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Rutibex posted:i love this constant stream of articles about how china is so weak and cowardly and craven their economy is going to crash any day from corruption! also china is the most dangerous of foes, equal to nazi germany and they are scheming to take over the world and we need to stop them at all costs 
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Nov 9, 2021 22:35
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God they're even beating us at toilets
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Nov 9, 2021 22:36
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Mantis42 posted:God they're even beating us at toilets We're sending 1000 of our best reddit moderators with a party pack of taco bell to even the score
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Nov 9, 2021 22:43
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Cerebral Bore posted:the north vietnamese air force was arguably the best in the world during the vietnam war, they actually had a positive kills to losses ratio despite being vastly outnumbered and using inferior hardware Any good books on the air war from the Vietnamese perspective?
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Nov 9, 2021 23:10
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Any good books on the air war from the Vietnamese perspective? my grandfather was shot down while bombing railroads so he was probably a war criminal lol i like this fun story quote:Five years ago I wrote “Jack, Will You Sing Again?” — a story about Col. Jack Tomes, a POW for six and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton, a notorious camp for POWs in Vietnam known for its brutal treatment of American prisoners. Spence Field brought Jack to Moultrie in the 1950s. His beautiful baritone voice got the attention of Miss Neta Belle Scarborough, minister of music at Trinity Baptist at that time, who once gave him the lead solo in “The Seven Last Words of Christ.” he was from AZ and said all the POWs hated mccain
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Nov 10, 2021 00:11
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Mantis42 posted:God they're even beating us at toilets man when i went to lijiang last month i was literally in shock at how good the public toilets were over there
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Nov 10, 2021 01:33
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fart simpson posted:man when i went to lijiang last month i was literally in shock at how good the public toilets were over there Yeah, all over China they're better than expected. Meaning that in the developed East coast they're good in every way, while in the rural Southwest they're... not good, but better than you'd expect for being halfway up a mountain on a single-lane road.
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Nov 10, 2021 01:39
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Cerebral Bore posted:the north vietnamese air force was arguably the best in the world during the vietnam war, they actually had a positive kills to losses ratio despite being vastly outnumbered and using inferior hardware It was a lot more complicated than that. The Vietnamese had the luxury of being able to operate in their own territory and air defense umbrella, and they also had a lot of easier targets to shoot down, like bombers, recon and et cetera, whereas American fighters had to bust through the Vietnamese AA network and only fought other fighters. But yes the Vietnamese gave a good account if themselves, helped greatly by DoD acquisitions being so corrupt that the missiles which formed the core of US doctrine didn't work.
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Nov 10, 2021 01:45
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CaptainACAB posted:It was a lot more complicated than that. The Vietnamese had the luxury of being able to operate in their own territory and air defense umbrella, and they also had a lot of easier targets to shoot down, like bombers, recon and et cetera, whereas American fighters had to bust through the Vietnamese AA network and only fought other fighters. I remember the excuse for why that first generation of heart seeking missiles didn't work was because they were designed to shoot Soviet planes down over Germany, not over hot humid jungle
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Nov 10, 2021 04:00
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having a pleasant dinner with my sister and her friend and out of nowhere the friend starts ranting about the social credit system and saying china got kicked out of the international space station for espionage and i just scratch my head thinking where does a hacker read this stuff that they wouldnt instinctively mistrust on literally any other topic
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Nov 10, 2021 04:37
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KomradeX posted:I remember the excuse for why that first generation of heart seeking missiles didn't work was because they were designed to shoot Soviet planes down over Germany, not over hot humid jungle It's the AIM-7 Sparrow that didn't work, at least not at the beginning. The F-4 Phantom originally didn't have a gun because the ldea was that missiles would render guns obsolete. They eventually put guns back.
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Nov 10, 2021 04:59
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https://mobile.twitter.com/hmarston4/status/1458030473230249996
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Nov 10, 2021 05:15
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https://mobile.twitter.com/ChinaEmbOttawa/status/1458227907130630144
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Nov 10, 2021 05:16
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https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1457889277056978949
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Nov 10, 2021 05:18
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#StillWithHer #ItsHerTurn #NeverthelessShePersisted
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Nov 10, 2021 05:23
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She's suborbital if you loving launch her
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Nov 10, 2021 05:57
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https://twitter.com/palafo/status/1458301481019486211?s=20
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Nov 10, 2021 06:28
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lol the footnotes in the report are just links to news articles and zenz. tho I guess it’s a useful collation of western media reports on xinjiang at least
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Nov 10, 2021 06:34
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you see claims are rightfully judged by their kneejerk emotional impact instead of their factuality
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Nov 10, 2021 08:19
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 reading this section of "The Box", a couple of thoughts came to mind: * ports are already largely owned by private interests, so this thing where people panic over a "Chinese debt trap" is not really an anomaly * because of the economics of Western hegemony and neocolonialism, the Global South's ports remain(ed) underdeveloped * and in that light, B&R is actually good, because it's the project that can absorb the massive infrastructure costs of developing a port in countries and regions that might not be able to build one out by themselves * and it wouldn't even be out-of-line/beyond-the-pale for such projects to be financed the way they are, because any other way of doing it outside of B&R would involve either taking out loans from the IMF, or having private corporations do it, which is arguably an even greater undermining of national sovereignty
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Nov 10, 2021 08:27
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lol the footnotes in the report are just links to news articles and zenz. tho I guess it’s a useful collation of western media reports on xinjiang at least did they quote the western media report saying the genocide is over but everyone is still living in fear?
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Nov 10, 2021 09:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqhLO3SRyXU
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Nov 10, 2021 09:25
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https://twitter.com/PeterMartin_PCM/status/1458314638962139136?t=q4KbESnH53idmlloqM_5Ow&s=19
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Nov 10, 2021 10:27
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Hmmph that might be a challenge when they are completely oblivious to the ground sentiment on Afghanistan this year
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Nov 10, 2021 10:38
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https://twitter.com/PeterMartin_PCM/status/1458316302725132296?t=ZJnG6YUu8TSYuwesqmIzzA&s=19 evil xi's authoritarian anti-corruption measures crushing the freedom loving Chinese entrepreneurs 
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Nov 10, 2021 10:38
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Is the complaint here that it is harder for the CIA to bribe people?
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Nov 10, 2021 10:43
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crepeface posted:https://twitter.com/PeterMartin_PCM/status/1458316302725132296?t=ZJnG6YUu8TSYuwesqmIzzA&s=19 wasn't prepared for them to just openly complain that it's too hard to spy on China
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Nov 10, 2021 10:46
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Rutibex posted:i love this constant stream of articles about how china is so weak and cowardly and craven their economy is going to crash any day from corruption! also china is the most dangerous of foes, equal to nazi germany and they are scheming to take over the world and we need to stop them at all costs you can literally watch hudson institute videos where they fuss about this to each other gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/PeterMartin_PCM/status/1458314638962139136?t=q4KbESnH53idmlloqM_5Ow&s=19 BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 11:02 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 10:59
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Orange Devil posted:Is the complaint here that it is harder for the CIA to bribe people? It is a bit of an omission that the US was probably bribing Soviet officials across the 1980s. —— Yeah, China is powerful when they were relatively weak and now weak and cowardly when they are powerful but they are always dangerous and untrustworthy. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 11:15 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 11:12
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Orange Devil posted:Is the complaint here that it is harder for the CIA to bribe people? hard to bribe when: the CIA itself is hideously corrupt any corrupt CCP central govt bigwig, if they exist, won't risk their comfortable standing for CIA chump change anyway
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Nov 10, 2021 11:14
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Palladium posted:hard to bribe when: Also, it isn’t very compelling to start working for the losing side when you can just stay loyal and do relatively well for yourself.
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Nov 10, 2021 11:17
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Ardennes posted:Also, it isn’t very compelling to start working for the losing side when you can just stay loyal and do relatively well for yourself. If I'm the CIA guy in charge I would just embezzle the bribe cash while claiming the target didn't honor their side of deal Continually gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/PeterMartin_PCM/status/1458314638962139136?t=q4KbESnH53idmlloqM_5Ow&s=19 gotta also love 99% of the replies is him talking to himself Palladium has issued a correction as of 11:36 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 11:21
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Palladium posted:If I'm the CIA guy in charge I would just embezzle the bribe cash while claiming the target didn't honor their side of deal They probably beat you to the punch on that one.
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Nov 10, 2021 11:35
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Palladium posted:If I'm the CIA guy in charge I would just embezzle the bribe cash while claiming the target didn't honor their side of deal I would do this and then also make up a syndrome so I get enough free time to spend all that money.
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Nov 10, 2021 12:16
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Ah you have to put some effort in, create a complex web of fake sources and sub-sources for all that untracked cash to disappear into, some crumbs of real information to pass upstairs to keep your bosses hanging on for the day of the Big Payoff, while also getting your bugout route and nest egg set up for when it all falls apart. Classic stuff
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Nov 10, 2021 12:33
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gradenko_2000 posted:
in a current journal of commerce article it talked about more foreign private ownership of American ports. for example two separate Canadian pension funds own some ports in the USA.
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Nov 10, 2021 13:29
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Cookie Cutter posted:Ah you have to put some effort in, create a complex web of fake sources and sub-sources for all that untracked cash to disappear into, some crumbs of real information to pass upstairs to keep your bosses hanging on for the day of the Big Payoff, while also getting your bugout route and nest egg set up for when it all falls apart. Classic stuff nice theory except the bosses are also in the cahoots sonatinas posted:in a current journal of commerce article it talked about more foreign private ownership of American ports. for example two separate Canadian pension funds own some ports in the USA. So this is another "don't blame me because I was forced to sell to foreigners by my greed"?
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Nov 10, 2021 13:42
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Throatwarbler posted:It's the AIM-7 Sparrow that didn't work, at least not at the beginning. The F-4 Phantom originally didn't have a gun because the ldea was that missiles would render guns obsolete. They eventually put guns back. f4 "no gun" debacle is probably the only reason even the stupid f35 still has a gun unfortunately (much like doing anything else in an f35, tbf) shooting the gun kills the engine lmao
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Nov 10, 2021 14:13
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1458051550304219136
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Nov 10, 2021 14:16
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AFAIK the other issue was that the F-4s were put under Rules of Engagement that prohibited them from firing missiles until they had visual confirmation of the target aircraft, which wasted a lot of the beyond-visual-range capability of their missiles
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Nov 10, 2021 14:18
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