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Yea, that's what I'm focused on right now. Nothing better than both sides-ing it after watching what those terrorists did to innocent civilians.  Looking forward to your links of videos showing I

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It’s been a serious, sometimes political debate whether a person from Taiwan should refer to themselves as Chinese from Taiwan, or Taiwanese. The current mood is to call our(?)selves Taiwanese. F

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Good God. Don't you have have a Foie Gras in Tuscany waiting for you? Or a 25 year old Silver Oak Cabernet, in Sonoma? Stay in the CR, where you belong. I'm sorry, I don't usually lash out, but you ar

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Having problems at home? Start a war with another country. 

Iran: Thanks for the reminder.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/official-oil-tanker-hit-bomb-carrying-drone-off-93396455

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Wednesday. Meanwhile, Greece said Iran freed two Greek oil tankers held by Tehran since May.

The drone attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, one Mideast-based defense official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to discuss the attack publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Pacific Zircon is operated by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping, which is a company ultimately owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer.

In a statement, Eastern Pacific Shipping said the Pacific Zircon, carrying gas oil, had been “hit by a projectile” some 150 miles (240 kilometers) off the coast of Oman.

“We are in communication with the vessel and there is no reports of injuries or pollution. All crew are safe and accounted for,” the company said. “There is some minor damage to the vessel’s hull but no spillage of cargo or water ingress.”

An Israeli official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss unpublicized details of the attack, said that it appeared Iran carried out the attack with a Shahed-136 exploding drone. Iran has supplied those drones to Russia, which has been using them to target infrastructure and civilian targets in Ukraine.

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Or they get to stay right where they are a little more comfortably and harass the Taliban.

Iran and the Taliban always cut deals for border ops. These Afghan troops are being watched day and night, but could form a nice 5th column. Depending on the tribal affiliations there can be positive and negative views of Iran. 

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Would be nice to see some Iranian-level protests

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/26/china/china-protests-xinjiang-fire-shanghai-intl-hnk/index.html

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Protests are erupting across China, including at universities and in Shanghai where hundreds chanted “Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!”, in an unprecedented show of defiance against the country’s stringent and increasingly costly zero-Covid policy. 

A deadly fire at an apartment block in the country’s far western region of Xinjiang that killed 10 people and injured nine on Thursday appears to have fueled the anger, as video emerged that seemed to suggest lockdown measures delayed firefighters from reaching the victims. 

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Protests broke out in cities and at universities across China on Saturday and early Sunday morning, according to social media videos and witness accounts.

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In multiple videos seen by CNN, people could be heard shouting demands for China’s leader Xi Jinping and the Communist Party to “step down.”

Some videos show people singing China’s national anthem and The Internationale, a standard of the socialist movement, while holding banners protesting Beijing’s exceptionally stringent pandemic measures.

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Videos widely circulated on Chinese social media show hundreds of people in downtown Shanghai on Saturday lighting candles to mourn the dead from the Xinjiang fire. 

The crowd later held up blank sheets of white paper – in what is traditionally a symbolic protest against censorship – and chanted, “Need human rights, need freedom.”

 

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China's zero covid policy is fucking mindbottling. I feel so bad for those people. 

It ain’t about COVID though, it’s about control, and COVID gave them a chance to test out a lot of stuff while Xi was consolidating power.  And you are about to see all of their trial runs during COVID play out as more people try to riot.

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It ain’t about COVID though, it’s about control, and COVID gave them a chance to test out a lot of stuff while Xi was consolidating power.  And you are about to see all of their trial runs during COVID play out as more people try to riot.

All of this. As I mentioned in the other China thread, this is not about science, it's about control.

Everyone in the communist party is just covering their own ass. They do what Chairman Xi says to do so they don't get fired. They do nothing for their people, and most likely take a bribe to pad their own pockets.

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Did not have this on the bingo card 

 

BERLIN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Twenty-five suspected members and supporters of a far-right terrorist group were detained early on Wednesday during raids across Germany, said the federal prosecutor's office.

Raids were conducted across 11 German federal states, added the office in a statement.

The suspected arrested are part of a terrorist group whose goal is to overthrow the existing state order in Germany and replace it with their own, and do not exclude violence against the state as a means of achieving the goal, said the office.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/25-suspected-members-german-far-right-group-arrested-raids-prosecutors-office-2022-12-07/

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Are these the same fucking nutjobs who subscribe to the German equivalent of Qanon?  They believe the Nazis didn't lose WWII but rather snuck away and continue to govern the Reich as government-in-exile in Nevada or some shit?  Nice to know we're not the only Western Democracy with heavily armed stupid people.  

While we gently treat people who attempt to overthrow the existing state order and replace it with their own like the little snowflakes they are, Germany rounds them up for severely long federal prison sentences.  Thoughts and prayers to the families of some of these men on their upcoming "accidental suicides."  

I'll bet dollars to donuts this is somehow connected to Russia/Ukraine.  

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Are these the same fucking nutjobs who subscribe to the German equivalent of Qanon?  They believe the Nazis didn't lose WWII but rather snuck away and continue to govern the Reich as government-in-exile in Nevada or some shit?  Nice to know we're not the only Western Democracy with heavily armed stupid people.  

While we gently treat people who attempt to overthrow the existing state order and replace it with their own like the little snowflakes they are, Germany rounds them up for severely long federal prison sentences.  Thoughts and prayers to the families of some of these men on their upcoming "accidental suicides."  

I'll bet dollars to donuts this is somehow connected to Russia/Ukraine.  

Call me crazy, but I think the Germans have a much different relationship and cultural memory with fascism then we do. They've already found out, no need to fuck around

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BBC has some reporting out too, and they're making the qanon link explicit - apparently some of the folks arrested came from the qanon movement. But fundamentally, the coup attempt was led by an aristocrat weaponizing conspiracy theories to motivate hateful and low information Germans to fight the """deep state"""

Sure is familiar...

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5 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Did not have this on the bingo card 

 

BERLIN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Twenty-five suspected members and supporters of a far-right terrorist group were detained early on Wednesday during raids across Germany, said the federal prosecutor's office.

Raids were conducted across 11 German federal states, added the office in a statement.

The suspected arrested are part of a terrorist group whose goal is to overthrow the existing state order in Germany and replace it with their own, and do not exclude violence against the state as a means of achieving the goal, said the office.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/25-suspected-members-german-far-right-group-arrested-raids-prosecutors-office-2022-12-07/

Where they arrested in a bier hall?

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BBC has some reporting out too, and they're making the qanon link explicit - apparently some of the folks arrested came from the qanon movement. But fundamentally, the coup attempt was led by an aristocrat weaponizing conspiracy theories to motivate hateful and low information Germans to fight the """deep state"""

Sure is familiar...

Sadly a low-information "stupid" German is far intellectually superior to an even average-educated American.  Or so it was explained to me by a rather pale nationalist.  

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59 minutes ago, Parliament said:

We're gonna find out if the "let it burn through" acolytates (like me) were right. 

To a degree.  The current variant seems to have a much lower serious illness/fatality rate.  So, all in all, it may ultimately turn out relatively alright for China because they "waited" until the dominant strain was materially less likely to kill you to let it burn through the population.

I think they probably could have gotten a similar result with 1) a good vaccine program with a more effective vaccine 2) resulting in a slow-burn infection timeline.

Ultimately, China had a plan -- a stupid one -- and now, they have NO plan.  Which may also not be smart.  But in the short term, we're definitely going to see China take a dip while a lot of people are sick over the next 30-90 days.

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We're gonna find out if the "let it burn through" acolytates (like me) were right. 

It's a pretty radically different landscape today than it was two years ago. COVID was initially a novel coronavirus, and pretty uniformly kicked everyone's butts because there was no immunity and you just had to hope that you were healthy enough to beat it. Now that there's vaccines and while maybe not herd immunity, at least a plurality/majority of less transmissible population, it's much more reasonable to "let it burn through". Our bodies have more than just our raw immune responses to fight COVID with, and it functionally is "just the flu" now.

Hell my mom who had a hysterectomy to address cervical cancer a couple months ago caught COVID last week on her way back from visiting my sister in VA, and she's already over it. Turns out vaccines work and do quite a bit to reinforce and protect people from permanently negative outcomes while we "let it burn through".

China's zero COVID policy is bad policy and is causing them immense harm both socially and economically. Despite the insistence of many folks on this board, our policy was never going to be china's COVID policy.

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We're gonna find out if the "let it burn through" acolytates (like me) were right. 

Well their domestic vaccines don't work at all. Their population has basically no natural immunity. Their health system is much, much worse than ours. It's going to kill a lot of people.

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