Current leadership is highly focused on wanting Vietnam to get out of the middle-income trap, saying this is the country only chance to do so, they are pure nationalist and developmentalist, wanting to emulate Japan/Korea/Singapore/China rise. Their policies including:

• Reduce state bureaucracy by reducing amount of state employees (with good compensation) through merging departments and provinces
• Heavily increase spending on sciences
• Building infrastructures including better highway system as well as high speed train and metro
• Free basic public education from next year
• Gradually transition to a free healthcare by 2030s
• Promoting importance of private businesses as well as being much more lenient toward them when they break laws not putting them in jail if they pay enough to cover the damages.
• Building international financial centre

Trump capitulation and zionist collab are just all for self-interest to develop the country. The country rely heavily on foreign investments (from East Asia and Singapore) and export (US exports account for 1/3) for their developments.

At least there are no peeling back of existing labor laws yet.

https://x.com/CNMNguyen is the best imo.

Does anyone following the Myanmar civil war know anything that contradict this news about how China has detained one of the Myanmar ethnic force’s leader to force them into talks with the current junta (as well as cutting off access to water, electricty to ethnic forces) ?

It seems objectively bad and goes against their supposed non-interference policy.

I think only two people are explicitly gay in the game, the rest are implied (some heavily) subtext. The fans run with those subtext though, lots of good fan contents for every type of parings. Texlapp is one of most popular one for example, two mafia heiresses, one ran from their past life, the other chased after to see her failed and be dragged back into the swamp. The event that resolved their conflict was super great and brought us this banger.

Best place to look for more is under the Arknights tag on tumblr.

Seeing this at the end of 5 years anniversary stream was so good.

Highly recommend anyone that love tower defense and can tolerate the gacha aspect to play it. Beside all the awesome treatment of the devs toward their artists and communities, beautiful arts, music and animations, its story offers really sharp critique of capitalism: American prison system, American healthcare system, England oppression of Ireland,…

In the lastest main story chapter, we are shown glimpse of a growing movement of the oppressed that I feel is just a stand in for a revolutionary left movement. Here is a quote from its leader:

“He said to ignore the Infected in positions of power, because they still enjoy exploiting others with their authority and see disease as only a tool. And that we should also grant the same kind of liberation to any oppressed people, and not just our sick brethren. Because they can fight alongside us, and we’ll need their strength to put up a fight. … What we want is to send a message to all the aristocrats, and oppressors, those trying to divide, suppress, and eliminate us— The blade they so despise hangs high above their necks.”

Best part of all is the stand in for France had been utterly destroyed before the game story even started

If it is irreconcilable then might as well avoid talking about it with each other.

He played and enjoyed story-driven games like RDR, TLOU, Death Stranding, Yakuza and many more just fine. His problem was always about the anime tropes in the vast majority of JRPGs that doesn’t suit his sensibilities and slow-paced, repetitive turn-based combat - he still enjoy turn-based stuff when it is fun like Persona 5 and Into the Breach for example :shrug-outta-hecks:

iirc, those symbols were used by US soldiers who wanted to signal their intention to surrender/lay down arm or sth and NV soldiers knew not to shoot them

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