BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i do the same thing tbh but for cspam posters

https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1136180898163040257

Xelkelvos posted:

Where do you think we are?

If you want "serious" discussion, make a D&D thread.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

LeBron really is the greatest

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/peoplesdispatch/status/1339514423770107904

Throatwarbler posted:

It seems to be a phenomenon amongst many diasporas. I read a thing about Indians who visit diaspora Indian communities in Britain and being surprised that everyone there still wore Shalwa Chamises that looked like they were still from the 1960s or something. You leave the old country and are just frozen in time while the old country moves on.

Judakel posted:

lmao hosed around and found out

gradenko_2000 posted:

mila kunis posted:

wrong on two counts. the communists in bengal lost a long time ago, not to the BJP but to a regional party (trinamool congress) which isn't ideologically comitted to the left or the right (outside of being anti communist) but is just a local patronage party. also bengal isn't "remote" its been a major part of india culturally and economically for centuries

and the bjp hasn't brought much in the way of development to them, things are pretty stagnant. they're just flooded with massive amounts of cash, which translates to lots of local muscle on the ground as well as funding for propaganda across social media and news media. the indian public is a lot more right wing than a decade ago, and its not because the bjp has been delivering economically (i'd say the opposite).

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

they've been really going all out

Atrocious Joe posted:

The Intercept sat for years on the leaked Snowden document that showed Saudi Arabian officials issuing orders to Syrian rebels. It only came out after the war in Syria had shifted enough that it was mostly irrelevant.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1362731180043497474

me, sad meme face: warmth plz

stephenthinkpad posted:

That's IndiaPakistan level of dynasty politic.

mawarannahr posted:

I just learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhong_Gong and Zhang Hongbao.


lmao

so, what's the deal with the qigong movement that somehow got out of the party's control and resulted in, according to wikipedia, a land of grandmothers in cults?

quote:

The Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army conducted a protracted campaign which threatened the stability of the Manchukuo regime and the Japanese colonial rule, especially during 1936 and 1937. By the beginning of 1937, it comprised eleven corps in three armies, estimated by the Japanese to be about 20,000 men. Lacking the troops and materiel to conduct full-scale conventional warfare, the army's strategies were primarily to form pockets of resistance in occupied areas to harass the Japanese troops and undermine their attempts at local administration, and to launch small surprise attacks to divert resources from Japan's advance into China Proper or against the Soviet Union after the border clashes of Chengkufeng (1938) and Battle of Khalkhin Gol (1939).[citation needed]

Yang twice commanded western marches that threatened Japanese lines of communication to Tieling and Fushun in Liaoning Province. From the latter half of 1938, Japan concentrated large numbers of its troops in Manchukuo with the mission of encircling Yang's army and placed a 10,000-yuan bounty on his head. By September 1938, the Japanese estimated that the Anti-Japanese Army was reduced to 10,000 men.[citation needed]

By 1940, the war was stalemated although Japan held most of the Manchurian coastal areas and the open country along the railroads, small forces of Chinese guerrillas fought doggedly on from the mountains and woodlands. The Kwantung Army then brought reinforcements into the Northeast with a plan for "maintaining order and mopping up anti-Japanese elements." They cut off the supply lines to the troops of the United Front, the Chinese soldiers persevered, frequently launching attacks that compelled the enemy to divert its main force from punitive expeditions against the Chinese forces

Yang led more than 40 engagements in Jilin Province, despite critically lacking supplies. In response, the Japanese committed a scorched earth strategy by routinely looting rural harvests, confiscating food from villages, and forcefully segregating civilians into "lawful settlements," in the attempt of depriving the resistance any means of supply. Large collaborationist patrols were also frequently deployed to inflict attrition on the guerrillas.[citation needed]

Yang and his men were closely encircled by 40,000 Japanese troops in January to mid-February 1940. Facing a dire situation, he organized his forces to disperse into small units and break out of the encirclement. His detachment of 60 troopers were betrayed to the Japanese by a staff officer on February 18. After the last two soldiers at his side were killed in action, Yang continued fighting alone for another 5 days. He was eventually cornered in a small forest by a large combined Japanese and collaborationist forces in the Mengjiang County (蒙江县), and was killed during fierce fighting by multiple shots from machineguns. It was reported that the Japanese troops, fearing Yang's famed marksmanship from previous encounters, refused to approach his body for a while after his death.[citation needed]

Unable to understand Yang's source of perseverance (Yang had not eaten for over 6 days), the Japanese ordered an autopsy after cutting off and preserving Yang's head. When they cut open Yang's stomach, they found only tree bark, cotton batting and grass roots within — not a single grain of rice. The Japanese commander at the scene, Ryuichiro Kishitani (岸谷隆一郎), was so shocked at the revelation that he "went silent, and appeared aged a lot within the next day." Kishitani committed seppuku after Japan's defeat, but wrote in his will that "His Majesty might be wrong in launching this war. China has steely soldiers like Yang Jingyu, and it would not fall."

The Japanese initially buried Yang's beheaded body carelessly in the wild. It was then rumored that the Japanese commander-in-chief in the area, General Shōtoku Nozoe (野副昌德), was having nightmares and feared that it was Yang's ghost. Panicked, Kishitani ordered his men to rebury the body properly with full cemetery ritual and military respect, honoring Yang — though an enemy — "a true warrior."[citation needed]

Yang's death was a great blow to his remaining troops, who turned their sorrow into anger. Over the next few months, Japanese forces increased their attacks and forced many of Yang's followers out into isolated areas in Manchuria or the Far Eastern territories of the Soviet Union.[citation needed]

After the end of the Second World War, Yang's severed head was recovered by the Communist forces, rejoined to his body, and reburied with full military honor. The Mengjiang County was also renamed to Jingyu County in his memory. Some traitors who betrayed Yang and contributed to his death were tracked down and executed. A national funeral was held in his honor after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, while Yang was extolled as a great and brave national hero

fart simpson posted:

the gbs thread is truly terrible. i go over and read a few pages every now and then and last time i was there a guy got banned for calling for the mass murder of han chinese people. several other people agreed with him and didn’t get even probed, and a mod came in and said he thinks the banned guy is overall a good poster and would unban him if he said he’s sorry

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i think that's in kolkata actually. kinda worth noting (and depressing) that the western left largely doesn't pay much attention to that. but i think it shows that electoral politics is not the main thing you should be thinking about all the time, it's kinda orthogonal or secondary to mass organizations that can mobilize huge numbers of people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDaQ8C6bkCw

fart simpson posted:

one of my aunts complains about this constantly lol. her big thing is she can’t imagine a world where pharmaceutical research is done without a profit motive

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

former CIA agent

THS posted:

that would unironically be a great listen

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1370125470084239363?s=20

shrike82 posted:

lol if you think the US MIC is decaying, watching the PLA/N going to war would be funny with forces that haven’t seen combat in a generation.

Trying to critique the US military from the left by arguing that they wouldn’t be as effective in conventional combat is a losing argument

I’m reminded of teary eyed leftist podcasters talking about Soleimani and how Iran would have some cunning revenge attack of the perfect proportionality