Hasanabi doctrine proved right.

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You have to consider the population density in China. One nuke aimed at an ‘important target’ could pretty easily kill a few million Chinese as collateral.

This would obviously give China all rights to launch a counterattack.

Unfortunately one Chinese nuke cannot do the same to Americans because Americans just don’t live densely enough, which means for a sufficient response China probably needs to launch 5+ nukes per one American nuke.

Of course, the Americans will just launch four or five nukes in response, which will kill ~20-30 million more Chinese. At which point, everyone will be nuking each other.

TLDR There is no such thing as limited nuclear war because any limited strike on China will probably kill enough people to justify a massive counterattack, at which point full nuclear war will have begun.

I made a previous writeup on China’s current position in a nuclear exchange with the US: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5407827/4903187

“he truly believes a second Holocaust is coming”

Y’all are the ones fucking committing it! The Palestinians y’all are merking are direct descendants of the original Israeli tribes.

In fact, the CPC actually collaborated with the Dalai Lama and Tibetan nobles at the beginning to slowly phase in economic and social improvements in a kind of proto-One-Country-Two-Systems plan. The CPC even gave the Dalai Lama a high position in the Chinese government as a Vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, and as the chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Preparatory Committee.

Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama and co. got pissed at the loss of their all-powerful privileges and decided to do a CIA-sponsored revolt. Of course, they got no support from any of their serfs, who were quite happy to be free, and so they fucked off to India.

After that, the CPC had a mandate to speedily implement all the reforms.

Here’s some good resources:

• CGTN Documentary Commemorating the End of Tibetan Serfdom 1 and 2
• When Serfs Stood Up in Tibet by Anna Louise Strong

Vampires are the ultimate bad-boy romantic aesthetic. How skilled at romance must a woman to wrap an immortal being around her finger? In that sense it’s kinda empowering.

Right now, werewolf romance novels are rather popular on reddit romance novel communities. This is the exact same kind of dude as a vampire except you also get animalistic boinking.

Pretty much, yes. Having read both, the horny energy is exactly the same.

I think allos (myself included) ship other people so we can live vicariously through them. I don’t have time or energy for a romantic relationship RN, but watching others get together is kinda fun.

This practice is kinda harmless for fictional characters (and romantic subplots are usually the norm in said shows), but can definitely make IRL aces uncomfortable. Sorry about that, we should probably stick to fictional characters only.

I think vampires (specifically the hot mysterious dude kind of vampire) are popular mostly because they fulfill a certain niche of romantic fantasy. This niche used to be filled by the plethora of romance novels, which are mostly consumed by women. Today, romance novels have been supplanted by many more types of content, including stuff about vampires. Also, you can’t really blame normal, horny people for thinking about banging anything. R34 is a thing for a reason.

I guess this is true only if the government is also being pressured by outside forces. For example, if that 3.5% are Nicaraguan Contras backed by the USA, then it’s completely possible. Otherwise, I really don’t see how peaceful protests of 3.5% are supposed to do anything.

This is the same hilarity as those drawings of Jesus as a pasty white man in the Middle East.

See my comment with resources on the topic.

Here’s a great overview of the current political conflict in Taiwan from someone living there: https://m.youtube.com/live/DU0LSsWBtx8

The pro-US DPP is losing popularity because their independence stance is hurting the economy (because China is Taiwan’s largest trading parter, so cutting it off for the US is fucking stupid). All the DPP does is yell about independence and the China threat while Taiwan’s econony is stagnating and living costs are increasing.

In response, a former DPP-aligned mayor Ko Wenje broke away and founded his own party, the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) in 2019. The party positions itself as centrist, but in practice votes with the KMT more often.

In the most recent 2024 legislative elections, the DPP got 51 seats and lost its majority, the KMT got 52 seats, and the TPP got 8 seats. Because in practice the TPP votes with the KMT, the DPP essentially does not have control of the legislature anymore. However, the DPP still controls the presidency and executive branch, winning 40% of the vote in the 2024 presidential elections.

In response to the KMT and TPP’s success, the DPP used the executive-controlled prosecutor’s office to arrest Ko Wenje on dubious corruption charges. This had resulted in massive protests against the DPP in Taiwan, denouncing them as anti-democracy.

The DPP has used its US connections to institute a media blackout on the topic. Notice that these protests have almost no visibility in the international media and are only reported on by a select few Taiwanese news outlets. ^{[1] [2]}

Have you watched Red Dawn (2012)? Same plot, except the invaders are East Asian communists with Russian help. The producers wanted to show the movie in China, so they changed the communist villains from Chinese to North Koreans. Of course, all the actors still look Chinese, though.

The sheer audacity to think that Chinese people wouldn’t know. Of course, the movie performed extremely poorly in China.

You bring up a great point. Russia has invited the BRIC members of BRICS alongside Eastern Europe and Israel. It would make sense for them to talk.

Brazil has scheduled the next BRICS summit for July 2025, which is bad timing. What can you do in only half a year? Pepe Escobar says their excuse is that they need to prepare for COP 30, but it is more likely that Brazil’s pro-West capitalist faction still dislikes the BRICS and forced Lula’s hand. ^[1]

Faced with such Brazilian unreliability, it sure would make sense to meet up somewhere earlier. Victory Day is on May 9, which is perfect for pre-planning, especially if BRICS needs to accelerate some projects to have stuff to present in July.

Ya’ll please calm the heck down. There are long-running reasons for this invitation. One instance of realpolitik does not suddenly mean ‘Russia bad’, that is liberal thinking.

Before the collapse of the USSR, it had a sizable Jewish minority. The USSR saved many Jews from the Nazis, and most ended up living in the USSR.

After the collapse, that minority immigrated to Israel and make up about 15% of the Israeli population. Many have dual Russian-Israeli passports. 1 in 4 staff members in Israeli universities are native Russian speakers.^[1]

These Russian Jews act both as a potent fifth column promoting Zionism in Russia, and facilitate useful political connections between Israel and Russia. For example, Israel has been rather quiet about Russia’s operations in Ukraine. In return, Russia doesn’t say much about Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

Because of these circumstances, Russia doesn’t readily oppose Israel. When Russia works with Iran, Russia explicitly says that they cannot involve themselves in an Israel-Iran conflict. The most Russia can do without pissing off their Jewish fifth column is to weaken American influence and hope that makes Israel less insane.

In 2024, Israel officially recognized Victory Day as a holiday, and is one of the only non post-Soviet countries to do so. It makes sense that Russia would return the gesture by inviting them to the Victory Day Parade in 2025. ^[2] Israel previously attended the 2018 parade at Russia’s invitation.

Russia has also invited China, India, Brazil, Slovakia, Serbia, and Mahmoud Abbas from the Palestinian Authority.

I don’t like this Russian invitation either, but it makes sense from Russia’s history with Jews. It certainly has better reasons than how much America buddies up with Israel. Russia actually protected Jews in WWII, while America just lies about their pro-Jewish history.

TLDR: Zionists fuck up the relations with Israel of any country they worm their way inside, and Russia is no exception.

Hello! I’m a Chinese-American college student around the same age.

I understand your struggles in university, as I experienced many of the same feelings. Because I went to a college across the country, I felt rather isolated and got sick a bunch, which hit my grades and self-worth quite hard. I’m recovering now. If you would like to talk, feel free to DM me on Lemmygrad so we can talk on your preferred messenger.

Oh, you paid for the iOS app? That’s a one-time payment to help the devs pay for Apple’s Developer Fees (because for some fucking reason, developing for Apple costs each dev 99USD per year + requires a Mac).

No other platform is that entitled, so no other OS apps require you to pay. This issue is a big reason why open-source apps are less popular on iOS.

Apple has the gall to make developers pay for the privilege of making apps, then makes them pay a massive cut of any in-app purchases. By adding this fee, Apple incentivizes devs to add in-app purchases so they don’t lose money, ultimately making Apple even more money.

Yeah, Anki is super powerful, but that power is locked behind the learning curve. There are great YouTube channels to learn it such as The Anking. The new FSRS algorithm is based on sophisticated maths and is industry-leading in maximizing retention while minimizing the amount of reviewing you need to do per-day (see here for more info).

Sure, but Quizlet keeps putting good features behind a paywall. Learn and Test modes used to be free.

Anki is harder to learn at first, but much more powerful. Anki cards can be heavily customized to match and exceed Quizlet’s features (e.g. adding stroke order to Chinese cards, image occlusion for reviewing diagrams, custom code to do whatever). Anki’s spaced repetition algorithm is also better, especially with its new FSRS algorithm.

You can find a massive collection of shared decks on ankiweb.net, with tons of cards precoded with images, audio, and more.

Read Settlers by J Sakai, the entire book addresses this one question for white USians.