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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQkILxuYMCU ROT IN JAIL
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 01:33 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 09:03 |
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQoygnhlz2LjVEwAlrAU_v7uV9J7Ol6_2 Documentary series by a Hong Kong TV outlet about China poverty alleviation stuff. There's like 8 20 something minute episodes with English dub and subtitles. It's pretty good. The cliff village in episode 1/2 is loving wild. I don't understand how that's real.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 01:51 |
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Lostconfused posted:Is it though? It isn't the same experience for everyone, and it isn't really comparable to the US where the cops might just end you. They do target people for bullshit reasons, like checking to see if a bicycle is stolen, stopping a dude cycling to the grocery store on suspicion of stalking the lady on the bicycle in front of him (his wife), or just a papersplease. It can cause problems if the bicycle isn't registered in the rider's name, some people don't bother switching the registration. The papersplease technically needs a reason to stop the person other than suspicion of not being a Japanese national, but that doesn't stop them. The cops often seem to have too much time on their hands, some use it to profile people on the street, others browse social media to find traffic and other violations they could follow up on. Then there was that forcible deportation of a man to Bangladesh (iirc) which resulted in his death. Room for improvement, imo.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 01:53 |
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Foreign cops should 100% follow US troops around because otherwise they'd be committing rapes and murders.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 01:56 |
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I meant specifically that they were targeting white people or something. The Reuters article didn't have any details at all besides that follow up with the BLM branch. Yeah I remember reading articles about Japan having too many police officers employed for the amount of crime that happens so they tend to find things to spend way more effort on petty crimes to keep themselves occupied.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 01:58 |
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30.5 Days posted:Rip the narrative https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/peng-shuai-global-tennis-body-wont-suspend-events-china-rcna7697 No one could have seen this coming
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 02:10 |
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Slavvy posted:This seems like a good place to ask: is there anything I can read about the holodomor that isn't just insane propaganda? http://www.readmarxeveryday.org/bloodlies/intro.html
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 02:15 |
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Lostconfused posted:I fell into a pro Ukrain twitter hole where someone is posting "no you're the nazis" recently and stumbled on this Irish Politicians and talking heads are reacting to globalisation by turning into standard issue neo-liberal shills. The Great Irish Famine(s) of 1845-1849 was due to the cotter and peasant classes reliance on a subsistence diet of potatoes, while growing grain or other cash crops to pay their rent. "Laissez Faire" economic policy of the time dictated that god and causality had chosen death for the Irish and it would have been unchristian to intervene in anyway. Blight hits the potato crops, you eat the food you would otherwise sold, you fail to pay your rent and you are now out of your home and your livelihood. Population goes from ~8 million, to 5.1 in the 1851 census. Historic low in the post-partition Republic is 2.8 million in 1961. The Famine in Ireland was a standard British Imperial famine and it destroyed any potential danger Ireland could have posed to Britain itself, while freeing up a whole shitload of land and concentrating the rural populace into the urban environment and workhouses. It was indeed a highly effective genocide. The memory of Wolfe Tones failed French backed 1798 Rebellion may have still been keeping some MPs up at night. The "Holodomor" is a part of a much greater whole in the Soviet Union at the time and has been seized upon by Ukrainian Nationalists as a very beatable drum for the day and age we live in. The two events are only comparable insofar as a bunch of people starved. From this year: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/ireland-population-surpasses-5m-for-first-time-since-1851 Southpaugh has issued a correction as of 02:56 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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The ukraine
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 02:55 |
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this woman got so many backrubs from us media. lmao
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 02:58 |
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sexpig by night posted:Pretty much, it was a horrible famine, and you can point to government failures that didn't help, but there was no policy that could have prevented it. Disagree with this. Famines always have two components: an unexpected drop in agricultural production (usually unavoidable) and a government that continues existing levels of agricultural export. There are always government policies that could have prevented a famine.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:03 |
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DiscountDildos posted:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQoygnhlz2LjVEwAlrAU_v7uV9J7Ol6_2 this is great. i was watching the first episode and seeing all the efforts the goverment went through to get services to those people living on a remote cliff side and all i could think "wow and here the canadian government cant even get clean water to people living on the ground". then i saw the second episode where the government is like "ok that poverty relief wasn't good enough lets build them a brand new luxury village for free" and i just dont know what to say. what the hell is wrong with our society why cant we have nice things
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:04 |
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-embassy-tokyo-warns-suspected-racial-profiling-by-japanese-police-2021-12-06/ You're going to be shocked, shocked when you read the article and find out who the racial profiling is against.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:21 |
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https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner/status/1467917938275541001
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:23 |
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Benagain posted:You're going to be shocked, shocked when you read the article and find out who the racial profiling is against. I dont know why people see one line in the article and immediately think that they are only targeting black foreigners.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:26 |
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Mantis42 posted:Applying American excess mortality rates to China does not tell you how many people died from Covid in China but does give us a clearer picture of how many lives Xi Jinping has saved.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:47 |
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She was very smart to fall into every trap the military laid out for her and actively ruin her own reputation because she cant get over her hatred of muslims.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:50 |
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30.5 Days posted:Disagree with this. Famines always have two components: an unexpected drop in agricultural production (usually unavoidable) and a government that continues existing levels of agricultural export. There are always government policies that could have prevented a famine. this is rather simplistic, though, and requires a lot of hindsight, right? Like I said, yea, you can look back and go 'yea they should have paused the taxes and sent aid faster than they did' but in the context of 'the guys who literally burned their own crops a few times just to avoid sending us taxes are saying they can't grow anything...they're full of poo poo right?' it becomes a bit harder to say those two sides are equally at play.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 03:53 |
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It's good to hear there are antivaxxers everywhere. Makes me feel a little less terrible knowing there are idiots everywhere.
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Lostconfused posted:The only thing I know about Holodomor are background and surrounding details of USSR. sexpig by night posted:Pretty much, it was a horrible famine, and you can point to government failures that didn't help, but there was no policy that could have prevented it. The famine hit during a major conflict that already reduced crops, you can argue that it was wrong to continue the taxation program during the beginning of it but in the context of a major clash between farmers already actively sabotaging their own crops to protest/damage the central authority measures it's pretty understandable why the initial reports of lack of production were chalked up to more of that. Thanks guys!
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:01 |
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30.5 Days posted:Disagree with this. Famines always have two components: an unexpected drop in agricultural production (usually unavoidable) and a government that continues existing levels of agricultural export. There are always government policies that could have prevented a famine. I disagree with the second part. Food shortages are localized events driven by distribution. As in, the food's there, but it's not getting to the people who are starving. Agricultural export is one way that can happen, but it can also just be people shuffling around food domestically, as we saw during famines in India. The difference is that in a market system, you're actively encouraged to move the food away from the people who need it most, because they're the ones who won't be able to pay what you could otherwise get for it.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:02 |
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however 30.5 is right that continued grain exports in exchange for hard currency contributed to the severity of the holodomor in ukraine and kazakhstan
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:06 |
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quote:The Question of Grain Exports
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:13 |
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that's an excellent summary. Yea, the sad truth is that the famine was nearly inevitable, and as cold as it is to say it actually could have been orders of magnitude worse than it was. This doesn't mean it wasn't a tragedy and the dead don't deserve to be mourned of course, but trying to assign malice and blame to it is just at best reaching for someone to point to and say 'you did this' to explain a horrible tragedy, or at worst pure political agenda disrespecting the memories of the dead. There's a lot of very good study to be done about the famine and stories to tell, but the political agenda it gets wrapped in smothers it.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:20 |
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hi everyone, did anything cool happen in the last 30 days I was probated for providing feedback in the dnd mod feedback thread? PS CommieGIR, fool of sound and handsome Ralph are thinskinned neoliberal deadshits
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:23 |
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thatfatkid posted:hi everyone, did anything cool happen in the last 30 days I was probated for providing feedback in the dnd mod feedback thread? we have like 50/50 odds of going to war to protect Ukrainian nazis. Also China has disappeared a woman who is completely public and famous and has many times told western journalists she's not disappeared.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:29 |
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thatfatkid posted:hi everyone, did anything cool happen in the last 30 days I was probated for providing feedback in the dnd mod feedback thread? Someone in d&d said a certain head of state should be killed.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:30 |
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Cao Ni Ma posted:I dont know why people see one line in the article and immediately think that they are only targeting black foreigners. I assumed they were targeting koreans tbh.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:38 |
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Nonsense posted:Why is India throwing in with a washed up and suicidal rump state? the united states?
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:41 |
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the american century wasn't even a century. 1945-202? RIP
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:43 |
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sexpig by night posted:that's an excellent summary. Yeah the last bit is important. The conflict between peasants and the proletariat is real and it's tied in with the rural vs urban communities. It's a complicated topic and deserves further exploration. Holodomor though specifically is another genocide produced by communism - a political ideology that has created more human suffering than any other.
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:45 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch2Rqte6XOs
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:47 |
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inshallah the missiles reach their targets
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:52 |
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30.5 Days posted:Disagree with this. Famines always have two components: an unexpected drop in agricultural production (usually unavoidable) and a government that continues existing levels of agricultural export. There are always government policies that could have prevented a famine. it's lot more harder than that the agricultural failure was consequent of having a world war, then the civil war plus the foreign intervention of all other powers that fought the war united against the soviet union which, as expected, shut down all possibilities of trading. To survive, a series of policies that were combined to be called War Communism were enacted. Under war communism, agricultural production was entirely controlled by the state with tremendous rigor; farmers that didn't cooperate would be shot by peasants themselves and/or suffer the cheka. As the USSR turned things around, war communism was revoked in order to rebuild and reaccumulate capital development in the country, which was a very high priority of Lenin and other like-minded bolsheviks at the time. Among other things that comprised the aforementioned NEP, a massive de-escalation of the state control over the economy was pursued, contrary to the will of the most well-known bolshevik figures: Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin all hated it, but by democratic centralism, Lenin told the opposition to stop whining and let's make it work. The USSR entered a state capitalist stage that, among other things, relaxed the oversight on agriculture and used state capitalist regulation instead of direct control over farming, collectivized land reform excepted (as they were agricultural soviets formed during the revolutionary phase) kulaks - basically agricultural rentiers and landowners - liked the NEP and were very eager for the restart of trade, to benefit from exports. However, the USSR enacted a very novel move: the implementation of export tariffs. If they wanted to produce for exportation, past a certain threshold, they got taxed hard. As expected, they got very loving mad and they started burning crops and killing animals "in protest"; what then happened to their surprise was that no bolshevik was going to have any of that poo poo again (because that happened before in the civil war) and they were to be arrested and their property seized. Ukrainian agriculture, being very oriented in the kulak model, made these guys have a very disproportionate amount of power relative to the peasantry. As they destroyed food and livestock, they starved them. The USSR began in the mid-to-late 20s to assert direct control in what ended up being a low key minor conflict and coda to the civil war, successfully destroying the base of kulak power in the country with significant but still quickly recoverable damage to agricultural activity. Then Lenin had a second stroke and Stalin had to centralize control of the party. Remaining kulaks believed this to be an opportunity to wreck again the state, while theoreticians considered that state planning is absolutely indispensable to push the soviet economy into a more advanced stage (which was Stalin's original position): this required capital, to be leveraged by harnessing the agricultural export capabilities of large-scale state-organized farming. The political struggle and the purges hosed up the administrative capabilities of the soviet state, which were compounded by the kulak wrecking in the Ukrainian SSR; to solve that, Stalin went for the decree for immediate collectivization of all agricultural activity in Ukraine, while maintaining a trade balance of unfavorable terms to themselves to the benefit of the West It's one of the toughest poo poo sandwich scenarios ever gone by a modern state. honestly, by 1929, I think the famines were inevitable
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 04:53 |
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Just to add the economy specific bits. War Communism was also just people scrounging through every stockpile, warehouse, and factory in the country and redistributing whatever is found as needed to keep the war effort going. It's not so much an economic model as Bolsheviks doing whatever they can to survive. NEP only lasted a few years. Large scale industrial development planning started in 1920s with GOELRO plan. By 1930 GOSPLAN and the centralized controlled economy existed and would pretty much stay the same until Stalin's death. Anyone that opposed forced industrial development or spoke out against it got purged from GOSPLAN between 1928 and 1930. https://www-solidarnost-org.translate.goog/articles/articles_2046.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 05:09 on Dec 7, 2021 |
# ? Dec 7, 2021 05:02 |
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russia no longer has famines, so everything worked out in the long run
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 05:06 |
Nonsense posted:https://twitter.com/f_bartoloni/status/1467553500963950593?s=20 why couldn't they find data for nz and australia
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 05:15 |
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so did they just forget that weve been acting like anyone who doesnt want to give their kids a covid vaccine is a homicidal maniac for the past three months or what
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 05:18 |
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https://twitter.com/danieltilles1/status/1467633573524029445
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# ? Dec 7, 2021 05:21 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 09:03 |
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ladies and gentlemen, i present the smartest bbc journalist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvejGdS3i4 thatfatkid posted:hi everyone, did anything cool happen in the last 30 days I was probated for providing feedback in the dnd mod feedback thread? welcome back buddy
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