… lol

Isn’t he the guy being medicated for asthma, allergies, and ADHD… For which the medication just coincidentally happens to be performance-enhancing? Yeah forgive me if I have no sympathy for the guy.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.

US gold medals, 2000 to 2016:

2000 - 37 (300 events)

2004 - 36 (301 events)

2008 - 36 (302 events)

2012 - 48 (302 events)

2016 - 46 (306 events)

On one hand, we have clear US overperformance in gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. On the other hand, we have proof that athletes CAUGHT DOPING between 2011 and 2014 were allowed to continue competing for years afterwards.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it’s a duck?

IMF: your housing market is collapsing

China: yeah we know

IMF: so how about you bail out those poor housing investors

China: …no thanks

IMF: surprised Pikachu

Global positive test rate is 0.67%. 25% of those are “legal” (~250). Of the illegal ones, 25 Chinese, 57 Americans, 135 Russians.

The Beijing lab reported 25 AAFs, for a 0.23% positive test rate over 10326 tests. The LA and SLC labs together reported 153 AAFs, for a 1.54% positive test rate over 9904 tests. So… Eh? Isn’t this the opposite result being claimed? The US is able to run interference for a good proportion of their AAFs by claiming “medical reasons” and other bullshit.

Hey how about you take your homophobia somewhere else?

Chen picked up Chang in a bridal carry for a photo after they receiving their gold medals, which led many netizens to joke that Chang and Chen are in a romantic relationship, posting online fan-made edits of their interactions in slow-motion paired with romantic captions

“If love has miracles, I would be the happiest creating them with you,” wrote one Xiaohongshu user who posted a series of moments between the pair moments during the competition.

“The most romantic thing is to have your names engraved together in sporting history,” commented another user.

US sanctions going well

Odd how this happens just as America’s foreign policy talking heads had to turn onwards to deal with Biden’s collapse…

Almost as if the US is the main impediment to peace in the region.

Can you spell racism for me?

The story not being told is that Chinese factories are absurdly automated compared to the rest of Asia - their competitors are South Korean and Japanese factories, but they’re entering markets that are still heavily labour-centric. China is spearheading this new evolution of industrial manufacturing and everyone else is forced to either adapt or die.

4.7% YoY Q2

5.3% YoY Q1

0.7% QoQ Q2

1.5% QoQ Q1

Retail sales were the contributor (2.0% YoY growth, vs. 3.3% expected)

Retail growth is being sandbagged by a few key factors:

1. Luxury goods demand being beaten to the absolute ground. Eviscerated.

2. Foreign brands have tanked in China - Apple, foreign cars, etc. and have been replaced by (cheaper) domestic alternatives like Huawei, BYD, etc.

3. New trade restrictions with the US and Europe have limited Chinese consumption patterns. For example, the RTX 4090 is blocked from being exported to China.

Alibaba has already gone crazy with it lmao it’s so funny

Justifying war crimes - the American way

Definitely no signs of foreign interference, which the US would never do in South America.

If anyone wanted more evidence of how IMF loans are not in the best interests of the countries that take them, see here.

Canada’s military was responsible for the subjugation and genocide of many First Nations group, including against the Metis, Cree, and Assiniboine peoples, as well as deployed abroad to subjugate the Boers in South Africa in support of the British Empire. The Canadian Army was also deployed in Afghanistan, where Western powers fought for two decades to replace the Taliban with the Taliban and caused untold amounts of suffering in the process.

Now do Iran.

Considering Canada declared Iran’s army as a terrorist entity…

The US refuses to send Ukraine better ATACMS. At the end of the day, the US wants cluster munitions to proliferate because it aligns with NATO military doctrine.

Civilians are a manufactured concept by the Russian deep state

dedicate more forces to protecting their nuclear capabilities

Are you hearing yourself? The nuclear capability is the protection. There’s a reason that during the Cold War nobody was stupid enough to attack someone else’s nuclear early warning radar. The entire principle of mutually assured destruction relies on both parties knowing what the other is NOT doing so they know that they don’t need to respond.