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- Pergi ke Singapura, sadar mustahil menjadi negara maju tanpa tata kelola yang baik.
- Pergi ke China, sadar betapa jauhnya Indonesia tertinggal dalam teknologi dan industrialisasi.
- Pergi ke Jepang, sadar bahwa disiplin adalah fondasi kemajuan.
- Pergi ke Korea Selatan, sadar bahwa investasi pendidikan dan teknologi bisa mengubah nasib bangsa.
- Pergi ke Taiwan, sadar bahwa penguasaan teknologi bisa menjadi kekuatan ekonomi dunia.
- Pergi ke Jerman, sadar bahwa industri manufaktur dan pendidikan vokasi sangat menentukan.
- Pergi ke Swiss, sadar bahwa negara kecil pun bisa menjadi sangat makmur.
- Pergi ke Belanda, sadar bahwa keterbatasan sumber daya alam bukan penghalang kemajuan.
- Pergi ke Amerika Serikat, sadar bahwa inovasi dan riset adalah mesin pertumbuhan ekonomi.
- Pergi ke Vietnam, sadar bahwa negara yang dulu tertinggal pun bisa berlari lebih cepat.
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Chinese AI shows are the best man, Mbappe, comedy and a real dose of history in one video
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⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE ⚠️
The lies and manipulation by the pro Hamas anti-Israel propaganda machine is a phenomenon that will be studied by many future generations and psychiatrists. The level to which they’ve deliberately lied, edited, cropped, and manufactured false stories as well as revised huge chunks of history has been astounding.
But for me personally, one incident more than most stands out that highlights so many things at once, but especially the lies.
On February 5, 2024, an incident occurred near al-Eizariya in the Ma’ale Adumim area of East Jerusalem. The entire incident was captured on film in full.
Yet a day later thousands of propagandists took the footage and edited it, cutting out almost the entire incident and leaving just 8 seconds of footage showing the moment a 14 year old Palestinian boy was shot by Israeli police.
What the propagandists deliberately edited out was the footage of the boy walking casually up to the border police, then pulling out a large knife and begin stabbing one of the officers violently. The officer struggled with the boy and managed to get distance, then the boy ran across the road and was shot by another officer and killed.
But the edited footage was shared and viewed tens of millions of times, shared by media, celebrities, and anti Israel politicians from around the world.
A day later the full footage was then released which showed the indoctrinated boy stabbing the police officer and then running. But the damage of the lies was already done.
Here is the full video which clearly and unequivocally shows the boy walking up to the police and stabbing them before being shot. This is a common occurrence. Palestinians frequently use children as young as 8 to commit horrific attacks including suicide bombings. And their parents don’t mourn. They smile and celebrate it. That is the culture and the people we are up against. And that is what is soon coming to every country in the West. They know your weakness. They know how to break you. And so many fall for it every single time.
Watch how they operate.
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In 1992, Paul Verhoeven asked Sharon Stone to take off her underwear for Basic Instinct. He promised the camera would not see anything.
They were shooting the famous interrogation scene. Verhoeven told her the white cotton was reflecting the studio lights. He guaranteed nothing would be visible on screen. Stone trusted him.
Months later, she sat in a screening room watching the final cut. The scene played. She realized she was completely exposed. She walked straight up to Verhoeven and slapped him across the face.
But Verhoeven tells a different story.
He claims Stone knew exactly what she was doing. According to him, she watched the playback on the monitor immediately after the shot. He says her outrage months later was pure panic, fueled by agents who told her the scene would ruin her career.
Stone called her lawyer. Under Screen Actors Guild rules, she had the legal power to force the studio to cut the shot.
In the end, she let it stay. She admitted it was exactly what the character would do.
The consequences were a mix of massive success and a hidden trap.
Financially, Basic Instinct grossed over $350 million worldwide. Stone was paid a flat fee of $500,000. Since she was not a proven star before filming, her contract had no backend points. The studio made hundreds of millions off that single shot. She saw zero extra dollars from the box office.
Career-wise, the scene made her a global superstar, but it boxed her in. For the next decade, Hollywood only wanted her to play the cold seductress. She had to fight aggressively to prove she was a serious dramatic actress.
That struggle eventually led to her Oscar-nominated role in Casino, which finally allowed her to command $5 to $7 million per film.
As for the director, the broken trust was permanent. Stone and Verhoeven never worked together again.
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Free speech is an alien concept to the Chinese.
They can’t model what a free mind in a free country is like, so they assume the Japanese 🇯🇵 react exactly like them
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China is a bully and they need to be put in their place.
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⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC VIOLENCE ⚠️
This isn’t new or recent, but it is fairly common and recurrent.
Two 14-year-old Palestinian boys walked into a supermarket and stabbed an off-duty soldier to death. Civilians in the store shot them both.
Normal kids don’t wake up one morning and simply decide to do that. Someone (UNRWA, PA and Hamas) spent years teaching them that killing Jews is the highest thing they can do with their lives. That’s the problem.
The innocent victim was the off-duty soldier, NOT the children.
When people scream about the “innocent children”, how can you tell who is innocent or not? And by the time you try to find out, you’re dead. That’s the entire Islamist ideology and strategy.
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Jostein Hauge doesn't speak a word of Chinese, but he feels entitled to pontificate about a country he's spent a few weeks in at best, and blocks anyone who points out how disgusting his apologism for crimes against humanity is.
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While the entire Chinese internet is condemning Mbappe's comment that "hurt the feeling of the Chinese people in and outside China", his actual words - "I think he is a Chinese dicator" is censored by Beijing. No one on Chinese state media and social media can one find that sentence. So I asked Deepseek, the Chinese AI chat both the question. It refused to answer.
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Xの自動翻訳を通じて、中国人同士(海外組が多いですが上海の人も確認)が毛沢東の功罪を語り合う投稿を目にし、「これはなかなか聞けない」と熟読しました。毛沢東が1958年に強行した「大躍進政策」は農村を荒廃させ、少なくとも2,000万人もの餓死者を出したとされ、中国国内でも「失敗」と位置づけられています。この惨事を招いた背景には、農民が製鉄に駆り出されて収穫ができなくなったことや、非科学的な農法の強要などがありました。
中でも最悪の結果を招いたのが、収穫量の水増し報告です。地方幹部は党上層部から課されたノルマを達成するため、農作物の収穫量を競うように水増しして報告しました。国はその水増しされた数字をもとに穀物を徴発したため、農民の手元には食べる分すら残りませんでした。
さらに、食糧生産のノルマを達成できなかった農民は『穀物を隠している』と決めつけられ、暴力的な取り立てを受けました。幹部らによる殴打や拷問、見せしめの処刑によって、「少なくとも250万人が殺害された」と推定する歴史家(F・ディケーター)もいます。
死者2,000万人というだけでも途方もない数字ですが、2008年、元新華社通信記者の中国人ジャーナリストの楊継縄(よう・けいじょう)氏が、党の内部資料を徹底調査し、死者数を「約3,600万人」と著書『墓碑』で発表しました。同書は丁寧な取材が評価され、国際的な賞を相次いで受賞しましたが、中国本土では「発禁処分」となり、楊氏自身も海外での授賞式への出席(出国)を阻まれました。
その後、イギリスの歴史家フランク・ディケーターが地方の公文書などを調査し、2010年の著書『毛沢東の大飢饉』において犠牲者数を「4,500万人」と推計しました。従来語られてきた2,000万人をはるかに上回る数字です。同書はイギリスで最も権威あるノンフィクション賞の一つ、サミュエル・ジョンソン賞(現ベイリー・ギフォード賞)を受賞しており、国際的にも高い評価を受けた研究書です。
これほど膨大な犠牲者数が指摘されている以上、国家として公式な再調査を検討すべきですが、中国共産党は『毛沢東の功績は誤りを上回る(功七罪三)』としています。結果、毛沢東個人の責任を具体的に追及するような言論は「党への攻撃」と見なされ、事実上、公の場では批判できないのが実情です。
以下、中国語で投稿されていたものの中から、生の声を7つ紹介します。身の安全を考慮し、名前は伏せます。
★A氏
《毛沢東が大躍進に固執したせいで大飢饉が起き、3,000万〜4,000万人が餓死し、社会全体が回らなくなってようやくやめざるを得なかった、ということはずっと知っていた。しかしつい最近になって初めて、大躍進の時期に役人による拷問や殴打などの直接的な暴力で死んだ農民が、少なく見積もっても約250万人いたことを知った……。私は激しく衝撃を受け、心を揺さぶられた。
一つ目は、「受難者にも序列がある」ことへの衝撃だ。(後の文化大革命では)紅衛兵に辱められて自殺に追い込まれたり、直接殴り殺されたりした教授には、学生がいて、家族がいて、彼らに代わって記録を文章で残してくれる人がいた。では(大躍進で死んだ)農民は? 1960年に安徽(あんき)省のどこかの農村で幹部に殴り殺された農民は? 彼が誰だったのか、誰が知っているだろう。どうやって死んだのかさえわからない。
二つ目は、農民の境遇への胸の痛みだ。毛沢東の政治言説の中で、農民は高い地位に祭り上げられていた。偉大な革命を実現する主体であり、「人民万歳」の主体だった。それなのに当時の役人たちは、口では毎日「人民万歳」と叫びながら、穀物を取り立てるために、すでに飢えて骨と皮ばかりになった農民を一人また一人と殴り殺していった(以下、毛沢東に意見した者は失脚したことなど)》
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★B氏
《あの頃のことを思うと、みんなお腹が空いても「お腹が空いた」とは言えなかった。言ったらそれが党の食糧政策に反対することになるんだ……》
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★C氏
《建国から2年余りで、かつての革命の古参幹部たちがさっそく大っぴらに汚職を始めたから、「三反五反(さんはんごはん)」運動(汚職追放運動)を始めることになったのだ。役人たちは好き勝手にふるまい、腐敗がどんどん進んでいった。連中の考え方は相変わらず、出世して高い地位に就くという昔ながらのものだ。共産党は天下を取ったように見えて、実のところ天下は昔のままだった。こんな腐った根っこの上に社会主義を築こうなんて、それこそ愚か者の寝言だ》
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★D氏
《まず土地改革で地主の土地を奪い、公私合営(国営化)で資本家の工場を奪った。それから、将来世の中がひっくり返って地主に取り返されるのを恐れ、罪をでっちあげ一家もろとも殺してしまった。続いて、地主から土地を奪った人民公社には生産を組織する能力がなく、そこに水増し報告の風潮が重なって大減産となり、農民が餓死した。餓死者が出ていることを隠すために、穀物の徴発をさらに強めて輸出や都市への供給に回したので、餓死する農民はさらに増えた》
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★E氏
《だが、毛沢東が27年間で成し遂げたことにも注目すべきだ。識字率の向上、農村への医療の普及、農奴の解放、天然痘の根絶、人工衛星の打ち上げ、原爆・水爆の開発、周辺国との国境紛争での勝利、麻薬の禁止、国連安保理常任理事国の議席の獲得……。これを100年ではなく、27年でやってのけたのだ》
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★F氏
《一番つらいのは、この(死者数千万の)歴史が、今日までまともに語れないことだ。数字や詳細を挙げると、すぐに削除される。覚えておくのは、過去を蒸し返すためではなく、普通の人々が政策の失敗のツケを払わされるのを繰り返さないためだ》
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★G氏
《独裁者一人の愚かな決定だったとはいえ、体制の中では誰も反省せず、誰も抵抗しなかった。裏でこっそり手を組んで、表向きは従うふりをしながら実際には従わない、という知恵を働かせる者もいなかった。みんなが互いを死に追いやるほど締め上げていたのだ》
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最後のG氏の言葉「体制の中では誰も反省せず、誰も抵抗しなかった」は、現在進行形で当てはまる国が、世界のあちこちに存在します。
わが国の政府は、トップが誤った判断をしたとき、それを修正できるものであると信じたいです
#毛沢東 #大躍進政策
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中国宪法规定,我国的国体是人民民主专政 (dictatorship)。按照定义,专政政体的最高领导人一定是独裁者 (dictator)。以污言秽语竭力论证毛主席不是 dictator 的人们,你们妄图否认我国基本体制,是何居心呢?
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A Chinese anti-scam blogger was kidnapped, tortured, and left to die on a mountainside after he named the Chinese nationals running massive telecom fraud compounds in Cambodia.
In August 2024, Wu Kai (online name “Huijian”) publicly exposed violent crimes, casino lending, and scam operations linked to senior figures in the Prince Group and Jinbei Group. These industrial-scale compounds in Cambodia are overwhelmingly run by Chinese networks. He was among the first to name them.
Weeks later, an overseas contractor posted a bounty on Telegram, starting at 300,000 yuan and rising to 1 million yuan. Men posing as police grabbed him in a Huizhou parking lot. They forced him to delete his WeChat posts, beat him, and used pliers to clip off half a fingernail.
On November 11, 2024, the main attacker kicked him in the head until he was unconscious on a remote hillside in Jiangxi, then covered his body with grass and left. Villagers found him two days later. He died from blunt-force head trauma.
The ringleader who carried out the beating received a suspended death sentence. The overseas contractor who ordered and paid for the hit remains free. The man Wu publicly accused was extradited to China in 2026 and is under investigation.
When someone who exposes industrial-scale fraud run by Chinese networks can be hunted and killed inside China, what does that say about the cost of speaking out?
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Don’t EVER tell me that Flydubai Captain Smit Machchhar isn’t a hero, or that it was just an ‘altercation’ in the cockpit.
The man is a genuine HERO who saved 174 lives from a scumbag Islamic jihadist who wanted to end 174 lives.
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If Yao Ming had said "I think George Washington was an American slave owner"...
1. He would be correct
2. Few Americans would care
3. George Washington didn't initiate a ten-year-long violent mass movement against his own countrymen.
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最近,日本TBS電視台播出的熱門諜報劇《VIVANT》(別班)第二季,竟然也被中國官方認定為「辱華」。
這部由堺雅人、阿部寬等明星主演的電視劇,描寫日本秘密情報組織「別班」的故事。其中,中國情報人員對日本特務施以切斷手指、刺傷腹部等酷刑,引發中國官媒強烈反彈。
中國的央視不但指責這部戲「顛倒黑白」、「刻意抹黑中國」,甚至無限上綱、扣帽子說是「日本政府的認知作戰」,稱之為「認知投毒」。
我看了只想說:人生在世,真是想不辱華都難!
前幾天,法國足球巨星姆巴佩只因談到一張把自己合成毛澤東的搞笑圖片,就引發軒然大波,連中國央視都暫停轉播西甲比賽。
中國人的民族感情,似乎已經脆弱到碰一下就會受傷。但奇怪的是,中國自己拍了多少抗日神劇?手撕日本兵、褲襠藏手榴彈,把日本人描寫得愚蠢、殘忍、毫無人性。還有大量抗美援朝的影視作品,把美國軍人塑造成邪惡的侵略者。
至於曾經讓中國觀眾熱血沸騰的《戰狼2》,更把外國反派描寫成野蠻、殘暴、草菅人命的惡棍。
中國可以天天醜化外國人,稱之為「愛國主義教育」,但外國影視作品只是出現了幾個中國壞人,就變成了「辱華」和「認知作戰」。這究竟是什麼雙重標準?
更有意思的是,日本首相高市早苗也曾公開表示想看《VIVANT》。中國官媒特別把這件事拿出來批判,彷彿連首相看什麼電視劇,都成了政治問題。
不過,央視這麼大張旗鼓地宣傳,恐怕反而替《VIVANT》做了免費廣告。原本不知道這部戲的人,現在可能都想找來看看。
中國長年煽動民族主義,把任何批評都上升到國家尊嚴,結果讓自己陷入騎虎難下的困境。政府不敢表現寬容,民眾也越來越經不起玩笑。
最後,想起網路上流傳的一句妙語:「稱它為小國,人口太多;稱它為大國,器量太小。所以取其中,稱為中國。」
不知道這句話,又會傷害多少人的民族感情?
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This might be the craziest one yet.
They are MORTIFIED when they believe that Trump had s*x with a 9 year old, but refuse to condemn Muhammad when they found out he was the culprit.
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“You can’t reform any institution from inside because people don’t act against their own interest. The only way you reform institutions is by competition from the outside.”
— Milton Friedman
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This is honestly shocking.
Three months ago, Hong Wang was awarded the Fields Medal for resolving the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions.
Today, OpenAI released a proposed proof of the conjecture in ALL dimensions.
And that’s not all. It also announced a proposed existence proof for quantum chromodynamics and a proposed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis.
Experts say that, if confirmed, these would be Nobel prize and Turing award level discoveries respectively.
A journalist just asked me: “What remains for humans to do?”
I think it’s becoming increasingly clear that more and more problem solving will be automated.
But humans will remain crucial in determining the direction of discovery. Deciding which problems are worth solving.
Because the value of a discovery depends on our needs, our priorities and the kind of world we want to build.
There will be a shift from problem solving to problem setting.
I also think there will be huge individual differences.
People with strong critical thinking skills, creativity and imagination will be supercharged by AI.
People without those skills risk surrendering to it.
I’m particularly concerned for children, who may never develop these skills.
I think epistemic literacy - how to distinguish information from knowledge - is the single most important skill we should be teaching.
































