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Uncanny:

Poor Jimmy Lai and poor Hong Kong!

The first time I was there I appreciated both the strong sense of familiar Britishness, but also the strange bits of Chinese culture. One could enjoy high tea at The Peninsula Hotel or watch Chinamen in the (very much wet) market fattening up their live birds by neatly feeding them some gruel mouth to mouth. Perhaps they do that in England, but I’d never seen it before.

Riding Hong Kong’s double-decker buses, the printed guidance signs made me smile at the very British phrasing, “It is dangerous to put your arm out the window”, and cringe at the unexpected directives, “No spitting!”

I often wondered, while side glancing certain fellow passengers, Who’s spitting on the bus? A few years later in non-British China I learned that millions of Chinese people were hocking loogies all over the country. In the parks and on the streets and sidewalks, on the floor next to my shoe on a crowded train (It was a long ride, so the shooter rubbed them thoroughly into the wooden floor with his boot), and while playing cards in a crowded coffeehouse.

Even if many of the 500,000 Chinese students in America are taking back some secrets to the CCP, I like to hope they’re also going home and telling their family members, friends, and fellow Starbucks and McDonald’s customers, “No spitting!”

China = mafia. It's 50 guys that want to rip off their own people and the whole planet. Thinking of them in any other way is a mistake.

Trading with them was a disaster.

Our Ruling Class has sucked ever since World War II ended.

@jameslileks

James, have you ever gotten into a great big private or public argument with anyone that is totally for the Met Council's communist central planning, shoving choo-choo trains down our throats which is obviously going to be a fiscal, social, and crime disaster, centralizing everything if we want it or not etc? This affirmatively furthering fair housing thing is real and it is a menace. It's obviously failing in the Twin Cities metro. The people that are for this on Twitter are insane. They are never going to get their way unless they get a hold of the guns.

I think I saw Bill Glahn go on saying that the wealthy part of Minneapolis should join a diner and then the rest of it should be turned totally libertarian. He's completely right. They will never get enough cops to fix it before everything implodes.

Also, in case you haven't seen it, the local communist public relations person needs to be talked off the ledge. lol

That is one wild thread.

The best thing that could happen in Minneapolis is, if one of our local Republican millionaires would start a Libs of Tik Tok about the Met Council and all of their communist plans to centralize everything and shove us into choo-choo trains.

These people have no idea that choo-choo trains and buses have less utility when you need to move families and stuff around. It's incredible.

They were trying to make drive-through's illegal for a while. lol.

I think Minneapolis had a guy in charge of doing nothing but making pedestrians more "satisfied" damn the side effects no matter what happens. Salaried position.