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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1412997428115034116?s=20quote:Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global is being sued by US shareholders after a crackdown by Beijing triggered a slump in its share price. nice
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Jul 8, 2021 05:57
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Atrocious Joe posted:In Didi's prospectus, which was made available ahead of the IPO, the firm warned potential investors that their ability to protect their "rights through US courts may be limited, because we are incorporated under Cayman Islands law." hahahaha
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Jul 8, 2021 06:26
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i see themes of self-sacrifice and martyrdom a lot too in military propaganda, which i don't see as much in the west. i'd like to learn more about the history of that. lol what
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Jul 8, 2021 06:30
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oh man, Didi is the main ride sharing service I use (drivers tell me they pay the best)
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Jul 8, 2021 06:33
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/1412791041808388103?s=20 wasn't hannity or some fox nutjob claiming china was stealing america genes for their athletes or something or just a few weeks ago? ahead of the curve fake edit: found it https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1404966466970173441?s=20
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Jul 8, 2021 06:57
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crepeface posted:wasn't hannity or some fox nutjob claiming china was stealing america genes for their athletes or something or just a few weeks ago? ahead of the curve 60 minutes ran a piece on how the godless communist yellow hoard were gonna sucker us with free healthcare and steal our precious https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1356037082037235713
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Jul 8, 2021 07:00
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LimburgLimbo posted:lol what https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYGFSONKbk
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Jul 8, 2021 07:17
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Red and Black posted:According to this blog post I found, he actually destroyed two priceless ancient vases in the process of making the photo lol what a loving hack. does America pay more to such charlatans abroad than it does to its own artists?
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Jul 8, 2021 07:18
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sexpig by night posted:Yea that too, they have a very recent memory of what happens when some rando cult gets too big and tries to make moves. They know there's a difference between 'hey this is my mosque, we do normal Muslim poo poo here' and 'here's a group of people that meet in a basement led by a dude who claims he can shoot fire out of his eyes but only if nobody looks'. I wonder if there's a modern incarnation of the White Lotus, those guys have been around forever in one form or another.
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Jul 8, 2021 07:27
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MidnightMitch/status/1412887665113018371
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Jul 8, 2021 07:45
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Not So Fast posted:China has the very recent memory of cults getting way out of control (Taiping Rebellion) so is much more untrustworthy of them. this is probably a dumb question but I'm guessing the Chinese state regards the Taiping rebellion more in terms of the rebellion part than with any kind of connection to the social model that they tried to engender?
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Jul 8, 2021 08:45
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also yikes that's pretty racist wtf
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Jul 8, 2021 08:46
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indigi posted:this is practically a universal theme in western military movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOWRembdPS8&t=63s or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZKnOCY32hg
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Jul 8, 2021 10:21
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i get that. but i'll see stuff where a soldier runs directly into heavy machine gun fire in a military recruitment ad as the narrator says "we use our lives to fulfill our duties." i don't see that as much. it's much more "how to advance your career." It's because they can't get away with that for PR purposes in their own ads; instead they leave that to the Hollywood movies they fund (and/or incentivize certain themes by refusing to provide support for movies which they don't like or show them in too negative of a light, which means most studios won't want to take on the extra funding involve in going around that), which gives them better plausible deniability and is probably overall much more effective.
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Jul 8, 2021 11:49
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LimburgLimbo posted:probably overall much more effective. (looks at current army recruitment numbers) lol nah
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Jul 8, 2021 12:23
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Some Guy TT posted:(looks at current army recruitment numbers) There’s other factors that feed into those numbers. Do you think that if the US ran ads of their soldiers getting mowed down by machine guns it would be more effective?
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Jul 8, 2021 12:41
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i think what would improve army recruitment numbers would be if army recruiters could point to literally anything the us army does at all that makes the world a better place for anyone
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Jul 8, 2021 12:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:this is probably a dumb question but I'm guessing the Chinese state regards the Taiping rebellion more in terms of the rebellion part than with any kind of connection to the social model that they tried to engender? IIRC the CCP views the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with some sympathy, since they were rebelling against a turgid aristocratic Qing and had some very forward thinking gender politics. It's treated as a misguided pre-Marxist rebellion but not necessarily a bad one.
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Jul 8, 2021 13:48
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Chinese mythology is cool but I wonder if Chinese gamers are less interested in games that have that as their subject due to familiarity
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Jul 8, 2021 13:54
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nah I think anyone would eat up a big glossy game doing local mythology. It's not like you're gonna get burned out on the subject matter when you have a million ways to present it in games.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:21
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lol I guesstemate that about 30% of modern yearly chinese cultural output (tv, movies, etc) still has to do with journey to the west in some way, especially the monkey king. Chinese people are (rightfully) extremely proud of their classical tales and constantly are reinventing/repackaging them and pushing them out. these movies/tv shows do big numbers as well.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:13
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They should have copied the GOW games not the Souls games. Monkey King has sex with Baigujing and then cut off her head.
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Jul 8, 2021 19:28
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it's a toy for children
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Jul 8, 2021 19:39
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https://twitter.com/LiuXininBeijing/status/1413058641695936515
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Jul 8, 2021 19:40
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Mirello posted:lol I guesstemate that about 30% of modern yearly chinese cultural output (tv, movies, etc) still has to do with journey to the west in some way, especially the monkey king. Chinese people are (rightfully) extremely proud of their classical tales and constantly are reinventing/repackaging them and pushing them out. these movies/tv shows do big numbers as well.  i wish they would do another season of dragonball super
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Jul 8, 2021 19:43
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doesn't china already have a lego knock-off brand?
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Jul 8, 2021 19:59
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You can get bootleg Legos at any street market, usually under the name LeLe or something.
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Jul 8, 2021 20:05
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Grapplejack posted:Chinese mythology is cool but I wonder if Chinese gamers are less interested in games that have that as their subject due to familiarity I dont know about mythology in itself but I know that a korean MMO set in a faux wuxia world was very popular in china and right now their most successful homegrown WoW clone is kinda heavy on the wuxia/immortals theme.
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Jul 8, 2021 20:10
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I want to cuddle with those sleepy panda babies so badly
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Jul 8, 2021 20:23
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uplift gusano voices and bodies
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Jul 8, 2021 20:35
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I dont know about mythology in itself but I know that a korean MMO set in a faux wuxia world was very popular in china and right now their most successful homegrown WoW clone is kinda heavy on the wuxia/immortals theme. Huh, that's neat. I wish we did more with native American mythology in US games, it would be a nice departure from the euro swords and sorcery stuff we always see
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Jul 8, 2021 20:41
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I also wish capitalists would find a new way to profit off the peoples they continue to push toward extinction
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Jul 8, 2021 20:51
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I dont know about mythology in itself but I know that a korean MMO set in a faux wuxia world was very popular in china and right now their most successful homegrown WoW clone is kinda heavy on the wuxia/immortals theme. yea most Chinese nerds seem to agree with western nerds that wuxia/xianxia poo poo still whips rear end
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Jul 8, 2021 20:57
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Now thats the face of a Panda who fucks. Glad Xi taught pandas how to have swag.
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Jul 8, 2021 21:00
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the belt and road plan, but for pandas it's the pipe plan
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Jul 8, 2021 21:06
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they should make battlefield 1942 but its scrappy lil Mao&Zhou vs the well equiped japanese invaders and the unpredictable KMT, 3 way war
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Jul 8, 2021 21:08
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my whole life is that baby panda faceplanting
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Jul 8, 2021 21:11
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seems like the pandas are a victim of genocide too
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Jul 8, 2021 21:13
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Mantis42 posted:You can get bootleg Legos at any street market, usually under the name LeLe or something. yeah but I thought they had some company that just clones Lego sets but cheaper
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Jul 8, 2021 21:14
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Antonymous posted:they should make battlefield 1942 but its scrappy lil Mao&Zhou vs the well equiped japanese invaders and the unpredictable KMT, 3 way war MGSV but set in 1947 Shaanxi
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