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Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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that achewood arc with magical realist dprk except replace kim with xi

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Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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lol

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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rudatron posted:

Endles Legend is absolute garbage, and the civ 5 + civ 6 counter measures to ics are the most frustrating and boring parts of it. You can basically live off 4 cities in civ 5, and suffer nothing for it, meaning the fight over conflict and territory that is supposed to characterize 4xs is replaced with boring wonder spam

Hell yeah to this post. Widesplaining 4X revisionists fuk off

bury me with civ iv and ffh2

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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People in the west reading the tea leaves seem to believe that xi is a sincere maoist trying to yoke the party apparatus and get it moving in the "right" (ie left) direction. This fits with anecdotal evidence from chinese friends and anglos i know there. The problem is that, high profile campaign against corruption or no, the real struggle for the ccp is exerting influence in the regional party cells and local government, which is almost absurdly corrupt and entrenched. It would take an enormous effort to reform the party on that broad and deep a level. Of course, concentrating power and reviving the party line would be a reasonable preamble to such an effort, so maybe that's his plan. Time will tell!


This is of course ignoring all the uhh, more 'problematic' elements of ccp rule, like the aggressive colonization of xinjiang and tibet

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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R. Guyovich posted:


there is a capitalist class in china, but it was developed in a system where political power was and is both superior and antagonistic to it.


This is a really bizarre take on the situation. "Political power" in china is at best sometimes antagonistic, sometimes superior. This is the root of the problem that the ccp is confronting: on the provincial level and lower the party is deeply implicated in corrupt practices and crony capitalism. Obviously Xi recognizes this, hence the spate of symbolic high profile arrests and trials. Problem is, this is a problem that goes beyond the individual into the institutional fabric of government

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Yandat posted:

that was probably the most racist game i ever played, but i was 14 and didn't notice

the other faction was just arabs with suicide bombers and chemical weapons, the chinese would get money by deploying guys with laptops who would hack money from the internet

While true, Generals still owned hard once i got over it not being red alert or tiberian poo poo. Nothing like SCUDsing the poo poo out of Are Troops

i wonder if its on steam

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Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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gettin pissy and high strung about the warm'n'fuzzy mario comic in the ol' china cspam thread, smdh

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Eox posted:

The Great Leap Upward

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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if everyone's gonna be all snippy to each other can it at least be about xinjiang and tibet or something

here's my contribution: china's policies in tibet and xinjiang blow fukin chunks!!!

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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ye more of that please

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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R. Guyovich posted:

tibetans and uighurs have been exceptions to the one- and two-child policies for decades but that's actually a secret plot to lower their numbers

thanks m8

anyway as i was saying the chinese state has been aggressively colonizing tibet and the western regions and it seems, like, pretty obviously vile and imperialistic, like, kind of transparently so? am i missing the secret 4-dimensional red chess here??

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Al! posted:

i drew his av and also the han chinese are getting their businesses burned down in tibet

lol wont someone think of the poor israeli han settlers?!?

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

:rip: falun gong newspaper box



btw:

tbh I kind of want to go to one of their opera shows, i've heard they're pretty spectacular

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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In the broadest possible brush strokes, the SU was first paralyzed and ultimately killed by an insanely venal, myopic, incompetent bureaucracy that itself was the product of desperate, improvisational moves to protect the revolution and kickstart industrialization during the 1930s. So far the CCP has proven less myopic and less incompetent, but when it comes to venality, well...

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I just want China to occupy the United States and put Jeff Bezos in jail.

I want that scene from the dark knight where batman kidnaps a chinese industrialist, except reversed, and batman is chinese, and bezos is beaten to death by a furious oiled up socialist tom hardy

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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'West China'

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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lol. Feels like only yesterday that explainer was denying camps existed at all.

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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namesake posted:

The creatures outside looked from fakepost to terrible analysis, and from terrible analysis to fakepost, and from fakepost to terrible analysis again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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R. Guyovich posted:

you were talking out your rear end and have shifted the conversation elsewhere to avoid admitting it.

Someone is doing this, yes

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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his point (i think) is that the very attempt to reform precipitated a crisis of the old order. having now successfully contained or erased popular demand for reform, and witnessed the SU's spectacular collapse and russia's diminished state, i'm sure that most of the ccp think tiananmen square was crushed appropriately. xi's strange contortions between gung-ho savior of international trade (and the capitalist order it perpetuates) and maoist nostalgia and red values is a response to perceived constraints.he faces the problem of what to do with a capitalist sector that is important to enrich the country/increase national self-sufficiency but which simultaneously perpetuates inequality and erodes party authority and discipline. One party rule, with its opacity, factionalism, and sheer sprawl, is deeply vulnerable to corruption and crony capitalism
btw this is not a gimmick post
btw btw xi of course is a direct benefactor from the ccp's undemocratic and clubby nature so that doesnt help either lol


btw btw btw i assume these screengrabs are in reference to recent tax reform, which was actually well thought out and good for working people

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Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Modest Mao posted:

Are you talking about the very Communist thing he did raising the tax rate on the wealthy from 25% to 45% overnight. Or the funny thing that china has an essentially flat tax for anyone living in a city so everyone got hosed really hard.

the thing where they raised the cap before taxable income to 5000 yuan

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

Reddit having a normal one after tencent buys a stake in the site:



falun gong organ harvests!

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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tino posted:

I guess they can adopt the first book and cut out the boring Cultural Revolution bit. The first encounter is the best part of 3 body anyway. The weird alien planetary system can be compress to a 10 minute flashback.

Hollywood still has more money to make sci-fi movies, so get a mixed cast get Denis Villeneuve to direct.

The cultural revolution parts owned ya dingus

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

"Gradual democratic reform" is a good dogwhistle for gradually acting like white people

lol jesus

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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dang i really didn't expect them to back down on this

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Eox posted:

it's a safe bet that every intelligence organization on earth has at least one overworked sap in HK right now

Sounds like a good setup for a Coen Brothers farce

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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sincx posted:

psst... they aren't smart enough to realize the irony

The GBS China brigade is a group that consists of people who literally can only find jobs as grocery store clerks in the US

i dont like to defend gbs but this is a bit :whitewater:

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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these big shots watching looking stern af

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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i dunno what this dolphin reef deal is but it looks pretty cool

e; followed by tank-boat-plane??

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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China does its cultural imperialisms in central asia not africa, duh

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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this thread sucks rear end now, bring back guyovich

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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The Great Autismo! posted:

agreed, I also desire more blatant and awkward racism in my conversations about china

i desire the barest measurable iota of intelligent discourse, yes, you dumb, dumb motherfucker

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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Ardennes posted:

Btw, it looks like corona deaths are rapidly surging in India and I would assume it would affect Modi's approval rating eventually.

You'd assume, but then i bet he'll casually push the blame onto poor muslims and just use it as another opportunity to entrench a legally Hindu chauvinist state

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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christ what is it with this thread and needing to defend internment camps

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

coming to the atlantic monthly... a month and a week from now: "how we lost hong kong," an expose on the half-hearted u.s. support for the protests which journalistic groupthink pretended didn't exist for the past year

lol

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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trump is speedrunning the american decline, it's p wild

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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this thread is so painfully exquisitely fuckup stupid when it comes to blunt obvious han chauvinism in xinjiang and tibet, lioe unironic whataboutism and errything

Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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uninterrupted posted:

lo, the people of tibet cry out to be reshackled into serfdom and have their hands cut off for petty crime
congrats on being duped by incredibly crude propaganda i guess?

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Fuligin
Oct 27, 2010

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uncop posted:

I don't think any other thread on SA comes even close to how often they make me feel like an overconfident idiot spewing hot takes based on bad and lacking info. I just keep posting though, because it's not like the standards are high in general.

Extremely :same: tbh

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