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Internet leftists bigging up Iran as a military power until we saw them blow up a civilian airline should emphasize that while the US army is poo poo, it's still less poo poo than any other military in the world. The conventional Chinese military is probably even more toothless than Iran given how little combat experience they have.
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Apr 25, 2020 03:51
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LMAO if you're going to stan for the US then "number of civilian airliners mistakenly shot down over Iran" probably isn't the stat you want to be bragging about. Maybe it's something innate to the inscrutable culture of the Americansthat makes them lust for the blood of innocent brown people? "Experience" amongst the lower ranks isn't super useful, technology and training is though. The inexperienced US army did just fine against the most battle hardened army in the world in 1991. Senior leadership experience turned out to be useful since most of the Senior US leaders had fought in Vietnam. Most of the recent senior Chinese leadership did too.
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Apr 25, 2020 04:04
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Throatwarbler posted:The inexperienced US army did just fine against the most battle hardened army in the world in 1991. lol
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Apr 25, 2020 04:06
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shrike82 posted:Internet leftists bigging up Iran as a military power until we saw them blow up a civilian airline should emphasize that while the US army is poo poo, it's still less poo poo than any other military in the world. The missile clearly worked, you can't deny reality
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Apr 25, 2020 04:25
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LimburgLimbo posted:Downside is that if there's ever a need to buildup forces lol good luck at making a bunch of obese American fucks from the general populace into soldiers Didn't the military come out a few years ago with worry that they wouldn't meet their recruitment quotas because if lot of high school graduates are too fat? Isn't there a boot camp equivalent of fat camp or something?
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Apr 25, 2020 04:34
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iirc China's guns are also kind of lovely, at least their non-rifles are, anyway.
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Apr 25, 2020 04:45
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Forceholy posted:Didn't the military come out a few years ago with worry that they wouldn't meet their recruitment quotas because if lot of high school graduates are too fat? Isn't there a boot camp equivalent of fat camp or something? iirc they blamed tattoos and antidepressants. fat is also probably a big problem
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Apr 25, 2020 04:49
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tractor fanatic posted:iirc they blamed tattoos and antidepressants. fat is also probably a big problem Maybe if the US wasn't such a depressing place to live there'd be less of these kinds of issues.
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Apr 25, 2020 05:37
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tractor fanatic posted:iirc they blamed tattoos and antidepressants. fat is also probably a big problem Did they also blame Jody?
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Apr 25, 2020 05:49
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Forceholy posted:Didn't the military come out a few years ago with worry that they wouldn't meet their recruitment quotas because if lot of high school graduates are too fat? Isn't there a boot camp equivalent of fat camp or something? Yep there's been concern about it for a long time and it periodically makes headlines when there's some new study saying the same thing. You also can't realistically force people to lose large amounts of weight very quickly; imagine the backlash at military run camps of thousands of overweight people forced to do physical labor and run a serious calorie deficit. It would... not look good. Also you can only lose so much weight so fast safely. tractor fanatic posted:iirc they blamed tattoos and antidepressants. fat is also probably a big problem Stuff like that is blamed for them having trouble meeting recruiting numbers currently, but none of that matters if you actually need to enact conscription for example.
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Apr 25, 2020 06:01
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What issue do tattoos cause?
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Apr 25, 2020 07:45
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china and the US have actually had a ground war in the modern era and peasant farmers have been defeating us military technology for decades
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Apr 25, 2020 07:48
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Atopian posted:What issue do tattoos cause? Nothing, just there's policy on whats acceptable and some people get rejected due to it as things are now.
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Apr 25, 2020 08:19
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Hmmmm I wonder if Kim Jong Un bites it will China Lean heavier into indirect rule of north korea by forcing Kims sister to open up the country to the markets? I wonder...
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Apr 25, 2020 08:20
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LimburgLimbo posted:Nothing, just there's policy on whats acceptable and some people get rejected due to it as things are now. Oh, right. But not a real issue, in that if recruitment ever went below what was needed, it could be ignored without negative effect. Was trying to think what actual problem it could cause.
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Apr 25, 2020 08:27
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Al-Saqr posted:Hmmmm I wonder if Kim Jong Un bites it will China Lean heavier into indirect rule of north korea by forcing Kims sister to open up the country to the markets? I wonder... Why would China need to do it, now that the S Korea left has won a decisive election over the right and is more pro China and pro N Korea.
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Apr 25, 2020 08:46
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have I imagined that South Korea regularly sends North Korea a cash subsidy? cheaper than reunification I guess
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Apr 25, 2020 08:50
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stephenthinkpad posted:Why would China need to do it, now that the S Korea left has won a decisive election over the right and is more pro China and pro N Korea. The issue with North Korea is that it’s an incredibly poor and destitute country, if China wants a more effective buffer state between them and the American-led south they need to literally drag that country into the modern age and make it a place that isn’t on the verge of total famine and collapse. The North Korean regime really mishandled the economy and the country in its bid to stay in control and needlessly made its people live 50 years behind everyone else when China can probably institute a more advanced authoritarian state that at least delivers a modern life and services to its people. What happens in South Korea is out of China’s hands, what happens in the North is very much in their realm of possibility to create a market vassal state.
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Apr 25, 2020 09:01
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^^ my point was if South Korea is China friendly, N Korea doesn't have a lot of wiggling room in the geopolitic chess board. China doesn't have to worry about Kim dying and whoever win the palace struggle. Plus whoever come out on top will be a hardliner anyway. North Korea opening up and reform the market can benefit their people greatly, but then NK will have to join the global market and supply chain partially and have to give up on freedom of saber rattling with their nuclear missile tests anytime they want. I still don't believe it, but if the rumor of little fat Kim turning vegetable is true, all I want to say is 2020 is off the loving chart. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:51 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Apr 25, 2020 12:43
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quote:The cards have now been laid bare: China and elements in the PH government and society have come out of the shadows with their youtube propaganda. Open our minds and let the facts calmly yet firmly sink in: WE ARE AT WAR. (I can stop if this isn't productive to the thread but it's the only outlet I have for the sinophobic insanity I'm now running into on a regular basis)
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Apr 25, 2020 14:03
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gradenko_2000 posted:(I can stop if this isn't productive to the thread but it's the only outlet I have for the sinophobic insanity I'm now running into on a regular basis) Lol where did you get this screed?
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Apr 25, 2020 14:07
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Apr 25, 2020 14:09
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gradenko_2000 posted:(I can stop if this isn't productive to the thread but it's the only outlet I have for the sinophobic insanity I'm now running into on a regular basis) One of our friends ended up selling a bunch of her apartments in Hainan during the last Scarborough shoal flareup because she was worried about a Filipino submarine launched cruise missile attack.
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Apr 25, 2020 14:20
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Al-Saqr posted:Hmmmm I wonder if Kim Jong Un bites it will China Lean heavier into indirect rule of north korea by forcing Kims sister to open up the country to the markets? I wonder... there already exists a flourishing trade relationship between north korean workers and chinese workers. North korean working class sell high quality pollution free ginseng and even tiger parts to chinese (often used in tcm) while receiving electronics and other manufactured goods.
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Apr 25, 2020 17:19
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If you're China the morally right thing to do would be to have nk function with an interim government and hash out reunification plans between nk and sk. They'd be hailed as a hero of the region. However, that means they would give up a client buffer state, so.
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Apr 25, 2020 17:21
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Can you not spend 5 seconds on Wikipedia and find out Philippines has zero submarine? (Is this a Chinese rich people are dumb meme, I can't tell.) stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 17:52 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Apr 25, 2020 17:50
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stephenthinkpad posted:Can you not spend 5 seconds on Wikipedia and find out Philippines has zero submarine? I saw a really long banh mi once, that counts right?
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Apr 25, 2020 17:52
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Grapplejack posted:I saw a really long banh mi once, that counts right? Banh mi is Vietnamese 
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Apr 25, 2020 18:01
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Grapplejack posted:I saw a really long banh mi once, that counts right? uh
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Apr 25, 2020 18:04
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drat im hungry now tho
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Apr 25, 2020 18:04
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THS posted:drat im hungry now tho No kidding I'd kill for some Banh Mi right now..
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Apr 25, 2020 18:05
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Al-Saqr posted:Banh mi is Vietnamese oh, whoops.
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Apr 25, 2020 20:09
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TheOrac93482874/status/1254060463882670080
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Apr 25, 2020 21:57
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Throatwarbler posted:One of our friends ended up selling a bunch of her apartments in Hainan Owning multiple properties in Hainan is the beautiful realisation of true Marxism-Leninism
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Apr 26, 2020 00:37
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https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1254428558224736257
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Apr 26, 2020 19:29
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He's not wrong and I unironically hope this happens lmao
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Apr 26, 2020 19:35
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Like Chinese students will be allowed anywhere near the US after this.
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Apr 26, 2020 19:39
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I work in pretty high tech research and we hire tons of chinese nationals, not because we can pay them less or they're easier to hire than a US citizen, but because they know wtf is up with some pretty technical subjects. Keeping them from studying here will prevent us from being able to brain drain away the best and the brightest and mostly hurts as far as I can tell. EDIT: What I'm saying is it appears Tom Cotton mistakenly thinks they can't figure this poo poo out of on their own, and being petulant children will just ensure we don't have a seat at the table.
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Apr 26, 2020 19:50
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Throatwarbler posted:He's not wrong and I unironically hope this happens lmao the gently caress?
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Apr 26, 2020 20:22
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learn some dumb old stuff that no modern person think about or has any relevance, cool also there's tons of chinese students in art and politics and whatever, I never felt international students were all stuck in STEM
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