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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 12:27am

Bird bath? WTF is she doing being in charge of anything but monitoring how much ice cream she has?

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Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 12:45am

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 1:27am
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@on the cusp Maybe China will realize they need only take pity on us...and if Taiwan needs external insurance against China (which I can understand and support, ditto Hong Kong), maybe this is the State Dept.'s way of telling them to look elsewhere.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 4:30pm
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@on the cusp

I fear for Taiwan....

You mean "Ukraine in the China Sea?"

Did you know that Taiwan once had an indigenous population of 'real' Taiwanese before it was overrun by armed Chinese rebels in 1949?

Don't get me wrong. The current 'replacement' population of Taiwanese are a very efficient splinter group of Chinese nationals. I've had a few professional dealings with them and have found them to be both intelligent and kind. But it would be a mistake to believe that the majority of the New-Taiwanese population from mainland China, c.1949, does not have some misgiving about their NED-selected leaders. The thing is ... business is very good. So, it's complicated....

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Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 4:37pm

@Pluto's Republic along the lines that having Pelosi there might tempt China to make a move.
I know very little about Taiwan, other than the US would love to have some naval base there. Tiwan could be the next Ukraine.
I am to the point where no matter what I think about Taiwan, what happens to them is their business. The US needs to stop meddling in the affairs of foreign states.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 7:23pm
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@on the cusp

....because the People's government is extremely clear and precise about what they are doing, and they explain it exhaustively, over and over again. Then they do what they say they are doing and they never miss a deadline.

Things get complicated in the brains of the West, who project their own greed, corruption, fear, and anger upon China's leaders. They furiously deliver sanctions against China, start trade wars with China, and blockade successful Chinese products such as semi conductors and G5 telephone components, and refuse to sell China US components that are successfully manufactured in the US. This, then, forces China to develop a competing industry. For example, the US refused to sell Intel chips to China to be used in the computer systems that networked Chinese universities. China was forced to develop its own advanced computer chip design and manufacturing plant. As a result, China now has an abundance of the world's fastest super computers installed in technology industries, which are leaving their US competitors far behind.

The US has sabotaged itself by listening to the insane ravings of the Neocons, who are operating our coup Federal government — from the White House, the State Department, the Pentagon, and to some degree, the Department of Justice. Everything the Neocons touch turns into a shitstorm of expensive, unintended consequences.

By knowing these things, a schoolchild could accurately guess what happens next.

That being said, I am not certain about China's reaction to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. They are understandingly alarmed about the threat that an offshore island they have occupied and acculturated for 1,500 years as an integral part of their nation, might suddenly become the nuclear-armed headquarters for NATO in Asia. Orchestrated by the very same NGOs that desperately tried to set Hong Kong up to sabotage China's national sovereignty.

Before the US mounted this threat against China, the last thing on China's mind was attacking Taiwan. For over 70 years, China and Taiwan have shared a peaceful understanding. Chinese and Taiwanese children attend each others schools and universities, the Taiwanese vacation in China and vise versa, and they enjoy robust trade and business opportunities. China can wait forever until this horrible era of the psychopaths moves on.

But the recent rise of China has driven the Neocons insane, because the US cannot compete with their superior intelligence and industriousness. And most significantly, the Neocons maintain a psychotic internal fantasy about Communism, an irrational fever dream lodged in the dark past, which has seized their rational minds. They are terrified that China will provide the world with an example of a successful socialist nation with a modern sustainable environment. They don't want images circulating that show healthy and moderately prosperous individuals and families following their dreams.

This is why the West can now suddenly justify nuclear anhiliation. They want to wipe away any living example of a socialist government (a direct Democracy) that has created a nation of family-oriented people who are content, educated, creative, prosperous, and living in peace.

In the end, this is what the people of the world want. And China is bringing them the means to make it happen for themselves — through the modern trading infrastructure of the Next and Road Initiative. So, Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan means very little. China's government is not reactionary and they are slow to act. I knew, absolutely, that China would not participate in Russia's war. Nor would they participate in the US deceit aginst Russia. Their primary concern is with the wellbeing of the Chinese people — because they ARE the Chinese people.

I must suppose they are expressing a necessary, calculated public reaction.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 07/30/2022 - 11:04am

@Pluto's Republic Your understanding of China is deep, wide, and studied.
My understanding amounts to brief mentions of China in a couple college world history classes.
Approximately 15 years ago, I spent 2 weeks on a tour of China. I saw the usual tourist must-see things.
I saw the tour guide get into an altercation with a local man who accused her of opening the door to his apartment and letting in an evil spirit. The men in the tour group came to her defense. The guide told us any questions regarding government and politics must be asked while outside and away from the bus and driver. We saw a beggar in a village who's parents had cut his legs, bound them together so that they grew together. He couldn't walk, scooted around by sitting in a hat. He supported his parents. The guide explained how the Communist Party pre-selected candidates whom they approved. There is never a competing candidate, and people vote for the person on the ballot to show support and belief in the wisdom of their government.
I saw skinned dogs in a butcher shop window. They had a price tag on them. I visited a typical 2 million bucks home that had no kitchen or bathroom. I visited the public bathroom. I missed commodes a whole lot.
I remember 2 drunk Filipino prostitutes entertaining a Chinese businessman, according to the concierge of the hotel.
I remember the trees planted along the highway, and no birds flying on the Yangtze.
More will come back to me. I remember getting hugs from many Chinese women who worked in the hotels and restaurants. We each would know a couple of words, then communication had to be smiles and hugs.
I wish for the Chinese people the promises made to them for a good life. And the US needs to let them be.

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Submitted by CB on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 6:12pm
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@Pluto's Republic
by the Chinese well before 1949.

History of the aboriginal peoples

Recorded history of the indigenous peoples in Taiwan began around the 17th century, and has often been dominated by the views and policies of foreign powers and non-aborigines. Beginning with the arrival of Dutch merchants in 1624, the traditional lands of the aborigines have been successively colonized by Dutch, Spanish, Ming, Qing Dynasty, Japanese and Republic of China rulers. Each of these successive "civilizing" cultural centers participated in violent conflict and peaceful economic interaction with both the Plains and Mountain indigenous groups. To varying degrees, they influenced or transformed the culture and language of the indigenous peoples.

Four centuries of non-indigenous rule can be viewed through several changing periods of governing power and shifting official policy toward aborigines. From the 17th century until the early 20th, the impact of the foreign settlers—the Dutch, Spanish and Han—was more extensive on the Plains peoples. They were far more geographically accessible than the Mountain peoples, and thus had more dealings with the foreign powers. The reactions of indigenous people to imperial power show not only acceptance, but also incorporation or resistance through their cultural practices [93][94] By the beginning of the 20th century, the Plains peoples had largely been assimilated into contemporary Taiwanese culture as a result of European and Han colonial rule. Until the latter half of the Japanese colonial era the Mountain peoples were not entirely governed by any non-indigenous polity. However, the mid-1930s marked a shift in the intercultural dynamic, as the Japanese began to play a far more dominant role in the culture of the Highland groups. This increased degree of control over the Mountain peoples continued during Kuomintang rule. Within these two broad eras, there were many differences in the individual and regional impact of the colonizers and their "civilizing projects". At times the foreign powers were accepted readily, as some communities adopted foreign clothing styles and cultural practices (Harrison 2003), and engaged in cooperative trade in goods such as camphor, deer hides, sugar, tea and rice.[95] At numerous other times changes from the outside world were forcibly imposed.
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European period (1623–1662)
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Qing Dynasty rule (1683–1895)
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Highland peoples
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Japanese rule (1895–1945)

When the Treaty of Shimonoseki was finalized on 17 April 1895, Taiwan was ceded by the Qing Empire to Japan.[140] Taiwan's incorporation into the Japanese political orbit brought Taiwanese aborigines into contact with a new colonial structure, determined to define and locate indigenous people within the framework of a new, multi-ethnic empire.[141] The means of accomplishing this goal took three main forms: anthropological study of the natives of Taiwan, attempts to reshape the aborigines in the mold of the Japanese, and military suppression. The Aboriginals and Han joined together to violently revolt against Japanese rule in the 1907 Beipu Uprising and 1915 Tapani Incident.
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Kuomintang single-party rule (1945–1987)

Japanese rule of Taiwan ended in 1945, following the armistice with the allies on September 2 and the subsequent appropriation of the island by the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) on October 25. In 1949, on losing the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek led the Kuomintang in a retreat from Mainland China, withdrawing its government and 1.3 million refugees to Taiwan. The KMT installed an authoritarian form of government and shortly thereafter inaugurated a number of political socialization programs aimed at nationalizing Taiwanese people as citizens of a Chinese nation and eradicating Japanese influence.[171] The KMT pursued highly centralized political and cultural policies rooted in the party's decades-long history of fighting warlordism in China and opposing competing concepts of a loose federation following the demise of the imperial Qing.[53] The project was designed to create a strong national Chinese cultural identity (as defined by the state) at the expense of local cultures.[172] Following the February 28 Incident in 1947, the Kuomintang placed Taiwan under martial law, which was to last for nearly four decades.
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Submitted by CB on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 1:01am
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Somebody must dress her in the morning and make sure she is presentable. The same goes with Biden. But their aids and a complicit media ignore this and pretend there is nothing wrong.

There is no way the three people who hold the highest elected positions in America - Biden, Harris and Pelosi - are capable of actually running the country. There must be unseen actors 'behind the throne' who are pulling the levers of government and making the actual decisions.

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Submitted by usefewersyllables on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 9:41am
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@CB

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 1:23am
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OR:

"Critical Theory: Not Even Once."

Where's the eerie music from?

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 3:25pm
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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Fri, 07/29/2022 - 3:53pm
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... that the West is currently producing is a talked-about phenomena at the geopolitical level.

(I am immensely relieved that I am not the only one who is aware that the West (particularly the United States) has a massive brain injury problem afflicting the entire population. This is Occam's razor for the Russia, Russia, Russia hallucination.)

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