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@bonfire: Dude single crown FR bikes have been rippin since Bourdon so I dont feel like thats a good proxy but hear you nonetheless, a shit ton of 160mm or less trail bikes in Whis Bike Park last few seasons...that said like 10% of that crowd is going to rip, most of them are just going to roll everything...

@Albert1Chai: Fort Detrick? Yes, its the USAs version of the WUHAN VIROLOGY INSTITUTE, difference is the outbreak CAME FROM WUHAN, not Maryland. Is your point that the USA can safely run these labs while China is too incompetent to? Hard to tell if this pinhead logic from Albert is simply the current state of the art for CCP bots, or just what happens to mental faculty in a dictatorship where any kind of intelligent or political thought lands you in prison with a show trial?

@knightmarerider: Thanks for acknowledging that I have freedom of movement, very big of you. Media is lies. Here, there, everywhere. The trick is having the intelligence to discern the kernel of truth in the chunk of bullshit, but I wont waste my time trying to explain that to you. The media, ESPECIALLY IN THE US, but everywhere, are a bunch of lying scumbags, but at the same time that doesnt mean that the CCP isnt an oppressive dictatorship run by lazy, corrupt pigs, who take advantage of the population to maintain their useless lifestyles. And yes, our politicians are lazy corrupt pigs too, but theyre not oppressive, which tends to make the all the difference. And for the record, I have heard this directly from people who have left China.

@justanotherusername: Bang on mate. This false-equivalence shit needs to end. CCP loves it though, they have figured out that if you only use the argument "well someone did it before us or someone has done worse before us" you can use it to justify almost anything. China tries to justify committing genocide today, by saying that our great-grandfathers committed genocide in the past, which, even if its true, has nothing to do with anything.

@Charlotroy: Yeah bud - bad enough that we created this beast by outsourcing all of our production to their sweat shops creating the capital required to build a Chinese military which is now a threat, least we can do is not pump further tourism dollars to the CCP

@knightmarerider: They really wouldn't - this didnt start with Huawei. Nice simplification though, very effectively dismisses the incompatible ideologies at play in either country. Also not for nothing but Canada arrested her because your country lent on us HARD to enforce YOUR sanctions...maybe China relations would be better if the USA was better at strategic foreign policy or if you hadnt elected an orange clown baby to run your country for 4 years...

Hundo agree with you. FUCK THE CCP WITH A CACTUS, but I got no beef with the China's citizens who are victims of this corrupt, brutal regime. And yes I know the west is also a steaming pile of shit, but there is no equivalence with China and Russia - they are far worse.

I would never travel to China under the CCP for any reason - its the wild west out there. Look at the case of the Michaels and a bunch of other Canadian, US, Australian and other westerners who have been captured and imprisoned by China for political reasons. China's courts have a 99% conviction rate which demonstrates that the Chinese judicial system is little more than a rubber stamp for the convictions the CCP wants to achieve. Even if China had the best trails on the planet, I wouldn't go. The world's best trails are worth risking your life for, but NOT your freedom.

@Albert1Chai: Cannabis Country? Fucken A. At least here no one is dragged into a van in the middle of the night never to be seen again just for criticizing the government. If China is sooo smart how come so many of you are still herding goats and eating pangolins? Just curious.

@Albert1Chai: Because you feel the need to promote the CCP and their propaganda. As far as China achieving anything on your own, sure, if you count stealing intellectual property from almost every western business which operates in China as "doing it yourself"...or was COVID manufactured using only using Chinese IP?