Miscellaneous News

[Lethe]

Sometimes one gets the impression that Britain only exists to provide the rest of the world with comedic relief.

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform party, and arguably the greatest animating force on the right of British politics in recent decades, is being

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

related to disclosure obligations for MPs. In an attempt to dodge these investigations, Farage has resigned from his elected position as MP for Clacton, and intends to

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

. However, most of Britain's other political parties have decried this as a political stunt and pledged to boycott the by-election, thereby denying Farage the symbolic victory over the political establishment that he craves.

Instead, amidst an otherwise vacant field Farage will be contending for his old job against Count Binface, a space alien who promises to lower your taxes and raise them on everyone else, fix the price of ice cream cones, and conscript those who put their phone on speaker on public transport:

The most likely scenario at this point is that Farage defeats Count Binface in the by-election, and the financial investigations resume where they left off, only with muddier waters. But it's not beyond the realm of possibility that, in an otherwise vacant field and with a lot of even otherwise sympathetic folks reportedly unimpressed by his antics, Farage could actually lose to Count Binface, ushering in a new and glorious era for British democracy. Either way, Farage comes out of this looking like a complete idiot.

 

[PandaAI]

Sometimes you get the feeling that Britain only exists to provide the rest of the world with comedic relief.

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform party, and arguably the greatest animating force on the right of British politics in recent decades, is being

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

related to disclosure obligations for MPs. In an attempt to dodge these investigations, Farage has resigned from his elected position as MP for Clacton, and intends to

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

. However, most of Britain's other political parties have decried this as a political stunt and pledged to boycott the by-election, thereby denying Farage the symbolic victory over the political establishment that he craves.

Instead, amidst an otherwise vacant field Farage will be contending for his old job against Count Binface, a space alien who promises to lower your taxes and raise them on everyone else, fix the price of ice cream cones, and conscript those who put their phone on speaker on public transport:

The most likely scenario at this point is that Farage defeats Count Binface in the by-election, and the financial investigations resume where they left off, only with muddier waters. But it's not beyond the realm of possibility that, in an otherwise vacant field and with a lot of even otherwise sympathetic folks reportedly unimpressed by his antics, Farage could actually be lose to Count Binface, ushering in a new and glorious era for British democracy. Either way, Farage comes out of this looking like a complete idiot.

Nearly every Western politician is a bribe-taking crook. They only work for their ‘lobby’ groups giving them bribes. They will sell their own mother if it meant getting rich. All corruption indexes putting Western countries as the least corrupt are absolute lies and straight up farcical. West is in terminal decline and nothing and nobody will stop it.

 

[AssassinsMace]

The US is demanding no access to non-Americans to top US AI models. How does that work when a good number of them who are building US AI are probably not citizens. Then you see how the US is now also targeting naturalized citizens to which many Chinese-Americans fit this category.

I saw recently, I don’t know if it was in here, where India had a chart of which countries were on top in AI. Guess who was number one… I think China was third behind the US. I bet they’re going to spin it as Indians are so much that more superior that the number of AI talent in that context is meaningless.

Here there's a figure mentioned in regards to my previous post on Chinese and AI. It's mentioned that 39% of American AI talent are Chinese nationals and that's not including Chinese American AI talent. It reminds me of the Wen Ho Lee case where it was accused that China was stealing the US's nuclear secrets and there was actual legislation to ban anyone Chinese from working in the US national nuclear laboratories. Then on the verge of it being passed, it was suddenly rescinded because someone important told Congress that would cripple US nuclear research.

 

[Chevalier]

If its diaspora that lived in Western countries, came back, and wanted to introduce Chinese people to some of the culture they picked up abroad what's the harm? Being a proud Chinese doesn't mean you can't partake in foreign tastes, that's part and parcel of being a cosmopolitan society and China is opening to the world right now.

I find it hard to believe that in the 21st century, that the diaspora has anything of note to introduce to the Chinese people outside of hard sciences.
what I have observed are double standards being picked up ie a Chinese female allowing a white, black or Indian man to have his way with her and her body for free whilst demanding a house and a bride price from a Chinese man. Such an arrangement is unacceptable and for the sake of public morality, such individuals should be named and shamed.

If you think that’s extreme, ask yourself why the PLA criminally indicts those who seduce the spouses of PLA members? Because what is there to fight for if your own family is not considered sacrosanct by the state? The same should also apply to families where a man is commuting his entire production and wages towards.

 

[supersnoop]

This is qingtian county in Zhejiang province and the reason why it looks like Europe its because diaspora came back and made it look like Europe.

Some might say… you aren’t a fan of greenfield developments… *sunglasses*

The funniest part of this is those "fighting for colonial legacy" in HK are 100% made up of people who never spent any adult life under colonial rule, i.e. nobody who actually remember colonial legacy wants to fight for it

This person is aligned with the western far right. This column was for a right wing newspaper and expanded for a right wing think tank. Listening to her is like taking medical advice from RFK Jr.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

 

[Jiang ZeminFanboy]

Bride price should be abolished anyway by the state, it's a retarded concept in these time of age.

I find it hard to believe that in the 21st century, that the diaspora has anything of note to introduce to the Chinese people outside of hard sciences.
what I have observed are double standards being picked up ie a Chinese female allowing a white, black or Indian man to have his way with her and her body for free whilst demanding a house and a bride price from a Chinese man. Such an arrangement is unacceptable and for the sake of public morality, such individuals should be named and shamed.

If you think that’s extreme, ask yourself why the PLA criminally indicts those who seduce the spouses of PLA members? Because what is there to fight for if your own family is not considered sacrosanct by the state? The same should also apply to families where a man is commuting his entire production and wages towards.

 

[Randomuser]

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

So basically some dude from Hong Kong decided to go to Taiwan to punch this "journalist" called Akio Yaita.

Originally named Jing Tao, he was born in Tianjin . His grandfather was a member of the Japanese army during the invasion of China, and his father was a World War II orphan. He was adopted by a Chinese family surnamed Jing at the age of three. He himself lived and studied in Tianjin, China, until his family moved to Japan at the age of 16. In other words he wouldn't be alive if Chinese people didn't have mercy on Japanese people.

He studied hard in Japan and graduated from Keio University. He used this wonderful talent to do stuff like denying the Nanjing Massacre, whine about how Taiwanese are not grateful enough for Japanese rule and an article

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

which I found posted on SDF back in 2018. He gained Taiwan citizenship recently and now shills for DPP and Taiwan indepedence.

Such a guy wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for Chinese providing resources. Yet here he is doing stuff like this.

Fun fact, even Taiwan news I recall states at least 5% of Taiwanese are of Japanese descent.

I know we shouldn't be judgmental since China is a mixed nation of different ethnicities. But it seems there is just no room for Japanese here. Unlike the others they cause far too much trouble and have contributed little to be a net positive so far.

 

[wuguanhui]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2074721106175340601

I thought Chinese footballers were useless trash, but it turns out it's just because there is an huge overcapacity of European footballers! A destructive cycle of involution is destroying the youth of millions of young Europeans. European teams should be subject to tariffs granting penalties or goals to the Chinese team to make up for the unfair advantages enjoyed by European footballers.

 

[Africablack]

I find it hard to believe that in the 21st century, that the diaspora has anything of note to introduce to the Chinese people outside of hard sciences.
what I have observed are double standards being picked up ie a Chinese female allowing a white, black or Indian man to have his way with her and her body for free whilst demanding a house and a bride price from a Chinese man. Such an arrangement is unacceptable and for the sake of public morality, such individuals should be named and shamed.

If you think that’s extreme, ask yourself why the PLA criminally indicts those who seduce the spouses of PLA members? Because what is there to fight for if your own family is not considered sacrosanct by the state? The same should also apply to families where a man is commuting his entire production and wages towards.

Trust me, this is across the board, it's the new cultural norm in western society. Women are free to give themselves to as many men as they want (the ones they truly desire) for free but expect the sucker (the plan b or c option after they are washed) they settle with to exhaust his bank account for the privilege. Men must accept it and woe betide any man who dares inquires about past as a way to see if values align. Social media is choke full of propaganda encouraging this behavior it's scary, no wonder countries want to ban its access to minors.

 

[Thecore]

If its diaspora that lived in Western countries, came back, and wanted to introduce Chinese people to some of the culture they picked up abroad what's the harm? Being a proud Chinese doesn't mean you can't partake in foreign tastes, that's part and parcel of being a cosmopolitan society and China is opening to the world right now.

I agree to an extent, but also want to point out a lot of the cosmopolitan parts of Western countries like Chinatowns or Little Italy were as a result of immigrants to those countries being forced into their own enclaves due to local discrimination. Not from local whites travelling to other countries and deciding to build local neighborhoods in the foreign architecture styles as a form of venerating foreign cultures, which is what these Chinese returnees are doing. If a westerner ever did something similar, it would be through the perspective it being kitschy or purposefully tacky with an unstated motive to snidely laugh at it. There has been too much admiration for ALL aspects of western society, culture and history in China throughout the years. It's not healthy and leads to widespread civilizational lack of self esteem.