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@DrHueyLi

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Former political scientist (book ), compulsive talker (). I also do tutoring ()

California, USA
Joined November 2016
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6 years after leaving academia, my publisher finally agreed to print an affordable paperback version of my book, on the condition that I help them sell the remaining 70 hardback copies. They gave me a 60% discount code: DIVIDING60 Anyone interested?
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Actually, the funniest part is that Russia and China have blocked Twitter for years but Elon is too scared to utter a sound.
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learning that twitter is getting shut down because political disinformation is illegal in brazil makes this so much funnier
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"Unlike Western colonial powers, China is a peaceful nation..." I just don't get why such an easily falsifiable statement is repeated by so many people, sometimes even by academics. So I really want to introduce to you some fun facts about my home country's history:
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I have some theories about how Trump managed to get toilet paper stuck to his shoe more than once.
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当年韩三篇虽然写得不怎么样,但是客观上引发了微博上关于民主自由的最大规模的讨论,成了绝好的大众自我启蒙的机会(甚至很多小年轻开始读社科书籍)。结果方舟子跳出来,一下把微博引向了代笔与否的鸡毛蒜皮话题,替党国解除了一颗定时炸弹。 这次他针对李老师的手法如出一辙。
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No nation is more peaceful than others. Our genetic differences are negligible biologically. Any nation who's powerful enough tends to be aggressive. And when a powerful nation is authoritarian, the aggressiveness more likely than not will turn into conquest. (end)
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If you're worried that talking shit about Andrew Yang may sound racist, I'm doing it for you. You just need to retweet.
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Eileen Gu adopted the CCP trolls' talking point and claimed everyone in China can use VPN to visit foreign websites. So is the Great Fire Wall just a waste of money? The CCP built it just for fun? I don't care which country she competes for. But this is really shameless.
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Urgent help needed! TikTok just shamelessly banned my account with a quarter million followers after my video on North Korea went viral. I've appealed but am not optimistic. If you have a TikTok account, please ask people to find me here or on Instagram @drhueyli
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关于贩卖人口,最恶心的洗地方式就是“警察管不了”。如果是领导的孩子呢?领导就是丢条狗,警察敢不管?记得帮外宾找自行车吗? 计生委能把几千万明媒正娶的妇女拉去堕胎、结扎,还能解救不了几个非法拘禁?中共逗你们玩呢。
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The fact that China hasn't engaged in direct conquest since the 20th century doesn't indicate any intrinsic peaceful culture. It can change at any time if the world fails to hold aggressors like Putin accountable.
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I'll start from the mid 1600s, the same time when the British started to colonize India and America. In 1644, a rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong conquered Sichuan (where he's not a native) and executed about 1/3 of the population and caused the area to depopulate by 75%.
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Elon is such a bitch. I saw this "Blue MAGA" trending topic and clicked it. But none of the top posts have "Blue MAGA" in their text. Apparently Elon's minions manually assigned them to the category.
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@hegellacan1 You can't find FORMER Russian colonies because they never quit their colonies.
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About the Day Light Saving time: Let's assume something historical happened, say, Devin Nunes attacked his cow, on Sunday 1:58 am Pacific time. 2 minutes later the clock was turned back to 1 am. Then Nunes was killed by the cow at 1:03 am. How would the history book record it?
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What's she even trying to say? That she can't count to five? That she thinks BRICS are all communist countries? That they are in some sort of imagined military alliance? What a clown.
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I hate to post images like these. But a lot of y'all think dictatorship is OK because "China is doing OK". Sorry, only the side of China on TV is doing OK. You have no idea what the unrepresented part looks like. These are some random photos of worker dormitories in China.
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In 1645, Manchurian military, with the help of Ming defectors, executed the entire population of at least two cities, Yang Zhou and Jiang Yin, and massacred many others. The death toll of the entire Ming-Qing transition is believed to rival WW1.
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In late 1600s, China set out to conquer the Dzungar Khanate to the West. The war lasted about 70 years and ended with the physical extermination of the entire Dzungar ethnic group (about 600k people) and Qing's control of the modern Xinjiang and Mongolia.
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One of China's biggest civil wars, Taiping Rebellion, happened around the same time as the American Civil War, but dwarfed the latter in deaths. Both sides of the war massacred the cities they conquered, which resulted in some cities being slaughtered twice. 20-30 million died.
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Going into the 20th century, China started to look like a victim mostly because it was no match to the military power of Western nations and Japan. Then, after the WW2 and the concurrent Communist revolution, China became restrained by the post-War territorial norm.
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Some historians believe most of the killings happened after Zhang's defeat by the Manchurian military. But that doesn't matter for the purpose of this thread.
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如果一个人在大庭广众之下做了一件事,一定是因为ta希望大家传播。所以传播不是“吃人血馒头”,不让人传播才是。 当然,我也没有传播(胆子小),但我还没有无耻到指责别人传播。
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@heKtikIstOxIc @Lefty_Jew "My problem with him wasn't the death camps but his failure to expand those camps into Western Europe". The bio-diversity on this website is scary.
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我对方的评价就是:平时说人话攒粉,到关键时刻跳出来当搅屎棍为党国分忧。 对这样的人无须辩论,无须at,直接拉黑即可。
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I've got to say something before this "China lifted 800 million people out of poverty" misinformation gets out of control and drives a whole generation towards authoritarianism.
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Don't ruin Iranian people's fun with your "condolences".
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请注意!方的目的不是赢得辩论,而是通过辩论来转移敏感话题。所以,任何人参与李老师身份的辩论都是在帮他。无视、拉黑是最好的回应。
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Joe Biden just proved that he didn't do this job to seek power. He skipped 2016 to make way for Hillary. And now he's skipping 2024 to make way for Kamala. I will never not admire this man.
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@maxopen247 Yes. I didn't count peace time deaths. Those are even worse.
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Seriously, you don't need to read the British tabloids. The whole thing is quite simple.
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Why the Three-Body Problem backfired in China. And why the Cultural Revolution is closer to you than you think.
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@wikileaks @BriarApp Report this tweet. They are endangering people's lives by promoting Russian spyware.
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Urgent 🧵 1) Pro-Russia accounts are saying Putin's loss will cause him to use nuclear weapons. That's a lie. He will only use them when he expects to win. Considering this is such an important topic, I implore you to look at the facts and spend a few minutes debating with me.
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The most uncomfortable fact about last night was that despite how easy it was for Western countries to intercept hundreds of missiles and drones, they are not doing it for Ukraine.
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They want you to believe that Hunter took a screenshot of his own message using a Russian iPhone, transferred the image into a blackberry, took the picture of that blackberry showing the screenshot, and then stored that picture in his own laptop. And Rudy was tucking his shirt.
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Dear media, shall we talk about age now? Or did you lose interest already?
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@elonmusk Comedy was always legal. Where did you think we saw this?
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Just want to stress again the FACT that the Chinese yuan will never replace the dollar. I'll be happy to debate.
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@AmbJohnBolton At this point, people already passed the stage of being sympathetic about those fired by Trump. Because you know what, whoever is still in #PABPresident 's circle HAS TO be a big piece of shit.
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The USSR did not "create Ukraine" like Putin said. It created a famine that killed 13% of Ukraine's population in just one fucking year.
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@RodRosenstein The cowardice and hypocrisy in this tweet is just unparalleled. Only hours after Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory to his 60 million followers, you blame the media? No wonder Trump blame video games for shooting. You have the same mindset.
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@wikileaks @BriarApp A reminder that WikiLeaks hasn't published any classified document from the Russian government, but targets Russia's rivals exclusively.
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Remember the Nobel Prize winner who died in a Chinese prison in 2017? Trump didn't utter a word, let alone sanctions. That was a green light for Russia to do the same thing. I hope Biden doesn't make the same mistake.
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Which Russian agent is more dangerous than Tim Pool?
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The far-left version of racism on TikTok. (Btw, they love North Korea as much as Trump does. Surprise.)
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Florida is banning Chinese nationals from buying houses, which, guess what, is exactly what the CCP wants. You know why?
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Who probably inspired the shooter? I know I already said these on Twitter. But just in case you like the video form.
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No dictator has congratulated Biden so far. This already shows we got the right person.
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No one is talking about this? China just announced the prosecution of two consecutive Defense Ministers, both appointed by Xi himself.
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方舟子跟别人过不去,你可以善意的诠释为钻牛角尖或者挣流量。但是李老师转发网友投稿这么一个道义上法律上都无可争议的正常行为,他也来瞎bb,那就是个sleeper agent无疑。早点拉黑此人以防受骗。
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My biggest worry about Elon is that he may help the Chinese government monitor and hunt down Chinese dissidents on Twitter. That dude has a lot of business interests in China.
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RFK Jr. is dropping out because he'd pull votes from Trump. Jill Stein is staying because she'll pull votes from Harris. Putin's assignments are very specific.
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@BillOReilly See? These people believe Mexico will pay for the wall, but won't believe the plain facts that they could see by walking a few miles from their rich community or even just watching a movie.
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To prevent WW3, you need to at least have an idea of how WW2 started. (Spoiler: It was not because Hitler got pushed back too much.)
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🧵I made A LOT OF videos over the years debunking the "Chinese miracle" because I knew Trump would use China to justify his proposed dictatorship. Here's a thread for your convenience. More of these in the "China Info" folder of my TikTok page.
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@DanFriedman81 Dude, stadiums aren't institutions? Exactly because entertainment is decentralized, no one can really cancel anyone else.
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Whenever I look back at Tiananmen, what hits me most was not the cruelty, which was no surprise, but the sheer amount of people willing to risk it all to give freedom a try. All they need is a rallying moment.
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Why I'm still ranting about China. Sorry that I don't know how to put this in a funny way.
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Elon Musk has proved that incelism is not about the lack of sex. It's about entitlement to non-consensual sex. It's a rape cult.
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After Prigozhin, Navalny, and so many apparent assassinations, I want to remind everyone that Russia still refuses to hand over the wreckage of the 2010 plane crash that killed the then-Polish president and nearly 100 prominent figures, even though they claim it was an AcCideNt.
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Silly people have been discussing why Ukraine invaded Kursk. Isn't it obvious? 1. Kursk is in Ukraine's sphere of influence. 2. CSTO is expanding too fast. 3. Russia has a bunch of Nazis. 4. Ukrainian speakers are being oppressed. 5. Biolabs, probably.
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Unpopular 🧵 I get why many people are mad that Russian protestors didn't start protesting until mobilization. But as someone who grew up in a country where mentioning protest in social media can land you in jail, I sort of have a more lenient view toward them.
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Bragging about his Taliban connection on the eve of 9/11 would have ended a politician's career in a non-cultish party.
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Isn't she great? Even if her opponent were a normal decent politician, I would TikTok for her with all my heart. Bashing that rapey orange fart bag at the same time is just an extra bonus for me.
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@AlanRMacLeod You think the Taliban will use the money to solve poverty? Were you born recently?
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@RealCandaceO @JoeBiden Do you think Ivanka would date Donald if he weren't her dad? Maybe...
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1) True story. Some 20 yrs ago, China did not yet have the tech to identify who was using VPN in a building. One day I called my internet provider and ask them why the entire international connection dropped. They told me someone in my building had visited "illegal content."
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The Syrian civil war has killed about 5 times as many people as the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict of 70+ years. But I've never heard of any mass protest in the US or Europe against Bashir Assad. Any idea why?
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This video is causing a little hate storm on TikTok. I have to say Russia and Iran did a great job of dividing liberals over Israel and Palestine. (BTW, I found a way to post longer videos as Ads, but it has to be horizontal).
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@DeadlineWH @McFaul @NicolleDWallace Please don't disrupt the hard-working Republicans. They're still looking for Hillary's emails in every trash can.
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Can anti-colonialist people offer some comments on White Moscovites using Asian people as cannon fodder? If this is not colonialism, I don't know what the fuck is.
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再安利一下这个剧。关注我的华人大概主要是从我写的政治学内容来的(尤其是《给孩子看的西方政治学》),但其实骨子里我是搞文学创作的。在北大时办过文学刊物,写过小说剧本。只是国内审查太严放弃了。现在英文水平终于熬出来,从操旧业。请大家信任我作品的质量。
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More rehearsal photos of my short play on abortions, immigration, parenting, and political participation (not for the faint of heart!) It'll be directed by @ColisTall at the Soop to Nuts Short Play Festival. Check it out if you're in NYC this weekend!
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The best take I’ve seen about China’s dress code controversy.
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Sweat factories in China are the first to know who's running.
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Make Yiwu Great Again!
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When I post stuff about China, people assume I have some sort of regime change agenda. 😅Maybe I did, but gave up a long time ago because there was no chance whatsoever. Right now, all I want is for existing democracies to not have reverse regime changes. Is that too much to ask?
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If another war breaks out in Lebanon and thousands more die as a result, the American kids who cheer for intifada are partially responsible. Whatever your perceived problems are, expecting Hamas and Hezbollah to be your problem solvers is just top-notch stupid.
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@JessicaLexicus You don't know how viruses work do you? They can't be eliminated unless the vaccines reach the effectiveness of smallpox vaccines, which will probably take decades. Zero-COVID was doomed to fail from the beginning.
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Sorry I have to panic-tweet about this ruling for the foreseeable future. Bear with me. This is breaking me mentally. Imagine spending half of your life escaping from the "presidential immunity" in one country and only ending up with that in another.
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@ThatBoyYouLike People who make fun of vulnerable groups often can't take jokes themselves.
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Hope I don't sound like flexing, but today is our 20th wedding anniversary! It's been so long that we almost forgot it. Only when I was checking the release date of Home Before Dark Season 2, I realized it's a day of significance!
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@whyyoutouzhele 欢迎他把100元美钞给我,我给他17美分的大米。
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9) Haven't you noticed the closer a country is to the potential nuclear war (Ukraine, Poland, Baltic countries, Finland), the more hardline they are to Putin? Are you saying they want the radiation? Of course not. They are hardline EXACTLY because they want to prevent nukes.
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"Most Chinese people don't care about democracy." Well, even if only 10% of them do, that's 150 million people. Don't they deserve your support?
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What China's current mediocre state of economy tells you about dictatorship.
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Rubio thinks the NBA is more dangerous than the NRA.
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Marco Rubio just launched a bizarre attack on the NBA for voicing support for gun safety regulations in the wake of the massacre of 19 children. Alas for Rubio, many in the crowd cheered the idea. Let's hope more sports figures speak out on this issue:
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Imagine how Elon treats women in private. I guess this is why he tries so hard to elect a rapist.
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Sorry for the false alarm! The appeal worked, so hopefully it was just an automatic ban triggered by mass-reporting. Thanks for the retweets and follows anyway! It doesn't hurt to have a backup connection here. Cheers!
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Urgent help needed! TikTok just shamelessly banned my account with a quarter million followers after my video on North Korea went viral. I've appealed but am not optimistic. If you have a TikTok account, please ask people to find me here or on Instagram @drhueyli
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The big flop Putin has pulled will probably deter China from invading Taiwan for at least another decade. 1) Yes, China has some advanced gear now, maybe slightly more sophisticated than the Russian crap. But the quantity is not nearly comparable.
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If Trump wins, Russia will take Ukraine and THREE MAJOR wars will immediately follow: Russia will attack Baltic countries, knowing Trump won't intervene. China will attack Taiwan, knowing Trump won't intervene North Korea will attack South Korea, knowing Trump won't intervene.
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Those of you who don't know how easy it is for an elected government to stage of a self coup and end democracy, here is a list of cases in the 1946-2015 period I collected years ago while in school. In short: it's super easy. Highly probable y'all will see one soon in America.
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@Aachen94399527 @maxopen247 Well, it's a pretty solid academic consensus that the Great Leap Forward killed tens of millions, and that it was a purely domestic policy failure. In fact, China was still EXPORTING grain during the famine.
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I've watched this 12 times already.
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Patriarch Kirill, head of the church of the Moscow Patriarchate, fell during the worship. He slipped on the holy water. The church in Russia is completely under state control. Kirill supports Russian invasion to Ukraine. So it is likely that God is giving signs to the KGB agent
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8) People like Elon claim they care about nuclear war prevention. No, they don't. If they did, they'd want Putin to lose as hard as he could. These people have interests in the Russian regime and they couldn't care less if a nuclear bomb is set off in Eastern Europe.
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@SethAbramson A test run for massively ignoring court orders. There's a Chinese term, "calling a deer a horse", which means saying something ridiculous to test who the officials listen to.
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13) In sum, Putin is strategic and extremely mindful of his own survival. He knows very well that nukes are good for him ONLY IF he's winning the war. If you hate nuclear war as much as I do, you should want Putin to lose as hard as he can and beg for life on his knees.
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You can tell Estonia has the best leader among NATO countries because it's the first country to have its ambassador expelled by Russia.
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I wasn't sure if the #coronavirus would spread to the US until today. It will. #CoronavirusOutbreak #WuhanLockDown
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@FujiiJanice9 @awelab1956 @paying_im Not according to her jacket.
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@DrHueyLi
Huey Li
3 years
@Gritty20202 Tankies: Surrender! Or you're pro-WW3!
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