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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

stephenthinkpad posted:

The reason the west switch from fanning frame on the Tibet issue to the Xinjiang issue on a dime was that the West armchair geopoliticians thought they could turn the "Mooslim world" against China. What a win-win master plan. With any luck, we can even turn the Central Asia -stans against China. It's like dropping a poison inside the SCO, for free! Yo Richard Gere, STFU about Dalai Lama we are on the Weeger agenda now.

actually all the muslim countries are bad so the fact that they dont care about xinjiang is in no way a relevant value judgment as to whether or not a genocide is being committed there

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DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

Some Guy TT posted:

wait when and how did paper mario get woke

A little while after the last one came out some gamer blog ran an article about how one of the Toads in the Japanese version said something about "freedom and human rights" but in the Hong Kong version that line was changed to something else because of Evil CCP Censorship. It kinda caught on a bit and some brave western gamers were doing some epic shows of dissent against Xi's tyranny (posting "gently caress the CCP" over and over) until people started noticing that the English, Spanish, French, German etc versions also didn't have the "freedom and human rights" line.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

so anyway im in quarantine now and im wondering if theres any way to get a chinese sim card and phone number while im stuck here ill probably need a whole new phone too while im at it since i cant open this one and replace the card

also will having a chinese phone number get rid of that stupid get a friend to invite you requirement for wechat thats never worked any time ive tried to get someone to help me with it im not sure how or whether any of this will work when all i have is a visa and not a residence card the police held me at the airport for like an hour because i didnt have a contact person and im still mad my school didnt mention anything about my needing one of those

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
One of the proofs that china was genociding muslims was that a Pakistani koran app was removed from the chinese app store.

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

a lot of the "evidence" is working backwards from a racist view of islam, so a culture where men shave and women don't cover themselves, and everyone drinks alcohol, is somehow because of CCPs oppressive policies

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

what in the goddamn hell gently caress did i just read :psyduck:

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

China let minorities have one more kid (and rural families one more kid on top). And gives minorities boosted scores on standardized tests. And has a lot of government money for heritage stuff, dancing food old buildings etc. And has several 'autonomous' regions.

Kinda like USSR, after a while you gotta admit its going to work better if everyone speaks russian. idk if you can say much else against it?

edit: and all the general anti poverty etc poo poo that inevitably helps minorities

Antonymous has issued a correction as of 04:19 on Oct 16, 2022

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

so now that i have no youtube access im looking for tunes on bilibili and pulled up the uncensored version of the blackpink lovesick girls that was taken down for featuring an unnecessarily sexy and derogatory view of nurses and uh

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bt4y1n7Lb/

the part with the nurse starts at 1:30 and she just looks like a regular rear end nurse how the hell was anyone offended by this was the logic here that literally any clothes that jennie wears are sexualized by definition

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

deng overlooking the construction of a stick box trap as wild capitalist roam within view

THS2
Oct 2, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUj6H8gyrvM

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

One of the proofs that china was genociding muslims was that a Pakistani koran app was removed from the chinese app store.

Weren't there a bunch of Koran apps that were FBI honeypots

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/MarxistHeathen/status/1581128432011780096

new battle at lake changjin link for those who haven't watched it yet or want to rewatch it again

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/KyleTrainEmoji/status/1581472712182370304

on another note lmao that westerners are surprised billionaires don't immediately turn into rulers in totalitarian china

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

they don't let them into the real government body, the standing committee, but there's a lot of billionaires in the larger body

meanwhile there's no billionaires elected to federal representation right now, I don't think

so don't be so smug

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

you could say their billionaires are more patriotic. or that ours, exposing themselves by running in an election they might lose and putting themselves out there to be ridiculed, does't appeal

edit: or maybe it's a, keep your fiends close, enemies closer, kind of thing

edit 2: that thread is very good tho

Antonymous has issued a correction as of 05:29 on Oct 16, 2022

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

lol @ the billionaires who tried to replicate trump's success in the dem primaries

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

i say swears online posted:

yeah i'm not talking about him losing power, just a title change. its probably semantics but whether he'll be general secretary or chairman or both is affecting betting markets

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7209/Will-Xi-Jinping-be-re-elected-CCP-General-Secretary-before-2023

if he's named chairman instead of gensec then this market resolves no and a whole lot of people lose money lol

shouldn't be surprised you were only asking this question to game a prediction market lol

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

comedyblissoption posted:

lol @ the billionaires who tried to replicate trump's success in the dem primaries

Lol that they still own the party

Goon Boots
Feb 2, 2020



aw man, i want to have a birthday party on the shandong carrier

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

The person behind Wall Street silver is an incredibly stupid silver bug who steals memes from WSBs and other subreddits which is how they got so big. They are baffling stupid.

He is part of a circle of fintwit who are super reactionary that believe anything that is pumped out of the far right parts of the internet and I believe is a climate change denier.

DesertIslandHermit
Oct 7, 2019

It's beautiful. And it's for the god of...of...arts and crafts. I think that's what he said.
The capitalists can do no wrong. Which is why it's clear China kidnapped them off the street and made them pay less for more labor.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

R. Guyovich posted:

shouldn't be surprised you were only asking this question to game a prediction market lol

i'm honestly interested in the semantics, or if they actually are semantics or have substantial differences. though i pay attention to markets, i'm not in this one. i like studying the effects of prediction markets, and if you want to know my main motive, i was interested in what people think the current price would be if this potential "title rules cuck" wasn't in existence. since most PI money is american it's an off-kilter gauge of anti-china sentiment, but figuring out the ratio of the "no" side between "oh the title will change and the rules dictate otherwise" and "china will collapse any day! xi coup!" is worth studying

as a rule i don't bet on poo poo that will swing on a dime via information i'm not privy to, but i do keep track of many markets i wouldn't consider touching

droll
Jan 9, 2020

by Azathoth
Got into a discussion today. that video / photos of uighurs sitting on the ground next to a train with blindfolds, was that real? Why were they treating people at education centers like prisoners?

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Cuttlefush posted:

it's basically cheating for casus belli, yeah. if someone is already on the "america is a bad guy" train you can kind of lead them to realizing that in all of the wars the US has justified with that kind of thing they end up slaughtering eye-watering numbers of civilians. that ends up being a pretty strong contradiction that can't really get pushed away because the US' own figures of civilian slaughter are insanely high. then they can wrestle with the fact that the US might actually have more genocides under its belt than they thought, and they might start trying to justify reasons why that wont be true... maybe the dam will break. i dunno. i think getting people to consider that america is the worst is fairly easy and will not burn bridges. and i think it's a decent starting point for dealing with the other poo poo eventually.

That's what Whataboutism is about, so you never have to think about that.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


Where does that weird fighter pilot sunglasses come from? It's not like you wear them in the plane. Did Topgun do that?

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Aviator shades are supposed to wrap all the way around the eyes, the top, the sides, the bottom, because even a little bit of sunlight can glare you when piloting a plane

There's a legit use for the design, even if it's as much a cultural signifier of "this person is a pilot"

Fortaleza
Feb 21, 2008

Randolph Engineering makes nice ones

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

droll posted:

Got into a discussion today. that video / photos of uighurs sitting on the ground next to a train with blindfolds, was that real? Why were they treating people at education centers like prisoners?

it was a prison transport

droll
Jan 9, 2020

by Azathoth

R. Guyovich posted:

it was a prison transport

I'm trying to find a source for the liberal they'll believe because when you google it's all "uighurs handcuffed".

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Cuttlefush posted:

it's basically cheating for casus belli, yeah. if someone is already on the "america is a bad guy" train you can kind of lead them to realizing that in all of the wars the US has justified with that kind of thing they end up slaughtering eye-watering numbers of civilians. that ends up being a pretty strong contradiction that can't really get pushed away because the US' own figures of civilian slaughter are insanely high. then they can wrestle with the fact that the US might actually have more genocides under its belt than they thought, and they might start trying to justify reasons why that wont be true... maybe the dam will break. i dunno. i think getting people to consider that america is the worst is fairly easy and will not burn bridges. and i think it's a decent starting point for dealing with the other poo poo eventually.

Used to be true. Now it gets shut down as “whataboutism”.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

droll posted:

I'm trying to find a source for the liberal they'll believe because when you google it's all "uighurs handcuffed".

if it's the one in thinking of there isn't even anything that indicates they're uyghurs

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

droll posted:

I'm trying to find a source for the liberal they'll believe because when you google it's all "uighurs handcuffed".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZVnlXAo7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNG4VuGupA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGVEndvXoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7NV-IjVFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswmEKd8u5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7E4gYXjeDg

Make them watch some Uighur tv and then ask them why a people being genocided would be allowed to produce, or want to produce, so much daytime television

Uighur music is pretty good btw,

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxZVnlXAo7k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNG4VuGupA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scGVEndvXoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ7NV-IjVFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswmEKd8u5o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7E4gYXjeDg

Make them watch some Uighur tv and then ask them why a people being genocided would be allowed to produce, or want to produce, so much daytime television

Uighur music is pretty good btw,

you idiot, the PLA have guns aimed at them offscreen and they have their families held as hostages in camps to make them produce this propaganda

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

droll posted:

I'm trying to find a source for the liberal they'll believe because when you google it's all "uighurs handcuffed".

I think even if you have a source explaining exactly where the prisoners came from and where they were going it wouldn't change anything. That's just one of those dumbshit schizo liberal things you can't get around. An inmate in a uniform is a horror never before seen by the western liberal.

I don't think you're talking about this one but a mass arrest following a pyramid scheme crackdown a few years ago was passed around as uyghur genocide proof: https://m.douban.com/group/topic/106094686/

Throatwarbler
Nov 17, 2008

by vyelkin
https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1581619941639274498

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat

Stringent posted:

it's what in learned circles is referred to as a "hypothetical"

check out this erudite mother fucker

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

hu's that handsome dude over there :swoon:

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

chairman MeeeYOW :eyepop:

https://twitter.com/castawaymariner/status/1581396014829043712

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
I never realized mao was a centauri

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Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Slavvy posted:

The chances of him being a fat sex pest are 100%

https://y.yarn.co/040ba420-ded1-4594-bbf9-05793f97ec76.mp4

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