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Like Huawei. China wants them to have a monopoly everywhere on earth.

Alibaba had nothing to do with being a monopoly, it became a power base to rival the government so it had to be broken and scattered.

Love the use of the passive tense. "Company decides to become less of a threat to president for life".

Another quote: "wealth always consolidates at the top, you can choose private sector or government to do so."

China's public debt exceeds the US in several areas, private debt lags behind but is still substantial.

I don't know but that's not relevant to my point..

Right wing high engagement accounts. Through in one or two accounts like @AOC for "balance"

> but instead we have an electronic voting system

We don't. As said, every electronic vote has a physical backup that is audited.

Ok, a global wikipedia article. Is there any example in the US of fraud existing at a scale that once audited could have changed the outcome on an election?

> Over what period?

At least 2-3 years, anything less is too small a sample size. You could be highlighting a 10% decline after a 200% increase.

Fair points, sorry for creating more work for you.

Right, the frat party I went to was sponsored by Microsoft and had Xbox stations.

Different.

> property prices and rental yields are extremely precarious

I noticed you didn't say "declining" because that wouldn't be true.

> Stanford is a leading indicator of campus life elsewhere.

It very much is not. Last party I went to at Stanford had corporate sponsorship.

> I thought there was evidence of fraud in 2020, but the problem was that the "evidence" was bogus

This is a distinction without a difference, no?

With all due respect, i'm calmly pointing out another users' inflammatory comments and clear trolling. I wasn't overly polite to him, is the rule literally to take abuse and remain robotic in response? Not being cheeky, genuinely curious.

> I really would like an explanation of what audit means. I am open to the idea of being surprised by a satisfying answer, but I am also asking because I don't think the answer will be satisfying.

Every electronic vote has a physical record, and is checked against each other. Fraud/mistakes occur, but never at the scale to shift any election.

More: https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/election-audits-acros...

> Self-awareness is not your strong point

It's funny how i've said everything I need to say already. You aren't as complicated as you think you are.

> I didn't ask who you claim to be, i'm pointing out what you are.

> I'm having a lot of fun, actually.

I don't doubt that. Trolling is fun for lots of people.

"Your sources are compromised, here's a quote from Fidel Castro and a random blog titled "China Has Billionaires" that doesn't actually talk about China at all, just "US is bad China opposes US therefore..."

Self-awareness is not your strong point. And your mix of conspiracy and partisan bile being challenged here is evidence this is a healthy online community, not the opposite. Perhaps you would feel better somewhere that confirms your beliefs instead of (rightly) mocks them.

I didn't ask who you claim to be, i'm pointing out what you are.

If you actually care what China is, which it appears you don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_capitalism

If I understand correctly, neither point has to do with electronic voting.

I disagree. There was no evidence of fraud in 2020, yet the losing party at 80-90% rate still believes it was stolen. At that point, there's nothing that can be done to dissuade.

To be clear, Trump attempted a coup based on no evidence of fraud. What would preventing him from doing the same, no matter how elections are run?

Hell he declared the elections fraudulent before they happened. What can possibly be done to prevent that from an elections standpoint?

Most electronic ballots still carry paper or otherwise physical verification.

I don't believe anyone is saying that. Reasonable objection is fine.

However the reductio ad absurdum tactic you employ to dismiss pointing out actual problematic behavior is typical of trolling itself. My opinion? I don't think that's an accident.

Your account was created 15 days ago and is used exclusively for posting inflammatory political nonsense. Also, you do realize that China is the most hyper-capitalist country in the world, don't you?

> Are you citing the Chinese government as the best source on supposed Chinese government atrocities?

> Absolutely.

He's telling you what he is. If you continue to engage, it's on you.

> It's plausible since there are claims that covid was detected in the US months before covid spread in Wuhan.

Not credible ones. In fact, the only people to bring this up are Chinese state media.

Even so, from late December to 23rd January is a long time to still allow dozens of international flights everyday from Wuhan. Incompetence is ruled out because domestic flights were suspended right away.