The Truth About China That LeBron and the NBA
Don’t Understand Or don't want to understand.
American Spectator,
by
Larry Alex Taunton
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
10/24/2019 9:00:51 AM
In 2017, I literally went around the world in 80 days as part of a series I was writing on how the world stacked up against America. Like Phileas Fogg minus the hot air balloon, I visited every continent but Antarctica. I explored the Amazon rainforest with a naturalist in Brazil, shot AK-47s with former Viet Cong in Vietnam, hid from the Islamic Fulani herdsmen militia in Nigeria, drove the Great Ocean Highway in Australia, and walked the barbed wire of the DMZ on the Korean peninsula. As such things often go, the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 10/24/2019 9:18:14 AM (No. 216228)
Very interesting how Mr. Taunton mentions socialism, communisim, and facisim. Yes, the Chinese do realize that socialism does not work, and many of today's socialists reside in Paris, Brussels, and Washington D.C. Yet the Chinese are indeed facists and all attempts at reform-or even just blanket critiisim-are crushed with an iron hand. One wonders whether the Antifa-clowns in Portland have actually noticed how similar they are to facists, and whether socialists like Bernie Sanders have noticed that China gave up on socialism long ago. It's just a dictatorship now-does Bernie want to have the masses salute him with raised arms? No matter how many examples or proof is thrust in front of these Antifa-clowns, these facists, they resist the idea that they themselves are more of a danger to America than what they have been brainwashed to believe. That Trump is somehow the enemy. And the MSM, who should (and does) know better, are just following orders because their owners and controlling partners are greedy globalists who only care about power. Just like the Chinese. And LeBron.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/24/2019 9:55:30 AM (No. 216267)
The most likely explanation for LeBron 'Peking' James actions are that he is on the Chinese payroll. there are many America-haters in sports and watching sports so LeBron can get away with this. China is a Communist dictatorship unlike any other Communist dictatorship because they are variations of the same theme. No two are the same. That's why China cannot compare to Russia or any other Communist/Socialist/Facist nation or group.
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ARKfamily 10/24/2019 9:55:44 AM (No. 216268)
Democrats are jealous, faithless, greedy, dull, repetitive, infantile, irresponsible, dishonest. I am adding one more adjective to the list. Thankless.
In another similar article, I commented about LeBron James. The opportunities given to these athletes, celebrities, political figures etc. are many. What do they complain about? The National Anthem or what is wrong about America. So thankless. Yet, these are people being paid mega bucks for their positions. Why don't some of these thankless people walk the hallways of a hospital? Say St. Jude's? They should feel fortunate they can run the length of a basketball court, or a football field, or be in front of a camera etc., etc. Yet, all they do is whine and complain.
You know this has a lot of parallels to the story about the mom forcing her 7-year old son into transgender surgery. And getting the government to back her up. What a thankless mom. I don't know her reasons - did she want a daughter and not get what she WANTED? Who knows? Can't she just be thankful for who her son is? Nope, she has to complain and whine.
Yep, Democrats are thankless, too.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/24/2019 10:24:23 AM (No. 216312)
Very interesting and honest perspective. Perhaps the fact that the author is free-lance allowed him the freedom to write without bias. And what a gig for a journalist, touring the world for 80 days and writing about each country that was visited. Most of us would jump on an assignment like that.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 10/24/2019 10:40:48 AM (No. 216332)
Don't understand? Don't want to understand? How about too ignorant to understand?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 10/24/2019 11:05:14 AM (No. 216357)
NBA? Who cares?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ginadee 10/24/2019 11:15:51 AM (No. 216363)
LeBron doesn't understand anything. Too dumb. Just knows how to play basketball and collect big bucks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
droopydog 10/24/2019 12:57:33 PM (No. 216439)
LeBron is just dumb...not much more to understand. The NBA and Silver are greedy to the point of siding with genocidal despots.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 10/24/2019 1:11:36 PM (No. 216449)
Is Lebron James just dumb or is he too clever by healf? I say too clever. He knew the contro0versy he would generate by speaking out and did. He knew what he was doing So, we then fall for it and get on with writi9ng articles and other dumb stuff about is words. Right or wrong, we debate such outlandish comkments in the intelligence of modern literaray speldor. What a question, "Who is dumb about something as obvious as China?" And we fall for it!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cny 10/24/2019 1:16:06 PM (No. 216450)
So, at the end of the article he said, "The Chinese government of Xi Jinping must crush Hong Kong’s freedom movement just as it has crushed all others before it if it is to maintain power, but it needs the United States to look the other way. Trump has obliged China. To his credit, Daryl Morey did not." Is he implying that the U.S. will look away while China crushes Hong Kong, Taiwan, and whoever else they want to crush? I don't think it's that simple.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/24/2019 3:16:49 PM (No. 216553)
LeBron has certainly made a total fool of himself, and so has the NBA, who has to go to China for customers, as most people in the USA despise them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/25/2019 2:09:19 PM (No. 217415)
Let's not be naive. The essential matter is that the NBA makes zillions, as do other American companies, doing business with China. The human cost is not their problem. The Chinese have gone through millenia of oppression. No warlord or emperor was as benevolent as the Chinese Communists. The Chinese "public" is in high cotton, and most are more than happy. The streets and roads are full of Cadilacs, Buicks, Chevrolets and many European and Asian makes. Poor folks don't drive cars in China. Poor folks don't buy apartments and leave them empty to ensure their children are able to attend certain favored schools. Does one hear of "defections" anymore? The game is simple - you keep your mouth shut about the government and you may prosper. This is the "truth" Americans cannot and will not understand. While all men may yearn to be free...well, define freedom.
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