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gradenko_2000 posted:does China's actions in Africa and the Spratlys constitute imperialism? Chinese neocolonialism is imperialism in an abstracted, Leninist sense - where imperialism isn't simply an overt political control of the periphery, but the way that capital itself projects into the colonized world to exploit its productive forces. This can lead people who are extremely weak on theory to do stupid poo poo like compare Chinese neocolonialism to Japanese imperialism. They're not the same thing, but the problem of neocolonialism is its insidious appearance of innocuousness.
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Nov 11, 2017 15:59
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Wow, blaming the victim. So the Qing didn't have it coming? Nice double standard you've got there for an imperialist invader dynasty. Way to prove Rudatron's stupid point by your own logic      A real crime of the British was helping the Qing stifle internal reform and then preventing their overthrow. In that sense British imperialism created the need for a Great Leap Forward.
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Nov 11, 2017 16:55
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Rhukatah posted:This was a good joke because Qing refusal to treat with foreigners on equal terms was the root cause of those humiliations. this is actually pretty untrue: the qing were fine with treating the russians on equal terms going as far back as the 17th century
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Nov 11, 2017 18:48
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I just wan t a high speed rail on the west coast of the USA before Africa gets one from China. Rich Chinese are buying all of our homes, the least they could do is fund a high speed rail!
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Nov 11, 2017 19:04
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NNick posted:I just wan t a high speed rail on the west coast of the USA before Africa gets one from China. Rich Chinese are buying all of our homes, the least they could do is fund a high speed rail! Jerry Browns high speed rail is not going to be very high speed and should be completed sometime in 2040 only 2 trillion over budget
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Nov 11, 2017 19:08
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Wow, blaming the victim. *recieves peace envoys* *tortures them* "what do you mean we 'shouldn't have done that'? man theses foreign barbarians are nuts"
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Nov 11, 2017 19:29
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Typo posted:oh yeah and Katyn massacre was committed by the gestapo too im the guy in the thread giving the gestapo the benefit of doubt
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Nov 11, 2017 20:09
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Fallen Hamprince posted:*recieves peace envoys* Fallen Hamprince is the retard in the audience that cheered when Peter Mensah's character in 300 gets kicked into the well
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Nov 11, 2017 20:14
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my ex in shaoxing has to pay $150k a year in rent just so she keep her 200 square foot textile store in business, and that industry has high and low points every year. she went immediately back to work after she had her son partially out of need. the chinese government would not allow her to name her son "Amir" (her husband is pakistani and that's the name they agreed upon) so that's part of the reason why she went to the US to have him. many chinese cities have gotten ridiculously unaffordable in the last 10 years in short, chinese socialism loving rules and we should all be subjected to it get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 20:27 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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Nov 11, 2017 20:15
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get that OUT of my face posted:my ex in shaoxing has to pay $150k a year in rent just so she keep her 200 square foot textile store in business, and that industry has high and low points every year. she went immediately back to work after she had her son partially out of need. the chinese government would not allow her to name her son "Amir" (her husband is pakistani and that's the name they agreed upon) so that's part of the reason why she went to the US to have him. many chinese cities have gotten ridiculously unaffordable in the last 10 years Gentrification at 4x speed
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Nov 11, 2017 20:52
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With the magic of prefab mass production and central planning, you can gentrify decades in advance.
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Nov 11, 2017 20:58
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Why does Chinese citizenship even matter? It doesn't. I'm just curious. There's a research program that I find very interesting and I could see myself living there for a number of years in the medium term. There are appear to be many opportunities for scientists of a certain stripe in China.
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Nov 11, 2017 21:26
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Kudaros posted:It doesn't. I'm just curious. There's a research program that I find very interesting and I could see myself living there for a number of years in the medium term. There are appear to be many opportunities for scientists of a certain stripe in China. It shouldn't be too hard to get permanent residence as a researcher.
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Nov 11, 2017 21:31
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Just don't call yourself a sinologist
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Nov 11, 2017 21:57
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How do pop booms work again? I've got creche+planned+democracy and it doesn't seem to be firing
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Nov 12, 2017 00:00
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StashAugustine posted:How do pop booms work again? I've got creche+planned+democracy and it doesn't seem to be firing quote:To pop boom a city one needs:
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Nov 12, 2017 00:07
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Weird, I have all that and it's not booming
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Nov 12, 2017 00:35
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StashAugustine posted:Weird, I have all that and it's not booming r u sure you have +2 nutrients and ur city isn't limited by lack of hab complex cuz that's what I was missing
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Nov 12, 2017 03:21
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I gotta say, I've got a lot more respect for Pener now that I know he admits China is imperialist.
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Nov 12, 2017 03:57
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If only anyone gave a gently caress what you thought JEB! is a mess!
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Nov 12, 2017 04:14
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StashAugustine posted:How do pop booms work again? I've got creche+planned+democracy and it doesn't seem to be firing research nukes
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Nov 12, 2017 04:18
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Autism Sneaks posted:If only anyone gave a gently caress what you thought Whoa, who pissed in your cheerios.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:27
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Homeless Friend posted:research nukes Slow down there, Gandhi!
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Nov 12, 2017 04:38
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I just looked up Beyond Earth's factions and holy poo poo they're literally just (Insert Modern Ethnicity Here)... IN SPACE!!!
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Nov 12, 2017 04:47
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beyond earth is bad
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Nov 12, 2017 04:50
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rudatron posted:beyond earth is bad Never played it but drat, it just looks like a Civ 5 cosmetic mod. I do like the idea of affinities though, but it looks like they just reskin your units, rather than change your playstyle
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Nov 12, 2017 04:52
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Dreddout posted:I just looked up Beyond Earth's factions and holy poo poo they're literally just (Insert Modern Ethnicity Here)... IN SPACE!!! Is there a Code of Honor Planet of the Blacks style faction?
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Nov 12, 2017 04:58
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the problem with the affinity system is that it doesn't really represent a player choice, where you sacrifice somethign to get another thing it's entirely based on which path down the tech tree you take, and because not all techs are equally valuable, you end up getting railroaded down certain paths in concept, it's not bad, and there's acutally some interesting ideas: each affinity gets a unique tile improvement, and they're all different. In practice, they're all trash, you're better off sticking with farms + mines, and the combat system overly favors ranged units.
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Nov 12, 2017 05:00
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beyond earth is civ 5 with less flavor and worse balance
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Nov 12, 2017 05:00
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Bip Roberts posted:Is there a Code of Honor Planet of the Blacks style faction?
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Nov 12, 2017 05:01
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they're also the biggest cucks in the game, which is saying something, because most of the factions are pretty cuck a blank panther civ would have owned, but we weren't that lucky
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Nov 12, 2017 05:04
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Bip Roberts posted:Is there a Code of Honor Planet of the Blacks style faction? All the factions/"backers" are colonists just arriving to not-Proxima Centauri b, so they aren't SMAC/Star Trek-like exaggerated civilizations yet. Africa is represented mostly by the People's African Union, though northern Africa is described as having cozied up to the Franco-Iberian European Union. Neither are remotely as interesting as Morgan Industries or Peacekeeping Forces. Autism Sneaks has issued a correction as of 05:25 on Nov 12, 2017 |
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Nov 12, 2017 05:22
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Gonna dissent here, Civ:BE is kinda neat. Like a more upbeat, optimistic (but still grim) SMAC. The civics are cool as hell, Space Africa and Pacific guys are interesting in their background philosophies, and I've never met a tech quote I didn't like. The affinity counter actually mattering kicks in way too late and trade routes are a loving mess though.
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Nov 12, 2017 05:25
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beyond earth is boring garbage, sorry
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Nov 12, 2017 05:49
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HerraS posted:beyond earth is beyond garbage, sorry also civ in general 
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Nov 12, 2017 05:53
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da, this is true, embrace paradox games time to fire up hearts of iron four again and have trotsky lead the world into permanent revolution 
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Nov 12, 2017 05:58
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HerraS posted:da, this is true, embrace paradox games Unmodded Hoi4 kinda sucks tbh 90% of the countries have the same exact national focus, and you can't really do anything thing interesting with the major powers. It feels really hollow, and it's kinda pathetic how modders have basically improved the game in every conceivable way with really obvious changes.
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Nov 12, 2017 06:15
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Autism Sneaks posted:though northern Africa is described as having cozied up to the Franco-Iberian European Union. This seems incredibly problematic as a take
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Nov 12, 2017 06:18
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ceo: our baijiu is so strong/poisonous it's basically jet fuel marketing exec: say no more fam 
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Nov 12, 2017 06:21
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apparently the factions in Beyond Earth do have unique cultures and philosophies, but it's all in supplementary material and not covered in the actual game.
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Nov 12, 2017 07:26
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