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It's the kind of thing you'd need a BASIC program written in 1977 to solve.

Well sure, he's thinking of it from his perspective. Elites don't go off and fight wars (any more), they send working class to do it for them. Sure, it benefits his class. It always has.

Well, except in the old, old days when elites led armies and would get captured in battle and beheaded by the other side's elites. Boy, I miss those days.

EDIT: wait a minute, this is from 2014, during the Obama drone murder spree. I bet it's defending him in the face of criticism that he said he wouldn't kill more children than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners put together.

Kung Fu movies.

PLA didn't fight anti-warlord campaigns, the KMT did. The PLA mostly hid and didn't fight, until the Anti-Japanese War was over. I don't think emphasizing the achievements of the nationalists is going to go over well in China.

Ah, I remember they did in Xinjiang, after the civil war was over. The province was unconquerable due to the fierce horsemen. PLAAF biplanes came in from the air and machine-gunned the men and more importantly the horses. The troops marched in to little resistance. The rich resources of Xinjiang were added to China's strength afterwards.

They've been trying to start a big shooting war in Syria for quite some time now. Remember when Trump was going to withdraw the troops, Senator McCain made a beeline to Syria for meetings, and a week later there was a false flag chemical attack that forced the cancellation of the withdrawal plan?

In 2016, then Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed this policy in a leaked audio conversation, saying that the U.S., rather than seriously fighting the Islamic State in Syria, was ready to use the growing strength of the jihadists to pressure Assad to resign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4phB-_pXDM

Just a reminder that Tibet was a literal fascist theocracy, the kind that exists in rural America. The Red Army put an end to that. Oh, how the lamas screamed when they taught their women how to read, and that they have rights, and that they can't be married against their will. They're still angry about it today.

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

This link explains it very well.

"One reason—among several—is that as soon as subcultures start getting really interesting, they get invaded by muggles, who ruin them. The muggles who invade and ruin subcultures come in two distinct flavors, mops and sociopaths, playing very different roles.

Before there is a subculture, there is a scene. A scene is a small group of creators who invent an exciting New Thing—a musical genre, a religious sect, a film animation technique, a political theory. Riffing off each other, they produce examples and variants, and share them for mutual enjoyment, generating positive energy.

The new scene draws fanatics. Fanatics don’t create, but they contribute energy (time, money, adulation, organization, analysis) to support the creators.

Creators and fanatics are both geeks.2 They totally love the New Thing, they’re fascinated with all its esoteric ins and outs, and they spend all available time either doing it or talking about it.

If the scene is sufficiently geeky, it remains a strictly geek thing; a weird hobby, not a subculture.

If the scene is unusually exciting, and the New Thing can be appreciated without having to get utterly geeky about details, it draws mops. (members of the public) Mops are fans, but not rabid fans like the fanatics. They show up to have a good time, and contribute as little as they reasonably can in exchange.

Geeks welcome mops, at first at least. It’s the mass of mops who turn a scene into a subculture. Creation is always at least partly an act of generosity; creators want as many people to use and enjoy their creations as possible. It’s also good for the ego; it confirms that the New Thing really is exciting, and not just a geek obsession. Further, some money can usually be extracted from mops—just enough, at this stage, that some creators can quit their day jobs and go pro. (Fanatics contribute much more per head than mops, but there are few enough that it’s rarely possible for creatives to go full time with support only from fanatics.) Full-time creators produce more and better of the New Thing.

Mops relate to each other in “normal” ways, like people do on TV, which the fanatics find repellent. During intermission, geeks want to talk about the New Thing, but mops blather about sportsball and celebrities. Also, the mops also seem increasingly entitled, treating the fanatics as service workers.

Fanatics may be generous, but they signed up to support geeks, not mops. At this point, they may all quit, and the subculture collapses."

His right to repair movement is such libertarian bullshit.

I thought shoe0nhead was just a grifter who grabbed on to whatever audience she thought would give her the most money for being attractive.

CPC doesn't repress the 6/4 incident. The view is that they were dangerous radicals that the government rightly took action against. Sort of like how Americans view OWS. There's not much suppression needed because the propaganda worked and only one side of the story was told.

Mr. Obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZuvgfDsGGk

Just an angry asshole who rants and raves and nobody listens.

Louis Rossman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LgM2p8wx4

A fascist wearing a libertarian mask.

Meghan Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra74v-aOawA

863 views 2 days ago LOL

Labour abandoned the working class in favor of immigrants and upper middle class. They should at least change their name if they're going to continue in UK politics. They've nothing but contempt for the working class. They then put on the shocked pikachu face when the working class stops voting for them. The message is being sent loud and clear, but Labour would rather cease to exist than pull itself around to represent the little people again. Sad what they've become.

Hey hey now. Every nation in Europe contributed to the SS. Volunteers, not conscripts. Several nations didn't even wait for that and raised their own forces to be used for oppression and genocide. Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Slovakia, the list goes on. Let's not let them pretend that "ze Churmans" did it all and let them off scot-free.

Honestly surprised she didn't end up with a cabinet post.

In the 90s ocean shipping underwent a revolution and became remarkably efficient. Now with gargantuan container ships, computerized ports, optimized logistics firms, it's easier and cheaper than ever to ship by ocean.

One of the reasons China's Belt & Road is a joke. Ocean shipping is 14x cheaper than by land. No traffic jams or flat tires on the sea.

Good one. I couldn't tell until #8 if it was parody or not.

Fortunately I learned not to click on the comments and just share the videos. Most users of every site don't read the comments, and most who read the comments never post.

Shining Path: The Struggle for Peru (1999)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7337/shining-path-struggle-peru

Shining Path is a game simulating the conflict between the Sendero Luminoso or "Shining Path" Maoist guerrillas and the Government of Peru. This guerrilla war started in 1980 and continues to this day. During the game the Sendero player tries to fray the fabric of Peruvian society and replace government power with his own structures. Meanwhile the government player fights a struggle against the Sendero guerrillas, corruption, and the wretched state of the Peruvian economy.

"The battle is waged on a map of Peru, but most of the action happens on the record tracks as popular support for the Goverment and the Rebels rises and falls, and as morale of the army, police and politicians decays. The two sides are completely different: the guerillas can not destroy police or army units, but are themselves constantly losing cadres to cordon-and-search actions by the government troops. Instead the Sendero player must stage stage strikes and terror attacks to sap the morale of their opponents and destroy the economy reducing the ability of the government to mount effective action against the guerillas. Game play is quite simple: players build units, deploy units, and then send them out on missions, spending action points for each mission. Missions are chosen from a menu that includes things like Riot, Propoganda, Robbery and Intimidation for the guerillas, and Garrison, Intelligence, Civic Affairs Program and Cordon-and-Search for the Government. "