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@Nitawy0125 @Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 Of course children who have grown up or were born in a different country to that of their parents will identify with that country especially in countries where the national identity has been destroyed by massive levels of migration. China is not like that.

@Ben08891003 @Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 Let’s assume your point is right. Then Jiang who moved to Canada at age 6 would grow up identifying as him a Canadian. If you think that’s a “mistake” of Western societies, that doesn’t change the fact that this is how identity naturally forms.

"It is possible I am a useful idiot." I challenged the so-called "Chinese Nostradamus" and self-styled "Professor" Jiang on 'Mehdi Unfiltered' on his predictions, on Chinese censorship, accusations of antisemitsm, the Iran war, and more. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/mehdi-goes-h…

@Nitawy0125 @Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 That only applies to the west. Unless you have at least one ethnically Chinese parent you aren't going to be considered Chinese. That's where Europe went wrong allowing foreigners to bring over partners from their country, have children and then give them Citizenship.

@Ben08891003 @Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 It depends on when you moved. If someone grows up in a country from childhood—say, moving at 6—by 16 they would naturally identify with that country

@FACEIT_Darwin @Lord_Happym1x It's not a bought account it's just another cheater. Performs well with his cheats on but he's a bot without them, same as the vast majority of your player base. The fact you checked him and can't see he's obviously cheating says it all.

While I agree that account buyers do exist, I think we need to be careful about normalising the idea that anyone in a bad run of form has bought their account. In most of the cases I look into, that isn’t what’s happening. The user Joker, for example. I checked matches going back to last year, across both strong and poor performances, and it’s the same player throughout

Can we start banning people for buying accounts? Instant loss playing with these guys

@XueJia24682 @AndyBxxx Just looked at shangrao, you could probably get a single room for that price but a double room apartment of that size and quality is probably 10x that price.

@AndyBxxx Haha, I’m not messing with you at all. Open a Chinese rental app, set the location to Jiangxi (excluding Nanchang), and see for yourself. 😂

✨🇨🇳This is an apartment in Jiangxi, China with a monthly rent of around $207.

@Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 China has few foreigners and it's difficult to live in China, extremely difficult to get PR. CN doesn't have free healthcare or high benefits that can be taken advantage of by foreigners. You might think differently if CN was flooded with third world scroungers who hate China.

@Ben08891003 @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 I see foreigners claiming to be Chinese and I have no problem with that. Again that’s very personal and I respect your choice. I won’t call myself Canadian either but I respect those who claim to be. It’s a non issue to me. It’s only an issue to criticize others from doing so.

@Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 Whether or not Chinese people accept me as Chinese is beside the point (The vast majority wouldn't). I would feel like a complete idiot claiming I'm Chinese. I love China and I love Britain but I'm a Briton living in China just like a Chinese person in Britain is still Chinese.

@Ben08891003 @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 You don’t need others approval. Especially approval from stupid racists regardless of what the skin colors of those racists are. There are foreigners speaking native Chinese on RedNote. They’re more Chinese than me.

@Rtyu1148534j @heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 I speak fairly good Chinese and have lived in China for more than ten years. I wouldnt be considered Chinese in the slightest and I wouldn't expect to.

@heike_liebler @chenweihua @mehdirhasan @TurgayEvren1 Of course yes if you speak fluent Chinese and think like a Chinese. Language fluency is the most key indicator of identity than your skin color and facial features. There are tons of whites call themselves Chinese living near China’s northern border.

@narindertweets If he's got mostly hate that probably signifies that people don't want him. He's literally only in office because a load of foreigners vote for him.

The mayor of London posted about having a coffee and he got views of almost 10million and mostly hate. This isn't normal behaviour. This is proof (along with the meltdown over a bunch of ppl praying in a square) of just how deeply radicalised the right-wing have become.

@NadiaWhittomeMP How many people of English descent are in political power in those countries? How many English people are in the Pakistani parliament dictating to Pakistanis what they should or shouldn't do with their cousins or their goats?

Within just 48 hours of the Tories refusing to sack Nick Timothy for his Islamophobic comments, the far-right is circulating a list of MPs “of foreign descent” trying to “silence” him. This is what happens when racism is normalised from the top: democratically elected representatives being told that we shouldn't be allowed to make decisions here at all, and even that we should leave the country. It’s a racist attack on our very democracy. Will Nick and his party condemn it?

@dele003 @Keir_Starmer @africaupdates Real British people have had enough of fake British people telling them what they should or shouldn't do in their country.

@Keir_Starmer @africaupdates We, the British people, are right behind you with your decision not to join the offensive against Iran 🇮🇷

I will always make decisions in the national interest. That’s why we did not join the offensive action against Iran.    Reform and the Tories would’ve rushed us into war without a plan to get us out.

@macellaestrella @RupertLowe10 @Keir_Starmer They weren't being abused to produce child abuse material... They were being pimped out to mainly other Pakistani men, friends and family of the main abusers. Who is the biggest consumer of this material anyway? How would you even know?

@RupertLowe10 @Keir_Starmer Who do you think enables and benefits from the keeping girls in a cycle of abuse like that over decades? Who is the biggest consumer of child abuse material when the victim is white? You are eitherbeing so fucking naive it’s unreal or you need your hard drive checked yourself

This is deeply disturbing. Under our laws, online platforms have a duty to keep people safe online. We're already tightening the rules on AI chatbots and I'm ready to take further action if necessary. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@TDM_Jesus @ellymelly Motorists are probably the most overly taxed people. There is no way driving on roads makes you a net negative tax payer.

@ellymelly If you drive on the roads you're using public resources.

You know who deserves a tax break? A reward? The people who go ten years without EVER dipping into the public purse. They're the ones who should get some sort of tax cut in thanks for being self-sufficient, hard-working, well-behaved, quiet, and productive. It would incentivise MORE people to work hard and operate independent of the state.

@TerrorismGuy @visegrad24 If they did that it wouldn't instill fear in everybody, preventing them questioning and talking about the invasion of the country by third worlders.

What I don’t get is why they couldn’t just send him a formal summons via mail so he can turn up at a police station with a solicitor at a given date. Like we can argue about free speech all day, but is the benefit of such a heavy handed arrest for an ultimately non-violent ‘crime’?

6 armed British police officers arrested a man named Lee yesterday at Manchester Airport as he returned to the UK from a vacation. The arrest was made due to someone reporting that they were offended by a Facebook post Lee had made about immigration

@ImOverIt70 @caduceus415 @nytimes The US killed 25% of the children in one day that Russia has killed over 4 years. Imagine if Russia had bombed a Ukrainian school and killed almost 200 kids. Both are horrible but you can't just demonise one country and not the other.

@Ben08891003 @caduceus415 @nytimes This is actually the most retarded comment I've read today. And there are a lot of them from this article. Russia has killed roughly 15,172 Ukrainian civilians and 41,378 injured since February 2022. At least 766 children killed and 2,540 injured.

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people — was the result of a targeting mistake. nyti.ms/47G2uw2

@AyoubKhanMP What's disgraceful is you have British citizenship, let alone are able to serve as a British MP.

Absolutely disgraceful!

@ImOverIt70 @caduceus415 @nytimes Russia has been vilified across the world, sanctioned into oblivion, banned from attending international sporting events. They haven't killed the leader of a country or bombed a school full of kids.

@caduceus415 @nytimes I don't pretend to have any idea what that would look like. These things will be investigated based on IHL and decided.

@donmcgowan Probably not the only one, but definitely one of a select few retards.

Am I the only one that finds this disgusting? It's not funny and glorifies violence. In a time where our country is seeing violence when MPs speak [see Hannah Spencer last weekend], this pretend fight with the Prime Minister should be removed immediately.

@FreakazoidA @CounterStrike Valve knows who cheats and how many that's why they won't ban all cheaters. Cooldowns was supposed to try to change behaviour but it hasn't worked.

We are getting a lot of big names playing cs2 man, an anti cheat really would be huge. I know your scared @CounterStrike of losing the cheater player base, but bro you will get a new player base with some of those guys quitting cs. Pls bro, anti cheat the new players that you lose will come back. Cs will literally be the best game ever. After, we can talk 128tick ❤️

@NrezCrypto @FreakazoidA @CounterStrike A decade of short term profit.

Allowing cheaters like Valve has been doing for profit over a decade has been monumentally moronic on such a high level. Short term profit to destroy the long term potential. Somehow we still have esports support and great tournaments. I have little trust in Valve having any clue what they’re doing or have any vision of a positive future in esports. Something has happened in the high rooms of development, and they don’t believe in humans striving to be their best. Hit em with the sales for games non stop, that they won’t even play. Skin box em as a reward where they have to pay to open it. They believe in farming us like cattle for pure profit. No clue where cs and esports goes from here (prob grind up and up cuz it’s god tier) but cheaters have ruined this game as a pastime for me on a fundamental level. Real competitors move on to something real when the playing field is clearly altered. I preferred StarCraft at my peak comp gaming days cuz of this and lack of good teammates (which goes back to cheaters, ruins playerbase development) Also lans/good teams where I lived were few and far between in early cs days

@BBCWorld Some context: that "lowest economic growth" is still higher than almost every other country in the world and considerably higher than most European countries. Having 4.5% growth after 35 years of higher growth doesn't seem too bad to me.

China sets lowest economic growth target since 1991 bbc.in/4ctXCNT