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In full confession, this Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin study is one of the worst and most poorly designed clinical trial I have ever read in my medical career.
We must take extraordinary measures in the pandemic. But we can’t suspend our scientific standards of evidence.
Guys. We need to talk about this Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin thing. It is out of hand. It all stems from this study that came out today. The study design: Comparative viral eradication on day 6 between HCQ, HCQ + Azithro, and control (not treated) COVID-19 patients.
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As a Pathologist who follows COVID-19 issues closely from a medical perspective, I have to confess that I have learned far more from Facebook, Twitter, and WeChat than from peer-reviewed and even pre-pub medical research literature, due to time lag and international borders.
The decentralized response: here's an ER MD asking for a doctor-to-doctor social network where they can share information quickly & anonymously on what is working for them.
Tech and crypto people, this is within our skillset. If interested, please talk to Jennifer via Nicole.
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Mao Zedong was terrified of going to Nationalist temporary capital Chungking to "negotiate", but Stalin forced him to go. Chiang Kai-shek's advisors indeed had discussed assassination, but Chiang Kai-shek, out of moral compunction as the host and a Christian, turned them down.
Mao and Chiang, negotiations in Chungking(Chongqing), 1945.
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My grandfather's colleague wanted his job in their aeronautical research institute in Beijing. So in 1966 he was denounced, and a mob of Red Guards dragged him onto a railway track just outside of Beijing and left him to die under a running train. The colleague got the job.
"Some people became virtually professional public denouncers during the Great Purges...they did this because they decided super-vigilance was the way to save their own skins and thus made a point of writing denunciations of everyone in their environment"
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As a physician who follows tech Twitter purely out of interest, I’ve followed the COVID-19 talk in that community since January but sadly didn’t take them too seriously because I had arrogantly believed in the superiority of my own medical training and experience. I was wrong.
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@GiuseppeDiGioi9
@NEJM
@DeborahCohan
Doctor, the first time I read that piece I immediately thought of the Maoist era that my family suffered through in communist China. Accusing yourself of imaginary crimes that you are not complicit for, confess to them at public struggle sessions, and get pummeled by ideologues.
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Wonder how many young people in the West know that for instance, until the 1980s, meat in China was rationed. People received allowances of one meat serving per year (for Chinese New Year). Losing food ration coupons in the 1960s-70s often drove people to suicide — no rescue.
In the USSR, there were no billionaires. No millionaires either. Wealth creation was punishable by law, in a society based on envy.
We know where that ideology ends. In the murder of millions and the impoverishment of everyone, masses and elites alike.
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There’s a real problem with bending to China.
When I talked about how my grandfather was denounced by a colleague in 1966, and taken by a Red Guard mob and left to die under a running train on a track near Beijing, with my medical colleagues, I was accused of being “right-wing”.
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Violent racist attacks on elderly Asians have been endemic in San Francisco Bay Area for years, and have nothing at all to do with Covid, yet it's only in February 2021 that the media is widely publicizing them, since it conveniently fits into their current Covid alarm narrative.
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1/ Stereotyping South Vietnamese generals as complete buffons (including Lam Quang Thi, who is not a complete buffoon and wrote two erudite works on Vietnam War in postwar exile in US) remains common among US and Western historians in 21st century, but the reality is far more
Some South Vietnamese generals were complete jokes. General Lam checked horoscopes to determine when he would launch attacks. Another had to be told to "act decisively and kill the enemy."
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People are massively underestimating the significant long-term risks to domestic national security and public social stability that result when you tell millions of young Americans and Canadians that they will never have enough money to buy and own their own house with a backyard
I’ve taken a dislike to the phrase “cost of living crisis” because it implies some transient event, inflicted on people by outside forces. More accurate to say we are becoming permanently poorer
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1/ Before Xi Jinping took power 10 years ago, corruption in China's military occurred on such a massive scale, it would have made Fat Leonard look like a priest. Interest and motivation of many Chinese military officers >10 years ago primarily revolved around making $. Their mode
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@RubinReport
As someone who grew up on Chinese state media and who is basically apolitical, I see many parallels between that and the mainstream media - both are profoundly unfair to and ignores the interests of the large Silent Majority and are consequently fundamentally propagandistic.
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The more you ascend professionally, the more you realize just how many people in top places have an insanely high ambition-to-curiosity ratio (supreme ambition, zero genuine curiosity)
I gave a talk about startups to 14 and 15 year olds, and their questions afterward were better than I get at top universities. I puzzled over this, then realized why. Their questions were motivated by genuine curiosity, rather than to make some kind of comment or to seem smart.
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Manchukuo was a puppet state, because literally no ordinary person who actually lived in Manchuria in 1930s-40s took Manchukuo seriously other than as a puppet state and vehicle for Japanese colonial power. But in Western academia today in 2023, there's a tendency to invent novel
I come to utterly dislike the term "puppet state." It strips away all nuances and contradictions of collaboration, and tells us even less about how collaborationist regimes changed over time. For myself the term has become an evasion of harder and messier historical questions.
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@LuisRomeoEsco
@RubinReport
The Silent Majority that believes in freedom of speech, fairness and liberty for all, rewarding people for conscientiousness, hard work and for competence, and for upholding Equality of Opportunity as the ultimate ideal of America, this greatest country to ever exist on Earth.
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@TheAtlantic
Has it ever occured to people that Joe Rpgan is popular because he is authentic, and doesn't care about putting on a show? It speaks volumes about the honesty and authenticity of the mainstream media that "Why Joe Rogan is popular" is even posed as a question to be pondered.
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@benshapiro
As someone who grew up on Chinese state news, what I’ve realized since moving to the West is that the only difference between the mainstream media and Chinese state media is that only the majority of the audience of the latter know they are being lied to every second and day.
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@benshapiro
@RitaPanahi
Bolsheviks have no shame. Trust me. I know how orthodox Communists think, and Social Communists are no different in their resentment, self-deception, deception of others, tyrannical imposition of their ideological agendas, list-keeping, character-assassination, and hypocrisy.
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Why must Nancy Pelosi go to Taiwan, and defy China? Because cardinal rule of schoolyard bullying is that if you back down, bully becomes even more contemptuous of you, and gets more emboldened over long run. This is a basic historical lesson from days of Chamberlain and Hitler.
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1/ My thoughts on rumors that Xi Jinping has been arrested in a secret military coup. Yes, it sounds ridiculous (although history is often stranger than fiction), and personally as yet I do not believe them. But it does raise the interesting question of civil-military relations
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@AndrewZollweg
@GiuseppeDiGioi9
@NEJM
@DeborahCohan
That’s the exact parallel I see, having countless stories from my family of Maoist China. This piece has similar wording, language, and insinuations that my grandfather was forced to confess to before the mobs threw him onto a railway track and left to die under a running train.
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Red Guards like these seized my grandfather in 1966 on accusations of sympathy for the capitalist class, walked him to a railway track just outside of Beijing, and then laid him on there and left him to die under a running train. The man who denounced him is still alive and well.
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I have to confess that, one of the major impediments to my full understanding of American activist culture, is that having grown up partly in a communist country where school kids are expected to utter propaganda all the time, I’m naturally very skeptical of any virtue signaling.
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Important figures in Chinese Civil War of 1946-50.
1) General Bai Chongxi, 1st Minister of Defense in new Republic of China government under 1947 Constitution. The Nationalist general the communists most singularly feared and respected. Buried at Islamic Cemetery, Taipei.
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@NEJM
@DeborahCohan
Wow, Twitter tried to censor my Comment by pushing it down to oblivion - so I've Retweeted it here to overcome their censorship.
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Daniel Kahneman is one of the most important living psychologists today, and one of his insights in this interview absolutely blew me away. Does the search for meaning (a la Frankl) really help people through adversity, or is it merely a marker of those who are most resilient?
Here's my conversation with Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winning economist and psychologist, author of Thinking Fast and Slow. We talk about two systems of thought in the human mind and their connection to deep learning, AI, and autonomous vehicles.
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@SuzannaDescalzi
@jonkay
@BarbaraRKay
@ZUCKERKJ
@DrDebraSoh
@BarrettWilson6
@jordanbpeterson
@BlanchardPhD
I can’t even comment on this because the penalty for expressing any sort of dissent on this issue within the Canadian medical profession, be it as medical student, resident, or attending physician, is having your professional reputation put to the torch and blacklisted. 🤐😷🤐😷
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@AndrewZollweg
@GiuseppeDiGioi9
@NEJM
@DeborahCohan
Thank you. Not all people in the West other than survivors from communist China have a visceral first-hand understanding of the horrors of Maoist China, and I want to caution people that similar patterns are now being played out ideologically in the West with respect to activism
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Way too many teenage Red Guards in China's Cultural Revolution murdered their own parents in the name of justice and ideology.
This perceptive (as usual) article by
@EmilyYoffe
makes me think that, before long, we will see teenagers publicly denouncing their parents for not-uncommon delicts. There’s a lot of famous fiction about this. And perhaps then we will see hand-wringing stories on badness of mobs.
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I actually know someone who had almost the exact same job 30 years ago as I do now, and I punched some numbers and figured out that I make 30% less now in almost the exact same career position, in inflation-adjusted terms. It’s hard to escape the tangible and stark realization of
GameStop isn’t a dumb meme.
It’s the internet enabled rallying cry of a generation of young men who feel shut out of the American dream.
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1. In military operations, logistics, not combat, is the most important calculus. From Battle of Stalingrad to the Siege of Changchun, elite units ultimately met catastrophe because of cut-off supplies.
2. Similarly, supply chain problems can torpedo COVID-19 diagnostic testing.
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@xoxprettyvacant
@RealSaavedra
Ilhan Omar’s vicious anti-Semitism and hateful racism should be scary to the conscience and moral being of everyone in the liberal civilized West, and for that reason her abominable ideas and office must be resolutely opposed and she must not get away with her racism and hate.
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@DrJenGunter
Jen Gunter doesn’t speak for all physicians—mass shootings are a multifaceted issue, one facet of which is mental health, enabled by gun access. Just because gun access is one key problem, doesn’t exclude mental health as a co-existing factor. Insisting otherwise is dishonest.
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I’m assembling a running reading list of books of modern history, which contain a variable number of lessons in psychology, organizational behavior, and leadership for those in business, tech and medicine. 1) The Yom Kippur War (Revised Edition)—a massive intelligence disaster.
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@RealSaavedra
As a classic British liberal and a former Chinese national, I’ve found that the only difference between the Chinese state media and the mainstream media today is that the majority of the audience of the former knows that they are being lied to by ideologues every minute and day.
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At about 5' 11" (180 cm), Mao Zedong was also unusually tall for a Chinese—especially a southerner—in his generation. His height was something that at least some subordinates had noticed about him, when they first met him. Unlike Kim Jong-il, Mao Zedong didn't need special shoes.
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@xoxprettyvacant
@RealSaavedra
I am a classic British liberal hailing from British Columbia myself who has never voted for the Conservative Party, and I think what the left-wing political activists have degenerated to since 2012 has been an absolute embarrassment to anyone with common sense and human decency.
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I want to share one story of how conflict can leave intergenerational scars in a family. My great-grandfather was born in Manchuria, and volunteered to resist the Imperial Japanese when they took over Manchuria. He joined the personal staff of Zhang Xueliang, the regional /1
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In ancient imperial China, dining and wining at the palace of an adversary on a goodwill visit was a common way for a warlord or powerful figure to get assassinated. Mao Zedong, who learned his ways and arts of war and strategy from reading old texts (as well as real life), knew.
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@nytimes
Andrew Yang is gaining steam for more reasons than his purported agenda. He is also gaining steam because of his honesty, humility, and respect. If only the mainstream media would value people’s character more than their ability to deliver ideological political propaganda.
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Mao Zedong’s eldest son and only viable successor, Mao Anying, didn’t survive Korean War. During a brief lull in daytime air raid, he broke strict air raid discipline and went back to his quarters to cook egg fried rice (brew coffee by other accounts). He didn’t make it back out.
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1/ There's a key reason why inter-service cooperation has been so hard to bake into Chinese military officers' heads, that has been overlooked by Western analyses: culture of military organization in China, throughout history, has been heavily driven by
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@RodarteJoaquin
@nytdavidbrooks
That’s the same argument that China keeps making against Japan in its own conceited and utterly hypocritical advancement of its own nationalistic and expansionist agendas, which offer people absolutely no chance of redemption or absolution. Does Mr. Brooks want Dems to lose 2020?
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1/ The fact that this humiliating seating arrangement was even accepted by US Secretary of State, is a reflection of the corporate, risk-averse mentality crippling US and Western European diplomatic community. For communists and Red China (and Russia), crisis is an opportunity,
Has any prior secretary of state agreed to this humiliating seating arrangement?
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@SwipeWright
People need to read up on the history of Lysenkoism to realize the absolute potential of total intellectual and socioeconomic devastation that rests at the root of injecting sociopolitical ideological, activist, or other agendas into objective scientific inquiry. Science = facts
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One reason why it's so hard to take Western academia in humanities seriously sometimes in 2023 is its pursuit of novelty and revisionism over insight and factual accuracy. But recycling old historical conclusions doesn't make for sustainable academic careers in the job market.
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1/ One of most crippling influences upon US collective strategic wisdom is legacy of Vietnam War protest movement. That social phenomenon was spearheaded by hippies and campus activists with mind-blowing naïveté. They refused to grapple with the brutal reality of human nature,
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The historical evidence, primarily from Machiavelli's own writing, seems to suggest that Machiavelli regarded his late life—his career effectively ruined and himself consigned to rural oblivion—with deep disappointment and sense of unfulfilled ambition. Yet those same years of
After Machiavelli was expelled from Florence by the Medici family, he moved to a small town and devoted the rest of his life to reading great books.
The way he described his evenings vividly captures the joys of reading:
“I return home and go to my study; at the entrance I
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@nytimes
Without wading into the culture war at all, I’d like to point out that the Soviet Union did it as a publicity stunt, in the same way that Maoist China sent billions of aid to Africa while its own people were starving to death in famine and political prisoners were shot in public.
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Good morning.
Nope, not taking this off. For as long as pandemic lasts.
Still facing significant flak and ostracism from fellow healthcare workers for wearing this around in the public and in hospital. Often I’m the only one wearing it.
But look at the countries that were spared
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“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”—Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Applies to the scientist and coworker who denounced my grandfather in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, causing a mob to throw him onto the railway to die under a running train.
This is one of the most painful but most important warnings for all of us today. Perpetrators were ordinary, 'otherwise decent' people. They accepted an ideology that rationalized and promoted hatred, antisemitism, racial supremacy & evil. It became their everyday live.
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Even if you are a most rationally-minded atheist, how do you explain how Trump’s skull missed a sniper’s bullet by less than a centimeter (half-inch)?
Millions of devout ordinary Americans can only give this answer—
God saved Trump.
God is on Trump’s side.
God chooses Trump.
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Whenever you question the ability of this website to survive, remember that Craigslist is reputed to have only 50 employees
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The US lives in a strange paradox. The US is the world’s leading exporter of military action and equipment (a statement intended and to be interpreted purely as an observation), yet there’s an aversion among US’s highly-educated academic and cultural elites to military history.
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In Canada, medical trainees who voice doubt about underage gender reassignment surgery can end up in serious professional trouble for professionalism breach under CanMEDS framework. It doesn’t matter what social worker thinks. Canadian medical system has its own vested interests.
Reality is starting to emerge onto the record in spite of the powerful organized interests that have staked everything on its suppression
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The longer I’ve lived in North America, the more I’ve come to the sobering realization that people in the West really aren’t immune to the same fervors of passion that characterized legions of young Chinese touting Mao’s Little Red Books, a phenomenon which I am familiar with.
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2/ complicated and nuanced. South Vietnamese generals, like Nationalist Chinese generals in Civil War, were spread broadly on a spectrum of competency, from grossly incompetent to highly competent. Battle of Xuan Loc, last major battle in South Vietnam before its final collapse
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@unacomics
@catt_bear
Last time my family checked, the guy's still alive, living on a government pension as a retired key scientific researcher in a state-subsidized apartment Beijing. No justice then, no justice now, no chance of justice ever. Don't know if he's still alive in 2020. Don't care.
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The FDA did not allow any hospital labs to test for the coronavirus and required all testing to be routed to the CDC, which obviously became overwhelmed. Without proper diagnosis, the pandemic obviously could not have been handled properly. This is a damning indictment of the FDA
To get a sense of how badly the US government is handling the coronavirus pandemic, consider that of this week they had only done 500 tests in a population of 330million.
Australia has tested 10,000 people with a population of 25million
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Was thinking about which single word would be the most defining term of 2020 (plague, bat, Karen, gsslighting), but then had a feeling that the most surprising event of 2020 is still yet to come
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8/ But what about that invisible part of iceberg underneath the surface, the organizational culture and sociology of Chinese military officer corps, which "OSINT bros" rarely talk or even think about? Are we talking about a house upon a solid foundation, or a house of cards? /e
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1/ US national security expert
@ElbridgeColby
observes that China is already talking about “re-educating” Taiwanese citizens in event of a Chinese takeover of Taiwan. Sadly, this is what will most likely happen if China ever seizes Taiwan by invasion or blackmail-type coercion.
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3/ in April 1975, for example remains one of most astonishing defensive actions by any standing professional army in modern 20th century military history. Whether the casual dismissal of East Asian non-communist generals prevalent among US and Western
Because US tends to want to forget whatever happened in Vietnam War after 1968, little is remembered today about Fall of South Vietnam in 1975. Its last major struggle, Battle of Xuan Loc, was ironically South tactical victory, where 18th Division held off a whole communist corps
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and revisionist theses and contentions to give PhD students and academics something to write about for career-boosting in a competitive academic job market, even though they run counter to well-established historical conclusions that have been (surprisingly) factually accurate.
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Soviet industry was build by substantially emulating Western industry, but what Soviet Union failed in—a failure it was never able to rectify up to its demise—was in building a self-sustaining intellectual and social infrastructure for training the inventors that were constantly
One of the reasons that there are a bunch of primary sources related to the 1920s USSR in archives in the Midwest are all the engineers and companies based in the Midwest who went to help teach Soviet workers how to set up industrial plants
Here is one from Chicago; Freyn & Co.
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Many of the people who spearheaded the Chinese Communist movement, including Mao himself, were urbanized and educated intellectuals in a country where most were illiterate. The Revolution was one imposed by intellectuals upon peasants with guns forced into the hands of peasants.
What if espousing the ideas of 19th century scholar (Marx) and espousing the ideas of a 20th century revolutionary (Lenin) was just a sneaky way of signalling class privilege, when having privilege, in general, is frowned upon 🤔
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It is also extremely difficult to discuss any COVID-19 related issues with colleagues and friends taking care of patients, because of patient privacy concerns relating to HIPAA legislation in the US and the attendant severe consequent restrictions imposed by hospital employers.
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It’s entirely because of following tech Twitter including
@balajis
that I woke up from my complacency as a physician and started taking COVID-19 extremely seriously, while my own medical colleagues were mocking me for freaking out, being paranoid, and unnecessarily scaring people
All things considered, has
@Twitter
overall been a good thing or a bad thing for fighting against the pandemic?
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Fall of South Vietnam was one of greatest catastrophes of post-WWII history. It consigned hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese to concentration camps, and ethnic Chinese in Vietnam to mass persecution. Yet, misconceptions fed by US protest generation persist today. (From G. Veith)
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5/ consciousness—namely, of casual generalization of assumption of gross incompetence—continue to hinder careful nuanced understanding of fundamental reasons of both how South Vietnam and Nationalist China failed, and equally notably, how North Vietnam and Red China succeeded. /e
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Just learned the man who denounced my grandfather, was deceased from the Covid wave in China these past few weeks. Such is the end to a long and interminable chapter in history. What to say.
My grandfather's colleague wanted his job in their aeronautical research institute in Beijing. So in 1966 he was denounced, and a mob of Red Guards dragged him onto a railway track just outside of Beijing and left him to die under a running train. The colleague got the job.
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4/ historians is due simply to factual unfamiliarity with granular details of the military operations and wars concerned, or to lazy stereotyping of entire categories of people, common portrayals of South Vietnamese and Nationalist Chinese generals prevalent in Western historical
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1/ When I was in grade school in North America, I had aspired to become an aerospace engineer. For a design project, I had made combat aircraft my topic. Instead, it attracted a stern reprimand from the teacher, who with a serious face rattled off a list of his self-professed
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1/ A pervasive theme of modern Chinese history is the substantial power invested by central government in local-level government leadership, and one manifestation of that was fate of Nationalist Army officers following Civil War of 1927-50. Ironically, while many Nationalist
Though forced in captivity to attend communist ”re-education” lectures and small-group seminars, General Huang Wei refused to utter a single bad word against Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist Party. As a result, he was imprisoned as “war criminal” until 1975, released in last batch
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In dying decades of Chinese Qing Empire, Guangxu Emperor divested money intended to build-up the Beiyang Fleet and blew it all on a lavish wedding in 1889, despite ascendent Imperial Japan looming steadily.
The Japanese struck in 1894. The Beiyang Fleet wasn't ready. Destroyed.
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@ConceptualJames
As a physician, I find it incredibly dangerous that they are applying entirely different standards of evidence and quality of research when it comes to "social justice" issues than they do with science and medicine. It speaks to the ideological transformation they are attempting.
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1/ Despite ludicrous tone of this post, the claim that women were executed for extra-marital relationships in early 1980s in China is actually true, and that relates to saga of China’s “Strike Hard Anti-Crime” campaign of early 1980s, which saw Chinese police enforce morality
Maybe this will bring it closer to Gen Z of what can happen when the state is the only gun owner.
In these 1983 photos are the female “criminals” who were executed. Their crime? Sleeping with multiple men, a crime of “moral corruption” according to the CCP at that time.
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they joined Zhang Xueliang's warlord army in 1931. My great-grandfather lived through all the drama and tragedy of post-war China and died in 1996, never knowing what happened to his brother or whether he safely made his way to Taiwan. None of us know. That's the tragedy of war
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Historical example
“One motivation of cancel culture is that it gives people moral cover to jettison people from their positions and thereby create job opportunities”
My conversation with
@toadmeister
on
@Quillette
podcast about luxury beliefs, cancel culture, and more
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@jockowillink
Mr. Willink, this is exactly why I am so grateful to have moved to America, this greatest country on Earth that embodies the ultimate ideals of liberty, justice, and freedom, and which is worthy of the moral, spiritual, and physical strength of every men and women in its defense.
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Whole issue of whether Taiwan ever belonged to China is pointless because you can interpret it however you want. What actually matters is that Taiwanese people have right to self-determination, and only Taiwanese people can determine future course of their country and nationhood.
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One major consequence of US riots, being overlooked now but will have profound impact for decades to come, is that in Chinese public consciousness, as manifested by conversations, sight of US riots has spelled death knell of democracy as viable model of governance in their minds
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2/ objections. I never did make aerospace engineering my career, but for me it was an early introduction to the moral weakness, the psychological brain rot of sanctimonious activist pacifism particularly prevalent among middle- and upper-social class North American culture. No
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It is highly ironic that those once-revered Western historical figures that people are now voraciously tearing apart are also being intensely studied by legions of Chinese students and intellectuals, who distinguish moral judgment of people from utilitarian value of their study.
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Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Chiang Kai-shek all shared one unifying trait—they were irrationally and unapologetically stubborn in refusing to ever surrender to evil, while also being intolerably exasperating in personality. But soft people don’t save the free world.
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@RonaldDPotts1
@LuisRomeoEsco
@RubinReport
They obviously exist because I’ve served thousands of patients coming from rural, downtrodden Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and the sort of vicious stereotypes they are accused of by the mainstream media bear no resemblance at all to the humanity I served.
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@ConceptualJames
@NEJM
@DeborahCohan
I find it incredibly ironic and kind of hilarious that earlier in the week I was warning people that medicine is facing its own Lysenkoism crisis with sociopolitical ideologues hijacking the field with divisive group identity political agendas and reverse racism - and look, poof!
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Choosing San Francisco Bay Area for medical residency back in 2016 was undoubtedly the most important decision I ever made in my life. The culture of the place completely transformed my views on risk-taking, life, and work, and imbued me with new faith in the vitality of the US.
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Another perplexing phenomenon: in US, retired generals and admirals frequently go onto highly lucrative corporate and consulting positions, yet none of them have actually had their leadership ability quality-tested by major conflict with peer adversary for past several decades.
The US lives in a strange paradox. The US is the world’s leading exporter of military action and equipment (a statement intended and to be interpreted purely as an observation), yet there’s an aversion among US’s highly-educated academic and cultural elites to military history.
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In my adult life I have never donated once to charity. My deeply contrarian and strongly-held opinion has been that Western non-profit organizations are intrinsically poorly-run by people of suspect character and dubious competence, and therefore I cannot trust them to provide a
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The biggest problem with the arrogance and conceit with which the North American medical community is cautioning people to only listen to “medical experts” with COVID-19, is that that exact same closed mindset had led them to be so very unprepared for COVID-19 in the first place.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy didn’t run out of planes in Second World War. They ran out of highly-skilled pilots, from accumulating attrition inflicted by operational loss and combat casualty.
Russian have confirmed deaths of over 10 military pilots, navigators and flight mechanics.These are unique specialists. Training of 1 fighter pilot takes 7-8 years and costs over 3 million $. So called sniper-pilots need 10-12 years to train and cost over 7mln $
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General Yan Xishan, King of Shanxi Province from 1911 to 1949, is one of most important forgotten figures of 20th century Chinese history. More than warlord, he was also a civil administrator, industrial planner, urban architect, uncanny philosopher, and clever test-taker. /1
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@RonaldDPotts1
@LuisRomeoEsco
@RubinReport
Don’t ever give in to the mainstream media and their resentful ideologues’ attempts to pit American against American, brother against brother, sister against sister, in their conceited pursuit of their group identity ideological aims and to shame Americans for their country.
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The Chinese Civil War was important part of 20th century East Asian history, both from a military perspective, as it involved combined-arms operations on both sides, and from a social and psychological perspective, due to the psychological manipulation used. A evolving thread: /1
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I very rarely share personal news, but will make an exception for my US immigration application approval
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Because US tends to want to forget whatever happened in Vietnam War after 1968, little is remembered today about Fall of South Vietnam in 1975. Its last major struggle, Battle of Xuan Loc, was ironically South tactical victory, where 18th Division held off a whole communist corps
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I’ve now lived in North America for decades and I still don’t understand why there is such a reticence and reluctance among the mainstream media and polite society here when it comes to discussing the atrocity of Communism. It’s not even a political issue—millions were murdered.
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@TheEconomist
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Once people acknowledge the fact that intelligence has nothing whatsoever to do with human worth and moral character (which is the most, if not the only, determinant of worth), perhaps we can all have a more mature and less egotistical discussion regarding intelligence testing.
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