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Blistex posted:My wife is thoroughly confused and saddened by the narratives the CCP-owned/controlled media has been pushing these last few years. She thinks (a pet theory) that the CCP actually wants the rest of the world to hate China so that there is more pushback and the populace "circles the wagons". She thinks a defensive people are easier to control, sort of like North Korea. I still think it's just an unwillingness to understand the world they inhabit mixed with a lot of bully complex. Isn't this what russia did semi recently? Like they gave no fucks about always being bad guys in movies because they wanted to instill an us vs them mentality in their populace?
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I thought they never gave a gently caress about being the cast as a villain like a normal country. They were usually portrayed as pretty evil badass threats. CCP shits their pants over the tiniest BS so that doesn't track. As for Blistex's wife, both theories are correct. Thirdly it's to force censorship outside by terrorising companies/ngo/individuals. Those companies will let their employees protest whatever the hell they want except China. Can't say HK add oil or Taiwan or serve food to tsai ing-wen.
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Russia embraces being cruel but effective bad boys, and the European alt right loves it. What was that propaganda reel around the time of the Ukraine invasion? "Yes, we are the oppressor"?
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"Я окупант", I am an occupier, from memory.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:I think it's clearly a stupid pun and not a racist joke but people are getting mad, there are memes being shared on Chinese social media with cops kneeling on George Floyd and the caption "what kind of knees are these?"
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Someone in GBS said recently that Russian masculinity is so toxic it has a measurable effect on average life expectancy. It's true, men just end up dead by getting killed doing something illegal, getting killed doing something stupid, or just plain killing themselves (usually by drinking). Unlike China, Russia really owns their bad boy credentials. The unnamed Han can only salivate.
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east asian peeps are like third after slav peeps and irish peeps but third is pretty fuckin nuts
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barbecue at the folks posted:Someone in GBS said recently that Russian masculinity is so toxic it has a measurable effect on average life expectancy. It's true, men just end up dead by getting killed doing something illegal, getting killed doing something stupid, or just plain killing themselves (usually by drinking). Unlike China, Russia really owns their bad boy credentials. The unnamed Han can only salivate. A random anecdote from one of my ESL teacher colleagues: he had to keep correcting Russian males on "brutal" not being a positive personality trait in sorting exercises.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Someone in GBS said recently that Russian masculinity is so toxic it has a measurable effect on average life expectancy. It's true, men just end up dead by getting killed doing something illegal, getting killed doing something stupid, or just plain killing themselves (usually by drinking). i mean... this is true in the USA as well
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ArmZ posted:i mean... this is true in the USA as well *checking this user’s posts* bets now open on when armz posts full on bootlicking horseshit, over/under is at 10 posts from this moment. Tie goes to under. Only armz’s posts count for the total. Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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Coolguye posted:*checking this user’s posts* lmao nice meltdown
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Both of you shut up or post something about China, thank you
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:Both of you shut up or post something about China, thank you both refusing to concede and doubling down on this is pretty China
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My shipment of chinese food and seasoning arrived and I plan to gain weight stuffing myself on noodles and assorted parts of ducks. Man I need to go back to china
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I read somewhere once that Tibetans don't contextualize their idea of masculinity in contrast with Tibetan femininity, but rather they contrast it with Han masculinity. What little I know of Tibetan culture makes me believe that this is in fact real.
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 Han? Muslim Caliphates? Mongols? Well, the vultures must eat too.
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Dont Touch ME posted:
The chinese invented cyclopses / greece
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Odysseus visited China which is why it took him so many years to get home
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Hey, I just read all the last thread, but skipped to the end in this one. I wanted to ask if Caberham ever came back from his self-requested perma with a new account? I met him back in 2014, and was a bit too busy last year to catch up with him, just hope he's doing well.
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He's still laying low but is fine.
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 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55227538 quote:women's university football match in China had to be called off after players were told they were not allowed to have dyed hair, state media report. THIS IS KICKING
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There was a similar thing in Hong Kong recently. Male prisoners with long hair were forced to get haircuts and there was a lawsuit about it because women prisoners didn't have to cut their hair. The judge agreed that it was discriminatory. The solution? Make the women get haircuts too! 
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Cases also pop up in Japan semi regularly since many schools have rules against hair dye, and shockingly enough Japan is not actually a homogenous land of racial purity and some Japanese people have hair that isn't naturally jet black. 
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The cops wont let people have tattoos and earrings on tv now lol
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Can't tell if this is Anti-LGB, Anti-underclass or just some backbencher throwing a shitfit over getting rejected by a gyaru.
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hakimashou posted:The cops wont let people have tattoos and earrings on tv now lol I half remember a hissyfit thrown by Chinese authorities over the popularity of Taiwanese, (and/or K-Pop), pop stars with their earrings, tattoos, and pretty faces ruining a generation of men my making them girly, and ruining a generation of women because they now will not appreciate the true nong masculinity. WarpedNaba posted:Can't tell if this is Anti-LGB, Anti-underclass or just some backbencher throwing a shitfit over getting rejected by a gyaru. I would argue it's bog standard conservatism. Or get-off-my-lawnism. Kids today are doing things differently, therefore they are wrong and dangerous, this girl with hairdye is destroying society! P.S. China 5,000 years old and strong.
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the dipshit standards of masculinity are easier to spread than civil societys reaction to them. just gotta watch movies
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 All those conservative rules were completely standard during my childhood and a substantial part of my adulthood. Any school or employer would have sent you home instantly for dying your hair an unnatural color. The first time I saw a bank teller with bright blue hair my mind was blown because I thought that would never be allowed at a conventional job. There was also a heavy implication that only lowlifes get tattoos. Many places I worked specifically wouldn't hire people with visible tattoos. One earing for boys was allowed in most places but considered very edgy. Earrings on both ears were not allowed for boys. Men were not allowed to have hair beyond a certain length at some schools and companies and no one was allowed to have "weird" haircuts. Grand Fromage posted:Cases also pop up in Japan semi regularly since many schools have rules against hair dye, and shockingly enough Japan is not actually a homogenous land of racial purity and some Japanese people have hair that isn't naturally jet black.
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Goddamn foreign chinpira with their crappy tatts!
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My school is insane for this poo poo. We police hair length on boys, girls' hair being tied back at all times, number and type of earrings on girls, hair color, and fingernail length amongst other case by case things. Credit to the students for pushing the system where they can and seeing exactly what they can get away with. We waste a lot of time and resources trying to control this stuff and it's costing us students.
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My school also does this, but because I'm in the
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Yeah, after winter and summer holiday it's the worst. We tend to give students a week buffer before we start issuing citations.
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I was private school educated, (coz I am fancy as gently caress), as was my brother. And the first thing I did after graduating Y12 was get my ear pierced, and the first thing he did was dye his hair a horrible shade of yellow. I also had long hair in Uni, and was disproportionately proud, (well as much as my conservative parents were disproportionately ashamed), that I could get it in my mouth. Also at one of my early jobs I wasn't allowed to have my (tiny sleeper) earring in whilst on shift. And said job also had a rule about sideburns not being allowed below the level of your earlobe. I once challenged this, (coz as well as being fancy as gently caress I am bolshie as poo poo), by slowly slowly growing my sideburns out a few millimeters at a time, and managed to get it almost to my jaw before they noticed. So I shaved them off completely the next day, coz sideburns are stupid. This is all 15-20 years ago in retail.
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https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1302986504898334721?s=20 Quite a haunting article by an anthropologist on the fundamental flaws and contradictions in America forever exposed by COVID-19. He concludes that the 21st century will be the Chinese century.
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No, he concludes that if China does take over we would look back on the best years of the American century with fondness.
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McGavin posted:No, he concludes that if China does take over we would look back on the best years of the American century with fondness. No generation will ever have it as good as the boomers while they simultaneously destroyed it for everyone else.
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VideoTapir posted:he concludes that the living will envy the dead Presumably not for being dead though? They could do something about it if they did.
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Loveshaft posted:https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/1302986504898334721?s=20 "Only six percent of American homes had grandparents living beneath the same roof as grandchildren; elders were abandoned to retirement homes" I have a bit of an issue with this. I can't find a cite offhand, but I remember reading something that this was due more to personal choice, that when you give older people money and resources they decide to not live with and be a 'burden' on the younger generations. And I remember reading a paper in school that made the argument that this type of generational disconnect was developing in the urban areas of China too, that civic institutions to support elderly had to be developed because traditional modes of support were breaking down.
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