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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

a real israel vs palestine situation there

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stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

indigi posted:

would you say google’s translation of Chinese is relatively decent? I know Spanish is solid but there are some languages where they obviously don’t have the expertise

I tried to read some google translated posts out of curiosity they were surprisingly readable. However any domestic politic related (or frankly posts from mainland young people) has insane amount of pinyin acronym or secretly black words, google translate will just loving poo poo the bed.

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

i wonder if it being a subreddit selects for more anti CPC users since it’s a western social media platform that you need a vpn to access and also Reddit is a pretty anti China site in general

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1511384317817200642?t=8Cs7iZVwEZitobjQVjV0eA&s=19

https://twitter.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1470062341681254401?t=LkDrTFypVjpkY3dd7700zg&s=19

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/jinpeili/status/1511432719800188930
https://mobile.twitter.com/jinpeili/status/1511432735457304578
https://mobile.twitter.com/jinpeili/status/1511432747579023363
https://mobile.twitter.com/jinpeili/status/1511432762808545284

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

https://twitter.com/punishedkomrade/status/1511115494266265600

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018


The Guan Dao vs the Trishula in the battle for the border.

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

the arms race on the border is steadily ramping up

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️

money-not-put-in-mouths: plz boycott chinese goods now because allegedly murdered hundreds of white people is more important than confirmed millions of west murdered brown people

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008


Yeah both of the people getting that prize are working for NED.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

love this next gen reboot of Dynasty Warriors

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

China is barbaric and has no value for it's billion population of slaves.

https://twitter.com/liusiqi_64/status/1510968781769953282?s=20

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

last year the wsj was quaking in their boots over the prospect of common prosperity. what, now they're crowing over some conjecture about the policy being rolled back?

quote:

But it is unclear whether Mr. Xi ever had any intention of taking more radical steps to help Chinese people reap a bigger share of growth. One of the simplest ways to do that would be by diverting more income—and control—from the government to the private sector, but that runs counter to Mr. Xi’s impulses, said Mr. Magnus at Oxford and other economists.

i would treat this story with the mountain of skepticism it rightly deserves

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

making bawking noises at xi jinping until he institutes full communism now

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

big covid wave that appears to be limited to shanghai and jilin while tons of other cities have choked out their flare-ups and we've got people in here wailing and gnashing teeth over the end of zero-covid. sorry, i don't particularly fancy rolling the dice on permanent lung damage and i'm gonna guess over a billion people here feel the same way

Despera
Jun 6, 2011
lo-fi chill out piano beats to be denied access to a hospital to

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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I don't even really understand what the point of "stop zero COVID" would be in the first place. No more testing people? No more telling people to stay at home (and feeding them for doing so)? No more quarantining known infected people away from the rest of the uninfected population?

That only that results in is more sick people. That's worse than continuing to try to pursue the program. If there's some local government out there whose implementation of zero COVID is lax and hole-ridden enough that it's not stopping infections the way it should, that's a problem, but that's not a "therefore stop trying" problem.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Despera posted:

lo-fi chill out piano beats to be denied access to a hospital to

get the gently caress out of this thread and also the forum in general

Peggotty
May 9, 2014

gradenko_2000 posted:

I don't even really understand what the point of "stop zero COVID" would be in the first place.

The point is that we decided we would just let literal millions of people die for The Economy and it's very annoying when another country keeps proving that we could have prevented those deaths so it would be very helpful if they could stop trying.

Peggotty has issued a correction as of 09:22 on Apr 6, 2022

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

super-scientific, ultra-gay

Lipstick Apathy

Peggotty posted:

The point is that we, decided we would just let literal millions of people die for The Economy and it's very annoying when another country keeps proving that we could have prevented those deaths so it would be very helpful if they could stop trying.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Philippines election update:




as a refresher,
Marcos Jr is the right-wing son of the former dictator
Robredo is the Liberal Party candidate
Domagoso (mayor of the city of Manila), Pacquiao (the boxer) and Lacson (former police chief) are various right-of-center also-rans

Robredo's gain of nine points corresponds about precisely to losses from Marcos, Domagoso, Pacquiao, and among the undecided

that said, she's still down by 32 points for a poll taken 49 days before the election

a quick comparison with in 2016:

Robredo won 35.11% of the vote. She's underperforming that by 11 points according to this latest poll
Marcos Jr won 34.77% of the vote. He's overperforming that by 22 points
[other candidates] won 30.12% of the vote. [Other candidates] are only taking up 20% of the vote this year

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
I already put my spare money on Predictit on boing boing.

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

Nonsense posted:

China is barbaric and has no value for it's billion population of slaves.

https://twitter.com/liusiqi_64/status/1510968781769953282?s=20

drat, imagine how hellish it would be to experience covid policies which resulted in being unable to access hospital services

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Nonsense posted:

China is barbaric and has no value for it's billion population of slaves.

https://twitter.com/liusiqi_64/status/1510968781769953282?s=20

The horrible situation of not being able to get badly needed medical care is what millions of Americans experience in their barbaric debt-slave society

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Peggotty posted:

The point is that we decided we would just let literal millions of people die for The Economy and it's very annoying when another country keeps proving that we could have prevented those deaths so it would be very helpful if they could stop trying.

Its literally this. Also the long terms effect of the wests half rear end efforts will have decades of economic impact that aren't immediately apparent and chinas successful response puts them in an even more advantageous position.

We want them to fail OP

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous

R. Guyovich posted:

i don't particularly fancy rolling the dice on permanent lung damage and i'm gonna guess over a billion people here feel the same way

Can confirm that permanent lung damage sucks. And that's after a double shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine. I got lucky and avoided covid during the first big wave, when almost my whole line at my job at the time caught it before vaccines became an option, but my luck didn't hold out forever.

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

https://twitter.com/OliverJia1014/status/1511638152481411076

haha yeah those stupid tankies. I can't believe they hate *checks notes* Imperial Japan

Marx Headroom
May 10, 2007

AT LAST! A show with nonono commercials!
Fallen Rib
The western coverage of the outbreaks is occasionally funny

quote:

A separate outbreak continues to rage in the north-eastern province of Jilin and the capital, Beijing, also saw an additional nine cases.

9 cases out of 21 million inhabitants lol

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

Marx Headroom posted:

The western coverage of the outbreaks is occasionally funny

9 cases out of 21 million inhabitants lol

lol, covid killed 1200 people in the uk last week. awaiting the guardian article

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

https://twitter.com/jricole/status/1511684496768344071

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/Votto007/status/1511691308984942593?cxt=HHwWgoC-oY_PzfopAAAA

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007


none of the reasons are "both became what they are through US meddling" are they

Mirello
Jan 29, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
lol, I know nobody cares, but just an update: my wife got approved for the greencard, and somehow returned here without being quarantined or anything. this whole process has been one of the most stressful things of my life, so I'm glad that it's finally over. I just hope that covid doesnt mutate into mega death and kill everyone before we can go, lol.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Mirello posted:

lol, I know nobody cares, but just an update: my wife got approved for the greencard, and somehow returned here without being quarantined or anything. this whole process has been one of the most stressful things of my life, so I'm glad that it's finally over. I just hope that covid doesnt mutate into mega death and kill everyone before we can go, lol.

Congrads. What green card, US green card?

Flying out of China should be much easier than flying to China.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Mirello posted:

lol, I know nobody cares, but just an update: my wife got approved for the greencard, and somehow returned here without being quarantined or anything. this whole process has been one of the most stressful things of my life, so I'm glad that it's finally over. I just hope that covid doesnt mutate into mega death and kill everyone before we can go, lol.

glad to hear it op

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Mirello posted:

lol, I know nobody cares, but just an update: my wife got approved for the greencard, and somehow returned here without being quarantined or anything. this whole process has been one of the most stressful things of my life, so I'm glad that it's finally over. I just hope that covid doesnt mutate into mega death and kill everyone before we can go, lol.

congratulations!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

China better watch its back

https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1511713531594518528?s=20

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Cracked.com's top 3 reasons why putin is ISIS

*Radio announcer voice* number threeee

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

drat the US threatened to pull out its toolie…

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stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

paul_soccer12 posted:

Cracked.com's top 3 reasons why putin is ISIS

*Radio announcer voice* number threeee

Can you put a youtuber shocked face on that thumb nail?

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