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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
@htownharley If you strike Doggy down, he will become hornier than you can possibly imagine.
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
“CIA veteran John Culver, in a Washington Post Interview, said, ‘[China has] a very dark portrait of the United States as a global hegemon that’s declining in power and becoming more violent as it tries to cling to its primacy.’”
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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

This is an extraordinary document written by the research arm of China's spy agency (the powerful MSS, basically the CIA and the FBI all wrapped in one) that absolutely zero media has picked up on. As far as I can see, I'm the first person to write about it even though it was published (in Chinese) on May 13th on chinadiplomacy.org.cn, a website of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The document contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S. stands, and where it’s headed. The title of the report is “The Great Global Transformation and the Path to U.S.–China Coexistence” and I provide a full translation of it in my article, the link of which is at the bottom of this post. To summarize briefly the most important - and, perhaps, surprising - aspect of the document: China's spy agency - the one institution whose entire job is to worry about the U.S. threat - has largely stopped worrying. That's really what transpires from the document. They use a strategic framework borrowed from Mao's "protracted war" theory and, according to this framework, America's offensive phase is finished and China weathered the storm intact. The question is no longer "how do we survive America?" but "how do we manage America?" - and they're proposing a six-step relationship recovery program. I'll let you read the full document as well as my analysis of it here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
Ok… Trump isn’t so bad.
Ancient History Hub@AncientHistorry

Forget Nero. Forget Caligula. The worst Roman emperor in history was a 19 year old who thought he was the reincarnation of Hercules. If you saw the movie Gladiator, you know him as Joaquin Phoenix's character. His real name was Commodus, and the reason his story is so dark is that his father was Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher king who wrote the Meditations. When Marcus died in 180 AD, Commodus inherited the most powerful empire the world had ever seen. He immediately abandoned his father's wars on the German frontier, made a humiliating peace, and rode back to Rome to play. He fought in the Colosseum 735 times. He won every match, because his opponents fought him with wooden swords while he used a real one. The Senate was forced to pay him a million sesterces every time he stepped into the arena. He once gathered men who had lost their feet to accident or disease, dressed them from the knees down as serpentine giants, handed them sponges to throw at him as "rocks," and clubbed them to death in front of the Roman public for sport. On another day, he decapitated an ostrich in the arena, walked up to the senators in the front row, and held the bloody head up at them with a smile. The historian Cassius Dio was sitting there that day. He writes that the senators chewed on the laurel leaves from their crowns to hide their hysterical, terrified laughter, because they understood the head was a promise. He renamed the city of Rome itself "Colonia Commodiana." Colony of Commodus. He renamed all twelve months of the year after his own twelve titles. He declared himself a living god, dressed publicly in a lion skin, carried a wooden club, and demanded to be addressed as Hercules, son of Zeus. His own sister Lucilla tried to have him assassinated. He survived and had her executed. His wife Crispina was exiled to an island and quietly killed. His chamberlain Cleander began openly selling senate seats and consulships for cash. In one year, twenty five different men were appointed consul. On New Year's Eve, 192 AD, his mistress Marcia found her own name on his execution list for the next morning. She poisoned his wine. He vomited it up. So she sent in his personal wrestling coach, a man named Narcissus, who strangled him to death in his bath. The very next year, the imperial throne of Rome was literally auctioned off to the highest bidder by the Praetorian Guard. Five different men claimed the title of emperor in twelve months. Civil war never really stopped after that. Edward Gibbon, who wrote the definitive history of Rome's collapse, opens his entire 3000 page book with the death of Marcus Aurelius and the rise of his son. The Roman Empire would limp on for another 284 years in the west before it finally fell. But the Pax Romana, the longest stretch of peace and prosperity the ancient world had ever known, died on the German frontier with Marcus Aurelius. His son made sure of it.

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Gentile_Capital@gentile_captial·
@AlecStapp you realize those are just chinese nationals going back home, right? they were going to send the tech back to china anyway, and I have literal mountains of evidence to support that.
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Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
Shooting ourselves in the foot with stuff like this:
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Alexander Kustov@akoustov

In my new @washingtonpost piece, I argue that some immigration policies are already popular and politicians just need the courage to claim them. Nearly 80 percent of American voters support high-skilled immigration, across party lines. That is more popular than nuclear power, building apartments, or deregulation. And yet not a single major political figure in either party is willing to champion it. Republicans know the country needs foreign scientists and engineers. Most will say so privately. But they refuse to say it publicly, terrified of being outflanked on their right. The left has a different version of the same cowardice: the abundance crowd wants more housing, more energy, more growth, but has quietly decided immigration is too dangerous to include in their pitch. The piece proposes two concrete moves that do not require Congress: encourage and expand the O-1A extraordinary-ability visa, which has no cap and no lottery, and fix how the government sets wages for foreign workers. The Labor Department's public comment window on the proposed prevailing wage rule closes May 26. If you work in research, tech, or immigration, submit a comment at regulations.gov before it's too late. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
@MsMelChen China grew 7-9% CAGR under Mao. Not much different from the 9% post Mao years. Under Mao, life expectancy doubled, literacy quadrupled and electricity output increased 27x. Jess saying.
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Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
How many times do I have to hear this stupid trope that “the CCP lifted 800 million Chinese out of poverty.” How convenient to ignore why they were poor in the first place. Since it began ruling China in 1948, it was the CCP who kept hundreds of millions in poverty. It was only after market reforms and granting basic freedoms that the Chinese people lifted THEMSELVES out of poverty. And even now, the reality of the Chinese economy doesn’t reflect the gleaming propaganda. The reason you see so much sabre-rattling on Taiwan and escalating tensions with Japan is because the Chinese economy is sputtering and the CCP is feeling the heat. So it must shore up nationalist sentiment to reinforce its legitimacy.
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
“Hollywood notwithstanding, the United States of America sat on its hands in the European World Wars, coming in only at the last minute to tilt the balance or to conduct mop up operations. And, of course, to steal the trophy from the exhausted victor.”
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
“All good things come to an end. Perfidious Albion, however, did not so much end as have its prerogatives wrested away by a player even more skilled in the dark arts of offshore statecraft.”
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
“Continental European states bled each other white chasing status, wealth and territory. England (later Great Britain and the United Kingdom) was never quite in the mix as it practiced its dark offshore statecraft…”
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
“Perfidious Albion (Great Britain) was famously despised and begrudgingly respected for its skilled treachery. The island nation had an uncanny ability to best lesser states through betrayal and skullduggery in lieu of armed conflict.”
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
@Mont_Jiang Kaiser Kuo had the bright idea of raising his kids in the US, severing China as an option for them, while he returns to Beijing. Well done.
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Nejc@sitnej·
@uncannymannyyt It’s not efficiency – it’s subsidies.
Just like in the car industry: BYD has received more support from the Chinese government than the entire German industry is worth.
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Blue Bear@Bluebearmonkey·
@luo_yuehan Somebody robbed a convenience store in Beijing with a knife a couple years ago. It made the news and many people were talking about it.
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Johannes Maria@luo_yuehan·
The thief thought he escaped. Chinese police were already waiting outside. A man stole over 170 grams of gold, valued at 25,000 US dollars, from a jewelry store in the early hours of the morning. Police responded within minutes and had positioned themselves outside. #ChinaSafety
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Everything_is_computer@TabulaRasaLava·
@graham_euan Kind of a bullshit figure when half are intentionally and utilized as attritable assets. Plus another fraction are repairable, and another fraction due to friendly fire.
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Euan Graham@graham_euan·
42 aircraft, destroyed or damaged! Probably have to go back to Vietnam for those kind of loss numbers.
Greg R. Lawson@ConservaWonk

This piece is very concerning regarding the damage incurred in #EpicFury against #Iranasiatimes.com/2026/05/us-air… Losses in a conflict with #China would inevitably be higher, which, when combined with our #munitions stockpiles being used up & just now getting back in the game of mass production, would be a serious challenge. Excerpt, Heavy US aircraft losses in the Middle East are raising fresh doubts about whether US airpower can withstand sustained attrition in a future Pacific war against China. This month, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report stating that the US has reportedly lost or damaged 42 aircraft during Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israeli military campaign launched against Iran in February 2026. "If Operation Epic Fury is any indication, future wars against peer competitors may be decided less by who fields the most advanced aircraft than by who can keep enough of them alive, dispersed and operational under sustained missile and drone attack."

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