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Al-Saqr posted:Seeing American/Australian/UK media really hyping up a cold war and going full blast against china really underscores how actually dangerous anglo-saxon countries are, that you can essentially do nothing to them, you can play by their rules, but they will always somehow come up with ghost stories and work themselves up into a frenzy to attack you based off of something they made up in their own heads and when they do attack you they've already established a narrative of self defense on it based on nothing. it happens every loving time in history. Them + Israel are easily the most dangerous and thus worst countries in the world. Just can't stop themselves from being violent against others for no goddamn reason.* *except actually the reason is because it'll make them (aka those running those countries) money. Which is somehow worse.
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Sep 27, 2021 16:14
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indigi posted:lmao isn’t the Phillipines very Catholic Possibly more Catholic than Vatican City, yes.
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Sep 27, 2021 17:56
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crepeface posted:imagine if western governments could plan 5 years in advance I loving love 5 years plans to be honest, especially when you are just meeting or exceeding goal after goal after goal and not even doing the kind of fuckery Western governments use (don't meet target? that's ok, just adjust the target until you do) to do it. It makes human progress almost tangible. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 11:09 on Nov 1, 2021 |
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Nov 1, 2021 11:06
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Other than the most credulous motherfuckers on the planet (aka journalists), is anyone at all under the impression that anything meaningful will be decided in Glasgow?
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Nov 1, 2021 18:47
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Al-Saqr posted:at this point politicians looking at legal sources of ladies with big boobs should be given a medal considering what they could be doing instead with people like Epstein All those ladies appear to be adults and posting those pictures of their own volition. He's in the absolute top tier of politicians here. Also re: Xi @ COP26 China has some seriously heavy duty anti-corona measures. Like say, mandatory 3 week quarantines for everyone entering the country. As in everyone. Including the President. Who felt that maybe spending three weeks in quarantine wasn't the most effective way he could be leading his country during a global pandemic. So he did video messages. To a climate summit. Instead of flying to the other side of the planet. What a horrible leader Xi is. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 17:38 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Nov 3, 2021 17:35
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Atrocious Joe posted:I hope they get up to Quad-4 Quad damage is important but so is the red armour and the megahealth.
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Nov 3, 2021 20:54
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:the culture of fear stops at nothing The Chinese people might be alive, but they don't know freedom like the corpses of my family members do!
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Nov 7, 2021 15:17
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Atopian posted:Let's be clear, China's motivations re: foreign development and investment are very unlikely to be altruistic. They explicitly are not altruistic. As in China literally said it is only making mutually beneficial investments. Much better than the US though.
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Nov 9, 2021 11:11
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R. Guyovich posted:the criticism of the targets only makes sense if you don't understand that china deliberately sets chronological goals with the intention of delivering ahead of schedule. underpromising and overperforming is the norm, so you can mentally subtract at least a few years off both of those, maybe more since they're so high-profile This is also excellent advice for your career by the way. Always try to negotiate down what is expected of you so that you can easily deliver ahead of schedule. It’s called expectations management or whatever and will make your job a lot less stressful and also make you much more likely to be noticed for promotion.* *May only apply if you are a white male in a comfortable middle class or better job.
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Nov 9, 2021 11:21
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Is the complaint here that it is harder for the CIA to bribe people?
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Nov 10, 2021 10:43
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Palladium posted:If I'm the CIA guy in charge I would just embezzle the bribe cash while claiming the target didn't honor their side of deal I would do this and then also make up a syndrome so I get enough free time to spend all that money.
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Nov 10, 2021 12:16
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What? Is the claim here that China is practicing how to take out a carrier... in the desert? yr new gurlfrand! posted:I like your style, do you have a name for that syndrome? Not yet, but I think we should make it sound foreign and threatening, maybe bring back some of the cold war greatest hits? I'll think on it while having another beer. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 17:12 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 17:07
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gradenko_2000 posted:it's not unreasonable to put down a carrier-shaped tarp in the middle of a desert, and then have dudes fly over it, so they can practice trying to visually identify something of the same silhouette from that high up Oh like that. Ok that makes sense. I thought the go-to carrier killing moves were subs and ASBMs though. Not so sure how much aerial silhouette identification you need for those.
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Nov 10, 2021 17:15
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Eh she's right. When is a boat ever going to be in -100 Fahrenheit degree water. Or even cold water at all what with global warming? I'm sure this will all be fine.
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Nov 11, 2021 10:04
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Correction, droner-in-chief.
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Nov 13, 2021 11:26
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my bony fealty posted:Vietnam...a lifetime bitch Lifetime bitch or... holder of the triple crown of beating three UN-security-council-permanent-member-nuclear-powers in succession? And then getting rid of US-supported Pol Pot for good measure.
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Nov 15, 2021 09:28
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Sabotaging the US sub-fleet is good, actually. So perhaps the best generation?
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Nov 15, 2021 11:56
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lol the d&d thread has become amazingly stupid Sorry.
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Nov 15, 2021 21:25
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Al-Saqr posted:I’m sorry what’s wrong with tutoring kids outside of school especially in countries where your grades will define your life it’s normal to do this Who can afford tutors?
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Nov 16, 2021 20:11
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Peter Daou Zen posted:at that age your interests should be improving the People's wellbeing, not plowing the fields of 20 somethings. What if he was just really into tennis though?
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Nov 17, 2021 11:16
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hot witch divorcee posted:of course there are going to be people squirreling around the rules but china isn't america, they don't just turn a blind eye to it and say "guess it can't be helped" The primary contradiction here being massive inequality.
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Nov 17, 2021 19:12
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Theirs is less. Tories only willing to lay track over the bodies of the working class. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 16:18 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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Nov 18, 2021 14:57
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HerraS posted:Not for a lack of trying in Castro's case You come at Castro you're at risk of getting pregnant.
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Nov 21, 2021 20:46
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"What could the US government and the CIA possibly stand to gain from spotlighting and wildly making poo poo up about a tennis player?", I ask as US population willingness to go to goddamn war with a nuclear power doubles within 7 years and jumps a full 12 percentage points in 6 goddamn months. I am very smart and media savvy, obviously.
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Nov 22, 2021 13:44
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DiscountDildos posted:In 2004 I was a sophomore in high school in bumfuck USA and one day in my physical science class we had a new kid who our teacher introduced as "Ilya whose family just moved to America from Communist Russia this year." Then he proceeded to ask him to tell us an anecdote about how lovely Russia was. He just said something like "the food is better here" iirc. He was a quiet dude. You had a time traveler in your class and this is the story we get?
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Nov 24, 2021 01:06
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Some Guy TT posted:wouldnt a lot of the people in their chinatown be taiwanese that seems like an odd move to make if your concern is the communist thirst for world domination rather than just boring old racism May I remind you how racist Australian media is?
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Nov 27, 2021 12:00
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Mantis42 posted:They came for golfers. Golfers. I did not speak out, for I was not a golfer. And also gently caress golf.
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Nov 29, 2021 09:45
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Mantis42 posted:Sounds accurate. The people I see at Wal Mart are often revolting. I used to be a communist but then I tasted Coca-Cola(tm)!
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Nov 29, 2021 15:19
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Or how about all the South Asians worked to death to build that Formula 1 race track? My dude have you heard of the FIFA World Cup 2022? For real though, whichever poster was saying before that it appears to be more important for western liberals that sexual assault victims can air accusations on social media than anything actually being done, like say perpetrators facing justice, seems to have been correct. Just the outright indignation at Peng Shuai's social media posts being deleted (or having deleted them herself) contrasted with political support for rapist politicians and being utterly oblivious to this disconnect is disturbing to say the least. As if the ultimate goal of feminism is being able to launch a hashtag on twitter. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 14:26 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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Dec 2, 2021 14:22
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The only thing the US manufactures is weapons, there is no way they're ever going to let that industry go. Maybe they could transition to something else like I dunno, plows or something?
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Dec 2, 2021 23:32
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Portugal is Eastern European so this checks out.
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Dec 3, 2021 10:12
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/MPhillipsWSJ/status/1467558955794771970 I mean by this logic the literal coast of China is "opposite the US West Coast" and presumably already has Chinese warships rearming and refitting. Unless there's some special rule that the international date line nullifies all military action and not just the F35.
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Dec 6, 2021 13:07
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Is this the same Tapper who masturbated to American weapons live on air when Trump bombed some shrubs in Syria?
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Dec 6, 2021 19:44
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Is he the guy who pretended his DoD organized guided helicopter tour got shot at?
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Dec 6, 2021 20:12
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Mantis42 posted:Applying American excess mortality rates to China does not tell you how many people died from Covid in China but does give us a clearer picture of how many lives Xi Jinping has saved. So do we substract these from the victims of communism? No? Just keep adding? Ok then.
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Dec 6, 2021 21:00
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THS2 posted:the american century wasn't even a century. 1945-202? RIP Eh, they got closer than the thousand year reich.
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Dec 7, 2021 12:14
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Rutibex posted:the EU is basically the third reich so i donno about that one Uhmm... no?
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Dec 7, 2021 13:10
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The dignified rape of Nanjing.
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Dec 7, 2021 13:47
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Grapplejack posted:Yeah it's really surprising how many people enter into poli sci and econ with ideological barriers already up that refuse to interact with ideas they hate. Especially econ, econ is the worst for this There's really been just an absolute death of debate in the West as liberalism gained more power. There's a whole bunch of subjects you just can't get people to actually discuss.
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Dec 7, 2021 18:15
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Doctor Jeep posted:I just have to ask - what's up with your title/avatar I tried to talk about Xinjiang and Uyghur's in the D&D China thread and my positions were uhh... not very appreciated? I'd summarize them for you here but I'm on my phone and I feel like the nuances are rather important given the topic so if you care it'd be easier to just read my posts in that thread. It was fairly recent.
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Dec 7, 2021 18:20
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