香港,中国

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Cake day: March 13th, 2022

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  • White people before they visit Tibet: “Oh, the government requires we have a guide with us? Ohoho, is that to stop us from seeing things we shouldn’t see? Is that to stop Tibetans from seeing how glorious and enlightened we are as we prance about with our unfettered freedom?”

    White people coming back from Tibet: “It’s a good thing we had a guide with us. They don’t warn you about how thin the air is! [they do] We didn’t think we’d need any help with breathing [because we assume we’re better than everyone else]. Some of us would have literally died if our guide didn’t arrange for oxygen tanks for our hotel rooms.”









  • It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

    I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

    If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.



  • I got a new one yesterday. White guy in Hong Kong says to me “no you mustn’t eat pork when you go to the Mainland, that’s how they hide the bodies.” This was from someone who takes as a point of pride that they read the NYT cover-to-cover every day, but idk where they got this gem from.

    So in case anyone’s wondering, according to this guy the “CCP” has been promoting pork as a major part of Chinese cuisine (Which Chinese cuisine you ask? All of them) because it tastes similar to human flesh. He says “you’ve got to tip your hat to them” because it’s evil genius: it lets them hide evidence of their crimes and it solves famine issues.

    The best bit, he then says to me, dead serious: “how else do you think North Korea did so well in the Olympics?”