Posted On: Friday - January 19th 2024 12:32PM MST
In Topics: Global Climate Stupidity China Environmental Stupidity
Early on in this blog's sputtering series of posts from our trip to China, I mentioned the Peking Zoo is a different context, a social commentary on taking one's turn... or not. I found something else that suggested a blog post later on in that visit to the huge zoo.
We've discussed a little about the attempts at WoKeiProp, that being on Chinese (CCTV) TV, as seen in the breakfast room in a hotel, with some help from my Chinese source. I still wonder why the CCP cares so much about making a pretense at being woke, green, etc. They seem to do what they want within China - not America's concern, IMO - such as built another 50 or 100 coal-fired power plants while the world concerns itself with the Western economies only as they (pretend?) freak-out about the Climate Calamity™. Nobody has the moxie to argue with China on anything anymore, besides good old Donald Trump (and more power to him re: the tariffs).
Do they do this stuff to make a good, aka, virtuous, impression on their own people? Does the sign in English* match the sign in Chinese when it comes to that "climate change" business? I wish I had found that out, because that'd be interesting. Dang! I have no picture of the Chinese portion.
Well, as a country, they may make great progress in re-growing the forests that were nearly destroyed by poverty and Communism, but I really doubt the people are natural treehuggers. They will never be hippy-dippy VW-van-driving tanned pot-smoking California girls sitting in tree stands. "The
The Chinese like to have some fun too, and they are freer from the Matriarchal State, with it's "Be safe" greetings and such. Just a few hundred yards from the big mammal area where that sign resides, within this big zoo there is a fairly narrow canal on which there are boat tours. Rather than a slow staid quiet tourist-filled catamaran, they've got these speed boats with big outboard motors.*** They don't seem to slow down for any wake or noise reasons. They were coming very regularly with no thought given to noise abatement for the animals, or god forbid, the zoo-goers. It looked like a lot of fun.
This was quite the juxtaposition with that sign by the mammal. That's the situation in China, it seems. They are finally reasonably prosperous on a large scale, yet Environmentalism is big politics now. It's not fair that Americans spent years "Easing down the highway in their new Cadillacs,
they had fine foxes in front, and three more in the back.
They'd be sporting short dresses, wearing spike-heel shoes,
smoking Lucky Strikes, and wearing nylons too...
It's not fair! Chinese guys ought to be able to have some fun too.
* I've got to have a fun post about English language signage in China, before I get to our Chinese New Year's deadline for getting off the subject of that trip.
** That's in stark difference to the American way. As written long ago here in The Philosophy of Confucius: "The nail that stands up gets hammered down", the Chinese say, while Americans say "the squeaky wheel gets the grease."
*** Chinese-branded, of course, not Evinrude or Mercury, as we're used to.
Comments:
The Alarmist
Saturday - January 20th 2024 2:41PM MST
PS
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The Norks know how to avoid Wokedom by limiting exposure to the decadent entertainment of their southern cousins, but they seem to be going soft:
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas....
"The rotten puppet regime's culture has spread even to teenagers," says the voice, in an apparent reference to South Korea. "They are just 16 years old, but they ruined their own future," it adds.
The boys were also named by officers and had their addresses revealed.
In the past, minors who broke the law in this way would be sent to youth labour camps rather than put behind bars, and the punishment was usually less than five years.
In 2020, however, Pyongyang enacted a law to make watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death.
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68015652
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Oh snap! Not only hard labour, they doxxed them too!
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The Norks know how to avoid Wokedom by limiting exposure to the decadent entertainment of their southern cousins, but they seem to be going soft:
Rare footage obtained by BBC Korean shows North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching K-dramas....
"The rotten puppet regime's culture has spread even to teenagers," says the voice, in an apparent reference to South Korea. "They are just 16 years old, but they ruined their own future," it adds.
The boys were also named by officers and had their addresses revealed.
In the past, minors who broke the law in this way would be sent to youth labour camps rather than put behind bars, and the punishment was usually less than five years.
In 2020, however, Pyongyang enacted a law to make watching or distributing South Korean entertainment punishable by death.
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68015652
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Oh snap! Not only hard labour, they doxxed them too!
🕉🤐🛸
MBlanc46
Saturday - January 20th 2024 1:17PM MST
PS The Chinese seem to know what to say when dealing with the West, whom they still need, and still do whatever they please.
Moderator
Saturday - January 20th 2024 12:46PM MST
PS: Yes, thanks both of you. I have 3 different ones in tabs to point out. These guys are good!
Adam Smith
Saturday - January 20th 2024 10:24AM MST
PS: Lulz, Mr. Alarmist,
I like it. Here's another...
https://babylonbee.com/news/nikki-haley-settles-down-on-the-couch-with-some-popcorn-to-watch-biden-bomb-yemen
Happy Saturday! ☮️
I like it. Here's another...
https://babylonbee.com/news/nikki-haley-settles-down-on-the-couch-with-some-popcorn-to-watch-biden-bomb-yemen
Happy Saturday! ☮️
The Alarmist
Saturday - January 20th 2024 4:58AM MST
PS
O/T, but good for a laugh... Your moment of Zen from the 🐝
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-lackluster-showing-nikki-haley-bombs-iowa
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O/T, but good for a laugh... Your moment of Zen from the 🐝
https://babylonbee.com/news/after-lackluster-showing-nikki-haley-bombs-iowa
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I bet there are a number of parents out there whose children are lost to them who wish they had sent them to a N. Korean exchange program during high school.