Beijing and the Provinces: Geographic Disparities Among CCP Elites
baronpa.comam I reading this correctly? Shandong is the Wyoming of the PRC, and Sichuan is the California?
Guangdong is CA, Sichuan is.. OH? Shandong is.. WV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong%E2%80%93Hong_Kong%E2...
=.= not sure if WV has anything like Jinan or Quingdao?
when I think WV, I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9eHp7JJgq8, so ... Shanxi?
(I'd been basing my assignments on over/under representation, eg https://www.thegreenpapers.com/Census10/FedRep.phtml?sort=El... , not culturally)
Shenandoah Germans?
Chose WV over DE/RI from here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1f8d9th/how_many_e...
Shenandoah Germans, if you look at the river itself, were in west Virginia (a valley away from Charlottesville), not West Virginia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_Germans#/media/File...
lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVz_IJoyO6Y
EDIT: as to the claim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_Germans#/media/File... , I was more into the klezmer stage at Jazz Fest than the gospel tent, so I can't say, but think there may be one or two similarities, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLTLlGCknUw doesn't strongly resemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYH4K1eR118 , but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nQPlvT9U5c does resemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Vl_ujSQ3Q (I think the idea was dance tempos were of the flesh but slower tempos were of the soul?)
FUN FACT: I think we get the phrase "to park a car" from the horse and buggy days; you'd put your car(riage)s out in the park (meadow).
eec would concede that poetry has the licence so statistics doesn't?
https://www.caliper.com/featured-maps/maptitude-german-ances...
(Pendleton County)
ReDM is all about Buxton-sync-practice?
I meant that, e.g., both (/some) losers and psychos are liable for narcissism, while clueless block the sync. (Update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532128)
Re SY-S "triad"(not triads, see below)/FCF flamegrills: "the Right Stuff" in its essence would be the rare confluence of paradoxical traits, dharmic orgs (which, indeed certain um, armed tools of _the_ hegemon are-- tho not the ones they fully control) would be setup to go through the pop like a comb (or baleen, to use a submarine metaphor)
(I meant that flamewars might be good for picking up some stragglers missed by the comb)
This explains why universal conscription is probably necessary for a sustainable democracy (to echo the "propagandistic" sci-fi of a Navy man (USNA 1929))
(At the very least, LGBTQ would have firearms or handheld(food) awareness)
(Not to forget that soldiers in touch with the citizenry are more liable to switch sides
https://www.iconnectblog.com/the-professional-duty-to-resist...
Couldn't find the Type 56 video that told the story so I'll just point out the regional PLA vs Red Guards CR standoff for contrast
Edit: https://youtu.be/qgAFK8m2_bY )
Pendleton: probably mostly due to a low overall population, but I must admit the karst and the panorama would've made them feel right at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendleton_County,_West_Virgini...
Whoah. Just started Type 56[0]; no wonder people were so uptight about "don't trust anyone over 30" — put in the CR context it sounds much more inflammatory than in the context I had had hearing it; that would explain the buckshot at Berkeley. (I guess one strong advantage of going to one of the Haidian Unis would be that the student population there can undoubtedly demonstrate with relative impunity; after all Mr. Chen will be on their side?)
Does 中共中央马克思共产主义学校 sell merch? I think I might be tempted to order a container load of "Party School of the Central Committee..." T-shirts; if the slang in the States hasn't changed they'd probably go like hotcakes there!
I'm pretty sure the triads in Operation Magpie/Finch [I can believe finches eat mantises, but magpies are great at theft] weren't deadheading[1]; wonder what they took out on the HK-PRC leg? (payment doesn't make sense, as many goods are valuable yet small and light... crypto is about as small and light as one can get; does it even obviate the need to wash money?)
Also on the to-read list: Edmund Wilson's criticism of Ernest Hemingway; maybe I just bounced off the ad-copy vibe of his style?
[0] I've always heard stories like we use such and such so the enemy can't use our stores, but it seems that everyone: Oceania, (Eu)Rasia, and EastAsia, has standardised on 7,62?
[1] People are saying: Thing is, when you have a perfectly set up system for smuggling something out, why not smuggle something in as well?
Type 56 seems to have been for export, just like QBZ-195-T
Oops, you're right. What was I thinking?
(oh, I see: I searched on 7 dot 6 2 november alpha tango oscar, which is indeed a thing, just not the thing)
A thought on universal conscription: over here we don't have truly universal conscription (just got voted down), but we do have universal male conscription (with exceptions for objectors and people out of the country), so the male portion of the police force doesn't feel any need to run around in "tacticool" — they get enough of that every year during refresher training. In fact, our police don't even normally wear helmets.
Time for a NATO-wide Standards Committee on Responsible (and Excellent) Cosplay?
(Possibly under the aegis of NATO CPD?)
(inspired by the last 3 items on this list
https://www.angryflower.com/1587.html)
Ps: is that Kira (We The Living), Rearden (but looks like Roark from Fountainhead) and Ayn herself? Who's the blonde prepster
I think he's got the mic at 1:50-1:55 of "Tea Partay"? (even in blazer at 0:07)
Chilling from our heads / in white tennis visors / right down to our toes / in a pair of Top-Siders
ReDM?
Nerdlist is missing "MMO w/ lore" but I'm guessing it was a few decades too early for those?
Religious Dance Music (resonant rebel yell)
There are two types of Baptists: (a) the ones who dance, and (b) the ones who never have sex standing up, because it might lead to dancing...
lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLSo3cRh6g
Did the CPC invent twitter?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big-character_poster#:~:text=M...
> Many people read big-character posters, which were filled with scandals, rumors, and spy stories, as "real-time drama."
without comment: https://chineseposters.net/sites/default/files/2020-06/e13-7...
I think my favourite so far for 川-ification would be: https://chineseposters.net/sites/default/files/2020-06/e39-1... (昨日真人秀明星，今日制造业专家)
or maybe https://chineseposters.net/sites/default/files/images/e37-16... ?
it's funny how conservative iconography is; as late as 1993 the outer door gods are still riding horses!
Only pinned tweets these days
