Atrocious Joe posted:

I wonder if Australia is getting pressure from the US to open up and let COVID in. The longer they remain strict on COVID the more appealing closer relations China becomes, as it is the one major COVID-free power around. Combined with how close they already are economically, COVID-free Australia might drift away from the anti-China Quad.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I'm so tired.

VomitOnLino posted:

I lived in other predominantly white countries for a couple of years, despite speaking the language so fluently that I was mistaken for a native on the phone, looking and dressing just like them -- I was often, behind my back, referred to as "the German". As in "What's the German up to?".. not necessarily ill intentioned, but yeah you are always 'the other'.

Ultimately, I decided to take it in good graces, but yeah.
So I love that people put this at Chinas feet as if that was a novel or especially heinous thing for only the Chinese people to do..

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Northern and southern Indians hate each other

Catholic and Protestant Germany aren't exactly good friends

It's funny that China gets this sort of treatment today when it's the norm in human relations and has only been sorted out in maneuvers like Italy saying "you're all Italians now and you all speak Tuscan," and probably not even then.

Bullfrog posted:

Higher use and obsession with "conservative-approved wonder drugs for covid" like hydroxywhatever and ivermectin seem to occur mostly when covid is actually hitting closer to home for conservative circles. This leads to an interesting pattern where they are simultaneously trying to downplay covid + "liberal" preventative measures like masks, or vaccines, while ironically seeking out any covid preventative/cure they hear about in their groups. They downplay the disease, but they betray their inner fear with these drugs.

Casey Finnigan posted:

let's be honest. how much of the cultural animosity between china and the west comes down to the fact that they use scary letters like 美利坚合众国

Shear Modulus posted:

well that sucks for them because thats a huge reason as to why america was the strongest country for the period it was

if china was really communist thedyd accept comrades no matter the color of their skin

Shear Modulus posted:

well that sucks for them because thats a huge reason as to why america was the strongest country for the period it was

if china was really communist thedyd accept comrades no matter the color of their skin

quote:

Mar 12th 2020

CHINA’S LEADERS have pulled off a remarkable feat. They have joined the long list of governments humbled by a populist revolt over immigration—though there are hardly any immigrants in China, and political opposition is banned. The revolt’s cause is also a surprise: a consultation exercise by the justice ministry, inviting comments on a proposal to make it slightly easier for rich or highly skilled foreigners to become permanent residents. This expands a scheme begun in 2004. On March 7th, after days of online fury, officials took the proposal back for revisions. Soon afterwards censors moved to shut down the debate. By then a related hashtag on Weibo, a Twitter-like service, had been viewed more than 5bn times. A dismaying number of comments betrayed racial and sexual panic, with men vowing to defend Chinese women from immigrants, notably from Africa. Several young women vowed to leap from the Great Wall rather than marry a foreigner.

Some anger is understandable. Foreign permanent residents may have as many children as they wish, and bring them up and educate them in any city in China. Bossy family-planning and residency rules deny Chinese citizens such freedom. Some indignation reflects a trend seen in other countries: a distrust of technocrats who defend migration as an economic necessity. Wang Huiyao heads a think-tank, the Centre for China and Globalisation, which promoted the permanent-residency scheme. For his pains he has been vilified online as a traitor. Mr Wang calls some suggestions helpful, such as requests for clarification of which PhD subjects earn a green card. Defending the scheme, he says: “China has been a giant exporter of talent for the 40 years of reform and opening. Why can’t China now seek to import some global talents?”

silicone thrills posted:

My whole tiktok is just recommending doomer covid videos now.


https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR6MpDQK/
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/????6??????

Stairmaster posted:

gently caress Italians

fosborb posted:

jfc

https://twitter.com/tonyleys/status/1430303498017681410?s=19

Chuka Umana posted:

how many weeks/months til we get the vaccine resistant strain guys?

Grey Fox posted:

https://twitter.com/ggooooddddoogg/status/1430292357220474882

Atrocious Joe posted:

rope worms are apparently just the remnants of their hosed up bowels
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_worms

it gets worse because people think these worms cause autism and do poo poo to their kids to "cure" them. we need a US Cultural Revolution.

Chuka Umana posted:

how many weeks/months til we get the vaccine resistant strain guys?

Shear Modulus posted:

Solarin posted:

maybe it's just one infected supershitter skewing the sewage

Steve Yun posted:

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/6998078138420890886



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4n3dbPqk58

VomitOnLino posted:

Not a lot because if Japan uses the same letters they stole... sorry borrowed from China it's "UWUUUU KAWAIII!"

Boat Stuck posted:

The average Han Chinese is almost certainly not any more "liberal" or "enlightened" than the average White American.

It's not like the government doesn't know that reasonable immigration is a good idea. But it doesn't seem to be something they want to piss people off about.

Chuka Umana posted:

how many weeks/months til we get the vaccine resistant strain guys?

text editor posted:

Asking my local Tractor supply to be more ADA compliant and label horse paste with Braille so repeat customers can find it

Chuka Umana posted:

how many weeks/months til we get the vaccine resistant strain guys?

Chuka Umana posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zStn70Ot4r0

cspam in two months "the underclasses are starting to get desperate"

Lenin Stimpy posted:

oh how much i would give for the underclasses to be desperate for the vaccine

mod sassinator posted:

if some of the indications are true that's it's really delta and not waning immunity causing the big drops if efficacy... imho we got our first variant of high consequence already here

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Just like we handled the reconstruction south. Weird!

Shadowhand00 posted:

huh, my friends want to take their 18 month old to Atlanta, GA from the Bay Area for a wedding.

this is a terrible idea, but I have no idea how bad of an idea this is. can a goon from atlanta tell me how bad of an idea this is?

Ice Phisherman posted:

As someone fascinated by Southern history I've wondered more than a few times if all of the former slaveowners in the South and the rest of the rebel shitbag elites were just hanged.

The world would have been a better place.

Tzen posted:

loving hell

Tzen posted:

pulled from this reddit post