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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by vinnyvichy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:05AM (#38866516)
This is when I wish @dang would unban HN user dirtyid. His takes on Chinese politico-economics are as insider as it gets this side of the globe (he's Canadian, with some family background in supplying the CCP military equipment) without offending my admittedly Republican sympathies. Hell, I also always presumed from his username that's he's a self-deprecating Jew.
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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by theaussiestew on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:57AM (#38867006)
Why was he banned in the first place?
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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by everforward on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:18AM (#38867985)
> Hell, I also always presumed from his username that's he's a self-deprecating Jew.

I would guess anti-Semitism based on the above.

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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by vinnyvichy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:37PM (#38874219)
Last straw was for correctly pointing out that Canada had inadvertently harbored, nay, honored a Nazi.
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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by onetimeusename on Thursday January 04, 2024 @12:21PM (#38869662)
I was pretty convinced he was a CCP plant here. He would stretch truths to always put the CCP in the best light.
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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by vinnyvichy on Thursday January 04, 2024 @07:25PM (#38874129)
Once you imagine that he's Efraim (Jonah Hill) in War Dogs (or rather the real person the character is based on), you can apply reverse filters for "buttering up the client" and get some insights :) dirtyid has said that Xi Jinping isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, is that good for the CCP?
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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by selimthegrim on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:51PM (#38875505)
We can only hope for baybal2, as well but that ship has probably sailed
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Re:How Severe Are China's Demographic Challenges? by vinnyvichy on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:03AM (#38876530)
hasn't baybal2 been unbanned? I saw him here last month. Probably (wisely) avoiding china topics
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