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Gildiss
Aug 24, 2010

Grimey Drawer
US national crosses military demarcation line into NK: UN Command

quote:

A U.S. citizen has crossed the military demarcation line separating the two Koreas into North Korea without authorization, the U.S.-led UN Command (UNC) said Tuesday.

The man moved into the North during a tour to the Joint Security Area in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and is believed to be in North Korea's custody, according to the UNC.

The command did not elaborate on other details.

"We ... are working with our KPA counterparts to resolve this incident," the UNC said in a tweet referring to the North's Korean People's Army.

The incident came as Pyongyang is expected to respond angrily to the first U.S. nuclear-capable ballistic missile submarine visit to South Korea in decades and the inaugural session of the allies' Nuclear Consultative Group in Seoul this week.

Some observers raised the possibility that the incident could lead to direct engagement between Washington and Pyongyang on the release of the U.S. national and other bilateral issues.

The UNC oversees activities in the DMZ. (Yonhap)

Lol

Lmao, if he has covid.
Which is a very distinct possibility with the current caseload of 27k avg daily cases with basically no one masking or caring anymore.
BIOWEAPON ATTACK
https://i.imgur.com/bG29eDc.mp4

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Twitter is hurting so bad for advertiser's that I'm getting epoch times promoted tweets

ScootsMcSkirt
Oct 29, 2013


goddamn this is an awesome and inspiring thread

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Jose posted:

Twitter is hurting so bad for advertiser's that I'm getting epoch times promoted tweets

Goon project: Shen Yun watch party

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

fart simpson posted:

one of chuangs things that they always talk about is how there fundamentally cannot be any socialist state or socialist society as long as capitalism still exists in the world. its global all or nothing. which, we know means its nothing and you dont need to do anything about it. very convenient

I mean they're sort of right, I guess. The ultimate goal should be global socialism so you can transition to communism; leaving capitalist states around is an inherent failure and will lead to the system either collapsing or becoming a lovely tiered system. China has largely focused on just building infrastructure and fostering more positive interconnectedness via belt and road and an increase in interstate rail and road so it's something they've thought about at least

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

ughhhh posted:

Getting any access to english language material regarding China requires you to read extensively and form your own thought. So having some Chinese sounding group write a huge fuckoff book about current/relevant issues in China makes you sound very smart

With Taiwan all you have is New Bloom Magazine (Brian Hioe lol), Xiangyu the rapper, and the rare stephenthinkpad post

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I'd read a stephenthinkpad newsletter

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

Lmao. Brian Hioe used to be in us weirdo Marxist group Platypus

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Gildiss posted:

US national crosses military demarcation line into NK: UN Command

Lol

Lmao, if he has covid.
Which is a very distinct possibility with the current caseload of 27k avg daily cases with basically no one masking or caring anymore.
BIOWEAPON ATTACK
https://i.imgur.com/bG29eDc.mp4

Guys a troop apparently,
God speed, defector

Miles Blundell
May 7, 2023

by Pragmatica

Grapplejack posted:

I mean they're sort of right, I guess. The ultimate goal should be global socialism so you can transition to communism; leaving capitalist states around is an inherent failure and will lead to the system either collapsing or becoming a lovely tiered system. China has largely focused on just building infrastructure and fostering more positive interconnectedness via belt and road and an increase in interstate rail and road so it's something they've thought about at least

I mean it's true that a real definition of communism requires it to happen globally if you're being like a disciplined marxist leninist but also using that as a criticism of a socialist state is utterly stupid leftcom garbage. China's inability to abolish capitalism globally before 2023 doesn't really mean anything.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1680978922148642816

Burn Zone
May 22, 2004



this is king poo poo lmao

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

Burn Zone posted:

this is king poo poo lmao



Funnier than the Seth Rogen movie

quote:

U.S. officials told CBS News the soldier in question was Private 2nd Class Travis King, who had been released from military detention in South Korea and was being escorted out of the country for disciplinary reasons. After going through airport security to leave, he somehow returned and managed to join a border tour group before crossing into North Korea, the officials said.
...

A person who said they witnessed the event and was part of the same tour group told CBS News they had just visited one of the buildings at the site when "this man gives out a loud 'ha ha ha,' and just runs in between some buildings."

The witness said military personnel reacted within seconds to the man's actions, but at first, there was confusion.

"I thought it was a bad joke at first, but when he didn't come back, I realized it wasn't a joke, and then everybody reacted and things got crazy."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-korea-us-national-american-crosses-border-demilitarized-zone-dmz-tour/

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012


Lmao
Wonder what he did

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Grapplejack posted:

I mean they're sort of right, I guess. The ultimate goal should be global socialism so you can transition to communism; leaving capitalist states around is an inherent failure and will lead to the system either collapsing or becoming a lovely tiered system. China has largely focused on just building infrastructure and fostering more positive interconnectedness via belt and road and an increase in interstate rail and road so it's something they've thought about at least

problem is that you have to dismantle global capitalism in a way that doesn't end with the bourg nuking the world out of spite

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019
yeah I can hold the epstein thread and the punitive campaign against russia since the fall of the soviet union in my head on the one hand, and still chill and try to make do on the other, but i also don’t control the commanding heights of the largest economy in history, so im not gonna criticize the cpc for not doing revolution in america for me

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1681360056279760909

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Orange Devil posted:

People severely underestimating just how poor China was 75 years ago and just how much development you need to provide for 1.4 billion people (ie. 20% of the world population) is a very common theme in China criticism from the "left".

Okay so maybe China was responsible for probably the greatest reduction in poverty in a single country in human history

But is it the best place to express yourself as the son/daughter of a rich person? That is the truest measure of freedom and liberty.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Send an ex president over again lol.

I have the perfect former president in mind.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


That's actually the straightest line to a move carrier.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Kim should do some photoshoots with him

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Burn Zone posted:

this is king poo poo lmao



Leeeeeeroy Jenkins!!!

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Ytlaya posted:

Okay so maybe China was responsible for probably the greatest reduction in poverty in a single country in human history

But is it the best place to express yourself as the son/daughter of a rich person? That is the truest measure of freedom and liberty.

i like to ask people who say china needs to "allow political dissent" exactly what politics they think china is missing.

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

R. Guyovich posted:

the practical use of groups like this is to let people have terrible gbs opinions about china without having to throw in with the right wing dingbats who are slightly too vulgar about it for polite society

lolling again at the memory of that one time i got accused of being a "State department shill" and copjacketed since apparently asserting china is a communist country in the socialist stage of development was repeating US propaganda talking points

just absolutely baffling stuff from China Knowers

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Zodium posted:

i like to ask people who say china needs to "allow political dissent" exactly what politics they think china is missing.

You have way more patience than I do.

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

Maximo Roboto posted:

With Taiwan all you have is New Bloom Magazine (Brian Hioe lol), Xiangyu the rapper, and the rare stephenthinkpad post

Isn't Brian Hioe American?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

gradenko_2000 posted:

I'd read a stephenthinkpad newsletter

what if you could subscribe to a weekly digest of his posts in your email inbox?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

you could probably write a little script to make an EPUB magazine summarizing that week in posts from the forum

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

stephenthinkpad posted:

Send an ex president over again lol.

I have the perfect former president in mind.

it would be hilarious if he did that and then requested asylum due to the endless witch hunts and political persecution he has endured in the US

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Zodium posted:

i like to ask people who say china needs to "allow political dissent" exactly what politics they think china is missing.

The politics of freedom...

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/michaelxpettis/status/1681246985234313219

why neolibs think the gdp number is fake: it includes spending on infrastructure instead of real numbers like business investment

MuffinsAndPie
May 20, 2015

I love our productive collapsing highways

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Michael penis at it again I see

Telluric Whistler
Sep 14, 2008


Zodium posted:

i like to ask people who say china needs to "allow political dissent" exactly what politics they think china is missing.

The politics of allowing gay people on TV, not censoring Star Wars posters, and freeing Peng Shuai!

Fascist!

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Star Wars is imperial Japanese propaganda anyway.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Telluric Whistler posted:

The politics of allowing gay people on TV, not censoring Star Wars posters, and freeing Peng Shuai!

Fascist!

Don't forget the skeletons

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

Slavvy posted:

Michael penis at it again I see

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

it's a tough choice to make but if i can get a functioning government that puts my interests and wellbeing as first priority at the expense not being able to call President Xi winnie the pooh then it's a sacrifice i'm willing to take

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Slavvy posted:

Michael penis at it again I see

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Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

yellowcar posted:

it's a tough choice to make but if i can get a functioning government that puts my interests and wellbeing as first priority at the expense not being able to call President Xi winnie the pooh then it's a sacrifice i'm willing to take

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