minecraft Jonathan12345 • 3mo ago • 100%

Can't connect to Lemmycraft

Currently in China, my vpn actually worked for once and I was looking to join, but it keeps saying unable to connect. Is the server still up?

China Jonathan12345 • 3mo ago • 93%

Chinese Ultras

Since I'm currently in China I've been randomly browsing bilibili and under certain videos I have been noticing a certain insufferable group of ultras somehow even worse than (what I've seen of) western ones, who can obviously afford a device and internet yet claim to care for the poor oppressed masses and talk about how capital is destroying people's wills to live and stuff, and continuously use the term 'downtrodden masses'. One even said that modern society was just like in Lao She's Teahouse (where a lady had to sell her child to survive), and shifted the goalposts when asked about this by saying 'muh abductions!111!11!! What I would like to know is, who are these people? Why are they like this? Given that most have obviously not experienced for themselves the massive improvement in quality of life between the 2000s and today, are they mostly too young and have too much free time, or are they petty bourgeoisie who also have too much free time? Am I looking at them the wrong way? Would appreciate insights from those more knowledgeable than me, thanks.

China Jonathan12345 • 3mo ago • 100%

History with Komi: Why did Beiyang China join WW1?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5103306 > Most people in the west probably don't know this, but China actually 'participated' in WW1! But as a backwards country with two governments at this time, why did they do so? Why did they align with the Americans, when Germany had influence within the country? Did China receive any benefits from becoming a victor? Today I'll answer these questions and more. > > In 1914 China had promised to stay neutral in WW1. Before this point, China had only lost in wars against imperial powers, and few desired to take part in another potentially disastrous war. Besides, many warlords themselves held territory in China, and few would have left their holdings to die in europe when potential competitors could simply occupy their territory. In addition, different powerful warlords were backed by foreign powers from both sides, so there was little desire to participate in the global war at the time. > > Germany, however, supported Zhang Xun, who attempted to revive the Qing dynasty, gambling that he would be able to create a German-aligned Chinese monarchy, even providing him with weapons. But Zhang Xun held little military power compared to other warlords, and by easily defeating him Japan-backed Duan Qirui could now call himself the defender of democracy. He reinstated the powerless president, Li Yuanhong, but he himself was appointed as leader of the cabinet. While the cabinet seemed to be engaged in fierce conflict with the President, in reality Li was pretty much alone in his struggle and was always at a massive disadvantage, despite his backing by the US. Primarily this was because Duan had the full power of the Wan clique behind him, while Li had few if any armies of his own. > > The Americans wished for China to join the war on their side, promising to renegotiate some unequal treaties, and Li gladly agreed. Yet the Japanese, supporting Duan, soon began urging Duan to join the war too, seeking to secure what Yuan had promised them in the 21 lines. Seeing the Japanese support China's entrance to the war, the US changed its tune and ordered Li to oppose the war. > > Of course, this opposition could not be held for long, and Duan used German submarines sinking a ship carrying Chinese passengers as an excuse to cut off all ties with Germany, then declare war. > > Despite declaring war, China never sent any troops to Europe, instead providing the entente with over 140000 laborers to aid the allies in constructing works, clearing mines, and other dangerous jobs. In the end, Germany was defeated, eliminating its influence in China, and many hoped that all German interests in China, such as *the entire province of Shandong*, could be returned to China. But things would not be so easy... > > originally wanted to write a part 2 to my last post but too many things happened, so I'm going event by event here. Next post: the Treaty of Versailles and the 5-4 movement.\ https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8C%97%E6%B4%8B%E5%86%9B%E9%98%80%E5%8F%B2/6241211 source this book. You can get it for about 50 yuan and autotranslate it with that camera app or something. https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1AG4y1N78P/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click also this video from Soviet Monitor who is a platform verified expert on the warlord era.

Most people in the west probably don't know this, but China actually 'participated' in WW1! But as a backwards country with two governments at this time, why did they do so? Why did they align with the Americans, when Germany had influence within the country? Did China receive any benefits from becoming a victor? Today I'll answer these questions and more. In 1914 China had promised to stay neutral in WW1. Before this point, China had only lost in wars against imperial powers, and few desired to take part in another potentially disastrous war. Besides, many warlords themselves held territory in China, and few would have left their holdings to die in europe when potential competitors could simply occupy their territory. In addition, different powerful warlords were backed by foreign powers from both sides, so there was little desire to participate in the global war at the time. Germany, however, supported Zhang Xun, who attempted to revive the Qing dynasty, gambling that he would be able to create a German-aligned Chinese monarchy, even providing him with weapons. But Zhang Xun held little military power compared to other warlords, and by easily defeating him Japan-backed Duan Qirui could now call himself the defender of democracy. He reinstated the powerless president, Li Yuanhong, but he himself was appointed as leader of the cabinet. While the cabinet seemed to be engaged in fierce conflict with the President, in reality Li was pretty much alone in his struggle and was always at a massive disadvantage, despite his backing by the US. Primarily this was because Duan had the full power of the Wan clique behind him, while Li had few if any armies of his own. The Americans wished for China to join the war on their side, promising to renegotiate some unequal treaties, and Li gladly agreed. Yet the Japanese, supporting Duan, soon began urging Duan to join the war too, seeking to secure what Yuan had promised them in the 21 lines. Seeing the Japanese support China's entrance to the war, the US changed its tune and ordered Li to oppose the war. Of course, this opposition could not be held for long, and Duan used German submarines sinking a ship carrying Chinese passengers as an excuse to cut off all ties with Germany, then declare war. Despite declaring war, China never sent any troops to Europe, instead providing the entente with over 140000 laborers to aid the allies in constructing works, clearing mines, and other dangerous jobs. In the end, Germany was defeated, eliminating its influence in China, and many hoped that all German interests in China, such as *the entire province of Shandong*, could be returned to China. But things would not be so easy... originally wanted to write a part 2 to my last post but too many things happened, so I'm going event by event here. Next post: the Treaty of Versailles and the 5-4 movement.

Many of you probably know a little bit about the history of early modern China---the fall of the Qing dynasty, the civil war, and the foundation of today's China. Yet there's more to the story of China's path to socialism. Chinese warlords may be a familiar term for some, and for me as well, yet for the longest time I only knew that they existed, not much about who they were, or what they did. A while ago I finally decided to pick up a book written by Lai Xinxia on this period of history. He is a very reliable scholar---after participating in the Chinese revolution he was assigned to sorting the archives of the Beiyang era, and over fifty years gradually improved his draft until publishing the final edition of his book, "History of the Beiyang Warlords", in 2004. I have made a summary of it here to educate more people, something I have not spent as much time doing as I should have. First, a definition. The Chinese term for a single warlord group is 系, which can translate to system, line, etc. The generally accepted english translation for this is 'clique', which I will use here. The english translations for the clique names seem to be based on location (province names) rather than abbreviations commonly used in Chinese. I will be using the Chinese versions here since I'm too lazy to find the english translations for all of them. After the opium wars, many Qing officials realized the importance of self-strengthening and creating a modern army. Li Hongzhan, one of the many han officials who rose to prominence in the last years of the Qing empire, created his own army, the Xiangjun, with modern equipment and training methods. Eventually this unit proved instrumental in defeating the Taiping rebellion, and for a time there was hope within the empire that expanding the 'new army' would lead to the empire being able to resist foreigners and establish its sovereignty. The Empire also created two foreign affairs departments, Beiyang (north sea) and Nanyang (south sea) respectively. As an important Beiyang civil servant, Li Hongzhang was the forerunner of the powerful warlords who would come to control vast portions of China in the first few decades of the coming century. Yet without changing society, the new armies soon fell to corruption, and by the time Japan declared the Jiawu war the Beiyang Fleet, a modernized fleet the Qing government had established, was largely corrupted, ineffectual, and quickly defeated by Japan despite strong patriotism and determined resistance by patriotic soldiers and officers alike. Yuan Shikai was at this time only a minor officer, who at some point was stationed in Korea. Despite a minor incident in which he was reported to the government, many praised his effective training of his own army, with some westerners remarking that China would be saved if they had more units like his. Yet during the invasion of China by the eight powers, instead of going into battle he decided to withdraw to preserve his own strength, with the result that he took almost no losses while his sister units of the new army were completely crushed. After the ordeal, he then escorted Cixi back to the forbidden city, and won the affection of many in government with this action. One thing to note is that in 1895 Yuan Shikai began conducting military drills in Xiaozhan (little station) near Beijing, which many scholars consider to be the beginning of the Beiyang era. In 1911 the Xinhai revolution erupted and the imperial system which had existed in China for millennia was overthrown. While this was a bourgeoisie revolution, it nonetheless pushed history forward greatly in China. Yet at this point many of the revolutionaries were politically naive, including Sun Zhongshan, the leader of the new Republic of China, and believed that their country could not succeed without existing figures of authority in government. This, combined with Sun's own lack of political experience, led to the new government electing Yuan Shikai as its first official president. The Tongmenghui, Sun's revolutionary party, decided to engage in parliamentary politics, and slowly began to lose its revolutionary characteristic. Yuan was not content with merely being president and being constrained by the majority-tongmenghui (which around this time had rebranded itself as the Guomindang, 'party of the national people') parliament. So after a few years of rule and forcing through laws that increasingly gave him power, he finally declared himself emperor of the Chinese Empire and disbanded parliament. Before this, he had also secretly signed a humiliating treaty with Japan to win support secretly in 1915. This will become important later... Yuan's move was met with opposition from almost everyone in China, even including monarchists, who wanted the former Qing empire on the throne. His own subjects were also unhappy, as their potential position as Yuan's successor was now only available to his children. After a few short months Yuan died from sickness, and democracy returned. Yet... During Yuan's monarchy, Sun Zhongshan had advocated for a Second Revolution. Working in the south and gathering the support of revolutionaries and local warlords, he managed to establish a southern government. Yet he controlled very few armies himself, with only a few fleets in the navy supporting him. Most of the armies fighting for the southern republic were warlords who only opposed Yuan for their own gain and cared little for progress in China. In the North, after Yuan's death splits began to appear in the previously cohesive Beiyang bloc. The Wan clique, led by Duan Qirui, and the Zhi clique, lead by Feng Guozhang. While Duan advocated for using force to unify China and defeat the southern government, Feng wanted a peaceful reunification, more because he was opposed to Duan than any other reason. To resolve their conflict, they appointed a third party, Li Yuanhong to take on the role of the president of China. At this point, Zhang Xun, a staunch monarchist, led his army into Beijing with the pretext of mediating a negotiation between the Wan and Zhi cliques. Instead, he seized power with his 'pigtail army' and promptly reestablished the Qing empire, with the child emperor Puyi (who had been treated well and allowed to stay in the forbidden city by the revolutionaries) as its leader. Of course this did not last long, with all the Beiyang warlords coming to oppose him. Duan Qirui gave himself the title of creating democarcy three times with his defeating of Zhang Xun, and the Wan clique at this point became the dominant player on the Beiyang stage. Yet the country was still divided into north and south, and tensions between the two cliques were growing more heated by the day. (part 1 concluded)

It's illegal to stand on your head naked in public and loudly scream that you drink piss every day. You should try this in front of your asian friends (all asians are the same and therefore north korean) and see how this clashes with their ingrained communist upbringing.

Comradeship // Freechat Jonathan12345 • 7mo ago • 100%

Junkosreich is at last complete

After half a year... it's finally done. I'm working on something else original now, with a much larger scale, more detail. I might just give up on a JR sequel altogether. But it was still fun, writing it. To be honest I'd have liked it better if it magically became popular and people interacted with it more, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

Preface: this is not white apologia, I am not white, I am a pure asiatic mongoloid barbarian. With that being said---- There seems to be a sentiment that is largely a holdover from the liberal beliefs about 'bad apples' in our gene pool or whatever. Some people seem to think that we could solve all our problems by not allowing these bad apples to have children. It seems pretty straightforward, right? Parents pass traits to their offspring, you get rid of the bad parents, and you won't have the offspring having bad traits. Well.... aside from that being borderline eugenics, it's also bullshit. Not completely bullshit, but pretty much bullshit. AS FAR AS WE KNOW, BELIEFS ARE ***NOT HERITABLE***. This means that if your parents were bloodthirsty fascists, you are not necessarily a bloodthirsty fascist. Heritable traits are generally much simpler (and by simpler I mean comparatively simpler--- even things like eye color needs hundreds of genes, each thousands of bases long, to be coordinated) than behavioral traits. Which means, aside from a few very, very basic instincts OUR BELIEFS ARE LEARNED AND NOT INHERITED FROM OUR PARENTS. While parents can influence your beliefs heavily as an environmental factor they don't just magically give you ideas when you're born. So there. It feels good to want to murder bad people but just know that until we fundamentally restructure society, killing them will just be like trying to fill up a river by draining it with a sponge.

Comradeship // Freechat Jonathan12345 • 8mo ago • 100%

Three choppers over Hope's Peak ---- Commiespammer's project AMA

Something I decided to draw randomly. Sorry about how shitty it is. Ask me anything about my current or future projects!

TankieTunes Jonathan12345 • 8mo ago • 100%

"Song of the Scout" - Kontingent

Neat song, I'm gonna translate this into Chinese.

TankieTunes Jonathan12345 • 9mo ago • 100%

A Light Flashes in the Dark - EVAKU arsenal

Really reminds me of blue berets' Sineva.

Be sure to read the rule before you leave Jonathan12345 • 9mo ago • 100%

Godawful shitpost rule

This took me way longer than it should have, and this is after I used the draft layer for the final version because I got lazy.

Ah, lungs. The thing that everybody has a pair of. Or, well, most people. But it just sounds better with 'everybody', don't you think? Today we'll be talking about, you guessed it... lungs. Those wonderful sacs that help us breathe air and not die. I'm sure we all know what lungs are, what they look like, and what they do. They're in our chest, and suck in air when we breathe in, then expel it when we breathe out. What more is there to them? Not that much, it turns out, but I'm digging all the shit out to make this post longer. For starters, the lungs aren't exactly static. They want to collapse inward all the time. If they did this, it would be very bad, and when they do this, as some kinds of injuries can cause, the results are indeed very bad and painful to even think about. But, luckily for us, your chest is attached to your lungs (at least, I hope they are). And the chest wants to expand. So a fragile balance is maintained, with the lungs and chest in equilibrium. A thin layer of fluid, kind of like water between glass, keeps the two parts of the lungs attached to each other. So how do we breathe? When we breathe in, the chest expands. This makes the pressure inside our lungs decrease relative to the atmosphere, so air outside flows inward. When we then breathe out, pressure in the lungs increases, which forces some of the air out. Note that there's no way for our lungs to distinguish between fresh and old air, so only a portion of the air breathed in will actually be absorbed by our blood. In addition, it's not possible to force all the air out of your lungs, as I'm sure many of you have tried. This is probably a good thing. Inside the lungs there are big tubes. I forgot what they're called. They branch off into smaller tubes. They lead to alveoli, which is like the only word I remembered from that chapter of vanders. These little sacs are connected to little blood vessels. When blood passes them with high carbon dioxide (relatively, it's still not that much compared to oxygenated blood) and low oxygen, diffusion happens. Carbon dioxide goes from high concentration to low concentration, oxygen does the same, and the net result is carbon dioxide in your lungs and oxygen in your blood. What stops the alveoli from collapsing? A thin layer of fluid that's filled with lipids and stuff that also lubricate it, ensuring that air doesn't only go to large alveoli, which would lead to all the smaller ones collapsing. Even if a couple small ones collapse or get blocked off, the body can adjust blood flow to make sure blood is only going to where it can be properly oxygenated. That's about all I have to say about lungs. If any of this information ends up causing some sort of damage to you, I am not liable.

minecraft Jonathan12345 • 10mo ago • 100%

The Socialist Principality of Sevastopol

 On these islands, just to the left of spawn, I have created two small settlements, a mine and a coastal strip of farm, which I will expand into a principality. Please do not touch these islands yet as I have big plans, but if you're interested in joining the principality comment below.

Comradeship // Freechat Jonathan12345 • 10mo ago • 100%

Join lemmycraft tomorrow at 5 pm ct!

I originally scheduled it for today but nobody joined, partly due to nobody seeing the post, so I'm moving it to tomorrow. The server's been reset to a beautiful mountain bay that could use some developing. Please join!

minecraft Jonathan12345 • 10mo ago • 100%

Lemmycraft Sunday: 5PM CT (MOVED TO SUNDAY)

Please join the matrix. Make sure to join the server on saturday at 5pm ct!