Ardennes posted:

I have interacted with Masha Gessen IRL, she is completely out of her gourd.

Zmej posted:

I went down the boat-hole last week and learned about how Reagan cut shipyard subsidies which destroyed like 40% of the work force (which has huge knock-on effects destroying other jobs down the line) and shrank our production ability of course too lol

Some Guy TT posted:

are there any meaningful differences between japanese and american porn you could actually use to seriously that one is loving up todays mixed up youth but the other isnt

Zmej posted:

here's some broad podcast episodes that will help you get the gist while getting to root of the most outrageous claims: Uyghur Oppression
Carl Zha is still critical of what he describes as heavy handed responses to extremist terrorist attacks, but dispels Zenz/US propaganda. actually I never listened to this ep, but I'm assuming the hosts of Radio War Nerd may make this more engaging than Carl's own podcast version where I started.

for a good laugh and learn more about how insane that the supposedly best "expert" the US could send is an evangelical german pervert named Adrian Zenz, I recommend this Radio War Nerd ep (fast forward to 48 minutes: Cold War-2 Bloopers: Amnesty, Navalny & Zenz. they dissect his career and for dessert they read Zenz's book about the Rapture

edit: the annoying thing about this whole topic is that Zenz, the media, and the US dept can churn out more crap faster than people can dispel and disprove it

FrancisFukyomama posted:

has porn being all about banging stepfamily taken japan by storm too or is it just a sicko anglosphere phenomenon

Zmej posted:

I went down the boat-hole last week and learned about how Reagan cut shipyard subsidies which destroyed like 40% of the work force (which has huge knock-on effects destroying other jobs down the line) and shrank our production ability of course too lol

FrancisFukyomama posted:

has porn being all about banging stepfamily taken japan by storm too or is it just a sicko anglosphere phenomenon

Mantis42 posted:

Li Gen aka "Reagan" ended up destroying both the Soviet and American empires, exactly as his handlers in Beijing commanded.

FrancisFukyomama posted:

has porn being all about banging stepfamily taken japan by storm too or is it just a sicko anglosphere phenomenon

gradenko_2000 posted:

the surge in that particular genre of Western porn is mostly up to the fetish of a specific oligarch that owns large swathes of the porn industry

everything comes back to capitalism

Trash Ops posted:

lol at watching porn instead of being at a nofap level where u can levitate objects with yr mind

Zmej posted:

here's some broad podcast episodes that will help you get the gist while getting to root of the most outrageous claims: Uyghur Oppression
Carl Zha is still critical of what he describes as heavy handed responses to extremist terrorist attacks, but dispels Zenz/US propaganda. actually I never listened to this ep, but I'm assuming the hosts of Radio War Nerd may make this more engaging than Carl's own podcast version where I started.

for a good laugh and learn more about how insane that the supposedly best "expert" the US could send is an evangelical german pervert named Adrian Zenz, I recommend this Radio War Nerd ep (fast forward to 48 minutes: Cold War-2 Bloopers: Amnesty, Navalny & Zenz. they dissect his career and for dessert they read Zenz's book about the Rapture

edit: the annoying thing about this whole topic is that Zenz, the media, and the US dept can churn out more crap faster than people can dispel and disprove it

crepeface posted:

thanks for this, finally got around to listening to all 3hrs of RWN 149. just lmao at the thought of holding carl zha to a single hour. he sounds pretty pessimistic about full uyghur integration, seems like the two school systems with separate languages really hosed with uyghur's upward mobility when china's market opened up.

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Unfortunately on Carl Zha's own podcast (not the episode linked) talking with a guy (Otto Kolbl?), some of their disagreements make it seem like Zha either isn't informed in certain areas or communicates poorly. Zha and the guest may have had different experiences at different time periods which may be part of the reason for some of the disagreements. RWN was able to keep the flow and focus, but it makes me more cautious of how to interpret some of his statements correctly to his intentions, along with the veracity.

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Unfortunately on Carl Zha's own podcast (not the episode linked) talking with a guy (Otto Kolbl?), some of their disagreements make it seem like Zha either isn't informed in certain areas or communicates poorly. Zha and the guest may have had different experiences at different time periods which may be part of the reason for some of the disagreements. RWN was able to keep the flow and focus, but it makes me more cautious of how to interpret some of his statements correctly to his intentions, along with the veracity.

Homeless Friend posted:

ive read this twice and i still have no idea what the hell it says

Red and Black posted:

Many Chinese people hate the Japanese government for all the war crimes they did to China. BUT! Many Chinese also watch Japanese porn! What a bunch of hypocrites am I right???

genericnick posted:

Which episode was that? I found his own podcasts always pretty difficult to listen to. "We'll cut that out in editing" is his well loved catch phrase.

crepeface posted:

interesting! what were the disagreements?

gradenko_2000 posted:

lmao can you imagine the US military being told to make do with a smaller budget, and then they take it to use it to slim down and train be a more efficient force?

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Episode 56
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-56-one-year-21783117

I skipped to somewhere after the hour mark to try to find the Tiananmen Square bits. I think it started closer to 1:15:00. Around there, it was fairly frequent that Carl made some generalization that Kolbl immediately disagreed with and then Carl tried to revise what he meant. It seemed like Carl was then trying to say he actually meant what Kolbl meant, and then Carl rephrased himself. To which Kolbl immediately disagreed with the rephrasing. Most of it was about more broad statements, Carl said something like "the Chinese government is good at crafting propaganda for domestic consumption, but their international are terrible". I can't recall too specifically about the other instances, but it was less listenable than RWN and even though these had nothing to do with the various interviews and research that form the basis of Carl's takes on Xinjiang and the Uyghurs, his floundering in the Kolbl interview gives me cause to have second thoughts.

Red and Black posted:

Many Chinese people hate the Japanese government for all the war crimes they did to China. BUT! Many Chinese also watch Japanese porn! What a bunch of hypocrites am I right???

smarxist posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

liberals are melting down that this is racism and sexism coming from Duterte because ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is a black woman

https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/749433384930316292?s=19

Stringent posted:

chomsky also has a long and disgusting history of genocide denial and the china defenders in this thread (and presumably CSPAM but I don't go there) closely follow that playbook. raise doubts about impartiality, distort statements and motives, outright lie if necessary - but only about your targets (the vague specter of "neoliberalism" or "imperialism" - they're interchangeable depending on what crowd you find yourself in). never apply the same scrutiny to statements of the perpetrators of genocide and above all never engage with the evidence on its own merits. (particularly appalling in the case of bellingcat whose evidence is always, by definition, readily available to anyone with an internet connection and can be verified more or less trivially.) you must always attack the source by any means necessary, even - perhaps especially - if that means fundamentally undermining trust in us NGOs and media institutions.

the fact that this strategy is exactly the same as that used by domestic right-wing extremists and foreign authoritarians does not seem to occur to these people, nor does it appear to bother them that when open, transparent sources are all discredited they must rely on increasingly fringe sources like grayzone, globalresearch, or just straight up sputnik. presumably they believe that they hold a monopoly on truth and therefore do not need to subject themselves to information hygiene practices like questioning assumptions and critically assessing evidence without regard to source (this is also what the right-wingers believe but that does not occur to them either)

Zedhe Khoja posted:

bellingcats xinjiang coverage consisted of falsly claiming a massive historical mosque in a large city anyone can visit was torn down using faulty loving satellite photos of them redoing the 30 year old gatehouse because brown moses is pigshit ignorant about history, architecture, islam, china, and basically everything else.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Democracy now has been very iffy for the last couple of years, especially with their guests being really bad. What's the story there? Did some NGO start funding them or something? Or was it more just liberals coopting a leftist media outlet?

Deified Data posted:

I think it's less they got co-opted and more they're just an expression of the same kind of tepid "neither washington nor moscow/beijing" boomer leftism that has been the only strain allowed to have a media presence of any significance. Notably they had Adrian Zenz on not too long ago lol

lobster shirt posted:

i really like the one ship class where they put this super cool high tech gun on it, but then decided that the ammunition was too expensive to manufacture. so the gun is completely non functional lol. true late soviet era vibes.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/Vinncent/status/1407342155484602380

Zedhe Khoja posted:

goon cyoa discord just had a meltdown in it's politics channel with some dude screaming about tankies and china fetishists.
the china hysteria is mind boggling in how thoroughly and successfully it's poisoned peoples brains. its loving everywhere

AnimeIsTrash posted:

More people should do an anti imperialism imo.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Lmfao

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/26/china_xinjiang_uyghurs_internment_surveillance

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Lmfao

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/26/china_xinjiang_uyghurs_internment_surveillance