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Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

strange feelings re Daisy posted:

Deleted already, what was it?

allegedly ballot stuffing in lahore.

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mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
its hard to understate how angry the pakistanis are at the army atm. i used to lurk on a pakistani-run military/geopolitics forum that was full of bootlickers for their military. place was mostly a cesspool but you could get some interesting information/discussion out of it on a few rare occasions. two months ago the government shut it down because even those guys had had enough.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1755697149705101453

https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1755677293672849756

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




I dont know if being worse at your job than the other state department stooges makes you slimer or not.

What I do know is that the failson cascade is in full effect.

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

cant china just arrest the us troops on kinmen for entering the country without a visa

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

because we all know americans will act level-headed and collected if that happens

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

mila kunis posted:

they could just recreate their old party if they're allowed. the question is whether the army will get away with rigging the election or smashing them outright this time. the population didn't rise up for the PTI or imran when he got jailed, so who knows. the people are pissed at the army, but the PTI is just another liberal party without the ability to have sufficiently armed and disciplined cadres or rouse an insurrection the way a communist party would have. the army might bet on stochastic acts of violence and protest against the establishment, which they think they can control.

you say that but pti blokes used social media to successfully organize voters for their candidates.

caelxii
Jun 20, 2003

I'm sure it's much easier for China to spy on Kinman that it is for Kinman to spy on China so why do anything. Just use it to test new surveillance tech/Havana Syndrome guns.

fatelvis
Mar 21, 2010

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/PostLeftWatch/status/1755433293779206540?t=Lj5JxQJrNEWONAuq4BFcIA&s=19

I love this account because it's too polite to ever take a tone on the clip it's describing, as if the straight dope is ridiculous on its face

But like, the analogy is entirely correct

Haven't watched three clip, but this sounds like a fair description.

Ardent Communist
Oct 17, 2010

ALLAH! MU'AMMAR! LIBYA WA BAS!
i'd just have a boat circling with huge loudspeakers and a hanoi jane equivalent going all hours. "American GI, why you want to die for capitalism, that doesn't care for you?" etc. turn that rock red.

Trimson Grondag 3
Jul 1, 2007

Clapping Larry
daily tour boat with a big sign saying “come see freak island”

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1755526386205237572

they're getting so desperate for china to fall that they're declaring deflation is bad while continuously claiming that there is no inflation in the us

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Prices decrease... Very bad....

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
Hey how come when economists tell us inflation is under control it never becomes deflation

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
number down bad

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.
Are they measuring China's deflation with the same bullshit metric that leaves out housing, food, and energy?

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


the big difference is that China has the bright red Mao button to increase state control and adjust value relations accordingly. It is nowhere near of playing the same game as the west

like, having a public intervention with an independent central bank would be dysfunctional because of monetary policy dysfunction, sure, but the People’s Bank is under party authority and acts in tandem with the government.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

We like to imagine china as essentially the same as the US but minus the freedom. Without taking into consideration the simple fact that their psychic warfare capabilities are eons ahead of what the CIA has been able to come up with, which lacks the deep spiritual foundation and instead relies on dissociative drugs due to America's shortage of human souls

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
the engwithan folly shall be undone and the hollowborn will be redeemed

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Mandel Brotset posted:

lol that island has space for what, a dozen roided out, bearded psychopaths larded with hundreds of pounds of kit? china should offer boat tours of this dangerous apex predator kept alive in captivity after the age of hegemony and zirp

All they have to do is blockade them in and starve them out. Won't take long.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

1stGear posted:

Are they measuring China's deflation with the same bullshit metric that leaves out housing, food, and energy?

the last article i looked into they were using chinas board of statistics website which had non-food inflation at positive 0.5%, but the price of pork came down about 30% last year which dragged food prices into deflation territory so when you added it all up the overall economy was deflationary because food got cheaper

that is to say, a doomsday scenario

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

deflation is bad for the economy because many people will go hungry today on the chance that food might be slightly cheaper tomorrow

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

fart simpson posted:

deflation is bad for the economy because many people will go hungry today on the chance that food might be slightly cheaper tomorrow
Personally I'll eat today, but only because food might be more expensive tomorrow.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

genericnick posted:

Personally I'll eat today, but only because food might be more expensive tomorrow.

Well that's why humans have so much more body fat than other primates.

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

fart simpson posted:

deflation is bad for the economy because many people will go hungry today on the chance that food might be slightly cheaper tomorrow

genericnick posted:

Personally I'll eat today, but only because food might be more expensive tomorrow.

this is why I don’t eat

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Eating is a psyop by big agro. Every bite a feedcel takes pays Monsanto.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/lisaabramowicz1/status/1755526386205237572

they're getting so desperate for china to fall that they're declaring deflation is bad while continuously claiming that there is no inflation in the us

Doesn't China have a money helicopter mechanism ready to go? Didn't they test a digital currency account by giving money to everyone for the new year some years ago?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Having actual financial policy besides giving billions to billionaires is cheating

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

Doesn't China have a money helicopter mechanism ready to go? Didn't they test a digital currency account by giving money to everyone for the new year some years ago?

There hasn't been much rollout news lately.

I think the plan is one day it will be mandated from the alipay app to replace the alibaba virtual payment. Jack Ma already transferred the ownership of alipay to a more state controlled holding. Also Douyin got their license to do cashless payment as well.

I am more interested in whether it can be used overseas for small business transactions. I have a friend who stays in the US with a political refugee application status (whatever it is called, C1 visa or whatever. AlI know is the successful rate for a getting green card is about half. And he and his wife already has a son born in the US so he is fine). He does half of his jobs on Uber, but he is getting more and more private limo service jobs from visiting Chinese. All on client referal basis. So most of his payments are in yuan from alipay or wechat.

stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 14:57 on Feb 9, 2024

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1755957209899409439

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1755953859787211183

https://twitter.com/alib_in_house/status/1755931678478881215

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1755924344008523824

mila kunis has issued a correction as of 15:33 on Feb 9, 2024

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
such an obvious stitch up but you can see the party line is being followed by the guardian, NYT and co. i love journalism and freedom and democracy

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
lol just blatantly rigging the election

surprised they didn't announce the winner as Juan Guaido

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
I don't think pakistan is ever gonna team up with india ryan.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Wow they spreadsheet'd in 50% more votes. Does it also make the turn out highest ever or something?

edit: 120% more votes!

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"
So the Pakistani military just blatantly rigged the election, it looks like there's huge protests over it?

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

this wouldn't have happened if they'd just use blockchain

GlassEye-Boy
Jul 12, 2001
CNBC host has a brain aneurysm at the thought that growth in China is not linked to the stock market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RpWMzWz1M

Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

GlassEye-Boy posted:

CNBC host has a brain aneurysm at the thought that growth in China is not linked to the stock market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RpWMzWz1M

lol they no worship spreadsheet like us? mods??

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
Extremely smart western analyst: so the trick with China is, you need to actually listen to what its government tries to tell you for years and take it seriously.

Western investors: what? you're not making any sense

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corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

GlassEye-Boy posted:

CNBC host has a brain aneurysm at the thought that growth in China is not linked to the stock market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RpWMzWz1M

he looks so tired, like he's had to explain this so many times

poor guy

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