Resisting oblivion by recording how ppl remain human in a world collapsing into noise. Clarity is rebellion. Memory is the weapon. I'm allergic to stupidity.
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𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 retweeted
اليابان لها 70 سنة تحاول تنشر صورة اليابان اللطيفة بكل العالم و مسوين انميات وبرامج بالمليارات
الترجمة التلقائية باسبوع قلبت العالم كلها ضدهم
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 retweeted
Does your culture war involve sending flowers to some dead Nazis? Is that what you want to defend? “Oh yeah Hitler is great let’s build a shrine for him so we can have our leaders honor his spirit annually”
China’s J-20 designers are proposing something far more interesting than simply “putting a bigger radar on a fighter.”
The idea is to turn multiple unmanned aircraft into a distributed airborne early-warning network.
Instead of relying on one large AWACS aircraft as the fleet’s eyes, radar capability is spread across multiple platforms.
One node is lost?
The network keeps seeing.
Several are lost?
Coverage degrades, but the entire force does not suddenly go blind.
The real shift is simple:
Old model:
protect the eyes.
New model:
give the entire swarm eyes.
First it was “100 years.”
Then “250 years.”
Now “500 years.”
Keep going. Maybe by tomorrow you’ll invent 2,000.
None of your bargain-bin historical fan fiction changes the present.
China’s population, industrial base, economy, military capacity, technological depth, diplomatic weight and global leverage all dwarf Türkiye’s.
That is the part eating you alive.
So you keep digging through Chinese dynasties, desperately searching for some old wound you can lick for psychological compensation.
Pathetic.
You are not studying Chinese history.
You are begging history to give you a victory that reality refuses to provide.
Do the Turks really want to lecture China about “250 years of humiliation”?
That’s just asking to be humiliated.
China has thousands of years of dynastic history before the Qing and rebuilt itself into a major power after invasion, occupation and national disintegration.
Türkiye’s modern story begins with an empire collapsing around it.
The Balkans were lost.
The Arab provinces were lost.
Istanbul was occupied.
The Ottoman Empire was carved up by foreign powers.
The Treaty of Sèvres reduced what remained to a geopolitical carcass.
Your “great empire” disappeared from the map.
And after all that, you ended up retreating into Anatolia and rebuilding a republic from the ruins of an empire that had lost almost everything outside its core.
So spare China the lecture on humiliation.
A queue hairstyle did not erase Chinese civilization.
Your empire erased itself.
China survived the Qing.
The Ottoman Empire did not survive itself.
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If Confucius Institutes are really such a terrifying national-security weapon, China has been wasting a fortune on coast-guard ships.
Why send vessels to drive out illegal Philippine incursions?
Just install loudspeakers on the reef and broadcast the *Analects*.
“子曰——”
Apparently 2,500-year-old Confucius is now more dangerous than missiles, warships, and coast guards.
At this rate, Washington should designate Chinese philosophy a weapon of mass instruction. 😂
The US Department of War has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to American national security. Secretary Hegseth said 80 of them reappeared across 30 universities under different names, with the same mission: to infiltrate the minds of students.
The same is happening here in the Philippines. We host Confucius Institutes at various universities, each with a co-director sent from China. Retired Justice Carpio warned in 2022 that they can propagate the falsehood of the nine-dash line.
Beijing's campaign against the Philippines is not waged only at sea. It is also waged in classrooms. If our closest treaty ally sees these institutions as a national security threat, it is time we ask the same hard questions.🤔
Turkish fascists tell their “Japanese brothers” not to be ashamed of what Imperial Japan did in WWII, but to be proud.
The same Imperial Japan under whose occupation around four million Indonesians died — in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
Then these massacre enthusiasts scream "Israel is slaughtering Palestinians" and lecture everyone else about genocide.
Apparently Muslim lives matter only when the killer fits their politics.
When Fascist Japan does it, suddenly mass death becomes something to “be proud of.”
Meanwhile, the Japanese are screaming:
“Deport all Muslims.”
“Japan does not need Muslims.”
“No Muslim burials in Japan.”
Even Japan’s own embassy in Indonesia has felt compelled to issue a warning, urging Japanese tourists not to rape local underage girls.
Apparently fascism makes strange bedfellows.
The Turks once committed genocide against the Armenians and have consistently carried out massacres against the Kurds—
now, these terrorists have recognized themselves in the mirror.
𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 retweeted
With intellect like this, how could we not mock them?
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For the Chinese, the moon represents space, rockets, civilization, and the future.
For the Turks, the moon represents history and ultimately leads to rape fantasies.
This is the watershed between civilizations.
"The Japan depicted in anime cannot truly be called Japan; it is an idealized utopia."
This is not a contradiction.
It is a clear demarcation.
For many young Chinese today, the "Japan" of the 2D world and the Japan of reality are two entirely different things.
In anime, Japan is an aestheticized, depoliticized, often fictional cultural space:
Summer festivals. Cherry blossoms. Trains. School life. Music. Romance.
Reality is different.
Real Japan remains inseparable from the blood of the Nanjing Massacre, the atrocities of Unit 731, colonial aggression, Yasukuni Shrine, distorted history textbooks, the revival of militarism, and the persistent shadow of fascism.
So yes, a Chinese anime fan can watch hundreds of Japanese anime series and still look at the Rising Sun Flag and say:
"Unforgivable."
That is not "nationalism defeating cultural exchange."
It means a new generation of Chinese young people is mature enough to distinguish between creative works, society, the state, and historical responsibility.
In short:
The "anime Japan" I love is not the Japan of reality.
I can love the cherry blossoms, even while fully aware that countless corpses lie buried beneath the trees—and that the blossoms themselves are stained red with blood.
The timing of the New Yalu River Bridge opening is interesting.
It sat finished for 12 years.
Now it opens while:
North Korea is leaning heavily on Russia,
testing missiles across East Asia,
Trump is trying to reopen diplomacy with Kim,
and Washington is distracted elsewhere.
From the outside, it looks like China and North Korea are getting closer.
I see something else.
Beijing is putting its hand back on the leash.
Russia can give Kim weapons, technology and strategic room.
America can offer talks.
But North Korea’s real economic lifeline still runs through China.
The bridge is not just infrastructure.
It is a reminder:
You can make noise.
You can play Moscow against Beijing.
You can flirt with Washington.
But do not forget who keeps the door open for your country to eat, trade and breathe.
