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Despera
Jun 6, 2011
I like how Chinese media is trying to blame every disease that happened in the 20th century on the United States

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Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Despera posted:

I like how Chinese media is trying to blame every disease that happened in the 20th century on the United States

"Do you know Spanish Flu? US made it!"

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






The virgin coronavirus bat conspiracy vs. the chad actual IRL incendiary bat bomb

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

BrainDance posted:

What Ive noticed about the domestic narrative has been this shift to 'China is going to save the world we are the most prepared only we can help every other country we're so kind we're even sending our doctors to other countries.' which is, whatever.

If the party keeps pushing insane aggressive poo poo in their foreign facing media and China as the worlds savior in their domestic media they can pretty easily make it look like the world is bullying China even when they do something good if other countries give them poo poo for it. You know, like Chinese media does all the time. I honestly think they know exactly how the conspiracy theory type message will be received outside China and how nuts it is, but that that's the point.
https://twitter.com/jacktindale/status/1238441570069774337?s=21

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Shumagorath posted:

Who would win:

A top-secret illuminati bio-weapon

OR

millenials

OP-ED: Millenials are killing the Illuminati industry

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
China daily cant figure out the difference between discovering a virus and contracting it.

http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/13/WS5e6ad341a31012821727eb2a.html

quote:

Take a look at the chain of discrimination that is emerging because of prejudice. In a recent column in The New York Times, a Chinese author described how a woman of Vietnamese origin in an Asian community in the US yelled at her for "eating weird food and bringing it here". Asians have become an eyesore for many Westerners now.

Can someone teach this guy racism?

Despera fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Mar 14, 2020

poverty goat
Feb 15, 2004



Despera posted:

China daily cant figure out the difference between discovering a virus and contracting it.

http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/13/WS5e6ad341a31012821727eb2a.html
you've convinced me to start calling HIV the Los Angeles Virus

Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.
It's interesting how the CSPAM thread and the GBS one hit the truth when combined.

"It's ridiculous to think that China deliberately released the virus!"
"It's ridiculous to think that the USA deliberately released virus!"

"It was obvious that the Chinese government would cover things up at the start!"
"It was obvious that the USA would gently caress up the public health response!"

Just amusing how, taken together, the threads provide a decent summary at present.

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

Blistex posted:

No cases in my Podunk city, but that didn't stop idiots from cleaning out every scrap of TP, hand sanitizer, and even paper towels. I don't think western society would survive an actual health threat. People are just too stupid and quick to panic.

40 years of telling people there's no society, to look only to their own needs, and that believing in anything bigger than yourself is the mark of a naive (and probably dangerous!) idealist.

BrassRoots
Jan 9, 2012

You can play a shoestring if you're sincere - John Coltrane

GotLag posted:

40 years of telling people there's no society, to look only to their own needs, and that believing in anything bigger than yourself is the mark of a naive (and probably dangerous!) idealist.

Its crazy how chinese and western culture evolved to the same conclusion from different starting points

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Atopian posted:

It's interesting how the CSPAM thread and the GBS one hit the truth when combined.

"It's ridiculous to think that China deliberately released the virus!"
"It's ridiculous to think that the USA deliberately released virus!"

"It was obvious that the Chinese government would cover things up at the start!"
"It was obvious that the USA would gently caress up the public health response!"

Just amusing how, taken together, the threads provide a decent summary at present.

The answer.... somewhere.... n-no! It can't be!

It can't be in the middle!

AlexanderCA
Jul 21, 2010

by Cyrano4747

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:


(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

This is killing.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Strategic Tea posted:

The answer.... somewhere.... n-no! It can't be!

It can't be in the middle!
Games and BYOB?

E: Games subforum Free Hong Kong!

Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Mar 14, 2020

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

BrassRoots posted:

Its crazy how chinese and western culture evolved to the same conclusion from different starting points
China and the US are in fact in a race. Nobody seems to realize they're running at each other.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Hmm I wonder what other country thinks of itself as a world savior lol

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Blistex posted:

"Do you know Spanish Flu? US made it!"

We actually did, though. It almost certainly started in the US.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Colonel Cancer posted:

Hmm I wonder what other country thinks of itself as a world savior lol

Austria was pretty high on itself when one of its citizens managed to kill Hitler.

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Arsenic Lupin posted:

We actually did, though. It almost certainly started in the US.

Yup. It's likely an actual case of the US military creating a virus and spreading it. unintentionally on both counts

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

Blistex posted:

Austria was pretty high on itself when one of its citizens managed to kill Hitler.

He was a German national at the time though

Media Bloodbath
Mar 1, 2018

PIVOT TO ETERNAL SUFFERING
:hb:

GotLag posted:

He was a German national at the time though

At that time Die Ostmark was part of Germany too.

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost
Did you know? Covid19 is stored in the balls https://twitter.com/pdchina/status/1238880069457764352?s=21

Despera
Jun 6, 2011

Well if the People's Daily is telling me to jack off

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Rhino horn powder will fix that right up, except for any Uighurs getting a free one-time shot courtesy of the party.

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs
some Chinese scientists have declared (without basis) that chloroquine definitely works. my scientist bff sent me the link with only "lol" as the commentary.

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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Strategic Tea posted:

The answer.... somewhere.... n-no! It can't be!

It can't be in the middle!

I disagree. None of this would have happened if the CCP hadn't covered this up for 3 goddamn months. When someone shits their pants and decides to ignore it and board the bus anyway, you don't blame the other riders when they start puking.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?

translation: sperm counts have been declining due to horrific pollution and finally a scapegoat has arisen.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Yahoo News, propaganda arm of the CCP: https://www.yahoo.com/news/they-know-how-to-keep-people-alive-why-chinas-coronavirus-response-is-better-than-you-think-211702070.html

quote:

But there are many lessons to be learned from how Beijing has responded to the disease, according to the top World Health Organization epidemiologist working on the coronavirus response there. He says that is especially the case for the United States because much of that response was learned from American public health officials.

“If I get COVID, I’m going to China,” said Bruce Aylward, MD, a Canadian epidemiologist who led the WHO team on the ground in February, when the coronavirus was exploding in China. “They know how to keep people alive."

After returning from China, he and his colleagues published a report that praised the nation of 1.4 billion for “perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history.”

McSpanky fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Mar 15, 2020

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

Khorne posted:

Japan is hardcore about no littering. But also it's hard as hell to find trashcans and you're just supposed to carry stuff with you or something.

let me know when they start spanking people with a cane in public for littering. singapore is hardcore about no littering actually just a 1k fine

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

apr 3, 2020
WHO member dies of first recorded case of Canaidan Pneumonia Syndrome in chinese hospital, says Xi

MetaJew
Apr 14, 2006
Gather round, one and all, and thrill to my turgid tales of underwhelming misadventure!

snergle posted:

let me know when they start spanking people with a cane in public for littering. singapore is hardcore about no littering actually just a 1k fine

I don't know if you have actually traveled to Singapore or are just parroting what you remember from US news in the 90s when that idiot got caned for vandalizing some cars--- but when I visited Singapore, coming from Japan, Singapore was relatively filthy. We stayed in a pretty nice hotel that was admittedly in little India, but there was plenty of littering and garbage on the ground. It was no where near as clean as Japan.

Turrurrurrurrrrrrr
Dec 22, 2018

I hope this is "battle" enough for you, friend.

Wistful of Dollars posted:

Tbh that's probably the most predictable part.

Exactly. So plant it on totalitaristic enemy states, and also Italy for shits and giggles to see of they're as bad as stereotypes will tell you if you're racist.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Oh for the love of gently caress


I can't even excuse that if they told him to say it or join Kovrig and Spavor.

LimburgLimbo
Feb 10, 2008

How's he wrong though. After the local govt hosed things up China did a good job containing it. You can be a lovely terrible government and do some specific stuff right, especially when the right thing to do is suppress peoples ability to act freely, which they're, uh, good at.

Still would have been better for him to have said he'd go to #1 China, however.

MetaJew posted:

I don't know if you have actually traveled to Singapore or are just parroting what you remember from US news in the 90s when that idiot got caned for vandalizing some cars--- but when I visited Singapore, coming from Japan, Singapore was relatively filthy. We stayed in a pretty nice hotel that was admittedly in little India, but there was plenty of littering and garbage on the ground. It was no where near as clean as Japan.

They're both very clean and there's little reliable objective way of measuring this stuff. Singapore is dirty in a few places, Japan is also dirty in a lot of places (and has many more dirty areas because it's much, much bigger overall). The "dirty" of both is still generally far cleaner than many other industrialized world nations. Your perceptions of both are also pretty limited because you're just visiting and don't have as much of an overview. The tourist areas in Japan are generally especially clean, and you also went to literally one of/the dirtiest part of Singapore; both of these are going to hugely impact your impression.

Having lived in Japan for 11~12 years and a year in Singapore, in Little India to be exact, I'd give Japan a slight edge, but not by much, and generally just because the relative average of the suburbs where most people actually live and spend their time is quite high.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
I don't even have the energy for a joke about not having to do triage thanks to Falun Gong lungs for everyone

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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LimburgLimbo posted:

How's he wrong though. After the local govt hosed things up China did a good job containing it.

*looks around at rapidly expanding global pandemic*

"China did a good job containing this."

LimburgLimbo
Feb 10, 2008

Fojar38 posted:

*looks around at rapidly expanding global pandemic*

"China did a good job containing this."

Yeah, they did. Diseases spread and once such an infectious disease is out there then the chances of it not going around to several countries is huge. That's just the reality and the mere fact that it got around doesn't mean that China's response wasn't rapid, appropriate, and well handled relatively speaking.

Hell we're going to get an excellent comparison here; lets see how the US does with their COVID19 cases, after having weeks of warning and already knowing significantly more about it that China did in the early days. Guess what; they're already doing much, much worse.

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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LimburgLimbo posted:

Yeah, they did. Diseases spread and once such an infectious disease is out there then the chances of it not going around to several countries is huge. That's just the reality and the mere fact that it got around doesn't mean that China's response wasn't rapid, appropriate, and well handled relatively speaking.

They covered it up for 3 months and actively intimidated and arrested doctors for trying to alert the public about it. They then welded people into their houses and forced people into prefab prisons that kept collapsing. Oh, and also used slaves to try and keep the economy running.

To say nothing about the Chinese government's negligence of poverty and public health that prompted the initial transmission in the first place.

There is literally nothing good you can say about China's response to this and suggesting that anyone should mimic it is both monstrous and incredibly stupid.

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001
Who would win:

The Trump Kakistocracy

OR

a slavedriver government that can make poo poo up and have it uncritically repeated by cowed officials while welding people into their homes

e: godamnit fojar sniped my 50 cents

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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There are also other countries that are democracies and handling this considerably better than China. The USA doesn't have to be the go-to comparison for literally everything. South Korea and Taiwan come to mind, and Canada is also doing much better than China did under the same circumstances.

edit: in fact, if we're going to believe Chinese numbers, even Italy is doing better in terms of total cases on its 29th day of the outbreak than China did on its 29th day.

Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Mar 15, 2020

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WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Calling South Korea a democracy might be a bit of a stretch, though.

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