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Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
outraged at the chinese security state's actions towards the uyghurs simply because some among them may be separatists; hoping for us security state action towards chinese-americans simply because some among them may be spies

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wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?

Antonymous posted:

this comment seems really dumb, like seeing british people smile with good teeth and saying "they gotta ban braces"

:catstare:

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Antonymous posted:

this comment seems really dumb, like seeing british people smile with good teeth and saying "they gotta ban braces"

:sad:

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Centrist Committee posted:

I feel v sorry for these dumb kids. but this is also very funny to me. such conflict. hard to say if it is good or bad. good content thank you

did a double take thinking this was a smythe post

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
smythe has a cool avatar but I am naked as the day I was born, my “brand” erased after a mod removed the extremely racist custom title some anti-china dork bought me after I denied genocide. these forums, what can ya do!

Dr.Radical
Apr 3, 2011

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Domestic chatter doesn't mention the joker. Some nerds are saying a character named Yoshikage Kira, others just a guy in a bright shirt.

No they’re mentioning the joker:



Top part says “Joker Man” Why? He broke up with his girlfriend and got fired from his job.

Kind of your run of the mill “guy pushed over the edge and acts out” poo poo.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654701390555512842/904747136506265650/video0-14.mov

hot witch divorcee
Jan 4, 2021

is that a tower in your pants or are you just happy to see me

Centrist Committee posted:

smythe has a cool avatar but I am naked as the day I was born, my “brand” erased after a mod removed the extremely racist custom title some anti-china dork bought me after I denied genocide. these forums, what can ya do!

what are you talking about it is extremely not racist to depict the leader of china who oversaw a massive effort ensuring 1.4 billion people are out of abject poverty as a yellow bear, all my brave reddit friends are really into it, and nobody on reddit would ever be racist

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

hot witch divorcee posted:

what are you talking about it is extremely not racist to depict the leader of china who oversaw a massive effort ensuring 1.4 billion people are out of abject poverty as a yellow bear, all my brave reddit friends are really into it, and nobody on reddit would ever be racist

this is gonna sound cringe but I didn’t realize pooh being yellow was part of “the joke” until this post. I used to be much more current on my racism when I was growing up. I’ll try to to better I’m sorry for being naive beyond belief

hot witch divorcee
Jan 4, 2021

is that a tower in your pants or are you just happy to see me

Centrist Committee posted:

this is gonna sound cringe but I didn’t realize pooh being yellow was part of “the joke” until this post. I used to be much more current on my racism when I was growing up. I’ll try to to better I’m sorry for being naive beyond belief

while i think most of it has to do with the face and pot belly (oh no xi has a kind face like a childrens cartoon bear! this will finally destroy him!) and thus i, too, didn't see the connection right away, im not going to give the benefit of the doubt to redditors

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
trust your instincts goon, and you’ll never go wrong

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Kinda makes that post where someone in Japan dressed up as Xi/Winnie for halloween even more ridiculous.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Throatwarbler posted:

Again, literally none of the captions in the screengrab make the claim that this tweeter is now describing (that this is a "guide for making your SH costco photos look like LA").

hard to tell from those snippets of captions but it could very easily be tongue-in-cheek

as far as the winnie the pooh stuff that's something reddit and john oliver have convinced themselves is a tremendous own on china anytime they do it. don't tell them there's winnie the pooh poo poo all over the place here

Lyndon LaRouche
Sep 5, 2006

by Azathoth
Liberals and leftists (and even conservatives) thinking that it's a big own on Xi and the CCP to shout "Pooh!" or portray Xi as Pooh is just a massive cope for how little power and influence they have. China's rise cannot be stopped, and nobody in the West seems to want to own up to that reality, so I guess it's ironic jokes and childish insults from fairytale land until America's imperialist bill comes due.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

https://twitter.com/BellaKwai/status/1403744515303817220

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️

Throatwarbler posted:

“Westminster needs to do more,” said Chan. Resources need to be allocated, to enable new Hong Kong migrants to overcome the consequences of institutional failure and move towards being accepted as members of society.

gotta also love how that whole wall of text ends with incredible "I'm a hero for raising awareness, so can SOMEBODY else do some hard action about it" shitlib energy

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

paperwind posted:

Liberals and leftists (and even conservatives) thinking that it's a big own on Xi and the CCP to shout "Pooh!" or portray Xi as Pooh is just a massive cope for how little power and influence they have. China's rise cannot be stopped, and nobody in the West seems to want to own up to that reality, so I guess it's ironic jokes and childish insults from fairytale land until America's imperialist bill comes due.

Would explain a lot that it's the equivalent of Drumpf

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?
Western liberals love pretending to shock decorum and symbolic meaningless gestures. it’s how they think; it’s how they run the governments

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
oh bother

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat

Dr.Radical posted:

No they’re mentioning the joker:

Didn't see any up to about the time of my post. Then i saw an English language article suggesting some reporter asked him if he liked the joker or whatever. I'm still skeptical, and am leaning towards feedback loop.

Dr.Radical
Apr 3, 2011

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Didn't see any up to about the time of my post. Then i saw an English language article suggesting some reporter asked him if he liked the joker or whatever. I'm still skeptical, and am leaning towards feedback loop.

Honestly I don’t think it’s even important. It’s just been mentioned in respect to what he was wearing not why he did it. I haven’t seen any “He got the idea from the movie!” poo poo at all. In fact they’re pointing directly to the most recent knife attack that was in August as an influence which I don’t even remember tbh. That and “his girlfriend left him and he got fired boo hoo” poo poo

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
I was hoping he was a fan of that Joker candidate.

Also about the Japanese subway, I found the Japanese subway conductor didn't open the doors at the station platform crazy. If NYers had to climb the top half of the subway windows to get out, half of them would have broken their backs and sue MTA.

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





Palladium posted:

gotta also love how that whole wall of text ends with incredible "I'm a hero for raising awareness, so can SOMEBODY else do some hard action about it" shitlib energy

yr new gurlfrand! posted:

Western liberals love pretending to shock decorum and symbolic meaningless gestures. it’s how they think; it’s how they run the governments

Dr.Radical
Apr 3, 2011

stephenthinkpad posted:

I was hoping he was a fan of that Joker candidate.

Also about the Japanese subway, I found the Japanese subway conductor didn't open the doors at the station platform crazy. If NYers had to climb the top half of the subway windows to get out, half of them would have broken their backs and sue MTA.

There are actually levers to manually open the doors in those subway cars in an emergency, I guess in the panic the passengers didn’t think to use them or they aren’t labeled clearly. To be fair it’s the last thing I’m thinking about when I’m riding the train and wouldn’t have known either in such a situation.

I liked that Joker candidate because apparently he was running solely to annoy the Covid Truther jackass also running. I appreciate that kind of Poster energy

e: Actually yeah, riding the train now it’s actually clearly labeled. But again, you’re probably not slowly looking around in that situation

Dr.Radical has issued a correction as of 10:08 on Nov 2, 2021

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippines-asks-netflix-remove-spy-drama-episodes-over-chinese-map-2021-11-01/

quote:

MANILA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) has removed two episodes of spy drama "Pine Gap" from its streaming service in the Philippines, after the Southeast Asian country rejected scenes involving a map used by China to assert its claims to the South China Sea.

The Philippines on Monday asked Netflix to remove certain episodes of the six-part Australian series, saying the map depicted on the show was a violation of its sovereignty.

The second and third episodes of the show were no longer available in the Philippines by late Monday, with Netflix announcing on its platform that those episodes had been "removed by government demand". It did not elaborate.

Netflix did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.

China lays claim to most of the South China Sea waters within the so-called nine-dash line, a U-shaped feature used on Chinese maps. Parts of the resource-rich waters are also contested by the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam.

After a thorough review, the Philippines' movie classification board has ruled that certain episodes of Pine Gap were "unfit for public exhibition", the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement.

Earlier this year Netflix removed "Pine Gap" from its services in Vietnam following a similar complaint from the country's broadcast authorities.

The Philippine films board, acting on the DFA's complaint, handed down its ruling on Sept. 28. It was not clear why the decision was only made public now.

The board, according to the DFA, noted that the appearance of the map was "no accident as it was consciously designed and calculated to specifically convey a message that China's nine-dash line legitimately exists".

The board believes that "such portrayal is a crafty attempt to perpetuate and memorialize in the consciousness of the present generation of viewers and the generations to come the illegal nine-dash line", the DFA said.

Okay I'm sorry but this seems really dumb - if you have a show about an intelligence outpost in Australia that keeps tabs on affairs in Southeast Asia, and especially one where China is treated as an antagonist (at one point or another, if not an overarching foe), then you're eventually going to have to have depictions of a map that shows the Nine-Dash Line, either because you're portraying how these fictional Chinese think and are plotting their takeover, or because the protagonists are projecting "okay, this is what the PRC is planning to do, because we know they want to control everything inside the Nine-Dash Line".

That doesn't mean that you're endorsing the map as being correct!

It's like if someone made a movie about Operation Coronet, and Japanese foreign ministry complains that there's a scene where MacArthur is poring over a map where Japan is colored blue.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
"This is what China claim in the South Chi[*siri voice cut in]West Philippine Sea"
*depict image of China map with Winnie the Pooh below Taiwan*

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Centrist Committee posted:

this is gonna sound cringe but I didn’t realize pooh being yellow was part of “the joke” until this post.

same, lol

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Centrist Committee posted:

this is gonna sound cringe but I didn’t realize pooh being yellow was part of “the joke” until this post.

goddamnitall

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1455376870787018753

welp it finally happened russia and china officially have a more dovish position on north korea than south korean liberals

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
is there a definition of statues i'm not aware of or capable of finding or does NK have a thriving trade in marble works

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://twitter.com/shaunodwyer/status/1455450165997756416

Soapy_Bumslap
Jun 19, 2013

We're gonna need a bigger chode
Grimey Drawer
Didn't Matt refer to himself as being "Xi-pilled", or am i just writing fanfic here

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

Soapy_Bumslap posted:

Didn't Matt refer to himself as being "Xi-pilled", or am i just writing fanfic here

he did

Deified Data
Nov 3, 2015


Fun Shoe

paperwind posted:

Liberals and leftists (and even conservatives) thinking that it's a big own on Xi and the CCP to shout "Pooh!" or portray Xi as Pooh is just a massive cope for how little power and influence they have. China's rise cannot be stopped, and nobody in the West seems to want to own up to that reality, so I guess it's ironic jokes and childish insults from fairytale land until America's imperialist bill comes due.

LionYeti
Oct 12, 2008


Is it strange that I look at China and am jealous of a government that does things?

hot witch divorcee
Jan 4, 2021

is that a tower in your pants or are you just happy to see me

LionYeti posted:

Is it strange that I look at China and am jealous of a government that does things?

no

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

The US government does things.

It's just that those things might make you miserable, ruin your life, kill you.

Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK

I want to comment here but I can’t think of what to say. it’s like the guy was sitting there itching to insert orientalism in something and finally found his chance.

edit: the guy quoted some Chinese political writer’s essay and was like, “huzzah! the perfidious Chinese caught in the act, again!!”

Torpor has issued a correction as of 18:53 on Nov 2, 2021

hot witch divorcee
Jan 4, 2021

is that a tower in your pants or are you just happy to see me

Lostconfused posted:

The US government does things.

It's just that those things might make you miserable, ruin your life, kill you.

no. the government doing things is socialist, and if it does a lot of things, its communist

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Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

Raskolnikov38 posted:

is there a definition of statues i'm not aware of or capable of finding or does NK have a thriving trade in marble works

They’re really good at making statues and monuments. They’ve been commissioned to do them in foreign countries before. Can’t be assed to look up which countries though

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