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does australia have sub nukes currently or is this a new development?
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Sep 15, 2021 22:04
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indigi posted:why is that? im reading this book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678752/the-spoils-of-war-by-andrew-cockburn/ that just came out. series of essays/articles from last 6 years or so that explains how public-private funding in the miltech sector has so thoroughly incentivized failure that it eventually began affecting military outcomes throughout the Cold War, getting exponentially worse after the End of History in the 90s. contracts go to a handful of highly influential (and heavily centralized over decades of acquisitions) private designers, these contractors make more money the longer the project lasts and the less efficient the eventual product is (bc then you just get a new contract to build a better product), and eventually you have to actually field these technological monstrosities bc we are in a hundred wars and they barely function and result in massive civilian casualties and self inflicted deaths of American troops. I kinda knew the gist of this problem from osmosis but there's some pretty illuminating examples of how throughly rotten the entire process is, and every year it gets worse and every year there's bipartisan approval to spend even more on the military so the cycle continues unabated. another material casualty of our perpetually rising big beautiful Economy.
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Sep 21, 2021 02:54
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Gato posted:thank you to whoever in this thread (at least I think it was this thread) mentioned The Spoils of War by Andrew Cockburn, a simultaneously hilarious and horrifying collection of essays about the insanity and incompetence of US military spending. 
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Sep 21, 2021 21:15
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Grapplejack posted:“Xi does think he’s moving to a new kind of system that doesn’t exist anywhere in the world,” said Barry Naughton, a China economy expert at the University of California, San Diego. “I call it a government-steered economy.” lol the commentariat are awesome to behold.
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Sep 21, 2021 21:46
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can I mine Maocoin
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Sep 21, 2021 22:12
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Red and Black posted:https://twitter.com/business/status/1441332992975065093 lol
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Sep 24, 2021 16:09
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:She's been under house arrest in Canada for almost 3 years. house arrest for 2 years of covid and then being sent back to China. I would kill to be her rn
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Sep 24, 2021 21:36
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I like the Grayzone articles on Xinjiang http://thegrayzone.com/tag/uighurs/
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Jan 25, 2022 22:56
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Lostconfused posted:How much longer can they keep up this media blitz? Putin's been ready to invade for two months now. until the Olympics start and then they pivot back to antiChina material.
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Jan 29, 2022 18:02
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:this is one of the smarter invasion scares, since 5 years from now is long enough you don't have to prove anything (unlike Russian army divisions), and by the time 2027 rolls around everyone will have completely forgotten about it. Check please. I've head of a 5 year plan but this is ridiculous
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Feb 1, 2022 01:49
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:disagree, Capital is a genuinely engaging and entertaining book, far more so than most western philosophy. the most challenging part is the opening chapters, and it's also a book that makes substantially more sense on the second read because so much is jammed into the opening chapters. I could barely get through vol 2 and kinda dreading 3 but I can't stop now. Does it get better. Is part 2 the dark middle.chapter
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Feb 13, 2022 19:03
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Homeless Friend posted:xi laughing as he claims the amurian bog forest of splendor from the foolish slav lol
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Feb 14, 2022 19:53
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Al-Saqr posted:https://twitter.com/jackdetsch/status/1493421157592272902?s=21 healthcare please
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Feb 15, 2022 05:37
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Oh lol this guy. Cool
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Feb 15, 2022 23:21
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Waffle House posted:It's peculiar how subjective that interpretation can be, isn't it? For example, while it could be over-simplified that Hong Kong was within China's geographic territory, I am not so sure it was truly justifiable how they "did" it; that population had grown so different over the years that autonomy may have been a better and more *economically* beneficial answer. As the lines of "Westernism" blur into history's dustbin, given the world's interconnected nature, Taiwan is just the same, IMO. I'd put them all on Black since the odds are 50/50 aka centrist
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Feb 15, 2022 23:58
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I can't believe the invasion really was imminent.
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Feb 24, 2022 06:46
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R. Guyovich posted:i fight for china This!!!!!!
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Feb 24, 2022 06:48
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Mr Hootington posted:26% of Americans wanted this lol is the us even going to do anything beyond sending more military equipment.
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Feb 24, 2022 16:08
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Lol
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Feb 25, 2022 23:36
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the china thread has a demographics problem
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Feb 27, 2022 20:10
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US UK and Aus could invite more people to AUKUS and add more letters.
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Mar 8, 2022 05:45
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3 posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1502036658979495940 sick rear end headline lol. normal poo poo
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Mar 11, 2022 00:07
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"My anarchism is why is support intervention in Syria" is a good one
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Mar 13, 2022 03:23
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Justin Trudeau
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Mar 27, 2022 21:07
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Mayman10 posted:All of that just in March?! There's been 528 hours since March 8th, you haven't watched youtube for 18 hours this month That's not enough YouTube. They must become a sentient content pod.
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Mar 29, 2022 21:08
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I should move to china
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Mar 31, 2022 19:52
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really hope they get it under control, living through covid waves sucks rear end.
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Apr 4, 2022 05:02
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stephenthinkpad posted:When you want to tell a fantasy story, don't frame the setting in present day, comtemparary world, with reference to the real world. Frame it in an alternate world. Parasite and Handmaiden have the same problem too now that I think about it. What's fantastical about parasite?
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Apr 7, 2022 01:49
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I actually think it's less than 4000.
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Apr 7, 2022 05:00
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The methodology at play here is excellent too. Academics ftw Would love to see their Public Health metrics for east vs west.
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Apr 12, 2022 17:45
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/yifullofsin/status/1518746474775031808?cxt=HHwWgMC9zej31ZMqAAAA Dudes rock.
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Apr 26, 2022 16:31
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Antonymous posted:saying china makes better movies is like saying america makes better fried rice or something it's really a weird take. let america have pop music, jazz, and movies. we rule at those, we invented them. god bless us we invented movies but the perfidious soviets perfected them. Then we profited off their theories like true patriots.
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May 26, 2022 01:00
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the bitcoin of weed posted:not doing better, are better. they don't really put any effort into translating and pushing this stuff internationally as far as i can tell, with a few notable exceptions, so it's really easy to miss. the Battle of Lake Changjin about a crew of goofy dudes doing brutal videogame takedowns of orc US marines in the korean war is a notable one, and Legend of Deification/investiture of the gods is a really good looking animated film that actually got a pretty good english dub somehow. not to mention all the crazy kung fu/wuxia movies hong kong has been putting out for decades but I don't know if those are an entirely different film ecosystem or what i haven't seen lake changjin but you should check out chen kaige's first movies from the 80s, when Zhang yimou was his cinematographer...really beautiful boring rural movies about collectivism with barely any characters and lots of scenes of men doing labor or military drills while wiping swear off their brow or w/e. It's quite good poo poo.
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May 26, 2022 01:04
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It can actually very easily be denied if material reality has no impact on your worldview
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May 30, 2022 00:26
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Danann posted:(from t.me/mangopress/7585, via tgsa) Part-time nationalist? Like some days he's not feeling it
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Jun 21, 2022 05:15
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lollontee posted:sri lanka is going to have a full blown revolution soon it's pretty incredible, watching from afar. Rooting for the best for the sri Lankan people and the complete severing from imf and western influence
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Jul 13, 2022 14:52
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lobster shirt posted:one thing you don't see anymore in the US is guys walking around without a shirt on when its hot out. a true sign of imperial decline. you used to see it! I see this all the time.
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Jul 20, 2022 17:41
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It's just a trick of perspective
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Jul 21, 2022 23:31
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indigi posted:your friends legitimately believe that China is killing babies? the other two examples are obviously ongoing issues (if exaggeratedly phrased) but that one seems hosed presumably in reference to one child policy era
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Jul 22, 2022 20:42
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I put cinnamon on my cheerios
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Jul 23, 2022 12:22
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