Frosted Flake posted:

A G36 with the rails and collapsable stock the Americans wanted and I guess the screws and bolts were imperial instead of metric or something.

After the American officer freaked out, they hired a famous German industrial designer who had designed some product American love (I think maybe Audi or Apple?), and spent months just working on the shell, which is how you get the XM8 you see now. The internals are all the same as the G36.

Antonymous posted:

Antonymous posted:

i like the big product name on the americanized version

Antonymous posted:

top became bottom? early 2000s online shooter gun became mid 90s super soaker in desert grullo

Cuttlefush posted:

i know. i've posted about it plenty. i wasn't sure what this guys claims were but that excerpt answers it. not sure what's surprising about his book then. i thought he was claiming no one died on/around june 4th, which would be a good bit. seems like he's just correct though

crepeface posted:

it's not surprising (to us) but it's nice to have all this atrocity propaganda discussed with sourced citations in a new book that you can use as a reference

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/TripInChina/status/1689436388989472768

9 hsr guizhou

Maed posted:

I'm buying the book just to make my lib as gently caress hong kong american friend read it to try to get some china love in her brain for once instead of all the hate she consumes. though strangely her dad totally loves xi so not sure where she got the lib poo poo, must be our awful western education system

crepeface posted:

it's hard not to love xi/CPC if you've seen the progress your country has made over the decades. younger HK people swim in the same propaganda ocean that we all do and don't have the historical context front-of-mind, especially if you've immigrated away from the motherland.

i was probably pretty similar to your lib friend not even that long ago

Maed posted:

it's just extra weird cause he got into real estate in the US in the 70s and made millions so I pegged him as a big capitalist but I guess even landlords feel the allure of the immortal science of marxism leninism maoism

crepeface posted:

it's hard not to love xi/CPC if you've seen the progress your country has made over the decades. younger HK people swim in the same propaganda ocean that we all do and don't have the historical context front-of-mind, especially if you've immigrated away from the motherland.

i was probably pretty similar to your lib friend not even that long ago

Maed posted:

it's just extra weird cause he got into real estate in the US in the 70s and made millions so I pegged him as a big capitalist but I guess even landlords feel the allure of the immortal science of marxism leninism maoism

stephenthinkpad posted:

Hong Kongers who immigrated early are much more reasonable people than HKer who live through the 00s and 10s in HK.

It's like going thru a hyper color revolution/historical revision program under the "free" media, free media as in Jimmy Lai's proto-facebook opinion altering media empire.

The Ukrainian media might have gone thru the same thing now that I think about it.

genericnick posted:

Which reminds me, didn't they fire the whole staff of the Kyiv Independent and replace the editors with Brits some months before the war?

Frosted Flake posted:

A G36 with the rails and collapsable stock the Americans wanted and I guess the screws and bolts were imperial instead of metric or something.

After the American officer freaked out, they hired a famous German industrial designer who had designed some product American love (I think maybe Audi or Apple?), and spent months just working on the shell, which is how you get the XM8 you see now. The internals are all the same as the G36.

Frosted Flake posted:

Not that I'm aware of. Like Tiananmen it's become a load bearing part of why we're beacons of democracy that fight against tyranny, at least in English. There's usually euphemism to explain the lynching of Hungarian Jews as like "overenthusiastic expressions of nationalism" , like in the Routledge oral history that came out last year.

Cpt_Obvious posted:

https://twitter.com/narrative_hole/status/1688618374991884288

ScootsMcSkirt posted:

the US is finished

crepeface posted:

book seems pretty good at first glance. lots of details and references after every chapter

fake edit

from the intro:

quote:

Providing details on Western intelligence agencies’ sustain-
ment of extensive networks of journalists into the 21st century for
the purpose of propagating favoured narratives, German journal-
ist Udo Ulfkotte reported in 2016 regarding his own role in such
networks:

quote:

On August 11th, China's security agency announced that it had unmasked a CIA spy ring stealing China's military intelligence. According to the report, the suspect was an employee of a Chinese state-owned defense corporation who had gained access to classified information. During the period the suspect was studying abroad in Italy, a CIA agent in its Rome Station approached and recruited him. Upon returning to China, the suspect provided critical intelligence to the CIA multiple times for monetary reward. The suspect has now been held in custody.

The news article was published by the social media account of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS). The account was created only two weeks before, marking the first public appearance of the MSS on China's internet. Its first post on social media was titled "Mobilizing the Whole Society for Counterintelligence Efforts", echoing China's recently revised Counter-Espionage Law.

Additionally, Chinese netizens find more implicit undertones within this announcement. First, it's exceptionally rare for Chinese news media to explicitly name a specific foreign agency, such as the CIA. This explicit mention has evoked a sense of urgency among many, suggesting that China is facing a direct threat of infiltration by the United States, rather than a more generalized "West" or "foreign power". Also, many people connect the news to the prior statement made by CIA Director William J. Burns, who said in public that the CIA has "made progress" in rebuilding its spy networks in China. Online discussions have now depicted the bust of this spy ring as not only a retaliation against the US's aggressive move, but also a slap in the face to the Americans.

DiscountDildos posted:

https://twitter.com/RushanAbbas/status/1689736780457664513?s=20

lol

PoliceOfficer.JPG

DiscountDildos posted:

https://twitter.com/RushanAbbas/status/1689736780457664513?s=20

lol

PoliceOfficer.JPG

mark immune posted:

sounds like SOMEONE doesn’t respect their elders

DiscountDildos posted:

https://twitter.com/RushanAbbas/status/1689736780457664513?s=20

lol

PoliceOfficer.JPG

Marenghi posted:

Interesting guy, I wonder what happened to him after exposing how the CIA uses journalists like him to disseminate propaganda.
Oh, Ulfkotte died from a heart attack on 13 January 2017 at the age of 56. Surely that's just a coincidence.

Marenghi posted:

Interesting guy, I wonder what happened to him after exposing how the CIA uses journalists like him to disseminate propaganda.
Oh, Ulfkotte died from a heart attack on 13 January 2017 at the age of 56. Surely that's just a coincidence.

www.whitehouse.gov posted:

And we have China to deal with.  And China is a ticking time-bomb in many cases.  But it is — I’m the only one — now people are beginning to agree: China is in trouble.  China was growing at 8 percent a year to maintain growth — and now closer to 2 percent a year. 

China finds itself in a position where it’s — it’s — it has the highest unemployment rate going.  It’s in a position where it’s — the number of — the number of people who are of retirement age is larger than the number of people of working age.  So, they got some problems.  That’s not good because when bad folks have problems, they do bad things. 

So — but my point is: managing China and managing that relationship.  And I’ve spent more time with Xi Jinping than any world leader has.  They’ve kept every — they keep tabs of all of it — 68 hours of personally — just he and I with an interpreter each — and another 15 hours on Zoom. 

And this is a guy who is a — who I think I understand.  And this is a guy who — we’re not looking for a fight with China.  But we’re looking for a rationale relat- — a rational relationship to have with China. 

I don’t want to hurt China.  But in the meantime, I watched what China was doing.  So I put together a thing called the Quad.  We brought together as an alliance India, Japan, Australia, and the United States.  We put ourselves in a position where now we have the Philippines and, soon, Vietnam and Cambodia wanting to be part of a relationship with us because they’re — they don’t want to — they don’t want to have a defense alliance, but they want relationships because they want China to know that they’re not alone. 

So, a lot of things are changing, but nothing is done yet.  We have to figure out how to deal with Africa.  There is going to be a billion people on that continent very shortly.  And there are — have some real problems. 

But we have enormous opportunities to deal there too, as well.  For example, we put together — or it became known as the Build Back Better initiative.  We — we got together literally billions of dollars in the G7 nations to provide for alternatives to China’s — what they call Belt and Road Initiative, which is basically a debt and noose agreement that they have.  There is not much going on.  They’re — they’re — they’re in real debt.  They’re going in trouble. 

So, I guess what I’m saying is we have an enormous opportunity to bring the world together in different configurations than was before in a way that isn’t threatening to others and provides a generic stability.  And so, we’re spending a lot of time there.  It’s not done yet.  We got a lot more to do. 

But my generic point is: I — if you read most of the foreign policy experts, you don’t see a whole lot of criticism about the approach we’ve taken to try to deal with this — these changing pieces in — around the world.  It’s like, you know, when the North Pole, it doesn’t melt — like it melts for real now.  But, you know, like icebergs break up and they — and when it gets cold, they reconfigure in a different way.  That’s what’s happening around the world. 

And so, I guess what I’m trying to say to you is that I am optimistic we have an opportunity to leave our kids a world that is more secure, less — less contentious, and economically more sound than we found it.  And I think that’s the whole purpose of what I’m trying to do. 

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1689355091902377986

shockingly the us had a hand in imran khan's overthrow

mawarannahr posted:

Mr President, are you OK
Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception | Salt Lake City, UT | The White House

mawarannahr posted:

Mr President, are you OK
Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception | Salt Lake City, UT | The White House

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lol that these transcripts include all his mumbling gently caress ups