Which is why I’m annoyed, but not angry at sensationalist political coverage
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there is the historical fact of genocide against the western hemisphere first nations. I am Canadian, we are no better. Disease more than anything else won the west.
An old friend of mine is first nations and is in a rock band. They came out with a song a few years ago called ‘Genocide’, in which he loudly sings the word.
Edit: I just realized some other posters got to the same point, but I retain my post.
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No shit. Even the outcome of The Great Leap Forward with regard to the leaders unwilling to go full commie disillusioned him so much he decided to start the Cultural Revolution and all the purges. I don’t know where @pat 's getting his information from.
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Great point. I think we all get fed certain viewpoints of places that we don’t live in and tend to believe those. It’s good to point out that actual people in China aren’t studying all day long and training to annihilate the US.
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I should, as @Aragorn pointed out, correct this to “a lot of people believe” and it’s the CCP people in general have a problem with. If I believed everything I read in international news from around the globe, I’d have the impression that everyone in the US is a racist, self-aggrandizing bigot who wants to compel the entire world to adhere to their culture, politics and way of thinking through propaganda disguised as entertainment, and support the use of violent means if necessary. And they’re all fucking dumbasses because TWO people out of 300+ million decided to drink fish tank cleaner and died because Trump said something stupid.
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So you’re telling me I’ve been doing it wrong all these years?
I’ll have to ask Chris Colucci if its okay to discuss salamander sources(or sauces for that matter) on TNation. 
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I should add that no one eats cats because cats supposedly taste like crap lol. And I’ve had rat wine ffs.
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How much money do you have for bribes 
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Rat wine. I’m probably going to regret it, but how do they make rat wine? Hopefully its cooked first? Do they serve it with cheese?
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Somewhat of a derail, but I just saw this story and thought I should throw it up somewhere here in T-Nation. this thread is sort of relevant to it, it turns out that Canada is getting soaked by espionage and foreign messing around in general, China being a large part of the article.
We scrapped an advanced jet fighter in the 1950s, partly because Nato was worried that the technology would have been too easy for the Soviets to find out about. that is now considered a major sore point in Canadian history, and still we are underequipped to foil foreign threats to Canadians, in Canada, and other undesirable activities.
I have no idea and I really don’t want to know lol. Long ago, a client offered it to me from a bottle with a rat in it and I drank a couple of shots. Couldn’t turn it down.
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The real question is, was it any good?
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I would think it’s more hype than anything, like snake wine. They probably just put the liver or spleens in to make it look all woowoo without actually changing the taste of the alcohol. If they’re making it with baijiu (>53%), you’d probably only feel an unpleasant burning sensation when you drink it anyways, regardless of what’s in the beverage
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Couldn’t have put it better myself 
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I think international news is a pain in the ass. I mean, it’s better than not knowing. But it’s also often wrong in so many ways that what you end up “knowing” is sometimes barely worth the paper being printed.
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It must have been one hell of a client. Shit.
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I don’t remember there being so many mice in the bottle but it was something like this. You can find them in Traditional Chinese Medicine stores too.
Once again pat shows he knows nothing about history. He apparently never heard of Andrew Jackson. And Germany being three different countries? Pure imbecility.
My main concern with China isn’t the possibility of imminent war (won’t happen - no one benefits), but their continuing dominance of the markets for rare earth elements. They already control something like 90%+ of global rare earth production, and as most of the major companies are state-owned this gives the CCP the power to control prices and potentially throttle supply to Western tech companies while supporting their own. Even with countries sourcing oxides from outside China, they still often have to be shipped there to be refined. This stuff is used in virtually all modern tech - phones, batteries, military equipment, etc - so global reliance on CCP controlled suppliers is a bit of a problem.
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