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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

R. Guyovich posted:

if you stay long enough you can apply for a renewable 10-year green card. that 1000 figure is people who've renounced their citizenship

These two dudes assert that while that it is technically true, no one without a buttload of money has ever actually gotten one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_L71lFItk

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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
I wonder if the Gulags had that chart as a big bronze relief in the cafeteria with "SUCCESS" somewhere in cyrillic.

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Nov 15, 2003

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The simplest way I can think to frame the issue is this: if you accept the principle that "private property is a theft of the commons," then in a socialist society wouldn't anyone agitating for a return to capitalism be engaged in a criminal conspiracy?

Making something a crime is not the same as discussing whether or not it should be a crime; that would be its own crime.

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Nov 15, 2003
gently caress I just spent hundreds of military points raising my absolutism in the age of revolutions.

In my defense, the tooltip said that I was gaining +0.50 independence every month, and that +0.50 was caused by absolutism being less than 50. So naturally I thought raising it to 50 would help :downs:

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Nov 15, 2003

Typo posted:

I never understood absolutism

I think its the equivalent of squeezing as much as possible out of your people/vassals/colonies, and then in the Age of Revolutions you get punished for it.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
tired: throwing your gay son out of the house

wired: killing yourself

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Nov 15, 2003
They wanted the porn gone but the gay dick selfies to stay. Easy mistake could happen to anyone.

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Nov 15, 2003
The holodomor was NOT a predictable, if unintended, consequence of ruthless and rapid industrialization. It was INTENTIONAL and it was AWESOME.

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Nov 15, 2003

Ace of Baes posted:

Cuba has healthcare for everyone and no homelessness which makes i would probably have a better life there then I currently do in America lmao

But they can't afford iphones.

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Nov 15, 2003
Apparently they have an intranet but its too slow to post Che memes. gently caress planes, they've got some serious work to do.

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Nov 15, 2003

But he can't afford an iphone!

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Nov 15, 2003

KaptainKrunk posted:

drat that guy sounds exactly like a hippie burnout

pretty cool until he gets to the 9/11 truther poo poo

i just got to the part where he has "no doubt" that pizza gate is real.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
b-b-but if you cancel debt no one will lend ever again!

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Nov 15, 2003

Halloween Jack posted:

In the process of scrambling and prevaricating, he invented a novel theory of personal freedom as distinct from economic freedom.

I think this theory is showcased in the S03E01 of The Handmaid's Tale, as lovingly explained by Aunt Lydia.

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
Flowers of War

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Nov 15, 2003

Jose posted:

*in homex voice* Winnie the Pooh wasn't banned for the xi comparisons

*Putin* watch this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1vDaswIXZ0

it wasnt honey :colbert:

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Nov 15, 2003

drat that lady cop must be built like a freight train she barely touched him :swoon:

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Nov 15, 2003
How DO you get your communism to last so long?




Wait a minute... Capitalism? Ancient Chinese Secret, huh!

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
look there's over four million black men in the united states and policed killed just 19 of them in 2017 just what is the bfd here

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's impossible to imagine this kind of commitment to infrastructure in the United States.

This would be an excellent place for teenagers to smoke weed.


Holy poo poo. Metro porn? Is that a thing in China it should be.

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Nov 15, 2003
Think he still fucks?

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Nov 15, 2003

drat that is high impact!

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Nov 15, 2003

Her face doesn't move along with her mouth.

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Nov 15, 2003

hobbesmaster posted:

The poor energy density of batteries per weight is really going to prevent electric aircraft from being useful outside of a few niche uses. Bio fuels is pretty much the only real option at the moment.

Dirigibles are a problem because right now helium comes from natural gas processing. Hydrogen can be generated from water and electricity but has its own issues...


super-high density batteries are in the early stages of development right now with the goal of using them for aircraft

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Nov 15, 2003

Gaupo Guacho posted:

tankies are so thoroughly cucked that they'll claim that china manufacturing and exporting semiconductors and smartphones in factories owned by billionaires and sold for profit is a triumph of communism

how many billionaires has the united states put to death

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Nov 15, 2003

indigi posted:

cool so when do they start phasing out billionaires

eliminating poverty in china is impossible without a mass redistribution of wealth. so, if xi is serious, something will have to be done.

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Nov 15, 2003

indigi posted:

gotta give the billionaires a good 30 years to live large as a reward for decoupling the Chinese economy from capitalism

good luck getting money from the IMF or World Bank to develop your country if you dont enact policies that enable capital accumulation

good luck trading in a global capitalist system if you dont enact policies that enable capital accumulation

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Nov 15, 2003
Navalny is supported by the West because he has no political power. That's just what we're into these days.

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Nov 15, 2003

indigi posted:

is Putin significantly different than this? serious question, for all the propaganda and counter-propaganda I know very little about him

Putin wants Russian capital in Russian hands, and also neighboring nations' capital in Russian hands. He is generally against foreign looting.

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Nov 15, 2003

looks cold

cool dog

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Nov 15, 2003

DesertIslandHermit posted:

It's really funny that America relies on endtimes cultists to run the state department, cia

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Nov 15, 2003

ted hitler hunter posted:

Earlier ITT someone put forth a theory about using it to de-dollarize but maybe that's reading too much into it and putting too much stock into bitcoin and alt-coins.


Hoist with his own petard

the chinese are mining the most bitcoin so they can destroy it later. what use to the ccp is bitcoin once everyone has a digital RMB account?

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Nov 15, 2003

Rutibex posted:

all money is just a mass confidence delusion. dollars and bitcoins don't exist except except in the minds of people, and there is a finite amount of delusion energy. if people lose faith in dollars and buy bitcoin it decreases the power of the dollar mass delusion.

Can you use it to pay taxes?

Yes = Currency
No = Not Currency

hth

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Nov 15, 2003

Rutibex posted:

i'm watching this documentary and i am super jealous of these rural chinese people who have their own houses and more living space than i've ever dreamed of. this guy is supposedly poor and all i can think is "drat i wish i could live in a cave i dug myself"
:negative:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU&t=1117s

The value of what people produce for their own consumption is never part of the "...makes X dollars a year" figure. It is always assumed that everyone is an alienated worker whose only source of support is a paycheck.

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Nov 15, 2003

Atrocious Joe posted:

Would you rather be a peasant or a proletarian.

Well... maybe I could be like a kind of a peasant where I own my land but I don't technically do ALL the work by myself :3:

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Nov 15, 2003

Antonymous posted:

I was gunna say you can buy some dirt and get to whittlin' here in the USA but

there is a weird abundance of rural social media channels that make living in the chinese countryside look wholesome & fulfilling that I can't think of an answer to in the USA. Rural poverty in the US is really crushing & our mega farms and ranches are far from wholesome

the stuff out of china today is a lot like the stuff us boomers remember about their grandparents

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Nov 15, 2003

shrike82 posted:

it’s kinda funny how western lefties idealize the Chinese rural poor

people with arable land and without arable land are the same and lefties idealize them all yes siree

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

The problem was that the Emperor backed the wrong fascists!

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Nov 15, 2003

shrike82 posted:

guess what, the US still has the luxury of people wanting to immigrate here
like i said, China's going to follow the same demographic arc of ethnic monocultures like Japan and Korea

how long do you think that's gonna last when we let every pandemic sweep through the nation

oh and uh china's economy is going to be bigger than ours, so where do you think the world's top talent will want to go when that happens?

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Nov 15, 2003

shrike82 posted:

let's see if chinese millenials are able to push any meaningful redistributive reforms? the genie's out of the bottle and you can't undo giving people the right to "capital" and all the consequences (e.g., interest on capital exceeding interest on wage labor) easily so color me skeptical

millenials? the current government is already committed to meaningful redistributive reform. there is no other way for the ccp to reach its goal of doubling the economy by 2035.

either they're serious about doing that or they aren't. if they are, there will be massive redistribution.

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