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6 Apr

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An oldie but goodie thread back from when I was new to Twitter and hadn't resigned myself to angry shit takes. There are three common responses to this kind of escalating sectarianism in Islamic societies. Accommodationism as seen in Pakistan, where you can murder someone with

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impunity and even widespread social applause as long as it is done in the name of Islam with the state powerless to enforce basic criminal justice. Do nothing, as in Western Europe and accept the occasional terrorist attack as just a regular cost of daily life like car accidents

but make some token gestures placating both the Muslims and your put upon natives. Co-opt the crazies as America has done, buy the temporary loyalty of the takfiris and use them to kill your enemies. Hey as long as they are someone else's problem, it's not mine approach. The one

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@qin_duke

3 Apr

The United Front Work department, Leninism, Soros, The Iowa Writer's Workshop, and multivector propaganda networks. The UFWD has become a popular obsession with the dumber sort of China watcher in recent years and serves as a bogeyman of sorts for Chinese information warfare, the

handy acronym serves as a convenient shorthand for all manner of "nefarious" Chinese subversion efforts but no effort is actually made to describe how it actually functions and what it is for. The historical context is in textbook terms an alliance of sorts of various social

groups aligned with the Leninist Party in advancing a collective message and goal, namely revolution. However, that isn't exactly how it functions today. The primary function of the United Front Work Department is, more familiar to contemporary people is that of a force

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@qin_duke

1 Apr

The socio-economic trend of professional dance becoming a class marker as it has in the West is accelerating. Back in the "old days" of the PRC, the kids were functionally drafted, scouted out of millions by the teachers themselves for promising physical attributes and their

training 100% funded by the state into well paying government sinecures. The intake system is completely different now having been for the most part privatized. Initial classes for a 6 year old aren't particularly a major expense, 300 rmb per month. However to pursue it as a

career you need more than an hour of class a week. More like 30 hours of classes a week from teachers in either small classes or individualized instruction. This is where the expenses begin to really ad up. The professional secondary art schools are heavily subsidized, with even

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@qin_duke

30 Mar

Foreign rule can be exceptionally durable in contrast to the expectations of modern nationalist discourse. The longest on record is nearly 2500 years in Egypt. The last man to claim the title of Pharaoh of Egypt was a Roman* (Actually himself a Balkan) but the last native son of

the Nile to hold that title was nearly 800 years before that. Egypt was first conquered by the Achaemenid Persian empire in the 6th century BCE and then taken over and ruled by Macedonian Greeks in the 4th in turn giving way to Roman rule in the 1st. Roman ruled lasted until the

7th when the Arab invasion conquered it and Egypt remained ruled by various Mohammedan dynasties until taken over by a bunch of Turk slaves in the 13th who were then displaced by yet more Turks, Ottomans, in the 16th only to end up ruled by yet more Balkans in the 19th century.

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@qin_duke

30 Mar

An interesting chicken or egg question is whether dysfunctional US domestic politics made it's foreign politics the way it is or whether it was vice versa, where its system of Intelligence agency, media, credentialed expert disinformation blead back in on itself. Question may not

have a clear cut answer and will depend on how you feel how much agency individuals have and how much of an effect coordinated action can achieve. If civilizational entropy is your theory then the former makes sense that rot at the heart of the body politic radiates outwards. If

you are more likely to ascribe direct action to the course of events then the latter theory is more plausible as the media security nexus expands infinitely like any government bureaucracy given unchecked power. There is a synthesis theory that combines these two where universal

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@qin_duke

26 Mar

Asian Americans are disgusting slavish cucks and they deserve to be discriminated against. Tons of talented and wealthy individuals and the only organized activism they can manage is to secure token slots for some sluts in Hollywood. They get shat on by Harvard and the Ivy's and

their response is to kiss their feet and give them billions in donations. If that isn't fucking cuck behavior, nothing else is. Instead of padding Harvard's investments, they could pool their money to start their own damn elite schools where they aren't gas lit by the fags in the

admissions office. Seriously stop giving Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale any money and start a new school in some safe cheap location in the Midwest and staff it an all star faculty paid dirty tech money and provide guaranteed employment for graduates at your companies. It

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