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@HanukkahTroll @mbowman @gayest_tone @AdinHaykin1 NATO

@linearecho @Yugopnik are you sure you know what fascism is

@Yugopnik yes so epic and leftist that they have fascist paramilitary forces that abduct disenfranchised people and put them in work camps but it's okay because you compared them to the chud streamer who would probably approve of this

Dude they have literal anti-Asmongold divisions in China

@OzSalmond @Anuraag_Shukla Australians are so fucking stupid

@Anuraag_Shukla China has out-America'd America. Its the human way - we mostly learn from the worst examples

Excellent article about how Chinese urban life turns every activity into a race. The gym becomes a miniature version of Chinese capitalism: competitive, hierarchical, branded, monitored, and full of aspiration.

@Mont_Jiang @Bluebearmonkey lol, in general though

@NaaNbread420 @Bluebearmonkey

50 years ago, China made a secret deal with the heavens where every national failure, every humiliation, every embarrassment, every loss… will be inflicted upon and the suffering born by China’s men’s football team. Today, we salute your sacrifice. 🫡

@Mont_Jiang @Bluebearmonkey Australia is big, but it has a small population. We do basically nothing right except for sport. IDK why

@Bluebearmonkey Same question should be asked about USA, Australia, Canada, Russia, and India. Why do huge countries suck at football?

@AngelicaOung does the moon change its face at the howling of dogs?

I was talking to my sister, who has been shocked by all the insane amounts of hate I’ve been getting from my former supposed friends from when I used to be a pan-green boba-lib. “How are you NOT upset?” “I mean, I was just as judgmental when I was a liberal so…” “Oh yeah good point…” Anyhow…they can block me if like but if they don’t they’ll have to put up with me gently, respectfully putting some inconvenient stuff in their narratives.

@JosephSomsel @ABerliano69578 @AngelicaOung "I've been an American voter since 1968 and have NEVER seen my choices like that." that's because you are retarded

I've been an American voter since 1968 and have NEVER seen my choices like that. And government policies have swung widely as a result. But wanting a revolution or fundamental change from the Constitution? Never - we got a good thing here! There have been a few times when the election was between two mediocrities but more like root beer versus ice tea.

People say all the time too that Taiwan is an ideological threat to China. But I'm telling you it's rare to find a mainlander who yearns for democracy a la Taiwan. Even if they want democracy, they're not gonna pick Taiwan as the model. Instead, it's China that is proving to be the ideological threat. Just by existing. The ironic thing is China is not like the United States. It's not going to push its system on anyone. I'm not sure it can. They don't really care about your ideology or how you do things at home. They just want to trade and maybe build some infrastructure.

@JosephSomsel @AngelicaOung check out how the police treated the BLM or ICE protesters then compare with the video of tank man

@AngelicaOung Is anyone free to voice the idea of democratic reform from WITHIN mainland China? The last I heard that was a public democracy movement was in 1989.

@deanyhung @clashreport how many live fire exercises has australia conducted in the SCS?

Indeed. Chinese warships conducted a live fire exercise in the Tasman Sea last year without prior notification to the Australian government. Why would they flex their might like this is not to send a message to Australia and New Zealand that they lie within China’s sphere of domination?

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey on China: Can we outmanufacture them? No. But we don't need to outmanufacture them to make a Taiwan invasion infeasible. There's a world where they have a hundred times more ballistic missiles than us and we still have enough between us and our allies to deny them access to Taiwan. If they take Taiwan, history and the words out of Xi Jinping's own mouth show they're immediately going to hop over to Okinawa, part of the Philippines, maybe part of Vietnam. Xi Jinping is going out saying, 'I was in our national archives reading about the Ryuku Islands — 650 years ago they sent a gift to us, that means they're a tributary state.' He's not saying this because he loves wandering the national archives. They are constructing a national narrative that would allow them to convince their people to start with Taiwan and end with a lot of our Pacific allies.

@iverson_je75780 @clashreport rofl, you cant outproduce iran dude

@clashreport We absolutely can out manufacture them. Maybe not junk toys, but weapons? Yes we can.

@ClaudeWaelchli @RnaudBertrand difference is that China matters and France doesn't

@RnaudBertrand Not sure if it would be any different if they asked the same question about France on Chinese Television.

This is genuinely incredible and says SO SO MUCH about the perception of China in the West. This is the #1 news show in France, and the host - David Pujadas - asks the pundits around the table (a sample of the top media figures in France) if they can name 3 living Chinese people. That's it: they just need to say the names of 3 living Chinese people, anyone. This should be extremely easy. Yet not of a single one of them can name a single Chinese beyond Xi Jinping. They do not know a single living Chinese person beyond the president. That's the level of ignorance of China we're dealing with in the West today, in 2026. This is the source for the video: tf1info.fr/replay-lci/vid… Aired live yesterday 28th of May 2026.

@TimBr1ggs @RnaudBertrand I'm Chinese and Xi told me to call you a fucking retard

@RnaudBertrand Isn't it because every other Chinese person has to do what Xi Jinping wants? So in a sense the other people don't really matter, because they don't have any independent power or agency of their own?

@jeremybernier "they'd all get lunch together without inviting me. It was depressing, and made me not want to come into the office on those days." rofl, this what a kid tells his mum when she asks why he doesn't why he doesn't want to go to school today

At Meta, 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, and non-Chinese were routinely excluded, disadvantaged, and targeted for layoffs. 6 out of the 7 layoffs I observed targeted non-Chinese despite non-Chinese being the vast minority. Certain orgs like ads and MRS are notorious for being Chinese dominated. I think Americans would be outraged if they knew that their own citizens were getting marginalized and laid off at their own companies, while Chinese promote themselves up, conquer entire orgs, and reap millions. Imagine if Huawei in Shenzhen had entire orgs and leadership chains completely dominated by Japanese people who brazenly spoke Japanese at work without a care in the world that their Chinese coworkers don't understand, imposed their own work culture without respecting Chinese culture, excluded the Chinese, and laid off Chinese people while promoting their own. I imagine Chinese citizens would be outraged, and never allow that to happen in the first place. The most blatant and obvious way that non-Chinese are excluded is that Chinese primarily speak Mandarin at work. I'm not talking about one-off conversations, I'm talking about every single conversation. Loudly and brazenly with no respect for others. 10+ teammates and leaders having a group conversation in Mandarin while the 2 non-Chinese don't understand and feel excluded from the team. Although everyone at least has the decency to speak English during formal meetings with a non-speaker present, it was common that right after the meeting ended everyone would immediately switch to Mandarin. Funny I'm in Korea right now and was just on a double date with 3 other Koreans, and I was shocked that when the conversation would split into two, the other couple would speak to each other in English in my presence just out of respect. A Korean couple on a double-date had the courtesy to speak to each other in English in front of me even though I'd never expect that from them, but my Chinese coworkers did not. Lunch was another place where non-Chinese were blatantly excluded. Recall that the team I joined was an all Chinese team with only one other non-Chinese person. The Chinese would always get lunch together and never invite us (except for one of them who occasionally would, though at some point stopped). Me and the non-Chinese person would invite them, they'd always refuse, and then shortly after they'd disappear and get lunch together. As a result, it was usually just the two of us getting lunch. (caveat, some of the newer Chinese who joined afterwards also experienced similar treatment. So it's moreso a clique thing than a Chinese vs. non-Chinese thing, though 100% of the clique was Chinese) On Wednesdays and Fridays I'd often be the only non-Chinese person on my team in the office, and they'd all get lunch together without inviting me. It was depressing, and made me not want to come into the office on those days. One team dinner we went to a Korean BBQ. I arrived with a non-Chinese coworker and the first table was full, so we sat at one end of the next empty table. Shortly after one of the Tech Leads walked in, and sat at the complete opposite end of our table, alone and not in talking distance to anyone. We invited her over, and she declined. Later another Tech Lead came in and sat across from her. Non-Chinese and Chinese at opposite ends of a long table at a team dinner, and they refused to sit with us. Eventually more people came and the TLs joined our side because I guess maybe it was too obviously anti-social, and they spent the entire dinner speaking speaking Chinese to each other. These were our tech leads. I could not understand how Meta could have "Tech Leads" that so blatantly excluded teammates. I thought Tech Leads were supposed to uplift the team, and that Meta would hold tech leads to a higher standard. Now someone might say that it's just lunch or a one-off team dinner, who cares? To that I vehemently disagree. Lunch is extremely important for team bonding, and so much information is transferred through informal socializing. I'm not saying that everyone needs to get lunch together everyday, but if a minority of people are excluded from getting lunch with the rest of the team, and especially the most tenured and senior employees, then naturally that minority is going to feel alienated, disadvantaged, and excluded from opportunities. And the very fact that they're excluded from lunch is reflective of being excluded in general. When 90% of an org and the entire leadership chain is dominated by one ethnicity, naturally their work culture is going to spill through. Chinese culture is completely different from American work culture, and learning to navigate that was a huge obstacle for me. For example I'm the type that tends to question everything and isn't afraid to challenge a "superior", but I quickly realized that my TL seemed to take offense to that, and would punish/retaliate me for it. I want to make it clear - I have nothing against Chinese people. Most of them are very kind (strong correlation between kindness and not engaging in the kind of exclusionary behavior I mentioned above), and I have many good friends who are Chinese. I get that some barely speak English (though I question how they got hired). I do genuinely believe that most are good people, and not deliberately trying to exclude others. But regardless of intent, the result is that non-Chinese get excluded. The fact that 6 of the 7 layoffs I observed were not Chinese in a 80-90% Chinese dominated org is testament to this. The fact that 90% Chinese dominated orgs even exist in the first place is testament to this. I might not even be posting about this given the sensitivity of the topic if not for the fact that I've seen and/or heard stories of some very toxic people who I do not believe would otherwise survive if not for their ability to exclude others, throwing others under the bus for the next layoff. The same people do this over and over again, and get away with it because they're part of the "clique" that essentially has immunity. I think the company needs to take this more seriously. Some ideas would be enforcing English at the office (I've heard of other teams that do this), raising leaders to a higher bar when it comes to team inclusivity (eg. under the "People" axis), investigating potential discrimination cases (eg. layoffs and/or mistreatment disproportionally affecting certain groups) and having a zero tolerance policy around that, having a zero tolerance policy around injustice in general (eg. lying or deliberately throwing somebody under the bus), ensuring more diverse teams, etc. But to be honest, I don't have faith that much would change so long as the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is dominated by the same ethnicity, language, and culture. Nor does it seem that leadership even remotely cares given that this has been happening in the HQ for probably at least the last decade, and is obvious to anyone who's stepped foot in the office.

@Zorixastra @Polar000077 rofl, the j-36 will be in service before AMCA even flies

@Polar000077 All this drama just to get mogged by AMCA

J-20A with WS-15

@DavidBulley @lomasgucci @jonathanbfine buddy...

@lomasgucci @jonathanbfine I guess it's ableist that people in wheelchairs can't climb Mount Everest. Not everyone can do everything. Sheesh. If the people who cannot read are writers, then they are terrible writers. But. By whatever means those people write, they could also use that method to read.

There's a thread going around mocking academics who "don't read their citations" and I'm trying not to haul out my soap box but...this is ableist? Not everyone can read for citations (or indeed at all) and some of those people are academics.

@mobaxafriart @Shitty_Future this talent of engineering and also comedy

@Shitty_Future Ok can we just have separate worlds for people that view this and art and entertainment and people that want to see actual talented humans. We can all just coexist, there's a lane for everyone.

@TheMiddleborne yes it is

It is not a painting

@Breaking911 please continue posting your Ls

Fox News crew in Beijing got ticketed by CCP surveillance cameras after illegally parking for just two minutes.

@oni_mic @TatsuyaIshida9 because you're illiterate

@TatsuyaIshida9 I have not read a single comment.

Re-imagining Villains 149

@weg0411 @FurkanGozukara

@FurkanGozukara Now do the cost of an Iranian nuclear missile hitting California and New York. I will wait..... Fuck off

Massive bombshell. Rep. Ed Case explicitly confirms the Pentagon has lost a staggering 39 aircraft in the disastrous war against Iran, exposing the unprecedented destruction of American military assets. Pentagon CFO Jay Hurst desperately dodges the huge replacement costs.

@ThatRealUser @DoWCTO @WhiteHouse @DeptofWar @anduriltech @Castelion @CoAspire @LeidosInc @DoW_USW_AS @DOWResponse u so mad lmao

The @DeptofWar has reached new framework agreements with a slate of disruptive new entrants to aggressively expand the United States military’s lethal cruise missile and hypersonic missile strike capabilities.   Low-Cost Containerized Missiles (LCCM) Program: • Anduril • CoAspire • Leidos • Zone 5 Low-Cost Hypersonic Missiles: • Castelion This effort positions the Department to procure 10,000+ LCCMs over three years, starting in 2027. Once Castelion achieves testing and validation, the Department will award a multi-year contract for a minimum of 500 Blackbeard missiles annually, while seeking the necessary authorizations and appropriations for over 12,000 total missiles over five years. These agreements will rapidly field effective and affordable kinetic mass for the Joint Force at scale, acting directly on the mandate from President Trump and Secretary Hegseth to strengthen America’s Arsenal of Freedom.