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New comment by bllguo in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"

bllguo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:08:02 +0000

western arrogance is truly astounding. somehow people who consume 0 chinese media and cant speak a lick of the language somehow are intricately aware of not only chinese media, but chinese society.

but of course. the benchmark is minor influencer and HN darling naomi wu.

New comment by bllguo in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

bllguo — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:49:10 +0000

1. it is highly relevant outside the western bubble, 2. their domestic market is large enough that china does not have to whore itself out to the west like korea or japan, 3. you gloss over the deliberate suppression by the US regime. japan was not "culturally relevant" in the US before the late 80s when they bent the knee

New comment by bllguo in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

bllguo — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:56:03 +0000

> but your statement about China is straight from a CCP propaganda handbook.

and? the Chinese people live and believe it. propaganda can be true, and governments can in fact live up to their statements. ofc with westerners' pathological mistrust of authority, as well as their penchant to pick the worst possible leaders, we will never come to any agreement about this.

also, are we seriously still unironically typing "guanxi" in this day and age? social capital is hardly something to be exoticized. keep the orientalist rhetoric where it belongs please.

New comment by bllguo in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

bllguo — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:42:29 +0000

yea the government is scaring them, not anything the US is doing. sure. the mental gymnastics know no bounds

New comment by bllguo in "MacBook Air M4"

bllguo — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:05:43 +0000

well apple silicon has only been out for like 5 years

New comment by bllguo in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

bllguo — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:07:19 +0000

..did you only learn chinese academically or something? anyone in china would think of Mao if you said 小红书 (well, at least before the app)

New comment by bllguo in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

bllguo — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:42:35 +0000

in what sense could you _possibly_ argue this

from both legal and realpolitik lenses the Taiwan issue is fully legitimate. your country has done far worse to Cuba for far less. Even setting aside the historical context and the Chinese civil war, what is illegitimate about not wanting an antagonistic and belligerent foreign power installing weapons in an island mere miles off the mainland coast?

New comment by bllguo in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

bllguo — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:28:12 +0000

and that has what, exactly, to do with the legitimacy of said grievances?

New comment by bllguo in "Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)"

bllguo — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:59:35 +0000

no serious fan of the sport would agree. not even truls would consider him to be the 2nd best in the world. but yes, he did have an amazing run to the silver

New comment by bllguo in "U.S. math scores drop on major international test"

bllguo — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:57:19 +0000

How insightful could this possibly be if socioeconomic variables are not controlled for? Clearly the socioeconomic makeup of "US Asians" is not the same as, say, the entire population of Korean students.

Also, "US Asians" is a silly grouping..

New comment by bllguo in "U.S. math scores drop on major international test"

bllguo — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:46:31 +0000

Your first paragraph is 10, 20 years out of date. And you conflate the prestige & economic power of the US with its education quality. As your example exemplifies, those coming here for school are coming for economic reasons (an increasingly less compelling draw, by the way), not because they think the education here is special.

New comment by bllguo in "The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World"

bllguo — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:35:51 +0000

The West controlled India to a degree that was thankfully not the case in China. This is basic history that the OP literally referenced

> Just asking questions.

Nobody is fooled. Have the courtesy to say what you mean instead of insinuating disgusting aspersions

New comment by bllguo in "Biden hikes US tariffs on of Chinese imports"

bllguo — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000

when others get to dictate the terms to the US for once - "coercive, illegal"

what a fun euphemism for "something that doesn't enforce US economic hegemony". you just can't help yourselves using this morally-coded language. it's geopolitical competition and you benefit personally from supporting the US - enough with the grandstanding

New comment by bllguo in "How did Ancient Greek music sound?"

bllguo — Thu, 02 May 2024 18:43:47 +0000

this is quite hyperbolic. he has too complicated a legacy to dismiss this easily. some of the concepts he pioneered include talk therapy, transference, significance of early childhood on psychological development, the influence of the unconscious on behavior - all of which we accept today

New comment by bllguo in "China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made"

bllguo — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:47:34 +0000

yes, there is a widespread awareness that this is all realpolitik. in the western public, everything is a moral struggle between good and evil, where the west is the good guy de facto

to add on to this - far more chinese people visit the west than the other way around. many study english. there is significantly greater understanding of their counterpart's systems in china than in the US or europe. the US has trouble recruiting people who are even literate in mandarin, FFS, to say nothing about familiarity with the culture (even more incredibly, nobody questions reporting or analysis on china produced by these illiterate people!)

New comment by bllguo in "China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made"

bllguo — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:24:08 +0000

in the major cities at least, there is significantly growing awareness atp that domestic infrastructure, technology, etc. is simply better than in the west. people meme about western cities as being comparable to villages

however

1. they certainly do recognize areas where they are "behind". more interesting than technologies (ex. space, hn's new pet topic in semiconductors eyeroll, etc.) are things like recognizing mental health concerns and better working conditions

2. there are obviously still millions upon millions of people not in the major cities, for whom life has improved but clearly hasn't reached western standards

i dont think the spirit of what youre saying is wrong, but the inferiority complex youre implying is fading fast

New comment by bllguo in "Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets"

bllguo — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:15:36 +0000

gee what a mystery. how about no more bloodshed for starters.

New comment by bllguo in "Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking"

bllguo — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:54:33 +0000

yes of course, the enlightened Americans are so much better at handling crime. pointing at western justice systems to say that western values are superior - this must be satire?

New comment by bllguo in "TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas"

bllguo — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:03:45 +0000

this must be comedy? you think the chinese economy is down 50%? at no point did you question how unfathomably ridiculous such a figure is?

i suppose this is the state of the west now, where literally anything negative about russia or china is accepted without question?

New comment by bllguo in "Reading more Ursula Le Guin (2019)"

bllguo — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:14:19 +0000

an amusing fantasy. I'd love to see your western biases shatter when you do just that. do you think it's at all hard to find a 70yr old Chinese person?