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icantfindaname
Jul 1, 2008


Mange Mite posted:

More like in the us youre not allowed to publically acknowledge that jews are a tiny minority that hold a supermajority in media and finance and that's honestly kind of strange

i feel like a lot of that, at least with regards to media and publishing, is because of how many Jews there are in NYC and how that industry is headquartered there

that said i do feel like there's a wee bit of a conflict of interest in how strongly the American liberal (conservatives support Israel for other reasons) political media supports Israel, considering all of the editors are Jewish

icantfindaname fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 28, 2016

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angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Falun Bong Refugee
Dec 14, 2015

by FactsAreUseless
I has a Chinese lit professor tell me On the Road was popular in China. Was he a big fat liar?

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart




angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart
http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0427/c90000-9049990.html

you this article is like the most amateur thing ever and it's hilarious that PD is complaining about the site they ban from china censoring them loving lol

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

rip that guy

angel opportunity
Sep 7, 2004

Total Eclipse of the Heart

Mange Mite posted:

More like in the us youre not allowed to publically acknowledge that jews are a tiny minority that hold a supermajority in media and finance and that's honestly kind of strange

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

wait why do they have us flags too?

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Darkman Fanpage posted:

wait why do they have us flags too?

It almost looks like a Malaysian flag but that's probably the Chinese stars over it.

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
The US waves US flags and has historically gained territory. To say to China that it cannot wave US flags as well is hypocritical.

akulanization
Dec 21, 2013

computer parts posted:

It almost looks like a Malaysian flag but that's probably the Chinese stars over it.

No I see the stars and strips just to the left of the woman with the yellow jacket.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
It was a bad derail but I enjoyed this bit of nonstandard political writing

quote:

If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah. 

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Naxuz posted:

thanks mods for proving that we can't be left to our own devices

I think it's the other way around, in that the threats and probations have people posting less about China and their personal experiences, and more bad copy/pastes and news stories and bickering about other dumb stuff (still fun to read though).

On topic, every rich or hoping-to-be-rich Chinese I've talked to has at some point mentioned Rich Dad Poor Dad like it's one of those rite of passage books everyone has to read at certain stage of life to fit in. They think Kiyosaki really knew his poo poo even though it's closer to fiction than fact.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


he doesn't know his poo poo. virtually everything in the book is wrong.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
Why isn't Ayn Rand popular in China?

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
Ok Chinese are Asian jews. Calm down everyone.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Why isn't Ayn Rand popular in China?

Maybe they dont feel guilt about being selfish, and thus dont need an intellectual excuse for that guilt

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Blacktoll posted:

Ok Chinese are Asian jews. Calm down everyone.









raton fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Apr 28, 2016

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

angel opportunity posted:

http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0427/c90000-9049990.html

you this article is like the most amateur thing ever and it's hilarious that PD is complaining about the site they ban from china censoring them loving lol

quote:

The figure plunged by hundreds each hour

A rare sighting of the elusive haierfoot!

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Darkman Fanpage posted:

Why isn't Ayn Rand popular in China?

She hates commies

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

Hahaha, wow. It's nice when I'm being a prick and it turns out to be historically accurate.

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Blacktoll posted:

Hahaha, wow. It's nice when I'm being a prick and it turns out to be historically accurate.

It's a pretty famous saying i just assumed you were just citing it

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
Nah, I was just going off of the previous rambling of the Chinese studying the Talmud to learn the secrets of the Jews gold.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
And to mix the metaphor





I actually saw the bottom one in the flesh (it was on the counter of a hostel in Bangkok's big backpacker ghetto) but that's not my picture of it. Israeli backpackers were the dread scum of SEA before the locusts hatched.

raton fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Apr 29, 2016

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
God drat. That's hosed up, but p funny all the same.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Blacktoll posted:

God drat. That's hosed up, but p funny all the same.

Honestly it was justified.

I knew a few Isrealis in New York and one in Vegas and they were fine but most of the ones going to SEA are fresh out of their required military service and were the trashiest, cheapest, rudest bunch of uncultured shits I've ever encountered.

There was (probably still is) an Israeli style restaurant called Shoshanna in Bangkok that I would go to to get fixed on hummus and shakshuga and sometimes the owner was just beaten down in there from having to deal with the stream of those loving jerkoffs that came in there. Same with the lady that ran the internet cafe upstairs.

raton fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Apr 29, 2016

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Mange Mite posted:

Maybe they dont feel guilt about being selfish, and thus dont need an intellectual excuse for that guilt

Ayn Rand does seem to be used as an ethical get out of jail free card.

Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Apr 29, 2016

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:

https://twitter.com/Zhang_xu_1995/status/725274233668956160

One of you guys needs help.

Dr. Killjoy fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Apr 29, 2016

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

It would be so funny to have a B-2 fly over those little chunks of rock and drop a 2000lb JDAM (with a delayed fuse) on each of those little specks and see the CCP's reaction when they cruise by the next day and can't find them.

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties

Blistex posted:

It would be so funny to have a B-2 fly over those little chunks of rock and drop a 2000lb JDAM (with a delayed fuse) on each of those little specks and see the CCP's reaction when they cruise by the next day and can't find them.

Tweet this at Trump. He might actually do it if he (god forbid) wins.

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Since ancient times, Huangyan Island has been an inalienable part of the Chinese territory:







Did you know the Phillipines once tried to claim it?



Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Blistex posted:

It would be so funny to have a B-2 fly over those little chunks of rock and drop a 2000lb JDAM (with a delayed fuse) on each of those little specks and see the CCP's reaction when they cruise by the next day and can't find them.

then watch them shoot themselves in the foot by not retaliating to the us bombing what they call chinese soil

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Why is China so concerned about claiming some rock and calling it an island? Just because they'd get the exclusive economic zone around it?

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Wanamingo posted:

Why is China so concerned about claiming some rock and calling it an island? Just because they'd get the exclusive economic zone around it?

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

Wanamingo posted:

Why is China so concerned about claiming some rock and calling it an island? Just because they'd get the exclusive economic zone around it?

That's why everyone wants those. But only China has 5000 years of history, so naturally they're an indivisible part of the nation.

ocrumsprug
Sep 23, 2010

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Wanamingo posted:

Why is China so concerned about claiming some rock and calling it an island? Just because they'd get the exclusive economic zone around it?

They are now claiming almost the entirety of the South China Sea as an exclusive zone.

Honestly we should have seen it coming since on the map it clearly says "China" .

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

then watch them shoot themselves in the foot by not retaliating to the us bombing what they call chinese soil

If you did it with a B-2 they would have no way of knowing for sure, and could assume that the Philippines just drilled some TNT into it or something. Now if you used a B-52 then they would know for sure.

Wanamingo posted:

Why is China so concerned about claiming some rock and calling itprotecting an island? Just because they'd get the exclusive economic zone around it?

Because it has always been theirs. That 32 square foot chunk of rock was a significant part of China since the Three Kingdoms. It was always a populated settlement with a long and rich history.

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Sheep-Goats posted:

I actually saw the bottom one in the flesh (it was on the counter of a hostel in Bangkok's big backpacker ghetto) but that's not my picture of it. Israeli backpackers were the dread scum of SEA before the locusts hatched.

A lot of Indians also see Jews the way Chinese do, but with a camaraderie aspect on top. "They love business, we love business! They hate Muslims, we hate Muslims! Also they got their religion from us, but that's none of our business." The difference between Chinese and Indians is that they have a willingness to absorb what goes on in the world (having an English-fluent upper/middle/and upper-lower class makes that easy) and you get a lot of jaded people who don't give a flying gently caress about striking it rich or respecting those with money, they just want to have a peaceful life and do what they like.

Due to the popularity of Goa and surrounding states and some spots in the Himalayas with Israelis (with Israelis going apeshit over Psytrance and flocking to party spots in India to do drugs and "yoga" orgies), 9 times out of 10 any random Israeli male you see in India outside these hot spots will be selling drugs. The newspapers were always full of "5 Israeli men got deported for running an imported drug ring selling MDMA, etc" and similar stories.
At this point they will love a non-Israeli Jew but look down on an actual Israeli Jew due to the stigma attached by backpacking partygoers.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler
100+ generations of nepotism +not being taboo in their religion to deal in money lending/changing. The "Successful Jewish Mystery" is solved.
This is pretty much the literal answer to "why are there so many Jewish people in "______" industry?".

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OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Blistex posted:

100+ generations of nepotism +not being taboo in their religion to deal in money lending/changing. The "Successful Jewish Mystery" is solved.
This is pretty much the literal answer to "why are there so many Jewish people in "______" industry?".

Actually there was/is a taboo in moneylending for judaism too - that's where the Christians got it from. It just was often interpreted to only apply to other jews

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