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:holds flashlight under chin: WOT IF PUTIN WAS A GUNBOAT????
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Jun 24, 2021 02:45
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on all six of them ya
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Jun 24, 2021 02:48
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Lostconfused posted:Google image search leads to a tumblr post Well, that and it was published on April fool's day???
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Jun 24, 2021 03:15
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Vasukhani posted:Afghan Gov is loving done Bitch rear end quisling government replaced by more brutal, previous quisling government
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Jun 24, 2021 03:30
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Antonymous posted:the censorship thing in china is insanely annoying and absolutely harms their native film industry because you either have the 龍標 or you are an indie film that can only show abroad or at private events like film festivals, and people decide their route before pre production / their whole career is pigeon holed into one of those routes. Even if you decide to do commercial film you still might get hosed if some geriatric censor doesn't like how you portray a historical event or whatever and now you wasted tens of millions USD worth of money on something no one will ever see. huge risk, even with pre-approval. Then you get lovely edits with storylines reshot or cut out in order to appease said geriatric censors, very harmful to the artform. this is possibly true with domestic releases i dont know because im not that familiar with the domestic chinese film market but its absolutely not the case with international releases china doesnt let any random lovely american movie into their market because every country that hasnt practiced some form of import restriction had their domestic film industry smothered to death several decades ago
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Jun 24, 2021 03:59
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jeongminnkim/status/1407187507670781955
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Jun 24, 2021 04:00
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excuse me, sarcasm is a western invention and the collectivist oriental has no way of parsing it
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Jun 24, 2021 04:28
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Huh former President Benigno Aquino died today Imagine if Obama kicked the bucket in the last year of Trump's term, for context Rip zeez
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Jun 24, 2021 04:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:Huh former President Benigno Aquino died today Trump still has one term that is coming soon.
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Jun 24, 2021 04:37
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 Antonymous posted:the censorship thing in china is insanely annoying and absolutely harms their native film industry because you either have the 龍標 or you are an indie film that can only show abroad or at private events like film festivals, and people decide their route before pre production / their whole career is pigeon holed into one of those routes. Even if you decide to do commercial film you still might get hosed if some geriatric censor doesn't like how you portray a historical event or whatever and now you wasted tens of millions USD worth of money on something no one will ever see. huge risk, even with pre-approval. Then you get lovely edits with storylines reshot or cut out in order to appease said geriatric censors, very harmful to the artform. quote:Usually when a film is disapproved instead of sent back for changes it is not allowed to be resubmitted for review, but that is not always the case. Once a woman in her 50s shot a 90-minute biography which she funded on her own. Liu disapproved the film when he saw it the first time. Antonymous posted:Even if you decide to do commercial film you still might get hosed if some geriatric censor doesn't like how you portray a historical event or whatever and now you wasted tens of millions USD worth of money on something no one will ever see. huge risk, even with pre-approval. quote:"You need to consider the future of the directors, the investment of the producers, the impact on society and the pressure of public opinion." Antonymous posted:the censorship thing in china is insanely annoying and absolutely harms their native film industry because you either have the 龍標 you get lovely edits with storylines reshot or cut out in order to appease said geriatric censors, very harmful to the artform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Bullets_Fly quote:Made in Mandarin and Sichuanese, the film broke several box office records in China, and has received critical acclaim, when it was released. Let the Bullets Fly grossed 674 million yuan (US$110 million) in Chinese box office[4] (becoming the highest grossing domestic film in China until it was beaten by Painted Skin: The Resurrection in 2012[5][6]) and $140 million worldwide.[2] quote:Jiang pulls off a delicate balancing act with Let the Bullets Fly. He has never openly stated his film is a satire, but the Chinese friend who lent me the film assures me it works as an allegory for the Maoist revolution. And as the film built to its climax, it's function becomes ever more apparent. Jiang could not be upfront about the satire because the censors in China are notoriously strict and would remove any obvious criticism of the Communist Party. He had to hide his message. But even if you ignore the satire in Let the Bullets Fly, the film still works as riotous entertainment. quote:Critical readings of Bullets in Chinese have distributed themselves more or less evenly along the political spectrum: an arch-Maoist allegory; a post-socialist or post-capitalist text; a subversive anti-Communist work. quote:Sometimes this review process is even used by studios to market a film. Before Jiang Wen's Gone with the Bullets was released, rumors were flying about a certain part of the film being cut. However, as one of the reviewers of the film, Liu said only two things were changed. Liu said that the rumors were actually a form of marketing, because if audiences heard that the movie was something they were not allowed to see, they would become even more curious about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5hkbE84nT0 https://iffr.com/en/2020/films/dwelling-in-the-fuchun-mountains quote:Gu used personal loans to start filming in his home town before the indie start-up Factory Gate joined in. The complexity and consistent production design are all the more surprising, given the fact that the maker has never been to film school. His choice to solely use non-professionals as his cast is entirely convincing. quote:Resultantly, contemporary Chinese reality plays a key role in the film. The four brothers struggle to care for their senile mother (a problem for many Chinese families), Guxi’s mom tries to muddle in her love life (parental pressure is a common experience for young Chinese), and material wealth (or the lack thereof) factors into many decisions that the main characters make—a reflection of high materialism in contemporary China. Non-Chinese audiences may find these contemporary cultural aspects easier to appreciate than shan shui aesthetics. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/964920.shtml quote:Political sensitivities are very important when reviewing a movie. When reviewing Qichuan Xuxu (Gasp), a 2009 film from director Zheng Zhong, Liu pointed out that the lighting of Tiananmen Square in some scenes made it look gloomy. quote:Bright, vivid Wuhan totally different with that presented in a BBC documentary which was believed to have added a yellow-gray gloomy "underworld filter." Cao Ni Ma posted:china fears jokerfication Nonsense posted:Joker owning commies    (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 24, 2021 05:37
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nice meltdown
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Jun 24, 2021 05:43
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Lying flat is the hot new youth trend quote:From white-collar workers in China’s bustling cities to university students, an army of frustrated young people are taking to social media and internet message boards to declare themselves “‘lying flat youth”. quote:Elaine Tang, who works for a Guangzhou-based tech firm, said the term was resonating with young Chinese who saw the odds stacked against them. quote:“Most likely you will work hard your entire life but still not be able to afford a house. Maybe it’s better just to give up this goal,” said Frank Lin, a recent engineering graduate from one of China’s best universities who is an advocate for lying flat culture. https://twitter.com/moksapeggy/status/1406819495537172481 Some are going Walden, and the influencers and real estate developers are noticing. quote:Near the end of May, a first-person essay about ditching the urban rat race and relocating to a mountain village went viral on the Chinese internet. Titled “Why I Chose to Live a Low-Desire Life in a Mountain Village: My Silent Struggle Against Modern Slavery,” the piece described the author’s experiences since relocating to a remote rural corner of the eastern Zhejiang province. Revolting against the norms of modern urban life, she disclaims all interest in buying a house, going out with friends, working overtime, eating junk food, or buying nice things. quote:Motivated by the idyllic rural landscapes shared by influencers like Li Ziqi and Tenzing Tsondu — known by his Mandarin name Ding Zhen — as well as government campaigns to “revitalize” the countryside, disillusioned urbanites have flocked to the semi-rural outskirts of major cities and even farther afield, to rapidly gentrifying tourist playgrounds like Dali and Lhasa — ironically sparking the exact sort of real estate boom they’re ostensibly fleeing. quote:But there’s no denying their seemingly anti-capitalist fantasies have been successfully co-opted by capital, whether that of the big tech firms backing China’s biggest pastoral vloggers or the real estate developers driving up land prices in Dali. https://twitter.com/zoozizzezze/status/1406488137187069955 lol cattiness in this op-ed https://twitter.com/mbrookerhk/status/1406072837303980034 quote:It’s ironic (though perhaps inevitable) that, having adopted the methods of a market economy to achieve its goal of creating a moderately prosperous society, China now finds itself beset with an identifiably capitalist affliction. Opting out and doing nothing requires a base level of affluence that would be impractical in a country still trying to drag itself out of poverty. Yet beyond a certain point, material goals cease to satisfy human needs — a syndrome that is familiar in many developed countries.
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Jun 24, 2021 06:40
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Pretty ironic that the #1 problem China currently facing is landlordism
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Jun 24, 2021 07:02
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huhwhat posted:
lol what a rap sheet. idk i even understand half the posts. crepeface has issued a correction as of 08:23 on Jun 24, 2021 |
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Jun 24, 2021 07:04
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Palladium posted:Pretty ironic that the #1 problem China currently facing is landlordism It's possible that these netizens are coming from specific areas of China like the big pricy coastal cities but idk Western insinuations the this will lead to national calamity are just silly, but otoh it also goes to show that China is not immune to the same anomie and bourgeois discontent that's everywhere in the world now.
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Jun 24, 2021 07:08
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Maximo Roboto posted:It's possible that these netizens are coming from specific areas of China like the big pricy coastal cities but idk I mean even if they are in coastal cities that’s still pretty poo poo for a country ostensibly run by communists. I don’t see how wanting to live somewhere you like but can’t afford due to finance dominating the housing market is bourgeois discontent
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Jun 24, 2021 07:10
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Maximo Roboto posted:It's possible that these netizens are coming from specific areas of China like the big pricy coastal cities but idk Class consciousness is infinitely stronger in China though since Marxism is a required subject as part of their compulsory schooling That still doesn't excuse why the gently caress the CCP are dragging their heels on taxing landlords with excess RE properties
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Jun 24, 2021 07:11
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first bitcoin then the landlords but in the meantime please let the foreign students back in comrade xi
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Jun 24, 2021 07:21
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crepeface posted:lol what rap sheet. Ironic that a post on censorship got censored
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Jun 24, 2021 08:11
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Idk if this is the thread to discuss Iran also but I heard on my CBC wake up news thing on my phone that Canada is saying Iran shot their own commerical plane down on purpose and that Canada wants to try and add sanctions over it (there were a fair number of Canadians on board). Why would Iran want to shoot their own plane down?
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Jun 24, 2021 10:59
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my favorite "china censors media" story was when some TV channel in China spent a bunch of money to make a high-quality imperial court drama people generally liked about Wu Zetian and then some censor decided the costumes showed too much boob so after like 3 episodes they pulled it and just badly cropped the rest of the show any time a woman was in frame. the best part was the costumers actually had already worked with media officials when they made the show to make the costumes less-cleavagey than would be historically accurate, cuz I guess tang dynasty women's fashion was all about low cut tops. it got such a negative reaction in china the censors actually came out and explained why they did it which was a very lame "it's unhealthy to see that!!!" so everyone just pirated the uncut version which aired in Taiwan and HK. for an example this scene  became this  it was so hastily done that often times the person speaking or doing things was completely out of frame or awkwardly half in frame.
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Jun 24, 2021 11:18
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https://twitter.com/jennyschuessler/status/1407889549636800512 so was this newspaper actually forced to close down by the government or did they just go out of business the normal way because everyone hates newspapers now
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Jun 24, 2021 13:01
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HK police grabbed 5 executive suites for financial charges. There were a whole bunch of people quitted after that. So I guess they can't/don't want to find replacements. That's my impression. It's not a Drterte revoking the media license situation if that's what you are asking.
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Jun 24, 2021 13:07
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Idk if this is the thread to discuss Iran also but I heard on my CBC wake up news thing on my phone that Canada is saying Iran shot their own commerical plane down on purpose and that Canada wants to try and add sanctions over it (there were a fair number of Canadians on board).
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Jun 24, 2021 13:24
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Ailumao posted:my favorite "china censors media" story was when some TV channel in China spent a bunch of money to make a high-quality imperial court drama people generally liked about Wu Zetian and then some censor decided the costumes showed too much boob so after like 3 episodes they pulled it and just badly cropped the rest of the show any time a woman was in frame. for some reason this reminds me of the basketball player who got banned from the CBA for saying Chinese women got cakes on the low
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Jun 24, 2021 13:52
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https://twitter.com/marxistsoc/status/1402635739372822528
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Jun 24, 2021 14:07
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that seemed to make sense until the wild swing taken in the last paragraph and a half
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Jun 24, 2021 14:16
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comedyblissoption posted:this would certainly make CBC a white supremacist news network here unless they have evidence that iran wanted to shoot the plane down Don't know why it was talked about today when they said this stuff weeks ago but https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iran-shot-down-plane-court-b1851889.html They're guilty cause they can't prove they didn't do it on purpose
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Jun 24, 2021 14:20
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yeah planes get accidentally shot down all the time (???)
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Jun 24, 2021 14:22
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Idk if this is the thread to discuss Iran also but I heard on my CBC wake up news thing on my phone that Canada is saying Iran shot their own commerical plane down on purpose and that Canada wants to try and add sanctions over it (there were a fair number of Canadians on board). They might be referring to the plane that got shot down back in January of 2020 after the Soleimani assassination. Lol that they're doing this now though
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Jun 24, 2021 14:25
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Grapplejack posted:They might be referring to the plane that got shot down back in January of 2020 after the Soleimani assassination. Lol that they're doing this now though it was this. they shot it out of the loving sky circumstances mean nothing.
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Jun 24, 2021 14:30
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https://mobile.twitter.com/bystellayu_tnsn/status/1407763513498607617 oh not wuhan no its more of a hangzhou belief
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Jun 24, 2021 15:34
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/bystellayu_tnsn/status/1407763513498607617 my wife is from a city beside wuhan and lived in wuhan for many years. she’s not only not heard of this but doesn’t know anyone from that area that eats dog. people there see eating dogs and cats as like, a cantonese thing
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Jun 24, 2021 15:43
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I have never eaten dog in my life. I was told I ate cat meat once when I was 3. Sorry if that sound worse to you.
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Jun 24, 2021 16:12
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I've eaten goat. It was good.
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Jun 24, 2021 16:18
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gradenko_2000 posted:I've eaten goat. It was good. Eating goat is pretty common.
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Jun 24, 2021 16:24
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/jennyschuessler/status/1407889549636800512 quote:In 2014, leaked documents showed Jimmy Lai paid former US deputy defence secretary and former World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz US$75,000 for his help with projects in Myanmar. quote:Between July and November 2019 Lai was able to meet with US Vice President Mike Pence and later with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss the Hong Kong protests. Not exactly a mystery why this guy and his paper was targeted by the CCP.
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Jun 24, 2021 16:34
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i've eaten kangaroo. it sucks.
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Jun 24, 2021 16:37
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crepeface posted:i've eaten kangaroo. it sucks. i had a kangaroo burger and it tastes 97% the same as a normal burger with beef my favorite weird thing is deep fried scorpions. they dust em with some spice powder and they’re great
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Jun 24, 2021 16:40
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imo who cares if people eat dog, but putting stuff like that in the New Yorker is solely intended to stoke anti-Chinese sentiment
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Jun 24, 2021 16:42
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