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The traditional Marxist/left alliance dominated politic in West Bengal (that's in India, west of Bangladesh) has been steadily losing to the nationalist BJP over the last decade. The left alliance in Kerala in southern tip is still holding out, since its one of the least India-like part of India. IMO the West Bengal (and rest of the India outside of BJP's core voters, that is, outside of the super religious, Hindu speaking Gangeti plain) shifting to BJP simply because the central government finally brought development to these remote parts of India. Also because the Congress Party has turn itself into a badly run family business. Is it me or political leaders shouldn't marry foreign wives? Chiang Ching-kuo married a Russian wife and all his children turned out to be spoiled brats. Rajiv Gandhi married an Italian and the Congress party has been going downhill for decades. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:30 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/Reevellp/status/1353007339339739138 this rules too bad their guy is such a racist
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Jan 26, 2021 15:16
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stephenthinkpad posted:Chiang Ching-kuo married a Russian wife and all his children turned out to be spoiled brats. are you suggesting that this is due to foreigners polluting the bloodline rather than bad parenting/roll of the genetic dice
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Jan 26, 2021 15:48
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stephenthinkpad posted:
Rajiv's mother began the inc's downfall and her husband was as indian as they come. not even gonna touch the xenophobic implications
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Jan 26, 2021 15:56
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https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1354052162570117121
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Jan 26, 2021 16:32
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stephenthinkpad posted:The traditional Marxist/left alliance dominated politic in West Bengal (that's in India, west of Bangladesh) has been steadily losing to the nationalist BJP over the last decade. The left alliance in Kerala in southern tip is still holding out, since its one of the least India-like part of India. wrong on two counts. the communists in bengal lost a long time ago, not to the BJP but to a regional party (trinamool congress) which isn't ideologically comitted to the left or the right (outside of being anti communist) but is just a local patronage party. also bengal isn't "remote" its been a major part of india culturally and economically for centuries and the bjp hasn't brought much in the way of development to them, things are pretty stagnant. they're just flooded with massive amounts of cash, which translates to lots of local muscle on the ground as well as funding for propaganda across social media and news media. the indian public is a lot more right wing than a decade ago, and its not because the bjp has been delivering economically (i'd say the opposite).
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Jan 26, 2021 16:56
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mila kunis posted:the communists in bengal lost a long time ago 🎼 tale as old as time 🎶
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Jan 26, 2021 16:58
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indigi posted:are you suggesting that this is due to foreigners polluting the bloodline rather than bad parenting/roll of the genetic dice I am just pointing out a coincident. Maybe it has to do with the wife not familiar with the local culture; or it may has to do with the wife not from a local political fraction and can not bridge any long term political alliance. Political marriage is pretty common both for the Republic of China era and South Asia politic. There may be examples that go the other way, although I can't think of any off the top of my head. I don't know why people are reading xonophobic tune from my comment. Political dynasties ending sooner is a good thing.
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Jan 26, 2021 18:18
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mila kunis posted:wrong on two counts. the communists in bengal lost a long time ago, not to the BJP but to a regional party (trinamool congress) which isn't ideologically comitted to the left or the right (outside of being anti communist) but is just a local patronage party. also bengal isn't "remote" its been a major part of india culturally and economically for centuries I know Modi did deliver development in Gujarat when he was the CM in that state. I am not so familiar with other parts of India. Are you saying BJP just buy their way into local election wins? If BJP can not push through some development, where did they get the money to spend on elections? I may have confused West Bengal with the Naxalite infested area. I checked the map, it's slightly in the west side of West Bengal. Maybe that area is more hilly.
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Jan 26, 2021 18:30
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mila kunis posted:wrong on two counts. the communists in bengal lost a long time ago, not to the BJP but to a regional party (trinamool congress) which isn't ideologically comitted to the left or the right (outside of being anti communist) but is just a local patronage party. also bengal isn't "remote" its been a major part of india culturally and economically for centuries Yeah i'm not quite sure where OP is getting his information from. There was a big scandal a while back that caused the communist party to fall from grace in west bengal. The rural regions of India are very rich in natural resources but unfortunately there is a lot of corruption and for the most part the governments have exploited these regions instead of develop them. Which is why the things like the nalaxite movement gained so much steam when it did.
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Jan 26, 2021 18:32
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stephenthinkpad posted:If BJP can not push through some development, where did they get the money to spend on elections? Indian oligarchs, which have been fully in the tank for the BJP and flooded them with cash after the previous Congress government had to govern in coalition with communists and they stymied a bunch of poo poo the oligarchs wanted
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Jan 26, 2021 18:41
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Antonymous posted:Zhang Yimou, the same director, did a movie with Christian Bale 5 years before this one bro, it's not the first It's also really bad. stephenthinkpad posted:Also because the Congress Party has turn itself into a badly run family business. Is it me or political leaders shouldn't marry foreign wives? Chiang Ching-kuo married a Russian wife and all his children turned out to be spoiled brats. Rajiv Gandhi married an Italian and the Congress party has been going downhill for decades. They would have turned out better if he traded them to the Soviet Union as hostages. Ironically his time in the Soviet Union and studying the CPSU gave him the ideas that reformed the Guomindang in the 50's/60's and made it into a stronger, coherent Leninist party.
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Jan 26, 2021 19:54
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Vasukhani posted:this movie was actual chinese fascism with its portrayal of proud nomadic civilizations as orcs wrong blizzard faction. they were actually Zerg.
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Jan 26, 2021 20:07
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Atrocious Joe posted:wrong blizzard faction. they were actually Zerg. The mongols were the good guys in mulan too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hrhBZJ98
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Jan 26, 2021 20:38
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Atrocious Joe posted:wrong blizzard faction. they were actually Zerg. The Chinese are clearly the Protoss
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Jan 26, 2021 20:46
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:
Yeah, they could have become the Theon and Yara Greyjoy of Taiwan. "What's split may never join!"
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Jan 26, 2021 20:50
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This thing is not over. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1354076627890704384?s=19
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Jan 27, 2021 02:09
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stephenthinkpad posted:This thing is not over. it's going to get interesting
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Jan 27, 2021 03:04
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india is at a crossroads
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Jan 27, 2021 03:07
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go go communism
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Jan 27, 2021 03:12
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Normally you'd be like "oh what if the fascists take over" but India is literally already led by fascists so there's nowhere to go but up
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Jan 27, 2021 06:06
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New swab just dropped.
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Jan 27, 2021 12:51
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Drive-thru #anal swab testing.
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Jan 27, 2021 13:28
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https://twitter.com/SophieMak1/status/1354368064167415808 Mista Jay Cee Denton
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Jan 27, 2021 20:08
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Atrocious Joe posted:The first attempt didn't go great. I liked this review actually. Basically it argues that The Great Wall didn't exactly indulge in the white savior narrative or whitewashing, but still contains a bunch of Orientalist tropes, and is quite mediocre despite high production values https://twitter.com/newbloommag/status/819891764232388608 quote:The effects in The Great Wall are all too artificial in nature. Few will think that this is a true representation of Chinese landscape. With the sheer amount of poor, wastefully expensive CGI, one is vaguely reminded of a Michael Bay film, except instead of explosions (though one has plenty of those as well), one has attempts at depicting Chinese landscapes. One is struck by the degree to which the film is evocative of a “nouveau riche” mentality that pumping money into the budget for visual effects and CGI automatically means creating beautiful and visually attractive imagery. quote:But we may importantly note the strong element of mutual cultural stereotyping present here. William represents a Chinese stereotype of materialistic, individualistic western culture. On the other hand, Lin represents a stereotype westerners often have about Chinese, but that Chinese also often have about themselves—which is that, in contrast to the West, Chinese are group-oriented, self-sacrificing, and found their society not based on individual interest but on the collective interest. The last point reminds me of criticism of the Mulan remake
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Jan 27, 2021 20:37
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lol re-reading that review, it compares its narrative on East-West relations to this overlooked Chinese movie, and it also kinda connects to the weird anti-dynastic intermixing conversation earlier in this thread quote:The Great Wall also shares with Dragon Blade a historical frame narrative through the story’s claim to be one of the numerous “legends” about the Great Wall in its opening title card. But William states that his purpose in leaving is to return his friend Tovar to Europe. We can see that there is no way for him to be together with Lin, because that would be for him to “possess” her in a way. Rather, he is to keep to his own people, and enforce the proper national boundaries, it seems, in making sure that greedy Europeans as he once was do not venture to China in the hopes of plundering its riches. Indeed, interracial relationships between Chinese and westerners have certainly been something which the Chinese government has warned against in recent times, with the claim that foreigners could be spies.
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Jan 27, 2021 20:51
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dragon blade is loving hilarious, great lovely b movie great wall is just boring and overwrought
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Jan 27, 2021 22:16
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Bro Dad posted:dragon blade is loving hilarious, great lovely b movie Is it better than China Salesman? The trailer(s) is the best thing I've ever seen but I've heard that there's not much to the movie besides the big Tyson vs. Seagal fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMiaXULFpLw&t=1s
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Jan 27, 2021 23:54
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Bro Dad posted:great wall is just boring and overwrought Sounds like every other Zhang Yimou film.
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Jan 28, 2021 00:30
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Electronico6 posted:Sounds like every other Zhang Yimou film. Zhang's movie set in PRC are range from good to great, movies set in ROC period are okay, movies set in ancient China are mostly lousy, although I would call Shadow great. Check out No One Less.
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Jan 28, 2021 00:46
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Vasukhani posted:Those countries are literally American satrapies that do not have an independent foreign policy, unlike brazil and indonesia Sorry Brazil also is a Satrapy.
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Jan 28, 2021 00:47
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Do these movies make money off royalties from Douyin when their theme song gets played? Becuase if Great Wall got like $0.0001 every time its dumb song gets used in a tiktok it would have probably made billions already.
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Jan 28, 2021 00:57
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stephenthinkpad posted:Zhang's movie set in PRC are range from good to great, movies set in ROC period are okay, movies set in ancient China are mostly lousy, although I would call Shadow great. I only really liked Keep it Cool and that was a contemporary film(when it was released in the 90's  ) so you might be onto something.
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Jan 28, 2021 01:04
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stephenthinkpad posted:Zhang's movie set in PRC are range from good to great, movies set in ROC period are okay, movies set in ancient China are mostly lousy, although I would call Shadow great. Hero and House of Flying Daggers rule, though?
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Jan 28, 2021 01:18
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I think Hero has pro war message and it's not as timeless as Shadow. they all have very good action sequences. Shadow walks the fine line between fantasy and historical drama very well. Haven't seen Flying Dagger.
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Jan 28, 2021 02:03
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I saw the US premiere of Shadow at the Egyptian theater in LA, I was pretty hyped and I thought it sucked & so did several filmmaker friends I went with. I saw his new movie "one second" and I didn't like it either. Red Sorghum and Raise The Red Lantern are both set in ROC period and I would say they are some of his better films. like a lot of Mainland directors Zhang is all over the place in quality. He was Chen Kaige's cinematographer before he became a director and his later movies are very pretentiously visual, which for Hero I liked and for Shadow I didn't like at all. maybe he should have stayed a DoP edit: I heard a rumor that "one second" had something sensitive in its original cut so the final edit is missing part of the storyline and maybe that's why it feels kinda flat, idk Antonymous has issued a correction as of 04:33 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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Jan 28, 2021 04:30
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https://twitter.com/PhilstarNews/status/1354610588777734145 https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/1354619961709268995?s=21 WHERE'S MY loving MONEY
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Jan 28, 2021 06:15
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https://twitter.com/Afzal4Gorton/status/1354019737114697729 This Labor MP is basically celebrating the conclusion of the first opium war
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Jan 28, 2021 14:18
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I was watching a HK peanut video and they were talking about this anniversary. It was basically the occupation of HK, cause it was 1 year before the conclusion of Opium War and the Nanking Treaty in 1842. And they said yeah this thing was never celebrated until this year and people "have too much time on their hands".
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/28/china-foreign-policy-long-telegram-anonymous-463120 what is this lmfao I love the tradition of telling the us gov exactly what they want to hear Edit lol quote:The Chinese Communist Party keenly understands Sun Tzu’s maxim that “what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy,” and the U.S. should as well. i say swears online has issued a correction as of 16:13 on Jan 28, 2021 |
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