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 This is the Xiaofeng schooling complex in Xinjiang province. Literally an ugly loving prison. And you guys support this ‘architecture’?
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Dec 20, 2021 13:59
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if Russia invaded Ukraine it’s gonna be super funny to see how D&D scream about putin being Hitler and how Cspam will cheer Russia killing the Ukrainian Nazis
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Dec 20, 2021 14:00
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Orange DeviI posted:
brutalism is cool gently caress you
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Dec 20, 2021 14:00
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Orange DeviI posted:
so they are finally remaking riven?
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Dec 20, 2021 14:01
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Agrajag posted:brutalism is cool gently caress you You have no idea what you are talking about. Just looking at it hurts the soul.
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Dec 20, 2021 14:03
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Orange DeviI posted:
drat i wish i were there
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Dec 20, 2021 14:04
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if that school is functioning and has heating and the walls don’t collapse from water damage it’s better than half of American public schools
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Dec 20, 2021 14:06
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Al-Saqr posted:if that school is functioning and has heating and the walls don’t collapse from water damage it’s better than half of American public schools that two chimneys is where they burn the bodies
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Dec 20, 2021 14:07
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Orange DeviI posted:You have no idea what you are talking about. Just looking at it hurts the soul. what are you trying to say? the architecture looks fine
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Dec 20, 2021 14:10
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fart simpson posted:what are you trying to say? the architecture looks fine Never once in my entire life I heard "I hate this school because it's ugly"
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Dec 20, 2021 14:11
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Doctor Jeep posted:that pharoh moron in the d&d thread is comparing schools in tibet, where they teach kids the tibetan language, to the residential schools in the US/Canada it really is amazing how those deadshits keep believing the blatant propaganda every single loving time. that school looks like most of the office buildings in Brisbane. I didnt realise we had a uyghur genocide here too
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Dec 20, 2021 14:14
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Palladium posted:that two chimneys is where they burn the bodies I can’t believe you’d joke about this. But I suppose it makes sense—‘brutal’ist architecture for a brutal ideology.
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Dec 20, 2021 14:15
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Good bit
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Dec 20, 2021 14:16
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oh we have a decent chunk of brutalist architecture in perth actually. some of its cool, but some of it is really not suitable for a place that exists directly under a magnifying glass set in front of the eye of the sun   
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Dec 20, 2021 14:22
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I used to camp this spot on my necro, insane xp
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Dec 20, 2021 14:23
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genericnick posted:Good bit
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Dec 20, 2021 15:10
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thatfatkid posted:it really is amazing how those deadshits keep believing the blatant propaganda every single loving time. oh, pharoh is a graduate of the PYF tankie moonbat thread, he's an old hand at this
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Dec 20, 2021 15:13
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thatfatkid posted:it's funny how the state with the largest prison population in the world (by total and per capita) isn't described as authoritarian by the brave China watchers. I wonder why only China is worthy of such a description 🤔 Don't forget about the "legal" genocide we do https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States Or that we put immigrants from the Latin and South America that we often are the cause of in concentration camps.
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Dec 20, 2021 15:24
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crepeface posted:oh we have a decent chunk of brutalist architecture in perth actually. some of its cool, but some of it is really not suitable for a place that exists directly under a magnifying glass set in front of the eye of the sun That last one is a screenshot from Control.
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Dec 20, 2021 16:06
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Not So Fast posted:That last one is a screenshot from Control. it's Mark McGowan's office
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Dec 20, 2021 16:13
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mila kunis posted:i think they're saying authoritarian is a meaningless propaganda term. the lack of state power doesn't mean power vanishes, it just mean the power vacuum is filled by oligarchs instead. you're free to start a leftist podcast and speak truth to power to like 100 people in brooklyn, but if most of the media has been bought up by the rich and 95% of the population is consuming media that attacks anything to the left of margaret thatcher and billionaires fund and flood old people's facebook walls with brain rot, what does that even mean. also state power never actually vanishes, the usa has a bigger carceral and surveillance apparatus than china does. when you start being an actual threat to the state, well, take a look at the corpses of a bunch of black leaders in US postwar history Yeah those leftist podcasts are controlled opposition, even if they don't realize it themselves
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Dec 20, 2021 16:14
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Not So Fast posted:That last one is a screenshot from Control. I assume 
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Dec 20, 2021 16:14
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Yeah wow what a surprise that the AUTHORITARIAN tankers love a video game called "Control" 
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Dec 20, 2021 16:17
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Dec 20, 2021 16:19
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mila kunis posted:Under Chongqing's affordable rental housing policy, a low-income family of three earning 1,000 yuan ($157) a month could live comfortably in a unit with a kitchen and two rooms, paying around $15 or so in monthly rent, excluding electricity and water bills.  
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Dec 20, 2021 16:22
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You: China has a strong central authority that brings some clear advantages in areas like public health crisis mitigation and economic planning but it can also be intrusive in ways that many would find unnecessary and excessive. Me: Yeah sure absolutely. You: China is authoritarian. Me: you loving idiot. You God drat moron shut your stupid mouth.
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Dec 20, 2021 16:24
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the point is that every state is "authoritarian" and the question is about who exercises that authority and who do they represent? like we have an example of this just above with the example of how the cpc is exercising their authority to lower rents for people. they see housing not as a vehicle for speculation but as a necessity, which serves the interest of workers. whereas here in america such an exercise of authority would be unthinkable, and instead our political system empowers the people who want to raise rents and oppress the homeless. is china perfect? absolutely not. but they're a drat sight better than my country, and they seem to be trying to get even better
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Dec 20, 2021 16:30
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DiscountDildos posted:You: China has a strong central authority that brings some clear advantages in areas like public health crisis mitigation and economic planning but it can also be intrusive in ways that many would find unnecessary and excessive. China spends about the same as the USA on policing 5x the population Laws are just paper, the real authoritarian measure is police budget
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Dec 20, 2021 16:33
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DiscountDildos posted:but it can also be intrusive in ways that many would find unnecessary and excessive. I guess this might apply to you if you were a pedo sexpat teacher or a comprador or a billionaire
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Dec 20, 2021 16:38
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Rutibex posted:China spends about the same as the USA on policing 5x the population Well there's that, and the ability of the empowered to completely circumvent the legal processes that are supposed to project everyone equally. Good thing we don't have that problem here in the US. Yep. Sure is good.
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Dec 20, 2021 16:56
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DiscountDildos posted:You: China has a strong central authority that brings some clear advantages in areas like public health crisis mitigation and economic planning but it can also be intrusive in ways that many would find unnecessary and excessive. Lol you think you're smart
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Dec 20, 2021 17:00
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Also, usually more centralized systems require a degree of popular sovereignty or they simply fail (Romania 1989). Even if China’s system of democracy is more indirect, it is also very clearly popular and supported. If it wasn’t, it become clear fast. In degenerated liberal systems, often the public is strung along with the hope that the next election will fix the situation but often there is “flipping flopping” between parties as neither side offers any relief until faith in the system finally collapses. It isn’t that liberal democracy can’t bring change, but it usually requires the public such as recently in Bolivia to make their voice heard or “else.”
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Dec 20, 2021 17:02
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DiscountDildos posted:You: China has a strong central authority that brings some clear advantages in areas like public health crisis mitigation and economic planning but it can also be intrusive in ways that many would find unnecessary and excessive. Sorry but government overreach affecting my life for the sake of not living in a genocidal and terminally ill society where I already have no control over my life or hope for the future doesn't sound like the evil thing you seem to think it is
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Dec 20, 2021 17:08
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Well that joke didn't land at all lmao
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Dec 20, 2021 17:16
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it was a joke? it sounded to me like just more uncritical sinophobic framing. Poe's law I guess
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Dec 20, 2021 17:24
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Rutibex posted:China spends about the same as the USA on policing 5x the population most Chinese cops don't even have guns.
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Dec 20, 2021 17:24
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Megillah Gorilla posted:And their current attempt to justify the apparent cultural genocide in Tibet through the use of actual goddamn residential schools. Megillah Gorilla posted:It took the CCP's version of room 101 an entire 47 days to get her to recant. She really held on. Alchenar posted:The DnD thread is now irrevocably broken. Nobody even tries to post anything interesting anymore because they know within a day or two a CSPAM driveby squad will swing through and drown out any interesting discussion. Comrades I present to you 2 of the most deluded China Watchers I have ever come across. Just pure projection and incredibly racist assumptions based nothing more than their imagination. Like what the gently caress is wrong with some people?
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Dec 20, 2021 17:37
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you can say anything because the D&D rules say you have to pretend everyone is being sincere. So the same half dozen pro-genocide boot lickers drop in once a week to play sophmore debate club with their unread copy of Marx in one hand and a stamp with "WELL ACTUALLY" in the other.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Please report any and all GBS tankies so I can take great delight in nuking them from orbit. (Within reason. I can't probe JUST for stupidity, but...) man what a cool mod, thank god jeff gives people like this buttons
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Dec 20, 2021 17:43
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:it was a joke? it sounded to me like just more uncritical sinophobic framing. Poe's law I guess lol
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Dec 20, 2021 17:45
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GlassEye-Boy posted:most Chinese cops don't even have guns. Are you kidding? They have extensive knowledge of kung-fu trigger points. If you look at a poster of Chairman Xi and don't smile, you get your qi blown right out your rear end with an expertly aimed heel slamming into the back of your head after a triple somersault to build up force. You're seriously deluded if you think that a so-called 'disarmed' police officer in China won't just run up the side of an ugly brutalist apartment block (which looks the same as the 20 other apartment blocks right next to it) before turning around and power slamming his fist into your skull, instantly caving it in and turning you into yet another statistic. You're joking if you think you stand a chance against someone who is trained to deflect thrown bricks and see through umbrellas by simply squinting slightly, and whose lightning quick punches have the weight of 5000 years of tradition behind them. All I can say is, you have no idea what you're talking about. loving dumb police stan.
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Dec 20, 2021 17:47
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