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#316 - Opium War 1: Chasing the Dragon by The History of China
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#316 - Opium War 1: Chasing the Dragon
In this empire business, you gotta make the opium first. Then when you get the opium, you get the silver. Then when you get the silver, then you get the tea.
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In this empire business, you gotta make the opium first. Then when you get the opium, you get the silver. Then when you get the silver, then you get the tea.
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Chinese authoritarianism has had millennia to refine its applications of force, pacification, & terror tactics... & it still took them the better part of a yr to quell 1 city armed with umbrellas.
2 years later it decided it was easier to let everyone get COVID than continue repressing protests.
2 years later it decided it was easier to let everyone get COVID than continue repressing protests.
It’s interesting to me that the free people of Hong Kong organized brilliantly, but were defeated because they were one city against a vast government with endless manpower for repression.
But this one American city is organizing quickly and is already severely taxing the MAGA regime’s resources.
But this one American city is organizing quickly and is already severely taxing the MAGA regime’s resources.
The city is fully mobilized against the invaders.
January 18, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Chinese authoritarianism has had millennia to refine its applications of force, pacification, & terror tactics... & it still took them the better part of a yr to quell 1 city armed with umbrellas.
2 years later it decided it was easier to let everyone get COVID than continue repressing protests.
2 years later it decided it was easier to let everyone get COVID than continue repressing protests.
Frieren takes this played-out trop & uses it perfectly with the Zoltraak spell.
And instakill absolute trump-card of its time... only to succumb to power-creep over a century, to the point that it just became 101 magic with a dedicated shielding school specifically constructed to counter it.
And instakill absolute trump-card of its time... only to succumb to power-creep over a century, to the point that it just became 101 magic with a dedicated shielding school specifically constructed to counter it.
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Frieren takes this played-out trop & uses it perfectly with the Zoltraak spell.
And instakill absolute trump-card of its time... only to succumb to power-creep over a century, to the point that it just became 101 magic with a dedicated shielding school specifically constructed to counter it.
And instakill absolute trump-card of its time... only to succumb to power-creep over a century, to the point that it just became 101 magic with a dedicated shielding school specifically constructed to counter it.
Remember: if something smells at all swine-ish - it is.
Be aware that federal agents often infiltrate peaceful protests to instigate and provoke violence. These are agent provocateurs who should be treated as hostile actors. This video provides concrete proof of these embedded spies.
January 18, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Remember: if something smells at all swine-ish - it is.
Too real, Detective Du Bois. I'm far too hungover for this level of waxing poetic about the failure of the Revachol Commune... or at the very least, not yet drunk enough...
0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.
January 18, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Too real, Detective Du Bois. I'm far too hungover for this level of waxing poetic about the failure of the Revachol Commune... or at the very least, not yet drunk enough...
[Me, an AI Artist, watching the Subway guy make my sandwich]: "Wow, I'm a real chef now... unfortunately, a very shitty one."
January 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
[Me, an AI Artist, watching the Subway guy make my sandwich]: "Wow, I'm a real chef now... unfortunately, a very shitty one."
My God, we've been sleeping on this for HOW LONG?!
attention to all Chinese Southern US friends: I'm disappointed none of you ever said Ni Howdy to me
January 18, 2026 at 7:52 AM
My God, we've been sleeping on this for HOW LONG?!
Me, to the air-stealing Moon:
January 18, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Me, to the air-stealing Moon:
Mads is the best of us.
"I am simply not online."
Bravo.
"I am simply not online."
Bravo.
January 18, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Mads is the best of us.
"I am simply not online."
Bravo.
"I am simply not online."
Bravo.
ICE Agents brave/stupid enough to still be eating anything that they didn't prepare & pack themselves... much less going to an ethnic restaurant...
well, I hope they have a *very* good nose for what they're putting into their mouths.
well, I hope they have a *very* good nose for what they're putting into their mouths.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 7:09 AM
ICE Agents brave/stupid enough to still be eating anything that they didn't prepare & pack themselves... much less going to an ethnic restaurant...
well, I hope they have a *very* good nose for what they're putting into their mouths.
well, I hope they have a *very* good nose for what they're putting into their mouths.
Just to be clear, because this exact line has been & will be used over & over every time one of these online Nazi dipshits FAFOs...
If Minneapolis had wanted Jake dead today, he'd be dead. Period.
He walked away with little more than wounded pride & shit soaking his underoos because MPLS 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢.
If Minneapolis had wanted Jake dead today, he'd be dead. Period.
He walked away with little more than wounded pride & shit soaking his underoos because MPLS 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢.
January 18, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Just to be clear, because this exact line has been & will be used over & over every time one of these online Nazi dipshits FAFOs...
If Minneapolis had wanted Jake dead today, he'd be dead. Period.
He walked away with little more than wounded pride & shit soaking his underoos because MPLS 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢.
If Minneapolis had wanted Jake dead today, he'd be dead. Period.
He walked away with little more than wounded pride & shit soaking his underoos because MPLS 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢.
Dear Liberal Media Children,
I quit the only real job I ever had, as one of the most powerful people in the world, that I whored my way into by sucking Trump long & hard enough, cuz it turned out I couldn't hack it on account of realizing I'd been sucking off the Pedo-Protector this whole time...
I quit the only real job I ever had, as one of the most powerful people in the world, that I whored my way into by sucking Trump long & hard enough, cuz it turned out I couldn't hack it on account of realizing I'd been sucking off the Pedo-Protector this whole time...
January 18, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Dear Liberal Media Children,
I quit the only real job I ever had, as one of the most powerful people in the world, that I whored my way into by sucking Trump long & hard enough, cuz it turned out I couldn't hack it on account of realizing I'd been sucking off the Pedo-Protector this whole time...
I quit the only real job I ever had, as one of the most powerful people in the world, that I whored my way into by sucking Trump long & hard enough, cuz it turned out I couldn't hack it on account of realizing I'd been sucking off the Pedo-Protector this whole time...
I'm shocked that the likes of Stephen MIller might misread the overall popularity of anything about his stances, politics, or personal attributes.
He's usually such a man-of-the-people, that Stephen.
He's usually such a man-of-the-people, that Stephen.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I'm shocked that the likes of Stephen MIller might misread the overall popularity of anything about his stances, politics, or personal attributes.
He's usually such a man-of-the-people, that Stephen.
He's usually such a man-of-the-people, that Stephen.
Executive Order = writing his wishlist in BIG SHARPIE & U͟N͟D͟E͟R͟L͟I͟N͟I͟N͟G͟ ͟I͟T͟
Donald Trump has as much authority to order such a thing as he has respect for the First Amendment.
That is, none.
That is, none.
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Executive Order = writing his wishlist in BIG SHARPIE & U͟N͟D͟E͟R͟L͟I͟N͟I͟N͟G͟ ͟I͟T͟
Oh, I'm sure we'll get breathless reports out of the white house any day now about how the tattoos somehow mean MS-13. Look, it's right there in comic sans on the ppt...
I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.
January 17, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Oh, I'm sure we'll get breathless reports out of the white house any day now about how the tattoos somehow mean MS-13. Look, it's right there in comic sans on the ppt...
You know what goes great with camo-green?
That's right: DayGlo Hi-vis Yellow!
That's right: DayGlo Hi-vis Yellow!
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
You know what goes great with camo-green?
That's right: DayGlo Hi-vis Yellow!
That's right: DayGlo Hi-vis Yellow!
Here at Mr. Mayonnaise's Mayo Emporium, we only believe in spreading mayo - not nonsense! So we don't!
No political nonsense.
No social media nonsense.
No financial nonsense.
No age of consent nonsense, since it should all be repealed as the Almighty Jehovah intended.
Just mayo you can rely on.
No political nonsense.
No social media nonsense.
No financial nonsense.
No age of consent nonsense, since it should all be repealed as the Almighty Jehovah intended.
Just mayo you can rely on.
Burger-Fi has a strange idea of what it means to be non-political:
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Here at Mr. Mayonnaise's Mayo Emporium, we only believe in spreading mayo - not nonsense! So we don't!
No political nonsense.
No social media nonsense.
No financial nonsense.
No age of consent nonsense, since it should all be repealed as the Almighty Jehovah intended.
Just mayo you can rely on.
No political nonsense.
No social media nonsense.
No financial nonsense.
No age of consent nonsense, since it should all be repealed as the Almighty Jehovah intended.
Just mayo you can rely on.
ICE & Bovino... & the Trump regime overall... are finding out what both the IJA, & then the KMT found out in the 1940s:
Just cuz you can take a city, doesn't mean you can hold it.
When the predator moves through, the shoal of fish parts, then floods right back in behind them.
游击队必须在人民中活动，就象鱼在水中一样
Just cuz you can take a city, doesn't mean you can hold it.
When the predator moves through, the shoal of fish parts, then floods right back in behind them.
游击队必须在人民中活动，就象鱼在水中一样
January 17, 2026 at 9:51 PM
ICE & Bovino... & the Trump regime overall... are finding out what both the IJA, & then the KMT found out in the 1940s:
Just cuz you can take a city, doesn't mean you can hold it.
When the predator moves through, the shoal of fish parts, then floods right back in behind them.
游击队必须在人民中活动，就象鱼在水中一样
Just cuz you can take a city, doesn't mean you can hold it.
When the predator moves through, the shoal of fish parts, then floods right back in behind them.
游击队必须在人民中活动，就象鱼在水中一样
Behold - a gaggle of micropenii, protectively surrounding their one tiny, torsioned testicle.
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Behold - a gaggle of micropenii, protectively surrounding their one tiny, torsioned testicle.
Floridanazi Jake fucked around & thought that Minneapolis was the internet.
Pissbaby Jake found out that it wasn't.
Pissbaby Jake found out that it wasn't.
January 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Floridanazi Jake fucked around & thought that Minneapolis was the internet.
Pissbaby Jake found out that it wasn't.
Pissbaby Jake found out that it wasn't.
"Look upon my works, ye suckers, ye losers..."
A truly Ozymandian monument to futility and the hubris of politicians.
Three years and $3.1 billion later, Abbott may be right. Migrants and smugglers aren’t breaching the bars. They don’t have to, because they can walk around them. apps.texastribune.org/features/202...
January 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM
"Look upon my works, ye suckers, ye losers..."
Big Walter Energy
January 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Big Walter Energy
> It's 4th quarter of the year for US History class, 2076.
> You turn the page to Ch. 27: "Mid-21st Century Shitshow"
> The title-page features this image.
> The prompt reads: "Discuss with your class how this image demonstrates the cultural rot & structural decay of the late American Experiment."
> You turn the page to Ch. 27: "Mid-21st Century Shitshow"
> The title-page features this image.
> The prompt reads: "Discuss with your class how this image demonstrates the cultural rot & structural decay of the late American Experiment."
January 17, 2026 at 8:20 PM
> It's 4th quarter of the year for US History class, 2076.
> You turn the page to Ch. 27: "Mid-21st Century Shitshow"
> The title-page features this image.
> The prompt reads: "Discuss with your class how this image demonstrates the cultural rot & structural decay of the late American Experiment."
> You turn the page to Ch. 27: "Mid-21st Century Shitshow"
> The title-page features this image.
> The prompt reads: "Discuss with your class how this image demonstrates the cultural rot & structural decay of the late American Experiment."
William Napier, 1834
Day 21 in Canton...
Day 21 in Canton...
January 17, 2026 at 6:35 PM
William Napier, 1834
Day 21 in Canton...
Day 21 in Canton...
"He had no experience in trade, nor diplomacy. And, to complete the trifecta, he knew almost nothing about China prior to his departure for it. None of that really mattered, though, because he had something even better: an impressive pedigree as a British lordling with all the right connections..."
In an entire political system built atop the idea of "The Nepobaby," William Napier, the 9th Baron Napier becoming the Chief Superintendent of British Trade at Canton on literally nothing more than his breeding & that he was buddies with the king back in the Navy is perhaps the Nepobabiest...
January 17, 2026 at 6:27 PM
"He had no experience in trade, nor diplomacy. And, to complete the trifecta, he knew almost nothing about China prior to his departure for it. None of that really mattered, though, because he had something even better: an impressive pedigree as a British lordling with all the right connections..."