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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/RuairiWood/status/1460236563120541696

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Southpaugh
May 26, 2007

Smokey Bacon


lol the lib-art reactionaries are so loving boring

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

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

can chinese dissident "artists" please stop sucking rear end at art.

between this and the fat rear end who smashes genuine ming vases its an absolutely garbage movement

CaptainACAB
Sep 14, 2021

by Jeffrey of Langley

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i wanna buy this

also there's a genre of patriotic vietnamese socialist pop music. i've probably posted it before but the second video is fun because it shows U.S. marines getting dropped like imperial stormtroopers as these chicks with AKs give it a thumbs up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iBGtYvaJMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLffUfT8M_A

While on the topic of Vietnam, Giap is worth reading and it's quite tragic he gets so little attention given as he was the primary military leader of what is without a doubt the most successful leftist uprising in history. Dude beat the Japanese, French, Americans, South Vietnamese, Cambodians and Chinese all in a row with no real breaks, and beat all of them pretty badly.

His book clearly outlines what he intended to do and why it works, and then he carried it out. As it turns out no one in the Pentagon had read his book because they are paid to be incompetent.

Fauxbot
Jan 20, 2009

I need more wine.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

can chinese dissident "artists" please stop sucking rear end at art.

between this and the fat rear end who smashes genuine ming vases its an absolutely garbage movement

it's def a garbage movement but ai weiwei's brain problems and nihilist personal philosophy seem to stem from his father's treatment by the party and their subsequent poverty as he grew up.

so i find his stunts to be kind of amusing in a dark way.

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

god man... this really is what dissent has been brought to lmao

Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

can chinese dissident "artists" please stop sucking rear end at art.

between this and the fat rear end who smashes genuine ming vases its an absolutely garbage movement

Dissident artists in China tend to suck for similar reasons to why PR people for the Palestinian Authority tend to suck.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Not So Fast posted:

Are there any good articles about the outcome of the 6th Plenum? That is analysing it beyond scaremongering over Xi.

no. we haven't even gotten the full text of the resolution on cpc history yet but the us press has already seized on two paragraphs of a 15-page communique to show the plenum was mindless hagiography.

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

here's the full text of the resulting communique, not sure if it's new to the thread (seems same text as http://www.qstheory.cn/qshyjx/2021-11/12/c_1128058755.htm):

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Full-text-of-Chinese-Communist-Party-s-6th-plenum-communique

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Judakel posted:

god man... this really is what dissent has been brought to lmao
peepee poopoo

xi jinping is a bad president

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

the paragraphs that supposedly exalt xi are after a string of similar text about each central leader and precede paragraphs about the whole country's achievements.

you might say ah, but they mention xi so much more than the others! yes, well, he is the current leader. you can go back to party documents in the time of hu jintao or jiang zemin and probably get a similar ratio.

Southpaugh
May 26, 2007

Smokey Bacon


Fauxbot posted:

it's def a garbage movement but ai weiwei's brain problems and nihilist personal philosophy seem to stem from his father's treatment by the party and their subsequent poverty as he grew up.

so i find his stunts to be kind of amusing in a dark way.

gently caress him.

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Public art is cool.

Everything else is just wank for rich idiots.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Not So Fast posted:

The settler colonialist argument against Taiwanese reunification is completely stupid, because neither side is going to give land back to the Indigenous Taiwanese anyway. It's either Taiwan as a US colony or a Chinese region, there's no realistic third option.

Finlandization or Cold War Austria-style neutrality, but too late for that to be a realistic option at this point.

Blarghalt posted:

The Formosa Heavenly Kingdom will rise and it shall be glorious

Bring back this flag unironically

tractor fanatic
Sep 9, 2005

Pillbug
ai weiwei is good and that han dynasty vase (which was probably a fake anyways) is 100x more interesting for having been broken

atriptothebeach
Oct 27, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NebjlhKCcRk

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1460453979436064771?t=M8H7YmATMbso-58jYhgngw&s=19

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


R. Guyovich posted:

the paragraphs that supposedly exalt xi are after a string of similar text about each central leader and precede paragraphs about the whole country's achievements.

you might say ah, but they mention xi so much more than the others! yes, well, he is the current leader. you can go back to party documents in the time of hu jintao or jiang zemin and probably get a similar ratio.

even further than that there isn't much difference from your average communiqué or that sort of document in terms of feel, or even your bog standard legal text with all the peculiar niceties that are recommended when addressing specific people ("the right honorable mr joe and his exemplary record in the service of our most noble republic"), but because it uses the specifics of communist vocabulary and Chinese treatment, welp

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe

Raskolnikov38 posted:

can chinese dissident "artists" please stop sucking rear end at art.

between this and the fat rear end who smashes genuine ming vases its an absolutely garbage movement

why is smashing vases bad

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Benagain posted:

why is smashing vases bad

because better artists than ai weiwei made them centuries ago and they're rare

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
ren hang ftw

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Can't believe biden gave China Taiwan. When will this madness end. 😠

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

Spergin Morlock posted:

because better artists than ai weiwei made them centuries ago and they're rare

otoh

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

westerners know Ai Weiwei and then what other chinese artist? Does anyone like him or know anything besides the pots and the sunflower seeds?

its almost like he's the only one whose artistic intent aligns with western ambitions. why does he get enough press to be a household name

edit: also his name is easier for westerners to remember than most I guess

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Antonymous posted:

westerners know Ai Weiwei and then what other chinese artist? Does anyone like him or know anything besides the pots and the sunflower seeds?

its almost like he's the only one whose artistic intent aligns with western ambitions. why does he get enough press to be a household name

edit: also his name is easier for westerners to remember than most I guess

only artist whose name is part of the lyrics for Pon Pon Pon by Kyaru Pamyu Pamyu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Ai "lmao" Weiwei

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

eSports Chaebol posted:

only artist whose name is part of the lyrics for Pon Pon Pon by Kyaru Pamyu Pamyu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g

this is still a banger, as is the major lazer remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxtZCnfcjA

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Antonymous posted:

Does anyone like him or know anything besides the pots and the sunflower seeds?

:hmmyes:

BrainDance
May 8, 2007

Disco all night long!

eSports Chaebol posted:

only artist whose name is part of the lyrics for Pon Pon Pon by Kyaru Pamyu Pamyu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g

its a really good song if you're just at that point where you're trying to get from hard to expert in beatsaber which, you know, really makes you think.

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?

gradenko_2000 posted:

Ai "lmao" Weiwei

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
france legitimately dislikes nuclear power. i dont care what they think about anything. losers

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Judakel posted:

france legitimately dislikes nuclear power. i dont care what they think about anything. losers

virgin france: buries radioactive waste from fission power underneath roads

chad america: dumps radioactive waste from fracking all over the top of roads

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
India’s Hindu hardliners attack Muslim ex-foreign minister’s home


quote:

Hindu hardliners have attacked and set fire to the home of a former Indian foreign minister, police say, in the latest incident of religious violence that critics say has been inflamed under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Salman Khurshid, a Muslim from the main opposition Congress party, published a book last month in which he compared the kind of Hindu nationalism that has flourished under Modi to “extremist groups” such as ISIL (ISIS).

I can't believe how brazen these attacks by Hindu ultranationalists have become.

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?

Judakel posted:

france legitimately dislikes nuclear power. i dont care what they think about anything. losers

France just doubled down on the nuclear though :confused:

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat
Reuters seems to think 6 new reactors. Macron previously said he'd reduce nuclear power from 75% to 50% (idk the units). They got something like 56 reactors. Some of them might be scheduled for decommission, as most were finished between 1980 and 1990 with 40-year lives, and possible extensions to 50 years (and concerns about substandard steel, lol).

Fauxbot
Jan 20, 2009

I need more wine.

Antonymous posted:

westerners know Ai Weiwei and then what other chinese artist? Does anyone like him or know anything besides the pots and the sunflower seeds?

its almost like he's the only one whose artistic intent aligns with western ambitions. why does he get enough press to be a household name

edit: also his name is easier for westerners to remember than most I guess

he got some renown from the Bird's Nest stadium for olympics if i remember correctly.

honestly i think he gets a lot of mention too because he while he isn't particularly political, he's happy enough to say something anti-party if he believes it.

like, he doesn't give a gently caress about consequences and he isn't going to be loyal to the party, and why would he be?

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

yr new gurlfrand! posted:

France just doubled down on the nuclear though :confused:

i was under the impression they weren't building any more reactors

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?

Judakel posted:

i was under the impression they weren't building any more reactors

:wrong:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/macron-says-france-will-build-more-nuclear-energy-reactors-2021-11-09/

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
lets go nukes love da nukes

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Not So Fast
Dec 27, 2007


Judakel posted:

i was under the impression they weren't building any more reactors

You might be confusing them with Germany going anti-nuclear? Since they're now so reliant on Nord Stream 2 coming on line.

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