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quote:Whoa, whoa, you gotta be careful with wizards. I pissed off a time wizard and now all my work shifts take forever but my free time just zips by Your conscius self agreed to the contract, we hope you will settle into your role at Lumen.
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BrigadierSensible posted:"Hey young BrigadierSensible, you know that's the most expensive and sought after real estate in town? Coz people are literally DIEING to get in there Q: How many dead people are there in that cemetery? A: All of them.
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Sunday, October 16th, is the start date for the CCP's National Congress. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-hold-20th-communist-party-congress-starting-oct-16-state-media-2022-08-30/ quote:China sets October start for congress seen as Xi coronation Any predictions about what will happen during the congress? Guesses? Fanfic? Some people are still on the fence, not really sure if Xi will make himself the new Mao. Others definitely believe he's going to do it. If he crowns himself king, I don't know how much that will change China in the short- or long-term. Under Xi, China's trajectory has been similar to pissing on the side of the bowl rather than in the center of the water. Elegant and compassionate, but ultimately delivers the same result. Even if Xi steps down, I'm also in the group that thinks he'll just stick one of his henchmen into the position, changing nothing. His years of deleting people for "corruption" have swept many of political and oligarch class away to where they can't harm him. As much as the Falun Gong newspapers want to promote it, I don't see any sort of underground oligarch movement or slow-cooking coup ever coming to push him out of power.
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Release 30 million imported sparrows to replace the ones killed by Mao?
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PITY BONER posted:Sunday, October 16th, is the start date for the CCP's National Congress. How it goes is either very smoothly or very not smoothly. Hard to imagine any middle ground that doesn't very quickly swing one way or the other. If/when he does step down and promote a henchman, the same thing will happen as any other time any other leader of China has done that, which is the big timer will start on how long before his influence is neutralised and he is added to the collection of former leaders smiling unconvincingly on that bus during annual parades. Interesting question is: if things do go smoothly, how long is he planning on staying? Sure, absolute power and all that, but like a lot of world leaders these days, dude is old.
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Make no mistake. Xi is planning to stay there til death. For someone like him, a life spent on reaching the top of the pyramid with no interest for what you actually do there or in any other station, there is nothing of worth anywhere else.
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It'd say Peng Liyuan is the shadow behind the throne but we already went past that part of the story with the Bo Xilai narrative.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Make no mistake. Xi is planning to stay there til death. For someone like him, a life spent on reaching the top of the pyramid with no interest for what you actually do there or in any other station, there is nothing of worth anywhere else. I read something saying he'd probably have a swing at Taiwan and stepdown in '27. But, it seems naive to think he would be safe outside office, so I don't think retirement is really an option.
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He'll stay until he picks a successor and retires or someone can actually build any kind of factional strength without losing their head.
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url posted:I read something saying he'd probably have a swing at Taiwan and stepdown in '27. But, it seems naive to think he would be safe outside office, so I don't think retirement is really an option. The ancient monks of the West have a saying, "Live by the sword; die by the sword"
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2nd Amendment posted:The ancient monks of the West have a saying, "Live by the sword; die by the sword" Did they have 36 Chambers tho? Because if not, I betting on the Wutang to win the day! E: I've done worse snipes
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PITY BONER posted:Sunday, October 16th, is the start date for the CCP's National Congress. Just loving lol if you pin your hope on oligarchs
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His Divine Shadow posted:Just loving lol if you pin your hope on oligarchs Variety (in which interchangeable powerful old dude is at the top) is the spice of life.
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Tomn posted:There are at least a couple of old Chinese stories about people who married ghosts and lived happily ever after, just putting that out there. There's also an Insane Clown Posse song about it and yet I still don't believe it to be a valid way to seek happiness
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Xi becomes dear leader, Zero COVID policy remains drat the expense. China is gonna get bodied if they open up, only to hear China analysts say, "See, Zero COVID doesn't work!" Okuteru fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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Just heard about the Thai day care mass shooting. 24 preschoolers killed. Jesus Christ. I will never understand how anyone can deliberately harm a child.
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I know people will make fun of me but one of my apartments in China was actually haunted - we had it super cheap, I actually saw a ghost there, the Xinjiang girl I was dating wouldn't spend the night after a few nights, and everyone that lived there (including me) always ended up moving out quickly. I'm sure I've typed up these stories here but gently caress that place, glad it was cheap but was happy to get out of there when I did. also it ultimately cost me time spent with a pretty hot Xinjiang girl so gently caress you, ghosts in that apartment
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McGavin posted:Just heard about the Thai day care mass shooting. 24 preschoolers killed. Jesus Christ. I will never understand how anyone can deliberately harm a child.
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lol believing in ghosts.
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Vegetable posted:why are you posting this here its general east and se asia thread really isnt it? peeps do japanposting and koreaposting, seems reasonable to thaipost anyways, who knows what goes on in the mind of a cop (prolly fascism i guess)
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bob dobbs is dead posted:its general east and se asia thread really isnt it? peeps do japanposting and koreaposting, seems reasonable to thaipost 
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bob dobbs is dead posted:its general east and se asia thread really isnt it? peeps do japanposting and koreaposting, seems reasonable to thaipost Grand Fromage posted:This thread is for shitposting about Bad China (the PRC, Vancouver), Good China (Taiwan, Hong Kong, assorted diaspora communities), Real China (Korea), and Safe China (Japan). You've probably read the previous threads so you know what's up. Good things are also welcome!
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well I learned about it, not entirely happy about it but I did learn about it, so thanks for posting it here I guess also I will always lol about Vancouver being bad china. it's just so true lol
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My OP OPinion is the thread is focused on the Four Chinas but southeastasiaposting is also fine. They certainly are as much in China's cultural sphere as Korea or Japan and we post about them all the time too
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Maybe just rename this the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere thread
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I think you're forgetting that everything is Chinese territory. This thread is the 69 dash line.
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Can you name a country that isn’t China? I know I can’t
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thetoughestbean posted:Can you name a country that isn’t China? I know I can’t Vatican City!
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Stink Billyums posted:Vatican City! That’s only a matter of time. Let’s get a Chinese Pope
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Is Hong Kong still considered Good China or is that status under review given recent developments there? obviously this is not the fault of HKers 
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sticksy posted:Is Hong Kong still considered Good China or is that status under review given recent developments there? It's the direction by Team Blue, which must be in the majority by now due to exodus and immigration.
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Considering the BNO visa it might become necessary to define parts of the UK at least as Bad Food China. (Seriously almost every Chinese person I’ve met here, HK or otherwise, complains about the food) Edit: He’ll, *I* would like to complain about the food here, and not just the Chinese food. Going from Hong Kong’s enormous variety at affordable prices to England’s “Everything is burgers, fish and chips, or curry at the low low price of an arm and a leg” was a wrench. Tomn fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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thetoughestbean posted:Can you name a country that isn’t China? I know I can’t pre-hyperwar finland
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Vegetable posted:Maybe just rename this the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere thread that has been a title at some point
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sticksy posted:Is Hong Kong still considered Good China or is that status under review given recent developments there? Definitely part of bad china. Plenty of the honkies I know won't go back to live there any more with some reluctant to even go there to visit family. It was trending downwards for a long while but the 2020 crackdown and mask off authoritarianism really shook some people pretty hard.
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I ate enough roast duck and goose to permanently leave a Good Hong Kong in my heart. I would feel bad demoting it since it's not the fault of Hong Kongers that they've been oppressed to oblivion.
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I feel all this talk about the goodness and badness of the Chinas is ignoring Macau. Casino towns deserve recognition!
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The Great Autismo! posted:I know people will make fun of me but one of my apartments in China was actually haunted - we had it super cheap, I actually saw a ghost there,
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Cugel the Clever posted:Your apartment probably had bad ventilation and you narrowly escaped death by carbon monoxide poisoning. Nah, it was just the specter of communism
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