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A Touch of Sin and Devils on the Doorstep are a couple of my faves. I still need to see The Story of Qiu Ju by Yimou Zhang, about a woman who goes on an epic journey for an apology from the gov't after a local official kicks her husband in the balls
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Dec 26, 2020 18:06
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1342832155710275584 3 years
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Dec 26, 2020 18:42
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build it and they will come
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Dec 26, 2020 19:24
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specially if the first thing you build is the infrastructure to actually get there in the first place
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Dec 26, 2020 19:25
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Chomskyan posted:Keep these links to Chinese movies coming. I really enjoyed this one one of my favorites is Kaili Blues by Bi Gan. theres like a 40 minute one shot scene that follows the characters in the village thats so good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82ku8Q--Cw
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Dec 26, 2020 19:32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNpRbNdR7E
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Dec 26, 2020 20:12
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smh at building transit when you could have endless seas of beautiful independent uber contractors
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Dec 26, 2020 20:16
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THS posted:the only non-HK chinese film ive seen is wolf warrior Taiwanese cinema is some of the best in the world bro
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Dec 26, 2020 20:45
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mistermojo posted:one of my favorites is Kaili Blues by Bi Gan. theres like a 40 minute one shot scene that follows the characters in the village thats so good Bi Gan is the hot 'young' director in China now but his films are pretentious trash
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Dec 26, 2020 20:46
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I work in Cinema and moved to Taiwan and went to China after for my work in Cinema and I'm extremely going to gatekeep and tastemake chinese films edit: You wanna watch some good artsy poo poo you watch Tsai Ming-Liang or if you wanna start with good, current generation, mainland films watch Lou Ye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbzblq3b1Z8 Antonymous has issued a correction as of 20:53 on Dec 26, 2020 |
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Dec 26, 2020 20:47
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Los Angeles built a trolley system before they even had housing built. Kind of ironic with the way transportation is in CA now.
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Dec 26, 2020 23:28
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cenotaph posted:Los Angeles built a trolley system before they even had housing built. Kind of ironic with the way transportation is in CA now. Then the automobile and oil companies brought up the streetcar systems in LA and NY and killed them deliberately.
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Dec 27, 2020 00:08
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stephenthinkpad posted:Then the automobile and oil companies brought up the streetcar systems in LA and NY and killed them deliberately. Yeah, there was even a subway tunnel that led into downtown LA... and by the late 1960s they had made it unusable. Also, even if the argument was that streetcars weren't efficient of surface streets, there were a ton of right-of-ways that could been utilized and most of the system could have been save rather than dismantled. It is an old story, but instructive. That said, if you look at the current state of public transit in the US, it really isn't that different than it was back then. Besides a few lights-rail projects, most of the US' major systems have been left to rot for decades at this point ( NYC Subway, DC Metro, SEPTA or MBTA etc). LA has been struggle to rebuild since the 1980s and the system is still skeletal.
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Dec 27, 2020 00:19
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stephenthinkpad posted:Then the automobile and oil companies brought up the streetcar systems in LA and NY and killed them deliberately. this but also every city in america... "In 1902, there were 21,902 miles of street railway tracks throughout the United States, with 97 percent of all lines powered by electricity." The auto industry argued that if cities switched to buses and turned trolly track into more roadway, the mass transit could share infrastructure with private transit, and it would reduce city costs (and get a bunch of free infrastructure to support the auto industry as well as sell buses).  Here is the last street car in minneapolis being burned while a check to General Motors for the purchase of 525 buses is handed over by the head of Twin Cities Rapid Transit.
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Dec 27, 2020 00:24
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, there was even a subway tunnel that led into downtown LA... and by the late 1960s they had made it unusable. Also, even if the argument was that streetcars weren't efficient of surface streets, there were a ton of right-of-ways that could been utilized and most of the system could have been save rather than dismantled. It is an old story, but instructive. 60 years after Streetcars , now people in NY and LA are buying e-loving-bikes to deal with the sub-20mph rush hour highway congestion.
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Dec 27, 2020 00:31
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sorry to post again but this reply is just so apt https://twitter.com/JTone2_/status/1342879437222637569
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Dec 27, 2020 00:34
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, there was even a subway tunnel that led into downtown LA... and by the late 1960s they had made it unusable. Also, even if the argument was that streetcars weren't efficient of surface streets, there were a ton of right-of-ways that could been utilized and most of the system could have been save rather than dismantled. It is an old story, but instructive. You can take a rail car from the inconveniently located trolley museum to a AAA baseball game, though!
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Dec 27, 2020 00:38
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Antonymous posted:Taiwanese cinema is some of the best in the world bro https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/1338973353038802944
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Dec 27, 2020 03:40
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yah A Sun is really good
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Dec 27, 2020 03:55
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are there any good book recommendations on the structure of the economy and politics of modern (2010's-on) china that aren't written by either western fake-marxists or journalists from the economist
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Dec 27, 2020 03:59
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Throatwarbler posted:That whole narrative makes no sense because Chinese sovereignty over Tibet was never in in dispute by anyone until the big bad communists came about. Is Texas being invaded by America on Jan 20 because some Texans don't like Joe Biden? What complicates this is that Tibet was de facto independent between about 1912 and 1949 after rebelling against the Qing during Sun Yat-sen's revolt. Prior to 1905 it was also mostly ignored by the Qing until Catholic missionaries/Qing officials started getting massacred in Batang by Yellow Sect Buddhists, which came right after the British massacred a bunch of Tibetans and tried to turn Tibet into a British protectorate in 1904 (even demanding a massive indemnity for not accepting the wonderful and beneficent British Empire). And then the dying Qing Empire only really tried to reassert its control of the restive Tibet in 1910. Tibet even invaded China at the tail end of its warlord era around 1930 and tried to capture parts of Qinghai and Sichuan. The regional politics are even more complicated with Outer Tibet hating the Dalai Lamas' guts with most people there supporting the anti-feudal Tibet Improvement Party (which received Kuomintang aid), supporting a "Kham" state independent of both Tibet and China (but were way more pro-China), and the ninth Panchen Lama being exiled for supporting China and being in the modernizing faction of Tibetan politics. The tenth one even sided with the commies when they invaded in 1949. Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 07:54 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Dec 27, 2020 07:50
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Antonymous posted:sorry to post again but this reply is just so apt https://twitter.com/Karl_Was_Right/status/1342921082722914304 i liked this one best e: it'd have been even better if that cctv camera was there at the start tho 
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Dec 27, 2020 08:02
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/technology/ant-group-china-regulation.html Imagine something like this ever happening in the US. The "neither Washington nor Beijing" set will be sweating bullets trying to explain why this happened.
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Dec 27, 2020 13:28
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drat, i wish my country built things 
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Dec 27, 2020 13:56
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1343178518964760579?s=19
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Dec 27, 2020 14:09
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I wonder which GBS poster this is
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Dec 27, 2020 14:54
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Bathtub Cheese posted:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/technology/ant-group-china-regulation.html Not to burst any bubbles here, but Facebook is facing up to antitrust action too. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-what-to-know/index.html
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Dec 27, 2020 19:03
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bipartisan going after facebook is funny. It took Dems blaming Facebook for fake news and Republicans blaming them for "censorsing" content when all the top political content is Breitbart, OAN, Shapiro poo poo (because the platform is overrun by boomers).
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Dec 27, 2020 19:07
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so as a paradox mapgame dude, i love these military anthems. but this one caught my attention because of (a) how bombastic and "red" it is and (b) the appearance of the main singers who do not look like military officers to me at all, but ryan seacrest T.V. hosts with nice hairdos and facelifts. are these guys in the military or are they just playing dressup? does anyone know? if it's just dressup, then that's real 21st century leninism. there can be no separation between the people and their army. it is only right that the T.V. hosts help to erode this distinction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJaQBjMlhyk
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Dec 27, 2020 19:29
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Not So Fast posted:Not to burst any bubbles here, but Facebook is facing up to antitrust action too. Not really analogous at all. Ironically Facebook is facing antitrust action out of a bipartisan agreement to pursue both their bad-faith political agendas, something the Western press has falsely suggested China did by going after Ant. Ma's businesses are like Amazon, a financial services firm, and a ubiquitous digital payments monopoly all rolled into one. Facebook is a digital propaganda and envy generator used to sell ads. Bathtub Cheese has issued a correction as of 19:36 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Dec 27, 2020 19:32
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Dec 27, 2020 19:33
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:so as a paradox mapgame dude, i love these military anthems. but this one caught my attention because of (a) how bombastic and "red" it is and (b) the appearance of the main singers who do not look like military officers to me at all, but ryan seacrest T.V. hosts with nice hairdos and facelifts. are these guys in the military or are they just playing dressup? does anyone know? if it's just dressup, then that's real 21st century leninism. there can be no separation between the people and their army. it is only right that the T.V. hosts help to erode this distinction The PLA has bands and "arts" detachments just like every other military in the world?
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Dec 27, 2020 20:47
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Was xi's wife in the army?
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Dec 27, 2020 21:06
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incredibly depressing to me that China can build whole new cities and factories and trains and airports and HSR constantly over the whole country, and the only things getting built in the US are single family homes and Amazon warehouses.
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Dec 27, 2020 21:24
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that’s not fair, the us also builds prisons!
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Dec 27, 2020 21:40
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LibCrusher posted:incredibly depressing to me that China can build whole new cities and factories and trains and airports and HSR constantly over the whole country, and the only things getting built in the US are single family homes and Amazon warehouses. dont forget empty 5-over-1 condos that cost 3k a month
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Dec 27, 2020 21:47
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America build high concept business model (i.e. Wework)
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Dec 27, 2020 21:48
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https://twitter.com/cpimspeak/status/1343215698932219904 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwyB5GdBbzg BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 00:36 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 00:34
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https://twitter.com/Deadpreacher/status/1342865111720067074
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Dec 28, 2020 00:48
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big in japan
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Dec 28, 2020 01:10
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