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https://mobile.twitter.com/frances_hui/status/1534680510869524482 smh at twitter for not including a content warning about such intense violence
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 13:42 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:De Gaulle was very anti American hegemony. He tried to mess up the US dollar new world order by exchanging as much gold from US as possible under the gold standard rate; also pulled France out of NATO but later French politicians went back in. He also believed the police were part of the JFK assassination plot. I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised if the US had a hand in getting him out of French politic. I dunno, he was still reliable in the really important way : hating communists.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 13:50 |
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exmarx posted:getting performatively mad at china is def reddit behaviour The true question is which is the more reddit rear end country, Taiwan or Ukraine?
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 14:26 |
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Kassad posted:I dunno, he was still reliable in the really important way : hating communists. The older I get, the more I think "communist" and "nazi" have different meanings in Europe, they both carry decent amount of pro/anti Russian and pro/anti German code not spelled out in discourse. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 14:55 on Jun 9, 2022 |
# ? Jun 9, 2022 14:30 |
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/frances_hui/status/1534680510869524482 Chilling
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 14:45 |
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thailand legalized it
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 15:05 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:De Gaulle was very anti American hegemony. He tried to mess up the US dollar new world order by exchanging as much gold from US as possible under the gold standard rate; also pulled France out of NATO but later French politicians went back in. He also believed the police were part of the JFK assassination plot. I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised if the US had a hand in getting him out of French politic. De Gaulle pulled out of Nato in 1966. This passage about "stay behind networks" (lol) concerns De Gaulle's actions immediately after returning to power, in 1958: After the Algiers putsch in 1961, JFK phoned up De Gaulle's Washington ambassador and said "so just to be clear it wasn't me, but uh... I wouldn't rule out the CIA..." The source for the above is Devil's Chessboard, which heavily concerns Allen Dulles. Dulles was no longer head of the CIA as of of 1961; he died in 1969. In 1965 the CIA was asked to kill De Gaulle. Of May 68, an Irish Times article says this: quote:Far from supporting Gen Charles de Gaulle's right-wing regime, the US blamed him for the anarchy in France and apparently hoped the Socialist patriarch, Pierre Mendes France, would take power. On May 30th, 1968, the head of the CIA, Richard Helms, sent a five-page secret memorandum to President Lyndon Johnson. De Gaulle had just returned from Germany, dissolved the National Assembly and vowed on television to save France from the threat of "totalitarian Communism". According to Lost Atlantis, the source is The French Crisis, CIA Intelligence Memorandum, 31 May 1968. vol. 13, CF, NSF, #158, box 174, LBJL. I couldn't find this online. That Lost Atlantis book also indicates the subsequent potential financial crisis in France in November helped US/France relations, just as De Gaulle was probably on his way out, given his lack of popularity: quote:Whereas until May 1968, monetary issues had been a source of friction, de Gaulle’s financial misfortune now set the stage for an unforeseen rapprochement between France and the United States. De Gaulle vowed throughout the crisis that he would not devalue the franc. It was, however, uncertain how long France could resist the pressure from the market given the hemorrhage of reserves – and by November the air was rife with speculation that the French central bank was reaching a breaking point.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 16:28 |
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DirtyRobot posted:I know this is the Asia thread so apologies if this is too off-topic, but:I got interested in this and looked some things up. eh my fault anyway for posting it here felt like the modern history thread was overbooked with my posts about black cosmonauts and the brook brothers riot whiffing
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 16:41 |
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(off topic) It make perfect sense that De Gaulle got support from the US president but not the US spy agency...JFK was at war with CIA and ultimately lost. BTW the chattering I heard that Macron fired his spy head for some boring reason because he was doing some extra pro US moves behind Macron's back in the early stage of the Ukraine war. Also after election Macron didn't purpose any new policy regarding the Ukraine war for Europe for a couple weeks, supposedly he needed to sort out the royalty of his people before he could say anything diverge from the US/Ukraine position. Macron is no De Gaulle, he doesn't have nearly as much political capital.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 16:54 |
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https://twitter.com/MFA_China/status/1534888820302221314
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 16:58 |
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Oglethorpe posted:thailand legalized it except north america, with two and half.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 17:09 |
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eurasia has 4: georgia, malta, north korea, and now thailand
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 17:20 |
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I never thought about that, is Malta always considered to be European? Is there an agreed upon border between Europe and Africa in the Mediterranean? Edit: I looked it up, apparently all islands belong to the nearest continental landmass, so Malta is in Europe, Lampedusa is in Africa.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 19:34 |
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https://twitter.com/zlj517/status/1534824212229066753
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 23:07 |
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pft it doesnt count for asian religions dummy
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 23:46 |
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https://twitter.com/QuteMike/status/1534982138734358529
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 00:01 |
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https://twitter.com/CGMeifangZhang/status/1534781085111951360?s=20&t=1izmiSVu0wAGwugs4PQmwQ
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 01:17 |
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Cao Ni Ma posted:https://twitter.com/CGMeifangZhang/status/1534781085111951360?s=20&t=1izmiSVu0wAGwugs4PQmwQ Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo?
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 01:21 |
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Shear Modulus posted:Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo? They have little marco working that but he sucks at it
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 01:24 |
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Shear Modulus posted:Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo? https://www.rfa.org/english/
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 01:26 |
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Shear Modulus posted:Why don't we have government posters in america that talk poo poo about china online all day. or are they all on weibo? we do, twitter just doesn't mark them
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 01:30 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:04 |
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lmao if they believe this to be not based
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:06 |
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lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:08 |
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mawarannahr posted:lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now jesus christ lol
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:09 |
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mawarannahr posted:lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now so if they point the mirror at something good does that mean the CCP is good?
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:13 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MayukhDuke/status/1534740035186135040
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:13 |
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mawarannahr posted:lol I’ll take it to politurds after this one but drat thanks DV for reminding me RFA exists + is completely trustworthy now Can somebody explain? Xi shows dead Mao that he is evil???
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:25 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/WilliamYang120/status/1535058675148402689
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:25 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:Can somebody explain? Xi shows dead Mao that he is evil??? its actually profoundly confusing.
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 02:39 |
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stephenthinkpad posted:Can somebody explain? Xi shows dead Mao that he is evil??? helpfully, RFA cartoons have explainers https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/100th-anniversary-ccp-cartoon-04292021095515.html quote:Beauty is in the Eye of the Powerholder
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:05 |
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okay so then the reflection would be rosy, cartoonist
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:08 |
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pissed off my tax money is paying for this poo poo
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:15 |
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Shear Modulus posted:pissed off my tax money is paying for this poo poo love to be supporting this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_Pepper quote:Wang Liming (Chinese: 王立铭; pinyin: Wáng Lìmíng; born 1973), better known under the pseudonym Rebel Pepper (Chinese: 变态辣椒; pinyin: Biàntài Làjiāo, lit. "Abnormal Chili pepper"), is a Chinese political cartoonist in exile in the United States.[1] Wang left China out of fears for his safety resulting from the increasing crackdown on freedom of expression by the Chinese Communist Party.[1][2] Since 2017, he is working at Radio Free Asia as a political cartoonist on the EB-2 visa.[3] quote:
“so much for the moderate left!” mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 03:20 on Jun 10, 2022 |
# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:17 |
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mawarannahr posted:helpfully, RFA cartoons have explainers Only the best cartoons have to explain what they mean
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:30 |
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The explanation still don't make sense.
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:34 |
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I think it's the literal off pink glow, that's it
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 03:56 |
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does anyone know good sources for historical accounts of the chinese civil war, outside of the WW2 parts? books or documentaries or whatever, this stuff is just hard to find in english
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 05:43 |
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1534729329866702850 im here for the chinese cover of nothing's gonna stop us now
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 06:14 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 03:22 |
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1534729329866702850 why is he dressed like oddjob
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# ? Jun 10, 2022 06:35 |