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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cugGO0UN0m0quote:"Looking at China from the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China" uses 3D naked-eye new horizons as the expression method, leading the viewer to immersely read the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China report, and feel the oncoming in the more shocking 3D achievements of the extraordinary decade.
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Nov 5, 2022 03:41
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i read the kevin rudd (former australian PM) article in foreign affairs today about xi and it's written from a western-centric perspective which disapproves of of it all course, but it's interesting because rudd is, like, the only current or former western leader who seems to take marxism-leninism seriously enough to even consider it a factor it's paywalled on the website but the whole thing is available here: https://archive.ph/IBUGE
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Nov 5, 2022 04:33
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IIRC he's also fluent in Mandarin and lived in China.
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Nov 5, 2022 05:35
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Under Rudd Australia-China relations were pretty good. He wrote a book and continues to give speeches about how it is important to avoid WW3 and for US-China relations to be encouraged towards 'managed competition' type stuff, which should not be ground breaking but that's what we have to work with now. He also, despite winning in a massive landslide and having led a fairly popular government (his approval ratings were low in the period leading up to his removal, but not absolutely catastrophic, in the way we see, say the UK Tories constantly tossing their leaders out for), was removed as party leader supposedly because he had a big ego and was too arrogant. The  explanation is, of course, the CIA.https://jacobin.com/2022/04/kevin-rudd-cia-us-embassy-julia-gillard-alp-coup quote:So far, a smoking gun directly linking the US embassy in Canberra with the Rudd coup has not been found. What is beyond doubt, however, is that the US embassy was in close and regular contact with a high-ranking factional power broker, Mark Arbib, who played a key role in Rudd’s downfall. Hard to tell whether it was being friendly to China or trying to tax big corporations that did it though.
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Nov 5, 2022 06:06
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Sure, I was already a Gough Whitlam truther, might as well be a Kevin Rudd truther
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Nov 5, 2022 06:16
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i say swears online posted:oh my god olaf scholz has defected to the CPC
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Nov 5, 2022 06:20
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gradenko_2000 posted:Sure, I was already a Gough Whitlam truther, might as well be a Kevin Rudd truther To be honest I think a lot of this stuff gets done by itself without any conspiracies about USA sending CIA assassins in, just by the way in which most people in power in western liberal politics view and approach the world. Like, the US saying 'hey we don't like this guy', is a good enough reason to decide to topple your party's leader, because you believe that being friendly to the USA is an integral part of how your country functions (which is not wrong) and damaging the relationship with the US is bad for your own electoral prospects and even in some ways bad for your own people if you care about them, because the US will do lovely-but-completely-above-board-within-the-rules-based-order things to you, so there are plenty of existing domestic incentives to be rid of any leader who the US doesn't like in a country like Australia. The Jacobin article supports this given there is no real evidence of the US doing anything concrete except communicating that they didn't like Rudd and preferred Gillard, which is more than enough to topple a government.
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Nov 5, 2022 06:31
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It potentially could have just been the mining industry that took down Rudd. They were opposed to the super-profits tax that he was trying to bring in, mining CEOs met with the woman who replaced him right before she took office and most importantly, he ended up prime minister again like a year later, which isn’t what would happen if it was a US led thing But on the other hand, obviously it would still be unsurprising if it was an American intervention. The US was very unimpressed with Rudd’s foreign policy ideas. He wanted to create some kind of strategic union involving most Asia Pacific countries (including China and Australia) to reduce regional tensions and the US were not happy about that. They also hated the fact that he dissolved the quad and advocated for a greater role for China in the IMF. His removal from office the first time he was PM was definitely the turning point from Australia being strategically ambivalent to being embarrassingly and predictably pro US defence interests
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Nov 5, 2022 07:36
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i read the kevin rudd (former australian PM) article in foreign affairs today about xi and it's written from a western-centric perspective which disapproves of of it all course, but it's interesting because rudd is, like, the only current or former western leader who seems to take marxism-leninism seriously enough to even consider it a factor No one in the west wants to believe that China actually takes communist rhetoric seriously, because that implies they can't be co-opted by capitalism and made to destroy themselves with it like Russia.
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Nov 5, 2022 08:02
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Ghost Leviathan posted:No one in the west wants to believe that China actually takes communist rhetoric seriously, because that implies they can't be co-opted by capitalism and made to destroy themselves with it like Russia. https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-scholz-defend-china-germany-europe-change/
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Nov 5, 2022 08:12
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Jose posted:Octopuses have been one of the big winners from climate change. Their populations have exploded as a result wish i could see the looks on their faces when their archeologists find bezos' hentai warehouse in 100 million years Tankbuster posted:a country of 220 million people and everyone with a gun is a spooklet from langley. https://twitter.com/LiberationistMA/status/1581759439702347776
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Nov 5, 2022 08:23
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If Kevin Rudd was removed by US blob, I don't think he would have gotten his current gig in Asian Society. BTW, I read about half of his new book. It feels a little bit thin. Like he just wanted to write a book and remind the world he is still a scholar. The book spends most of the pages on general knowledge and doesn't make a strong case of trying to work with China to avoid a war, even though he does take that side of the stand.
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Nov 5, 2022 09:50
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Jose posted:literal victims of chen weihua
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Nov 5, 2022 10:03
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Jose posted:literal victims of chen weihua
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Nov 5, 2022 12:05
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i say swears online posted:oh my god olaf scholz has defected to the CPC https://twitter.com/cityafreaks/status/1588606804074065920
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Nov 5, 2022 12:09
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This Wu guy, Taiwan foreign minister, he got on the Beijing "anti unificiation hardcore Taiwan separatists" list. It's not a long list. So he has no choise. He had to step on gas paddle all the way. If poo poo hits the fan, he either go on a C17 plane or go to jail for the rest of his life.
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Nov 5, 2022 12:44
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Some CPC guy got into citybuilders. Its good!
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Nov 5, 2022 15:01
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Hopefully the subordinates don't reinterpret it as maximum density while ignoring green and community spaces.
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Nov 5, 2022 15:11
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Tankbuster posted:Some CPC guy got into citybuilders. Its good! downloaded Workers And Resources and showed my mayor and got a promotion
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Nov 5, 2022 15:14
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DiscountDildos posted:https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1588802112464769024?s=20&t=REbmKsaCD7aw5EGaDzkjBA this is cool and reminds me of those self-contained soviet blocks someone used to post about constantly.
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Nov 5, 2022 15:17
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Hopefully the subordinates don't reinterpret it as maximum density while ignoring green and community spaces. Are there places in China like that? Every high rise I've visited in China has had an integrated public garden area. Literally every one. I don't necessarily think my in laws and their friends are representative of China at large, but I don't think that's been a problem anywhere I've looked?
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Nov 5, 2022 15:21
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microdistricts with chinese characteristics 
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Nov 5, 2022 16:12
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Cuttlefush posted:i did deep sea stuff. it's mostly boring. kinda moist and cold too
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Nov 5, 2022 16:23
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i read the kevin rudd (former australian PM) article in foreign affairs today about xi and it's written from a western-centric perspective which disapproves of of it all course, but it's interesting because rudd is, like, the only current or former western leader who seems to take marxism-leninism seriously enough to even consider it a factor this was an excellent read. Time to reread my Mao too I think, its been far too long.
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Nov 5, 2022 17:53
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DiscountDildos posted:https://twitter.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1588802112464769024?s=20&t=REbmKsaCD7aw5EGaDzkjBA This is awesome, China is going to have so much room for all the migrants languishing under white supremacist violence in the west.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:17
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Corky Romanovsky posted:Hopefully the subordinates don't reinterpret it as maximum density while ignoring green and community spaces. like the other poster said, there is a standard of having garden and community spaces. In Taiwan too, there no urban block without a playground, a big square, and it's always full of parents with kids and teenagers learning hip hop dance and elderly people exercising with each other. And tons of dance and Tai Qi groups Climb a mountain in Taipei and at the top there will be 80 year olds doing pushups on public pull up bars & hanging out togeter. Chinese culture is park culture and it's unstoppable
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Nov 5, 2022 18:39
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And that's a result of the high density urban living - no one wants to be at home because home is too small for yourself, let alone guests. That means people are out every where and that actually makes almost everywhere safe at night cause its full of light, people, businesses etc. Moving back to USA I spend less time seeing people (friends are always looking for other friends to go out with in Asia - so that there' not at home!). But also when I do see friends it's often at their residence. It sucks. Also the insane volume of people means eating out is as cheap as cooking. and kitchens in apartments are tiny anyway, not a joy to cook in
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Nov 5, 2022 18:44
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another reverse culture shock is how much America has divided things into "for men" "for women" and "for adults" "for kids" that china doesn't really do and I gotta say that they got that right as well.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:46
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EasternBronze posted:This is awesome, China is going to have so much room for all the migrants languishing under white supremacist violence in the west. It could use some sidewalks tbh.
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Nov 5, 2022 18:56
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Orange Devil posted:It could use some sidewalks tbh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf
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Nov 5, 2022 19:02
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roads are primarily a pedestrian space in sane urban designs the old medieval centre of our town has narrow roads with no/tiny sidewalks and our solution to the inflation in car numbers over the years was to just close the entire fuckin area for cars lol now you need special documentation to go there, and even then it's only allowed in 5-9 in the morning, except for emergency services like fire trucks/ambulances
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Nov 5, 2022 19:11
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Truga posted:roads are primarily a pedestrian space in sane urban designs street = public space between residences and businesses i.e. street parking road = public way for moving between those spaces (no such word as "road parking" cause you only use road for transit, it's not a pedestrian space) America doesn't have streets, only roads. we say street parking as a vestigal organ of pre-car life
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Nov 5, 2022 19:30
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driving in manhattan is still baffling to me
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Nov 5, 2022 19:33
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Antonymous posted:street = public space between residences and businesses i.e. street parking north america has something even worse: stroads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
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Nov 5, 2022 20:24
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indigi posted:Bernie sanders is a failure and there will be no lasting impact from his campaigns I gave up on democratic socialism and became a sindicalista so that's a lasting impact. I'm sure I'm not the only one. He jokerfied and radicalized many people.
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Nov 5, 2022 22:22
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Cup Runneth Over posted:I gave up on democratic socialism and became a sindicalista lol
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Nov 5, 2022 22:29
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Ghost Leviathan posted:No one in the west wants to believe that China actually takes communist rhetoric seriously, because that implies they can't be co-opted by capitalism and made to destroy themselves with it like Russia. I think they told the "Socialism with Chinese characteristics looks an awful lot like Capitalism" joke so much they belelieved it and thought that like Western leaders, the Chinese leadership were all cynical sociopaths that don't believe in anything like them and were just using Communist rhetoric and symbols to maintain power and legitimacy. Xi following through on the idea of two steps forwardz one step back and progressing steps towards building Communism confuses them
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Nov 5, 2022 22:52
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Don't pretend you're not cringe
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Nov 5, 2022 23:10
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Don't pretend you're not cringe living on an art commune in oaxaca in 2013 i tried to differentiate myself from people talking about american imperialism by saying "no mi, yo estoy una marxista" and the anarchists all laughed until i said "...pero es mi sistema"
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Nov 5, 2022 23:21
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