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  • If China is thinking in 300 year chunks why bother with Hong Kong and Taiwan. It makes zero sense.
    **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

    Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
    Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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    • I just finished the new fiction book “termination shock.” Not for most as it’s really long, but a good read. Premise is fast forward a decade or so, nations are crippling under heat and sea level rise so nations start doing their own geoengineering on weather, which of course affects everyone else. Then China and India get ****ed and start their own ****.

      it’s fiction but I’ve no doubt this is about how it’s going to play out soon enough

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      • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
        If China is thinking in 300 year chunks why bother with Hong Kong and Taiwan. It makes zero sense.
        For the same reason France retook Calais in 1558, or the Germans absorbed Bremen, Hamburg, and Frankfurt in 1871. You don't want challenges to your sovereignty anywhere near your core territory, and particularly if you are an authoritarian state you don't want free cities setting a bad example (and beaming anti-government news into your territory).
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        • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

          For the same reason France retook Calais in 1558, or the Germans absorbed Bremen, Hamburg, and Frankfurt in 1871. You don't want challenges to your sovereignty anywhere near your core territory, and particularly if you are an authoritarian state you don't want free cities setting a bad example (and beaming anti-government news into your territory).
          Ok, we'll see if it works. I don't see the relevance though. We live in a global community now. Next door, an ocean away makes no difference.
          **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

          Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
          Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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          • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
            If China is thinking in 300 year chunks why bother with Hong Kong and Taiwan. It makes zero sense.
            Because if you control Taiwan, you control the chip market. theres also The Who strategic waterways like the strait of Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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            As of 9/21/10:         As of 9/13/10:
            College Hockey 6       College Football 0
            BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
            Originally posted by SanTropez
            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
            Originally posted by Kepler
            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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            • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post

              Because if you control Taiwan, you control the chip market. theres also The Who strategic waterways like the strait of Taiwan and the South China Sea.
              I get that but it's all irrelevant now. The World will find a way to go somewhere else for chips. They're not going to deal with a bully. We used them for cheap ****, we'll just start using someone else.
              **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

              Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
              Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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              • Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post

                I get that but it's all irrelevant now. The World will find a way to go somewhere else for chips. They're not going to deal with a bully. We used them for cheap ****, we'll just start using someone else.
                The red states.

                (I kid. They don't have the educated population.)
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                • Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                  The Who strategic waterways like the strait of Taiwan and the South China Sea.
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                  • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                    GD autocorrect.
                    Code:
                    As of 9/21/10:         As of 9/13/10:
                    College Hockey 6       College Football 0
                    BTHC 4                 WCHA FC:  1
                    Originally posted by SanTropez
                    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                    Originally posted by Kepler
                    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                    • I think tattoos are nasty AF but jeebus

                      https://bbc.in/32JOFOE?fbclid=IwAR2N...cKAGOHF0pyTIoc

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                      • Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
                        I think tattoos are nasty AF but jeebus

                        https://bbc.in/32JOFOE?fbclid=IwAR2N...cKAGOHF0pyTIoc
                        It is really bizarre how much of a textbook Rightwing Autocracy the CCP is. "Healthy in mind and body", "protection of public morality", the state and dominant race as an organism to be kept hygienic -- all the sick fascist biological metaphors. It's like they the took 5% of Mao that was Hilterian and threw away the 95% that was Marxist.

                        Maybe the extremes really do wrap around and meet on the other side.


                        Last edited by Kepler; 12-30-2021, 10:19 AM.
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                        • Originally posted by Deutsche Gopher Fan View Post
                          I think tattoos are nasty AF but jeebus

                          https://bbc.in/32JOFOE?fbclid=IwAR2N...cKAGOHF0pyTIoc
                          Whew. Thought you were going to post the New Zealand newscaster article for a minute.
                          Last edited by aparch; 12-30-2021, 11:36 AM.
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                          • Originally posted by aparch View Post

                            Whew. Thought you were going to post the New Zeland newscaster article for a minute.
                            The front fell off?
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                            • Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                              The front fell off?
                              https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/new-zea...online-2679155

                              This is a good story. Glass ceiling shattering.
                              “Demolish the bridges behind you… then there is no choice but to build again.”

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                              • In not so good news, this isn't ominous or anything...

                                “Nuclear mushroom may rise over Ukraine, but the NATO flag may not.”

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