Jackson Martinez

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I think he was drugged and put on a plane, on his arrival was told by his agent "Welcome to China"

His pictures and his face

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On 3 February 2016 at 1:03 AM, Cosmin said:

 

How is Abramovich's example relevant here? 

Well, good for them, but poverty is still a big issue in China. They might have a strong economy, but their political regime doesn't really give too much opportunities to average people. That's why their workforce is so cheap and huge companies exploit people there. A lot of Chinese people really are starving. That's a fact. And now they decide to invest huge amounts of money in a sport that they don't know anything about, in a sport that they don't have tradition in. It would've been understandable to invest in gymnastics, for example. But football? In China? It's really weird. 

Starving in China? Obviously you know nuts about China.  Your Wikipedia link doesn't even back that up.  Smacks of euro centric bigotry.

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4 minutes ago, bellion said:

Starving in China? Obviously you know nuts about China.  Your Wikipedia link doesn't even back that up.  Smacks of euro centric bigotry.

82 million living in poverty. Fuck all, true. 

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On 2/3/2016 at 11:12 AM, Cosmin said:

 

Because:

1. Poverty is not a big problem in England.

2. England invented football, basically. Chinese people probably don't give a damn about it, in general.

3. If the situation in Russia is identical, it doesn't make it right.

Of course, these outrageous amounts of money invested in football are a huge general problem, but at least in some contries they are somehow justified as they generate entertainment for people. English people love football, German people love football, Spanish people love football. Chinese people? 

Just because England invented football doesn't give them a monopoly on it. It's the most popular sport in the world, and it's been a long time since England has ruled the game. Maybe the Premier League is the most popular league in the world, but its filled with players from many different countries.

The Chinese love football, they just don't have a quality league. That's the case with most countries around the world. There's other sports in the country that are popular, but to say they don't give a damn about it is completely false. 

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7 hours ago, kiwi1691 said:

You are confusing retaliative poverty, and absolute poverty. There is absolute poverty in China, there is no absolute poverty in the UK. Relative poverty is an utterly useless metric.

I wasn't confusing anything; I think you are the one confused by thinking I'm confused.

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6 hours ago, Cosmin said:

82 million living in poverty. Fuck all, true. 

Poverty = starving ? Lol

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On 03/02/2016 at 1:57 PM, Essien19 said:

Same could be said about Russia!

Russian people starving? WTF did I read??

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Same could be said about Russia!

Russian people starving? WTF did I read??

So everyone has enough to eat?

Maybe you should take a closer look...

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There's this common misconception with China or Russia. These two nations have their prosperous regions but also their not so prosperous, where you would find poverty. China and Russia are both multi-ethnic states. China isn't just China or Russia isn't just Russia, it's just other autonomous regions such as Tibet, Xinjiang, but with huge populations. Western and Southern China mostly major cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou are prosperous, almost like Japan, Korea. Most Han Chinese places are not "poor". But since China has MASSIVE Eastern provinces such as Xinjiang, TIbet, Qinghai, and some poor Northern provinces, which have little industry and people there are "poor", and it's mostly populations of these provinces that fall under poverty. 

Same goes for Russia. It's got rich places such as Moscow, St Petersburg but also poor places like Chechnya and other places in the North Caucasus, where poverty is rife.

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2 minutes ago, Essien19 said:

So everyone has enough to eat?

Maybe you should take a closer look...

Read my latest post. 

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6 minutes ago, kobematabryant said:

Read my latest post. 

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Same goes for Russia. It's got rich places such as Moscow, St Petersburg but also poor places like Chechnya and other places in the North Caucasus, where poverty is rife.

You said it yourself, there is poverty and in my opinion some people are starving.
Don't understand how you proved me wrong and why you wrote "WTF", maybe i'm just tired, bye.
 

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4 minutes ago, Essien19 said:

You said it yourself, there is poverty and in my opinion some people are starving.
Don't understand how you proved me wrong and why you wrote "WTF", maybe i'm just tired, bye.
 

There's a difference between poverty and starving. Lol. 

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7 hours ago, bellion said:

Poverty = starving ? Lol

In essence, yes. If people cannot eat, it means they don't have the means to acquire food, which is pretty much the definition of poverty (definitely the most important and deadly aspect of it).