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atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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spacemang_spliff posted:

This man walking free fills me with a deep loathing

A million dead Iraqis wasn't enough, he wants a million dead ukrainians too

There's really nobody I hate more than the swathes of american checkmarks that desperately want to fight russia to the last dead ukrainian

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atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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paul_soccer12 posted:

Who's the mf a few booths down from me in this restaurant saying very cspam poo poo to his bro

Reveal yourself

lmao why are you at applebees during a pandemic my dude lol

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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paul_soccer12 posted:

im flabbergasted we havent heard reports of russians using chemical weapons yet

why does this flabbergast you

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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V. Illych L. posted:

it does not look to me like this is going to end in any other way than basically ukrainian capitulation, but i've been wrong before and i know even less about this kind of purely military matter than about international politics

you're right, the material reality of the conflict is they can achieve whatever operational goals they want

domestic political concerns or theoretically international pressure (but like with what leverage? the west has spent decades pissing away anything they had to negotiate with lmao) could make russia decide not to do things, that's about it

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Peggotty posted:

The point is that we, decided we would just let literal millions of people die for The Economy and it's very annoying when another country keeps proving that we could have prevented those deaths so it would be very helpful if they could stop trying.

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Grapplejack posted:

I want to make it clear that I'm against nuking Britain, as the explosions will put Britain into the atmosphere which will poison other countries

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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nigel thornberry posted:

lmao it’s so sad watching these as an American.

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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exmarx posted:

abe sucked etc etc, but troops assassinating political figures generally isn't a great sign

hasn't turned out great for japan (or the rest of the world) in the past, no

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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just gonna scream into the void that if your community is dependent on slave labor to survive your community should be destroyed but everybody knows that lmao

i lived in california, california's the same loving thing

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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the bitcoin of weed posted:

he would have stopped at a bachelor's and got hired at an appliance manufacturer making toasters and fridges with wifi
there's no money in making infrastructure so nobody does it anymore

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Orange Devil posted:

There's a complete and utter failure in Western decision making to see non-western foreigners as people.


It seeps into our media narratives and infects plenty of regular people as well. When discussing geopolitics with my friends, when they get too overly abstract discussing "Russia" or "China" or things like that I regularly feel compelled to break down the abstractions and make things as concrete as possible to drive home the point that these others are people exactly like them, with very similar needs and desires, and when presented with problems will use their mental faculties and material options to work towards a solution.

It's difficult to even get them to accept that the average Chinese person is not some poor horribly oppressed victim of their government only to be pitied, but actually reasonably content with their life and generally supportive of their government. Certainly more supportive of their own government and its interests than a random Western government or its interests.

its not a failure, read Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History

proposing government by supposed universal while keeping 'who counts as people' a moving target to the benefit of the rich is the founding principle of the enlightenment and every western government

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Antonymous posted:

it's a pattern you tell a kid over and over and then we look for it, but you wound't program a computer to do math that way, cause computers actually do math, not just recall rote facts and slam them together.

you absolutely would and there's a whole galaxy of algorithms that are programming a computer to take a shortcut rather than do math

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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DiscountDildos posted:

I just don't know why Xi would be so paranoid as to think the US has it out for China.

you'd think he read strategy documents clearly stating china is the enemy put out by the biden admin like a week ago or something

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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DiscountDildos posted:

Bernie was fine whatever that ship has sailed but it's not like we had anything else going on lmao. The most valuable lesson he left us with is that we barely exist.

Chen is just making an observation as an outsider that Bernie seems like the only American politician who might actually be a human.

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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i'm enthusiastic about the chinese manned spaceflight and lunar programs because they didn't start until well after china had perfectly fine icbms so it is completely pointless as a missile program and it isn't just an excuse to funnel money to the toy hobbies of the worst billionaires in the world

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Cerebral Bore posted:

yea i was gonna ask, has the us even done anything in any way impressive wrt space exploration lately?

nasa does plenty of neat stuff it just doesn't involve anything manned or lunar

lots of cool telescopes and things

and if you thinking taking extremely poo poo suborbital flights and calling yourself an astronaut is cool then us private industry has you covered

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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the magnum opus of private rocket companies was coming up with an rv to service the iss after nasa gave up on rockets and had to rely on soyuz launches and nothing else for years lmao

truly groundbreaking and innovative work pushing forward the boundaries

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Cup Runneth Over posted:

If I were truly nihilist I would be making vacation plans for a private equity boardroom with something power grows out of. I'm curious what folks in this thread think is the best course for leftism outside of China, if not labor organizing, mutual aid, and direct action. Podcasting and Twitter linking?

anything outside of those boundaries would be bannable and stupid to post about

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Tankbuster posted:

those countries collectively won't make a drop in the chinese agro market lol.

this most importantly, but also when the state runs the farms they don't immediately get annihilated the moment an import is one fen cheaper

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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parisbrained morons

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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KomradeX posted:

Baby brained morons

babies have the excuse of not having had time to grow or learn, jacobin and their ilk are paris brained, forever refusing to imagine that lessons learned since could ever apply to that great shining moment of glorious failure

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Maximo Roboto posted:

The PLAN didn't even participate in the Sino-Vietnamese War, it is as completely untested and green as the modern ROC armed forces. Any potential war might end up completely humiliating as both sides make rookie mistakes, it'd be like the Saudi army fighting against itself

yeah this, i am extremely skeptical that anyone on earth could actually pull off an amphibious assault in the modern

the last time anyone did was 1950, long enough ago that even the us military would be perfectly green at it but would, at least, have incredibly outdated doctrine left lying around to try and cobble into something and does have specialized ships and equipment that theoretically exists to do it

the PLAN would have a significantly worse time than even that

not to say they couldn't occupy taiwan, but the reasonable path to do so would be a blockade leading to an unopposed landing

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Ardennes posted:

Well the cat is out of the bag, and the question is what is China going to do at this point down the road.

among other things hopefully an aggressive campaign of adopting PPE

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Cpt_Obvious posted:

Wtf are you talking about Cuba and Vietnam both had, like, triple digit death tolls for Covid.

8 thousand and 43 thousand respectively

they did a lot better than the west tho, benefits of functioning governments concerned with the welfare of their people

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I know this is true for most people but I'm trying to understand this from the point of view Naomi Klein and similar western leftists who I guess believe that privatisation and capitalism are not good and presumably then think that the ideal outcome for China is something other than becoming, like, post soviet Russia or Indonesia or South Korea.

I guess just them having not really thought that far ahead is the most likely explanation

why do you think they consider privatisation and capitalism bad

the democrats are solid reaganites and the acceptable left wing that gets to make money and be on tv just want people to be sad about the negative effects and say that's a shame without changing anything

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Mia Wasikowska posted:

so if the success of Socialism with Chinese characteristics depends on having the correct paramount leader, what happens when they eventually have a lovely leader? how could china survive a gorbachev for example

good question nobody in this thread is close to being able to answer

i hope the cpc's strong enough to do so (or at least strong enough to keep any would-be gorbachevs away from the tanks) but gently caress knows

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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indigi posted:

perhaps this is the beginning of the coronodomor

e: well I guess that already happened in the rest of the world, so this would be the end

hahaha

silly poster, coronadomor will never end

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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read vincent bevins' book the jakarta method

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

the people walking around in full on respirators while having 4 shots are insane though

i might be insane but i've caught covid zero times

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Truga posted:

50% is pretty much standard in new construction all over the world, how the hell are yanks still at 30

because we don't build infrastructure

the average age of of us power generation plants has been unchanged (at 29 years, so the average power plant is only barely from the 90s) for over a decade now

things are only replaced as they break, not as part of any modernization efforts

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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lobster shirt posted:

wouldnt the average age remaining static for a decade imply that we are building some power plants? if we weren't building any at all the average age would be going up.

yes, because eventually power plants stop working and are cheaper to replace than maintain (after ~58 years, which is another number that hasn't changed in ages)

the fact that the number isn't going down means there's no modernization effort, we're content to use decades old technology hence why our plant efficiency is so low compared to china or even western europe

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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that's me, not xi jinping

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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i did end up printing out a nomogram for kerbal space program rp-1 with real solar system but mostly i used a computer

more games should allow nomograms to be useful

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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christ i hate americans

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Turtle Watch posted:

China is inventing a serum to cure whiteness?!

inshallah

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Raskolnikov38 posted:

Gen. Michael A. Minihan, who as head of Air Mobility Command oversees the service’s fleet of transport and refueling aircraft,


lmao dude is a glorified taxi dispatcher

on the one hand being able to reliably support aircraft flying from basically anywhere on the planet to basically anywhere else on the planet all the time reliably is probably one of or the most impressive thing anyone in the us military actually does

on the other hand holy poo poo what a laughable loving REMF this lunatic is

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Orange Devil posted:

Have you considered letting the PRC claim all of India?

i mean obviously i would prefer if we just let PRC claim the whole planet over status quo but nooooooooo

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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Tankbuster posted:

this reactionary group can't even begin to solve the contradictions of capitalism...wild!

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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of course there's an OSS connection the epstein extended universe cannot be denied

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atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

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ikanreed posted:

It's always a question of whether America goes out without nuclear hellfire.

the longer the reckoning is delayed the more missiles will fail to launch in account of neoliberal rot having cut maintenance and readiness

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