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insane chinese communists declare war on the sky in final bid to destroy liberty
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Feb 13, 2021 08:56
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Mantis42 posted:insane chinese communists declare war on the sky in final bid to destroy liberty
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Feb 13, 2021 09:51
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hell yeah
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Feb 14, 2021 10:30
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https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1360731850034053120 lol, this is so cynical even for the NY Times
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Feb 14, 2021 19:10
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1360404742111862787 When it was newly built, the streets of the new Kangbashi district did not have much activity, and the district was frequently described as a "ghost city" by several Western media outlets. However, by 2017, Kangbashi had become more populated with a resident population of 153,000 and around one-third of apartments occupied. In a Forbes article, Wade Shepard noted that "...of the 40,000 apartments that had been built in the new district since 2004, only 500 are still on the market
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Feb 14, 2021 20:36
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I guess they didn't like the new Adam Curtis
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Feb 14, 2021 20:59
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Fleetwood posted:I guess they didn't like the new Adam Curtis a true socialist state would reinstitute the mighty boosh
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Feb 14, 2021 21:00
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the ghost city thing is funny because USA downtown areas are ghost towns after 6pm, except for like NYC
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Feb 14, 2021 21:04
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ArmZ posted:the ghost city thing is funny because USA downtown areas are ghost towns after 6pm, except for like NYC also our countryside rapidly deteriorated and is now in many places a wasteland The thing about those developments sitting empty right after they were built had everything to do with real estate speculation as well. idk if those stories mentioned that or it was all just 'lol chinese can't urban plan'.
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Feb 14, 2021 21:12
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ArmZ posted:the ghost city thing is funny because USA downtown areas are ghost towns after 6pm, except for like NYC ahh but the content mines are teeming with activity!
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Feb 14, 2021 21:16
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ArmZ posted:the ghost city thing is funny because USA downtown areas are ghost towns after 6pm, except for like NYC This hasn't been true in 20 years except in rust belt places where the suburbs are also dead, or during early part of covid
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Feb 14, 2021 21:26
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or LA
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Feb 14, 2021 21:38
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how tf does anyone actually afford to live in an american city anyways
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Feb 14, 2021 21:47
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Mantis42 posted:how tf does anyone actually afford to live in an american city anyways they move to cheaper places like Grand Rapids, MI.
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Feb 14, 2021 21:50
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sponging off family, work 2+ jobs, selling art, selling nudes, selling videos, camming, prostitution, influencing, extra roommates, extra roomates who aren't on the lease, stealing, organized crime, podcasting, crowdfunding, begging, hustling, being a landlord, having an overpaid bullshit job that only exists in centers of capital, or just being a rich piece of poo poo
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Feb 14, 2021 22:26
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Chomskyan posted:https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1360731850034053120
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Feb 14, 2021 22:41
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if you wanted to destroy america with an engineered plague, there would really be no point in hiding any information about the plague from the americans because americans can be counted on to not protect themselves from it regardless
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Feb 14, 2021 22:54
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mila kunis posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1360404742111862787 Right, there's not much difficulty in selling real estate in China because much of it is snapped up by speculators who only intend to hold them as an asset. Having two-thirds of apartments being vacant is pretty disastrous. I read in the past that this is partially due to China lacking property taxes, is that still the case?
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Feb 14, 2021 23:13
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je1 healthcare posted:Right, there's not much difficulty in selling real estate in China because much of it is snapped up by speculators who only intend to hold them as an asset. Having two-thirds of apartments being vacant is pretty disastrous. I read in the past that this is partially due to China lacking property taxes, is that still the case? There is no property tax but in theory you are only buying 70 year usage right of a residential apartment, you don't "own" your apartment. The people own it.
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Feb 14, 2021 23:23
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stephenthinkpad posted:There is no property tax but in theory you are only buying 70 year usage right of a residential apartment, you don't "own" your apartment. The people own it. lol
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Feb 14, 2021 23:24
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stephenthinkpad posted:There is no property tax but in theory you are only buying 70 year usage right of a residential apartment, you don't "own" your apartment. The people own it. Yes, which means that local municipalities have to resort to generate income via selling real estate. If there's no more land to sell, they can just evict the poorest of residents, demolish their once-affordable housing, and replace them with fancier apartments and malls to be sold to future bagholders. No property taxes means there's no drawback to rich people hoarding vacant properties as stable financial assets.
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Feb 14, 2021 23:47
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Chomskyan posted:https://twitter.com/catcontentonly/status/1360731850034053120 nyt doing nyt poo poo
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Feb 14, 2021 23:57
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has there been any information on whether China has already started vaccinating people against COVID and how well they've been doing that?
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Feb 15, 2021 02:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:has there been any information on whether China has already started vaccinating people against COVID and how well they've been doing that? they started in January I think but only had one vaccine approved at the time. they just approved another like last week. I think they’re going slower than the US and Europe but it’s also not as big of a deal since they have the virus pretty well controlled
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Feb 15, 2021 02:43
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stephenthinkpad posted:There is no property tax but in theory you are only buying 70 year usage right of a residential apartment, you don't "own" your apartment. The people own it. this seems like it would be a bad long term investment are the speculators just not reading the fine print
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Feb 15, 2021 03:09
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Some Guy TT posted:this seems like it would be a bad long term investment are the speculators just not reading the fine print 70 years is beyond “long term” really, and even if you have to eventually give it back you can still make a ton of money off it in the short term
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Feb 15, 2021 05:34
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je1 healthcare posted:Having two-thirds of apartments being vacant is pretty disastrous. Not really, the whole point is that China is building these units in anticipation of future demand. About 40% of the population of the country is still rural and there is a massive government effort to move people into the cities to increase their economic productivity (and simultaneously reduce poverty). Building apartments in advance prevents this urbanization from putting pressure on the housing market. Red and Black has issued a correction as of 11:38 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 11:35
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Look up the recent news of a village (actual farming village) that built entire grid of new houses and made the whole village move into them.. Those business type who try to use western financial tools to analyze China never understand China has the ability to make the population of a whole town move to a new location, which none other country in the world can do that.
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Feb 15, 2021 12:28
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Can someone explain to me why the opposition in russia hold such insanely right wing reactionary views against african american movements like BLM and such? it makes it really difficult to be on their side in their struggle against putin but then read any of their insane racist screeds written by people like Kasparov and Navalny and not immediately be put off by them, like arent these folks supposed to be "liberal democrats"?
Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 13:08 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 13:06
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Liberalism is inherently white supremacist op
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Feb 15, 2021 13:50
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Al-Saqr posted:Can someone explain to me why the opposition in russia hold such insanely right wing reactionary views against african american movements like BLM and such? it makes it really difficult to be on their side in their struggle against putin but then read any of their insane racist screeds written by people like Kasparov and Navalny and not immediately be put off by them, like arent these folks supposed to be "liberal democrats"? russia is a very racist society in general that is typical of europe and in addition to that they do not have the liberalism-borne political correctness where they feel they have to hide it or have any coherent thoughts regarding african-americans since it's such a distant issue, at best it's an import of what the general view of the democrat/republican party is depending on the person and who they have connections to though navalny and kasparov don't seem to have written anything re:BLM that google found for me in either russian or english so im not sure which racist screeds you are reading
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Feb 15, 2021 14:04
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the russian liberal bugbear for the past several hundred years has been a completely russianized russia, where some regions and peoples wear funny hats and have tans but they all speak russian and follow the enlightened rule of their educated and urbanized betters this obsession with national purity of course makes them natural enemies of any kind of minority rights movement, because these urbanized and educated dominant cultures obviously know better than the underclass and to suggest otherwise is an attack on the natural order of things navalny specifically has always been upfront about his rabid nationalism, so it's no surprise that he sympathizes with the people putting down a "threat to national unity" and has awful things to say about people not invested in the smooth operation of empire
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Feb 15, 2021 14:40
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Al-Saqr posted:Can someone explain to me why the opposition in russia hold such insanely right wing reactionary views against african american movements like BLM and such? it makes it really difficult to be on their side in their struggle against putin but then read any of their insane racist screeds written by people like Kasparov and Navalny and not immediately be put off by them, like arent these folks supposed to be "liberal democrats"? Yasha Levine talks about it in his substack/podcast: https://yasha.substack.com/p/episode-2-russians-against-politics The Russian liberals are far right much like anywhere in Europe. I can't tell the populace as a whole is rabidly racist since it's a multi-ethnic population or it's concentrated in the big cities and surrounding burbs. Russian emigres are a mostly racist bunch especially those who were raised in the 70s or 80s, older Russians seemed more chill in my opinion.
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Feb 15, 2021 14:43
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Somaen posted:though navalny and kasparov don't seem to have written anything re:BLM that google found for me in either russian or english so im not sure which racist screeds you are reading yeah maybe not them themselves but the people who work with them seem like really bad news:- I mean this for example was published on Kasparovs personal website:- https://translate.google.com/transl...3D50A6C962A3D7C https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/putins-liberal-foes-reject-black-lives-matter/ Idia posted:Yasha Levine talks about it in his substack/podcast: https://yasha.substack.com/p/episode-2-russians-against-politics thanks will give this a listen. Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 15:11 on Feb 15, 2021 |
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Feb 15, 2021 15:07
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a pity kasparovs such a nut in general his posts about computer assisted chess players being better than pure chess playing computers are very interesting
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Feb 15, 2021 15:15
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Some Guy TT posted:a pity kasparovs such a nut in general his posts about computer assisted chess players being better than pure chess playing computers are very interesting What's the difference between a computer telling you what to do versus a computer doing it itself?
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Feb 15, 2021 15:16
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Kasparov is just the Dr Ben Carson of chess
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Feb 15, 2021 15:17
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Al-Saqr posted:yeah maybe not them themselves but the people who work with them seem like really bad news:- kasparov is definitely right-wing, but that guy is a rando businessman that writes investment articles, not really a prominent political figure the coda article mentions Sobchak as some prominent liberal opposition figure even though she's the puppet liberal of the government and participated in 2018 presidential elections as the liberal candidate handpicked by the kremlin sorry if the occasional soviet cosplay got you fooled, but if you're looking for class-based anti-racist, anti-homophobic and anti-sexist sentiment with an open, egalitarian society russia is not for you
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Feb 15, 2021 15:23
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Somaen posted:
lol I wasnt looking for anything I was just confused how the 'liberal democratic' opposition square this circle in their minds, I am under no illusion as to the general Chuddery of Russia. I gotta say though, like if this is the best they can put forward what real difference do they provide in comparison to putin? are they actually gonna dismantle the oligarchs? are they gonna reform the nightmare capitalism? it seems the furthest they've thought about is 'we're not Putin' and if Navalny's hyper-nationalism is true it really kneecaps their ability to reach anyone outside of their circles and form an actual alternative to Putin.
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Feb 15, 2021 15:28
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Al-Saqr posted:What's the difference between a computer telling you what to do versus a computer doing it itself? computers arent actually that smart and chess playing computers dont use artificial intelligence as we understand it they base their decisions on the outcomes of previous chess games with identical positions they easily get confused and make weird incomprehensible moves if faced with unusual board positions a human player or team using computer tools is much better at grasping the context of an individual board layout and building a long term coherent strategy that makes sense as opposed to just focusing on the best possible short term decisions basically when anyone says that movie like artificial intelligence is probably beyond our lifetimes this is what they mean data on its own can do amazing things but machines arent very good at analyzing anything with a great deal of contextual complexity and people misunderstanding this is how we get amazing fuckups like the hillary campaign trusting the algorithms so hard they ignore the actual canvassers
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Feb 15, 2021 15:37
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