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Orange Devil posted:Chinese people protest a hell of a lot more than people in the US and most (all? maybe France is the exception) capitalist countries and they also have the expectation that their protest will have effect and lead to change. Simultaneously they know there are some things, like say CPC rule, that you don’t protest against for fear of having your life ruined. what do you tell them
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May 7, 2023 10:07
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crepeface posted:speaking of freedom of protest just lmao @ the UK coronation this is different, the UK is a democracy and these people are criminals have you not seen the recently released global press freedom index? please read the OP
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May 7, 2023 10:26
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Zodium posted:what do you tell them I'd be their Spooky scrooge racist Christmas ghost, showing them their future if they don't change their capitalist ways.
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May 7, 2023 10:26
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Zodium posted:what do you tell them Well about the migrant labour I try to explain that those people are in a massively precarious position where they can be effectively fired at will, and since they are employed through temp agencies which also provide their housing being fired also means immediate homelessness and often also immediate cessation of their health insurance. Combine that with language barriers (both between any Dutch colleagues but also among themselves, as there are usually Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian people working side by side) and the economic situation being such that even with this exploitation they still make more money than they could back at home and thus they are to an extent "voluntarily" (as much as anything for the proletariat is voluntary in capitalism) accepting this situation, doing a small scale protest is economic suicide, and good luck organizing a large scale protest. I don't know if it's the specific Chinese people I've talked to or if it's a cultural thing, but I have found that, for lack of a better way to describe it, they are often quite judgemental still even with the explanation. As in, quick to still blame the workers for their own lot ("if it's really so bad they should just protest anyways, and if they don't it's their own fault"). At times combined with at the same time saying people here don't have so much to complain about because poor workers in China still have it worse.
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May 7, 2023 10:36
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They sound like libs tbh.
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May 7, 2023 10:49
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Why don't people protest? It's because they're actually completely fine with whatever terrible thing is going on so long as it doesn't bother them personally.
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May 7, 2023 12:18
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Throatwarbler posted:Yes, the movie about test pilots testing experimental aircraft that contains nothing whatsoever about any potential adversary is "China's Top Gun". It's funny that the thing that is objectionable is China making a movie that is like a movie already made twice (and 100 times over in other franchises) in the United States. Somehow, very apropos.
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May 7, 2023 12:35
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Tankbuster posted:Fate: Stay/Night 
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May 7, 2023 13:11
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Tankbuster posted:yeah, if only fromsoftware had made it. Then the entire game wouldn't run on PC and we would get political treatises on it. "I wish ZA/UM made Fallout" Monkey's Paw: It's developed after the original founders have left the company
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May 7, 2023 13:23
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Somebody has already said it, but a gung-ho war story without nationalism, is basically anime. 95% of the anime take place in fantasy, or based on actual nations and history but have the names filed off, sometimes do a very sloppy job of filing out the labels.
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May 7, 2023 13:24
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OK you've convinced me, I prefer it with nationalism.
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May 7, 2023 14:16
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PhilippAchtel posted:"I wish ZA/UM made Fallout" And released post a Microsoft aquisition, the true stamp of enduring quality.
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May 7, 2023 14:24
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stephenthinkpad posted:Somebody has already said it, but a gung-ho war story without nationalism, is basically anime. 95% of the anime take place in fantasy, or based on actual nations and history but have the names filed off, sometimes do a very sloppy job of filing out the labels. britannica
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May 7, 2023 14:26
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ben norton did a interview with an australian (!!!) who wrote "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners". a bunch of interesting stuff in there about deng and whole process people's democracy in a fairly academic marxist context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgcyqkEOhQc
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May 7, 2023 14:28
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Looking at Ben Norton my first question is, "Does this dude eat any meat?" and the answer is nope, vegan. More beans, maybe?
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May 7, 2023 14:54
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crepeface posted:ben norton did a interview with an australian (!!!) who wrote "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners". a bunch of interesting stuff in there about deng and whole process people's democracy in a fairly academic marxist context i read part of the book last year, it seemed decent and i want to pick it back up again later
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May 7, 2023 15:42
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:Looking at Ben Norton my first question is, "Does this dude eat any meat?" and the answer is nope, vegan. More beans, maybe? he looks like he has a liver disease
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May 7, 2023 15:42
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stephenthinkpad posted:Somebody has already said it, but a gung-ho war story without nationalism, is basically anime. 95% of the anime take place in fantasy, or based on actual nations and history but have the names filed off, sometimes do a very sloppy job of filing out the labels. and then there was that JSDF fantasy anime that got a lot of people mad.
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May 7, 2023 15:48
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Orange Devil posted:Chinese people protest a hell of a lot more than people in the US and most (all? maybe France is the exception) capitalist countries and they also have the expectation that their protest will have effect and lead to change. Simultaneously they know there are some things, like say CPC rule, that you don’t protest against for fear of having your life ruined. the mythical oriental protestor
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May 7, 2023 16:16
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everyone knows people from the orient cannot protest.
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May 7, 2023 16:21
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:Looking at Ben Norton my first question is, "Does this dude eat any meat?" and the answer is nope, vegan. More beans, maybe? ?
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May 7, 2023 16:25
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fart simpson posted:he looks like he has a liver disease lol
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May 7, 2023 17:37
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fart simpson posted:i read part of the book last year, it seemed decent and i want to pick it back up again later I keep looking for an epub of this but all I can find are pdfs
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May 7, 2023 17:45
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Centrist Committee posted:I keep looking for an epub of this but all I can find are pdfs i wanna buy the hardcover but its so expensive lol currently reading Legacy of Ashes
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May 7, 2023 17:48
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^ yeah I saw the print version was like $100 lol
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May 7, 2023 17:50
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Centrist Committee posted:I keep looking for an epub of this but all I can find are pdfs If you're outside of the USA and can access it (or can just use something like Tor), libgen and zlib both have mobi copies (which you can use calibre or something to convert to epub if you really need epub)
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May 7, 2023 18:07
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crepeface posted:ben norton did a interview with an australian (!!!) who wrote "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners". a bunch of interesting stuff in there about deng and whole process people's democracy in a fairly academic marxist context quote:life expectancy in China in 1949 was about 34, it’s now higher than the United States I did not know that particular stat (how low it was in the 40s). goddamn that owns.
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May 7, 2023 18:47
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crepeface posted:ben norton did a interview with an australian (!!!) who wrote "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners". a bunch of interesting stuff in there about deng and whole process people's democracy in a fairly academic marxist context an australian with the last name boer
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May 7, 2023 20:14
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https://twitter.com/thinking_panda/status/1655032358909927426
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May 7, 2023 20:53
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they put a god dang gay pagoda in nanchang
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May 7, 2023 20:55
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stephenthinkpad posted:Somebody has already said it, but a gung-ho war story without nationalism, is basically anime. 95% of the anime take place in fantasy, or based on actual nations and history but have the names filed off, sometimes do a very sloppy job of filing out the labels. My god could you imagine an Hollywood version of Girls und Panzer
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May 7, 2023 21:21
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Anime is garbage
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May 7, 2023 21:23
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there's gonna be a live action version of one piece
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May 7, 2023 21:23
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Slavvy posted:Anime is garbage Dragon Ball was pretty cool. When I was a kid, I'd get up super early in the morning to watch episodes of it (I don't know how much exactly the stuff shown here was lagging behind what was being produced at the time, but it was quite a bit). However, it was competing for slots with the late night broadcasts of Vojislav Šešelj's trial, and if a trial segment went on for too long, I'd end up having to watch a bunch of legal proceedings before getting to see Goku explode things. And sometimes they'd skip Dragon Ball to fit in more Šešelj. God, that was a lot Šešelj.
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May 7, 2023 21:28
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my dad posted:Dragon Ball was pretty cool. When I was a kid, I'd get up super early in the morning to watch episodes of it (I don't know how much exactly the stuff shown here was lagging behind what was being produced at the time, but it was quite a bit). I did this too! Kids are stupid and I was no exception. And hell, nothing's changed
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May 7, 2023 21:30
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you just got jaded like everybody else
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May 7, 2023 21:35
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I also grew up watching Digimon, too. We had a pretty good dub. Much, much, much, much later I watched Fullmetal Alchemist, it was pretty neat, too. Legend of the Galactic Heroes is pretty cool too. My sister watched Bleach a lot. Like, a lot. Like, holy poo poo a lot. I never watched a single episode. e: I like to pretend I have never watched Gun X Sword. Man, that was a trippy show. Someone had the rips of most episodes on a DVD. Notably not including that one super sketchy episode. e2: Also, thanks to "cartoons are for kids, right?" I got to watch Princess Monokoke and Vandread at a very young age. That, uh, probably wasn't the best idea. my dad has issued a correction as of 21:53 on May 7, 2023 |
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May 7, 2023 21:50
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Legend of galactic heroes is great, it's a materialist anime about the dumbest liberal democrats to ever exist fighting the smartest Imperial rulers to ever exist and the moral is that both systems are terribly stupid and doomed from the get go. (USER WAS PERMABANNED FOR THIS POST)
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May 7, 2023 22:00
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BennyProfane posted:Legend of galactic heroes is great, it's a materialist anime about the dumbest liberal democrats to ever exist fighting the smartest Imperial rulers to ever exist and the moral is that both systems are terribly stupid and doomed from the get go. Don't forget the evangelical theocrats trying to push the buttons from behind too for Earth cult supremacy. Great show.
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May 7, 2023 22:03
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my dad posted:e2: Also, thanks to "cartoons are for kids, right?" I got to watch Princess Monokoke and Vandread at a very young age. That, uh, probably wasn't the best idea. ehhh, mononoke is slightly spicier disney vandred, however... 
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May 7, 2023 22:08
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