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Reply #15 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:46pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:44pm:
Yes, it does. Chinese hierarchy is based on guan xi (influence). You are respected by who you know. Everyone else is fair game.


What a heap of ignorant poo lol.

I have stuff made in china that is of perfectly good quality
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Reply #16 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:50pm
 
FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:46pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:44pm:
Yes, it does. Chinese hierarchy is based on guan xi (influence). You are respected by who you know. Everyone else is fair game.


What a heap of ignorant poo lol.

I have stuff made in china that is of perfectly good quality

What did you buy?

Not only that, foreigners do not rank at all in Chinese society. If foreigners get into a stouch with a Chinese national over anything, they learn quickly not to get the police involved. The police will support the national and charge you with disrupting social order.
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Reply #17 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:52pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:50pm:
FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:46pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:44pm:
Yes, it does. Chinese hierarchy is based on guan xi (influence). You are respected by who you know. Everyone else is fair game.


What a heap of ignorant poo lol.

I have stuff made in china that is of perfectly good quality

What did you buy?

Not only that, foreigners do not rank at all in Chinese society. If foreigners get into a stouch with a Chinese national over anything, they learn quickly not to get the police involved. The police will support the national and charge you with disrupting social order.


This is an elaborate fantasy life you have.....
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Reply #18 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:55pm
 
FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:52pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:50pm:
FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:46pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 5:44pm:
Yes, it does. Chinese hierarchy is based on guan xi (influence). You are respected by who you know. Everyone else is fair game.


What a heap of ignorant poo lol.

I have stuff made in china that is of perfectly good quality

What did you buy?

Not only that, foreigners do not rank at all in Chinese society. If foreigners get into a stouch with a Chinese national over anything, they learn quickly not to get the police involved. The police will support the national and charge you with disrupting social order.


This is an elaborate fantasy life you have.....

What did you buy?
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Reply #19 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 6:07pm
 
Lefty goes for an assertion.... or ten...... nothing to support it but hey... what's the use of a good argument if you have to supply support for your views... that kind of argument could be mistaken for debating..

Hmm - pavers laid today look good... fit the bill.
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Reply #20 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 8:42pm
 
The Chinese people trust Australian products 100-fold over their locally made produce.

So, Gerry, as much as you sell overpriced sh!t to us locals, it's still better than the sh!t the Chinese sell to each other.

And, a little bit of respect for your own people and the governance by which we choose to live under, wouldn't go amiss.
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Reply #21 - Sep 28th, 2022 at 9:13pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 8:42pm:
The Chinese people trust Australian products 100-fold over their locally made produce.

So, Gerry, as much as you sell overpriced sh!t to us locals, it's still better than the sh!t the Chinese sell to each other.

And, a little bit of respect for your own people and the governance by which we choose to live under, wouldn't go amiss.

After all, it's only under Australian governance (as opposed to CCP totalitarianism), that an old codger like you gets to keep his wealth.
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Reply #22 - Sep 29th, 2022 at 7:32am
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 9:13pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 8:42pm:
The Chinese people trust Australian products 100-fold over their locally made produce.

So, Gerry, as much as you sell overpriced sh!t to us locals, it's still better than the sh!t the Chinese sell to each other.

And, a little bit of respect for your own people and the governance by which we choose to live under, wouldn't go amiss.

After all, it's only under Australian governance (as opposed to CCP totalitarianism), that an old codger like you gets to keep his wealth.


The CCP has raised more people out of poverty than any nation in history
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Reply #23 - Sep 29th, 2022 at 11:01am
 
FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Sep 29th, 2022 at 7:32am:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 9:13pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 8:42pm:
The Chinese people trust Australian products 100-fold over their locally made produce.

So, Gerry, as much as you sell overpriced sh!t to us locals, it's still better than the sh!t the Chinese sell to each other.

And, a little bit of respect for your own people and the governance by which we choose to live under, wouldn't go amiss.

After all, it's only under Australian governance (as opposed to CCP totalitarianism), that an old codger like you gets to keep his wealth.


The CCP has raised more people out of poverty than any nation in history

The CCP has defrauded and shaken down more people than any nation in history.

The main reason the housing industry is collapsing in China is due directly to the CCP, not only tolerating corruption, but actively exploiting it.
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Reply #24 - Sep 29th, 2022 at 11:32am
 

We can safely ignore anything/everything this sad old man has to say.
I'm guessing that—like Trump—he has early onset dementia.  Harvey
treats his stores' tenants like scum, and most of the stuff he (or they)
sell is manufactured in China.

The bloke's an absolute shitbag.  From a news report in November last year:

Quote:
He’s worth billions, and he spends millions buying up horses. But despite
all this wealth, Gerry Harvey still decided to try to evict a terminally ill
widow, Peggy Luker, who was living in a property owned by Harvey.  It
appears he could not bring himself to let the woman spend her last days
in a property he owned, despite having a personal fortune of $2.1 billion.

When visiting the property last year, Harvey said to the 68-year-old Luker;
"Maybe you can get into a housing commission or something. Surely you
have a Plan B?" in a court affidavit.

This is typical of Harvey's entire life history;  greedy self-interest at the expense
of everybody else.

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Reply #25 - Sep 29th, 2022 at 11:36am
 
AusGeoff wrote on Sep 29th, 2022 at 11:32am:

We can safely ignore anything/everything this sad old man has to say.
I'm guessing that—like Trump—he has early onset dementia.  Harvey
treats his stores' tenants like scum, and most of the stuff he (or they)
sell is manufactured in China.

The bloke's an absolute shitbag.  From a news report in November last year:

Quote:
He’s worth billions, and he spends millions buying up horses. But despite
all this wealth, Gerry Harvey still decided to try to evict a terminally ill
widow, Peggy Luker, who was living in a property owned by Harvey.  It
appears he could not bring himself to let the woman spend her last days
in a property he owned, despite having a personal fortune of $2.1 billion.

When visiting the property last year, Harvey said to the 68-year-old Luker;
"Maybe you can get into a housing commission or something. Surely you
have a Plan B?" in a court affidavit.

This is typical of Harvey's entire life history;  greedy self-interest at the expense
of everybody else.

Gerry Harvey would not be out of place in character if he lived in China and had firm and reliable connections to the CCP hierarchy.

Ultimately, though, as a foreigner (or a billionaire not connected to the CCP's so-called red princelings), his wealth would be harvested and redistributed among the princelings and their close associates.
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whiteknight wrote on Sep 28th, 2022 at 4:12pm:
‘Best system’: Billionaire Gerry Harvey sparks outrage over China take
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Sep 28 2022

Billionaire Gerry Harvey has sparked outrage again, this time with his suggestion that Australia should make like China’s authoritarian government to get things done.   Angry   

The Harvey Norman co-founder voiced his complementary assessment on the Chinese Communist Party in an interview with news.com.au, complaining that Australia’s fresh Parliament is  “a recipe for disaster”.

“If you want to get something done, the best system is the Chinese one,” he said on Wednesday’s

“You just do it. You’ve got a government that’s in total control and they don’t give a f–k what the people say.”

The comments sparked outrage on social media, where the gaffe-prone Mr Harvey was lambasted for speaking favourably about the Chinese government, which faces international condemnation for its treatment of minority groups and threats to impose its will on Taiwan.


Mr Harvey made the comments while criticising growing local support for so-called ‘teal’ independents over the major two political parties.

In this year’s federal election, Kylea Tink, Sophie Scamps, Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan and Allegra Spender all unseated Liberal members as part of the ‘teal wave’, named after the colour most of them campaigned in.

Their agendas, including a federal ICAC and a stronger emissions reduction target, directly conflict with the Liberal Party’s stance.

Mr Harvey said the makeup of federal parliament was a “recipe for disaster”, with Australia heading towards a government where Liberal and Labor may only hold “30 per cent” of the vote.

“When you’ve got a government that sees Labor in with full control or Liberal in with full control, you can get things done,” he said.

“When you’ve got a coalition of two, three, four or five or more independents, the process is slowed extraordinarily. They never get stuff done.”

“If I had to predict the future I think there’ll be a lot more of these coalitions. I can see some advantage in that, but then if you want to build a road or a bridge or make something, it never gets done, it’s stopped dead.”


The billionaire retailer has never been shy with his opinions – no matter how out-of-touch they might reveal him to be.

Mr Harvey came under fire early in the pandemic after praising the COVID virus for its effect on Harvey Norman’s sales, while pooh-poohing health concerns.

“You know, this is an opportunity,” he told 60 Minutes.

“Our sales are up in Harvey Norman in Australia by 9 per cent on last year. Our sales in freezers are up 300 per cent. And what about air purifiers? Up 100 per cent.”

But it seems Mr Harvey didn’t want to share his good fortune with employees. Harvey Norman later refused to hand back more than $13 million in JobKeeper subsidies in 2021, despite funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars to investors as profits soared.


Well the only thing Gerry got right is his assessment of consensus one-party meritocracy to get things done, compared with the  gridlock in hyperpartisan adversarial democracies...
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