>starts learning Chinese in his late 20s>within 2 years works as Nixon's main interpreter upon his 1972 trip to Chinawtfhow do i obtain this power
>>225011735By studying a language and having connections you paddy.
>>225011765mandarin 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.
>>225011788You're also assuming the chinese wouldn't have their own interpreters, or that Nixon gave a shit what bugmen actually said.
>>225011735Humans were smarter prior to the internet. The internet provides too many distractions that keep you from studying.
>>225011735>>225011788you're assuming he was competent
it was a different erathe ww2 and following us conflicts made space in the jobmarketthe avarage life expentancy was lowertoday you can master whatever the fuck you wantsome retarded boomer with half of your skills is sitting in a position you are supposed to get and they wont fuck offfuck boomers
>>225011877This 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.
>>225011915who the fuck hires an incompetent interpreter to bring along to a schizo like mao
>>225012554nixon
>>225012038mental how powerful just spending 30 minutes doing nothing is
>>225012554are you too young to have experience with boomers?
>>225012038Umm source? Was has this fella ever been to space? >inb4 muh sciencehumans can still be wrong
>>225012554You don't know much about Nixon do you?
>>225012554When you grow old, you will understand youngin
>>225011877This, zoomers are the most retarded generation that has ever existed
>>225011877