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Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

An insane map every time I look at it, like I just looked again and it's still insane

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An insane map every time I look at it, like I just looked again and it's still insane

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Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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https://www.economist.com/china/2022/05/05/china-wants-to-increase-its-military-presence-abroad

https://archive.is/1Dvwt

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  • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    probably

    considered

    one real base

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Not to mention…they show China, but it isn’t highlighted as a “Country with a Chinese base”

      They can’t even do the colors on the Very Real And Scary Imperialism Map™ right

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      • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        missed opportunity to add at least one extra splotch of burgundy smdm propagandists these days so lazy i tell ya

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      And the base is located in a country that leases land for military bases like it’s candy to any country that asks lol

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        And all those bases are for an international anti-piracy mission (though considering present circumstances it’s worth noting that different countries are operating on different definitions of the word “piracy”)

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    So are they saying that having overseas military bases is a bad thing now, or?

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      They’re trying their damn hardest to conjure up some sort of whataboutism to throw at people who point this out

      • WHATABOUTISM_DETECTOR [it/its]@hexbear.netB
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        soypoint-1 whataboutism soypoint-2

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          Precisely, bot

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        • robinn_IV [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          Whereas China forced the countries to let them possibly consider propositioning them

      • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        America, Britain and a handful of other military powers have a global network of bases that have existed for decades and are mostly legacies of empire, the second world war and the cold war.

        “legacies of empire” lmao. “We’re not building new bases, just continuing to occupy 800 existing ones, so that totes makes our imperialism okay guys!”

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      119 bases in Germany

      119 bases in Japan

      jokerfied

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        The US military is definitely not the fourth Reich

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      yeah but what this doesn’t show is how many bases the US has in the US! the US is overseas from all of these bases

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    Shoddy reporting here, The Economist is missing a few important ones like:

    Countries that I had a wet dream about China hosting a base

    Countries that start with the letter C, like China, that could have a base

    Countries that China definitely hasn’t considered hosting a base in but might change their mind someday

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      Countries with enough undeveloped land to host a Chinese military base

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        Countries larger than a Chinese military base, and so could probably host one.

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          Updating all the land area measurements in Wikipedia to units of Probable Number of Chinese Military Bases Hosted

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            o fuck the us has so many chinese military bases

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          The Vatican is right out

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      Countries that I had a wet dream about China hosting a base

      came to the fleeting thought that China built a base in Liechtenstein

      go ahead Kamala, send your best

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        volcel-kamala

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      Every time you eat dim sum, China gets a new military base

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    deleted by creator

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The Economist is a piece of rag that likes to get high on orientalism and neoliberalism…

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        The Economist is what happens when someone parses the first word of “Combat Liberalism” as an adjective instead of a verb.

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          Incredible. This should be a tagline.

          Side note: I’ve never understood why 反对自由主义 in particular is translated to “Combat Liberalism” instead of “Oppose Liberalism” since all of Mao’s other works that start with 反对 are translated as “Oppose”, the most famous being 反对本本主义 “Oppose Book Worship”

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        The Economist is liberal ideology and imperialism distilled

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        The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war.

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      che-smile

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      Here’s a taste of their ideology…

      https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist

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    Putting on my resume positions that I’ve considered and positions that I’ve applied to under the “experience” section

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      Resume

      • Certifications I have

      • Certifications I’ve bought materials for

      • Certifications I’ve looked up online

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    Litteraly no sources, only vibes.

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      I mean the Djibouti one is accurate. Just omitting that it’s a joint base between China, the west, Japan, etc. for a bunch of merchant mariners or whatever.

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        Yeah, there is ONE thing that’s kinda accurate, don’t change a lot to me.

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          100-com

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      source: ourselves, so just trust us bro, it’s probably true

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    Source: The Economist

    lenin-dont-laugh

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      Source: Dude trust me

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    All the best diagrams contain the word “probably” multiple times

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    In surprised they didn’t just include every Chinatown in a majort city as a “base”

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      flashback to a year ago when Chinese community centers in the US and Canada kept getting accused of being police stations

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        Going up to the guy who runs the cornershop down the street with kids smoking weed out front and accusing him of being a cop.

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    We’re getting reports that a Chinese Vicky 3 player thought his country probably should build a base on the Falkland Islands to project power. Is this funny to you, too, you insolent tankies?

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    So only one base, that’s an anti piracy base in conjunction with the West?

    Lmao. Embarassing reporting

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    smh economist, didn’t even list the base China probably thought about establishing in the Shadow Realm to keep tabs on Marik Ishtar

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    Tallying up my body count like

    People Ive fucked with:
    People I may or may not have tried to hookup with:
    People I probably thought about sleeping with at one point:

    and then saying I’m the world’s #1 best shagger

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      You joke but I’m dead certain a lot of men do this

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        Yeah, This checks out.

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    The height of being a map pervert.

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      some of us paradox game map painters have sense enough to know no one gives a shit what our map looks like. /r/civ and its consequences I swear

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