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Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

daily pow-wows

What do pow wows have to do with it?

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Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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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,

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Dreddout posted:

Yeah I agree SA sucks

gently caress you every one of my posts is a creative masterpiece that I allow the rest of you to read out of largess.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Zas posted:

so.... how about china eh??


Sorry I have already accepted Juche thought and the Songun Policy into my heart.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Also, as far as the philosophy of that comic, seems like it’s mostly just classical Cynicism combined with baudrillards particularly lovely brand of post modernism, wherein any attempt at political action is doomed to simply create a new, possibly worse, power structure, and so the only correct political move is to “withdraw into the private.”

Anyway thanks for reading my analysis of a Mario comic please comment like and subscribe.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Man, R. Guyovich is fascinating. Every other Maoist sort I’ve met says that modern China is a perversion of Maoism. Of course, they still ignore how awful Mao was, calling it all western propaganda and so on, and one sent me an article about how even Mao wasn’t Maoist, and that “Maoism pro Maoism” only came into existence in 1987. Seeing a Maoist who likes modern China is really interesting, because you can’t just go “you don’t know it was the past so nobody knows the truth.”

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Feb 7, 2013

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I don't mean to speak for R. Guyovich but I've never seen him claim that China is Maoist.

Oh, fair enough. Might’ve assumed. Though that just makes it more puzzling.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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No, you don't understand. While the elites get to have exclusive access to high quality goods at high prices, some of their wealth trickles down to the farmers producing it, lifting them out of poverty, This is how socialism works, idiot.

Tiberius Thyben has issued a correction as of 23:25 on Jul 29, 2018

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Feb 7, 2013

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Larry Parrish posted:

If anything I'm mad that apparently the CCP is stupid enough to believe organic gardening means anything

Also, that aside, how do you get the weird emotes behind your name? I've seen ti a few times now, I think.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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https://livingotherwise.com/2018/07/31/happiest-muslims-world-coping-happiness/

quote:

For many, the situation in Xinjiang is an elephant masquerading as a mouse, whose presence is tacitly acknowledged but whose identity is frequently obscured. When talking about it becomes inevitable – for example, when someone unwittingly asks about a person who’s been sent to Xinjiang, to camp, or to jail – it is standard to use euphemisms.

The most common by far is the word yoq, which here may be translated as “gone” or “not around”. The phrase adem yoq (“everybody’s gone”) is probably the one I’ve heard the most this past year, and has been used to describe the absence of staff, clients, and people in general. To refer to people who have been forced to return to their hometowns (for hometown arrest, camp, or worse), it is typical to say that they “went back home” – more specifically, people in inner China might say that they “went back to Xinjiang”, while people in northern Xinjiang might say that they “went back to Kashgar”.

“Do you get what I’m saying?” a friend asked me once, as I tried to figure out what had happened to a certain somebody. “That guy is yoq. He’s got another home now.”

Tiberius Thyben has issued a correction as of 16:00 on Jul 31, 2018

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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There are NATO centric ones, most recently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Europe_Tank_Challenge .

The US rarely places.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/

quote:

GOOGLE IS PLANNING to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal.

The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese government official, according to internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans.

Teams of programmers and engineers at Google have created a custom Android app, different versions of which have been named “Maotai” and “Longfei.” The app has already been demonstrated to the Chinese government; the finalized version could be launched in the next six to nine months, pending approval from Chinese officials.

The planned move represents a dramatic shift in Google’s policy on China and will mark the first time in almost a decade that the internet giant has operated its search engine in the country.

Google’s search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country’s so-called Great Firewall. The app Google is building for China will comply with the country’s strict censorship laws, restricting access to content that Xi Jinping’s Communist Party regime deems unfavorable.

Finally google has accepted the light of actually existing socialism into its heart.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Google has been bending over backwards to accommodate the CCP for over a decade.

Wasn’t really being serious.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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I like how he disappears while everyone is talking about the ethnic cleansing and blatant colonizing and imperialism and reappears like nothing happened when the subject changes to Winnie the Poo.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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WampaLord posted:

I think it's kinda dumb that y'all jump on R. Guy for every single problem that China has.

No country is a utopia, every country has problems. Imagine if a crew of posters followed y'all around haranguing you about every bad decision America made.

We’d probably be fast friends.

America loving sucks, and Canada too, which is where I actually live.

And the Urghur thing is especially personal because I know how Canada sucks.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Yeah. I mean, personally I wouldn’t mind eating cat or dog, except everyone I know who has has said they taste like poo poo. Dogs are even traditional for some guys fairly close by. I can understand, of course, being emotionally attached to an individual animal though.

Tiberius Thyben has issued a correction as of 17:46 on Aug 9, 2018

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Feb 7, 2013

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Stamping out Arab elements in mosques is good.

:chloe:

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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https://twitter.com/ChuBailiang/status/1052174122657112064?s=09

Edit:

Internment camps make Uighurs' life more colourful, says Xinjiang governor

Tiberius Thyben has issued a correction as of 01:29 on Oct 17, 2018

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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I'm pretty sure it was someone else who went on about how they should target Muslims because the Chinese government has no obligation to allow a potential Saudi 5th column in its country, or something.

Tiberius Thyben has issued a correction as of 05:43 on Oct 20, 2018

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

Oh, dang.

I didn't realize we were at the stage where we had a Stalinist admin but everyone regarded him as a joke.

That's a good stage to be at! I won't pick at him any more.

Thanks and sorry.

Yeah, it's a Derek Smart sort of thing.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Joseance posted:

if you don't think the kids are being adopted out if they're young enough you're naive homex. or just refusing to admit the whole thing is completely monstrous because you can't abide criticism of the party

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-uighurs-human-rights-muslims-orphanages-xinjiang-province-reeducation-a8548341.html

Oh good. It's even more like the res schools than quotes like

quote:

Zakir said residents at the centres in Xinjiang learn Mandarin “to accept modern science and enhance their understanding of Chinese history and culture”. Students received vocational training, including courses on making clothing and footwear, assembling electronics, hairdressing and e-commerce, he added.
Made it sound.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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sincx posted:

Lmao, literally Scrooge McDuck swimming in gold, except it's fat dictator swimming in potatoes. Completely appropriate.

Kim Jong-Un is not a dictator, he is the elected Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, which is democratically elected by the Korean people. He works on behalf of the masses of working people, who are masters of North Korean society, ensuring their freedom from oppression or exploitation.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

It's no different than the witch doctor chiropractor poo poo white people's insurance pays for here

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

The racist double standard is well at play, western homeopathy enjoys legitimacy in WHO policy circles. When Chinese people want alternative medicine that caters to their needs included somehow it's an outrage

Yes, that is also really hosed up, and yes, private health care is a travesty. I hate quacks and assholes who prey on the sick whatever form they take. However, this isn't the alternative medicine thread, or the privatize healthcare is a loving disaster thread, this is the China thread.

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Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

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Fallen Hamprince posted:

*Europe walks in on China extracting territorial concessions from Africa*

"I learned it from watching you, Dad!"

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