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_killuminati_

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I wouldn’t know, back in my day no one had laptops, they were too expensive and smartphones hadn’t been developed yet unless you count piece or garbage PocketPC or Palm Treos. I actually wrote some letters in BMQ/DP1.

Sure this makes me sound old… when I was young, the old guys would tell me that we had it easy because they had to carry C1s (FAL).
When I was young, the old guys told me they had to fap to the lingerie section of the Sears catalog.

Insane. 40mins of Argentina getting the Israel treatment in football,
 
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iewgnem

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Lmao.

This is supposedly the one where Dotard is going to blame GYNA for the 2020 election. Could be interesting with the rumors but it is likely another boring MAGA rally. Better to wait for clips on social media.

When I stayed at a hotel earlier this year and flipped through cable TV for the first time in forever, I found out they were actually still running commercials for phone sex and framing at a service where hot young single ladies just want to chat.

That's when I realized American boomers live in an entirely different dimension that's temporary still frozen in the 1980s.

So if NBC and ABC stop talking about Trump, some boomers might legit forget he ever existed.
 

Valentine

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Oh, ok you're saying that because you claim to have more experience dealing with Russians, we should thus listen to your stories, and take them as general fact over a population, right? So who has met more Russians in Russia, you, or the multiple polls I cited that were done in Russia each interviewing thousands of Russians?
Russian is my native language, I grew up in a predominantly Russian environment, studied with them and currently work with them. I think you should stop romanticizing Russians based on your impressions as a tourist, because everyone you saw was most likely the first and last time, without understanding the context. But if you learn it at least at a basic level, and can understand what Russians say about the Chinese, and how deeply their hatred of Asians is imbued in their culture, then the rose-colored glasses will immediately fall off. Check out this grouping as "Русская община", "Наследие тесака" These are groups that actively oppress Asians and organize pogroms with the support of the state and security forces. I don't see any point in continuing the argument any further, this thread is not for that.
 

Tse

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Are a lot of Taiwanese actually the same people as Singapore origin wise since you come from Fujian and even speak Hokkien? Or is that exaggerated?
Only partially yes. A plurality (not majority) of Singapore Chinese are from Southern Fujian and there is a cultural connection which makes Singaporeans more favourable to Taiwanese. But during WW2 the Singapore Fujian community was anti-Japanese and pro-CCP, as represented by their primary leader
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. The Taiwan Fujian community who lived under Japanese colonial rule were granted with local authority, given education etc. which made them totally different from all other Chinese because they still don't understand what was bad about Japan.
they still came from China either way so they are no different than the ones that came with the KMT.
Every group who moved out of Mainland China retains the memory of China from that time period. In Vietnam, the Ming descendants 明香 and Qing era immigrants 清人 are considered totally separate; the first left for patriotic reasons and the second for economic reasons and accepted the pigtail, so the former looked down on the latter. In Taiwan it is even worse because very few had a clear understanding of Chinese national identity before 1895 apart from some vague concept of Mandate of Heaven, and their main loyalty was to their ancestral village. The KMT supporters, who just gone through 40 years of revolution, civil wars and invasion, had a very different mentality which focused on national unity. We have to be alert to this difference because almost all groups who migrated out of China before 1919 have trouble understanding Chinese national identity.
 

supercat

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The travelling circus is back in town today
LMAO, let's wait 5 years. BYD is aiming to overtake Toyota and become the world's largest auto maker in 5 years, without the US market.
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The corruption of the Trump regime is off the charts.

Want to see some through-the-roof coping and seething?

Imagine China treated Uyghurs and Tibetans as the US regime treated the Native Americans.
 
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