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Limited is superior to all of the above
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Worse than harmless - their cowardice is also a blocker on more radical movements emerging and gathering steam. No one wants to feel like a loser
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It’s also interesting to think about what “sauce” means as a functional part of cooking. Westernised Chinese food tends to have a thick gloopy starch sauce that in China you would only use on specific dishes. Which lead a lot of people to ask me questions like “what sauce do you cook that in?” about stir-fry recipes I gave them and that question makes zero sense to me. But then I realised I just don’t view soy sauce, etc as “sauces” because they're more like salt-replacing seasonings? Hard to explain
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I tried to explain HP/brown sauce to some Americans recently and got as far as “…it’s good”. No idea how to describe it. But it goes great on eggs and is white people friendly
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This series has been incredible thank you so much comrade. And best wishes to the baby as well 
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I remember hearing that people prepare less for Hurricanes with feminine names because of subconscious misogyny. Here’s hoping De Santis and his ilk fall into that trap
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Some slava ukraini type Dutch guy in a Discord server I’m in was posting these really shitty low effort pager memes. Super gross
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I’m not a citizen yet and can’t vote but hard agree with everything you said. I still find it hard to believe the conservatives would win though, somehow, maybe because I live in dt Vancouver
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New rule proposal:
No low-effort top-level comments that consist only of wishing for things.
This is probably phrased poorly but I think comments like “if I were Iran I would simply start WWIII” or 
should be in the replies. Fantasy geopolitics games people play in their heads isn’t news related imo.
More developed opinions/analysis in the vein of “Iran should strike x facility because it would critically damage the Zionist entity” should be allowed though.
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Agreed. These posts are nothing more than idealist wargame fantasies
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Fewer and bigger/more well defined facets
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How can people even type out this smug, braindead slop without cringing themselves so hard they spontaneously explode
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I just wish USian leftists would stop thinking of themselves as an “alternative” and aim a bit higher, yknow?
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They simply cannot conceive of any interaction that is not transactional in nature
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The sleeper trains are so much funnnnn have a great time comrade
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Could not click fast enough thank you for sharing comrade
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Always pay attention to hell-world conditions
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Well that would be true if it were the CIA doing the meeting so…
Football fan to Hamas pipeline confirmed
Genuinely curious. I keep thinking “it can’t get much worse without some kind of mass uprising” but the ability of the general population of Western states to just soak up suffering seems endless. Do you think we will actually see mass movements in the next decade or two? Or just slowly lurch into a void of ever-shittier liberalism? By the West I mean like. Western Europe and the Anglosphere I guess.
I do a bunch of tournament coverage for a card game and I’ve been working years on these online events. I’m pretty good I think, and the goal has always been to get on the broadcast for the biggest pro tournament. The company that makes the game knows me because the online events are also part of the official tournament circuit so they’re happy to have me represent them… just not on the biggest stage I guess. And today I found out that some white guy streamer who has never done a real coverage show was given a role on the latest pro broadcast and I cannot handle it. I’ve worked SO hard. The background to this was that a couple of years ago I publicly criticised the show (without even naming the casters) for misgendering my friend while she was playing the biggest tournament of her life. She was basically the only person in the event who wasn’t a cis man. It was so shitty for her and she desperately needed support. Anyway one of the casters yelled at me months later in a giant twitter DM saying how I shouldn’t have made him look bad if I wanted to work with him etc etc and now they are hiring more white guys with no experience over me and it suuucks
Happy New Year everyone!!!! I hope you all get to honour the true meaning of the Spring Festival by eating as much as you can and not doing any work. Also don’t let the capitalists short change you with their puny watered-down holidays, the celebrations should last 15 whole days. Thank you for making this the best place on the Anglo internet to be for Chinese diaspora socialists.  
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Background: I’m Chinese by origin but grew up in the west. He’s English. He’s kind of a  but in a lefty way and has been with me to China multiple times, we’ve been together for years. He has had misconceptions before but is always learning. He does go on Reddit still, mostly to talk about land value tax which is his big political obsession right now. Anyway last night we were at dinner and talking about an idea for a project that’s like quora but with only expert/academic researchers as responders. Part of it would need a reputation rating for the researchers. We were then talking about the use cases/audience for the project and I said “this might be better suited to Asia” (because of how highly education is valued and the pressure on kids to study/achieve grades). And he immediately responded “because they’re used to social credit scores?” Like. Without missing a beat. Maybe I’m overthinking it but it really pissed me off that his first association when I mentioned Asia was… this. We talked about it and he explained that the concept was already in his mind when he was thinking about the reputation system so it wasn’t just a reaction to Asia specifically. But he insisted that he knew social credit scores were a real thing. I think he did listen when I said these types of jokes were what made Reddit such a hostile environment to be in, though. I’m not sure what I’m asking but I just wanted to get it off my chest. Does anyone maybe have resources on internet Sinophobia / explanation of where the social credit stuff came from I can share with him? Thanks crew. Sorry that was so long x
I recently read this book researching a writing project and I think it should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in imperial or modern China. It’s the autobiography of Puyi Aisin-Gioro, the last emperor of China. His life was insane. He was put on the throne aged 2 and abdicated 3 years later, but kept his title and was raised in the Forbidden City as essentially a prisoner - all so the corrupt palace officials could keep getting money from the government. He betrays the country and becomes a puppet emperor of “Manchukuo” under Japan’s colonial rule. After the war he is captured by the Soviets and then transferred to China when the Communist party won the civil war. Throughout his imprisonment, and to his great surprise, he is treated humanely and over a period of 10 years in prison manages to reform his entire outlook and become an upstanding citizen. We talk a lot about deprogramming the cultists but I think there’s not been much discussion about how it can be done. The last few chapters of this book give a great illustration of reeducation that is compassionate and effective. The book has received some criticism for being propaganda, and certainly the CCP took the view that his reformation would be an excellent demonstration of their progress and undoubtedly treated him well - but he wasn’t exempt from any of he duties and obligations in prison or anything like that. Anyway I haven’t seen any allegations of falsehood regarding his account.
I feel like I’m doing it wrong or something but I can’t make the emote menu go away and it fills up the whole screen when I’m trying to make comments. Please help
I just want to read some in-depth, good solid journalism that is well written and researched. It doesn’t have to be focused on current events, I’m also looking for places to read about like, science, tech, culture, etc. Pls no places that knowingly, regularly platforms terfs or fash. Outlets that aren’t automatically accepting of capitalist/western imperialist narratives as a default would be a huge plus.
I was a long time lurker of r/cth and it was the only sane place I could go on Reddit to read shit that wasn’t saturated with racist memes about where I was born (China). Like I don’t even live there and haven’t for decades but fuck me is it wearying to see sOCiAl CrEDIt SCorE jokes on every fucking thread. Anyway I’m done with Reddit and was hanging around general lemmy instances and found y’all through the federation noise. I guess this post was kind of pointless but I’m just happy this community is still around. Love & peace x
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