wonder how the CCP teaches the white lotus rebellion very much wonder this
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hahahaha holy shit the corruption in this rebellion is breathtaking my favorite part is that army commanders often were able to simply steal death benefits from the families of soldiers killed, and so they went out of their way to see as many of their own slain as possible
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meeting now a fellow named Manning who studied math at Cambridge and was expelled for refusing to take tests. hangs out with Coleridge and Wordsworth he gets captured by Napoleon and escapes, having set his mind on exploring China for some reason. decides to smuggle himself in
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doing some side reading the Qianlong Emperor whose reign the author praises was known as an effective genocidist in Xinjiang and Tibet curious the author never mentions this very curious also apparently the Chinese state exterminating conquered asiatic peoples is lindypic.twitter.com/3j3Tt8hWww
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one thing I think about a lot that other people don't seem to is that genocide is actually something close to a human norm throughout history and maybe you should include that as a local tail risk
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lol the War of 1812 spilled over to Canton royal navy ships tried to capture american privateers who captured british merchant ships chinese did not find this amusing but the anglos didnt stop they liked the game too much
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just listened to the story of the disastrous Amherst mission to Peking it was quite painful everyone was so fucking bad at diplomacy, cringe the whole way through they actually ended up shooting at each other for no clear reason then were too embarrassed to mention it later
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meanwhile the americans who were not laboring under a needless monopoly were just eating the local trade and vibing
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Replying to @eigenrobot
hello bmo what is your all time favorite season of anime
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ughh impossible maybe a monogatari season but they all blended together possibly atla season 2
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