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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍 First new year best new year Much love to the global south
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Dec 31, 2022 14:22
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Hedenius posted:Back in China for the first time in nearly three years. It’s a weird feeling when all the controls, testing and quarantine stuff is technically in place but nobody gives a poo poo since they know it will all go away in a week or so. We had to spend one night in a hotel to confirm that we tested negative and then we were allowed to go wherever. i for one am stoked to be leaving china at the exact same moment pcr tests are a pain in the rear end to get and the united states now requires them to get back in so the airliners reaction to any test i give them could be anything from nah we dont need to see anything well take your word for it to sorry we need dr faucis personal signature or we have no choice but to conclude this test result is fake
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Dec 31, 2022 14:35
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍 happy new year yall
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Dec 31, 2022 14:35
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 14:42
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mila kunis posted:happy new year yall
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Dec 31, 2022 14:46
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 15:11
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 15:16
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 15:25
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 15:38
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 15:51
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍 shouldn’t we save this for the lunar new year
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Dec 31, 2022 15:54
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 16:20
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Gregorian new year for the Japan goons, Luna new year for the Confucianism region goons. Do we have corespondent in the Indochina region that celebrate Buddhism new year?
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Dec 31, 2022 16:23
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 16:39
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 16:49
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gradenko_2000 posted:The CIA does take advantage of every bit of dissent that it can in target nations whenever the opportunity rears its head yah
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Dec 31, 2022 17:08
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 17:15
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 17:28
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 18:10
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 18:13
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I don't really celebrate the new year but I got a question about an Asian country and nowhere else to ask it. How neoliberal is India? I had a family member bring it up to me as possible opposition to China's ascendance after the fall of the West, and I realized that I don't actually know if India has much in the way of state capacity to actually do stuff aside from enriching billionaires or not. I honestly don't get the impression that they're really super interested in fighting China for global dominance even if they have been siding more with the US recently but I feel like I should know a bit more about a country with well over a billion people in it.
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Dec 31, 2022 18:20
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I also don't know a ton about Indian politics, but what I do recall is that their elective bodies have very very large numbers of political parties and those parties usually reflect local politics more than national politics. Which I guess would make a national character harder to see, even if you were pretty informed about things?
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Dec 31, 2022 18:26
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indian politics is very regional and different states will have varying levels of state support. the indian welfare state is threadbare, but you can get things like free (if crappy) education and subsidized medical care if your income level is low and you're lucky to live in a place where it's been robustly implemented and not been stripped away (again, extremely high variance from region to region, and across rural/urban divides within regions). the central government is historically weak and relies on links with local muscle/patronage politicians to build support but i think this may have been changing recently with the BJP using its huge sums of cash to just buy up regionalist politicians. i would say things are less "neoliberal" because that implies some kind of erosion from a priorly strong base and more like "19th century industrial revolution levels of horrific working conditions, living conditions, widespread malnourishment and oppression". that said modi has been trying to liberalize even basic things like farm subsidies (whose implementation again varies regionally) - india has millions of small plot peasant landholders and modi clearly wants those people driven out and farmland consolidated under agribusiness conglomerates run by his pals, which qualifies as neoliberalism i guess. those "reforms" failed but they'll try again. also if you define neoliberalism as "oligarchs with insider access get stuff" then there's that happening too, prior state monopolies such as telecoms, commodities are being given over to oligarchs mila kunis has issued a correction as of 19:17 on Dec 31, 2022 |
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Dec 31, 2022 19:14
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mawarannahr posted:(why don’t they put an article before nato anyway? I thought the nato loves articles ). i think the rule is that acronyms you say as words (nato, nasa, opec) do not get articles, acronyms where you say the letters (un, imf) do get articles.
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Dec 31, 2022 19:27
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lobster shirt posted:acronyms where you say the letters (un, imf) do get articles. Initialisms
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Dec 31, 2022 19:29
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍
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Dec 31, 2022 19:29
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Ranter posted:Initialisms dont care
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Dec 31, 2022 19:30
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https://twitter.com/sgmworldnews/status/1609008735128817664?s=46&t=tpV4D24ZRBjMdYLFni8wbg Lol Lmao
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Dec 31, 2022 19:36
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lobster shirt posted:i think the rule is that acronyms you say as words (nato, nasa, opec) do not get articles, acronyms where you say the letters (un, imf) do get articles. The cia however likes to go by just “cia” which is not the most wild thing they do but still weird
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Dec 31, 2022 19:37
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/sgmworldnews/status/1609008735128817664?s=46&t=tpV4D24ZRBjMdYLFni8wbg china selling their poo poo at a massive loss to make ASML and TSMC go under would be infinitely funny
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Dec 31, 2022 19:39
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also pretty sure those are marx-engels collected works on xi's shelf 
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Dec 31, 2022 19:39
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exmarx posted:happy new year to president xi and every body in the asia / oceania thread 😎👍 You're 6 months out bro.
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Dec 31, 2022 19:40
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Best Friends posted:The cia however likes to go by just “cia” which is not the most wild thing they do but still weird it’s a really good tell
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Dec 31, 2022 20:15
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/sgmworldnews/status/1609008735128817664?s=46&t=tpV4D24ZRBjMdYLFni8wbg sucks to your ASML
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Dec 31, 2022 20:24
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https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1609137764360159233
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Dec 31, 2022 22:14
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Sorry Chen this is a one way street
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Dec 31, 2022 22:40
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 Cambridge University lmao
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mila kunis posted:indian politics is very regional and different states will have varying levels of state support. the indian welfare state is threadbare, but you can get things like free (if crappy) education and subsidized medical care if your income level is low and you're lucky to live in a place where it's been robustly implemented and not been stripped away (again, extremely high variance from region to region, and across rural/urban divides within regions). the central government is historically weak and relies on links with local muscle/patronage politicians to build support but i think this may have been changing recently with the BJP using its huge sums of cash to just buy up regionalist politicians. Its a federal country. The central government will always be weaker than a unitary state lol. And yes things are eroding because Modi is systematically rolling back things like farming subsidies, the WPA style rural works program etc that brought enough rural people out of poverty that there was a labor crunch in seasonal labor - essentially inverting trends that had been common since the Raj had been laying down railroads. Technically you can go to a government hospital and get treated for cheap but marketbrains means that people will pay for the premium option even if it is all around worse. Places like Southern india where the trend is buckled essentially has a generation+ of people who have grown up under less-than-shoddy state capacity and generally are aware that marketizing everything isn't better. There was a reddit post on how some dude's cleaning lady's brother attempted suicide and she was begging them for a years salary in advance so that he could go to a private hospital and be treated. Now this was next to new delhi so they drove the guy there in a government ambulance to a government hospital, had the girl sign a waiver that the hospital would not me responsible for the brother's death and then pumped his stomach while not charging anything for the service. This woman was ready to sell herself into peonage because she wouldn't go to the government hospital - because if it was free it was bad.
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quote:[...] why didn't the prc bend to the whims of industry, why must they slap away the invisible hand of market forces 
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