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  • Lived in southern Africa for 6 months. Primarily Mozambique but I was in SA a little as well as Malawi. They’re very racist, the Africans. My brother who was there as well was driving somewhere one day with a Mozambican, a good dude, and it came up that he wanted all the white people out of Mozambique. My brother is a red-headed white American. He questioned this Mozambican asking what about himself? “Oh, not you, we like you.” Its just how they think about things, probably going back to all the colonization that happened and all the ills or perceived ills that came from that. And so it’s easy to just keep going back to that idea as a society.

    And for the record, they didn’t just want all the white people out. They wanted the Chinese out as well. And there’s tensions between the various tribes. Combine all that with low levels of education and extensive poverty and it’s easy for charismatic leaders to come along and pump up these ideas and get movements going as people see hope in the promises even when the results are obviously going to be bad.












  • It definitely can be finicky. I had a portable ac that completely killed the power line ethernet connection when it ran. And my current house I have it in i use from where my router is to where my main TV is and it is unreliable even without that AC unit. So it definitely depends on the circumstances.







  • In terms of conventional warfare, nation on nation, the US wins. The US Navy, the US Air Force, the US Naval Air Force are in a completely different league of power in comparison to China.

    The thing would be what that war looks like and where it would take place. US mainland is an unlikely locale for the front lines due to the difficulties China would have getting a foothold.

    In an all out war the US does have an access point to the Chinese mainland in South Korea. Granted, the US would have to get through North Korea and that’s already been tried once although the US wasn’t in all out war mode the last time troops were engaged in combat there.

    Whether the US would actually be able to militarily defeat the PLA on China’s home soil I don’t know. We all thought Russia was extremely powerful and Ukraine just held them off and turned the tide with a bunch of NATO’s old equipment.

    Obviously the Chinese economy and therefore military support capabilities are drastically different from Russia’s but many do wonder if Chinese military policies being perhaps closer to Russia’s than to Western standards does make one wonder if the tactics and capabilities of the US and it’s allies would ultimately be too much for the PLA to overcome even if relatively well equipped and bigger.