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rudatron posted:Lal also runs a pocast that only lanyards listen to, called Palling Around - With Pravin Lal Keepin' it 4.367 Lightyears Colony Pod Save Planet
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Nov 4, 2017 03:38
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Ulrik is a Nordic Supremacist, just like his hero H.P. Lovecraft, who wrote cool stories about sea monsters and race mixing. He's the pirate from dodgeball: a true underdog story
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Nov 4, 2017 04:04
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shrike82 posted:Guyovich, how conversant is the average Chinese with socialism theres some marxist stuff every kid has to learn but it doesnt go much farther than memorized test answers. though a few years back there was a tendency among the less well off students at places like tsinghua to become "real" socialists and actually discuss marxist theory, but party leadership shut that down hard. now they make the students chant poo poo like "revive the a-shares!" and "
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Nov 4, 2017 04:15
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i spent three weeks in Shanghai last year advising the local subsidiary of a sportswear apparel company i got the impression the locals were even more hyperconsumerist than Americans which is something special
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Nov 4, 2017 04:25
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shrike82 posted:i spent three weeks in Shanghai last year advising the local subsidiary of a sportswear apparel company well what else are you gonna do? even the ccp itself is surprisingly apolitical, functioning more like a giant shriner's association lodge (with even more grandads) crossed with a mlm scheme. consumerism is safe and acceptable, whereas anything else could disrupt the social harmony (and jeopardize the local party chairman's pension)
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Nov 4, 2017 04:47
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or just watch this documentary (full version is on can be searched on youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06a9Nb2GsU
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Nov 4, 2017 04:53
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which is why i'm pretty curious to see guyovich's view on Chinese politics evolve as he lives there
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Nov 4, 2017 04:56
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Consumerism is a natural outcome of the cramped conditions in urban living. What else are you going to do, expand your home? The ability to consume isn't antithetical to Marxism either, since liberation from material need is sort of the point. The actual issue is one of efficiencies and ethics in resource distribution. Are people in the laboring classes, countryside, or foreign countries deprived because of an overabundance available to urban middle and upper classes? If the answer is yes then there's a problem.
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Nov 4, 2017 05:13
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:What else are you going to do, expand your home? lol like anyone in china can afford that
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Nov 4, 2017 05:27
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a home i mean
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Nov 4, 2017 05:27
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Consumerism is a natural outcome of the cramped conditions in urban living. What else are you going to do, expand your home? The ability to consume isn't antithetical to Marxism either, since liberation from material need is sort of the point. The actual issue is one of efficiencies and ethics in resource distribution. Are people in the laboring classes, countryside, or foreign countries deprived because of an overabundance available to urban middle and upper classes? If the answer is yes then there's a problem. lol ok
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Nov 4, 2017 05:30
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everyone's been happy to talk cpc and marxism with me and love that i'm interested in their country from a position of respect and genuine desire to learn sometimes people are (understandably) wary but articulating marxist-leninist opinions dissolves that fast, because shockingly: they are shared by most chinese others are apolitical, which is fine and makes sense. everyone in a country of one and a half billion people, or even in a party of 89 million people, isn't going to be a committed ideologue the way members of encircled parties in the imperial center almost have to be. kind of the point of fighting a revolution — so future generations don't have to
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Nov 4, 2017 05:33
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R. Guyovich posted:everyone's been happy to talk cpc and marxism with me and love that i'm interested in their country from a position of respect and genuine desire to learn try to pick up chinese as a weaboo that speaks Japanese, I've always found it annoying when Americans come to Asia and starts playing country expert and they can't even speak the local language
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Nov 4, 2017 05:48
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shrike82 posted:try to pick up chinese i'm already in a class. i don't presume to know more about the country than the people who've lived here their entire lives, and in fact take great pains to avoid coming across that way
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Nov 4, 2017 05:51
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shrike82 posted:lol ok shrike82 posted:try to pick up chinese I find it annoying when expats act like they're foreign experts when they don't even go outside their cloistered safezones.
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Nov 4, 2017 06:03
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i'm half japanese mate but thanks for white-splaining
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Nov 4, 2017 06:16
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shrike82 posted:i'm half japanese mate but thanks for white-splaining Being half japanese makes you an expert on China?
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Nov 4, 2017 06:43
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someone's incredibly touchy about suggesting that learning the local language isn't a bad thing. guyovich took the suggestion in good faith, i wonder why you'd take so much umbrage 
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Nov 4, 2017 06:46
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If you're half Japanese, then wouldn't you not be a weaboo? How does that work
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Nov 4, 2017 06:50
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gradenko_2000 posted:Keepin' it 4.367 Lightyears Weaboo is cultural, rather than racial imo Any Westerner over obsessed with Japanese culture and media is a weaboo, even if they have Japanese blood
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Nov 4, 2017 06:59
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lol i know everything about japan from anime
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Nov 4, 2017 06:59
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Baloogan posted:lol i know everything about japan from hentai
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Nov 4, 2017 07:00
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Baloogan posted:lol i know everything about japan from doujinshi
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Nov 4, 2017 07:01
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I know everything about Japan from the NHK channel, and boy do those people love trains.
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Nov 4, 2017 07:22
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yeah i uh know all about yaoi. boizu rabu
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Nov 4, 2017 08:23
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I know everything about Japan from the NHK channel, and boy do those people love trains. 
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Nov 4, 2017 09:41
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rudatron posted:If you're half Japanese, then wouldn't you not be a weaboo? How does that work demi-weeb mayowalker
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Nov 4, 2017 12:23
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/926773569463271425 luv 2 respect the anthem
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Nov 4, 2017 13:00
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wow the conversation shifts back to the original topic and like magic the forum's biggest rear end in a top hat appears to pour liquid poo poo all over the thread, despite everyone hating him
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Nov 4, 2017 14:06
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Consumerism is a natural outcome of the cramped conditions in urban living. What else are you going to do, expand your home? The ability to consume isn't antithetical to Marxism either, since liberation from material need is sort of the point. The actual issue is one of efficiencies and ethics in resource distribution. Are people in the laboring classes, countryside, or foreign countries deprived because of an overabundance available to urban middle and upper classes? If the answer is yes then there's a problem. lol
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Nov 4, 2017 14:15
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R. Guyovich posted:everyone's been happy to talk cpc and marxism with me and love that i'm interested in their country from a position of respect and genuine desire to learn i guess i’m glad you can finally act like a normal person because the government pays lip service to your chosen ideology
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Nov 4, 2017 14:17
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:i guess i’m glad you can finally act like a normal person because the government pays lip service to your chosen ideology what do you imagine my day to day life was in the states was, exactly seriously. what's your warped mental picture tell you
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Nov 4, 2017 14:37
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i imagine it can’t have been great if an internet forums motivated you to move to china tbh
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Nov 4, 2017 14:40
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:i imagine it can’t have been great if an internet forums motivated you to move to china tbh oh so we're just accepting dumbass hamprince posts as unimpeachable fact now
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Nov 4, 2017 14:44
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r guyovich, please tell me, out of genuine interest, why you decided to move to china and how long you plan to stay, thank you very much (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 4, 2017 14:46
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do you guys really have to do this
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Nov 4, 2017 14:48
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can't we just have a nice thread where a Goon Goes To China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jr0i_4jW9w
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Nov 4, 2017 14:50
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shrike82 posted:i spent three weeks in Shanghai last year advising the local subsidiary of a sportswear apparel company nouveau rich vs old money basically nouveau rich are insecure and therefore needs to buy poo poo to feel better about themselves more
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Nov 4, 2017 15:16
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:r guyovich, please tell me, out of genuine interest, why you decided to move to china and how long you plan to stay, thank you very much it's very simple. a) they were hiring, the states wasn't and b) i'd always wanted to visit anyway i will be here indefinitely
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Nov 4, 2017 15:27
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R. Guyovich posted:it's very simple. a) they were hiring, the states wasn't and b) i'd always wanted to visit anyway are you gonna try to join the party home work e
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Nov 4, 2017 15:28
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