• sus@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      What is mutually exclusive, though, is reality and China’s “imminent collapse” which has been looming just around the corner for the past 20 years

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        6 days ago

        Idk people are saying the same things about the western markets as they have been for decades. Maybe a significant portion of people are just naturally drawn to crash prophets.

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          i’m not aware of people saying that about western markets until recently.

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              i sort of am. but then again, the recent trump shenanigans put people on watch for the west.

              but admittedly western economies have been stagnating for a while before that now.

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      Agreed. I’m not saying that “collapse is imminent is accurate”, but don’t act like these are mutually exclusive when the idiom “a candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long” is accurate (to itself - literally the candle).

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        6 days ago

        Yeah. Anyway what’s with the weird fixation this website has for china? The whole frontage is constantly spammed with memes praising the CCP.