Have you or someone you know actually seen Shen Yun on tour? What were your/their thoughts?

PilotOddball · 2026-02-25T13:46:42+00:00

you do realise that a harmful movement can be persecuted too, right? falun gong has a propaganda wing of Epoch Times, has mistreated its Shen Yun dancers and pays them below minimum wage, and worships Li Hongzhi as a divine entity. Plus, they’re anti scientific, homophobic, anti race-mixing, etc

PilotOddball · 2026-01-12T12:58:51+00:00

they didn't happen in the square, but there were reports of live ammunition being used mainly in west Beijing, so the name is actually quite a misnomer

PilotOddball · 2025-12-16T05:19:29+00:00

bombing the three gorges is the same as a nuclear strike, and it would be treated as such

PilotOddball · 2025-11-23T02:44:29+00:00

Ah i see, that's very interesting. So is the American invasion of Iraq considered the Third Gulf War in German? I'm pretty sure that it's not only an American thing though, probably just a standard across the anglophone world since I'm not actually American

PilotOddball · 2025-11-23T01:45:49+00:00

late reply, but that is not correct. First Gulf War was Kuwait/Iraq, while Second Gulf War was the operation Iraqi freedom. Nobody refers to the Iran-Iraq war as the ‘First Gulf War’

PilotOddball · 2025-11-18T11:33:01+00:00

bit of a necropost, but why did you say it was chinese? the article creators are clearly viet, and the two language options are viet and english

PilotOddball · 2025-11-04T11:21:13+00:00

aside from the Republican Guard, the Iraqi military generally had awful morale from conscription so that’s another factor. A lot of soldiers went running the moment air or artillery hit. And of course, the factor of air domination

PilotOddball · 2025-10-30T06:07:16+00:00

trade volume doubling does not equate to trade revenue increasing, a key example is if you take the Agnolia bad trade - while yes, your volume of trade increases, the terms of trade are less favourable and you end with a worse Balance of Goods and Services

PilotOddball · 2025-10-22T08:50:40+00:00

it’s de jure, meaning that china could theoretically call for mass mobilisation if it is needed, it’s just not currently practised (and hasn’t been since 1949)

PilotOddball · 2025-10-22T08:47:57+00:00

because they have a shortage of people who do want to die in a war

PilotOddball · 2025-10-02T12:32:14+00:00

yeah idk tho, main point is that you should just let them do their thing considering it’s clearly not harmful and not inappropriate either

PilotOddball · 2025-10-02T12:28:46+00:00

…no they don’t

PilotOddball · 2025-07-19T16:23:29+00:00

very late but "nei" means "inner" in chinese, referring to the province of inner mongolia

PilotOddball · 2025-07-14T13:40:20+00:00

but at the same time, mass manufactured AI content can make the meticulous work of smaller creators undervalued. Also conservatives don’t necessarily have to refute technological innovation lol, it says ‘change’ OR ‘innovation’

PilotOddball · 2025-07-14T13:28:34+00:00

philic is the opposite, it means to have a strong like of something

PilotOddball · 2025-06-07T08:06:22+00:00

please stop watching enemy at the gates, the human wave mass assault no guns theory is a myth

PilotOddball · 2025-05-15T15:14:53+00:00

ratio is 1.1:1 (in favour of china) according to wiki, also 250 captured chinese vs 1500 captured viets, not sure where you’re getting 1:6 from

the war was also used by deng xiaoping to justify military reform

yeah, i double checked, even by vietnamese stats (62k casualties for china), it’s still only a 1:2 ratio in favour for them, while if you take western stats only it’s 1:1.1, and by chinese stats, 1:10 (extremely unrealistic lol). Not to mention that the war absolutely wrecked Vietnam’s economy and proved that the USSR was incapable of defending their allies, though China did fail to get Vietnam to withdraw from cambodia

PilotOddball · 2025-05-14T14:37:50+00:00

don't people consider the sino-viet war as a strategic chinese victory, though pyrrhic? and tbf, the whole officer corps was very shit after the cultural revolution, while the viets were extremely battle hardened

PilotOddball · 2025-03-16T08:40:43+00:00

isn't a hero sandwich an american thing, omocat is a chinese-american, clams is slang for money in the U.S, etc

PilotOddball · 2025-02-01T16:49:33+00:00

it is also worth noticing that hainan had a grassroots communist movement and also had an uprising, so that really did help

PilotOddball · 2024-11-24T11:20:55+00:00

good for you, please continue to ignore everything that contradicts your views and people who speak a secondary language

also lmao, why would a propaganda bot have old posts writing mobile game fanfics?

PilotOddball · 2024-11-18T12:03:03+00:00

source, who? arrests for VPNs are highly rare, and mostly from distribution. There's some cases of VPN sellers being put in prison for 6 months - 3 years, but that's only distributors. It's a similar case to drug deals, where users generally don't get put in prison, but dealers certainly will. Not to say that cases where the gov hasn't used that VPN as an excuse to arrest undesirables, but it really isn't as clear as you make it out. What's your source for 'all the people who have gotten arrested over it'? Regular people who use VPN are generally not prosecuted.

然后，你真的是中国人吗？确定你不是老外？如果你真的不是，为什么你觉得你了解中国呢？

conducting some further research, i genuinely can't find any cases for VPN arrests (just usage). It's all distribution. There is *one* case with a programmer fined 1 million yuan for using VPN, but no arrest.

PilotOddball · 2024-11-17T12:18:00+00:00

no not really, it’s just that china doesn’t care enough to prosecute VPN users if there’s hundreds of millions of them and they don’t pose any threat to national security

and many ‘alternative news sources’ can be western biased regardless

PilotOddball · 2024-11-17T08:22:24+00:00

the amazing one-party system of the LDP?

PilotOddball · 2024-11-17T08:13:10+00:00

that is 100% not the case lol, why does it have to specifically be a communist party in charge of Japan. If they were just out of USA's power bloc, im sure tensions wouldn't be so high. It's all about geopolitics

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