Why is Tucker Carlson so vicious?

[Daniel Balan]

7 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

Perhaps dictatorships like Iran or Cuba, but I'd say China views liberal democracies with a sense of perplexity and surprise. For them, what matters is what works: straight lines and useful systems. They can't afford all the moral debate, the struggles between charismas, the emotional ideologies.

They are 1.4 billion people who, not long ago, didn't have shoes, and who work like machines driven by millennia of Confucian tradition. They don't hate the US; they see it as an interesting and fun psychotic alien with brilliant ideas to exploit.

Look, no one says that a dictatorship can't be a prosperous country, oftentimes a dictatorship can even overpower a liberal democracy in terms of industrial production like how China is doing now. However, the individual is squashed, it's soul is ripped off his body, he is only a cow to be milked to death of its labour force and when the cow dies, it gets thrown away and replaced as if it was nothing. You have to understand that in a dictatorship human life is no more precious than cattle life. Cattle is useful for food, humans are useful to be worked to death. Although this approach can make the oligarchs that own the country and the country itself extremely rich, the nobody in Manchuria who works 12 hours a day non stop, is solely living to work, that's it. There is no difference between a caged hen that is forced to lay eggs non stop and a human that lives in a dictatorship. 

That's why liberal democracy is the best system on earth and it is in dictatorships interest to make sure they dismantle all democracies so that once they are dismantled, those democracies will no longer be able to project indirect or dirrect influence onto the dictatorship. China would love to have all of Europe under Putin like dictatorships, this means Europe will be more of a ideological vassal to China rather than a staunch competitor.

[Breakingthewall]

30 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

the nobody in Manchuria who works 12 hours a day non stop, is solely living to work

Sure, and the nobody in Madrid works 10 hours in a taxi of in a coffee shop 6 days per week for 1200 €, then pay 500 for a room in a shared flat, food and nothing else. And this today, we will see in 5 years .

I don't see it very different. Well, yes, that the nobody in Shanghai, if he tries a business, the government is not going to put a chain with a lead ball on each leg in the form of impossible taxes to punish him for his insolence and daring. 

[Daniel Balan]

1 hour ago, Breakingthewall said:

Sure, and the nobody in Madrid works 10 hours in a taxi of in a coffee shop 6 days per week for 1200 €, then pay 500 for a room in a shared flat, food and nothing else. And this today, we will see in 5 years .

I don't see it very different. Well, yes, that the nobody in Shanghai, if he tries a business, the government is not going to put a chain with a lead ball on each leg in the form of impossible taxes to punish him for his insolence and daring. 

The false equivalence is through the roof here.

I'll give myself as an example. When I was 16, my country had been in the European Union for only 9 years, things for the most part were the same as when this country was a dictatorship, although the dictator was gone, the old ways of doing business and how little government cared about its citizens was still in place.

When I was 16 I got beaten and robbed for all my money (like 30 dollars) then I went to the police and police started laughing when they heard my story, I filed a complaint but I never got any news from it and the robber escaped scot free. 

I started working construction and other blue collar jobs when I was 16, there were no work protection, no hard hats required, no minimum wage, no worker protection no nothing. The work days were literally from dawn till dusk. As long as there was even a sliver of light outside, we had to work. This meant working from 6 AM to 10 PM during summer when days are long.

Once I needed desperately money, I worked for 3 months and the boss didn't pay me one dime, even to this day. I couldn't quit because the first month passed and I hoped that he would fulfill his promise and give me the money he owed for my work, I did that until 3 months passed and I couldn't bear any longer the situation and I accepted that I was robbed of 3 months of my income and I left. 

Fast forward 2025 the things that happened to me in my teenage years no longer can happen today. Recently someone stole a phone from someone, in a couple of days the thief was cought, the phone retrieved and the case was solved. 10 years ago the thief and the police shared some commissions between themselves once the stolen phone was further re-sold.

Now if you are a boss and you fail to pay your workers, the government takes your house and puts it on auction. If you are caught that you don't employ your emplyees with legal contracts, you face serious repercussions.

If you slap someone in the face, you could go to jail. Back then police slaped you once more if you came to them to bother them with such silly problems.

All these improvements happened only after integration with the west.

In Russia, China and all the countries that oppose the west, every thing that happened to me in my teens happens all the time today. 

The west has problems, but the nobody in Madrid will be protected and cherished by the government, he will get his 1200€ no matter what. No one can exploit him. But on the other hand the poor soul in Manchuria or the poor soul in Omsk will only get the paycheck he deserves after grueling work only if the boss is in a good enough mood.

I lived on my own skin what West vs Non-west means, only the ones that used to exploit me, are longing for the days when we were under a dictatorship, or without dictatorship but not yet alligned with the west. 

Edited Sunday at 11:57 PM by Daniel Balan

[Breakingthewall]

@Daniel Balan interesting, and it's true that European working conditions are fairer than those elsewhere, but a country like China cannot afford regulations that burden employers. This creates a lot of social injustice but at the same time boosts the companies.  Over time, if economic prosperity arrives, as it's happening, the labor market is regulated in favor of workers.

In Europe and the US, when industrialization was beginning, working conditions were much worse than in China (those were also different times). Forty years ago, China was a poor country, and poor in China means having no clothes or food. Right now, in China, there are still hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty, and it's necessary to incorporate them into the labor market.

In Europe, the opposite occurs; initiative is hindered and, in theory, it favors the worker, but if you stop being competitive, everyone loses in the end. We'll see Europe in 15 or 20 years. The perspectives aren't good .