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LimburgLimbo posted:I have it on extremely good authority that Taiwan is part of the PRC p. sure you have that backwards?
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Mar 23, 2020 14:13
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Real talk: is it true that the government fleeing to Taiwan took the contents of China's museums with them? I've heard that the best collections of Chinese antiquities are in Taiwan because of this
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Mar 23, 2020 18:17
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have I imagined that South Korea regularly sends North Korea a cash subsidy? cheaper than reunification I guess
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Apr 25, 2020 08:50
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Some Guy TT posted:its a kind of private room where you get expensive foreign liquor and hire hot girls to hang out with you and maybe sing karaoke weird as hell
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Aug 11, 2020 13:45
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Al-Saqr posted:As a foreigner 'Hamilton' taught me that americans have zero ability to factually read into their history and reconcile with their past awful founders and have garbage taste in rap. You had to wait until Hamilton was released to learn that?
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Oct 19, 2020 14:50
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if spending on nuclear weapons is eliminated, that frees up lots of money for chemical and bacteriological weapons
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Oct 31, 2020 15:11
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The west hosed up a whole generation with the boomers
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Nov 18, 2020 20:32
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Some Guy TT posted:another worthwhile korea fact moon jae ins approval rating is now under forty percent for a sense of perspective he is now more widely disliked in south korea than donald trump is in the united states liberalism really is a mental disease wasn't moon jae in enormously popular up until recently? why did he squander both his popularity and the opportunity to pass legislation?
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Dec 3, 2020 10:56
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Some Guy TT posted:in the immediate sense its just the prosecutor drama imagine if president hillary had tried to can comey and the shitstorm that would have ensued had she insisted this wasnt political payback and also that the real problem wasn't that the fbi was fundamentally corrupt The two step plan of A. abandon your supporters and B. embrace the right fails. Again. did moon jae fear change too much to use what seemed like a mandate to change society?
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Dec 4, 2020 14:01
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Mantis42 posted:yeah the us has done a good job of testing the effects of fentanyl on army veterans this past decade 
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Dec 6, 2020 19:05
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Ardennes posted:Reality took a while to sneak up on the West: was comparatively pro-Western and Xi played it very low key the first couple years of his tenure. It didn’t help that the Crimean crisis made Russia the “bad guy” for a couple more years on top of that. Hell, Biden still can’t decide which one is the bigger threat and the US pretty much locked itself into a two front war. Russia has the GDP of portugal (or some other loser country like that). their army is four divisions. Most of mainstream america consider still Russia's power to be undiminished since the cold war ended.
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Dec 25, 2020 19:16
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genericnick posted:The more I read about the Cold War time the more I get the feeling that the conflict with the USSR was entirely a side show while the main event was preventing Third World development. Makes sense that the USSR going away changed nothing. preventing third world development is synonymous with international capitalism
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Dec 25, 2020 21:07
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genericnick posted:Does getting the Taiwanese cores back unlock some overpowered decisions? Otherwise why bother, the status quo seems to serve everyone involved quite handily. You need to control Taiwan to enact the "Claim Heaven's Mandate" decision. Pretty cool but not really worth it at that point. New flag though.
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Jan 11, 2021 14:05
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Maximo Roboto posted:Galaxy Brain: the U.S. should pivot to a pro-North Korean policy to contain China this is really the best strategic option for both settling the north korea issues and putting an enemy on China's border
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Feb 9, 2021 05:09
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stephenthinkpad posted:How can American create such inefficient decision making system for long term city planning? Spend billions on the HSR and then cancel it. Personally, I blame neoliberalism. More generally though, in both the political and economic spheres it has become increasingly apparent that we are incapable of any great work or great action. We lack the ability to build for the future. Can you imagine the US in 2021 undertaking and completing any of the great infrastructure or technological feats of the past? Could 2021 US build the Hoover Dam or go to the moon?
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Mar 26, 2021 09:33
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Cerebral Bore posted:the us has lost the ability to do even halfway efficient military projects as well, so even if you managed to sell something as military spending what would happen is that all the graft and waste means that you'd get something half-assed about a decade late and at ten+ times the original projected cost this is the point I was trying to make. The systems in the US have reached the point where, as has happened elsewhere and in other times, the amount of inherent graft and incompetence has become unsupportable.
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Mar 26, 2021 09:56
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stephenthinkpad posted:I am sure the GOP don't care about the democracy pitch, but what's the percentage of DEM who actually believe this poo poo? How do they explain the unholy alliance with Saudi Arabia? It was Jimmy Carter's idea too. Cuppy Tea was banned for saying the phrase "abrahamic religion," because apparently that phrase is antisemetic
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Mar 30, 2021 00:43
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:That's what theyre called though CSPAM has many political prisoners.
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Mar 30, 2021 07:16
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mila kunis posted:whats going on in SK iirc, a few years back the liberals won a commanding majority in elections by promising a range of progressive policies. once in power though, the liberals began to sprint to the right as best they could as a way of courting the conservatives. it is the same stock story of liberal governments
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Apr 7, 2021 18:15
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Mantis42 posted:this guy loving rules Is any of this wrong?
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Apr 19, 2021 04:56
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Atrocious Joe posted:Wolf (Posting) Warrior there is a legit answer to this: because it is salt water
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Apr 24, 2021 09:29
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Zedhe Khoja posted:there's been a general reactionary turn in "liberal" spaces across the board. China is the most obvious symptom, but MENA policy, subsaharan African policy, and Latin American policy have all seen an entrenchment of Trump era policy/rhetoric and Obama realpolitik among the so-called left. all of the bad things were only bad because of Trump. Liberal opposition to trump began and ended with aesthetics, not policy.
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Apr 30, 2021 12:22
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trump was right about COVID's origin?
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May 25, 2021 02:14
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the cold war program to arm the taliban didn't end until 1994
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Jul 12, 2021 18:34
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mcclay posted:why….why a japanese pilot Boomer brain in the 80s and 90s were convinced the japanese would destroy america.
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Jul 26, 2021 17:04
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Aug 2, 2021 16:28
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R. Guyovich posted:lurid xinjiang stories I feel like this can be the title of a book from ancient china
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Feb 12, 2022 12:02
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Why didn't Obama start the war back in 2014? Really wondering about this. Dems seem late to the party with wanting to start the war now.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:00
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Subvisual Haze posted:I wonder if we'll ever reach the point in my lifetime when mapmakers will no longer draw Crimea as part of Ukraine. I'm guessing no. We still draw the coast of Louisiana as contiguous so no is the right answer
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Feb 20, 2022 02:06
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Frosted Flake posted:Without going into specific, we got enough bulletins that I kind of thought we would be, and because of our Diaspora we’d probably get dragged in before the US. Funnily enough, that same year my shop had an incident with a Ukrainian that may have been a honeypot and someone stabbed a Russian diplomat and was released without charges. The "why not war in 2014" scenario is proving too intriguing for me not to do a bit of digging. My working theory, based on nothing, is that the existing commitments in Afghanistan and the upcoming 2016 election made selling a war with Russia an unlikely task. Why didn't the US go to war with Russia in 2014 when Ukraine was actually invaded versus trying to manufacture a war now when Ukraine is not being invaded?
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Feb 20, 2022 02:22
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Sinteres posted:The US isn't going to war even if Russia conquers the entirety of Ukraine today (which isn't happening, just saying even if it did the US wouldn't engage militarily), so I don't get any of this. I get what you are saying though, and as I was typing my post was thinking of something along the same lines as well. This is a show for the domestic and foreign audiences about how much the USA hates Russia and how Russia Is Bad. Actually going to war isn't why any of this is happening.
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Feb 20, 2022 02:27
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Frosted Flake posted:The 2014 Ukrainian Army would fold roughly as fast as the ANA, before any US forces could redeploy. I mean, even now, all the Javs in the world won’t save them, so imagine how a 2014 offensive would have gone. And I think he had already publicly (at least in a Reddit AMA) claimed the decision to carry on with the war in Afghanistan as the most difficult decision he made in his second term. He was really optimistic about success and the strength of the ANA .
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Feb 20, 2022 02:30
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Cpt_Obvious posted:bloo bloo bloo it's so hard to back out of my promises 
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Feb 20, 2022 02:40
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I don't think I'd find another war all that funny. probably not going to be a war though. if you want war there is already one going in Yemen
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Feb 20, 2022 07:17
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synapse posted:The neonazis won 0 out of 435 seats in the 2008 United States Election and in that same vote a black man was voted in as President. Safe to say white supremacy is dead in America. And that black man's name was Albert Einstein
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Feb 21, 2022 05:58
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mcclay posted:This dude saw the red and black flags of the OUN and thought they were anarcho-syndie flags lmao. love 2 support azov battalion well, in his defense, it is a mistake people make all the time in the USA
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Feb 22, 2022 00:09
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OhFunny posted:The US media is going to tear Biden apart if he "loses" this showdown with Russia. The screeching over the withdrawal from Afghanistan was bad. I have to imagine screeching over this will be louder. I didn't think his numbers would get much lower before November and yet here we are.
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Feb 22, 2022 00:17
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i went over to check out how D&D is handling the news and... oh dear oof. they are leaning into the Nazi aesthetic so hard it is almost parody
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Feb 22, 2022 05:36
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Majorian posted:Yeah it was kind of loving dickish for us to promise Ukraine NATO membership when we knew we couldn't possibly keep that promise and were actually just hanging a target on Ukraine's back. I don't quite know how they did it but Biden and his team managed to thread the needle and make the worst choices at every phase of the process. Biden was hoping for a polls boost from his handling of the conflict and instead managed to look really bad. Again.
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Feb 22, 2022 07:13
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Fortaleza posted:I want to know how american evangelism plays into this, let's dive a little deeper into that The war in Iraq was pitched as the battle against Gog and Magog. Russia though? Antichrist perhaps.
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Feb 22, 2022 07:16
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