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RE: What does Step Off or Get Stepped On mean?
I very much appreciate this post you made. It has given me insight into Korea I did not understand. It is hard for Americans to grasp Korea's reality, between China and Japan, and hoping America keeps them both at bay.
In American slang, 'step off' means to back down from controntation. If someone is threatening violence, you could warn them to 'step off' or you'll hurt them.
Stepped on means to have been completely dominated, as by violence.
Like stepping on an insect.
So, the title of my post is a warning to cease threatening Steem with domination, and a threat that Steem is more powerful than it seems, because our community is much stronger than mere money.
Thanks for your kind words, and this post that helped me to understand Korea better.
My esteemed American senior, thank you for your kind reply.
That's what you meant. I didn't know that.
Your friend, the Chinese prince, argues that American political and economic systems and ideas are unsuitable for East Asian reality. Therefore, he claims that China's wealth can buy Korea. However, as you say, the United States will not be bought
@soo.chong163 argues that American political and economic systems and ideas are unsuitable for mankind at all. More fundamentally, he argues that humanity is no more than cattle, to be raised for the profit of husbandmen. He neglects that there are no better men to rule the rest, and the consequences of letting sheep lead wolves are always tragic.
I'll be surprised if Chinese wealth can keep buying China after this summer. Not only have they been hit by SARS2 and shut down most of their economic and industrial production for months, they've been hit be Swine flu and lost more than 70% of their pigs, they've been hit by two different bird flus in the last month and are losing chickens and ducks in terrible plagues.
Now the locusts have entered Xinjiang. It's been a chain of horrible disasters all striking China's agricultural production, and it will be a miracle if starvation doesn't begin to add to the woes of the people of China.
While China may not buy Korea this year, China has other means of gaining clay. It is my sincere hope that in it's desperate need, China doesn't just take what it needs, or try.
Thanks!
I fear China's hostility to the United States.
I remember the 10 plagues Moses brought to Egypt.
Only Jesus will save us.
There's an old saying in America (well, old for America): 'Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.'