Drew H. Catch
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Drew H. Catch
@CatchToonda
global shots from Shuga
Shuga Присоединился Haziran 2018
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@GraduatedBen I went to the dentist 20 years ago. They said I had “signs of early forms of cancer.” I did some research and took my chances. 20 years later, not a problem whatsoever. The medical professionals are thieves not hero’s.
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I believe that many people get cancer and beat cancer without ever knowing it
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@Major910854 @EclecticScribe @EinsteinAdonis @GoodPyre Ok dude, that’s not the moral of the story.
“Society, the legal system, your daughter all abused you, but two wrongs do not make right!” Is not it.
It’s just an old, “abuse makes abusive people.” Story, but also with a lot of Jewish persecution.
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@CatchToonda @EclecticScribe @EinsteinAdonis @GoodPyre Being vengeful and demanding the pound of flesh makes him like the people who abused him
He was a victim then chose to be worse than them
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There is an old European tale called the Merchant of Venice about a Jew who demands a lump of human flesh as security for a loan. At the end of the tale, his daughter falls in love with a Christian, his wealth is expropriated, and he forced to convert to Christianity.
Rabbi Poupko@RabbiPoupko
There is an old Jewish tale told in the Talmud about a master who sent his servant to buy for him fish in the market. The servant came back with a fish that was utterly rotten and smelled bad for his master. His master gave the servant three options: Eat the rotten fish, pay a fine, or be expelled from the city. The servant chose the first and began eating the rotten fish. Halfway through eating the rotten fish he just couldn't stomach it anymore so he asked to pay the fine. After he paid half the fine he realized he cannot afford it anymore and was therefore expelled from the city, thereby taking on all three punishments. That is what JD Vance did to himself by turning on Israel and his horrifying performance today in Switzerland.
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@Major910854 @EclecticScribe @EinsteinAdonis @GoodPyre Read the story. The entire point of Shylock is on the next page,
"The villainy you teach me, I will execute."
He’s literally abused through the entire story, even on the first pages, and it’s all justified by him being Jewish. He’s the victim
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@EclecticScribe @EinsteinAdonis @GoodPyre God, thank you. I remember reading this and being shocked at how it’s used rhetorically. I literally read it to see what the fuss was about.
The story has been totally lost through the game of telephone.
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The people decide the particulars to what is fair as a group and take into account each perspective.
I don’t believe in a ‘leader’ per se, I believe that working people as a unit deserve a fairer, more enjoyable and fulfilling life that profit incentives and so called ‘free markets’ don’t allow for, and since the workers are the backbone of society they should be able to make these decisions, not those who have more capital that extract the wealth from their labour.
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You're so close to getting it.
yocheved 🇵🇸@saintyoche
Just discovered my Marxist professor has a side hustle as a landlord
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@iamjhasanjay @AdityaRajKaul Ahhh yes; abandon the west and move towards China. China loves India of course
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@AdityaRajKaul Why are you so bothered about statements US makes … their policies are just like their statements … used to change every hour…India must invest their time, money and foreign policy for BRICS
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Americans are going to regret this statement so badly one day.
JD Vance says:
“I have joked that I have two very, very important people in my life. An Indian and a Pakistani. The Indian is my wife, and the Pakistani is Field Marshal Munir.”
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Can a conservative/libertarian actually explain to me why they actually believe if they stripped regulations/minimum wage that companies will just self-regulate out of the goodness of their heart? Thats genuinely gotta be one of the most delusional ideas I’ve ever heard.
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@ThinkFinance999 Blaming EU complaints ignores how China enforces those blocks. Beijing strictly bottlenecks Ukrainian purchases while allowing massive Russian state-backed smuggling networks to operate freely. Selective enforcement of export laws is not neutrality.
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Also, some of the direct export blocks were prompted by stupid EU politicians complaining about Chinese supplies to Russia, apparently oblivious to the fact China also supplied the other side.
Said another way, you asked for that particular outcome.
But the parts continued flowing.
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A world where the US decides what the EU can or cannot sell to China should be very obviously unacceptable to Europe. But, of course, the US fifth column in Europe will certainly act in the shadows to make it otherwise.
Smartkarma@smartkarma
🚨BREAKING: US WARNS ASML ON CHINA CHIP TOOL Signals potential new export curbs, threatening ASML's China revenue and deepening US-China tech conflict. $ASML.NA
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@ThinkFinance999 Ukraine cutting Chinese drone parts to 38% was a forced shift to domestic production due to unreliable supply. Furthermore, China secretly trains Russian drone operators as its components in Shaheds increase. This is not neutrality! Come on
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Cutting to 38% in a much larger number of drones doesn't even mean fewer parts, and then there's the need to understand how it's all accounted for as lots of (nearly all) imports will be mislabeled, indirect. Nearly all optical fiber being used by both sides is Chinese, for instance.
Notice that there's a lot of incentive to present you with a lower number in this case, so all possible machinations to show you a lower number will be used. In general skepticism is highly warranted for a lot of stuff in the current world.
The only certainty in this case is that China is a huge supplier to both sides.
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@CatchToonda I'm real, China is treating the two sides neutrally. The dual use stuff isn't (in practice) restricted to any of the two sides. The military stuff is restricted to both sides.
Dig into it further and you'll see this is reality.
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@ThinkFinance999 False equivalence. Ukraine scavenging commercial parts via black markets despite Beijing's export blocks is not equal to China deliberately supplying 90% of Russia’s defense electronics. State-backed industrial life-support is not neutrality.
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As I said, indirectly that stuff reaches both sides. Nobody is saying Russia doesn't get it. I'm saying both sides get it, which means China acts as a neutral party.
You're just equating it supplying Russia indirectly as not being neutral, forgetting that it equally supplies the other side, which is within the meaning of "neutral".
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@ThinkFinance999 China cut its parts in Ukraine's drones to 38% via export restrictions while selling full drone production lines to Russia. This is literally an embargo, not neutrality.
kyivpost.com/post/71701#
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If you think those massive numbers of drones the other side uses aren't running on Chinese componentry you're very wrong... As I said, in practice China is neutral, though neutral does mean ignoring western sanctions and keeping the economic routes open, which is very useful for Russia, and it also includes lots of dual use stuff which, again, reaches both sides (mostly indirectly).
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@ThinkFinance999 Labor migration explains textile factories in Vietnam, not the 3x post-2022 spike in dual-use tech exports to Central Asia. Corporate filings won't report sanctions evasion. Surging machine shipments to Russian neighbors aren't about cheap labor; they are smuggling pipelines.
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The regional investments started a long time ago. Some are as you say, many are not. The main driving force has been that labor costs increased a lot in China, so many lower value added activities migrated regionally.
I have read many hundreds of filings from HK-listed companies with business in mainland China, the above is the reality.
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@ThinkFinance999 China isn't passively keeping markets open; it is actively supplying the dual-use tech sustaining Russia’s military. Its regional investments are largely transshipment hubs for sanctions evasion.
Be real
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@CatchToonda It has turned out reasonably ok - Chinese firms have been investing heavily into neighboring countries...
China's contribution to Russia has been mostly in keeping markets between China and Russia reasonably open.
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@ThinkFinance999 Partnering with China, will get you more local investment and improve your ability to compete? How has that turned out with their current partners?
And is Russia obviously different? Ukraine may be kinetic now, but Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, and Myanmar may feel different.
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@CatchToonda Partner with China is obvious because they'd be investing a locally, and improving the local ability to compete (due to exposure to more competitive players and having better suppliers).
With Russia the problem is obvious and until solved...
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@i_am_the_truest @BigBichote Pussy. Signal your virtue more loser
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@BigBichote Honestly as a very non-confrontational white guy I’m moving on too, without any thought other than that I have a crazy story to tell, I don’t have time for this shit, and being racist because of a personal incident is loser behavior
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This would make me racist
Music is Life@ArtOfMusic_
The yt boy was minding his business casually walking by, eats a punch and keeps it moving 😂
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