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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Merdifex posted:

Glorious PLAN turning into glorified baby formula smuggling service is loving hilarious.

Now we know what the aircraft carrier is for. Carry ten times as much baby formula in gross tonnage.

In a war the chinese carriers will be useless since all the space aboard the ship will be used to smuggle western goods instead of bombs and missiles

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Mattavist
May 24, 2003

Bumming Your Scene posted:

So basically their new family member was an ornament for them at his own wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdS-l0SeTTc&t=15s

"In China you can be anything without any knowledge or education."

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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China's fine. This is a predictable part of China's adjustment to a consumption driven economy. They could be in in for a few rough years but probably nothing compared to what the US went through after 2008 and if I remember correctly the US even though it hasn't really addressed the root of those problems is "gasp" still here. It's also important to remember current global economic conditions were not created by China but they are relatively well placed to muddle through the chaos. The US, however, who is really responsible for where we are has already used up it's spare tires. China's has US$ 3.5 trillion in the bank, a huge investment in infrastructure (which includes some excess investments but I'll take that over banker bailouts any day). Most importantly as regards the shift to domestic consumption driving GDP China as of an October 2015 Credit Suisse report for the first time has the largest population of middle class defined as holding net assets of US$50K to 500K in the world. China has 109 million the US 92 million and China not surprisingly added twice as many middle class than the US since 2000 and China's rate of middle class creation continues to far outstrip the US. So yes. The oppressed "slave labourers" are doing okay. They are also making massive investments in green technology to address growth related pollution problems. China's going in the right direction and they have the patience to think long term not the next news cycle.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Mattavist posted:

"In China you can be anything without any knowledge or education."

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

China's fine. This is a predictable part of China's adjustment to a consumption driven economy. They could be in in for a few rough years but probably nothing compared to what the US went through after 2008 and if I remember correctly the US even though it hasn't really addressed the root of those problems is "gasp" still here. It's also important to remember current global economic conditions were not created by China but they are relatively well placed to muddle through the chaos. The US, however, who is really responsible for where we are has already used up it's spare tires. China's has US$ 3.5 trillion in the bank, a huge investment in infrastructure (which includes some excess investments but I'll take that over banker bailouts any day). Most importantly as regards the shift to domestic consumption driving GDP China as of an October 2015 Credit Suisse report for the first time has the largest population of middle class defined as holding net assets of US$50K to 500K in the world. China has 109 million the US 92 million and China not surprisingly added twice as many middle class than the US since 2000 and China's rate of middle class creation continues to far outstrip the US. So yes. The oppressed "slave labourers" are doing okay. They are also making massive investments in green technology to address growth related pollution problems. China's going in the right direction and they have the patience to think long term not the next news cycle.

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This space guaranteed to be full of the stupidest poo poo you can imagine about history that I don't understand.
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Budzilla
Oct 14, 2007

We can all learn from our past mistakes.

Rudager posted:

As an Australian with a 7 month old baby, gently caress these guys, I literally have to loving pre-order formula right now.
I live in Brisbane. I am very surprised that there hasn't been a word about it in the local media.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Fojar38 posted:

They are also making massive investments in green technology to address growth related pollution problems. China's going in the right direction and they have the patience to think long term not the next news cycle.

lol I like how you put this part at the end of the post just in case anyone was still staking it seriously.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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new york times pick comment

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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"slave laborers"

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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North Korea is its own sovereign nation. China has significant leverage over them, but it's still not absolute control.

The Chinese can help broker peace and reunification, but it would likely involve the U.S. leaving South Korea first. The American presence might stabilize the peninsula, but it also escalates the conflict too.

Experts have proposed the solution that North Korea become a province of China. This would automatically end the Korean War, rein in North Korea's nuclear arsenal, and lift the people out of poverty. The region would become a special territory, and Kim would join the ranks of China's leadership.

Phil Moscowitz
Feb 19, 2007

If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!
Wow some high level foreign policy knowledge on display up in this poo poo

Vladimir Putin
Mar 17, 2007

by R. Guyovich

Fojar38 posted:

North Korea is its own sovereign nation. China has significant leverage over them, but it's still not absolute control.

The Chinese can help broker peace and reunification, but it would likely involve the U.S. leaving South Korea first. The American presence might stabilize the peninsula, but it also escalates the conflict too.

Experts have proposed the solution that North Korea become a province of China. This would automatically end the Korean War, rein in North Korea's nuclear arsenal, and lift the people out of poverty. The region would become a special territory, and Kim would join the ranks of China's leadership.

North Korea being absorbed into China is an insane idea.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Vladimir Putin posted:

North Korea being absorbed into China is an insane idea.

WHAT

max4me
Jun 15, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Rudager posted:

As an Australian with a 7 month old baby, gently caress these guys, I literally have to loving pre-order formula right now.

I was thinking about this, why not just import a bunch of young chinese women, give them some oxytocin or what ever the hormone to cause lactation is, then have a bunch of wet nurses and natural milk for the local babies. Or maybe that idea is too japanese.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Fojar38 posted:

China's fine. This is a predictable part of China's adjustment to a consumption driven economy. They could be in in for a few rough years but probably nothing compared to what the US went through after 2008 and if I remember correctly the US even though it hasn't really addressed the root of those problems is "gasp" still here. It's also important to remember current global economic conditions were not created by China but they are relatively well placed to muddle through the chaos. The US, however, who is really responsible for where we are has already used up it's spare tires. China's has US$ 3.5 trillion in the bank, a huge investment in infrastructure (which includes some excess investments but I'll take that over banker bailouts any day). Most importantly as regards the shift to domestic consumption driving GDP China as of an October 2015 Credit Suisse report for the first time has the largest population of middle class defined as holding net assets of US$50K to 500K in the world. China has 109 million the US 92 million and China not surprisingly added twice as many middle class than the US since 2000 and China's rate of middle class creation continues to far outstrip the US. So yes. The oppressed "slave labourers" are doing okay. They are also making massive investments in green technology to address growth related pollution problems. China's going in the right direction and they have the patience to think long term not the next news cycle.

The Chinese economy is based on fraud, fraud doesn't work in the long run

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

North Korea is its own sovereign nation. China has significant leverage over them, but it's still not absolute control.

The Chinese can help broker peace and reunification, but it would likely involve the U.S. leaving South Korea first. The American presence might stabilize the peninsula, but it also escalates the conflict too.

Experts have proposed the solution that North Korea become a province of China. This would automatically end the Korean War, rein in North Korea's nuclear arsenal, and lift the people out of poverty. The region would become a special territory, and Kim would join the ranks of China's leadership.

lol where do these idiots get these ideas?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Darkman Fanpage posted:

lol where do these idiots get these ideas?

experts it says so right there

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
is that from the new york times comments section as well, fojar?

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Darkman Fanpage posted:

is that from the new york times comments section as well, fojar?

no that one was from the globe and mail

Blistex
Oct 30, 2003

Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

no that one was from the globe and mail

For a second I thought that you had gone full "China".

Nuevo
May 23, 2006

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Fun Shoe

Mozi posted:

first time i was in china i had to ask my teacher why everyone was saying what sounded very much like the n-word multiple times per sentence (那个那个那个。。。)

Hah! A Chinese postdoc I worked with mentioned specifically that they got told in no uncertain terms not to use that particular filler word while in the US because things might not go well for them.

1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli
They have a similar word in Korean. It has caused problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXUUYosdB8

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

onegai please

Haier
Aug 10, 2007

by Lowtax

Fojar38 posted:

North Korea is its own sovereign nation. China has significant leverage over them, but it's still not absolute control.

The Chinese can help broker peace and reunification, but it would likely involve the U.S. leaving South Korea first. The American presence might stabilize the peninsula, but it also escalates the conflict too.

Experts have proposed the solution that North Korea become a province of China. This would automatically end the Korean War, rein in North Korea's nuclear arsenal, and lift the people out of poverty. The region would become a special territory, and Kim would join the ranks of China's leadership.

I will gladly take a bus to this new province and make sure the women get proper sexual education and maybe some information about what memes are, considering my activities seem to be one now.

Grand Prize Winner
Feb 19, 2007


Outrail posted:

Might as well type it out. It's something to do with poor and black isn't it?

wait why would the blacks be sending baby formula to China?

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Haier posted:

I will gladly take a bus to this new province and make sure the women get proper sexual education and maybe some information about what memes are, considering my activities seem to be one now.


look at these fine women

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 5 days!

Boat posted:

Hah! A Chinese postdoc I worked with mentioned specifically that they got told in no uncertain terms not to use that particular filler word while in the US because things might not go well for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dbqK___rKw

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

They have a similar word in Korean. It has caused problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXUUYosdB8

you see these rocks?

Longpig Bard
Dec 29, 2004



1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

They have a similar word in Korean. It has caused problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXXUUYosdB8

It causes black men to laugh like Hollywood film villains

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


etalian posted:

look at these fine women



I would watch these women be driven hither and tither, if you know what I mean.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Decrepus posted:

I would watch these women be driven hither and tither, if you know what I mean.

weed is supposedly really popular in NK so you could hang and smoke weed with some Juche girls.

Grand Fromage
Jan 30, 2006

L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?


computer parts posted:

From what I've heard (college level classes), it's the equivalent of that boring political science class that everyone has to take as part of their general courses.

Yeah. I forget the exact words but there's a common saying about how the stupidest professors end up teaching the Marxism class, along the lines of "Those who can do, those who can't teach, those who can't teach teach Marxism".

whiteyfats posted:

You're making GBS threads me

I've not actually had a Chinese person tell me peppers are Chinese but my impression in Korea was not only do most Koreans think peppers are Korean, but that peppers are also not eaten anywhere outside Korea.

I actually had a student here in China call another one a loving idiot for not understanding why Mexicans eat peppers, that was fun.

etalian posted:

weed is supposedly really popular in NK so you could hang and smoke weed with some Juche girls.

Weed was a huge part of Korean culture until Park Chung-hee made it illegal in the 1960s out of fear of hippies undermining his dictatorship. North Korea didn't have that obviously, so it's still everywhere.

In ancient Japanese art they indicate a ship is from Korea by putting a giant High Times :2bong: pot leaf on it. Korean kings were buried with supplies for the afterlife, which include huge bales of weed.

E: Korean ship.

Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Jan 9, 2016

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Koreans are pretty serious, weed would do them good.

1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli
Even foreign tourists can buy weed easily in NK

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Lol

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Grand Fromage posted:

Weed was a huge part of Korean culture until Park Chung-hee made it illegal in the 1960s out of fear of hippies undermining his dictatorship. North Korea didn't have that obviously, so it's still everywhere.

In ancient Japanese art they indicate a ship is from Korea by putting a giant High Times :2bong: pot leaf on it. Korean kings were buried with supplies for the afterlife, which include huge bales of weed.

E: Korean ship.



Wouldn't weed be good for the regime, better they pass out from too much weed than doing one of those well organized protests.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
They need those protests, otherwise they can't convince the populace that they actually care about Takeshima.

Tupperwarez
Apr 4, 2004

"phphphphphphpht"? this is what you're going with?

you sure?

Grand Fromage posted:

Korean kings were buried with supplies for the afterlife, which include huge bales of weed.
Hey man, don't leak the next Uncharted game's plot like that.

smooth jazz
May 13, 2010

Why on God's green gently caress do Chima girls leave their phones on all night long, then complain when they get woken up every 20 minutes from some stupid notification.

Oh yeah that's right, no why.

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Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

One a Korea goon got yelled at (kicked out maybe? I can't remember) in the Korean Kimchi museum because he suggested to the guy there that maybe the ancient kimchi recreation shouldn't be full of chili pepper powder

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