Thread 718813554

"Beer is 15; wine is 120."

>>718813554 (OP)
"Can I ask you a question?"

>>718813572
"What do you want to know?"

>>718813749
"Despite all I've read about the Triads, I wasn't prepared to see them operating in the open, on the streets, and wearing uniforms. Doesn't the Chinese government care?"

>>718813889
"They barricade the roads to control trade to the mainland, but they know how business is done."

>>718814002
"I would think the secret smuggling operations of the Triads would disturb the Chinese government."

>>718814069
"Maybe the Luminous Path, but China knows that the Red Arrow are business owners, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and that they protect the city from outside influences."

>>718814129
"You said "outside influences." What does China fear?"

>>718814393
"China is the last sovereign country in the world. Authoritarian but willing -- unlike U.N.-governed countries -- to give its people the freedom to do what they want."

C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker!

>>718814495
"As long as they don't break the law."

>>718814571
"Listen to me. This is real freedom, freedom to own property, make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government. Only financial power."

>>718814641
"Our governments have limited power by design."

>>718814781
"Rhetoric... And you believe it! Don't you know where these slogans come from??"

>>718814838
"I give up."

>>718814902
"Well-paid researchers -- how do you say it? -- "think tanks," funded by big businesses. What is that? A "think tank"?"

>>718814979
"It's privately-funded propaganda. the Trilateral Commission in the United States, for instance."

>>718815135
"The separation of powers acknowledges the petty ambitions of individuals; that's its strength."

>>718815241
"A system organised around the weakest qualities of individuals will produce these same qualities in its leaders."

>>718815279
"Perhaps certain qualities are an inseparable part of human nature."

>>718815345
"The mark of the educated man is the suppression of these qualities in favour of better ones. The same is true of civilization."

>>718815440
"I'll get a drink later."

>>718815440
Yeah whatever. Throw another shrimp on the barbie for me, mate.

1 schizo maybe 2 today.

>>718815440
He's referencing Confucius

>>718817219
If what you got from the bartender is "China good" then you are too retarded for deus ex.

>>718817219
most bot post ever posted on this site

>>718817672
You're not supposed to, but there has been some faggot posting this conversation every month for the better part of two years and he's very pro china.