I hadn't been there for a while. Their censorship was off-base (yes, ATS, Tim Walz fully deserves the nickname "China Tim").
In any case, the site had been limping for a long time now. Nothing like what it once was.
Here is a story from the old days regarding multiple visits to a foreign country (but not nearly as many as Walz has made to China).
When I was a GI in Europe, I enjoyed visiting a particular area of Swiss Alps because it was so tremendously scenic there. I went to that country about four times. The last visit, while I was on the way to their border with Germany, my friends and I realized there was a sedan pacing us on their version of an interstate highway. One guy was driving the sedan, another was busy *taking photos of us with a high quality camera*.
Obviously, the multiple crossings of their border had gotten me on their government's radar. Never mind that my sole purpose in their country was to hike and enjoy the food and drink.
Didn't go back for decades, that experience left me sour.
So that was a result of four trips there. I can only wonder what interest the Chinese authorities took in Walz with him visiting something like TWENTY-FIVE times. So yeah, ATS was full of it on that call. All in the name of some kind of spurious 'balance' ... or something.
It would be fine if ATS returns, but they should get out of the business of political topics because obviously they were too hot for the mods to handle.
Cheers
In any case, the site had been limping for a long time now. Nothing like what it once was.
Here is a story from the old days regarding multiple visits to a foreign country (but not nearly as many as Walz has made to China).
When I was a GI in Europe, I enjoyed visiting a particular area of Swiss Alps because it was so tremendously scenic there. I went to that country about four times. The last visit, while I was on the way to their border with Germany, my friends and I realized there was a sedan pacing us on their version of an interstate highway. One guy was driving the sedan, another was busy *taking photos of us with a high quality camera*.
Obviously, the multiple crossings of their border had gotten me on their government's radar. Never mind that my sole purpose in their country was to hike and enjoy the food and drink.
Didn't go back for decades, that experience left me sour.
So that was a result of four trips there. I can only wonder what interest the Chinese authorities took in Walz with him visiting something like TWENTY-FIVE times. So yeah, ATS was full of it on that call. All in the name of some kind of spurious 'balance' ... or something.
It would be fine if ATS returns, but they should get out of the business of political topics because obviously they were too hot for the mods to handle.
Cheers
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