this should end well
Time to teach y'all a Classical Chinese phrase that, allegedly, the Chinese MFA only uses in the case of an ultimatum, so potentially something to watch for (?) —
勿谓言之不预也 (wù wèi yán zhī bú yù yě), "Dare not say you hadn't been forewarned."
We have so many emoji's this site is like a trove of candy for media archeologists in the future.
yeah I'm an emojiologist with a focus on sub 50k member forums in the pre-collapse era.
Pictured a group of kids around a fire place in a post collapse society questioning an elder.
"What did you do to stop the collapse?"
"I did shitpost the finest emojis you could imagine, sure the climate wars happened and everything collapsed, but for a brief moment in time we had large adult son's and very large north Korean soldiers.":jesse-wtf:
"Now, see here, boy. I smuggled this Wide Putin (Extra Bass-boosted) out of the FEMA camps. I hid it up my ass for seven years while I dodged the autonomous kill-bots. Now, my son, I pass it onto you, so that you may share, like and subscribe."
Is there any way to browse the whole list? I was trying to find the Geordie LaForge emoji but I have no idea what it's text string is.
https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/emotes
:geordi-no: :geordi-yes:
It would be really funny if the chuds came around on China because of Xi shooting Pelosi's plane out of the sky.
China probably won't do it because they're not primal warmongering savages unlike some European or Colonial nations.
But I pray to stalin everyday that Xi shoots down the aircraft and sinks the American fleet near its waters just because Americans deserve it.
Obviously america being evil isn’t news to me, but after listening to the new season of Blowback I kinda think someone should nuke the entire United States off the map, even though I would also die.
I can’t find any reason why Pelosi wants to go to Taiwan in the first place. No news article gives a reason. Is it safe to assume it has something to do with chip manufacturing? US auto makers are probably shitting their pants about all the cars parked on their lots waiting for chips, I imagine they’re leaning real hard on their politicians to do something about it.
Yeah, I'm guessing on Pelosi's end this is more about chip manufacturing, which I imagine is seen as a national security issue. On China's end,I think it's standard practice for them to object to any formal recognition of Taiwan, and they're probably seeing if America blinks, but I doubt they want to escalate beyond that. Imo the fact that chip manufacturing is so important to the west makes this much different from Russia-Ukraine. A war with China will be devastating for everyone, but US and Europe will absolutely go to war while Taiwan is so pivotal to virtually every military, consumer, and industrial product in the west
I wonder if they would still be independent if it wasn't for that.
Or is it an entire country that exists just to make computer chips.
The country exists because of cold war (I guess technically pre-cold war) era anti-communism, and there were plans of launching an invasion of China through Taiwan. But I think computer chip manufacturing is giving them an additional layer of safety.
The KMT does not represent Taiwan. If the kmt never arrived and took over, Taiwanese would still not have identified as Chinese in nationality.
However, if the Qing dynasty put more effort into actually controlling and governing ALL of Taiwan, and not just small parts of it, and Japan never took over, and if the kmt never retreated to Taiwan, then that would be a different story but we don't live in that timeline do we.
Taiwan was always an island of non importance to the Qing dynasty until it became part of a naval trade route.
The KMT/DPP reactionaries and anti-communists actually do represent Taiwan now because they colonized it and killed and fully repressed the locals. This is why Taiwan should not be allowed to be “independent” from China, because it will just be a de facto military base for the Western imperialists.
Taiwan is China, nobody disagrees with this. Not Taiwanese people nor Chinese people. The only disagreement is who is the legitimate government of China as a whole, and the answer to that is obviously the PRC
Taiwan is already independent from China. The Qing dynasty did control small parts of it for like 250 years.
will just be a de facto military base for the Western imperialists.
Taiwan isn't a military base for anyone, not even itself. It's no Okinawa or Ukraine. Everyone agrees that their military is shit.
Taiwan is China, nobody disagrees with this.
The only people who actually agree with this are Chinese nationalists, either from mainland China or extremely old KMT people in Taiwan.
The KMT/DPP reactionaries and anti-communists actually do represent Taiwan now because they colonized it and killed and fully repressed the locals.
It was the KMT who repressed the locals. Look up the white terror period. And they're from China. The CPC should bring them back to China and redistribute their stolen assets/land. Anything taken from China should be returned to China. Anything taken from locals in Taiwan should be redistributed or returned. The DPP is just a party that counters the KMT.
The Taiwanese rightoid defender had logged on
China will be united again and there’s nothing you angloid colonial apologists can do about it
The DPP is the liberal icing on top of the fascist KMT foundation. They don’t “oppose” the KMT in any real meaningful sense, they are the equivalent of the post Pinochet “liberal” government in Chile - that is how fascist color revolts and outposts work, you put in a fascist dictator until you suppress the contradictions and kill the commies (white terror), then put in a liberal puppet to keep people content and manufacture legitimacy. Happened in Japan and South Korea too. Defending the DPP is like defending the modern South Korean government.
It’s a continuation of the same leadership class, and those DPP crypto-fascists will be destroyed and their junta government destroyed
South Korea and Taiwan will both be decolonized
Look up the CHIPS bill that's making it's way through Congress right now. $52 billion to boost chip production in the US. Mr Pelosi also invested a few million into Nvidia very recently.
$52 billion to inevitably offshore chip production to a different developing nation, good stuff :brrrrrrrrrrrr:
Did they remove the most be built in usa part of the bill?
I would be shocked if any sizeable portion of that money goes to building anything instead of stock buybacks. We've seen this same song and dance with the telecomm industry putting down fiber and the airlines during COVID.
This song and dance goes back decades. I still remember the first one I learned about was when the government gave billions to airlines in the 70s in order to prevent them from doing mass layoffs, and the airlines did the layoffs anyway.
They'll probably just do the bare minimum of final assembly to count as built in the USA. So, build 95% of the chip with slaves in Qatar or something then run it through a "rubber stamp" factory (that's just a warehouse) with ten MIC grifter guys running it.
With chips specifically they don't really need cheap labor. You aren't hand crafting a chip at 5nm
No idea, I just assume any manufacturing done in the US will invariably go somewhere with lower operating costs in the shortsighted pursuit of profit
Bernie couldn't even get an amendment that prevents them from using the money on stock buybacks.
The US political class has been pretty clear that they want to start a hot war with China for whatever goddamn :brainworms: reason.
Looking forward to the world ending due to the hubris of liberals because :good-morning: insisted on going to Taiwan when she could have simply not done that
But since the US has to assert itself as THE geopolitical power, and since events in the past few years have left the state apparatus 'embarrassed', we're not going to divert now and will instead continue to be belligerent assholes and have an 82 year old blight on society make an appearance in a country that doesn't really want her or care about her
Another fun fact: Biden climate pledge: 2.3 billion
Annual estimated cost to operate ONE aircraft carrier: 2.1 billion
Ed: Bonus in that BBC article:
Ahead of the Glasgow climate conference, Mr Biden promised the US would provide $11.4bn a year in climate finance by 2024 - to help developing countries tackle and prepare for climate change. But in March he managed to secure just $1bn of that from Congress - only a third more than the Trump-era spending.
:agony-limitless:
Non event. As I already stated before Mike Pompeo has already arrived and he's a magnitude worse than Nancy Pelosi.
https://apnews.com/article/china-taiwan-mike-pompeo-tsai-ing-wen-joint-chiefs-of-staff-ef5f97eb86d61a011576e09523295ca2
"is to arrive on Wednesday". This whole thing is a grift btw. That fucker was paid 150k. This is all about paying protection money to the US.
Zelensky was asking for nukes. Not comparable. Not the worst article though. As they did use the phrase red line.
Boomers please stop pressing the “fuck around” button while I’m on the USS “Find Out” with you
Hope Nancy convinces the entire Democratic Congress to tag along and they all get arrested en masse and sent to work in the fields
As many have pointed out that it's probably for the chips thing but the irony of the matter is China has rolled out with 7nm chip despite the US doing its best to prevent China from doing it while Intel have delayed the launch of their 7nm chip for the 3rd year running.
I can't imagine it's actually chip related because I feel like we would have heard about it. For many people it's a fair and legitimate justification to visit the island. I think its meeting with military or something
No way they wouldn't make preserving that a priority. That's like saying you'll know the Vikings attacked because they melted down all the gold and threw it in the ocean.
