was born in Hong Kong, left at 28 last time I go back to HK was 2008, I would never step foot in that fucking evil place, CCP doesn't represent China it's the most evil regime in the world now even worst than Germany in second world war.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
China going to the communists was one of the great tragedies of the 20th century.

Agreed. And FDR was a big reason it went commie.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
You guys need to travel more. I just booked my fifth trip to China a few minutes ago. It's far from a miserable place and there are not a lot folks still around who have much memory of the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution. That was a totally different country.

Yes, those days sucked for most living then, but several generations since are living pretty well by comparison. And every peasant from the countryside who moved to the city to work in a factory only did so because that was a better job than subsistence farming. Previous generations didn't have that option.

It's a very cool place with a super rich history. The last 70 years is a minuscule percentage of China's history and what there is to see there.

I don’t even know where to start with your load of horseshit. So I won’t.

I have a friend who just got back. When they returned to the airport they had to lean out the side window to see the line on the side of the road because the smog/pollution was so bad. They just had to hope nobody was in front of them.

That said, apparently it doesn't take clean air to make me a new iMac.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
You guys need to travel more. I just booked my fifth trip to China a few minutes ago. It's far from a miserable place and there are not a lot folks still around who have much memory of the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution. That was a totally different country.

Yes, those days sucked for most living then, but several generations since are living pretty well by comparison. And every peasant from the countryside who moved to the city to work in a factory only did so because that was a better job than subsistence farming. Previous generations didn't have that option.

It's a very cool place with a super rich history. The last 70 years is a minuscule percentage of China's history and what there is to see there.

And you need to get a clue. The ChiComs helped themselves by ripping off our intellectual property. Trillions in $ owed to the U.S. gone forever and they can thank the world’s ingenuity for their “rise”.
Stalin and Hitler were neophyte mass murderers compared to Mao, who is Still Celebrated as the Founder. No doubt, that Fucker is in Hell with a pitch fork in his ass while sucking on sweaty balls and licking shit. You won’t see any of that in China’s glorious image now will you?

Cecil B. DeMille would be proud of that production.

I wonder if Xi got his scenes on the first take.



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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
You guys need to travel more. I just booked my fifth trip to China a few...

I have been doing business in China for 30 years. When I travel there, it is usually to the non-tourist areas.

My experience and perspective from the people there is much, much different than yours. It is still a very oppressed, Leftist society.



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I'm sure President Trump is just being polite for politeness' sake. Nothing more; nothing less.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
You guys need to travel more. I just booked my fifth trip to China a few minutes ago. It's far from a miserable place and there are not a lot folks still around who have much memory of the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution. That was a totally different country.

Yes, those days sucked for most living then, but several generations since are living pretty well by comparison. And every peasant from the countryside who moved to the city to work in a factory only did so because that was a better job than subsistence farming. Previous generations didn't have that option.

It's a very cool place with a super rich history. The last 70 years is a minuscule percentage of China's history and what there is to see there.

Well Rick, the Chicoms murdered over 70 million people in the last 70 years, don't blow their horn too much.

The last 70 years is what counts, not the wonderful and fascinating history prior to that, rich in culture it was, and now it lies in ruin.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
I'm sure President Trump is just being polite for politeness' sake. Nothing more; nothing less.

He's the Diplomat in Cheif. Unless it serves some purpose why would he do or say anything other than what he said.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics when I travel to foreign countries. I don't ignore it, but I don't let it color everything I see and do.

Most countries, cultures, nation-states, etc. are exponentially older than the US, and their current politics and recent history are but a small part of the whole picture. I'm not defending anything about the CCP. They are a thugocracy. But, having spent time in the cities and villages in the real East Germany back when it was the DDR, and then going to China for the first time around 2005, there were no similarities.

I get that the PRC still has an authoritarian gov't. But you don't feel like you're constantly being watched and everyone around you is in fear of the secret police when you're in China. It was the opposite in E. Germany. I know plenty of Chinese people who never want to leave there and plenty here who plan to move back someday. Never met anyone who fled eastern Europe back in the day and wanted to go back then or even now.

There is great wealth and opulence all around the big cities in China. I've been to the countryside too, and that's like going back 500 years in time. But the countryside is also where the current regime does not have much of a presence or even full control. So it's kind of cool to get out there and away from all the modernity and hustle and bustle of the cities. If China were still a real communist country, everyone but the political elite would still be poor. They have a large middle class, probably larger than the entire population of the US. That didn't happen because the CCP just handed them their wealth. Ah hell, why bother? If you haven't been there, you have no idea. I haven't been there in about eight years, but Mrs. Lee's parents come visit us every year or two and seem to be doing just fine, having worked regular day and side jobs for their whole lives before retiring. We don't send them money and they're doing just fine. And they were both sent to countryside to work during the Cultural Revolution.

I just got back from two weeks in Europe, where I was constantly bombarded with questions about Trump, accusations of white supremacy, how great Obama was, how bad guns are, etc. I was in Germany, Austria, CZ, Slovenia and Italy. If I had let the politics overshadow my trip, I'd have been miserable.

Pay more attention on what's happening in Hong kong and Twain, I would not spend a dime of my hard earn money to support that fucking evil regime. Understand why Hong Kong is such a mess now, you Sir might said something wrong or ten years ago went to China and some chick file a complaint on you and next time you travel or transit through HK your ass can be arrested and sent into mainland China.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
You guys need to travel more. I just booked my fifth trip to China a few minutes ago. It's far from a miserable place

Cool story bro.

Why don't you tell us more about China being covered with millions of surveillance cameras tracking your every move? Or maybe you would be able to enlighten us about China's dystopian Social Credit System?