Earl Grey

@Taomeow your cat series here reminds me of this illustration and others of a similar vein in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_to_William_Blake's_Inn

Nope, now you're saying "Oh, but I followed the rules and stayed on topic" and sound like a guy who got caught by highway patrol saying that you were driving at the speed limit rather than the flow of traffic, and surely he can overlook the fact you were texting only a little. All through your head you are going "These are not the droids you are looking for." Same tired tactics, same manipulation, same attempt to have a silver tongue. The hole you dig is only getting deeper.

Bait and switch and avoiding the conversation--you started by your two messages I quoted earlier and now you are backing out because the spotlight's been shined on you. Nice way to point a finger right back after you've been cornered. QED. Thanks.

Between personal inconsistency and false effect (and a very passive-aggressive ad hominem, too), you seem to enjoy continuing your habit of trying to be the cool and self-important former mod who had false reasonableness and false equivalence to equally false egalitarianism. At no point was it ever in doubt that the members who left or were banned were abhorrent perpetuators of Alt-Right views, given that Sean personally asked them to leave, and they formed their own forum in response. Then you make the absolutely bogus statement that ralis made a "completely false statement" which reads more like wishful thinking than it sounds like Sam Spade coming in to show how he solved a case through his own brilliance and sleuthing. It's as though you're trying to be clever and hoping everyone will give you a pat on the head, but sadly, it only serves to make you appear as sincere as Richard Nixon, as eloquent as Elmer Fudd, and as intelligent as Gomer Pyle, while in your mind, you are Arthur Fonzarelli. It is also as if you are posting this either because of complete lack of self-awareness, or you are doing so hoping to win some sort of approval in other forums where disgruntled former members are reading what you're writing.

I didn't read that as being mutually exclusive--I read that as Walker pointing out that there is rampant racism in China. It does not negate anti-Chinese racism, but rather it seeks to show that there is a startling amount of racism there, which can be seen in the article he just posted from the Guardian. In other words: racism against Chinese happens, yes; racism from Chinese happens, yes, as opposed to the point you allege (bolded, my emphasis), though I suspect as you mentioned you're not reading his posts fully anymore, it reads more like a provocateur since you have demonstrated before you are able to comprehend, scrutinize, and discern with ease. I've encountered a lot of racism within China and overseas Chinese too--some of it is just innocent naiveté, some of it is atrocious, and some of it is downright despicable. Three examples of those: 1) a Chinese person asking if all black people really stink when I mentioned I lived in Tanzania before, 2) saying they will only marry someone who is not just Chinese, but from their own language group or region (Fujian with Fujian, Cantonese with Cantonese, but not even Taishan/Toisan) and characterizing other groups such as HK or Taiwanese as though they were like other races, 3) Uighur stories not different from what Walker posted. I'll pre-empt any examples of American racism being brought up in response and say I've experienced the same before, even in supposedly "diverse" cities like Los Angeles and Boston, and finding the current "ironic" hipster racism to be far more annoying than anything else, and feel that it set the stage for the MAGA hate now. To an extent, the Progressive SJW agenda comes off as guilt-laden well-intentioned people who are unknowingly still working off of racist ideas, similar to this: Literally this kind of scene happened to me when I was in Northampton, MA, but with some Progressives. Friendly and nice, sincere, but totally clueless about what they were doing.

Because people would rather have something fantastic to feel special and part of something different than deal with reality. The trick to having the fantastic in reality is to see the magic in reality itself.

On Februrary 11th, 2020 this was changed to the official current name, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2

Yes. Multiple requests here: https://www.thedaobums.com/forum/14-forum-and-tech-support/

It's in your brief member history: I saw someone looked in my PPJ once and didn't recognize the name, so I went to see if you were someone who just changed their username or something.

Syndromes can have many causes and a wide range of different symptoms for the same cause. Symptomatically the diseases caused by the original 2003 and SARS-CoV-2 are very similar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndrome

Did one book come from a guy nicknamed "Astral Al" who just called it "The Book of Gnostic Magic"?

Not to mention that there are books out there claiming to teach Gnostic magic from the 1970s and even in contemporary times claiming to be an authentic lineage, but verifying it to me is a waste of time because some it comes across more like someone who read a few texts and threw together some ideas and called it authentic Gnostic work...

The Dr. Li infographic is propaganda bullshit. SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and the current coronavirus is commonly called SARS-CoV-2 and the like. It always was perfectly reasonable by the good doctor to identify the disease by its syndromatic symptoms.

Sorry, but the BRI portion is complete shit. I see what has happened in Sri Lanka and Cambodia personally from work there, and over here in the Philippines is something Duterte and others are disregarding entirely against overwhelming research showing the BRI sucks. Their expansion into the Spratlys and West Philippine Sea are a daily headache.

Try this:my friends and me when we went to Beijing for MUN back in high school, we had a friend whose parents were historians and literature teachers respectively from Taiwan in our group. We met a couple of university students who were with the youth group for the CCP, who quoted a lot of lines they claim came from Chairman Mao, and then we pointed out the sources they were referencing were a mix of Laozi, Buddha, Confucius, and even Abraham Lincoln. When we pointed it out to them, they got huffy and puffy and just said the phonetic equivalent of grass mud horse to us and our mothers. Talking to them was like talking to Scientologists.

Hong Kongers as I mentioned above are already weird, but the people Palomides was referring to are still only a small minority compared to the rest. They have a big reason to fight to distinguish themselves from the mainland as their politics and status are far different from that of Taiwan. Here's an Asian American perspective I'll throw in as well: racism is too easy to shut down any dialogue used for the means of discovery and understanding. My problem with the racist angle the CCP is using and feeding Trumpsters and their own bigotry is that it diminishes attention for the actual racism worth getting pissed off about. This has been ongoing since the late 90s and early 00s, and to me, the outrage culture that's so prevalent now is actually what I already saw with some political-minded Asian Americans in college and white liberals in ethnic studies departments. People are more inclined to bitch about an ESPN sports commentator saying that "Jeremy Lin had a chink in his armor" and fire him rather than get mad that the NBA sold out in favor of commerce for one anchor's support for HK protests. In turn, if racism becomes associated with pettiness, actual racism such as hate crimes are ignored because what was once serious is now just considered petty!!! There's something about the racism that creates this nationalistic pride when people want to reconnect to their motherland and confuse whomever is in charge or was in charge with their identity. I saw Filipino Americans who loved Marcos even if their parents escaped his dictatorship, fifth-generation Chinese Americans whose grandparents don't even speak Chinese suddenly learning Mandarin, listening to T-Pop, watching T-Dramas, and then bizarrely, going on cultural trips to China for a couple weeks and praising Mao. Even one guy in his 40s was so sold on it in the early 2000s that he was all about taking Taiwan militarily. When he came out of his phase, he said that that was one group the CCP really wants to bring into their fold: overseas Chinese, no matter how many generations removed, which they do through nationalism in being Chinese, patriotism in their state for making the CCP synonymous with being Chinese, shame at being a twinkie/banana, and fear of being oppressed either by the Japanese or the European allies post-Opium Wars, or their own narrative of racism in America/Europe/Australia. As someone who is only part Chinese and a minority within a minority (Shanghainese heritage Filipino in a majority Fujian-heritage community of overseas Chinese), I'm already uninterested in what they're selling simply because the few Fujian-heritage people I know would rather be Filipino than associate with the mainland again, and the few who are identified as supporters of the CCP have funding for their local businesses here that are already dubious groups. So....

Yeah, nowhere have you ever shown you said anything of the like. If anything, Taiwan would be considered racist for their rightful hate of the CCP--and this is what the CCP wants people to think.

I'll also point out as I omitted this accidentally in my haste to post: That was a small minority that got far too much attention. And there's even some evidence that was also promoted by the CCP. Also, some protests were by dual citizens (HK/UK) - people forget that something like 1/3rd of HK was given UK citizenship. It's not wrong for them to call on their other government, even if it's run by turds at the moment. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/13/beijings-paranoia-sees-the-cia-under-every-rock/

Eh, I have my own reservations about Hong Kongers having grown up there myself for a while. I read about the same thing in the NYT last year, and it sounded more like Eminem wishing he were black. Using western racism to distance themselves doesn't do them anything to further their hopes of distinguishing their identity as unique.

TCM does use a lot of animal parts sadly in some practices like seahorses or bear bile, but that is also something that has been controversial historically and differing schools try to use more plants than animals. There is even a qigong system that forbids the eating of dog meat as it will diminish your power immensely. Master Logray I believe mentioned he was from Hong Kong before, if I recall correctly, so it might be more like Hong Kong-Mainland division if this is the case, but yes, it does sound pretty racist if it were said by a westerner.

I seem to have missed that point as it being "uniquely immoral, unsanitary, uncivilized, as opposed to cow, pig, chicken, etc" on this thread, or I didn't read it that way at all. On the subject of classifying dogs and cats amongst cows, pigs, chickens, etc, this might be another topic worth going into a separate thread over, as while I do eat meat in limited quantities, I also am a pet owner, and for the few Asian members on this forum, it may be an interesting thread if you are game.

They do eat cats and dogs in China--I've seen it myself, even in Shanghai years ago. It's a regular thing that has parts of the population thinking nothing of it and other parts who loathe it and are on the same page as the PETA chapter in Beijing. Eating dogs and cats also isn't uniquely Chinese either. It's been done in Korea and Vietnam, and even the Philippines by certain groups. What is unsanitary is the conditions in which they are kept and that is still overlooking the inherent cruelty of the act. Nowhere do I see any correlation between racism, eating dogs and cats, culture, and corruption scandals. Eating dogs and cats just happens there, and is not justifiable as a cultural norm--otherwise, cannibalism could be justifiable as a cultural norm too in a hypothetical scenario. That the corruption and turning the other way exists even amidst pleas to keep transparent is what is being highlighted. Sure, there's no denying that their loathing for China and Chinese is more for their own power and privilege being challenged rather than the inherent evil in the CCP. I still stand by my analysis of the CCP being evil overall because those policies are still enforced and reinforced. Sure, some people join for saving their own skin, but that's like joining a gang like MS-13 so that you and your family get protected by them-- the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" method is what strengthens such groups.

Eh, I'm Chinese heritage myself too, but I don't see Walker's points as racist. Seeing the CCP as evil isn't racist, and while I do recognize the problem that SirPalomides points out saying that it sounds similar to Trump talking points, the difference is that Trump's words are said in the spirit of racism and campaigning, whereas Walker sees what I see: totalitarianism, which has enough evil with Uighur oppression alone. I used to write for an Asian American rag back in the 00s, and one inane comment someone once made was that he hoped China would become strong so people would be less racist. The lad was a guy who had never left his home state or had any idea of what went on over on the other side of the Pacific, and I and a few of my fellow writers and editors had to take a double-take on the inanity of his reasoning, before deciding to hold off on informing him that a stronger China militarily or economically (likely both) would actually lead to more racism if the 1980s and the Detroit Killing of Vincent Chin is a reminder. In other words: Trump calling the CCP evil isn't because of the Uighurs or Hong Kong or Tibet and the Pacific issues in the Spratlys, it's because he's campaigning and needs a convenient black hat for him to eschew any responsibility for his fuck-ups. Walker calling the CCP evil is the same as me calling them evil: because they are outright despicable. And no, I do not believe the virus was made in a lab in Wuhan. What I do believe is that the inherent weakness of Xi and his megalomania is showing and is harder to hide or justify behind a propaganda machine, just like every Chinese patriot is saying that the virus was made by the US military is as believable as someone who insists that the tooth fairy is real.

At a certain point, the propaganda machine will drown out due to discontent as seen here in social media manipulation patient zero the Philippines is discovering: https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/258827-coronavirus-response-online-outrage-drowns-duterte-propaganda-machine A similar trend seems to be happening cautiously in China I see, but mostly from overseas dissidents sick and tired of the CCP.

Jing is still there. It's more than just libido. Jing comes from proper rest as well.