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Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people not check facts anymore?

Likewise, do people not cite sources for their own claims?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heard of Google?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Heard of the burden of proof? Lead by example and Google it first

Besides, providing sources isn't just to support your ideas, but for people to evaluate the quality of your info and gauge your integrity. 101 stuff, but go on lecturing about the scientific process while practicing none of it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So... You have no counterargument, no source for your 2015 claim, and nothing of value to contribute? Carry on.

You're one of the biggest failures of democracy: democracy assumes people discuss in good faith. Meanwhile, you use decades-old data to provide misinformation while pretending to be informed and follow it up with uncited claims... Because, reasons?

Here, I'll help you Google:

[GDP per capita] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/china/gdp-per-capita

[Poverty rates] https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/37727/9781464818776.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

[Link between poverty and homelessness] https://pure.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/7467281/Homelessness_Poverty_FullReport.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiE9fGM8NeAAxXcgv0HHdvWArIQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1BQARSj9oJ_XIjT4rz1cu_

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re one of the biggest failures of democracy

Where do you think I live?? xDDD

Here, I’ll help you Google:

Help me?? lmao Dude, that's your fucking homework. It's late and half-assed so I'll give you a C. Nice try throwing around a 100+ page PDFs around like that means anything. You give a quote with a page number, Mr Scientific Method dude.

Now go forth practicing what you learned today instead of being a giant hypocrite, little grasshopper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Have you never learned about primary sources? No competent scientific reference format asks for pages except for books (of which these aren't) and papers within conference proceedings (of which these also aren't).

Still waiting for my 2015 source...