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indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

I was like “meh I’ve seen this all before” until the sledgehammers came out. lol whoa

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Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

lmao this type of poo poo is so hilariously dumb

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008
Until they can prove that they're tougher than a bullet none of it means poo poo

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

30.5 Days posted:

How do you square this opinion with the knowledge that the incarceration rate of uyghurs in xinjiang is lower than the incarceration rate of black people in america? Your position here seems to be that, ok, sure, it turns out all the stuff about forced abortion and murders and slavery and eliminating islam from public life turned out to be false, but there's still a police state in xinjiang! And, sure, but according to neutral third party estimates it is less intense than the one we have here in america. That's why those insane obviously-false accusations existed in the first place. If you boil the accusations down to stuff that you can make apples-to-apples comparisons on, america is way worse.

Xinjiang alone accounts for over 20% of all arrests in China despite containing about 1.5% of the population. The chinese government abruptly stopped publishing annual arrest figures in 2017, the same year there was a 731% increase in arrests in Xinjiang. Ironically, the arrest figures were still able to be calculated due to the fact that they still publish the region's bulk arrest totals from 2013-2017, and by subtracting the arrest figures for all previous years.

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/criminal-arrests-in-xinjiang-account-for-21-of-chinas-total-in-2017/

The Chinese government of course deleted the reports cited, but you can still verify their numbers for yourself by pulling up archives.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Boxer Rebellion style training

Ringo Roadagain
Mar 27, 2010

Judakel posted:

do you enjoy extreme martial arts performances?

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1448237735844667393

should have started breaking light tubes over these dudes

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

The 2nd shot of Kim at :37 has veep "what the gently caress" energy

Goast
Jul 23, 2011

by VideoGames
That's honestly less brutal than most military hazing rituals

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

Judakel posted:

do you enjoy extreme martial arts performances?

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1448237735844667393

kim jong un watching with glee and clapping as a cartoon wolf cuts a rope sending a ten ton anvil plummeting towards a troop's genitals

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

Maximo Roboto posted:

Oh so all of those artificial islands are suddenly not worth building anymore

Still funny how Austria and Switzerland formed a tiny little neutral corridor in the south, and Sweden-Finland formed one in the north.



Sweden and Finland were about as "neutral" as Florida during the cold war btw.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Hedenius posted:

Sweden and Finland were about as "neutral" as Florida during the cold war btw.

Finland was Finlandized by the Soviet Union, which would be a good analogy to the best that Taiwan could hope for if it was to get de jure sovereignty under intense PRC influence.

Sweden's neutrality predates the Cold War, seems more along the lines of Swiss neutrality?

And Austria was the main example I was thinking of anyway

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

je1 healthcare posted:

Xinjiang alone accounts for over 20% of all arrests in China despite containing about 1.5% of the population. The chinese government abruptly stopped publishing annual arrest figures in 2017, the same year there was a 731% increase in arrests in Xinjiang. Ironically, the arrest figures were still able to be calculated due to the fact that they still publish the region's bulk arrest totals from 2013-2017, and by subtracting the arrest figures for all previous years.

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/criminal-arrests-in-xinjiang-account-for-21-of-chinas-total-in-2017/

The Chinese government of course deleted the reports cited, but you can still verify their numbers for yourself by pulling up archives.

Would it make you question those statistics if I told you that the "Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders" is 100% nothing but CIA propaganda?

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

Maximo Roboto posted:

Sweden's neutrality predates the Cold War, seems more along the lines of Swiss neutrality?
Sweden spent the whole cold war preparing for a war with the Soviet Union. Literally every piece of Swedish military hardware developed during the cold war was designed to fight the Soviets.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

despite being only 1.5% of the population,

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

no

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Hedenius posted:

Would it make you question those statistics if I told you that the "Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders" is 100% nothing but CIA propaganda?

Yes, did you miss the part where their figures come entirely from the CCP's own public reports, and how you can verify them for yourself?

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006
My god, the north koreans have access to stuntmen. We cannot permit a movie magic gap,

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006

je1 healthcare posted:

Xinjiang alone accounts for over 20% of all arrests in China despite containing about 1.5% of the population. The chinese government abruptly stopped publishing annual arrest figures in 2017, the same year there was a 731% increase in arrests in Xinjiang. Ironically, the arrest figures were still able to be calculated due to the fact that they still publish the region's bulk arrest totals from 2013-2017, and by subtracting the arrest figures for all previous years.

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/criminal-arrests-in-xinjiang-account-for-21-of-chinas-total-in-2017/

The Chinese government of course deleted the reports cited, but you can still verify their numbers for yourself by pulling up archives.

This is a great source, thank you for providing it. It indicates that in 2017 there were 227k arrests in xinjiang, which has a population of 25,852,345. In 2017 there were 226k arrests in New York City (https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/arrests/nyc.pdf) which has a population of 8.419m.

This seems to indicate that in the year 2017 there were about 3x as many arrests per capita in NYC as in xinjiang, which backs up the post you are quoting. Thank you for providing the numbers.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



:rolleye:

Nice whataboutism bro

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

30.5 Days posted:

This is a great source, thank you for providing it. It indicates that in 2017 there were 227k arrests in xinjiang, which has a population of 25,852,345. In 2017 there were 226k arrests in New York City (https://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/crimnet/ojsa/arrests/nyc.pdf) which has a population of 8.419m.

This seems to indicate that in the year 2017 there were about 3x as many arrests per capita in NYC as in xinjiang, which backs up the post you are quoting. Thank you for providing the numbers.

China has a long way to go before all the crime is eliminated. Have they considered stop and frisk?

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
one look at the officer in the back of the bus and I knew that the tour guide would be unable to provide honest answers under the authoritarian threat of seppuku (chinese murder). Sighing, I returned to my seat after a futile attempt to get the tour guide to recite the death toll of Tiannemen Square backwards; my hopes for a fruitful tibetan vacation continued to dwindle.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

je1 healthcare posted:

Yes, did you miss the part where their figures come entirely from the CCP's own public reports, and how you can verify them for yourself?

Who cares loser, your spinning bowtie cannot lead me astray from Xi Jinping Thought. I live eternal in the people's heavenly army, while you, a CIA brain floating in a jar, are set to be replaced in two weeks

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





Maximo Roboto posted:

Wait a second, this discussion is absolutely mad. Why would the U.S. try to launch attacks on the Chinese mainland in the event of war? The U.S. isn't even willing to bomb Iran, you think they would really try to invade China? How does that make any logistical sense? It would be like Japan thinking they could conquer the continental U.S. during WWII.
Yeah I'm sure the capitalist empire won't do anything irrational and stupid while in its death throes. I'm sure the collective will of 20 famous billionaires like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos and 200 old money billionaires who control literally every institution in the entire West, would act toward sensible ends in the event of war.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

je1 healthcare posted:

Xinjiang alone accounts for over 20% of all arrests in China despite containing about 1.5% of the population.

Goddamn dude this is like a half-step away from citing statistics about Uighur-on-Uighur crime

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

gradenko_2000 posted:

Goddamn dude this is like a half-step away from citing statistics about Uighur-on-Uighur crime

dont you quote those MSS crime statistics at me!!!

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Maximo Roboto posted:

China would need to actually offer substantive material benefits. Yes Taiwan is a succ liberal democracy comprador regime, but it was an Asian Tiger that saw spectacular increases to quality of life that coincided with the transition to democracy. Those glory days are firmly a decade or two in the past now. So, what can China do to bring those days back, and ensure there won't be crackdowns on existing civil liberties as seen in Hong Kong? Maybe that's where the place they should start with.

..

Seize the lands and apartments from the pro-DPP rich landlords and split them among and poor Millennial Taiwanese. Good old Red Army playbook.

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

gradenko_2000 posted:

Goddamn dude this is like a half-step away from citing statistics about Uighur-on-Uighur crime

uighur super predators overwhelming the cities

je1 healthcare
Sep 29, 2015

Cao Ni Ma posted:

:rolleye:

Nice whataboutism bro

We've gone from "the arrest figures were invented by the CIA" to "actually they're real and reflect well on the CCP's repsonse to the infamous 700% spike in baby-naming crimes in 2017."

gradenko_2000 posted:

Goddamn dude this is like a half-step away from citing statistics about Uighur-on-Uighur crime

Wait, is systemic racism in policing the cause of massive disparities in arrest rates, or only in countries that aren't China?

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


je1 healthcare posted:

We've gone from "the arrest figures were invented by the CIA" to "actually they're real and reflect well on the CCP's repsonse to the infamous 700% spike in baby-naming crimes in 2017."

if you are going to play full contact shitposting sports you are going to get those in your way as well

like, for example

SorePotato posted:

Who cares loser, your spinning bowtie cannot lead me astray from Xi Jinping Thought. I live eternal in the people's heavenly army, while you, a CIA brain floating in a jar, are set to be replaced in two weeks

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


sorepotato I salute your proper command of the posting ways

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
no one denies that they didnt arrest a poo poo ton of people you idiot, just that the horror stories that go above and beyond "rights abuses that usually arise from imprisonment" are bullshit

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
laffing at all the former star havers on this page that could protect the peace and harmony of this thread from the malicious forces of liberal individualistic moralizing!

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006

je1 healthcare posted:

We've gone from "the arrest figures were invented by the CIA" to "actually they're real and reflect well on the CCP's repsonse to the infamous 700% spike in baby-naming crimes in 2017."

Wait, is systemic racism in policing the cause of massive disparities in arrest rates, or only in countries that aren't China?

Do you have a criticism of china that can't be boiled down to "their police state is not as egregious as ours, but it's in the same ballpark"? Because I guess I agree with you on that point but you could say that about a few countries.

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

SorePotato posted:

Who cares loser, your spinning bowtie cannot lead me astray from Xi Jinping Thought. I live eternal in the people's heavenly army, while you, a CIA brain floating in a jar, are set to be replaced in two weeks

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

je1 healthcare posted:

We've gone from "the arrest figures were invented by the CIA" to "actually they're real and reflect well on the CCP's repsonse to the infamous 700% spike in baby-naming crimes in 2017."

Wait, is systemic racism in policing the cause of massive disparities in arrest rates, or only in countries that aren't China?
did you really think jeffrey epstein just gave kids fun vacations

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Wanna see the statistics in 10 years after a good chunk of extra industrialization and the 5th round of mass CIA informant murder.

Jon Pod Van Damm
Apr 6, 2009

THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH IS IN AND OF ITSELF A SIGN OF POOR VIRTUE. AS SUCH:
1 NEVER TRUST ANY RICH PERSON.
2 NEVER HIRE ANY RICH PERSON.
BY RULE 1, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO PRESUME THAT ALL DEGREES AND CREDENTIALS HELD BY A WEALTHY PERSON ARE FRAUDULENT. THIS JUSTIFIES RULE 2--RULE 1 NEEDS NO JUSTIFIC



Maximo Roboto posted:

Sweden's neutrality predates the Cold War, seems more along the lines of Swiss neutrality?

quote:

The IB affair (1973) (Swedish: IB-affären) was the exposure of the operations of the IB secret Swedish intelligence agency within the Swedish Armed Forces. The two main purposes of the agency were to handle liaison with foreign intelligence agencies and to gather information about communists and other individuals who were perceived to be a threat to the nation.

There was a secret intelligence agency in Sweden called IB, without official status. Its director Birger Elmér was reporting directly to select key persons at cabinet level, most likely defence minister Sven Andersson and Prime Minister Olof Palme.
  • The Riksdag was unaware of its activities.
  • People with far-left views had been monitored and registered.
  • IB agents had infiltrated Swedish left-wing organisations and sometimes tried to induce them into criminal acts.
  • There were Swedish spies operating abroad.
  • IB spies had broken into the Egyptian and Algerian embassies in Stockholm.
  • The IB co-operated extensively with the Central Intelligence Agency and Shin Bet, in contrast to the official Swedish foreign policy of neutrality.

To date, no member of IB has ever been indicted, nor has any politician or government official, despite the revelation of widespread extra-constitutional and criminal activity.

quote:

Read the Snowden Documents From the NSA
In an internal, top-secret document dated 18 April this year, the NSA summarises its relations with Sweden. The document states that since 1954 Sweden has been a part of an intelligence collaboration with what is often called “The Five Eyes”, UKUSA, which refers to the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This is despite the fact that Sweden was officially neutral, an image that has been maintained outwardly for decades by multiple governments of different political persuasions.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

There was also some leak recently where the Swedes talked about how they wanted to murder Afghanis to advertise their weapons. Social democracy ftw!

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

SorePotato posted:

Who cares loser, your spinning bowtie cannot lead me astray from Xi Jinping Thought. I live eternal in the people's heavenly army, while you, a CIA brain floating in a jar, are set to be replaced in two weeks

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comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

je1 healthcare posted:

We've gone from "the arrest figures were invented by the CIA" to "actually they're real and reflect well on the CCP's repsonse to the infamous 700% spike in baby-naming crimes in 2017."

Wait, is systemic racism in policing the cause of massive disparities in arrest rates, or only in countries that aren't China?
do you believe the biden administration is running concentration camps?

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