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"Singapore has public housing" by itself would be enough to stand as a refutation that it's run as/like a neoliberal hellscape. Throw in the Sovereign Wealth Funds, the State Owned Enterprises, the outright rejection of liberalism as a tool for governance in the cultural space, and the complete dominance of the PAP in the parliament (including supression of other parties that so-called liberal democracies might clutch their pearls at) and Singapore is far closer to being a "State Capitalist" nation than any of the others that usually tarred-and-feathered with this phrase.
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Aug 7, 2021 06:34
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though the governance ethos is very much neoliberal. there's an interview i watched with a singaporean gov't official who, when asked about his countrys welfare model answered with the typical boomer word salad about moochers and how you gotta work, the government isnt gonna prop up a lazy parasite, you can do what you want so long as you can pay for it etc
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Aug 7, 2021 06:55
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You can do anything you want except buy chewing gum.
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Aug 7, 2021 07:03
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Mantis42 posted:You can do anything you want except buy chewing gum. totalitarian cultural genocide of skateboarders
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Aug 7, 2021 08:43
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Posting articles and links without any kind of editorial viewpoint is huhwhat's whole gimmick, and it's the weirdest thing anybody does on this forum.  https://www.sohu.com/a/324436873_362042 posted:In October 16, 2015, President Xi Jinping attended the 2015 Summit Forum on poverty reduction and development and delivered a keynote speech. He used the phrase "授人以鱼，不如授人以渔" to point out that alleviating material poverty requires alleviating intellectual poverty, and that letting children in poor areas receive good education is not just an important task for poverty alleviation and development but also an important step in stopping intergenerational transmission of poverty. https://www.observersnews.com/politics/2021_05_02_589550.shtml posted:In May 2018, when visiting Peking University, before a captivated audience, the general secretary shared his attitude towards reading:  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Aug 7, 2021 11:51
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we must learn to fish but also become like fishquote:Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together? It is only undisciplined troops who make the people their enemies and who, like the fish out of its native element cannot live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZQlscG7dcg posting because there's a part where mao blows down the street in an army jeep behind a v-shaped motorcycle squad and it's badass BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 12:21 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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Aug 7, 2021 12:15
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What's the deal with dwnews anyway, I've seen it in the past and thought that it was a Chinese branch of Deutsche Welle but that didn't seem right so looked more and realized it was these dudes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duowei_News Kinda weird to see a simplified mandarin news outlet with Taiwan in its top menu haha. Is it far to one side or the other ideologically? My mandarin is nowhere near enough to read the subtext/tone of the articles (I'm bad at tones in the first place! ba dum tss).
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Aug 7, 2021 12:18
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Dwnews.com is fairly neutral outlet run by people from mainland. Yeah it's not dw news. Btw dw has its Chinese edition too, run by mostly falun gong people. Also, Taiwan has its own CNA.com.tw, not to be confused with the more famous CNA, which is Singapore's government owned news outlet. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 13:06 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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Aug 7, 2021 13:04
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  lol
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Aug 7, 2021 13:13
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lol i'd never seen this particular smear before. fantastic
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Aug 7, 2021 13:53
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/pol...pgtype=homepagequote:‘We had no choice’: China’s one-child policy and the millions of ‘missing girls’ Looking forward to China entering the cool zone
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Aug 7, 2021 14:10
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I thought the "baby murdering savages" thing was debunked years ago.
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Aug 7, 2021 14:17
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Chuka Umana posted:you guys aren't getting your social credit if your defense of china is this weak. My favorite type of reddit China guy is one who in 2021 still earnestly believes social credit is a thing
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Aug 7, 2021 14:54
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https://twitter.com/MujMash/status/1423488575434235911
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Aug 7, 2021 15:29
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https://twitter.com/PostOpinions/status/1423402388036149248
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Aug 7, 2021 15:31
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Red and Black posted:My favorite type of reddit China guy is one who in 2021 still earnestly believes social credit is a thing It's incredible how people don't realize that the credit system in the US is the functional equivalent of a social credit. You can ask any poor person what happens if you try to buy something with a low credit score.
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Aug 7, 2021 15:31
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xi is the 2nd to last letter but it sounds like the last letter of the alphabet. whats up with that
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Aug 7, 2021 15:33
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https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1423641524806447106
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Aug 7, 2021 15:39
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i like the one thats based on ancient chinese alchemy. its both a garish nightmare and based on a philosphy about turning yourself into an immortal sex goku
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Aug 7, 2021 15:42
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https://twitter.com/tunkuv/status/1424003635692949507
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Aug 7, 2021 15:44
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I thought the "baby murdering savages" thing was debunked years ago. shrike being a racist is part of the gimmick
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Aug 7, 2021 15:48
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Rape/murder of of dalits is incredibly common in india still, they're still treated like dogshit in some parts of the country. We "abolished" the caste system when we became independent.
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Aug 7, 2021 15:53
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Aug 7, 2021 16:01
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lmfao
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Aug 7, 2021 16:03
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lol gotta love geography.jpg to make you broad handwavey point. hmm yes why didn't people expand their city across a mountain range and into a desert guess we'll never know
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Aug 7, 2021 16:06
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Does weird feature i see potentially have an easy alternative explanation? No, it must be the inscrutable celestials indecipherable design
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Aug 7, 2021 16:07
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AnimeIsTrash posted:It's incredible how people don't realize that the credit system in the US is the functional equivalent of a social credit. You can ask any poor person what happens if you try to buy something with a low credit score. not just bad credit - there's tenant screening software landlords can use that look at your social media and other factors, employers use screening stuff on potential candidates, lots of employers also do criminal background checks... the US has this system of social control, it's just entirely privatized and thus beyond the reach of any democratic accountability. every accusation really is a confession lol
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Aug 7, 2021 16:09
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LimburgLimbo posted:lol gotta love geography.jpg to make you broad handwavey point. Umm that is clearly prime agricultural land for settling as lebensraum. Just ask the geniuses over in d&d
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Aug 7, 2021 16:10
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https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg relatively recent night pic, posted as url because it's loving huge china isn't even an outlier lol
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Aug 7, 2021 16:13
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lobster shirt posted:not just bad credit - there's tenant screening software landlords can use that look at your social media and other factors, employers use screening stuff on potential candidates, lots of employers also do criminal background checks... the US has this system of social control, it's just entirely privatized and thus beyond the reach of any democratic accountability. every accusation really is a confession lol ive never seen people getting denied to rent an apartment because of their credit here in china?
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Aug 7, 2021 16:13
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yeah i was talking about the US, whatever insane thing gets made up about social credit in china is just a description of life in the US
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Aug 7, 2021 16:37
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yeah the whole "credit" system is miles behind america. I asked my wife what would happen if we stopped paying our rent, eventually theyd kick us out. but if you look for a new place they dont do any background check at all. instead you just have to pay a ton at once (3-5 months rent is the standard). rofl, my gf (at the time) actually used sesame credit when I first moved to china. we got a discount on our rent (didn't have to pay broker fee, 1 month of rent). in my 5 years living here thats the onyl time I've heard of it. In so far as it's used, its mostly incentives, rather than punsihments, like low credit score in america. Thats something thats not really discussed outside of china, but in general (not always) the govt prefers to nudge people in certain directions rather than punishing them. A perfect example is the covid vaccine. The chinese govt could just mandate it, and make everone take it, but they choose not to. the rollout has been pretty fast due to production capacity and peoples trust for the govt. I've heard about incentives in other provinces, but here in beijing everyone just got it because why not. I'm pretty sure beijing has reached the level of herd immunity (if there could be such a thing with the loving delta varient) On the other hand, my wifes parents dont trust it or the govt, so they've remained unvaccinated, with no consequences.
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Aug 7, 2021 16:50
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it rules how american rhetoric on covid vaccines just has to completely ignore how the vaccine rollout has worked in any other country because its quite obvious when you look at the international figures that some countries with lower rates are doing better while others with higher rates are doing worse because you cant just build a one dimensional policy entirely around vaccine rollout and expect that to magically end the pandemic
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Aug 7, 2021 16:56
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Red and Black posted:My favorite type of reddit China guy is one who in 2021 still earnestly believes social credit is a thing
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Aug 7, 2021 17:16
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nah he's right, China is stuffed on its east coast. That's why belt and road is important as well, so that they overcome their geography.
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Aug 7, 2021 20:08
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Aug 7, 2021 20:22
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Truga posted:https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg * I didn't realize most of the Taiwan population live on the east side. * There is literally a line of light between the 2 Koreas, I guess they lit up the fence with high power lights? If Google map include it as one of the layer, I could spend hours on this.
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Aug 7, 2021 22:09
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lmao
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Aug 7, 2021 22:30
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stephenthinkpad posted:* I didn't realize most of the Taiwan population live on the east side. You mean west and yes it's not even close. Basically everything is on the west side, and there's a strip of flat land that's in most places literally just a few kilometers wide, which is where basically all the properly inhabited parts are on the east coast. The largest areas of the flat strip are Taidong and Hualien. Also Luodong I guess is a bigger flat area but that's kinda chilling in the north surrounded but mountains. Check the topographical map (think this should link right to it?) and it's pretty obvious where the people are: https://www.google.com/maps/@23.7542036,120.5224203,9z/data=!5m1!1e4 East coast is really quite small. Also super nice since the mountains stop the combined bad air from the west coast factories/power plants and mainland in the winter from making things dirty.
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Aug 7, 2021 22:49
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lobster shirt posted:yeah i was talking about the US, whatever insane thing gets made up about social credit in china is just a description of life in the US State endorsed all-encompassing classist economic bullying isn't aUthOriTaRaNisM because vote for the next most important election in your lives Palladium has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Aug 8, 2021 |
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