Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

boeing engineer after showing that video to a boardroom: isn't that beautiful? now imagine 500,000 of those drones speeding over, say, tehran each carrying an explosive device.

R. Guyovich posted:

R. Guyovich posted:

i wish i understood chinese

"Marx Is Right! Episode 3 — The Immortal 'Capital' (Full Version)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSYaEHkH7rQ

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/yehoak/status/992852075007696899

Al! posted:

strong refutations of the conquest of grass itt

Eox posted:

The Great Leap Upward

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Anyway, the most instructive thing about the comic is that the koopas' idea of utopia is standing on the same platform forever just talking about themselves. You are communally compelled to listen to everyone's trite personal problems, and leaving that recursive world is wrong because doing anything is a form of aggression.

Zas posted:

"are koopas anarcho-primitivists" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

Zas posted:

so.... how about china eh??

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

Autism Sneaks posted:

In conclusion China, is a land of contrasts

Jose posted:

check the probation reason and work backwards

Larry Parrish posted:

Rabbits are uh, flighty. They tend to die whenever they get chased enough. So usually they suffer cardiac arrest before the dog ever gets to them

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Allen Dulles was a short-sighted moron who spent his entire career coasting on his WWII successes.

Ace of Baes posted:

I have a Motorola, which was an American company, that was sold to a Chinese company, Lenovo, with parts made in the US, Korea, Taiwan, and China, and then sent to China to be assembled before being shipped to the US to be sold

Zas posted:

is everyone tired of donald tweets yet? cause im not
https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1030976387040116737

Fallen Hamprince posted:

Typo posted:

No, Xinjiang lacks industry which is why the Chinese government have being investing in new businesses there helping to bring in jobs, promote class consciousness, and increase productivity

Typo posted:

rural whites liked third way Democrats because third-way Democrats framed their welfare reforms as punishing the "lazy" and rewarding the "hard-working". The whole point of welfare reform was to link government assistance to work to appease racial resentment on the part of rural whites who saw welfare as rewarding Cadillac driving welfare queens. Rural white America hates the "unvirtuous" poor below them as much as the coastal elites above them.

bill clinton was popular in rural america, and continued to be all the way up to maybe 2016 if not today. Rural America is not some hotspring of leftism just waiting for a socialist savior to come along.

Typo posted:

rural Chinese liked the centrist reformers because the centrist reformers framed their political reforms as punishing the "lazy" and rewarding the "hard-working". The whole point of political reform was to link government development to party apparatchik to appease political resentment on the part of rural Chinese who saw reform as rewarding Cadillac driving party bosses. Rural China hates the "unvirtuous" party above them as much as the party elite above them.

deng was popular in rural china, and continued to be all the way up to maybe 1989 if not today. Rural China is not some hotspring of leftism just waiting for a socialist savior to come along.

Typo posted:

WRONG

R. Guyovich posted:

the koryo confederation model goes back to kim il-sung's era and is still the most workable plan

Typo posted:

I think we can all agree that Lin Biao was a power-hungry scum, vermin, arch-traitor, and running dog of revisionist powers who sought to assassinate Mao, seize power for himself, destroy the China and turn the country over to his foreign masters

Typo posted:

Feng Shui is superstition contrary to the truth of scientific atheism, however, the worst it does is to make superstition believing people want to buy really lovely and overpriced real estate and thus leaving better real-estate at lower prices for orthodox party-line believers to purchase.

It makes money go from stupid people to smarter people as you would say

Mantis42 posted:

Evidence that Comrade Xi needs to build more camps..

sincx posted:

Good article from the economist, and fairly balanced. Long read, but worth it.

If you don't want to read it, the summary is that China is not going to collapse, but it's also not doing great. And fundamentally China's future is for itself to determine; the trade war has much less impact than domestic activity. "It is not pressure from outside that will make or break China, but its own decisions."

Also I was just at that building last month. It was alright.

https://www.economist.com/essay/2019/02/23/the-story-of-chinas-economy-as-told-through-the-worlds-biggest-building

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

https://twitter.com/eedrk/status/1114344054894895105

https://twitter.com/eedrk/status/1114353491634315264

Grapplejack posted:

I'd love to see a high speed rail going up and down each coast in the US. I dunno how well that'd work with cross country travel, and the west coast can't do subterranian rail because of the constant earthquakes.

R. Guyovich posted:

the working hours absolutely suck, are illegal and should be changed. it is an industry-wide thing so it becomes a "well if everybody ELSE is doing it" phenomenon where nobody takes responsibility and thereby nobody changes it. which is why the state should get involved

gradenko_2000 posted:

this Lupin reboot sucks