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https://mobile.twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1418197642543304706
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Jul 22, 2021 17:50
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1418249478939844619
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Jul 22, 2021 18:20
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quote:Security officials have said law enforcement action is based on evidence and has nothing to do with an individual's political stance, background or profession. seems like it’s entirely based on that?? the article is whatever, who knows what’s true and what they’re leaving out, but lol that they’re using British colonial law to crack down on this stuff
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Jul 22, 2021 18:24
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Hong Kong is still almost entirely still using the British colonial government structures and China is bound by treaty to let them remain (lol). They removed the imperial governor and the 30% of the legislature he was allowed to appoint unilaterally but none of the bad things about Hong Kong are new.
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Jul 22, 2021 18:33
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FrancisFukyomama posted:reminds me of when I went to China and found Lawson’s all over the place and then learned it was a huge multi billion dollar company in japan, while being from northeastern Ohio I mostly knew it as being that store boomers are nostalgic for for being a better version of circle k every person born in Asia believes 7-11 is Japanese and would be shocked to find out it's from Texas (but is owned by a Japanese conglomerate now).
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Jul 22, 2021 18:59
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Albright also was a major player in lying about Yugoslav/Serb warcrimes and Milosevic leading a genocide against Kosovo/Albanians, giving full-throated support of NATO's illegal bombing, obfuscating the KLA's much more rampant warcrimes and ethnic cleansing, and explaining why we had to bomb civilian targets I loving hate this bitch
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Jul 22, 2021 19:01
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https://mil.news.sina.com.cn/china/2021-07-22/doc-ikqcfnca8323899.shtml Using drones to restore cell service to flooded areas.
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Jul 22, 2021 20:07
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gradenko_2000 posted:Did Western media just get really bad at creating a bunch of wargames and technical specification coffee-table books about the PLA, or have I just been missing a lot of them? https://twitter.com/AndrewSErickson/status/1417952014307368963 the modern day "harpoon" is CMANO. do you remember baloogan? he was really into that game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4IisWABU-Y there isn't any popularizer like tom clancy though. there was a guy from the new america foundation who wrote a clancybook about the PLAN using container ships to hide their d00ds to sneak into our bases and kill our d00ds. and then they hack the gibson so all the modern warships don't work, so the U.S. has to refurbish old mothballed ships like in battlestar galactica 
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Jul 22, 2021 20:12
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have the Chinese plans for the next few years included expansion of the social safety net? I’ve heard the robust Mao era one was mostly eliminated during the 90s though Xi seems to be stepping up on expanding govt programs in general
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Jul 22, 2021 20:27
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:there isn't any popularizer like tom clancy though. there was a guy from the new america foundation who wrote a clancybook about the PLAN using container ships to hide their d00ds to sneak into our bases and kill our d00ds. lol that’s just straight up stolen from red storm where the Soviets invade Iceland to take down SOSUS via disguised cargo ship
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Jul 22, 2021 20:30
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lol that’s just straight up stolen from red storm where the Soviets invade Iceland to take down SOSUS via disguised cargo ship And it got ripped off in a bunch of video games later https://youtu.be/jGBU1URjqnw
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Jul 22, 2021 20:38
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Ghost Fleet literally has China teens hacking into the 'US military using some sort of VR out of Neuromancer. Then China conquers Hawaii by sneaking in troops on container ships, just like how the USSR captures Iceland in Red Storm Rising. There's a great scene of a US fleet getting owned by ballistic missiles. It's also very insistent that China in the book is no longer governed by the Communist part, which today makes it seem a bit dated. I didn't finish it because the authors get weirdly horny for a the widow of a troop who is stuck in occupied Hawaii. They love describing her fit body, how she seduces and kills Chinese soldiers, and how she self harms. 2034 is the other WW3 US novel that got some attention recently. It's less specific about the technical stuff compared to Ghost Fleet. It's goofy in it's own way, but seems to have some insight in how declining global power is making parts of the US establishment insane. India ends up intervening to stop the US and China from a full nuclear exchange for example. Ridiculous, but self-aware enough to realize the US isn't going to be the good guy or winner of a world war.
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Jul 22, 2021 20:40
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Lostconfused posted:And it got ripped off in a bunch of video games later https://youtu.be/jGBU1URjqnw lol Tom Clancy has one decent idea and everyone steals it
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Jul 22, 2021 20:42
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lol that’s just straight up stolen from red storm where the Soviets invade Iceland to take down SOSUS via disguised cargo ship
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Jul 22, 2021 22:55
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Atrocious Joe posted:I didn't finish it because the authors get weirdly horny for a the widow of a troop who is stuck in occupied Hawaii. They love describing her fit body, how she seduces and kills Chinese soldiers, and how she self harms.
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Jul 22, 2021 22:57
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Throatwarbler posted:https://mil.news.sina.com.cn/china/2021-07-22/doc-ikqcfnca8323899.shtml Wing Loong is the same UAV sold to the Saudi and UAE (both I and II models)
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Jul 22, 2021 23:12
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:what the gently caress look they just really, really copied all of red storm rising's iceland plots
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Jul 22, 2021 23:15
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:what the gently caress I still have it from the library so have some excerpts tw for self harm. I don't want to go all YA author about content like this, but I was not expecting it in a pulpy techno-thriller with footnotes referencing Wired articles.  and her killing a Chinese officer who grew up in the US by using her female wiles after he hires her to teach him surfing. The Directorate is the post-Communist Chinese government.  
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Jul 22, 2021 23:42
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speaking of the bear and the dragon i started re-reading it a few nights ago. so far nothing too insane but there was a very funny sequence where a russian cop is like "oh i better call up odessa a city in russia on the black sea where all our crime and drugs come from". i didn't remember that clancy was a novorossiya maximalist!
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Jul 22, 2021 23:44
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:what the gently caress This happens in like every world War 3 book by every author.
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Jul 22, 2021 23:54
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Source4Leko posted:This happens in like every world War 3 book by every author. a widow self harming?
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Jul 22, 2021 23:57
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indigi posted:a widow self harming? I can’t remember all the details of red storm rising but I’m still willing to wager a “yes”
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Jul 23, 2021 00:15
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all ww3 literature is going to have weird sex stuff
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Jul 23, 2021 00:37
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Lostconfused posted:And it got ripped off in a bunch of video games later https://youtu.be/jGBU1URjqnw i'm the american soldier carrying the us flag into the fight at the battle of burger king home of the whopper Edit: i'm the BTR that drives up a vertical pier side to crush a car B) Lor has issued a correction as of 00:48 on Jul 23, 2021 |
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Jul 23, 2021 00:42
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Atrocious Joe posted:I still have it from the library so have some excerpts Wait, so the widow doesn't try to kill herself over her dead husband? She did it before when the husband was alive? What the hell is Swiss nanoderm cream. #oddlyspecific
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Jul 23, 2021 00:56
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lobster shirt posted:all ww3 literature is going to have weird sex stuff even the Battletech books have weird sex stuff.
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Jul 23, 2021 01:34
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we should stick to warhammer 40k where the books are so scared of sex stuff worshipping the god of loving manifests as fighting real good
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Jul 23, 2021 02:15
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space marines can't even gently caress at all, they've all got big gross silicone cocks
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Jul 23, 2021 02:19
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indigi posted:a widow self harming? Ok no thats true but a female character being sexy and her or other charaters rape or sexual experiences being described in totally unnecessary detail. That detail is an extra bit of something.
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Jul 23, 2021 02:26
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Know what I love about military widows? I'm still alive, and their husbands stay dead.
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Jul 23, 2021 02:28
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I can’t remember all the details of red storm rising but I’m still willing to wager a “yes” In Red Storm Rising it was an Icelandic woman who gets assaulted by Soviet troops and the American protagonist rescues her and makes her keep the rape baby after Keflavik gets liberated
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Jul 23, 2021 02:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:In Red Storm Rising it was an Icelandic woman who gets assaulted by Soviet troops and the American protagonist rescues her and makes her keep the rape baby after Keflavik gets liberated was she a widower tho? that was the detail i couldn't remember
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Jul 23, 2021 02:47
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https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1418134690041581570quote:The three-year investigation revealed for the first time the inner workings of Operation Fox Hunt, a shadowy fugitive-apprehension program that is a pillar of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign. 
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Jul 23, 2021 03:41
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https://twitter.com/ContentionNews/status/1418326677424312328
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Jul 23, 2021 03:43
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Ah yes the reverse Dark Knight
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Jul 23, 2021 03:50
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totalitarianism is when you extradite white collar criminals
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Jul 23, 2021 03:56
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gradenko_2000 posted:In Red Storm Rising it was an Icelandic woman who gets assaulted by Soviet troops and the American protagonist rescues her and makes her keep the rape baby after Keflavik gets liberated If I remember right she was pregnant before the soviets even showed up, the father was some dude who ran off or something
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Jul 23, 2021 05:27
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a fine example of the "what if this thing that objectively owns is wrong and bad actually" genre
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Jul 23, 2021 06:32
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it rules how people think biden wants more irs money to do cool stuff like that when its actually so the government can better harass the fat cats who make an astonishing four digits a year off of ebay sales
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Jul 23, 2021 06:36
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I've known for a while now that The Epoch Times runs "China Uncovered", which is basically just 24/7 PRC scaremongering today I discovered that they also do "America Uncovered", which... covers "news" and punditry aimed at American events https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb-WgnFCOI0 apparently their take on COVID as of these days is "the media is hyping up the Delta variant to be scarier than it actually is"
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Jul 23, 2021 09:32
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