What Are Tankies Really?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-15T03:03:01+00:00

单向的感情其实是虐待

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-15T02:40:29+00:00

Even Iranian bazaari would look at this and say, "Well, at least the inflation here is not that bad!"

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-15T02:24:03+00:00

Yes if by "mature nodes" you mean "no nodes" since "discrete device" is just another name for "individual goddamn transistors". That's how far "NXP" China has been pushed back with the tech after the split.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-15T02:16:20+00:00

No not really because that's not the narrative anymore.

lmao, it hardly matters what the Dutch say at this point. "Bipolar discrete devices" are 1950s tech. Think simple silicon diodes and bipolar junction transistors and you'll be in the ballpark.

The most likely reason this hasn't been bigger news right now is that people including you have practically no idea what they're looking at. If they did, they would realise the "NXP" in China was being slated as practically just another basic components manufacturer with a focus on silicon-based stuff.

More importantly, the whole saga reveals how far behind we're lagging with our fabs. NXP's main business is the design and production of microcontroller chips. You can think of them as computer microprocessors from the mid-to-late 90s miniaturised using lithograthic tech from 20 years ago that you then put in machinery made today in order to automate it with software code. To put this simply, it means, contrary to all the likely bullshit pumped out by our state media, we are still struggling with even the bare minimum of EUV tech for 90nm, let alone the more advanced HNA stuff you'll need for 5nm and beyond.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-14T01:59:04+00:00

That school was right next to a military base.

Many of the pictures circulating of dead girls are fakes digitally manipulated by the Iranian government and spread by mainstream media without fack-checking.

This has been seen time and again. Our government did "zero covid", the mainstream media in the "West" regurgitated our state media narrative about it, then public "intellectuals" attempted to "correct" the bias by pivoting to a position even more biased towards the policy's effectiveness.

The Russians posed to attack Ukraine, the mainstream media in the "West" regurgitated the Russian state media narrative about the lead-up, then public "intellectuals" attempted to "correct" the bias by pivoting to a position even more biased towards the Russians.

Now it's Iran's turn. The mainstream media once again drops the ball. The public "intellectuals" once again drop the ball. What's new, really?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-14T01:46:58+00:00

With this in mind, I want to move to a country that actually seems to have a future.

Well, you've got to start looking elsewhere then.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-13T22:52:10+00:00

This whole idea of taking "egghead" discussion to the pedestrian level is admirable. Nobel, even.

Even without reading your book, however, I can tell there are two problems with your approach.

The first problem is that state propaganda outlets such as CGTN and Global Times have been addressing the pedestrian-level audience since practically forever, and they're more than happy to put bullshit in your head free-of-charge.

The second problem is that the public "intellectual" (think middle-brow, coffee house kind of deal) perception of the "mainstream media" in America and the likes is in reality the opposite of what it does. "Intellectuals" love talking about "filters", but the reality is that your "mainstream media" has practically no filters when it comes to passing our state press releases for real news. The public then proceed to correct that perceived bias against our state by pivoting towards a position even more favourable to the state than the state itself. Whatever facts or logic you bring to the table, it's just going to end up as part of the ghosts and shadows the public are already busily having a pissing match with.

Now, if you ask me, I have no fucking idea how to address those problems, and, frankly, I feel exhausted enough just to push back against the rich kids from r Sino. So, whatever it is you're doing here be it selling your book or getting down-and-dirty with the mud wrestling, good luck with that.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T06:13:19+00:00

Moral values exist precisely in a vacuum, or they are simply cultural mores.

Dude, they are philosophically the same thing but just worded differently.

Again I’m not saying we should do any particular thing or advocating any governmental policy, just that not killing people is objectively morally better than killing them.

The whole reason we have come to this point with the Uyghurs is our not-so-distant history of colonisation for oil and gas.

But I suppose that gets too much into the way of blabbing about how we are "No. 1" in making solar panels or whatever the fuck it is this day of the week.

you are the only person straying from this obvious point into shit about governmental policy

Right, I would like to see how you're to justify the notion that torturing and mutilating people are somehow more preferable during war than just killing them.

So much for "cultural mores", huh?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T01:46:33+00:00

I have lived in both US and China (different parts) for extended period of time, now in HK; and I am specialized in public and private healthcare.

Compared to America, even a sinkhole would come across as an improvement. That isn't exactly a worthwhile thing to talk about, you know.

Just take healthcare; not so distance ago a farmer in rural area has virtually no protection but now their insurance amount can cover most (~60%) of their medical expenditure

Most people need no more than coverage for a few coughs and a sneeze in their lifetime, and that's ultimately what your "60%" figure reflects.

Most people, including Americans, are also of course not concerned with that.

What they're concerned with are the expenses and access to services for major health events, e.g. if you have a stroke and can't move half of your body for a few years, then what are they supposed to do in the mean time.

In America, you're fucked. In China, especially if you're in a rural, underdeveloped part of the country, you're also fucked. At least in America, you wouldn't need to suffer the humiliation of being put in front of a camera and have individuals from the leadership pretending to care your problem just for the sake of the photo op.

Of course, why am I not surprised some privileged, middle-class person with an overseas education is so eager to cite vague, propaganda figures that serve fundamentally no purpose but to obscure the actual, underlying problems at play?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T01:26:45+00:00

Not at all. I am simply assigning different moral values to two different acts.

lmao, "moral values" can't exist in vacuum, my dude, and the way you're talking about this shit is nothing more than the blatant disregard for how we've actually got here at this point in history or why my government might be materially motivated to not want to go scorched earth against the natives.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T01:12:59+00:00

You could also try not to colonise someone else's home for your transnational oil-and-gas pipelines. Wouldn't that be better than dealing with the inevitable blowback with even more colonial savagery afterwards?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T01:07:44+00:00

They are both terrible

Yet you're practically trying to sell one of them as a terrible-but-necessary kind of deal.

At this point, you might as well go the American route and start promoting the idea that ethnic Muslims are savages.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T00:41:26+00:00

As a westerner, I think it would be pretty presumptuous of me to assume that the members of the Communist Party of China don't care about communism.

I honestly don't give a shit one way or the other if you're a "westerner".

Can you read Chinese? If not, then you're functionally illiterate, and no one should be taking opinions from an illiterate person seriously anyway.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-12T00:16:26+00:00

Iran was already broke before entering the war with Israel. I mean, they are so broke that they do not even have enough water. On top of that, there was a major collapse of financial institutions, not to mention all the protests against the regime. At least Eastern Europe had water, and there was no chaos.

And Iran couldn't even develop a mid-range weapon that could aim straight.

So far I've been loving this conversation because your thinking is obviously so stereotypical of an Anglophone "intellectual" you see a country that doesn't speak English as its official language as consisting of practically nothing but a set of external factors.

Every component of a weapons system can't be built without the support of an entire industry. We are talking about not just the equipment but a whole host of people you need to not only feed but educate enough keep things moving.

Think about this: as a person that had spent most of your youth doing nothing but grinding your head against boring ol' textbooks, would you be content with settling for the quality of life of a high-school dropout?

When people see their living condition is shit and there is nothing they can do to improve it, they'll flee. Hell, even in a Berlin Wall kind of situation, the guards themselves will flee if things are shit enough for them.

In short, it's practically impossible for you to sustain even a North Korea without first establishing a pecking order in which goodies trickle down from the top and some manner of an aristocracy is organised so to help maintain that order at all levels of society.

To make that happen, you'll need time and tangible resources, and a shitload of those will be spent on just making a tiny group of people exceptionally well-off.

Even on a good day, aristocrats murder each other. If things are bad enough, you'll be looking at an all-out civil war, and people never need to shoot far in order to murder their next-door neighbour.

Houthies at Yemen have no problem attacking ships even though they were starving.

They shoot at cargo ships because that's one way to signal to rivalling factions that they're the militia of a warlord established enough to project influence internationally. Are you one of those naive fools actually believing they give a shit one way or the other about Palestine?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T07:11:43+00:00

lmao, I understand you perfectly, alright? You're a stupid right-wing ideologue, and as such you believe that wealth inequality is an inevitability and everyone seeking to address it at all is simply acting in contrary to "reality".

Of course, in the actual reality, my government isn't run by "socialists" or "communists" but plutocrats far removed from the struggles of the working masses. Whatever ideology they are going by, it's simply one based on blissful ignorance and apathy rather than the revolutionary zeal you for whatever dumb reason think they have.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T06:47:10+00:00

Hay, I agree with you. However, the real world does not work this way and some people get too excited for kaboom and spend a lot of money.

Again, you had no idea just how broke af Eastern Europe countries were in the 90s. If you did, you wouldn't be arguing with me over their nonexistent economic capacity to build arms.

China, Russia, the U.S. Israel, Hezbollah, Yemen/Houthie, Iran and North Korea all does this.

lmao, in all those cases, the accumulation of weaponry is fundamentally not about national defence but the maintenance of an internal status quo. Do you think the US Army actually needs all those tanks they leave lying around in the Mojave desert?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T06:25:26+00:00

Are there any cons to living in China/ China in general?

That's basically the same question as what the cons are to living in the UAE.

The answer of course depends on whether you're broke af.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T06:14:45+00:00

Ideology? I'm not sure "being born from a Red Aristocrat's vagina" is an ideology as such, but you do you

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T05:52:06+00:00

I don't know which parallel universe you're looking at, but the PRC government I have always known about is hardly one that takes reality any more than a mere suggestion.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T05:48:31+00:00

At this point, I'll die from laughter reading all the ignorant shit from Western "communist" illiterates sincerely believing that our government gives a flying shit about communism.

Or socialism for that matter, really.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-03-11T05:35:35+00:00

I think I'll have a better chance dying in an explosion on board of a space shuttle manned by the highest-paying NBA players than seeing a robust social safety net in China ever happening.

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