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Tai posted:lol what? China wants to ban clothes that 'hurt nation's feelings'
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The funniest example of that were cops arresting people for cosplaying in Tang dynasty clothing because they were such dipshits they thought it was Japanese.
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Grand Fromage posted:The funniest example of that were cops arresting people for cosplaying in Tang dynasty clothing because they were such dipshits they thought it was Japanese. lol
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Kaal posted:In a related topic, some of the latest iPhone tech news was that Chinese censors have announced that they've broken the AirDrop encryption protocols and are predictably using that to crack down on folks using AirDrop to distribute political messages in urban areas.
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Interesting that this article is from September. In 2022, before this recent slate of clothing laws, a Chinese woman in Suzhou was arrested and questioned for five hours for cosplaying as an anime character who wore a kimono. They forced her to write a 500-word "letter of self-criticism", searched her phone, and confiscated the kimono. https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3189394/video-kimono-clad-chinese-woman-cosplaying-manga The charge was picking quarrels and provoking trouble, an infamous criminal offense in China that is somehow popular with activists, journalists and criminal defense lawyers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picking_quarrels_and_provoking_trouble I posted a couple years ago in this thread about the so-called "hooliganism" law that preceded this one, which was even more vague and easy to abuse. It's how gay sex was criminalized in China. When a 1997 legal reform divided the hooliganism law into discrete offenses, they either forgot to mention homosexuality or didn't care enough to mention it. As a result gay sex was quietly decriminalized. Kevin DuBrow fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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Kevin DuBrow posted:The charge was picking quarrels and provoking trouble, an infamous criminal offense in China that is somehow popular with activists, journalists and criminal defense lawyers: lol I remember some dickhead CCP-loving goon said on some discord that "ackshully china has tons of protests, even more than we do, especially trade union ones!" which sounded alright until you learned that basically all the "protests" 1. had to be approved by the local and/or regional government and 2. were only allowed if they were pro-CCP causes and 3. were basically 50 Cent Army gatherings
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Jan 12, 2024 09:17
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Lol, sorta like how north Korea actually has three completely different political parties, they are much more democratic than we decadent western scum are.
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Those are "rallies" not "protests"
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free hubcaps posted:Lol, sorta like how north Korea actually has three completely different political parties, they are much more democratic than we decadent western scum are. There's also a church!
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peanut posted:Those are "rallies" not "protests" Never let the truth get in the way of a good dystopia
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3D Megadoodoo posted:There's also a church! The church of Xi
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Correction: there's four or five churches!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Correction: there's four or five churches! Ah! Churches!! Surely there must be mosques as well??
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free hubcaps posted:Ah! Churches!! Surely there must be mosques as well?? Just one.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Just one. I'm
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free hubcaps posted:I'm I didn't know Koreans went for that sort of thing. Anyway the mosque is in the Iranian embassy so IDK about that.
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Tai posted:Watching this whole property collapse thing is wild to see play out. While not a fan of the government, I thought that they would of had their finger on the pulse a lot better than this in regards to letting banks writing blank cheques for real estate companies and mortgages. Considering 2008 happened, this really is dumb what the government has let happen. Xi managed to lock in a third term before things go to poo poo and cement dictator-for-life power. Mission accomplished. They knew this was coming, plenty of economists have warned they were repeating 2008. They're not complete idiots. 3 years ago they tried tapping the breaks and the car immediately started fishtailing out of control. So instead of trying to manage the coming crash and preemptively limit the damage, they let go and Xi put his attention to preemptively eliminating anyone who might have the balls to call for new leadership when it all collapses.
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As demonstrated by Russia you can actually drag out the car crash phase for decades without any consequences at all for the ~50 people who actually matter
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Toxic Mental posted:lol I remember some dickhead CCP-loving goon said on some discord that "ackshully china has tons of protests, even more than we do, especially trade union ones!" which sounded alright until you learned that basically all the "protests" 1. had to be approved by the local and/or regional government and 2. were only allowed if they were pro-CCP causes and 3. were basically 50 Cent Army gatherings most protests are against the local government and they want the CCP to step in and lay the beatdown on the local government
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To be fair, when told that he should gently caress off to China if he loves it so much, that guy said "I'd be happy to, at least I could get my [antipsychotic] meds there for free at least" So, you know.
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eSports Chaebol posted:most protests are against the local government and they want the CCP to step in and lay the beatdown on the local government yeah, all bad things are the fault of the local government and/or individuals, all we need is daddy xi to step in and sort it out
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you are allowed to protest in favor of the CCP to lay the beatdown on the local governments if you protest against the CCP the beatdown is laid on you
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Toxic Mental posted:To be fair, when told that he should gently caress off to China if he loves it so much, that guy said "I'd be happy to, at least I could get my [antipsychotic] meds there for free at least" Would he, though? Since when are antipsychotics free in China? Psychiatric medicines especially are the "still gonna be expensive, good luck getting it easily" meds of China. I take a certain antidepressant off label for chronic insomnia and it's not any cheaper here than America.
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I love all the tankie dipshits who think China has universal healthcare. It's the exact same system as the US, motherfuckers!! Sure it's cheaper if you're a foreigner making bank by local standards, but if you're a poor Chinese person you're hosed.
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Grand Fromage posted:I love all the tankie dipshits who think China has universal healthcare. It's the exact same system as the US, motherfuckers!! Sure it's cheaper if you're a foreigner making bank by local standards, but if you're a poor Chinese person you're hosed. Theoretically it works differently though.
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McGavin posted:Theoretically it works differently though. Thread title candidate
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Grinding up some fossils (dragon bone) and mixing it with dung to make a poultice for my limp dick
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Grand Fromage posted:...if you're a poor Chinese person you're hosed. That only matters if you're a poor Chinese person, doesn't affect any of the stupid politics enthusiasts so why would they care?
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Grand Fromage posted:You can't use WeChat pay with a foreign bank/credit card, no. I've heard Alipay takes some foreign credit cards, but yeah being a tourist now sounds like an enormous pain in the rear end. One of the many reasons I hate phone pay stuff. At least I don't know any other countries that have gone as extreme as China, but Korea and Japan both have their own phone pay systems that you can't access unless you're a resident and if that keeps expanding then ?? When I visited last September we were able to link an American card to both WeChat and Alipay, but WeChat was not super reliable. I think that changed with WeChat in like July or August.
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Kharnifex posted:Grinding up some fossils (dragon bone) and mixing it with dung to make a poultice for my limp dick
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Grand Fromage posted:The funniest example of that were cops arresting people for cosplaying in Tang dynasty clothing because they were such dipshits they thought it was Japanese. few things span nearly all cultural divides. the word for mother starts with the "m" sound in almost every known language, virtually every culture has a tradition of bystanders issuing a verbal blessing to someone when they sneeze, and anywhere in the world you find cops, they're petty, cruel, and dumber than a clam
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Honestly wondering if the drug prices are closer to Europe, Canada, or the US.
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Mons Hubris posted:When I visited last September we were able to link an American card to both WeChat and Alipay, but WeChat was not super reliable. I think that changed with WeChat in like July or August. yeah i was in china at the time they switched things up. until that time i couldn't use my foreign cards though they were linked, i had to use my partner's wechat relative card to pay for everything. afterwards i could use alipay but not wechat pay. basically the three things you need to survive in china as a tourist nowadays are alipay, amap, and a chinese mobile phone number
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McGavin posted:Theoretically it works differently though. it does have the unique “there is no scheduled time to get results so everyone just has to interrupt someone else’s visit” system
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Mons Hubris posted:When I visited last September we were able to link an American card to both WeChat and Alipay, but WeChat was not super reliable. I think that changed with WeChat in like July or August. Back in 2018 I was able to link my Australian Amex card to WeChat, but not add money via it. But at least it added the wallet functionally and then colleagues could send me red packages to give me credit to spend and I could give them cash in exchange.
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BrainDance posted:Would he, though? I mean the guy is literally an off-meds terminally online tankie somethingawful.com poster. You can basically expect them to be the biggest moron possible.
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BrainDance posted:Would he, though? I think Adderall is a schedule 1 out here. You can't even get Prep, the preventative HIV drug out here. There are stories of Chinese citizens traveling to Hong Kong or Bangkok to get their prep prescriptions filled. Hell, during Zero COVID, you had people traveling abroad and willing doing quarantine when they got back to get the MRNA vaccines instead of the Chinese ones. Okuteru fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I love all the tankie dipshits who think China has universal healthcare. It's the exact same system as the US, motherfuckers!! Sure it's cheaper if you're a foreigner making bank by local standards, but if you're a poor Chinese person you're hosed. https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1627629385431007232?t=vOt8_vGE0_OS4-zfRm3K1g&s=19
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Welp, Taiwan elected the wrong candidate. Time to scramble the jets and ships to do even more "I'm not touching you!" incursions across the straight, maybe launch a few ICBM tests directly over their heads. Enlighten them on how they made the incorrect decision. It was their choice to escalate the situation. That's how you make someone want to come back to you, right? Threats of violence. Baby why do you make me hurt you.
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