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i might be able to get one of these next year
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Mar 25, 2024 12:58
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hmhb fan posted:I so nearly gave him credit for making some kind of ironic statement here about the flawed but totemic success story he lives in, crushed by an outdated ideology and hyper-nationalism. But then I checked who wrote it. London's long goodbye is a cautionary tale. Being nationalistic is actually good if you're a LIBERAL DEMOCRACY, the only ideology at the end of history
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Mar 25, 2024 12:59
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fart simpson posted:i might be able to get one of these next year i’d also love to own my own turkish national but i don’t have the garden space to let him run around
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Mar 25, 2024 13:02
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https://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1772050765596807205?t=d4H1P6q0mkfTeamFPINYjA&s=19 Hmm maybe education should be universally free?
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Mar 25, 2024 13:14
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fart simpson posted:i might be able to get one of these next year What's it take to do that?
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Mar 25, 2024 13:37
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Psh. Maybe if you're white. 
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Mar 25, 2024 14:16
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i dont care about being chinese but i am kinda sad that im so bad at learning languages it'd be nice to be able to go to a country with a future, i've got a good enough degree i could probably swing it if i could learn mandarin or whatever
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Mar 25, 2024 14:33
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Update on the geopolitical chess moves between China and US in east asia. Per Chinese podcast all these interactions are leading to a high point around 520 (DPP Lei inauguration speech on May 20th). Kinmen fisherman death dispute: this one is on a pause right now because Taiwan side has refused to release the dead bodies and will do a show trail on the Taiwan coastguards and then give them a slap on the twist or "guilty of misplacing evidence" or some bullshit. So the mainland coastguard's bigger ships have been salami slicing the portal duty of Kinmen waterway and ignoring the medium line. But DPP party doesn't care about Kinmen anyway, this electoral district is a solid KMT district. They don't care if mainland actually seize the island. Neither side release much news but one thing to keep an eye on is whether Chinese coastguard ship will show up near Penghu island, which is a much more strategically important island than Kinmen and Matsu. DPP attitude in this dispute suddenly turn cold and said "no apology and no compensation" was obviously when they got the head nod and backing from the US. But Kinmen is way too close to the mainland coast, the US naval ships are not going to Kinmen. So they are pressing in the Philippines direction to help release Taiwanese pressure. Hence both dispute will have heightened intensity by May. Sino-Philippines SCS reef dispute: I can't keep up with these reef names, their Chinese and English names don't match each other. All you need to know is Chinese has control on one of reef but hasn't build anything yet (because ones China built it, the Sino-Philippines relationship will sour for a long time.) Philippine has kind of control of another reef in the way of grounding a junk ship on it. And Chinese coastguard ships have control of the water outside the reef and will not allow construction material to be brought in to reinforce the rotting hull. The logic is China has more patience and they will wait for the ship to rot away one day and the Filipino Marines squatting on the ship would have to leave. This has going on for years but Philippines will make the resupply a show whenever the US told them to. So Chinese ships use bigger water gun to shoot away the Philippines civilian ships. Blinken just visited PH like 5 days ago and basically told little Macros to put up a bigger show in the sea so that's what they have done. The weird thing is they got all these ship-on-ship bumper ship footage but there are not a lot of western reporting on them. Maybe the western press are too busy with Middle East or somebody in White House doesn't want to open a 3rd front just yet, I don't know. Another thing is the US naval ships are not showing up to support the Philippines in solidarity. I don't not sure how the US plan to escalate. And then a few days ago 34 Filipinos landed on a new reef, "lawfully handled by Chinese coast guard" https://x.com/globaltimesnews/status/1770749154836336715?s=20 This is another reef I have never heard of, didn't even know it was in dispute. Anyway from the way the article is phrased, the Philippines side probably wanted to land on it, raise a flag, do a photo op and go home. But they got detained by Chinese coast guard and probably got some fine tickets, that's why this event didn't make any English news. I can't find it on non Chinese source. Here is at least a tween to show the event exist https://x.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1771110651576148375?s=20 edit. also former KMT president Ma will go to mainland again next month before Lai's inarguration. https://x.com/taipei_times/status/1772116327832211884?s=20 --- Anyway, if the water canon shooting continue pass May, without Marcos finding an excuse to ease on the gas , then I think it will reminiscence first phase of the Sino-India border dispute in Pangong lake in 2020? stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 16:29 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Mar 25, 2024 15:35
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w00t
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Mar 25, 2024 15:54
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Flournival Dixon posted:i dont care about being chinese but i am kinda sad that im so bad at learning languages I am also bad at language acquisition, but if you practice a little every day, even the wormiest brain will learn.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:40
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ikanreed posted:I am also bad at language acquisition, but if you practice a little every day, even the wormiest brain will learn. don’t use Duolingo though
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Mar 25, 2024 20:15
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https://twitter.com/pstAsiatech/status/1772260612652834886 Shock and surprise that all the financial credit headed towards industry is causing this result.
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Mar 25, 2024 20:58
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hopefully the tech industry growth helps the job market for fresh college grads, things have been sounding kind of rough
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Mar 25, 2024 22:55
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Eminent DNS posted:Quick update on my grassroots netizen ("netroots") campaign to get Stringent unbanned by posting "free Stringent" in this thread that so far only fart Simpson participated in: thanks for beating the drum man, i really appreciate it.
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Mar 26, 2024 02:30
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Stringent posted:thanks for beating the drum man, i really appreciate it. you still have the banned avatar for me lol
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Mar 26, 2024 02:34
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yeah i hope i get to keep it
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Mar 26, 2024 02:46
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the posting dead
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Mar 26, 2024 02:46
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Stringent posted:yeah i hope i get to keep it are there still any usernames with forums cancer? or did they all get fixed
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Mar 26, 2024 02:50
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Stringent posted:yeah i hope i get to keep it you should edit in a (USER WAS UNBANNED FOR THIS POST) into that post and have the link go to the holodomor thread
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Mar 26, 2024 03:02
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Megamissen posted:you still have the banned avatar for me lol lol same. that's why i was complaining about it! Stringent posted:yeah i hope i get to keep it this is like a cloak of camouflage for you to start post poo poo like 'hamas ftw' in dnd. edit in a fake [User was banned for this Post] and link it to your fav threads crepeface has issued a correction as of 03:06 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 03:03
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BEAR GRYLLZ posted:you should edit in a (USER WAS UNBANNED FOR THIS POST) into that post and have the link go to the holodomor thread
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Mar 26, 2024 03:04
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ikanreed posted:What's it take to do that? im going to apply via marriage. if you live with a chinese spouse in china for 5 years you can get it. the other main ways are by having a seriously high paying job and meeting certain paid tax thresholds for 4+ consecutive years, or by having some sort of key skills expertise or a phd. last way is via investment but you need to have invested like multiple millions of dollars into chinese companies for 3 straight years
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Mar 26, 2024 03:37
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Stringent posted:yeah i hope i get to keep it He is Risen!
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Mar 26, 2024 06:42
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Stringent posted:thanks for beating the drum man, i really appreciate it. Your welcome, posting pal
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Mar 26, 2024 07:29
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Lol Carl https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1772171486520082607?t=uN2_YOYOj7YSM5gj-KW4mA&s=19
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Mar 26, 2024 09:38
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Bali's Kuta beach is where they executed tens of thousands of peasants, workers, communist sympathizers and non violent communists. Makes you think.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:42
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lol truly a dudes rock story
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Mar 26, 2024 10:16
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https://twitter.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1772280957518970987?t=qWrc8ZwG11ue-0y5PzaUOA&s=19 She's right and the community notes are coping
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Mar 26, 2024 11:15
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Can we note the note to say nine dash line is Taiwan policy or whatever
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Mar 26, 2024 12:50
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The note has been defeated
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Mar 26, 2024 16:38
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I think it’s quite easy to compare China of 2024 with Germany 1914. Both are very prosperous industrial countries, fast emerging compared to the best countries of their time. The big difference is that in China there is already a demographic problem. Germany in 1914 had big families. China has decades of one child politics. If the whole country is dependent on one child to get grandchildren, then the society will think thrice before it shout hurra to a war. Here is a big difference between China and Russia, also.
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Mar 26, 2024 16:54
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Trabisnikof posted:I think it’s quite easy to compare China of 2024 with Germany 1914. Both are very prosperous industrial countries, fast emerging compared to the best countries of their time. The big difference is that in China there is already a demographic problem. Germany in 1914 had big families. China has decades of one child politics. If the whole country is dependent on one child to get grandchildren, then the society will think thrice before it shout hurra to a war. Here is a big difference between China and Russia, also. SYQ
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Mar 26, 2024 17:00
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stephenthinkpad posted:Update on the geopolitical chess moves between China and US in east asia. Per Chinese podcast all these interactions are leading to a high point around 520 (DPP Lei inauguration speech on May 20th). Just wanna thank you for these sorts of posts. Its nice to get this sort of detail from another side of the world not really covered by western press
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Mar 26, 2024 17:38
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Hedenius posted:https://x.com/beijingpalmer/status/1769883332181926317?s=46&t=mzWS2vgSInnU9jlt8C3n_Q i wasnt expecting james palmers grandfather of all people to back up my contrarian interpretation of lolita as pedoshit disguised as art via the aggressive use of ambiguous pretty prose but welp ill take it
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Mar 27, 2024 00:06
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Some Guy TT posted:i wasnt expecting james palmers grandfather of all people to back up my contrarian interpretation of lolita as pedoshit disguised as art via the aggressive use of ambiguous pretty prose but welp ill take it would that vera had not stopped him from throwing the manuscript in the fireplace lmao
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Mar 27, 2024 00:42
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So could anyone expand on how the Philippines has broken its commitments in the SCS? Stringent posted:thanks for beating the drum man, i really appreciate it. I sent a PM. We must defend the right to deny genocides of our choosing! Megamissen posted:you still have the banned avatar for me lol Mark of pride BULBASAUR posted:Just wanna thank you for these sorts of posts. Its nice to get this sort of detail from another side of the world not really covered by western press Stephen's posts are great, agreed. One of those posters I can identify from style alone.
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Mar 27, 2024 01:35
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Weka posted:So could anyone expand on how the Philippines has broken its commitments in the SCS? quote:okay, I don't want to be talking about of my rear end, so let's try to put some references into the topic: The Philippines beached the Sierra Madre in Ren'ai Jiao, then claimed for years that they were trying to tow it away, then shifted gears suddenly to say that they weren't anymore As far as China is concerned, this means the PH was there first to have established a permanent base in the SCS, and is why they keep trying to block resupply missions to it In PH politics, nobody wants to admit to this version of events: 1. Estrada and Arroyo, the presidents who were in office when the claim was that the Sierra Madre was due to be recovered, deny that they ever made such commitments 2. Aquino was the president when the face-turn happened, and he's already passed 3. Given 1 and 2, people tend to believe it was Duterte who promised to remove the Sierra Madre, because they all think he's a Chinese lapdog 4. Nobody knows anything about the ASEAN-level DOC, and only cares about the UNCLOS-level 2016 arbitration, so they all think the Sierra Madre deserves to be there in the first place, and it's China that started the issue
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Mar 27, 2024 02:07
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Thanks, AGAIN, gradenko
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Mar 27, 2024 02:19
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remember when duterte said he used to be gay but isn't anymore? lol
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Mar 27, 2024 02:24
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https://twitter.com/davidpgoldman/status/1772580555999117414 that parenti quote about nonfalsifiable orthodoxy will never go out of style as long as the great satan exists
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