Missed that.
No, I am well aware that he is no saint; more a temporary ally of convenience. I mean, the guy is a snake oil salesman at heart (just look at the debacle that was the Hyperloop); we just lucked into the establishment tweaking his ego to the point where it forces him to oppose them at least to some degree, which is more than the vast majority of those with anything approaching his resources are willing to do.
Some Musician who uploads videos of him playing on pianos in public areas was doing a livestream when some Chinese TV people who were in the same area of the train station or whatever and asked him not to film them because it was illegal in China. The video of course took place in the United Kingdom so a beautiful cultural exchange took place. ❤️
The fun starts awkwardly nine minutes in!
PIANOGATE LIVESTREAM - (under imminent threat of removal by YouTube)
CCP/CHINESE SPIES walk up to a British public piano and call the police to say filming them is not allowed. The fun starts at 9:14Badass Boogie Bundle Pdf's ...www.youtube.com
The CCP's foundation of power is their claim of dragging China out of poverty and ending the Century of Humiliation. Utter bullshit that is catching up to them.
Sorry for not responding to you and @Zachowon
It's different though because again indentured servants got their freedom slaves had no such gurantee.
Some of them did not understand the implications yes. If they wanted to say all white men they should have fucking put it in. They did not they said that all MEN are created equal. So all men who are citizens are given equal rights. How do you become a citizen by being fucking born here or naturalized. Guess what a black slaves were born here, since they ended the slave trade. Now sure if they kept the slave trade open then I would have less of a problem. But they did not.
Yet you are defending the honor of racists. I attack anyone I see as being wrong it doesen't matter if they are weaker or in power or not.
What do you mean by leftists view? All of Christian western civilization does hold the belief that morals are universal yes they always apply. Something is wrong even if you do it to an enemy or out group. If you want to go to a time to where it's ok to rape women of other tribes you have to go to before Christianity. European pagan tribes are usually not considered part of Western civilization.
They would only want to ruin Europe if Europe wants to ruin them. Again you are the one supporting the side that does not want to live and let live. Would you rather let China win and dominate you, or would you rather launch all the nukes? Why do you think the Chinese would pick different from you and they are more cowardly and willing to be your vassals as opposed to ensuring humans are wiped out?
Again morals if everyone shares them you can make the argument. If we don't and we go your way it leads to atheism and everyone doing what they want and then they will do what is good for them and fuck your people up.
The Islamic nations don't hate Japan they don't do stuff like this to Korea or Vietnam. So no this early 2000's arguments are wrong. They hate us because we go to the Middle East get involved in their politics and support nations they are opposed to like Israel. If we stayed in the Western Hemisphere and let the old world bleed itself to death then we would not have these problems.
Yes the French wanted to hurt the British they still helped us. Also the British just wanted to use us also again they dragged us into ww1 and ww2. We could have just sat back and kept selling weapons and not lost a single man and still been the most powerful.
But they are the reason we are the most powerful. Like yes the military guys are strong, but that's not why our nation is powerful. U.S. soldiers aren't stronger or have bigger dicks than Russian, or Chinese, or Iranian, or Vietnamese or whatever. The reason we are strong is our economy and technology. Smart people did smart policies to make us rich and well educated. And with that money and knowledge soldiers can get more advanced stuff while the other nations soldiers would get less advanced technology.
Ok you understand that, that would be useless right? Like sure he can file that complaint but it's not going anywhere. It is above the soldiers pay grade hell it's above the Inspector General's pay grade himself. Soldiers don't get to decide if a war itself is moral or not. They can decide if the actions IN the war are moral I'll give compare America and Russia. In the modern day with Russia, a Russian soldier can't be blamed for the invasion of Ukraine if a war crimes trial happened the soldiers and officers should not be charged for that, they have a duty to obey the honorable commands of their leaders. But for evil actions taken in war like the Bucha massacre that is diffrent the soldiers who did that and their officers if they knew and did nothing to stop or punish should be charged. For the war itself only political leaders like Putin should be held to account.
What is ECOWAS?
Ok let's say the president does that to Texas because of the border issue going on right now. He tells Abott and the National Guard to stop what they are doing twice they refuse, so he nationalized the Guard, and orders some other troops to come in and deal with the insurrection and remove the people from the area. There.
An empire is just a large nation with multiple different groups of people. It does not have to have a crown or monarchy. It can be very loose.
No they were not. Belgians were bad, but that was King Leopold private ownership. Once he was removed and the Belgian government directly controlled it, it became less horrible. Also Spain and Portugal were nicer to the colonies, they were far less genocidal and racist.
So it's our government thats doing it still. Not the PLA sailing accross the Pacific.
So new tech is invented then our government uses it. That applies to any nation that's not stagnating. So the only place where that danger won't come from is the Muslims who aren't inventing anythinglol.
Again the 4th ammendment protects against our government from spying on us, not individuals or corporations. I support changing that to stop corporations and others from doing it. I'm surprised though don't you support five eyes?
I never said abolish the military. I said reduce it. Also we have nukes so there is no military strong enough to resist nukes.
So pretty much any trade partner including the EU can do this. This is a weakness in free market capitalism. Yes companies will cater things to large demographics to increase their market share so they can sell more shit.
Again reduce the military get rid of all the smart weapons, go back to dumb bombs, and pummel them until they are gone.
Yes, i'm saying America is at least several "peoples" wearing a trenchcoat and with a lot of arguments and spats somewhat agreeing to stick as one country.
And indentured servants had no guarantee that they will be alive and well at that point, so it was a very soft "guarantee". We are at this point arguing details, not some dramatic difference.
>all men who are citizens
www.history.com
And you are defending the leftist historytelling and political pet peeves, even though they are wrong and you are wrong by doing so, because the whole framework of understanding past racial politics they propose is by now throughly red, no escaping it, you need a new one, better to start from nothing than use such tradition.
Yet by time and place they have massive disagreements over what those morals are and who do they apply to specifically. Sometimes to the point of having wars over it. If Christendom was united under one church you may have had a point, but that ship has sailed many centuries ago, for the first time, and then again and again and again.
Some things are wrong to do to in-group but necessary to do to enemies and/or out-group.
Yet obviously to your oddly chosen obsession of slavery, it's not applicable, as for a huge chunk of history Christian world was fine with that.
Yet neither of them were universalist, and both practiced slavery and rape of enemy tribe's women, you honorless pawn of progressives.
(citation needed)
There is no such side, and i refuse to support something that doesn't exist. There are only people deluding themselves that if they "live and let live" they will be left alone themselves.
Better Fallout larp than gulag. Quicker and better death, with slightly bigger chance of avoiding it.
Launching would not wipe all humans out, those theories are something that would be said seriously only by a propagandist or an idiot hippie.
That's a huge if, that never in history was true on global scale, and at times it was more than now, and it certainly won't be true within our lifetimes.
The Japanese are pagans by their standards. That's enough to hate them to some influential part of Islamic nations.
They hated us long before that, at least whenever they didn't have guns pointed at their faces, and when it was still PC for us to hate anyone, we hated them right back. I'm talking about something over 1200 years.
Oh wow there are different regional cultures inside the national culture. I guess England isn't real because England itself has various groups with diffrent accents and have a hard time understanding each other(England not Scotland or Ireland). Also Germany isn't real because Bavarians are not like those from Berlin.
Would you rather be an indentured servant or a slave. Don't give a bullshit weasel answer there will be an obvious answer.
Yeah you are showing how it was on that thing. And how the hypocrisy of the south was.
It's not leftism it's just the truth that that's what it is. If you are saying that the truth is leftist you are condemning yourself to lose.
They still believed in universal morality they just disagreed on what is good or bad are you unable to read what I said?
I don't have a problem with slavery, I have a problem with hypocrisy. I don't rail against Ancient Romans or Greeks, or act like a cringe lord "Slavers are hostis humani generis!" I just look down on hypocrites if you claim egalitarianism and then don't follow up on it I can look down on you. Same reason why communists are scum. I'm surprised you bitch about one but try and bend over backwards for the other.
They had a universal standard of honor. Again it was ok to enslave those you defeated and rape women that does not violate universal honor. But desecration of the dead was something you weren't supposed to do to the vanquished for instance in the Illiad when Achilles drags Hector's body the story treats that as a bad thing.
They aren't isolationists or peacenicks but they also aren't cartoon villains who want to "conquer da world!"
So what makes you think that the Chinese aren't willing to launch all the nukes to prevent another century of humiliation? If you are willing to prevent them from dominating why shouldn't they do the same to prevent you?
Irrelavent and there are weapons that could wipe out humans.
Yet they don't seem to be going for the pagan Japanese, they are going for the formerly Christian now secular west. It's like religion is not the primary thing but it's secondary and political and economic factors are in play instead.
Yes because you Catholics were just as bad.
Yeah I was watching some videos on the reaction taking place in China to all of this and it actually seems the comments are more mocking the Chinese in this situation at worst.
They even posted this as a meme apparently!
Shorter top rated comments from a WeChat...
Top comments from an article... these ones are more mocking of the Chinese behavior in the video and meme'ing them.
Those cultures are not regional, they are based on specific immigration origins, and i ask again, what way of life and beliefs do they share?
I'd rather be a skilled slave in Rome than an indentured physical laborer anywhere.
The founders had different meanings for the terms you base your claim of hypocrisy on, and it wasn't just southern states.
The first is 4 years after 1776.
Except it's not truth, just your twisted interpretation of it.
Yes, they believed their own moral standards were right, but that's pretty common in general. If they felt like pressing the matter they always could shit on others for having different, wrong moral standards.
I don't care about obsessions and pet peeves of egalitarians.
That's a poor example for universalism, Hector was a fellow Greek, like Achilles, and not even a random one, but given favor by Greek gods too.
Which traitor do you refer to? If Bessus, then it's a terrible example, as he was not a traitor in favor of Alexander, just a rebel exploiting his invasion for opportunity to declare himself king... of lands Alexander was planning to conquer anyway.
There are no highly developed and well functioning countries that would fit the bill and have the west as an enemy and clearly deserve the bill as such. Arabs are mostly backwards people high on religion and oil money, Chinese are run by commies, though a lot of their businessmen are competent and cunning for sure, and Russians are destroying themselves with acting out grand imperial ambitions not supported by sufficient political, economic and military foundation, though their intelligence services have remained pretty effective and competent compared to the rest.
So can i, but that's history, and Germans are also part of the west btw.
www.voanews.com
The Saudi crown prince is definitely respectable, but that's not exactly an enemy of the west, frenemy at worst, both fighting for his interests and intensely modernizing a country that's hard and dangerous to modernize.
No, cartoon villains are not as dangerous, too much bragging and revealing plans.
The Chinese weren't sent to gulags even for the considerable period of history where British and then US dominated. The worst they can claim is "humiliation" under the former. As existence of many other countries weaker and more easily bullied shows, their options under western "domination" are by historical standards not bad at all, compared to all the other historical and current options. For example, even Iraqis and Libyans, even though technically western powers could just put them in gulags like Chinese do with Uyghurs, take all their oil, and no one could do shit about it, they don't do that, and send humanitarian aid and waste countless man-hours considering the human rights of even rabidly hostile and unreasonable peoples like Palestinians. I often repeat that western powers are too nice to enemies and rivals for their own good as it is, even beyond the practical value (which i recognize) of it.
Probably. Which is why some people in the know think bioweapons more dangerous to humanity in general than nukes.
For the same reasons they won't go for commie China, even though that commie China is exploiting some Muslim countries, and putting Uyghurs in gulags.
Yes, opportunity to do it and get away with it is what's decisive.
If you think "you orthodox" had much better relations with Muslims back then, you have a poor idea about history.
www.theepochtimes.com
With 120 stations surrounding China, Sound of Hope boasts one of the largest shortwave broadcasting networks.
Locked inside the crowded Chinese prison, blind lawyer Chen Guancheng hid his most treasured possession from the guards—inside a single serve milk box.
A pocket-size shortwave radio.
For three years, Mr. Chen looked forward to the hours after curfew. With a blanket wrapped over his head and the radio's metal antenna parallel to his body, he lay still as the vibrating device under his ear brought to life a world outside the prison's walls. Petitioners, protesters, human rights abuses, a grassroots movement to cut ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—in that tiny murmuring voice, he saw them all. He was free.
Over the decade since Mr. Chen escaped to the United States, the pool of Western broadcasters for information-hungry Chinese like him has shrunk considerably.
Radio powerhouses—BBC, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America—have either cut back on their China service or moved programs online. Meanwhile, the "Great Firewall," the regime's censorship apparatus aimed at isolating China digitally, seems only to grow taller by the day.
Bucking the trend is a largely volunteer-run radio network called Sound of Hope, whose 10 p.m. and midnight segments kept Mr. Chen informed about current affairs in China during his years in prison.
The company now boasts one of the largest shortwave broadcasting networks around China, with about 120 stations beaming signals to China 24/7.
Allen Zeng, Sound of Hope's co-founder and CEO, sees shortwave as the answer to the regime's information blackout.
"They can turn off the internet, carry out the killing, wash clean the blood, and turn it back on," he told The Epoch Times, pointing to Iran's pattern of blocking the internet during nationwide protests.
With shortwave radio, though, "they have nowhere to turn it off," Mr. Zeng said.
"It's like the rain falling down from the sky—they have no way to block the sky."
A Voice to Trust
An unlikely journey began in 2004 for Mr. Zeng, then a Silicon Valley engineer.
Inside China, a massive nationwide campaign had been underway, targeting virtually one in 13 Chinese who live by truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, the three tenets of the faith group Falun Gong.
Arbitrary jailing, slave labor, the abuse of psychiatric drugs, and sexual abuse—the stories trickling out of China were sickening enough that Mr. Zeng and a team of like-minded Chinese expats felt they could no longer stand by.
"We had to do something about it. We needed to stop the killing," he said.
The first thing that came to mind was the shortwave radio that had been a household item in China since the Cold War era, one that in 1989, Mr. Zeng and other college students had turned to for information when authorities rolled their tanks over democracy-loving demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
"Because nothing else could be trusted," he said.
With little budget and know-how, the team started small: leasing one hour of airtime from Taiwanese national broadcaster Radio Taiwan International.
Around that time, "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party," an Epoch Times editorial series that unpacked the nature of the Chinese regime, had just been published, and Sound of Hope took it to audio.
It was such a hit in Beijing that shortwave radios were out of stock for months.
The response, and occasional words of encouragement from listeners who managed to bypass China's internet censorship, kept Mr. Zeng's team going. Dissidents chipped in and programs diversified. Soon, they were Radio Taiwan International's biggest contractor.
Gauging the size of the network's audience is difficult given the opacity of data from China.
But Sound of Hope became so influential that it caught Beijing's attention. The Chinese regime began to pressure the radio network's Taiwanese partner.
Eventually, the Taiwanese broadcaster backed out. Sound of Hope was back to square one.
'Walking in the Dark'
Giving up wasn't in Mr. Zeng's vocabulary.
As the partnership with Taiwan unraveled, the engineers raced to develop their own solutions. They drew inspiration from fishing vessels' radio waves to build their own transmitter.
The result was a mini-tower based in Taiwan with upward-facing antennas that spread out like wings. They nicknamed it "Seagull."
The team set its sights low. The first "seagull" had a power level of 100 watts—a thousandth of the smallest radio service they had leased from the Taiwanese broadcaster.
"It was the only thing we could afford," Mr. Zeng said.
"Seagull" No. 1 was short-lived, and so were many of its successors whose signals the Chinese authorities quickly jammed. But to the team, it was a major discovery: At 100 watts, they still had a chance to be heard.
They kept producing and tweaking their equipment with each new creation.
"It was just like walking in the dark—we didn't know whether there would be an end to this tunnel," Mr. Zeng said.
Finally, on the 16th try, they saw a breakthrough. The signal broke through and held steady.
Mr. Zeng figured that they had, for the moment, consumed all the jamming power from China.
"We outgunned them pretty much," he said. "They cannot move as fast as we did."
Expansion
Technical challenges aside, getting the stations to work was no easy feat.
The wilderness, their best location for an uninterrupted signal, is also a haven for creepy crawlers, from scorpions to snakes. Hsieh Shih-mu, a volunteer, stepped on a snake once and sighted many more while building some of the earliest "seagulls" in Taiwan's southern tip. Often, after wobbling back home on a motorcycle on the pitch-black mountain road, he was covered in mosquito bites.
Narrow and muddy, the path became doubly treacherous after rain. One time, another volunteer nearly fell off the hill—and would have, if not for the roadside tree branches that caught his motorcycle. They had to call a tow truck to haul the man back up.
Mixing concrete, welding metals, and erecting shafts, they put it all together from scratch. If one step went wrong, their lives were on the line.
Even after a radio tower was up and running, parts aged and failed. Beijing's interference, wildlife, harsh weather, anything could get in the way. Someone had to monitor the signal constantly, ready to mitigate any hiccup.
"We didn't know how much impact we were having, but we heard that this was something workable, so we just got on with it," Mr. Hsieh told The Epoch Times. "And we kept at it."
His spot, perched atop a mountain one strait away from the mainland, covered southern China's Pearl River Delta, a key Chinese manufacturing and economic hub.
Today, by a "modest estimate," Mr. Zeng believes the entire radio network reaches 60 percent of China and 80 percent of its population, including the heavily surveilled Tibet and Xinjiang.
Sound of Hope generates revenue through its U.S.-based operations, leasing to other radio networks, and donations, according to Mr. Zeng.
With 120 stations surrounding China, the "seagull" network is several times larger than that of Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. That's even as both of those networks receive taxpayer funding to sustain their operations, Mr. Zeng said.
Blows
Unable to block Sound of Hope's airwaves in the sky, the CCP moved to target the network's infrastructure on the ground.
After tracking signals to find the locations of the "seagulls," regime operatives pressured the host countries to wipe the radio network off the map.
One target was the Sound of Hope "seagull" in northern Thailand. In August 2018, the station was raided by police, who dismantled the equipment and took everything from the station—even electric fans, according to Taiwanese businessman Chiang Yun-hsin, who oversaw operations there.
"It was just mind-blowing," he told The Epoch Times.
Mr. Chiang was arrested that November and driven overnight to a Bangkok police station.
Upon his arrest, Mr. Chiang learned from one of the police officers that Chinese police had located their office through satellite images. Chinese police were so intent on action that they flew to Bangkok to demand that their Thai counterparts take down the network. The prosecutor later told his attorney that the Chinese Embassy was adamant that he be sent to prison.
"They wanted to make an example of me," Mr. Chiang said.
Mr. Chiang, who practices Falun Gong, said the Chinese authorities had strained to cast a negative impression of him by maligning his faith among their Thai counterparts. When Mr. Chiang was meditating on the first morning of his detention, a Thai officer was struck by his peaceful demeanor and wondered aloud why he was described as a dangerous man.
Eventually driven out of Thailand with a 10-year ban, Mr. Chiang returned to Taiwan with no regrets—he was doing the right thing, he said.
He remembered how two decades ago in Changchun in northeastern China, a group of fellow Falun Gong practitioners risked their lives to hijack a Chinese state television signal in order to air a program countering the Party's hate propaganda about their faith, a bid that led to a frenzied regime arresting millions.
From across the strait, Mr. Chiang had read about the grueling torture that killed many participants in Chinese prisons and met several who had to forsake their homeland for survival.
Compared to them, he said, whatever cost he paid was "trivial."
The Precious Radio
Mr. Chen, a self-taught lawyer who advocated for the poor in China, got his first shortwave radio in the 1990s. Until 2012, when he fled to the American Embassy and won his bid for freedom in the United States, he never failed to have one around him for as long as he was able.
During the intermittent home confinement and jail stints for his human rights advocacy, the device was his eyes and ears, allowing him to stay plugged in to the world.
When authorities threw him into prison for speaking out against the regime's forced abortion policy, he smuggled in a radio, and with the milk box scheme, tricked omnipresent cameras, watchful inmates, and wardens who rummaged through their items every two weeks.
Even with smartphones and computers as ubiquitous as they are today, this time-tested technology is still relevant, especially in rural China, said Mr. Chen. Its low price tag remains hard to beat, as is its capacity to inform, independent of internet availability.
"It's one-way communication, but it's still critical," he told The Epoch Times. "Even if you get locked up, at least your thoughts won't become out of step with this society."
Mr. Chen described Sound of Hope as "more grounded" for its detailed reporting on China's social affairs.
"Someone has to keep an eye on the suffering in that part of the world and put it under the international limelight," he said. "There should be more resources dedicated in this area."
As many others retreat, Sound of Hope promises to do just that.
"This is what the Chinese government is afraid of most," Mr. Zeng said. If it isn't, "why do they take so much effort to jam it, even up to today?"
Nellie Ohr used shortwave to communicate with Christopher Steele to shape the Russiagate hoax. Even the TLAs love shortwave.
