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Taiping Rebellion was the first time in a thousand plus years (since Tang & Song) that the Chinese scholar-gentry rode into battle, and they found they not only were good at it, they also liked it.
This is the genesis of both KMT and CCP
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I think the lesson China takes away from the Ukraine war is that if you lose the Cold War, Yanks are not going to let you be and chill, they're going to keep chipping away at your former empire province-by-province until there's not much left
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@BeijingPalmer
I mean the basis of adult male relationships in the UK is the pub, because the pub allows for a casual, sometimes unplanned for encounters that could last anywhere between 15 minutes to like 3 hours basically
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The basic problem with "can we persuade China to ditch Russia on Ukraine" is that the West has given every indication it'll turn Sauron's Eye to China the moment the war's done
Like China is not that stupid
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@BeijingPalmer
It's really noticeable that the primary male bonding thing in like suburban America is like the backyard grill, which takes at least half a day
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The Tory collapse in Chinese-Canadian ridings is something to behold
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@zlingray
It’s just incredible that he gave up a lifetime seat to run for a senatorial seat that he was gonna her in several years anyways.
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@cd_hooks
The funnier sub plot is that it was clearly a coordinated move with Warren where he’d take Biden out and Warren would make him her running mate
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@LeninRegimer2
Because Putin had his son. End of story. His son is still alive btw - that is the trade and Putin honoured it.
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China's first move in any hypothetical military conflict over Taiwan will *not* be a Normandy-style beach landing. It'll be an extended blockade and daring the US Navy to break it (which it won't)
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@MattZeitlin
as you (or someone else? I can't remember) said, he has big synagogue youth leader energy lol
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@nise_yoshimi
i'm starting to take the view that there's a weird ying-yang between habsburgia and prussianism and one could have not existed without the other
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@alistaircoleman
The more interesting question is why people are so racist today that they’d automatically assume even a Chinese American guard is somehow “disloyal”
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Tories need to tone down their anti Chinese rhetoric or they'll lose every single metropolitan riding in Canada
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@zlingray
I mean the disrespect. It’s just insane. When you want to hit up an existing senator and they don’t want to retire, you say thank you sir and you move on. Even Justin Trudeau just went for another seat when he couldn’t get the guy occupying his late dad’s seat to retire...
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@nise_yoshimi
i mean a lot of these "CCP didn't matter / was bad" sour grapes guys would be even less pleased with their idealized KMT regime, which managed to turn an island that didn't speak Mandarin to one that *only* speaks Mandarin, in sixty years
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the ProPublica report is iffy (I've actually read the Chinese language extracts they're quoting) but the real surprise is that they're so short-staffed that they couldn't get someone who's fluent in Chinese to read over the report
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@lionel_trolling
in traditional Chinese (southern) practice, a red pocket (i.e. Spring Festival money) is given by all married couples to singletons
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@Vinncent
This is just literally intimidation of all Palestinian celebrities so that they don't speak out
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It's like the moment in LoTR when someone puts on a ring lol
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Honestly, this is the reason a lot of us work in finance / tech
It's not that we don't want to do a real job, we can't
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NYU having a 5% acceptance rate is a great example of lying with statistics
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@IRHotTakes
They're the Rorschach test of if a crisis is real (Ukraine) or fake (WMD's)
Best bullshit detectors in the world cuz they're such bullshit artists themselves
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@profmusgrave
One European style reform I think they should really look at adopting is just fixed term contracts: 5-7 year contracts, you can be retained permanently at the end of the contract or renewed, and it's socially permissible to seek a contract elsewhere
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PSA: the mRNA "booster" is more appropriately considered a third dose in a three-dose regimen (given the latest clinical evidence)
No, we did not know this originally because we did not test three doses - until now
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This is gonna have downstream effects in places (Surrey, Langley, Pitt Meadows, Peel, Markham etc) where Chinese are 20% instead of 60% and it ain't gonna be pretty
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They'll suddenly lose this cushion of what has historically the staunchest Tory dem within visible minorities and it's gonna...hurt
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@profmusgrave
@YIMBY_Princeton
Ah small town government cannot write legally enforceable bylaws, news at 11
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Do you not think that the entire China debate has been imbued with a fake gravitas? That it's always been a bunch of nerds jerking off to military hardware in basements all along?
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And yes this includes Calgary and Edmonton lol
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@yuanyi_z
Agree 100% although what seems to have surprised people this time is that India has a stronger tilt to Russia than China does (which is actually pretty understandable)
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@BeijingPalmer
i think the two cases where the uk public lost its minds are a) mccann case b) this
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@MacaesBruno
The longer this goes on, the more the change of Ukraine just losing due to the sheer weight of gravity
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My Christmas message is very simple:
Quit your job. If you're even thinking about it, if you've caught yourself fantasizing about it, if your mind cannot suppress it and it's at the back of your mind.
Quit your job.
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@douzmanian
There’s no moral duty to vote for a particular candidate, but if you end up living under Trump’s regime again because Florida’s off by like a hundred votes you don’t get to complain
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@jbarro
Because the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction over municipal (or provincial) policing
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@nise_yoshimi
Reading the pillow book and genji as well as later parodies makes you realize how much the national Shinto was basically a Victorian invention in pretty much the same way the British family monarchy is
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@nise_yoshimi
UK was on path to handoff most economic management to EU and then brexit came and that really messed with things
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@lionel_trolling
note this is the inversion of traditional western practice, where you buy items on the "wedding registry"" for your newly married friends
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i am not interested in pain for SVB depositors, i am interested in having the SVB business model smashed to pieces so no one will try again the One Weird Trick of lending founders money against fake share options just so they can buy houses, cars, wine, etc and not even IPO
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@eigenrobot
Not really, if you talk to people who are in tech VC stuff it's pretty obvious that it's just like basically all interest rates
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@bluser12
Not just too tough, just frankly weird and bizarre - people were worried about WeChat being banned lol
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the real constraint on Putin escalating the current situation (in relation to the sanctions on the central bank of Russia) isn't like Western nuclear retaliation, it's China telling him to back off if he goes full crayyyyyy
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@SecondRingSZN
lol AEI is a hard core right wing think tank as well, no one who works there is left wing
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Elon Musk is a liar but Ian Bremmer's entire job is lying
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McKinsey is technically in the business of selling uncovered puts through its reputation...
That McKinsey is being blamed for the wildly optimistic CNN+ subscriber projections is a good insight into why companies hire McKinsey
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i think american normie libs don't really understand how desperate the situation will be in Germany this winter
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@profmusgrave
it fits with like the "Englandization" of America, where it's part of the global economy rather than an economy on to itself.
Chicago was always the nexus of the domestic economy, and the domestic economy just isn't that important anymore.
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Which, to be fair, is not exactly the lesson the Americans wanted them to take away but it's also not exactly an inaccurate one
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construction. and it's also the reason if you're a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed university graduate going into real estate related sectors you should shy away from anything construction-related, because you'd be stepping on nepo baby toes lol
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A friend of mine described Jake Sullivan's Brookings speech pushing back on China against Yellen / Cleverly as "Emperor Palpatine issuing the order to hunt down the econ Jedi" and I still can't get that imagery out of my head lol
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@dsquareddigest
We're finding out in real time what the stock market looks like in the pre SEC era
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There is very little of the British generosity toward post-Napoleonic France for example, where FR basically got to keep itsv pre-revolutionary borders
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The funny thing about Joe Biden - and he would never admit this - is that he is more racist about China than Donald Trump ever was or could even be
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@profmusgrave
Israel didn't go crazy because of the shooting, Israel went crazy because essentially a bunch of right wing Russians decided to move to Israel and make it crazy themselves
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@IRHotTakes
When they sent a warship thru Taiwan Strait earlier this year you know things potentially could get real
Now they're focused on the Ukraine you know that's where the action is
French: messy bitches who love drama and can sniff one a thousand miles away
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This is why China so strongly opposes NATO expansion: as far as it's concerned, imperial frontiers are fixed, and said fixity is the basis of peace between the great powers
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it's very very funny that Russia is now *agreeing* to Ukraine potentially joining the EU when basically Ukraine would not have gotten even a majority (No's from France, Germany, all of Eastern Europe) for accession pre-invasion
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@dsquareddigest
it turns out all the wokery from HQ were load bearing in terms of assuring brands and advertising while the "free speech" warriors contribute nothing - perhaps even negative amounts - to the bottom line. Shocker!
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Everyone said the Meng / hostage swap deal was impossible until it happened
The same will be true of any Taiwan / China deal: unbelievable, impossible to even imagine, and then when it happens, entirely expected
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Deep thought: insofar as Putin represented a capture of the post-Soviet by the KGB, what we have is a Prussianized state - it's not a state with an army (security services), it's an army (security services) with a state
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@Noahpinion
The culture is different, the sources of immigration is different, it's a very different vibe
San Francisco was founded by kind of very northeastern WASP folk, LA is much more Midwestern
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@Theophite
what is underappreciated is that Calvin ran what was basically the first absolute theocracy
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I don't think it's actually all that surprising that Putin, a lifelong KGB guy, has no idea what the army is like in the field and has sent it into war without adequate supplie or equipment
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to be clear, the USN will *try* to break it. But to truly break a blockade, you need to hit installations in Fujian province, not to mention potentially Canton and the entire Eastern Seaboard. That's potentially nuclear territory.
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@Theophite
One of my friends worked in transportation policy before Uber, and Uber did revolutionize transportation in the sense that taxis and ride hailing used to be regulated in favor of taxi owners, not consumers
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Lol he said it in french as well!
Saudi Prince Saud al-Shaalan, close relative of MBS, said this following Democrats’ criticism of their oil price hike: “Anybody that challenges the existence of this country and this kingdom, all of us we are projects of jihad and martyrdom.”
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This is obviously the kind of businesses (car dealerships, fast food franchises etc) owned by the Trump gentry and the low rate 2010's meant that they continually expanded without financial risk
The owner of 90 Burger King franchises recently filed for bankruptcy.
When revenue declines, rent stays the same, and food costs go up, it can be a recipe for disaster.
Debt is an amazing tool for expansion, but the downsides are real...
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The whole thing reminds me of two famous episodes in Chinese imperial history, both during the Song Dynasty: the Jurchens allied with the Northern Song to destroy the Khitans, then over (the northern part of) Song itself forcing it to retreat to the South. (1/2)
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@profmusgrave
The problem with the "shopping period" is that it's also the drunkest two weeks of the year
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@Noahpinion
It's a German thing too. When the ticket says the opera starts at 7:30 it starts...on the minute
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I wanna say a good word for Tesla: it's good that they're (trying to) abolish car dealerships.
however, what they're doing doesn't work. What you want to is to squeeze the margins so thin that people drop out of the biz, not just ban them from it.
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@profmusgrave
Europe doesn't have *quite* the housing problem we do because they have a ton of spare capacity from like both Cold War and pre 1945 when a lot of places were built up
For the longest time you could get a prewar Wilhelmine apartment with 12 ft ceilings in Berlin for like €500
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@michaelbd
@jbarro
Given police tactics of which Cotton was well aware, there’s no distinction between “protestors” and “protestors who get kettled and therefore automatically become rioters”
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@Sharon_Kuruvila
China, the rich stockbroker: now Vlad what you want is a *balanced portfolio* and you hedge your bets
Vlad: leeroy Jenkins
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India is keenly aware of the precedent-setting nature of allowing the West to successfully boycott an emerging markets superpower
Breaking: India, China, Russia in a Joint Statement express "support to China to host Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games."
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You can tell the call went well by the fact that all the China hands hate it lol
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these are all considered "core" Chinese home territory. Hitting important installations in these areas constitutes, pretty much automatically, general war.
China will retaliate by hitting Japan and the US will have the option of forebearing or escalating immediately to nuclear.
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@nise_yoshimi
Deng was kinda right and kinda wrong, but even if you told him capitalism would take over the world it wouldn't have changed his mind given how desperately poor China was
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@profmusgrave
So I mean the way to think about them is a bit like airport capacity - flights in Europe are so cheap partly because of surplus airports left over from the Cold War (lol anyone who's ever flown into Charleroi)
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@profmusgrave
@YIMBY_Princeton
(just hilarious that it's Princeton but then it doesn't have a law school)
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@BrendanDawe
Amazing quote
“This could be the worst-planned project since the Italians built the leaning tower, we just don’t know,” he said.
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@Sharon_Kuruvila
one way to understand the financial sector and Wall St specifically is as the Politburo of the economic vibes
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@profmusgrave
@Sharon_Kuruvila
I mean San Francisco is implicitly the capital of the universe in Stsr Trek, in actual life SF would have voted to abolish this
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According to Wikipedia Han Dong is from Shanghai and immigrated to Canada aged 13. He probably speaks Mandarin with a *heavy* Shanghai accent like Jiang Zemin
Earlier today, I heard, third hand, that Dong believes a Mandarin translation error is to blame for this unfortunate situation, that the word for "delay" and "immediately" sound very similar.
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The fundamental problem in Canada is not that our 🏠 prices are too high, but that our incomes are too low
When converted to USD, Canadian average house prices aren’t much higher than the US.
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