A lot of middle-class people in China are unhappy right now. For more than a decade, many Chinese put their money into buying apartments instead of putting their savings in banks that paid virtually no interest. This created a huge housing bubble. Many people rode it up and then rode it down when the government tightened real estate lending in 2020.

So they are hoarding their cash because their real estate profits are gone but the government pension and health care payments are meager. Everyone has to save for a rainy day.

Won’t somebody please think of the bourgeoisie’s profits!

As my colleague Keith Bradsher just reported, the economic slowdown is depriving the Beijing government of the very tax revenues it needs to stimulate the economy and subsidize “the export industries that are driving economic growth but could be hurt by tariffs.”

NYT economists still don’t know how fiat money works.

Okay. It seems to be related to my DNS sinkhole.

Oh God… it’s Thomas “Suck. On. This.” Friedman 🤢

Did archive.today shit the bed?

$ curl -sI http://archive.today/ | grep '^Location:'
Location: https://www.google.com/
$

C’mon we all know what this is: Remote Uyghur organ harvesting. /s

I swear they’re just flexing now. Next thing you know it’ll be autonomous robotic surgery on the Moon.

I know it’s bad. My wife is a researcher at a non-profit that relies greatly on federal grants, which are getting killed left & right, and so her company is laying off left & right.

This was all Greek to me, and it took a while for me to figure out how to google WTF you’re talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_U.S._federal_deferred_resignation_program

The CCP is known to have agents in western countries that manipulate and pressure ex-pats to return to China.

The seeseepee is “known” to do that if you believe Cold War II bullshit propaganda about “secret police stations.”

They are trying to build soviet type dictatorships

The Soviet Union wasn’t a dictatorship, and whatever it is they’re trying to build, it’s the furthest thing from socialism or democratic centralism.

That is not a denial of invasion. The term special military operation is Russian domestic legalese to distinguish it from a formal declaration of war, because a formal war declaration would trigger different laws and government actions in Russia. The same is true in the US, which hasn’t formally declared war since WWII, despite having fought dozens since then.

Oh… there are!

Links or it didn’t happen. I’ve never seen anyone online or off claim that Russia did not invade Ukraine in February of 2022.

Independently of one thinks of the invasion (yes invasion!) of Russia in Ukraine

I don’t know why you’d think that this is a point of contention, when literally no one contends against it being an invasion.

That’s a lot of microwave

↓ This one Rush fan is really committed to the China Bad Times Cinematic Universe ↓

“Make Afrikaners Great Again”

Every RussiaGate accusation is a US psyop confession.

The Putler talking points are coming from inside the house.

The Commission said in its new EU Preparedness Union Strategy that the bloc was preparing for risks […] including the possibility of armed aggression against EU countries.

EU tells the public to hold a 2^nd job, private health insurance, and forget about summer holidays.

If you’re going to use the term “globalism” you should at least define it, because some use it as an antisemitic dog whistle.

Michael Moritz is in the big club that we ain’t in, so I’m surprised his rag published this.