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indigi posted:what does Japan spend all that money on Japan's military acquisition is maybe even more corrupt than the US. The zaibatsus have even less distance between them and the government. That and they have laws that their arms dealers can't export. So the market for their goods is very small which means they have to change more.
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:28 |
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Serf posted:this might actually fit better here quote:No underage love allowed President Xi, my people yearn to be free of 'shes actually 1000 years old' waifus. Please.
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:29 |
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Thoth! posted:President Xi, my people yearn to be free of 'shes actually 1000 years old' waifus. Please. I assumed this meant romance between like 14 year old characters, but if you’re right then please Xi save us
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:31 |
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indigi posted:I assumed this meant romance between like 14 year old characters, but if you’re right then please Xi save us this isnt actually any better, assuming one of the characters is playable.
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:35 |
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I hope the chairman imprisons all gamers.
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:41 |
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Antonymous posted:I wanna see the chinese cause 'no content depicting democracy' makes no sense since China considers itself a democracy and writes the word democracy on all their propaganda yeah this got me too. china is at least as much a democracy as western nations, why would they move to ban depiction of the system they use?
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:47 |
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Serf posted:this might actually fit better here I refuse to believe most people are reading more than 4-5 items deep into this so the bulk of the complaints are regarding the first "no pedophilia" item
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:53 |
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Serf posted:yeah this got me too. china is at least as much a democracy as western nations, why would they move to ban depiction of the system they use? Could it be a translation issue? Americans get hung up on liberal/liberalism and Republican/republican, so perhaps it is misinterpreted in some way.
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:55 |
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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:this isnt actually any better, assuming one of the characters is playable. lol you’re right, I forgot it was a game. I was thinking of tv shows
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# ? Sep 16, 2021 23:56 |
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Could it be a translation issue? Americans get hung up on liberal/liberalism and Republican/republican, so perhaps it is misinterpreted in some way. i think it's just wholesale made up. if its based on anything, they didn't allow some scrubshit pro-color revolution depiction in something and it was twisted into CHINA HATES DEMOCRACY but even that is probably more than what it likely actually was, some loving nerd sitting down writing anti-china fanfiction being like "well of course china hates democracy, i can just write that down"
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:00 |
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hot witch divorcee posted:i think it's just wholesale made up. which, again, makes it hilarious that top of the pack in the gamer rage bait list is "lolis are illegal"
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:03 |
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its the DTA page and we're talking Chairman Xi banning lolis? what a world
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:08 |
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I'd it was made up would they have included the underage thing to be mad at? ....you know what, never mind.
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:17 |
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/NikkeiAsia/status/1438517397762109448?s=20 does china actually want to join or are they calling our bluff and trying to force us to admit that the only reason exists is to try and gently caress over china and letting them in would defeat the purpose
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:29 |
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Mr Hootington posted:https://twitter.com/PriapusIQ/status/1438574036620087305?s=19 i think theres a ukraine thread around here somewhere but its just too easy to lose the regional threads and forget theyre even there is why we have the giant one
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:30 |
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my hot take is that it's a foreign policy thing and it's making France mad, so it's clearly good, because anything involving french foreign policy is 100% of the time morally wrong
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:41 |
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CaptainACAB posted:Japan's military acquisition is maybe even more corrupt than the US. The zaibatsus have even less distance between them and the government. hence the involvement of the Marubeni corporation (and the Yakuza!) in Japan's part of the Lockheed bribery scandal
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:43 |
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Some Guy TT posted:does china actually want to join or are they calling our bluff and trying to force us to admit that the only reason exists is to try and gently caress over china and letting them in would defeat the purpose I feel it's the latter, like the Russia-joins-NATO gambit. Seems like it could also lead to internal disputes between individual members, if it's just Australia or a couple members who're hardline against it, vs. the countries that want more sweet Chinese trade, or already have closer relationships.
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 00:50 |
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Thoth! posted:I feel it's the latter, like the Russia-joins-NATO gambit. Seems like it could also lead to internal disputes between individual members, if it's just Australia or a couple members who're hardline against it, vs. the countries that want more sweet Chinese trade, or already have closer relationships. yeah they can force the issue to a head and put Australia to a tough decision. then if they don’t like the deal they can bail at any time and not lose anything
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 01:00 |
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SporkOfTruth posted:hence the involvement of the Marubeni corporation (and the Yakuza!) in Japan's part of the Lockheed bribery scandal Yeah the Japanese government is mega corrupt and has been all but openly in bed with the Yakuza since the 50s.
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 01:08 |
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Also China (an economy that's automatically the biggest and most influential one in any room) joining any economic organization will kind of neutralize it. I am readinf The Long Game, and the author make that argument about China's foreign policy during the Wen era.
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 01:12 |
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dead gay comedy forums posted:this sort of stuff got me thinking a while
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 02:56 |
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Serf posted:yeah this got me too. china is at least as much a democracy as western nations, why would they move to ban depiction of the system they use? actually, how does voting work in china? i vaguely remember someone mentioning there's some kind of local/regional election stuff? crepeface has issued a correction as of 04:45 on Sep 17, 2021 |
# ? Sep 17, 2021 04:41 |
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I think it starts a little like this
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 04:44 |
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crepeface posted:actually, how does voting work in china? i vaguely remember someone mentioning there's some kind of local/regional election stuff? iirc democratic centralism through hierarchy china.cn.org posted:The authorized government portal site to China, China.org.cn is published under the auspices of the State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group (CIPG) in Beijing. quote:THE CHINESE POLITICAL SYSTEM more similar to Cuba than with the USSR it seems. People's Congresses are the constituent political unit and the assembly votes for their representative up in the hierarchy, all the way up to the presidium
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 04:57 |
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/09/to-protect-itself-from-us-hostility-australia-decides-to-buy-us-submarines.htmlquote:There are some military reasons to prefer nuclear submarines over diesel driven ones if one plans to lay siege on a foreign coast far away from ones own one. Nuclear submarines (SSN) are faster and can stay on station much longer than diesel driven boats (SSK).
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 05:50 |
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it’s funny whenever bad stuff happens to Australia
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 05:56 |
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indigi posted:it’s funny whenever bad stuff happens to Australia wildfires are going to burn australia down before they see a single one of these subs
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 08:36 |
Yeonmi Park: In North Korea, 'dank nugs' are unheard of, we do not even have the concept. We had to smoke feral roadside hemp. I smoked a lot of feral roadside hemp as a little girl. Joe Rogan: Whoa. That's hosed up.
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 09:08 |
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IAMKOREA posted:Yeonmi Park: In North Korea, 'dank nugs' are unheard of, we do not even have the concept. We had to smoke feral roadside hemp. I smoked a lot of feral roadside hemp as a little girl. lol
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 09:22 |
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indigi posted:what does Japan spend all that money on They actually publish all kinds of this data openly: https://www.mod.go.jp/en/d_act/d_budget/pdf/210331a.pdf Long story short they buy a lot of high-end stuff, and personnel costs are high. Since they're not technically a military and people can quite pretty easily quit (as I recall, not going to go look into the contractual obligations here) they have to remain a decent career option for people in order to retain personnel, so ~42% of their budget goes to just personnel costs because they pay a good salary by normal Japan standards (vs 23% for the US, even though the US also compensates personnel pretty well, though one or the other of the scope of those figures may include or not include stuff like training so don't take the comparison as gospel). In that link pg 2 (6 of pdf) have overview of expenses, pg 50 (54 of pdf) has more details. Besides personnel, big ticket new items are stuff like: F-35A and Bs (lol) P-1 patrol aircraft New Destroyers A new sub Development of new domestic aircraft PAC-3s etc Also cool stuff like 4.6bn JPY to add doors to womens toilets and showers (which apparently weren't there before) and change mens toilets to womens lol
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 09:40 |
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crepeface posted:actually, how does voting work in china? i vaguely remember someone mentioning there's some kind of local/regional election stuff? kids are taught that voting with majority/plurality wins is the best way to reach group consensus and it's often used in the classroom for students to make decisions. it's like rock-paper-scissors in the US, it's a pretty common way for kids to make choices that then carries over to adulthood where apartment buildings might have voting on rules and leadership then there are local elections at township/county level. iirc the system works like parties put forward candidates or anyone can run as independent. and then those county elected officials can vote on the higher levels of representatives. in a sense the the public selects the township leadership, which then selects the county level leadership, county selects province, province selects national. that's at least my dumb foreigner understanding, I didnt grow up in China
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 11:25 |
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China's education is huge on working cohesively as a group, and doing the right (moral) thing at all times - which is often too black and white and simplistic but whatever, at least it focuses on selfless acts that help others and doing what helps the group. now idk how much all that pours over into the reality of public / adult life in China but definitely the workplace is unique in china because of this 'brainwashing' all that is to say the idea of banning 'depictions of democracy' makes no sense
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 11:31 |
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also independents to run and win, since being a party member is something you should plan for starting around middle school... it's normal for adults to not be party members but still want to run for public office. Being in the party is a career choice and there's dues and duties involved, so only like 100 million people are members... like 7% of china's pop it's not a good idea to be anti-party on the other hand. but not being in the party isn't automatically anti party you know. and there are like 10 large parties in China, CCP is just one of them that happens to have a military (yeah the military belongs to the party not the state)
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 11:38 |
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indigi posted:it’s funny whenever bad stuff happens to Australia Are NZers dying from lmaoing yet
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 11:41 |
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Lmao isnt the problem its lbiden, hes not happy about the trade situation, get your act together
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 11:49 |
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dead gay comedy forums posted:iirc democratic centralism through hierarchy Antonymous posted:kids are taught that voting with majority/plurality wins is the best way to reach group consensus and it's often used in the classroom for students to make decisions. it's like rock-paper-scissors in the US, it's a pretty common way for kids to make choices thanks. i feel like i should really know this stuff better. Antonymous posted:China's education is huge on working cohesively as a group, and doing the right (moral) thing at all times - which is often too black and white and simplistic but whatever, at least it focuses on selfless acts that help others and doing what helps the group. i think that's part of the culture/confucianism. i know it's common thinking amongst asian people in general, even those raised in western countries.
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 12:45 |
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https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1438761360200847367?s=20 uhhh... NATO vs SCO!??! does SCO facilitate economic activity? iran has those crazy 2nd degree of separation sanctions on it, right?
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 12:53 |
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Some Guy TT posted:does china actually want to join or are they calling our bluff and trying to force us to admit that the only reason exists is to try and gently caress over china and letting them in would defeat the purpose Didn't China also do a EU trade pact that was also pretty poo poo in terms of policy?
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# ? Sep 17, 2021 12:58 |
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is Iran being in the SCO a big deal? i am not terribly informed so if someone can explain let me know.
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