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DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

Grrrr fuckign sissypee trolls!

https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1686198768801386496?s=20

DiscountDildos has issued a correction as of 04:14 on Aug 1, 2023

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Grapplejack posted:

sun bears are the most hosed up creature on earth. They look horrifying, they have hosed up tongues, and they act weird.

hosed up animals are the best

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Doktor Avalanche posted:

now i'm imagining some western china watcher youtuber going to china and jumping into the enclosure with a camera filming themselves to prove these bears are actually people in costume and getting mauled into raw hamburger

lol

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Doktor Avalanche posted:

now i'm imagining some western china watcher youtuber going to china and jumping into the enclosure with a camera filming themselves to prove these bears are actually people in costume and getting mauled into raw hamburger

Holding a selfie stick:

"Hey fam it's ya boy wheezy hope y'all having a super delicious daaaaay. Today we gonna be proving these Chinese be lying to y'all."

Jumps panda enclosure fence. Assorted blood curdling screaming ensues.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
✔️✔️✔️✔️

so i learned sri lanka has a higher HDI than china lol

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
sri lanka is kerala with neoliberalism and bloodcurdling subcontinental racism (completely incomprehensible to outsiders)

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

are they one of those countries where a third of them are convinced theyre white even though an actual white person couldnt tell the difference between them and any other random sri lankan person if there was a gun pointed to their head

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Tankbuster posted:

sri lanka is kerala with neoliberalism and bloodcurdling subcontinental racism (completely incomprehensible to outsiders)

I once got to watch a sri lankan guy get in a physical altercation with a tamil guy over some incomprehensible bullshit, they had successfully worked side by side for the previous five years with no issues. Neither were able to articulate to me, a dumb white guy, what it was about at all.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Grapplejack posted:

sun bears are the most hosed up creature on earth. They look horrifying, they have hosed up tongues, and they act weird.

that's a mirror bitch

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

Have you people never heard of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Tamil Tigers, their invention of suicide bombings and being the only terrorist organization to field aircraft, M.I.A., etc.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

stephenthinkpad posted:

I watched a Chinese finance youtuber discussion of Yellen's visit. (He is the Author of "Currency Wars")

He has a much more convincing analysis of what Yellen asked for based on the recent western finance media narratives

He said Yellen is asking for China to forgive large chunk of BRI and Global South debts, if China doesn't comply, the West will re-cook the "debt trap" angle again. The west won't forgive their debts, why? "because they are private debts" owned largely by the 3 US private investment funds (BlackRock Invesco and Vanguads). Canada recent made a stink about "AIIB being controlled by China." So the 5 eyes countries are already working on this "Debt Trap 2.0" angle.

He said "per UN, since Covid IMF and World Bank has lent 280 billions to the developed countries, and only 8 billions to the developing countries." So a lot of developing countries are running into financial troubles and they need balt out from the AIIB or the Brics bank,. And the US is trying to shut down Beijing's alternative lending competition to the IMF.

This analysis makes a lot of sense when you think about the recent news of China lending RMB to Argentina to repay their IMF debt. Argentina exchanged part of the RMB to USD before repaying, and paid about half to IMF directly in RMB. This act probably touched a lot of old money red lines.

Secondly, Yellen asks for Beijing buy more US debts (well no surprise here).

Yellen is not going to touch the tariff issue because the US officials are very good at point the responsibility to other colleagues. She won't answer on the semiconductor sanctions either.

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BTW on the subject of tariff, if the US keep this tariff up for a few more years, IMO the oversea drop shippers (Temi Aliexpress Shein ) are going to steal alot of business from the US retail stores.

you forgot the actual reason they want China to forgive debts: so the countries the infrastructure is built in can mortgage the newly debt free infrastructure to US capital. China would then have built infrastructure that is used as collateral for US vampire banks for debt repossession. Its just another scam alongside "please buy the debt we will use to surround you with military bases"

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Let me tell you what's actually going to happen. They'll get on board with BRICS, de dollarize and any money owing to the IMF, world bank, USA or your uncle's pizzaria will be last priority for repayment - if at all.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

wait did i misunderstand that post or is yellens threat literally that well say mean things about china if they dont give in to our demands

Eminent DNS
May 28, 2007

Doktor Avalanche posted:

now i'm imagining some western china watcher youtuber going to china and jumping into the enclosure with a camera filming themselves to prove these bears are actually people in costume and getting mauled into raw hamburger

After consulting Wikipedia, it seems like they'd be more likely to lick the inside of his beehive completely clean

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Maximo Roboto posted:

Have you people never heard of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Tamil Tigers, their invention of suicide bombings and being the only terrorist organization to field aircraft, M.I.A., etc.

yeah lol. the tamil genocide was happening like 15 years ago!

Eminent DNS
May 28, 2007

Maximo Roboto posted:

Have you people never heard of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Tamil Tigers, their invention of suicide bombings and being the only terrorist organization to field aircraft, M.I.A., etc.

Okay wait, what about MIA?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Maximo Roboto posted:

Have you people never heard of the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Tamil Tigers, their invention of suicide bombings and being the only terrorist organization to field aircraft, M.I.A., etc.

They're mostly USA or euros. Of course they know none of those things, apart from whatever they can frantically Google on Wikipedia.

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy
Fun fact: long before drone warfare the Tamils were using radio controlled hobby aircraft. Trying to import one for recreational purposes would have been an unwise choice as powers that be would likely get involved even after the civil war ended.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Some Guy TT posted:

are they one of those countries where a third of them are convinced theyre white even though an actual white person couldnt tell the difference between them and any other random sri lankan person if there was a gun pointed to their head

no, just standard ethnic tensions.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Eminent DNS posted:

Okay wait, what about MIA?

her dad helped found one of the precursors to the tamil tigers. the amerikkkan media just laughed at her when she got famous and tried to bring attention to the genocide, i'm p sure there's a direct line between that and her turning antivax over covid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYtSN6e25hY

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Top City Homo posted:

you forgot the actual reason they want China to forgive debts: so the countries the infrastructure is built in can mortgage the newly debt free infrastructure to US capital. China would then have built infrastructure that is used as collateral for US vampire banks for debt repossession. Its just another scam alongside "please buy the debt we will use to surround you with military bases"

Lol I didn’t consider they’d try to repo bri infrastructure. These people really can’t see past the end of history

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

exmarx posted:

her dad helped found one of the precursors to the tamil tigers. the amerikkkan media just laughed at her when she got famous and tried to bring attention to the genocide, i'm p sure there's a direct line between that and her turning antivax over covid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYtSN6e25hY

doesnt need to be said again but it should, but bill maher is such a racist piece of poo poo

Eminent DNS
May 28, 2007

exmarx posted:

her dad helped found one of the precursors to the tamil tigers. the amerikkkan media just laughed at her when she got famous and tried to bring attention to the genocide, i'm p sure there's a direct line between that and her turning antivax over covid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYtSN6e25hY

Interesting, thanks for the video. It was actually tough to watch with Bill Maher playing himself, but it backed up what you were saying

Didn't know about the antivax poo poo tho, that sucks

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
Lmao
https://twitter.com/DrewPavlou/status/1686210385920356352?s=19
I'm cool with the gays! This poo poo is just loving foul!

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
tbh being bombarded with unsolicited pornographic material is questionable. OTOH Drew is a massive dork so he had to go on X and cry about it.

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

mark immune posted:

looking at a cops hotdog neck: this is a person in a pig suit, not a real animal

lol

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

exmarx posted:

that's a mirror bitch

nooo

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Top City Homo posted:

you forgot the actual reason they want China to forgive debts: so the countries the infrastructure is built in can mortgage the newly debt free infrastructure to US capital. China would then have built infrastructure that is used as collateral for US vampire banks for debt repossession. Its just another scam alongside "please buy the debt we will use to surround you with military bases"

Or China can lend them RMB, they use the RMB to buy more Chinese everyday goods. Or they can use the RMB to exchange for the USD to repay their IMF debt, or use RMB to repay their debt to IMF directly like Argentina did.

The west is upset China is competing with IMF directly. But Yellen currently is working for Biden not IMF so she has to think about her priority.

In any rate I don't think there is going to be a deal between China and US in the finance area.

I don't even think Xi will attend the APEC summit in the US.


Some Guy TT posted:

wait did i misunderstand that post or is yellens threat literally that well say mean things about china if they dont give in to our demands

The only way US can make a deal with China is that the US agree to cancel the semiconductor sanctions, in other words it has to be a package to package deal, China will step back on rare metal sanction and stop selling US debts.

But the current white house is incapable of making a package deal.

This year is going to be temporary lowering of contest intensity, that's about it.

There isn't going to be a "reestablish of mil guard rails" because Beijing see zero benefit.

stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 12:46 on Aug 1, 2023

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

is there a good book that talks about sri lankas development, and the civil war?

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Tankbuster posted:

sri lanka is kerala with neoliberalism and bloodcurdling subcontinental racism (completely incomprehensible to outsiders)

desi racism is so good

i am currently reading the white tiger, and there is so much of that going on. the servants hate their employers wife for being christian, a nepali guy hates the main character for being dark, and employer doesnt hire muslims, and believes that your caste should dictate your life

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

we didnt even get a good album out of mia going insane ~_~

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

AnimeIsTrash posted:

desi racism is so good

i am currently reading the white tiger, and there is so much of that going on. the servants hate their employers wife for being christian, a nepali guy hates the main character for being dark, and employer doesnt hire muslims, and believes that your caste should dictate your life

this reminds me that ghandi's argument while in south africa was that high caste indians should not be discriminated against. discrimination against all the other castes was fine and dandy though.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
well gandhi in south africa was a big believer in the british empire, his class upbringing made that a certainty. Its like being mad at eugene debs for initially thinking capitalism could be reformed.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

M.I.A. went born again but in a weird way

https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/music/m-i-a-says-she-had-a-vision-of-jesus-and-is-now-a-born-again-christian/

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/14/mia-on-vaccines-vindication-and-her-visions-of-jesus-people-fear-me-for-some-reason

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Apropos of nothing, but is there a community of Montagnards in the US as a result of the Vietnam War?

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

bedpan posted:

this reminds me that ghandi's argument while in south africa was that high caste indians should not be discriminated against. discrimination against all the other castes was fine and dandy though.

hes right

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Tankbuster posted:

well gandhi in south africa was a big believer in the british empire, his class upbringing made that a certainty. Its like being mad at eugene debs for initially thinking capitalism could be reformed.

the brits really fumbled the racism ball

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

gradenko_2000 posted:

Apropos of nothing, but is there a community of Montagnards in the US as a result of the Vietnam War?

yes in north carolina and they never received as much support as the Hmong-Americans (which was ofc almost zero in the first place) so apparently a bunch of loving ex-Green Berets paid to resettle them lol

3
Aug 26, 2006

The Magic Number


College Slice
https://twitter.com/i/status/1686366725808537601

incredible things etc etc

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Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Didnt Princeton also just figure out room temperature semi-conductors?

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