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420 Gank Mid posted:Begun, the Gamer War has. this is legit how wars should be decided tho. put the trigger happy cretins who want a war into an arma match, the losing side gets executed. all the benefits of a war, zero collateral damage and emissions
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Dec 24, 2019 13:12
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Truga posted:this is legit how wars should be decided tho. put the trigger happy cretins who want a war into an arma match, the losing side gets executed. all the benefits of a war, zero collateral damage and emissions A Taste of ARMAgeddon
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Dec 24, 2019 13:16
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are they sure the crackdown was because of the political statement and not just because a mob running around and destroying crap at random pissed off the regular players
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Dec 24, 2019 13:40
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It's literally GTA
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Dec 24, 2019 13:46
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i am all for the mainlander/Hong Kong wars of GTA Online and the class warfare of Fallout 76. if the always-online half-assed MMO model is what the video game industry wants, might as well make your own fun through gamer proxy wars
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Dec 24, 2019 15:46
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Truga posted:this is legit how wars should be decided tho. put the trigger happy cretins who want a war into an arma match, the losing side gets executed. all the benefits of a war, zero collateral damage and emissions uhh what do you think computers run on, solar power? at least if we cooked to death running the war simulations it still wouldn't be mining blockchains
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:30 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Dec 25, 2019 00:19
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The CAAC was the first civil aviation regulator to ban the max from flying, saving potentially countless numbers of lives globally
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Dec 25, 2019 01:10
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sincx posted:Not directly related, but I think business schools should start teaching executives that if you think you need to create a "______ explainer" video, it's better to just shut up instead. Agreed. Nobody should explain homework.
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Dec 25, 2019 01:52
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:Nah, Taiwan has all the same issues with corruption that the mainland does. It's only due to heavy duty propaganda that people in the US think Taiwan is some kind of paradise like Switzerland. In reality, tons of Taiwan residents live abroad, 1 million of which live and work in the mainland. Taiwan has problems I agree but it is a really well managed society, though likely due to how small it is. If it blew up to mainland it would inherit all of the problems of mainland's corruption and grifting At least they have universal healthcare and free press, real democracy (dictatorship of the bourgeoisie yeah but real elections and representative democracy is running well there)
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Dec 25, 2019 06:21
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Ardennes posted:Considering that the GDP capita in PPP terms of many mainland cities are on parity with some Western citiies at this point, it is probably time to start questioning many stereotypes. Shanghai, a huge metropolitan and China's most globally connected business city, has a GDP 4/5 that of Taiwan in PPP despite Taiwan being an entire nation of about the same population (actually a million less) China has a ways to go edit: a ways to go might be 5 years for Shanghai but a lot longer to get a whole country up to where pluckly little taiwan is at Modest Mao has issued a correction as of 06:37 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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Dec 25, 2019 06:34
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:The CAAC was the first civil aviation regulator to ban the max from flying, saving potentially countless numbers of lives globally itchy trigger finger
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Dec 25, 2019 06:36
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Modest Mao posted:itchy trigger finger That’s Russia’s relationship with Boeing.
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Dec 25, 2019 06:38
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Modest Mao posted:itchy trigger finger second largest operator of the max after the US
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Dec 25, 2019 06:49
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I thought this was interesting, based on some lazy googling in English, each region's per capita personal disposable income in PPP 2019 dollars (give or take) Shanghai = $19,200 Taiwan = $22,600 USA = $45,600 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201902/21/WS5c6e65eba3106c65c34eaa0a.html posted:The average per-capita disposable income for permanent residents in urban areas of Shanghai was 68,034 yuan in 2018, an increase of 8.7 percent year-on-year and an actual growth of 7 percent after inflation was accounted for. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPP?locations=CN posted:In 2018, 1 dollar is worth 3.54 RMB in PPP https://www.statista.com/statistics/922682/taiwan-average-disposable-income-per-capita posted:In 2017, the average disposable income in Taiwan amounted to almost 332,000 New Taiwan dollars per person https://www.quandl.com/data/ODA/TWN_PPPEX-Taiwan-Province-of-China-Implied-PPP-Conversion-Rate-LCU-per-USD posted:In 2017, 1 dollar is worth 14.68NTD in PPP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States posted:Real per-capita disposable income was $45,646 as of October, 2019. Of course I'm comparing permanent residents of a developed urban area, using the purchasing power of a massive developing country, against an entire island nation the year prior, and using per capita instead of median in all cases... with the Shanghai source being not from a 3rd party data collection resource but chinese news media... it's biased favorable to the Shanghai number. Also here's a great chart that puts the median Chinese person's yearly disposable income at $4,485, and the USA at $34,514 in 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median Modest Mao has issued a correction as of 07:45 on Dec 25, 2019 |
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Dec 25, 2019 07:43
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:Nah, Taiwan has all the same issues with corruption that the mainland does. It's only due to heavy duty propaganda that people in the US think Taiwan is some kind of paradise like Switzerland. In reality, tons of Taiwan residents live abroad, 1 million of which live and work in the mainland. US propaganda is so effective in fact that both Taiwanese and mainlanders themselves will tell you that the province is less corrupt than the mainland provinces
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Dec 25, 2019 08:28
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That Chinese figure is from 2011, not 2016 like the US. Although I guess that doesn't make much of a difference . Also Jesus, India at 616$.
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Dec 25, 2019 08:33
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Has anyone seen Shen Yun? Is it any good?
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Dec 25, 2019 09:58
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Maximo Roboto posted:Has anyone seen Shen Yun? Is it any good? lol
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Dec 25, 2019 12:08
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no way but i'd consider seeing eastern lightning riverdancing which is a thing they do like michael flatley
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Dec 25, 2019 12:30
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https://twitter.com/babadookspinoza/status/1206756450560880641?s=20
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Dec 25, 2019 13:53
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nelson mandela is communist sounds like the kind of take thats more likely to originate from a fascist trying to discredit nelson mandela instead of an actual communist like as far as i can tell the dude was pretty succ my main knowledge of his presidency is that he did truth and reconciliation signal boosted the countrys mostly white rugby team and that south africa is still a mostly lovely place where white people own everything does that sound like a revolutionary communist to you
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Dec 25, 2019 14:54
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And pretty much ignored the AIDS crisis apparently.
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Dec 25, 2019 15:12
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Maximo Roboto posted:Has anyone seen Shen Yun? Is it any good? Falun Gong sucks so bad they almost justify Chinese censorship.
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Dec 25, 2019 15:36
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Talking about Falun Gong sucking eggs, I bet most people here have heard about this: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/22/790553909/snopes-facebook-and-fake-accounts
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Dec 25, 2019 15:49
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Kassad posted:That Chinese figure is from 2011, not 2016 like the US. Although I guess that doesn't make much of a difference. I would say it does considering how fast the Chinese economy has been growing. Also, Shanghai is one city... but there are a multitude of other inland cities that are also catching up. China right now is only actually about 60% urbanized (compared to Japan which is around 90%), but that gap is closing by the year.
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Dec 25, 2019 16:17
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Some Guy TT posted:nelson mandela is communist sounds like the kind of take thats more likely to originate from a fascist trying to discredit nelson mandela instead of an actual communist maybe you should learn more about a country and political leaders if you want to criticize them than just watching a movie about it also China has close relations with Zimbabwe as well, a country that did actually seize land from white settlers
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Dec 25, 2019 19:26
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Some Guy TT posted:nelson mandela is communist sounds like the kind of take thats more likely to originate from a fascist trying to discredit nelson mandela instead of an actual communist Mandela was literally in the central committee of south african communist party
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Dec 25, 2019 19:41
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https://twitter.com/anarchotokonoko/status/1209653846869327872 When an anti-PRC anarchist links to the CIA connected The Atlantic to point out neocon-CPC connections LookingGodIntheEye posted:Falun Gong sucks so bad they almost justify Chinese censorship. Yes, but is the show any good?
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Dec 25, 2019 19:57
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun the new yorker makes it sound like the dancing isn't very good. so unless you're really interested in falun gong it's not really a worthwhile show quote:Aside from the organ harvesting, the homophobia, the anti-evolution ballad, and the Karl Marx apparition, the thing I found most odd about my Shen Yun experience in Houston was the hosts’ explanation of Chinese classical dance. This art form seemed to resemble both ballet and gymnastics, they said, but, they explained, ballet and gymnastics had in fact borrowed the traditional techniques of Chinese classical dance. The dancers were showcasing a tradition that was thousands of years old, they went on—a tradition that had been single-handedly rejuvenated by Shen Yun. It was impossible to see a show like this in China, because of the Communist regime, they told us.
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Dec 25, 2019 20:18
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Maximo Roboto posted:https://twitter.com/anarchotokonoko/status/1209653846869327872 anarchists have all been dupes for the CIA since it was founded
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Dec 26, 2019 00:32
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Some Guy TT posted:nelson mandela is communist sounds like the kind of take thats more likely to originate from a fascist trying to discredit nelson mandela instead of an actual communist nelson mandela was a clandestine member of the SACP's central committee and this is public knowledge since his death. the leadership of the ANC and SACP has had a lot of overlap for many decades; Mandela's armed wing of the ANC was stocked full of communists and the two parties remain joined at the hip today remember that he was arrested while preparing for a violent revolution. it's weird that you think he'd immediately pop out of prison and start guillotining people when the entire situation he was revolting against in the first place was rapidly changing and he was an old man
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Dec 26, 2019 00:46
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Maximo Roboto posted:Has anyone seen Shen Yun? Is it any good? define good I enjoyed* it, and a lot of the Chinese myth / early Chinese history stuff is pretty fun, and then it goes off the rails and is very entertaining in entirely different ways
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Dec 26, 2019 00:46
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Nelson Mandela died in prison and was replaced by a centrist CIA bodydouble that would work to keep South Africa aligned with US interests. His change of heart post release was part of this.
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Dec 26, 2019 00:52
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun how the hell do you not quote the part about a tsunami with karl marx's face on it
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Dec 27, 2019 07:35
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The Shen Yun performance I saw (was tricked by the omnipresent ads into thinking it was just a Chinese dance troupe of some sort) didn't have a Marx-faced tsunami and I feel ripped off.
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Dec 27, 2019 07:47
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Has anyone noticed in the past few years the shift that has taken place in ML discourse regarding China? Previously, MLs were not supportive of China and wrote the CCP off as revisionists and capitalists, but now it seems like they've gone full Dengist and are happy to swallow CCP propaganda. It's very strange.
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Dec 27, 2019 13:35
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Doctor Nick posted:Has anyone noticed in the past few years the shift that has taken place in ML discourse regarding China? Previously, MLs were not supportive of China and wrote the CCP off as revisionists and capitalists, but now it seems like they've gone full Dengist and are happy to swallow CCP propaganda. It's very strange. MLs typically practice critical support of countries that US media is actively manufacturing consent for war against for the sake of pushback against that consent, however small. Criticisms happen but if you're on the outside of their communities you probably won't see them very often.
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Dec 27, 2019 14:01
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pardon my ignorance but what does ml stand for
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Dec 27, 2019 14:17
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marxist-leninist I assume
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