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Forceholy posted:Ethnic Groups. So glad Xi is advertising to English speakers. I was really worried that he ran out of good will towards us foreigners.
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An Ethnic Home
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Oct 16, 2022 02:43
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it doesn't even matter what ethnicity, xi is polite and tolerant of them all.
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Oct 16, 2022 02:56
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The ethnics are happy, see how they dance
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Oct 16, 2022 02:57
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Once every year Comrade Xi visits your village, comes into your house, sits down on your filthy mattress, and puts his hand on your thigh before he gazes longingly into your eyes and smooches you on the mouth. With tongue if you're a member of the party.
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Grand Fromage posted:The ethnics are happy, see how they dance Ha ha! They dance differently to the way "normal" people dance. They talk funny too and their clothes are all strange. I hear their food is also delicious, but I haven't tried it, (why would I? It's clearly foreign.) Look at how inclusive and not discriminatory we are! Now that's enough dancing for now. Get back in your cage, you need to get your rest before the 12 hour work day in the factory tomorrow. And remember, don't tell your family about this in your one phone call scheduled for next week, or you may well soon find them joining you here.
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Grand Fromage posted:The ethnics are happy, see how they dance
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Oct 16, 2022 03:14
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BREAKING NEWS: Uncle Xi has finally stopped going for jet black hair. He is now mixed grey. HOLY poo poo.  THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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HOLY poo poo 
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This is a good thread about how messed up the Chinese internet is lately, and I think it's a good estimation of how things are going there as the government clamps down more over time. https://twitter.com/lizalinwsj/status/1581299384884506634 For example: https://twitter.com/lizalinwsj/status/1581324876308443136 China is whatever it is now. I have some fond memories, but I'll never assume my past years there are indicative of anything except memories of the past. I am sad for those days to have changed so much, but at least I got to have them when I did.
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PITY BONER posted:BREAKING NEWS: We have entered the Bo Zone
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Oct 16, 2022 03:49
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My God. It's full of Bozos.
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If China unilaterally opposes unilateralism, could that be offset by two other countries bilaterally opposing bilateralism?
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PITY BONER posted:This is a good thread about how messed up the Chinese internet is lately, and I think it's a good estimation of how things are going there as the government clamps down more over time.
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Yeah can someone explain the WEchat thing a bit more for context
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Yeah can someone explain the WEchat thing a bit more for context Not sure what exactly you're asking but WeChat is the app that runs everything in China. It started as just a chat program like Kakaotalk or Whatsapp but has grown over time. It's used to verify access to almost everything now, call taxis, WeChat Pay is the main way a lot of people access their money and pay for stuff. There's a ton of stuff in China that requires it and if you get banned from WeChat you're boned. Like when I was there WeChat Pay was in the process of taking over and there were places you couldn't use debit cards anymore, I'd hand it over and the person looked at it like they'd never seen one before. I'm sure it's gotten worse. I think it ties into the covid color coding thing too? Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Oct 16, 2022 |
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Shumagorath posted:A WeChat ban is about as close as you get to rendering someone stateless on mainland, right? For communication, kind of. There are other communication apps, but Wechat is king. As for its functions, Alipay has those too. Grand Fromage posted:
Depending on where you are in China, your Covid health code is tied into your access to public transportation. Some places just check your health code app. Other cities, like Shanghai, tie into the QR code needed to pay for metro tickets. Okuteru fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Oct 16, 2022 |
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You technically can use alipay for most things now, so a wechat ban isn't as bad as it would have been ~5 years ago, but if you meet someone and refuse to exchange wechat contact, then they will assume that you hate them or have something really weird going on. And yeah, if you somehow catch a ban to both wechat and alipay... I guess forget about living in cities. Just too essential.
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Grand Fromage posted:Not sure what exactly you're asking but WeChat is the app that runs everything in China. It started as just a chat program like Kakaotalk or Whatsapp but has grown over time. It's used to verify access to almost everything now, call taxis, WeChat Pay is the main way a lot of people access their money and pay for stuff. There's a ton of stuff in China that requires it and if you get banned from WeChat you're boned. I didn't know what WEchat was really just seen it in this thread but didn't know it's importance on all the stuff you listed.
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Atopian posted:You technically can use alipay for most things now, so a wechat ban isn't as bad as it would have been ~5 years ago, but if you meet someone and refuse to exchange wechat contact, then they will assume that you hate them or have something really weird going on. Not just cities. I was at a buddy’s wedding in deepest rural Hunan a few years back and when we went out to buy some more beers, the local store would only take WeChat pay, not cash.
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Oct 16, 2022 07:37
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spending the weekend listening to xi dada and clapping at the tv for 2 minutes straight +88888888 social credits
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Booty Pageant posted:spending the weekend listening to xi dada and booty clapping at the tv for 2 minutes straight +88888888 social credits
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thetoughestbean posted:Didn’t the UK leave a person stateless pretty recently? i believe so, i think they did it to a bunch of women who ran off to be trad wives with isis and then when ISIS got hosed up in syria/iraq then they tried to return and got told to gently caress off. normally id agree but most of the women were dumb teen who got tricked/dupped into being trad wives and then were basicaly used as sex slaves/brood mares for isis soldiers before said "husbands" got turned inside out by drone strike or kurdish/shia/us forces.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i believe so, i think they did it to a bunch of women who ran off to be trad wives with isis and then when ISIS got hosed up in syria/iraq then they tried to return and got told to gently caress off. normally id agree but most of the women were dumb teen who got tricked/dupped into being trad wives and then were basicaly used as sex slaves/brood mares for isis soldiers before said "husbands" got turned inside out by drone strike or kurdish/shia/us forces. This Wikipedia entry is quite concerning, she wanted UK citizenship back but still pro ISIS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamima_Begum
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MrMoo posted:This Wikipedia entry is quite concerning, she wanted UK citizenship back but still pro ISIS. Why can’t she just stay in syria?
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She has since recanted the pro ISIS line on the basis of not having to hand it to them etc. I used to be much less sympathetic but for gently caress's sake she was an indoctrinated teenager exposed to war crimes and then dragged in front of a hostile media circus to comment on it.
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Strategic Tea posted:She has since recanted the pro ISIS line on the basis of not having to hand it to them etc. Nah. She worked to recruit others into the same situation, and she almost certainly murdered people while in Syria. Her stated reason for no longer supporting ISIS was "corruption", not disillusionment with their goal of violent theocratic supremacy, which she still supports. There should be no guilt associated with jettisoning such a person from society.
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Strategic Tea posted:She has since recanted the pro ISIS line on the basis of not having to hand it to them etc. she was also trafficked into syria in the first place by a canadian intelligence officer, a fact that was then covered up by the uk and canada :^)
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yugioh mishima posted:she was also trafficked into syria in the first place by a canadian intelligence officer, a fact that was then covered up by the uk and canada :^) I think it was an intelligence 'asset', rather than 'officer'. Canadian Jack Bauer didn't help her, but someone who the Canadian Intelligence Services paid for information did. For what it's worth, I'm against the stripping of her British nationality.
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Devils Affricate posted:Nah. She worked to recruit others into the same situation, and she almost certainly murdered people while in Syria. Her stated reason for no longer supporting ISIS was "corruption", not disillusionment with their goal of violent theocratic supremacy, which she still supports. There should be no guilt associated with jettisoning such a person from society. She was a dumb gently caress teenager that got railroaded because she did an interveiw with a merdoc jurno.
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uncitizening someone for wrongthink is a horrible precedent. if she's done crimes, try her for those and lock her up.
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LashLightning posted:I think it was an intelligence 'asset', rather than 'officer'. Canadian Jack Bauer didn't help her, but someone who the Canadian Intelligence Services paid for information did. yes you are correct! my bad i forgot the exact details i just saw the story a few weeks back
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Devils Affricate posted:Nah. She worked to recruit others into the same situation, and she almost certainly murdered people while in Syria. Her stated reason for no longer supporting ISIS was "corruption", not disillusionment with their goal of violent theocratic supremacy, which she still supports. There should be no guilt associated with jettisoning such a person from society. how will society survive if we don’t hold child soldiers accountable for their war crimes
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hypnophant posted:how will society survive if we don’t hold child soldiers accountable for their war crimes its sickening how many countries out there are still pro-child soldier, like Canada, which opposed the torture of child soldiers
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Also at least publicly, UK police were furious that CSIS knew she was being smuggled in and didn't bother to tell anyone. To what degree UK asked the Canadians not to inform us because that would be very inconvenient to know, only a cabinet office guy with a big black marker pen can say 
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I read today that Beijing is “indefinitely delaying” releasing GDP and other economic stats instead of just making them up?
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