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Ardennes posted:They just want the warlord period back, is that so bad? do not pursue Lu Bu
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May 28, 2020 20:13
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drat, i wish my country built things 
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Dec 27, 2020 13:56
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thats a sick communism scarf
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Dec 28, 2020 01:56
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lol aliens. why doesn't the CIA just encourage everyone to be buddhist priest and renounce material possessions
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Dec 28, 2020 04:07
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Sing Along posted:The US is far from blameless but investigating people's computers to arrest them for illegal religious activity is one of the few things we aren't doing. that very much depends on your religion of choice
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Jan 31, 2021 15:40
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 seriously? lol they are drinking their own kool-aid. brilliant analysis 
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Feb 21, 2021 18:35
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bitcoins are so loving stupid
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Feb 22, 2021 15:38
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Grapplejack posted:It looks like China is going to move forward with the electoral reforms in HK, assumedly to stamp out most of the pro-dem groups and reassert their control over the region. i guess they are breaking their promise to the british empire. hopefully Boris doesn't invade
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Feb 22, 2021 17:38
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indigi posted:idk why you'd want to de-dollarize with a currency that takes the electricity output of an entire nation to maintain, has a hard cap on transaction volume, and completely limits your ability to manage supply also you can't escape the US dollar by using computer accounting tricks. the US dollar dominates the globe because the USA won WW2 and used military power to maintain its world hegemony after that. the US dollar is backed by minute man ICBMs
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Feb 23, 2021 00:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:I tend to believe that if China ever had enough combined hashing power to do a 51% attack on bitcoin*, or some other dumping scheme that would hurt its value at a time when it'd be advantageous to do so, that they'd pull the trigger. i have the feeling that china is collecting lots of these little western vulnerabilities and they plan to pull the trigger on all of them simultaneously
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Feb 23, 2021 17:04
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Grapplejack posted:Or, and hear me out, maybe they aren't playing 50d chess and are just playing the same lovely game as the west with a different coat of paint nah china is different than the west and pretending they are the same is a critical error. their system is clearly growing stronger over time as the west is becoming weaker
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Feb 23, 2021 17:09
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tractor fanatic posted:it still sounds like you're conflating the PRC with a bunch of random chinese people to be clear i am talking about the sovereign nation state of china, which is controlled by a one party system known as the PRC. thats why i said "china" and not "chinese people" i am also not talking about taiwan, which also claims to be china. im sorry for the confusion
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Feb 23, 2021 17:24
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Chomskyan posted:How is bitcoin going to replace the US dollar as a reserve currency? a warlord could pay their army in bitcoins then tax the territory they conquer in bitcoins
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Feb 23, 2021 20:21
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but all currencies are just speculative commodities
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Feb 23, 2021 21:20
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Chomskyan posted:How does bitcoin being around “water down” the US dollar? people buy bitcoins to avoid USAs control of SWIFT international payment systems. this decreases the power of US hegemony
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Feb 23, 2021 21:36
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Antonymous posted:no one is buying oil or silicon chips or consumer goods in bitcoins, but when italy needs motherboards from taiwan or south africa needs natural gas from saudi arabia they buy in United States Dollars. you think international remittance is what dollar hegemony means you needs to study the gently caress up all money is just a mass confidence delusion. dollars and bitcoins don't exist except except in the minds of people, and there is a finite amount of delusion energy. if people lose faith in dollars and buy bitcoin it decreases the power of the dollar mass delusion.
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Feb 23, 2021 22:25
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Junkozeyne posted:Except China is rapidly coming from behind while the west just doesn't care. Pretending both are the same is just centrism. yeah china is going to be Star Trek in 20 years if they keep up the pace of progress. the west hasn't made progress in 50 years
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Feb 25, 2021 15:15
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i wonder how many people the USA has lifted out of poverty in the same amount of time
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Feb 25, 2021 16:53
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if they got rid of poverty who would work at starbucks? if there was no homeless people on the streets than who would i look down on when thinking of my own miserable existence? no i am afraid the USA already has the correct level of poverty and we shouldn't try to decrease it
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Feb 25, 2021 17:51
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Not So Fast posted:Yeah, direct payments and targeted spending in the community sounds a lot like what China has been doing, going by the testimony in their recent documentary on the program. i'm watching this documentary and i am super jealous of these rural chinese people who have their own houses and more living space than i've ever dreamed of. this guy is supposedly poor and all i can think is "drat i wish i could live in a cave i dug myself"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU&t=1117s
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Feb 25, 2021 19:26
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:The value of what people produce for their own consumption is never part of the "...makes X dollars a year" figure. It is always assumed that everyone is an alienated worker whose only source of support is a paycheck. seriously! i have been watching videos from a rural chinese grandpa who chills out and does woodworking projects all day for his grandson. would grandpa amu count as a poor making less than $2 per day? i mean i assume he sells this stuff, but lets suppose he just made things for his grandson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqpZ_enV9pg i wish i was a chinese peasant
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Feb 26, 2021 00:16
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Feb 26, 2021 01:10
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its not like the CCP is encouraging people to live contented lives in the countryside. they are trying to get as many people into cities working wage labor as possible. that propaganda documentary even had a rural family that was complaining "they took our farm from us and make us live in this apartment. except they only gave one of our family a very low paid job, and now we cant grow our own food. we need to buy everything from the grocery store now" then there is a scene with a CCP party member who is like "they are used to a different lifestyle in rural life. but we will educate them and in one generation they will be adapted to this new lifestyle"
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Feb 26, 2021 19:56
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to be clear i said i want to live like Grandpa Amu, not a shenzhen factory worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbe9oDWNSqk
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Feb 26, 2021 20:17
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Pulcinella posted:Yeah there is definitely a nice little “war with China” consent manufacturing operation going on in the background the past several years. It’s not even about what stories are true and which aren’t, but what stories are presented at all and which ones aren’t. is this guy a CIA operative? he seems like it, but youtube doesn't have that little "state media" warning label so i cant tell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr13Ja8sUw4
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Feb 28, 2021 17:25
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i doubt there will be any big upset in china. the system is repressive in many ways but they are delivering the goods. as long as standards of living continue improve every year they can get away with a a lot living standards in the west are declining, people are less interested in tolerating bullshit
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Mar 1, 2021 02:55
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doesnt the CCP own all land in china? i thought the only thing you can get is a long term lease. seems like that alone would prevent any kind of property crash from messing up too many things
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Mar 1, 2021 05:40
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 did this court just rule that psychology isnt a science and can not produce facts?
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Mar 4, 2021 13:57
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Spergin Morlock posted:sounds interesting. i'm gonna snag a copy from somewhere other than amazon. good on them for bringing this book to my attention i just pirated a copy and posted the pirated copy to my facebook. go to hell censorship
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Mar 4, 2021 14:11
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sincx posted:https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/1367610854888333312 ahhahahahah quote:The most innovative aspect of this pressure campaign is a call to free up resources for competition with China via rapprochement with Russia.
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Mar 5, 2021 14:40
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i mean they are 100% correct. if america went full socialist right now and stopped spending all its money on foreign war and instead spent it on domestic infrastructure they might be able to beat china. america still has a lead on china, if it stops being a decaying empire and turns into an efficient planned economy than it would kick chinas rear end but that would require all the rich ancient ghouls to lose influence and power so it wont happen
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Mar 5, 2021 14:44
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stephenthinkpad posted:I don't know if this theory has a name, but the idea is that "America has to have an enemy, having an common enemy is the only way to unify the fractional domestic politic". I have heard this low key mentioned by senators and scholars here and there, I don't know if there is a doctrine name for it. fascism
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Mar 5, 2021 14:58
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Xi posted:“The biggest source of chaos in the present-day world is the United States,” i mean hes not wrong....
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Mar 5, 2021 16:49
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stephenthinkpad posted:India hasn't signed a new FTA with anybody for 10 years. And the agreements are mostly with small economies. India historically is a very protectionism country. than why are they trying to sell out their farmers to international capitol to the point of massive riots?
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Mar 6, 2021 21:42
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wow asia really is a different world. i have never seen a KFC thats clean before
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Mar 9, 2021 19:29
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oh wow the rhizzone still exists? brings me back
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Mar 11, 2021 15:58
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Stairmaster posted:if I was the united states I'd simply come to a mutual understanding with china and focus on my atlantic commitments and loving over south america and africa. 
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Mar 11, 2021 23:58
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Grapplejack posted:it literally doesn't matter how combat ready the troops are because you have nukes, that's the secret sauce. China and the US are invincible because of this. China could have a single hot dog floating in the ocean and would be able to fend off any US attack because of the 400+ ICBMs they have i think if the USA sends over an invasion force it wold be better to use a nuclear torpedo? i assume china has those, they are easier to make than ICBMs. goodbye carrier group  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7kgExpYzkE&t=51s
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Mar 13, 2021 05:42
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Mirello posted:anyone talking about ship vs ship or w/e is braindead. if conflict broke out between china and amerikkka, all life on earth would end. there's no such thing as a limited war between two nuclear powers. i dont think china has enough ICBMs to destroy all of the earth? i thought they had a lot less than the old school USSR
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Mar 13, 2021 15:31
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drat, new dynasty warriors looking good
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Mar 13, 2021 17:05
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