China using cyanide to 'destroy' Scarborough on purpose — BFAR

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"If I can't have you, no one will." -- China, apparently.

And as usual, no one will do something decisive about it because China is a huge bully and is using its reputation as the world's factory and its economic heft to intimidate anyone who thinks of doing anything about it.

China is a huge bully and is using its reputation as the world's factory and its economic heft

Funded by Western capitalists for the last 30 years in their never-ending greed for profits.

Should've kept manufacturing in their own countries, but no. Paying their workers well means less profits.

Funded by Western capitalists for the last 30 years in their never-ending greed for profits.

Oddly, it's less this and more hatred of unions and workers' rights. They could make even more money from people who are able to afford luxuries.

And the reason they hate those things. Is that because in a short-term it impacts their real profits.

Greed is always a short-term outlook. No immoral greedy person ever looked at something and said, boy if I just made society better we as a whole would benefit a whole lot more. It's always, give it to me. Give it to me naooooooow!

Yeah. If they weren't so evolutionarily maladaptive, they could easily have provided for their offspring for the foreseeable future of the species in a way that would be be resilient to societal and environmental changes. It really is past time that this mental illness is studied and characterized.