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>starts learning Chinese in his late 20s
>within 2 years works as Nixon's main interpreter upon his 1972 trip to China
wtf
how do i obtain this power
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>>225011735
By studying a language and having connections you paddy.
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>>225011765
mandarin is hard as balls and diplomacy is a sensitive thing (easy to forget today). to secure a job that sensitive you'd have to be a savant of the highest order.
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>>225011788
You're also assuming the chinese wouldn't have their own interpreters, or that Nixon gave a shit what bugmen actually said.
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>>225011735
Humans were smarter prior to the internet. The internet provides too many distractions that keep you from studying.
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>>225011735
>>225011788
you're assuming he was competent
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it was a different era
the ww2 and following us conflicts made space in the jobmarket
the avarage life expentancy was lower
today you can master whatever the fuck you want
some retarded boomer with half of your skills is sitting in a position you are supposed to get and they wont fuck off
fuck boomers
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>>225011877
This is true. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar figured out the mathematic limit for a star's size because he was stuck on a boat for 3 months going to attend uni abroad with nothing to do. If he was born today he would just goon to teenagers on tiktok in his free time instead.
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>>225011915
who the fuck hires an incompetent interpreter to bring along to a schizo like mao
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>>225012554
nixon
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>>225012038
mental how powerful just spending 30 minutes doing nothing is
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>>225012554
are you too young to have experience with boomers?
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>>225012038
Umm source? Was has this fella ever been to space?
>inb4 muh science
humans can still be wrong
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>>225012554
You don't know much about Nixon do you?
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>>225012554
When you grow old, you will understand youngin
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>>225011877
This, zoomers are the most retarded generation that has ever existed
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>>225011877



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