I wouldn’t be surprised if the CIA were in favour of what he did. They want a long, protracted bloodbath, not a short nuclear armageddon.

Chinese Military bases around the US:

They enlisted Liz Truss to help manufacture consent agaibst China because the lettuce wouldn’t answer their calls.

Have a gander at the people behind Brave Software. They’re all cut from the same silicon wafer as everyone else in the Silicon Valley executive biome. And the (lack of) readiness of the information about who is behind Brave is another tell in itself.

I think a good illustration of this is Jack Ma and Ant group, vs Bezos and Amazon (or corporate America in general). Both in their interactions with consumers, and with their governments.

Western governments bend over backwards to help their corporations fleece consumers. Their antitrust operations are pathetic.

Meanwhile in China, the government has helped Alipay and Wechatpay become the de-facto cash currency infrastructure because it’s a quality of life improvement for people. But as soon as Ant Group started to step out of line (where being ‘out of line’ is not putting public interests first) the government broke it. No kid gloves, no appeasement.

Whenever I’m using Alibaba apps the ads are fucking annoying. But when the ad says ‘we think you’d be interested in this’ it rarely misses because its algorithms are genuinely looking to sell me things I want to buy. In the Amazon app the algorithm is looking to sell me things it wants me to buy. Same with douyin and facebook/ig promoting shit at me. Douyin is eerily accurate because it’s looking for what I want to see while fb is weighing what I want to see against products and politics its sponsors & handlers want to show me.

SWCC’s implementation of capitalism can look very similar to actual capitalism on the surface, but the heavy regulation and policing of the profit motive is transformative on a very fundamental level. The difference is most noticable crossing the Hong Kong-Shenzhen boundary, where the unfettered Western-liberal capitalism is still quite pronounced on the HK side. Fortunately that’s changing, albeit slowly.

I’m pretty sure he’s on a list somewhere, alongside Cyrus Janssen, Li Jingjing, Jerry Grey and Brian Berletic. So if you like his stuff those are some other people to discover if you haven’t done so already!

edit: Oh, also Carl Zha and Danny Haiphong.

Andy Boreham is excellent. I love his stuff. I watch his stuff regularly.

My only criticism of his content, if you can call it criticism, is it’s too clean. The man is impeccably well-groomed and professional to a fault. I don’t share his content with my liberal friends because these qualities that would usually be considered virtues trigger all their preconceptions about what staged propaganda would look like.

I really want to get one, but software-wise I still need access to Google at work. Gonna have to do some research on what switching to Huawei’s AppGallery ecosystem from Google Play Store will actually impact.

Victoria 3.

It doesn’t really focus on killing enemies, but you can build communism somewhere in the world and squash the imperial ambitions of the US while also pushing the empires into decline.

Play as Britain, stop the US from expanding West while slowly guiding the UK towards a proletarian revolution.

Ok nobody panic but the Iroquoian and Algonquian script has been removed from the signage in the New York photo. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions or anything but maybe we should keep an eye on that area just to be sure there’s no cultural erasure happening. I don’t want to be dropping the big G word or anything rash like that but I haven’t seen any evidence of the indigenous population practicing their local customs and culture in the area, except in obviously-staged displays.

Depends on what you mean by ‘after the Socialist Transition.’

I don’t think they will become actively interventionist, because history has shown external intervention rarely does more good than harm and never results in lasting change.

Regarding how much they support and encourage other countries to change, I think their decision-making there is based more on the dynamics between states than on China’s internal condition. We can already see nations moving left and opposing imperialism as US power declines and a multipolar world arises, and China is facilitating those conditions.

Change BRICS to Belt and Road Initiative Community of States maybe.

BayArea415 got unwanted attention because what he said was true and often incendiary. BadEmpanada wants attention so he says incendiary things that are occasionally true.

It’s actually January and February that were added in. Before that, there was just this gap during the winter when they didn’t bother counting the passage of days until the start of spring was declared, in March. That’s also why February is the short month, as it was the last added and just used up the remaining days.

12 hours in half a day is fine for me. 12 can be divided into halves, thirds, quarters and sixths. That’s useful for planning out a day. Time is one of the applications where I don’t have a complaint about using base 12.

1. “I have read stories about…” whose stories?

2. “there are reports of…” whise reports?

3. Who came up with the “20% unemployment” statistic?

4. The government banning private tuition om core subjects is part of a huge platform of education reforms, but you only ever hear about ‘banning’ and negative consequences. Do you really think they just banned tuition centers and won’t do anything about attempts to evade the ban?

5. “From what I have heard and read” come on now. From what I have heard and read China is one of the few places where this kind of corruption gets punished.

6. Can you not see how this is just pure racism?

Apologies if my tone comes across as a bit harsh, but I find all of these points being framed as credible talking points insulting. The way China is constantly being held up against these vacuous economic and cultural benchmarks that other people aren’t subjected to.

It’s like “I’ve heard stories about how some people in China get really drunk in the evening and sing loudly and come to work with a hangover; what is the government doing about this?”

Or “There are reports that many couples in China get divorced after having children, forcing the children to be raised by single-parent families. Is the government doing anything to prevent relationships from souring?”

I get the feeling their nine-dash-line reason for banning the movie isn’t the real reason they did it, because when you see the map it appears on it really is just… dumb.

I have no idea what an alternative real reason might be, except perhaps seeing the movie as a cynical appropriation of values by a company that objectively doesn’t hold them.

I remember being sat in my classroom as a primary school kid with my teacher showing us that photo on the newspaper days after the event and him telling us to think about what happened to that poor brave man.

https://vimeo.com/849363043

We can still make them go away right?

What irritates me with the echo chamber accusation is that it’s impossible to be in a communist echo chamber if you’re an anglophone. Liberal values and tropes are so baked into every aspect of Western society that it’s impossible to interact with English-speaking societies without being constantly bombarded by their horseshit and the harmful effects of it.

Communities like this one are less echo chamber and more like a sound-proofed booth to get some respite from the constant torrent of brain shitfuckery that comes with existing as an anglophone.