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I imagine the Chinese nuclear deterrent is chabuduo as gently caress.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I imagine the Chinese nuclear deterrent is chabuduo as gently caress. fire a nuclear missile at the nuclear missiles
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Jun 16, 2020 06:53
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it's ok Chinese are very resilient, any nuclear missile destroying a city would just end up with like 8 dead and 200 injured
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Wasn't there an anecdote about an officer exchange that ended up with 'No, you won't end up with 500 million dead and 500 million happily bouncing along in a nuclear exchange. Everyone in this radius is dead.'?
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Blistex posted:Being a Chinese national is going to be a massive red flag (lol) to be allowed into various levels of research and development in the west now that it's been shown on multiple . . . . oh wait! China and Chinese universities pay money. To be fair, if it wasn't for Chinese students my research program would look uninhabited. I also met some really nice people who came from hard working families with no ties to government. One guy in his thirties even had several brothers around the same age. In Beijing. Then there were the kids who's parents were oil barons. loving bums and annoying as gently caress.
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BrassRoots posted:To be fair, if it wasn't for Chinese students my research program would look uninhabited. I also met some really nice people who came from hard working families with no ties to government. One guy in his thirties even had several brothers around the same age. In Beijing. Then there were the kids who's parents were oil barons. loving bums and annoying as gently caress. I mean this is like 99% of Chinese people. Also Beijing had 27 in a day cases and has restarted lockdown efforts. https://apnews.com/772a8215aef0d656bab9efe29fe90990
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BrassRoots posted:Then there were the kids who's parents were oil barons. loving bums and annoying as gently caress. like Saudi annoying
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Jun 16, 2020 08:15
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Scuffle on the India/China border, apparently no bullets fired but they beat each other to death with clubs and rocks. Which is... odd? https://twitter.com/i/events/1272797478157299712 Also, it's that time of year when ersatz-china does what it does: https://twitter.com/i/events/1272802789098262529
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WarpedNaba posted:Scuffle on the India/China border, apparently no bullets fired but they beat each other to death with clubs and rocks. Which is... odd? “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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Jun 16, 2020 11:17
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https://twitter.com/ShivAroor/status/1272796473839755264?s=20WarpedNaba posted:Truly ahead of their time. nope exactly on time this year is so loving stupid
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Jun 16, 2020 11:29
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WarpedNaba posted:Scuffle on the India/China border, apparently no bullets fired but they beat each other to death with clubs and rocks. Which is... odd? As I understand it neither side lets the border guards have guns, so they don't start a war.
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Jun 16, 2020 11:30
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yaffle posted:As I understand it neither side lets the border guards have guns, so they don't start a war. time to dust off all the jokes about Afghans acquiring "The Boulder" from 2001
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Jun 16, 2020 11:32
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Alan Smithee posted:time to dust off all the jokes about Afghans acquiring "The Boulder" from 2001
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Jun 16, 2020 11:47
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Honestly the end of the world sounds pretty good right now.
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Jun 16, 2020 12:05
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I did a tarot card reading for Kim Jung Un and the results were "oppression and horrible unbalance until the day north korea is destroyed" No surprise :/
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Jun 16, 2020 12:42
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peanut posted:I did a tarot card reading for Kim Jung Un and the results were "oppression and horrible unbalance until the day north korea is destroyed" Which card symbolizes north Korea?
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Jun 16, 2020 13:55
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Every guide gives a different interpretation but my guide says… Center, the Question, Knight of Wands absence, pride, haste Left, the Past, 4 of Wands (reversed) Comfort, gain, family Right, the Future, 10 of Wands oppression, burden, conquer Bottom, the Reason, Wheel of Fortune (reversed) over abundance, cycle of fate Top, Possibilities, 6 of Wands (reversed) Enemy at the gates, ruin In summary, it's going to get worse before it ends even more terribly
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WarpedNaba posted:Scuffle on the India/China border, apparently no bullets fired but they beat each other to death with clubs and rocks. Which is... odd? I'm guessing the fight involved three Indian and at the least 15 PLA soldiers. Any ratio less favourable to the PLA and the soldiers wouldn't have progressed beyond calling the Indian's moms whores.
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Two Indian soldiers, one officer reported KIA. Now saying 20 KIA: https://twitter.com/rahulkanwal/status/1272923251434389504 grellgraxer fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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Begun the Stone Wars have.
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Bloody hell though 20 casualties on the Indian side, savage af. I am going to assume China is the instigator. Maybe someone huffing too much nationalism.
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oohhboy posted:Bloody hell though 20 casualties on the Indian side, savage af. I am going to assume China is the instigator. Maybe someone huffing too much nationalism. I'm still banking on "the PLA troops found themselves in a very favourable position with a minimum 5:1 numerical advantage" scenario. My guess is that there were a column of Indian troops in a position below the Chinese ones, and the PLA troops just started throwing and dropping rocks on them. CBC news is reporting... quote:The army said in a statement late Tuesday that the two sides "have disengaged" from the disputed Galwan area, where they clashed overnight on Monday. Guessing that three outright died from rocks, and the Indians didn't have the proper means to evacuate the remaining injured. The problem with this situation is that the PLA soldiers are going to see that the CCP is bringing a shitload of men, equipment, and $$$ to the disputed area, and they're going to assume that the Indians are not only unable to reply, but unwilling to reply with proportionate force (if news reaches them that 17 Indian soldiers froze to death on the mountain, even more so). All the Han Chinese guys that I knew in China (who actually verbalize their opinions on the matter of Indians) were of the opinion that they were quite literally sub-human, stupid, dirty, smelly, poor, incompetent, and cowardly, and that every facet of their society and government was exactly the same. That kind of teaching (plus the $$$ the PLA is making visible on that mountain compared to the Indians) really emboldens stupid behaviour. The fact that India isn't going to make a point of killing 20 Chinese soldiers will further cement this in the PLA soldier's minds. To the PLA soldiers on that mountain and reading the news, It's not that India is a rational actor who doesn't want to start WWIII over 20 dead, it's that India is Stupid, Poor, Incompetent, and most of all afraid of China. If Xi doesn't dial things back and get his troops to stop going off script*, I don't want to know what kind of Clancy poo poo might unfold. *hopefully it's something akin to the Korean Axe Murders, and was a spur of the moment thing and not something actually ordered from up top.
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Blistex posted:I'm still banking on "the PLA troops found themselves in a very favourable position with a minimum 5:1 numerical advantage" scenario. My guess is that there were a column of Indian troops in a position below the Chinese ones, and the PLA troops just started throwing and dropping rocks on them. extreme san goku shi energy
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Blistex posted:I'm still banking on "the PLA troops found themselves in a very favourable position with a minimum 5:1 numerical advantage" scenario. My guess is that there were a column of Indian troops in a position below the Chinese ones, and the PLA troops just started throwing and dropping rocks on them. India have been itching to nuke something.
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Fumble posted:India have been itching to nuke something. Didn't they address that in a patch?
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The PRC has a pattern of mistaking passivity for weakness and they will keep pushing until they receive a proportionate response, at which point they will loudly complain about how unfair the response is before See: Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, even Taiwan Surprised India hasn't realized this
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<sends India Sean Connery's speech from "The Untouchables"> <India is confused as the film has nothing to do with caste systems>
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Blistex posted:Didn't they address that in a patch? 
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Good thing India isn't being run by a fascist nationalist psycho who is probably itching for an external threat to keep the public busy while he pogroms Muslims.
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Grand Fromage posted:Good thing India isn't being run by a fascist nationalist psycho who is probably itching for an external threat to keep the public busy while he pogroms Muslims. 
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Grand Fromage posted:Good thing India isn't being run by a fascist nationalist psycho who is probably itching for an external threat to keep the public busy while he pogroms Muslims. Are we talking about India or China? 
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I can also back up the opinion of Indians that Blistex experienced. When mainlanders would tell me what countries/peoples they hated, the list was almost always this one and in this order: Koreans Hong Kongers Vietnamese Indians After that you started getting wild cards. One had Mexicans as #5 and I was so confused. You might think Japan would be on the list but I never met anyone who had a problem with Japan, most of my students were enormous weebs. I wonder if that had something to do with being in Sichuan well west of Chongqing, which was pretty much outside of Japan's reach in the war. I can imagine people further east being raised on family stories of the Japanese invasion having a different point of view.
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Grand Fromage posted:I can also back up the opinion of Indians that Blistex experienced. When mainlanders would tell me what countries/peoples they hated, the list was almost always this one and in this order: ....America's.... not number one?! 
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UltraRed posted:....America's.... not number one?! That was a couple years ago and the hate can turn on a dime, so who knows. I experienced both a sudden surge and vanish of anti-Indian and anti-Korean sentiments while I lived there. The anti-Korean stuff lasted a couple months and was big, stores putting up signs about how they didn't sell Korean products and others smashing Korean stuff in public and poo poo. Then it all vanished overnight when there was a border thing with India.
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Grand Fromage posted:You might think Japan would be on the list but I never met anyone who had a problem with Japan, most of my students were enormous weebs. I wonder if that had something to do with being in Sichuan well west of Chongqing, which was pretty much outside of Japan's reach in the war. I can imagine people further east being raised on family stories of the Japanese invasion having a different point of view. I was in Xi'an in 2012 and there were huge anti Japanese demonstrations in the city and even rumors of one person being beaten to death by a mob for driving a Japanese brand vehicle. It was definitely a thing to have red ribbons on your (Japanese) car during that period. I also saw signs in shops saying "no dogs or Japanese". I remember one Japanese restaurant I used to go to temporarily shut down and never reopened during that period. I also used to know a girl who sang beautifully telling me that it would be a good thing for China to nuke Japan and just kill them all. She also said that black people scared her and she wouldn't live in the same building as one. Her father was in the police. So, yeah, China is a land of contrasts.
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