China's USA Franchise

[Gameface]

I like the Rockets, and Houston area specifically. Harris family.

But I think that's the last team that would sell out to the Chinese.

Rumor has it that the Jazz might be the first.

Houston is probably the most popular team in China due to Yao Ming. I'm not talking about anyone selling out. China is certainly a primary adversary to the U.S., along with Russia, but neither of them are our "enemies" and I have no ill will towards them or their people.

 

[babe]

Houston is probably the most popular team in China due to Yao Ming. I'm not talking about anyone selling out. China is certainly a primary adversary to the U.S., along with Russia, but neither of them are our "enemies" and I have no ill will towards them or their people.

I never start out with ill will or stupid prejudice or even nationalism. In my mind the dichotomy is Big Guv vx. Ordinary Folks. Any trend to give people actually more opportunity is always an economic boom.

The stuff of Big Bird and PBS is qualitatively no different from unabashed propaganda for any local tyrant, imho. Trains the human mind to powerless somnolescence like old Joe.

 

[Gameface]

I never start out with ill will or stupid prejudice or even nationalism. In my mind the dichotomy is Big Guv vx. Ordinary Folks. Any trend to give people actually more opportunity is always an economic boom.

The stuff of Big Bird and PBS is qualitatively no different from unabashed propaganda for any local tyrant, imho. Trains the human mind to powerless somnolescence like old Joe.

Yeah so Yao Ming... lot's of Chinese Rockets fans... you picking up what I'm laying down here, babe?

Also, Big Bird is a warrior for peace and love. You mess with Big Bird you mess with me, comprende MFer!

 

[fishonjazz]

Yeah so Yao Ming... lot's of Chinese Rockets fans... you picking up what I'm laying down here, babe?

Also, Big Bird is a warrior for peace and love. You mess with Big Bird you mess with me, comprende MFer!

This is probably about the most appropriate response to a babe post that I have ever seen.

 

[babe]

Yeah so Yao Ming... lot's of Chinese Rockets fans... you picking up what I'm laying down here, babe?

Also, Big Bird is a warrior for peace and love. You mess with Big Bird you mess with me, comprende MFer!

I dunno why I'm not surprised you love Big Bird. I knew a guy from Macao who was as tall as Yao. I don't think that's any kind of local tribe of giants, but I wouldn't be surprised if Yao harbors nationalist love.

 

[Beer]

Supporters of "MAGA" or "Trumpism" will be socially ostracized not only in this forum, but elsewhere, probably more effectively.

Hopefully

 

[babe]

Hopefully

I dunno really, but aren't you socially/culturally immersed in SE Utah/NE AZ/ NW NM Navajo/Ute/Hopi/etc native American/White minority issues?

So here's the thing. Socialism is nothing new at all. Ever since Kit Carson and John Wesley Powell and the US Army moved people into the reservations and took over all aspects of their lives.

In a broad sense, the rest of us are now being rounded up and moved into the Urban Corrals, with Biden/Obama visions of taking over local zoning power for the Federal Gov. Incremental socialism has now been turbocharged and will go the limit, balls to the walls.

The people who voted for Trump didn't vote for him because he was a constitutional scholar or ideologue. A lot of people voted for him expressly because he was not part of that big vision. The crowds came out for him because he wasn't already "owned" that they could see.

The social pressure to conform to the Biden camp vision is intolerance for most Americans who have somehow believed they were still free, that their votes matter, and that they can reasonably go about their business and prosper under fair laws.

Your "hopefully" sentiment here, and those who are like-minded, are actually believing you have something better.

Socialism is what creates zones of poverty and lack of opportunity like the reservations.

 

[babe]

This is probably about the most appropriate response to a babe post that I have ever seen.

So Game didn't like this take of it. More like killing the opposition with kindness, masking a darker sort of snicker perhaps. Gotta figure the angles better.

 

[babe]

This is probably about the most appropriate response to a babe post that I have ever seen.

So I take it Yao is walking the line now, being something of a unifier. Houston ownership protested the events in Hong Kong that took contro ofl well ahead of the promised transition period's end, perhaps because they understood the ramifications for Macao as well. But they, and Yao quickly folded.

The Han ethnic folks in China, including Xi and probably most of the CCP, are pretty flagrant believers in themselves as the best of humans. Yao is not Han. I'm sure that Chinese national pride has a lot to do with Yao's superstardom in the Chinese mind as a whole, but a lot of ethnic minorities are probably even more enthusiastic, as well as the Taiwan nationalists and the very large overseas communities of Singapore and the Philppines.

Basketball is huge in the Philippines, even if the Filipino's are not "huge". You can hardly make it from your front door to the bus stop without going across a basketball "court" in the street or skirting a pickup game.

 

[fishonjazz]

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