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punching out your kid’s tutor and then telling him “stop studying outside of school, go play outside” doesn’t seem very tiger parent
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Sep 26, 2021 16:45
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Being an admiral or a general in the US military means that you were assigned a post where you have to carry that title by formality, and once you are given that title you generally never lose it unless you massively gently caress up from what I understand Also there being 4 "peacetime" ranks of both means that a 1 star can call themselves a general on 
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Sep 26, 2021 16:46
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Well being a general/admiral is usually not easy. Being a battalion commander puts you in charge of about 1000 people, the next step is brigade commander that puts you in charge of several battalions and generals work a step further managing several brigades. The funnel to go from colonel to general is very thin. That being said, they are 100% political entities. You stop doing your actual work in the military at around O4, at O5 you become a politician in training and at O6 you are full fledge politician. Everything is about selling your ideas to other politicians, both in the military and in civil service. Any active duty general/admiral that talks to a news outlet about wanting to put nukes over Xi's head is likely getting stripped from their command. Thats why its always brain melted retired officers that do that.
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Sep 26, 2021 17:32
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Some Guy TT posted:look theres only so many buzz words we can use to describe asian people and weve already used most of the other ones Cut Xi some slack, it's hard work being a national leader without fondling kids in an disturbing manner
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Sep 26, 2021 18:01
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Palladium posted:Cut Xi some slack, it's hard work being a national leader without fondling kids in an disturbing manner Anyway tune in for my upcoming op-ed in The Economist.
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Sep 26, 2021 18:16
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Cao Ni Ma posted:That being said, they are 100% political entities. You stop doing your actual work in the military at around O4, at O5 you become a politician in training and at O6 you are full fledge politician. Everything is about selling your ideas to other politicians, both in the military and in civil service. Just LMAO that brokebrain Americans have to be constantly reminded that generals are politicians and not just the guy on the ship who can do the most pullups or something
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Sep 26, 2021 18:26
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Throatwarbler posted:Just LMAO that brokebrain Americans have to be constantly reminded that generals are politicians and not just the guy on the ship who can do the most pullups or something Being in general is a lot like being a congressman in that it is an excuse to retire directly onto the board of a major government contractor.
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Sep 26, 2021 18:33
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Rent-A-Cop posted:As a national leader displaying a total outward lack of kid touching this means he is either not a pedophile, which seems impossible, or is the emperor of the dragon-pedophiles. maybe he’s just a non-practicing pedophile
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Sep 26, 2021 18:39
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me when someone asks about the SPD deputies the nazis killed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCjBspxuUmU
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Sep 26, 2021 18:55
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Red and Black posted:It instantly brought to my mind the recent revelation that under Trump, Mark Milley had to call his counterpart in China to assure him that the US wasn't going launch a surprise nuclear attack against China. The worry being that China might attack US forces in the indo-pacific to preempt a perceived imminent attack by the US. This mad man posturing really does gently caress with the heads of the leadership of China and the US is playing a dangerous game. Yes the US has done this for a while it's the same poo poo we did with the USSR and very nearly led to war. The Soviets seriously believed that America was run by absolute bloodthirsty maniacs. And they were right
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Sep 26, 2021 19:28
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Remember that time trump dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever made just because he wanted to
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Sep 26, 2021 19:42
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https://twitter.com/kevtellier/status/1441774309652025346
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Sep 26, 2021 21:00
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Uh I didn't not expect where that Twitter thread ended up going based on that first post.
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Sep 26, 2021 21:04
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well yeah
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Sep 26, 2021 21:07
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Yeah, it keeps on going and seems to be mostly right in my opinion. I think it has been understated how much Hu was a screw up and that many of the reforms Xi has champion are mostly reversing of what went under Hu, if anything it is nearly a 180 situation. As far as the American state, it is obviously captured by private interest and oligarchs, but the stake in the heart will always be the USD itself. As Covid shows, the US can still keep on throwing money into the fire as long as it can pay for goods in the dollars.
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Sep 26, 2021 21:23
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Is there any good writing on what went on in Tibet and how it is now?
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Sep 26, 2021 21:26
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https://twitter.com/philjvtaylor/status/1441839723614461954
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Sep 26, 2021 22:26
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berlin (as of now) appears to have approved some amount of expropriation of large landlords/apartment buildings....... any germans have more on this? https://twitter.com/dwenteignen/status/1442220844521070592
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Sep 26, 2021 23:18
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 happy birthday queen
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Sep 26, 2021 23:37
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:berlin (as of now) appears to have approved some amount of expropriation of large landlords/apartment buildings....... any germans have more on this? this really needs to happen everywhere
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Sep 27, 2021 00:17
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ughhhh posted:Is there any good writing on what went on in Tibet and how it is now? Michael Parenti's analysis is a good start https://redsails.org/friendly-feudalism/
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Sep 27, 2021 00:28
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Agrajag posted:this really needs to happen everywhere
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Sep 27, 2021 03:27
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ughhhh posted:Is there any good writing on what went on in Tibet and how it is now? i don't have much but here's an excerpt from a (anti-communist) biography of deng xiaoping that gradenko recommended, on how it became part of the PRC: quote:
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Sep 27, 2021 04:51
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NATO freaks on the timeline saying Serbia may make a move against Kosovo
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Sep 27, 2021 06:01
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has anyone asked how gradenko can read eighteen books a week with full highlights and annotation
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Sep 27, 2021 06:06
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Cao Ni Ma posted:Well being a general/admiral is usually not easy. Being a battalion commander puts you in charge of about 1000 people, the next step is brigade commander that puts you in charge of several battalions and generals work a step further managing several brigades. The funnel to go from colonel to general is very thin. nah, here’s the head the indo pacific command asking for nukes to point a china just a few years ago. go watch this dude’s speeches on youtube, he’s a blood drinking psychopath. quote:In April 2019, the US Indo-Pacific Command released a document entitled Regain the Advantage, in which it pointed to the ‘renewed threat we face from Great Power competition. … Without a valid and convincing conventional deterrent, China and Russia will be emboldened to take action in the region to supplant U.S. interests’. Admiral Philip Davidson, who leads the US Indo-Pacific Command, asked the US Congress to finance enhanced ‘forward-based, rotational joint forces’ as the ‘most credible way to demonstrate U.S. commitment and resolve to potential adversaries’.[13] The report has a stunningly science fiction quality to it, expressing a desire to create ‘highly survivable, precision-strike networks’ that run along the Pacific Rim, with missiles – including with nuclear warheads – and radar installations from Palau to outer space. New weapons systems already in development would enhance US pressure on both China and Russia along their coastlines; these weapons include hypersonic cruise missiles, which shorten the strike time against Chinese and Russian targets to within minutes of launching. https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-36-twilight/
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Sep 27, 2021 06:10
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Atrocious Joe posted:NATO freaks on the timeline saying Serbia may make a move against Kosovo Is this real or are they just very concerned about troop deployments like they were with Russia earlier?
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Sep 27, 2021 06:11
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i say swears online posted:has anyone asked how gradenko can read eighteen books a week with full highlights and annotation how can gredenko read eighteen books a week with full highlights and annotation? I can't even focus enough to poo poo post eighteen times a week. as an American, i know the problem doesn't lie with me. asked and answered, op
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Sep 27, 2021 06:17
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i say swears online posted:has anyone asked how gradenko can read eighteen books a week with full highlights and annotation that's what xi jinping thought does to your brain
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Sep 27, 2021 06:27
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mostly correct but it ignores the ideological underpinnings of these policy moves, which most western observers do, even the ones sympathetic to the prc.
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Sep 27, 2021 06:30
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:berlin (as of now) appears to have approved some amount of expropriation of large landlords/apartment buildings....... any germans have more on this? The referendum was about forcing companies with more than 3000 houses/apartments for rent to be converted into public ownership. Reason is that rent in Berlin has risen dramatically over the years. It is however non-binding, though completely ignoring it would be political suicide as well.
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Sep 27, 2021 06:49
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Ardennes posted:I think it only has convinced China they need a robust defense or the US and it’s allies will keep on trying brinkmanship and containment. china and russia have been in 100% agreement for years that america must be contained
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Sep 27, 2021 07:03
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i say swears online posted:has anyone asked how gradenko can read eighteen books a week with full highlights and annotation I set out a simple goal for myself: one chapter a day, or something like 5% or 10% of the book per day if the individual chapters are too long. If it's a dead-tree book, and I see that it's about 300 pages long, I'll pace myself at, say, 20 pages a day. The highlights on ebooks are there so I can track my progress across the book. The Deng one, for example, had 24 chapters, and I don't read on the weekends, so it took about a month to get through, but sometimes I read a second book in parallel, or listen to an audiobook while I'm taking a walk. For what it's worth, there was a long time through my 20s when I stopped reading, after being a voracious reader in my teens. I had to re-learn how to read over the last four years or so - the main thing was that I wanted to read after getting radicalized, and ebooks let me find books that actually interested me, because the selection at local bookstores is mostly pop culture crap and capitalist ideology.
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Sep 27, 2021 07:06
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that's super impressive, just don't smoke weed. my routine in high school was 100 pages per day of anything and i don't think i've finished a dozen books cover to cover since 2005
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Sep 27, 2021 07:24
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I start on lots of non-fiction audiobook but get distracted and usually can't finish them.
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Sep 27, 2021 07:58
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R. Guyovich posted:mostly correct but it ignores the ideological underpinnings of these policy moves, which most western observers do, even the ones sympathetic to the prc. Is Xi moving left?
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Sep 27, 2021 10:15
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R. Guyovich posted:mostly correct but it ignores the ideological underpinnings of these policy moves, which most western observers do, even the ones sympathetic to the prc. Welcome back.
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Sep 27, 2021 10:46
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Atrocious Joe posted:NATO freaks on the timeline saying Serbia may make a move against Kosovo If you belong to the rifle you are Albanian
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Sep 27, 2021 10:48
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Seeing American/Australian/UK media really hyping up a cold war and going full blast against china really underscores how actually dangerous anglo-saxon countries are, that you can essentially do nothing to them, you can play by their rules, but they will always somehow come up with ghost stories and work themselves up into a frenzy to attack you based off of something they made up in their own heads and when they do attack you they've already established a narrative of self defense on it based on nothing. it happens every loving time in history.
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Sep 27, 2021 12:08
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https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/1442393027100635138?s=21
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Sep 27, 2021 12:22
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