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TheBuilder posted:Why did Sanders vote against the new bill aimed to counter against China in regards to research and domestic investment? I can't find anything via searching. its got a buncha defense contractor boondoggle also a 10 billion subsidy to bezos's rocket thing
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barbecue at the folks posted:There are no exceptions to this rule, lol Augustus is another one of these but again, he was not a fail son by any means.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:its got a buncha defense contractor boondoggle "Pork" basically.
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TheBuilder posted:Why did Sanders vote against the new bill aimed to counter against China in regards to research and domestic investment? I can't find anything via searching. Sworn enemy of Bezos, and it had loads of money for the dude's lame rocket. Futile, though. If the US political-economic process was able to look past corruption and short-term gains for the elites in order to address long-term challenges, then China wouldn't be so industrialised in the first place.
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Atopian posted:Sworn enemy of Bezos, and it had loads of money for the dude's lame rocket. I feel like that's also ignoring the not insignificant efforts the Chinese people and government have put into industrializing since the Deng years, it's not all just foreign companies throwing cash out there and locals doing cheap knockoffs later.
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Roman Glass was the trade good with China IIRC. Direct relationships were minimal, but the absolutely traded with each other. Roman Glass has been found as far as Korea so it was pretty dang well liked.
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Barudak posted:Roman Glass was the trade good with China IIRC. Direct relationships were minimal, but the absolutely traded with each other. Roman Glass has been found as far as Korea so it was pretty dang well liked. There's some roman glass in Japanese kofun as well from the 5th Century AD, it's kind of crazy how much more connected the ancient world was than people think.
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Ancient trading wasn't A trading with Z like we do in the modern world. It was often A trading with B who traded with C who trades with D and via a series of owners durable goods can travel an incredible distance.
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Barudak posted:Roman Glass was the trade good with China IIRC. Direct relationships were minimal, but the absolutely traded with each other. Roman Glass has been found as far as Korea so it was pretty dang well liked. Glass was the most prized and kind of the equivalent of silk--a technology the Romans invented that people in the east couldn't replicate. There were lots of other things traded though. Mediterranean coral is a big one that gets a lot of attention in Chinese sources. The level of direct contact is difficult because most of it likely wouldn't have been recorded, or the records haven't survived. I think there was a lot more than people have previously believed. There are Chinese records of Roman embassies visiting, some dismiss that as Roman traders lying but I don't see any reason not to take the sources at their word. There's no reason Roman diplomats couldn't have gone to China. There's also a reference to Chinese diplomats visiting Augustus, which has also always been dismissed and I don't think there's a good reason to do so. We have DNA evidence now of East Asians living in the Roman Empire, people have been traveling long distances for ages.
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Don Gato posted:I feel like that's also ignoring the not insignificant efforts the Chinese people and government have put into industrializing since the Deng years, it's not all just foreign companies throwing cash out there and locals doing cheap knockoffs later. Sure, obviously a lot of effort etc goes into it from China and Chinese people, but I was focusing on foreign investment because that seems to be what makes the difference. Lots of countries would like to be more industrialised, but history suggests actually making that leap requires easy access to outside resources, whether foreign investment or stealing stuff from a bunch of colonies.
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Tomn posted:I wonder what his footsoldiers made of that one. The Macedonian phalangites weren't forcibly recruited serfs or anything like that they were small landholders who served in the army, by all accounts the soldiers who served in Alexander's army, the Macedonians and the Greek (and other) mercenaries were very well rewarded for their service.
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thoughts and prayers posted:The video I linked starts at 'whoah Disney is getting awfully invasive and performative with their social justice thing', which is really suspect from many different points on the political spectrum for different reasons. lol
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What's with Chud, anyway. It's weak as rear end and stinks of 'Man, we gotta call them something'.
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WarpedNaba posted:What's with Chud, anyway. It's weak as rear end and stinks of 'Man, we gotta call them something'. People don't like calling others Nazis because you get Nazis who try to point out how they technically aren't coupled with moderates who don't want to believe their community has Nazis. Chud is stupid but I can see why people prefer it to figuring out the proper label. I think bigot is pretty encompassing and easy enough though. Maybe call them poopy heads, they don't deserve big boy name calling. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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Does this thread still do 'China.jpgs' or is that a bygone era?
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China.jpgs are very welcome. I just don't have a supply anymore since I'm not there.
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chud is when you want to say the actual c word that causes seppos to clutch their pearls.
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JUJING VILLAGE, WUYUAN COUNTY, CHINA: "The Roundest Village in China!"  Grand Fromage posted:China.jpgs are very welcome. I just don't have a supply anymore since I'm not there. Opposite problem here. I cannot travel so I must post. Post post post. Never stop posting. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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That place looks nice, but the water feature seems pretty moatish and I'm now vaguely convinced it's just a gated community like any other.
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KANGDING, GARZE TIBETAN AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE, CHINA:      
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Duck and Cover posted:People don't like calling others Nazis because you get Nazis who try to point out how they technically aren't coupled with moderates who don't want to believe their community has Nazis. Chud is stupid but I can see why people prefer it to figuring out the proper label. I think bigot is pretty encompassing and easy enough though. lol
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Big Willy Style posted:chud is when you want to say the actual c word that causes seppos to clutch their pearls. It's this.
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Shutup poopy head! Yep I think that's going to be my go to insult.
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Duck and Cover posted:Shutup poopy head! Yep I think that's going to be my go to insult. Mr. Trump please go to bed, if you go to bed quickly we'll hold a rally, just like the old days.
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The only c word I want to hear? China
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Dandywalken posted:The only c word I want to hear? China same but corea
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Fur20 posted:same but corea True, that's a very nice part of Maine https://goo.gl/maps/u9xdfQZQ5c4qzSf48
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Accretionist posted:KANGDING, GARZE TIBETAN AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE, CHINA: this place kicks rear end
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uuuuhhhhh................. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-idUSKBN2AV0Y4 quote:Foreign visitors have been upset by China’s anal swab tests for COVID-19, prompting complaints of inconvenience and even psychological trauma, and stoking debate over their necessity. edit: Welp, this is from March and I can't find any mention of it on a later date. CIGNX fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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So if I visit mainland China, they throw in some butt play for free? What's Taiwan's offer on rear end action?
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Accretionist posted:JUJING VILLAGE, WUYUAN COUNTY, CHINA: haha yeah it is!!!
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Accretionist posted:JUJING VILLAGE, WUYUAN COUNTY, CHINA: Looks like a good place to walk around
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Those photos kinda make me sad. Really wanted to visit China, but the CCP has pretty much pushed that to the bottom of realities. I mean a global pandemic also didn't help.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Those photos kinda make me sad. Really wanted to visit China, but the CCP has pretty much pushed that to the bottom of realities. I mean a global pandemic also didn't help. Yeah, my girlfriend wanted to go back to HK and Shenzhen to visit family but especially as Canadians we don't think it's a good idea now.
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peanut posted:haha yeah it is!!! any village I'm in is the roundest village in china
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At least in the north you have an army of olds sweeping every puddle away as soon as possible to prevent mosquitoes and here these geniuses have surrounded their village with a filthy pool of tepid water
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If I were to visit China, I assume they would plug my phone ito one of those little boxes and discover my anti-Xi shitposting  ?Perhaps I would need to obtain a burner phone, false moustache... or just visit Best China in Taiwan.
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Strategic Tea posted:If I were to visit China, I assume they would plug my phone ito one of those little boxes and discover my anti-Xi shitposting No. Your phone might get checked in Xinjiang or Tibet but the rest of the country nobody cares.
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