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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Dec 2020

      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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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 9 Dec 2020

      i love him

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      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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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      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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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      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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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      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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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      meanwhile the americans who were not laboring under a needless monopoly were just eating the local trade and vibing

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      uh also we were selling vast quantities of drugs

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 10 Dec 2020

      author is giving an overview of chinas opium culture and so far hes inadvertently making a really good case against chinas ban on opium and against western culpability in any way regardless not sure whether this is deliberate

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 11 Dec 2020
      Replying to @Jenlky

      most use was not to the extent of genuine or persistent harm, enforcement would be worse than the status quo (these were contemporary Chinese arguments), use had been endemic before British imports although Chinese sellers being able to call it Western added allure

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        2. Rouge‏ @80Creature 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @eigenrobot @Jenlky

          There is an inverse of orientalism?! I need a word for this! I promise to use it only in good humour and bad faith...

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        3. Sirsfurther‏ @sirsfurther 11 Dec 2020
          Replying to @80Creature @eigenrobot @Jenlky

          Occidentalism, I assune

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