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Orange Devil posted:Important context is that time when foreign powers, chiefly Britain, forcibly flooded the whole country in drugs as part of an effort to subjugate, colonize and rob it of all its wealth. Lol remember just like a month ago when the US empire media affiliates got really annoyed because the Taliban stopped their supply for continuing to do that?
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Jul 12, 2023 16:13
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cannabis for instance was forcibly turned into the global bad boogeyman drug due to uncle sam's hatred of jazz cigarettes.
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Jul 12, 2023 16:39
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quote:The Chinese government takes the use of illegal drugs very seriously. Unlike in the United States, where many homeless persons are drug addicts, the homeless Chinese are mostly destitute or mentally ill. lol
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Jul 12, 2023 17:47
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Sorry goons but drug abuse is bad and detrimental to society.
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Jul 12, 2023 17:52
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appropriating Reagan era talking points, socialistly
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Jul 12, 2023 17:53
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Mantis42 posted:Sorry goons but drug abuse is bad and detrimental to society. We will never ban 茅台
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Jul 12, 2023 17:54
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drug use != drug abuse 
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Jul 12, 2023 17:55
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I'm getting my fix right now (posting)
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Jul 12, 2023 17:57
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indigi posted:appropriating Reagan era talking points, socialistly Conservatives speak about community but socialism actually builds it. Sorry libs but we're coming for your fentanyl.
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Jul 12, 2023 17:59
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:lol that the US did it domestically instead drat, that's true
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Jul 12, 2023 18:27
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Mantis42 posted:Conservatives speak about community but socialism actually builds it. Sorry libs but we're coming for your fentanyl. then China's in a lot of trouble
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Jul 12, 2023 18:29
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Mantis42 posted:Sorry goons but drug abuse is bad and detrimental to society. We can ban drug use if we also ban anime. Otherwise, I need the one to deal with the existence of the other.
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Jul 12, 2023 18:33
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Its time to reboot Breaking Bad with a Fentanyl setting. Also purchased with Chinese digital currency.
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Jul 12, 2023 19:08
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:lol that the US did it domestically instead the US working class is a colonized population
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Jul 12, 2023 20:29
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Slavvy posted:We can ban drug use if we also ban anime. Otherwise, I need the one to deal with the existence of the other. skill issue
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Jul 12, 2023 21:59
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stephenthinkpad posted:Its time to reboot Breaking Bad with a Fentanyl setting. Also purchased with Chinese digital currency. I can easily imagine Jesse Pinkman as a crypto guy
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Jul 12, 2023 22:00
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Jesse...it's time to mine
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Jul 12, 2023 22:33
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Jesse and Walt taking turns cranking a fan in front of a rack of GPUs
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Jul 12, 2023 22:34
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im hearing the PLA is conscripting 5 year old central american children as sleeper agents for the upcoming war https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1678784534656200705 lol that even newt can barely contain his laughter
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Jul 12, 2023 23:04
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Ojetor posted:im hearing the PLA is conscripting 5 year old central american children as sleeper agents for the upcoming war I wonder if Cornell ever regrets giving this guy a degree and job
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Jul 12, 2023 23:12
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Any suggested english language books on modern Chinese history/politics/economics (post cultural revolution) that aren't full of yellow peril type stuff?
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Jul 12, 2023 23:17
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I wonder if Cornell ever regrets giving this guy a degree and job Cornell is a breeding ground for this type of poo poo.
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Jul 12, 2023 23:26
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I read The Great Divergence in grad school and really liked it. it’s a historiographic examination of the economic changes of the 18th and 19th centuries specifically with regards to trying to understand why China, objectively the wealthiest polity on earth in 1700, was eventually displaced and exploited by Europe. it’s got a few parts about the first embassies and ambassadorial visits between European powers and the Qing discussing the sort of social and economic pressures/expectations scaffolding the way the two sets of officials would interact with each other, doing a sort of narrative thing about early official encounters between China and colonial entities. the second half has a lot of cliometrics and historiography exploring why the author thinks things happened the way they did with lots of nice CSPAM friendly charts about linen production, exports, etc but with none of the Diamond style determinism and a lot of appropriately hedged and contextualized historical interpretation. no yellow peril since it largely avoids discussing the Communist Party and I remember it being an pretty edifying read
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Jul 12, 2023 23:27
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any suggested english language books on modern Chinese history/politics/economics (post cultural revolution) that aren't full of yellow peril type stuff? Probably books written before 2008 when America move the cross hair on China. If you want a personal expat story, check out China Road.
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Jul 12, 2023 23:39
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How China Avoided Shock Therapy, The Search for Modern China, Ezra Vogel's Deng biography
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Jul 12, 2023 23:52
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The Search for Modern China is also really good, the class with the great divergence also included that and I don’t remember it as well but recall it being a more general textbook
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Jul 13, 2023 00:00
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Thailand is about to erupt. Pita failed in his bid to become PM despite MFP winning the most votes in the election. In the whole of the 250 member junta-appointed senate, I believe only 11 voted for Pita (he had 312 members of parliament in an alliance with him before today and got 323 as his final tally). No idea what's going to happen now. Probably Pheu Thai will offer up a compromise candidate. There are definitely going to be insane amounts of protest
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Jul 13, 2023 12:06
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Shouldn't the former PM-General next at bat to try to form a government? Or he just sit back and let Pheu Thai fail first. I wonder what the bold guy say?
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Jul 13, 2023 12:17
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Yossarian-22 posted:Thailand is about to erupt. Pita failed in his bid to become PM despite MFP winning the most votes in the election. In the whole of the 250 member junta-appointed senate, I believe only 11 voted for Pita (he had 312 members of parliament in an alliance with him before today and got 323 as his final tally). It was pretty clear that the MFP is US-backed, and it may have been a case that both Pheu Thai and the military weren't that enthused by such an outcome.
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Jul 13, 2023 12:18
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Disney exploring sale or partners for India business, source says Looks like Disney lost the broadcast right to Indian cricket league. Just put "Disney's" in front of all Hinduism gods and make perpetual copyrighted movies, bing bong so simple. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:54 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jul 13, 2023 12:49
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wild that disney let the IPL slip out of their grasp.
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Jul 13, 2023 12:50
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https://twitter.com/_ijb0lshevik/status/1679446721032765441 reddit bullshit spilling out into real life "tsekwa kalaban, hinde kaibigan" translates to "[slur for Chinese people] are enemies, not friends" but also, I do want to throw out here that "West Philippine Sea Day" is a sentiment that cuts across the political spectrum: https://twitter.com/bworldph/status/1679271927209394177 here's the Senate's resident SocDem proposing it https://twitter.com/inquirerdotnet/status/1679061404634980352 and here's the leftist bloc proposing to make it into a law so for fascists (I resist the urge to merely dismiss them as LARPing) to join in on the gathering in front of the Chinese Embassy on the 12th, as driven by anti-communist and racist verve, in unison with an event that also involved liberals and leftists who take up the banner of the West Philippine Sea for geopolitical reasons, belies the problem of nationalism. gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 12:58 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jul 13, 2023 12:53
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Ardennes posted:It was pretty clear that the MFP is US-backed, and it may have been a case that both Pheu Thai and the military weren't that enthused by such an outcome. I think you're reading too much into the whole "color revolution" U.S.-centric narrative. It might be true that they are more aligned toward the U.S. than China but I think it's much more about MFP wanting to repeal the lese-majeste law than anything else. Thailand has been a bit sour with China as of late anyway https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/china-losing-us-gaining-crucial-ground-in-thailand/ I think any leader of Thailand would likely continue the tradition of playing China and the U.S. off against each other
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Jul 13, 2023 13:00
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stephenthinkpad posted:Just put "Disney's" in front of all Hinduism gods and make perpetual copyrighted movies, bing bong so simple. theyre doing this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahm%C4%81stra:_Part_One_%E2%80%93_Shiva
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Jul 13, 2023 14:57
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Yossarian-22 posted:I think you're reading too much into the whole "color revolution" U.S.-centric narrative. It might be true that they are more aligned toward the U.S. than China but I think it's much more about MFP wanting to repeal the lese-majeste law than anything else. Thailand has been a bit sour with China as of late anyway https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/china-losing-us-gaining-crucial-ground-in-thailand/ The one piece of evidence in that article seems to be that a rail-line has been slow moving in terms of construction. Thailand has still slowly been moving into China's orbit and I don't think it is going to stop.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:20
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Yossarian-22 posted:Thailand is about to erupt. Pita failed in his bid to become PM despite MFP winning the most votes in the election. In the whole of the 250 member junta-appointed senate, I believe only 11 voted for Pita (he had 312 members of parliament in an alliance with him before today and got 323 as his final tally). would not be surprised if thaksin wins this somehow. If PT doesnt, will likely be big protests. Thaksin is probably more palatable to the military/aristocrat reactionaries in the senate than MFP.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:36
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Just remembered Obama and Yingluck Shinawatra
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Jul 13, 2023 15:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/_ijb0lshevik/status/1679446721032765441 hasn’t this been a thing for a while? Rappler for example which I think leans centre left uses West Philippine Sea when they can they’re not trying to distract from real things like the teachers labour union head in Davao (?) being red tagged
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Jul 13, 2023 15:54
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to be clear, there is a legitimate difference between the South China Sea, and the West Philippine Sea, where the WPS is a subset/subregion of the SCS. It's not a purely semantic shibboleth like CPP versus CPC when I complain about how Philippine politics treats the WPS, my quarrel is mostly about how: - it's treated as an absolute non-negotiable - China is considered the only problematic actor in the issue - it is worth kowtowing to the Americans over it
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Jul 13, 2023 16:03
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gradenko_2000 posted:Just remembered Obama and Yingluck Shinawatra Sequel idea for The King and I. AnimeIsTrash posted:theyre doing this God drat Disney always ruin my joke. Was it popular or it tanked like live action Mulan?
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Jul 13, 2023 16:07
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