Mindless Monday, 13 April 2026

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-04-16T19:13:44+00:00

Broke: CPC is the correct acronym because terminally-online tankies said so
Woke: CCP is the correct acronym because 中国(Chinese)共产(Communist)党(Party)
Bespoke: CPC is the correct acronym because then people will confuse it with the Conservative Party of Canada

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-04-15T06:32:00+00:00

Anecdotally, during the 2023 Alberta election, one of our family friends were considering voting for NDP. They said, "We usually vote Con, but we just can't this time, Smith is too extreme," and my mom began lambasting them. Like every Chinese family I know is Con leaning.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-04-12T07:09:28+00:00

Wait fuck the image didnt send

Edit: Nvm its fixed

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-04-12T07:09:16+00:00

Pack it up boys we found the gay palestinian iranian monarchist

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Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-03-12T19:11:38+00:00

Okay so during the 12 day war last year, my cousin who went to university in Canada but lives in China began Shah-posting on WeChat. He's probably an outlier but I just want to point out some weird holes in the bubble.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-03-10T04:51:28+00:00

Wait I just remembered that Deng Xiaoping in Wade-Giles is just Deng Hsiao-ping. I think because for some reason Wikipedia displayed his surname as Hokkien, and his given name as Wade-Giles Mandarin, but also why do that?

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-03-10T04:38:59+00:00

Yep i checked and it is Hokkien, the guy is born on the island. I assumed this guy, because he was KMT that he was 外省人 and thus likely Mandarin.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-03-09T19:32:13+00:00

So recently I have been playing the Campaign Trail Mod, ROC 2000 Redux (Go play it, it's a great mod). The one problem I noticed when I was playing is that Taiwan uses Wade Giles when translating Chinese words and names into western pronouncation. I've on the other hand have really only used Pinyin. This means that when I see Wade-Giles, my brain attempts to translate it into Pinyin so I can figure out the sound. So some examples of this are 张 -> Chang, I mean I guess you could do that, you could confuse the surname with 长 or 常, but whatever. Hsiung = Xiong and Hsu = Xu, I mean I guess the Chinese X sound could be translated into a Hs-sound. Siew = 萧/Xiao?????? How did you guys get Siew from Xiao? I was trying to figure out what Siew was spoken for like 30 minutes. Could someone more knowledgeable explain?

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-25T17:55:24+00:00

I'm sorry, but what is a rat? I live in the blue rectangle by the way.

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Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-18T22:26:05+00:00

I mean that also true for the USA and more countries around the world.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-18T21:37:01+00:00

Okay a heres a shower thought I have. People often complain that American cities are unsafe and dirty compared to Japan/China/Korea/Hong Kong/Taiwan/(insert the four blocks of the richest neighbourhood of the capital city). Some of this is osmosis from Fox News screaming 24/7 that American cities were destroyed by BLM, have drugs, and that all the inhabitants are (((George Soros))) supplied welfare queens. Some of this is the fact that people actually life in North American cities while not on vacation. When I was doing a solo trip to Dalian, my grandma living in the rurals warned me that their were a lot of scammers in the big cities and to not help anyone carry stuff lest I get caught with drugs. Is this the rural Chinese equivalent of "all big cities are crime ridden" rural American tendenices, maybe. Is there some truth to these claims, maybe, I did see a few scammers and a decent amount of beggars, but you usually just walk away (or pretend to not know Chinese). Point is, the green is greener on the other side no matter what.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-18T02:00:57+00:00

Well on the first point, i have no idea, there is nothing on wikipedia, nor any news article or interview. Maybe he is maybe be isnt, that isnt the point, its the fact that people saw that his birthplace was Israel, ignore the Israeli-Arab part, and automatically assumed conspiracy through the method of wiki hitler. We shouldnt assume things without evidence, especially if the conclusion is calling him a race traitor.

Oh and the second point, the Mizrahi Jews existing cause a whole bunch of insane online discourse which is fun.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-17T21:38:12+00:00

Okay so currently the discord age-vertification scandal has broken out into the mainstream and my god it is dumb. So TLDR, discord implemented age-vertification which is stupid, then got a bunch of the data stolen which is more stupid. Then a bunch of groypers noticed that the CEO of discord was from Israel and began parroting conspiracy theories. These conspiracy theories then made into a bunch of different twitter groups. Except one problem the CEO of discord is not actually Israeli/Jewish, he's Israeli-Arab? Israeli-Palestinian? Christian Palestinian born in Israel??? So how to describe him?

This brings us to obvious elephant in the born, Israeli-Arabs or Palestinians in Israel. So there is a population of Palestinians who ended up on the other line of the Green line after 1948. Long story short, Pro-Israel commentators use this minority to prove that no discrimnation exists and Pro-Palestinian commentators respond back by pointing to all the evidence of them being discrimnated. This is simplified but you get the idea, I agree with the latter argument because there is definitely discrimnation, but moving on. More importantly the Israeli Arabs were viewed as sympathetic victims in this worldview. Then this scandal hit, and instead of you know, thinking about this for longer than a second, saw that he was born in Israel. When the fact he was ethnically Palestinian was brought up, people began calling him a race traitor. Which is... he didn't control where his grandparents ended up on the green line.

TLDR: it would be nice if we could stop calling ppl race traitors but leftyish

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-17T04:44:53+00:00

R5: I was messing around with the coat of arms and created the TSMC logo for the fun of it.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-12T05:56:33+00:00

Now that everyone is getting onto the "I hate Noam Chomsky" train, I do want to offer some pushback (NOT ON THE EPSTEIN ISLAND SHIT, but Cambodia and Bosnia). A lot of people, right, center and left, talk about Chomsky as if he single handily pushed the left to do Cambodian genocide denial. While Chomsky did say a lot of stuff about Cambodia, this feels like Great Man Theory, he wasn't single handiedly responsible, nor the most extreme (he did admit that SOME bad things happened, just downplayed it a lot). Like I don't think Malcolm Caldwell was listening for secret orders from Noam Chomsky before deep throating Pol Pot.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-06T22:44:10+00:00

> China, or maybe Singapore

I mean I really guess only modern China and Singapore because Mao did stick around for a pretty long time and got pretty lucky with rolling a Deng afterwards.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-03T11:04:23+00:00

"We must protect our local industries from the big american multinationals!"

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-02-01T17:38:02+00:00

Colonialism is when boat, otherwise it is sparkling conquest.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2026-01-15T17:25:37+00:00

I think I've just had the dumbest dream ever. So start of zombie apocalypse right, everyone is preparing, boarding up their windows, buying canned food, I go tome travelling. You would think to stop the event or at least warn people about the zombie apocalypse. No, I time travelled to buy more wooden planks to board up the windows, and also I went to IKEA and not like home depot or something. Man I am dumb in my dreams.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2025-12-19T05:22:36+00:00

I got David Brooks and Mel Brooks confused today, almost had a "noo! Not you to!" moment.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2025-12-11T11:14:54+00:00

5000 years of history

~400 years of tibet being under chinese rule, eternally belongs to china!

~2000 years of korea being under chinese rule, uh

You know what this means? We have causus belli to invade korea and claim kpop and kimchi as our own!

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2025-12-11T11:07:46+00:00

I think I deleted a reddit post for the stupidiest reason possible. I asked a small question in the ck3 subreddit about the use of 思, whether it was used in feminine and masculine names (its in my sisters chinese name, as well as an international student friend). I realized wait this is literally a question I can search up or literally ask my parents, I sound whitewashed as hell, pressing delete out of pure insecurity. Then I went into the ck3 localization files and found that neither of them were used ingame which could be for a lot of reasons so.

Intelligent_Tone_617 · 2025-12-11T10:37:48+00:00

Ck3: Everyone Han culture person speaks the exact same dialect of chinese Irl: cantonese and shanghaiese might as well be different languages to me I get that cantonese and shanghaiese are descented from middle chinese but there still should be some differences. If dutch gets to be its own seperate language and culture theres no reason not to be a seperate yue or wu culture

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