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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1791062947638235461 peaking to POLITICO, a French intelligence official granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues of national security, said that “we’ve detected activities from Russia and Azerbaijan in New Caledonia for weeks, even a few months. They’re pushing the narrative of France being a colonialist state.”
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May 17, 2024 03:28
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just throwing a dart at the map there aren't we paris
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May 17, 2024 03:57
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quote:Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has repeatedly accused France of “neo-colonialism” and has actively supported independence movements and other countries’ claims over French territories across the world, including the island of Mayotte and New Caledonia. whether it’s true or not it’s very funny
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May 17, 2024 04:02
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Bro Dad posted:peaking to POLITICO, a French intelligence official granted anonymity to discuss sensitive issues of national security, said that “we’ve detected activities from Russia and Azerbaijan in New Caledonia for weeks, even a few months. They’re pushing the narrative of France being a colonialist state.” france is a colonial state though lol
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May 17, 2024 04:08
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Spergin Morlock posted:france is a colonial state though lol Like New Caledonia isn't even some neo-colony made dependent on France. It's literally French territory. Who do they think they're fooling?
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May 17, 2024 04:46
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yeah like doesn't France have no-poo poo literal old-school colonies
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May 17, 2024 04:48
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Orange Devil posted:Also the position of the Chinese government has been and continues to be that welfare payments make people lazy and unwilling to work. wasn’t that also the Soviet perspective on welfare, which is why they would create make work jobs that nevertheless had the full suite of benefits that people would get slotted into as their social safety net? I remember reading that Belarus still has a much smaller version of that, being one of the few post Soviet countries not to fully dismantle their welfare state
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May 17, 2024 05:26
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FrancisFukyomama posted:wasn’t that also the Soviet perspective on welfare, which is why they would create make work jobs that nevertheless had the full suite of benefits that people would get slotted into as their social safety net? I remember reading that Belarus still has a much smaller version of that, being one of the few post Soviet countries not to fully dismantle their welfare state Makes sense with the stereotype of digging and filling ditches or whatever. It means you don't end up with a stigmatised underclass and they can be transferred to necessary jobs as a reserve workforce.
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May 17, 2024 05:31
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gradenko_2000 posted:yeah like doesn't France have no-poo poo literal old-school colonies yes, but they annexed them so they're technically not colonies anymore. Please ignore the fact that they are literally across the entire world. See: French Guyana, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, the 40 islands they have in the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon which is literally just sitting on the interior side of Newfoundland
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May 17, 2024 05:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:yeah like doesn't France have no-poo poo literal old-school colonies the french military was ejected from multiple colonies in africa in 2023
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May 17, 2024 06:25
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https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1790633633201434677?s=46&t=XcTQEAmVq56cJu9IKvdPKg
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May 17, 2024 06:49
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Grapplejack posted:yes, but they annexed them so they're technically not colonies anymore. Please ignore the fact that they are literally across the entire world. See: French Guyana, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, the 40 islands they have in the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon which is literally just sitting on the interior side of Newfoundland Can these people vote in French election or move to France?
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May 17, 2024 07:45
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Tankbuster posted:https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1790633633201434677?s=46&t=XcTQEAmVq56cJu9IKvdPKg The US just made Mexico raise tariff on a bunch of China import categories, so it's not really a "loop hole" like the China haters think. And if things are made in Mexico by Mexican labors according to the Mexican labor standards, it should freely enter the US or Canadian market as NAFTA intended. The US can still pass more discriminatory laws that only give subsidies to US only batteries anyway, it's not like the US hasn't done it before or the Chinese EV makers don't know this.
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May 17, 2024 07:57
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To be exact, New Caledonia is pretty unique among French overseas possessions in that it is (or was, I guess) engaged in a long-term process of decolonization. It is still categorized by the UN as a non-autonomous territory in need of decolonization, which is not the case of the French Antilles or Guyana. Back in the 80's, following decades of policies of outright settlement colonization, the indigenous Kanak (around 40% of the total population) rose up. There was a massacre in 1988 following which peace talks took place. The French Constitution was amended and three self-determination referenda were programmed to take place, with the last one no later than 2022. In 1998, the electoral body for these referenda was frozen: only people who were New Caledonian citizens by that date or their descendants were allowed to vote. So the referenda took place. The first one, in 2016, was rejected with 58% against. The second one, in 2018, was rejected with 53% against. By 2020, the settler elite was making GBS threads itself with fear, expecting to lose the final referendum, which was set to take place in 2021. Then Covid came by and killed a significant fraction of the population in 2021. The Kanak requested a year-long mourning period and a delaying of the final referendum. This was denied. So they boycotted the referendum, which was therefore rejected with 97% against. Complicating matters are the fact that Macron named a hardline Caldoche settler as minister, and that these past few years the New Caledonian Question was handled by the minister of the Interior (noted rapist and hard right-winger Gérald Darmanin) instead of the Prime Minister. And last week, they introduced a bill aiming to unfreeze the electoral body for local elections, thus undoing what little had been done in the decolonization process. This was the spark that led to the current uprising and the constitution of settler militias. So far three Kanak have been killed, as well as two gendarmes (one of them died of an accidental gun discharge by a colleague). All this to say that the Kanak independantists don't need Russian or Azerbaijani whispers in their ears to recognize the colonial situation they're being subjected to.
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May 17, 2024 08:45
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Nonsense, it's time to ban TikTok
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May 17, 2024 10:24
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gradenko_2000 posted:The guy who wrote that article was the dude who tweeted that Xi Jinping should watch Hamilton he should https://youtu.be/5_T9VJL8WKo
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May 17, 2024 10:43
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i am going to kill myself
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May 17, 2024 11:10
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1791062947638235461 lol there's also a loving cholera epidemic in mayotte. guessing it's the russians's fault too.
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May 17, 2024 12:03
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1791062947638235461 Sounds extremely random, but didn't France do something with Armenia lately?
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May 17, 2024 12:07
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genericnick posted:Sounds extremely random, but didn't France do something with Armenia lately? Arms deal late last year. Azerbaijan was unsurprisingly not pleased.
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May 17, 2024 12:50
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/china-removes-mortgage-rate-floor-for-individual-homebuyers-lwa88d1y China Attempts to End Property Crisis With Broad Rescue Package quote:Xi Jinping’s government announced its most forceful attempt yet to rescue the beleaguered Chinese property market, relaxing mortgage rules and urging local governments to buy unsold homes as authorities become increasingly concerned about the sector’s drag on economic growth. please, president xi... our people yearn for a Chinese property crisis
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May 17, 2024 13:35
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I yearn for the people's chicken tendies.
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May 17, 2024 13:49
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Didn't the boat envoy people actually built some Mad Max looking watercraft to the "SCS event" https://x.com/ABSCBNNews/status/1790567270970019947 Alright at least these guys have sense of humor and knew they were in it for the show.
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May 17, 2024 13:57
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/uncledoomer/status/1790890098570977318?t=Un0P-12d0D4d6-SBm_1LmA&s=19 Good deal if you can get it.
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May 17, 2024 14:27
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Makes sense with the stereotype of digging and filling ditches or whatever. It means you don't end up with a stigmatised underclass and they can be transferred to necessary jobs as a reserve workforce. It's difficult to look at the sheer reactionary power of "BENEFITS LAYABOUTS" and "WELFARE QUEENS" and come away thinking having make-work jobs that get treated with full dignity and compensation is a bad alternative.
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May 17, 2024 14:30
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stephenthinkpad posted:some Mad Max looking watercraft this is waterworld erasure, its even a trimaran like in waterworld
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May 17, 2024 14:32
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/china-removes-mortgage-rate-floor-for-individual-homebuyers-lwa88d1y Wait wait wait hold on wait a goddamn second. These goddamn communists are going to take empty houses and just let people live in them?
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May 17, 2024 14:32
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/china-removes-mortgage-rate-floor-for-individual-homebuyers-lwa88d1y I would love to learn more about housing construction in China. From the little I have gathered, they seem to have stark regional differences where some places have state-owned construction and others (as you get closer to the economic zones it seems) get increasingly mixed-market. What makes it so curious to me is that with the way real estate works, my guess would be that a overproduction crisis mediated by state-owned firms would allow the CCP to swoop in and absorb the private sector in chunks, but I am not sure on the returns it already provides now to keep from just seizing it outright instead of financing like that
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May 17, 2024 16:02
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here's some pics I took at the meeting      
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May 17, 2024 18:04
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That's just a regular boat. I was riding on one of those when I was on holiday a couple months ago.
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May 17, 2024 18:14
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why can't we have this https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1791463398070538386 I know why, but still
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May 17, 2024 18:26
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Wrap it up chinailures https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1791127553245380840?t=gpKcgNlGLH79k90jDUqG8A&s=19
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May 17, 2024 18:33
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mawarannahr posted:here's some pics I took at the meeting I like the cute bears. Where is the picture of Xi and Putin smooching?
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May 17, 2024 18:50
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what kinda teas do russians drink? have they tried selling the chinese on those samovars? how does that tend to go?
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May 17, 2024 19:23
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mila kunis posted:I know why, but still That is good to see. I'd like to hope that there would be other efforts to make sure of a good standard of living in the various different bought buildings alongside this ofc. Also, I am pleased to see the reform of the housing market, but do we know if anything is going to be done about taking over the Alibaba group? Josef bugman has issued a correction as of 19:31 on May 17, 2024 |
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May 17, 2024 19:26
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I'm working on it.
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May 17, 2024 19:49
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The real estate market is being reformed. But I haven't read anything to indicate how big of a change it will be. Also SCMP is pay walled, so I don't know what it says in the article. And I am talking about the local governments moving away from relying land sale as their primary income, not the central government buying empty apartments and actively distribute them.
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May 17, 2024 19:58
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https://x.com/XVanFleet/status/1791115937141157930 Can't wait for Iowa to lead the revolution.
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May 17, 2024 20:39
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theres a really cool story about a baseball who visited china and was like drat this is awesome awesome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lee_(left-handed_pitcher) quote:High Times: What do you think about Reggie's arch rival, Billy Martin?
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AnimeIsTrash posted:theres a really cool story about a baseball who visited china and was like drat this is awesome awesome bill lee rules
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