[Killborn]

Does anyone actually read his posts? I get a glimpse of that hyperbole and can't do anything but scccroooollllll past it.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

I don't think anyone really does. From time to time, people will read or notice little bits of his posts, and then respond to him. If you notice the Latin America subforum's list of threads and post count, it's largely just Social Critic talking to himself because no one else really wants to talk to a State Department employee.

Social Critic's posts normally go like this: long-winded discussion of how Venezuela is now a dictatorship, is an imperial colony/tributary state of the Cuban Communist Empire, and there's usually a bulletin list/numbered list of supposed major abuses or bad things about Maduro or Venezuela. Interspersed among this crap there's also deliberately misleading and disingenuous use of the English language: deliberate misuse of words like "social genocide" which other forum users luckily notice and call bullshit on it, dictatorship, and so on.

Ending his posts are typically 1-3 images involving, at a minimum, typically at least one image of a bloodied person in some form or another, and then at least one picture of people taking part in a rally, with a lot of them wearing bandanas on their faces to appear more dramatic and serious.

This is a time-honored formula.

[Maas]

Does anyone actually read his posts? I get a glimpse of that hyperbole and can't do anything but scccroooollllll past it.

I scroll past it.

Ending his posts are typically 1-3 images involving, at a minimum, typically at least one image of a bloodied person in some form or another

Yeah well. Cheap pictures. Them lot are violent rioters. And no self respecting government will allow people to make a barricade on a highway to grind all the traffic to a halt. That shit went on ones in my country, and the response was that 40 busses full with military police showed up for a general lockdown. The rioters were treated as the criminals that they were. And no doubt plenty got beaten till the blood was cussing all over the place. That's what you get when you pick a fight.... and that aint a nice quiet protest

[U185]

no one else really wants to talk to a State Department employee.

If he was State Department wouldn't he be successful on some level? I think you are giving him too much credit.

These posts are very useful for university students who want to prepare a thesis on the failures of post modern "communist" regimes

Stop. Please? Please. No really it almost hurts watching how willing you are to continue to embarrass yourself.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

Social_Critic have you ever lived in the People's Republic of China or North Korea? Can you provide valuable academic insights into both regimes and societies please?

[Social_Critic]

Social_Critic have you ever lived in the People's Republic of China or North Korea? Can you provide valuable academic insights into both regimes and societies please?

I worked in red china, even had the duty to pay income tax. China adopted a well organized plan to become capitalist as far back as 1978. But they decided to keep the party dictatorship, while ensuring a strict rotation of the top echelon. Their economy is managed by graduates from top USA business schools but most guys I met at the top were engineers.

A little story about their culture: in 1991 I had to visit China to review some business with them and also visit some production centers in Hebei. I decided to make my business card in Chinese as simple and unpretentious as I could, so it only read S. Critic, Senior Engineer. When I first gave my business card to my senior host in Hebei he sighed then smiled and told me: "finally, they sent somebody I can talk to". My translator explained they reserved the title for tough alpha male dogs who knew the business and could close deals. We had been sending Harvard types and lawyers with Vice President titles who knew PowerPoint, but the Chinese needed somebody to discuss gears and bolts. I think today's Chinese leadership reflects this cultural bias. Engineers are at the top, their advisors are business types. And there's no sense that they ever relax their discipline or lose sight of the fact that they live in a hellish dictatorship. I think it has mostly fascist overtones, but it's missing the messianic figure at the top.

China's evolution from socialist Mao thought into ruthless capitalism coupled to a dictatorship should receive focus by students writing a thesis about how communism fails and the elite turns into a bunch of fascist thugs.
Regarding North Korea I never visited, but I know their a bomb is fake.

[slybaldguy]

For someone who detests communism why do you constantly end up in 'communist' countries? You'd think having escaped Cuba you'd want to avoid authoritran leftit regimes.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

This one time, I infiltrated the Soviet Union and tore it apart with my bare hands. Unfortunately for me, the entire world is too embarrassed to acknowledge that I brought down the entire USSR. I actually personally don't like talking about it very much. I'm a very humble, modest person that way. It seems like a lot of people are asleep in history class because they miss the part in their textbooks where it says I brought down the Soviets.

Be sure to note down my posts for your academic papers and citations.

[Demosthenes]

This one time, I infiltrated the Soviet Union and tore it apart with my bare hands. Unfortunately for me, the entire world is too embarrassed to acknowledge that I brought down the entire USSR. I actually personally don't like talking about it very much. I'm a very humble, modest person that way. It seems like a lot of people are asleep in history class because they miss the part in their textbooks where it says I brought down the Soviets.

Be sure to note down my posts for your academic papers and citations.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... YOU'RE THE BULABA JONES??? HOLY FUGGIN SHIT MAN! I thought you were just an internet memer using his hallowed moniker in tribute.

I remember back in the 80s, when I was in High School I traveled over to the Soviet Union and we met one time! Fuck, that was the time of my life, drinking Vodka, smoking hash, and crushing the Soviets! Me and you baby, it was some seriously fuck-awesome shit brother!

Glad to know you're still sucking air, crushing communists, and war lording around 'n shit. Did you ever write your first person account of Ho Chi Min and Ataturk? You know, when you visited there during the Vietnam War and at the end of the Great War?

[QatzelOk]

You are calling for nothing less than the armed invasion of a sovereign nation for nothing less flimsy than your own subjective assessment of it as a dictatorship.

Yes, and this would kill hundreds of thousands, impoverish the entire country, destabilize the economic redevelopment of the region.... and just so that a gang of spoiled douchebags can return and live off everyone else's suffering for a few years.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... YOU'RE THE BULABA JONES??? HOLY FUGGIN SHIT MAN! I thought you were just an internet memer using his hallowed moniker in tribute.

I remember back in the 80s, when I was in High School I traveled over to the Soviet Union and we met one time! Fuck, that was the time of my life, drinking Vodka, smoking hash, and crushing the Soviets! Me and you baby, it was some seriously fuck-awesome shit brother!

Glad to know you're still sucking air, crushing communists, and war lording around 'n shit. Did you ever write your first person account of Ho Chi Min and Ataturk? You know, when you visited there during the Vietnam War and at the end of the Great War?

Yeah, it's really me, but unfortunately I don't remember you very well. The Cuban Communists in control of Russia when it was a part of the USSR implanted memory devices in my brain to alter my sense of reality. What most people don't know is that Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis rescued me by opening up a vent in the ceiling, rappelling via cables down a very high wall, and knocking out my Cuban guards in the middle of a Siberian research lab. In the middle of expressing my gratitude to them, they stopped me in mid-sentence and told me I didn't need to thank them. They told me they felt it was their American, and Western duty to all allies and heroes of democracy to save liberty in times of need. They felt truly honored in my presence, and I sympathized with their sycophancy, though it was a good kind of sycophancy. The kind that only grows in the loyal, true hearts of an ex-Batista like myself, or a true American patriot. They asked me if there was anything they could do for me, and I told them they should share my story, although in a far different form of storytelling. The movies Rambo and Die Hard were thus born, although I refused to take credit for the movies, and luckily for me, the settings and storyline were a little bit different.

I haven't actually written much about my personal dealings with Ataturk. Although I am personally responsible for his rise to power, and I left Turkey in good shape after personally reforming it and then allowing Ataturk to take credit for a lot of Turkish reforms, I do indeed have way more experience with Ho Chi Minh. After all, I used to live in Vietnam, and I was being groomed by the Vietnamese to become the next leader when Ho Chi Minh died. When he died, during the Vietnam War, I revealed my secret allegiance to the forces of America by taking a rifle, some grenades, and a map and personally wiping out over 50 border stations along the border with South Vietnam. I begged the US government and the president, with whom I was on a first name basis since he knew so much about my exploits, to invade North Vietnam and end the war in one swift move (I was on the verge of single handedly capturing Hanoi itself in order to hand over the city to the Americans instantly), but they didn't have the stomach for it. This is around the time I ended up going to Cuba and China under assumed identities, and where Fidel was grooming me for a role within the party's elite cadre of members. This was not to be, as my talents were needed elsewhere. I did, however, personally introduce market reforms to China in the 80s after suggesting it to the Chinese leaders with whom I spent most of my time in China with.

But back to Russia. After I was rescued by Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone I marched on Moscow in a military action of one that so embarrassed the Soviet leadership that they refuse to acknowledge it ever happened nor that it was even real in any way, shape, or form. Regardless of their stubbornness, I put a gun to the head of Gorbachev and told him, "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this system."

For some strange reason when I remember this part, there is a woman wearing white clothing that hands me two bright red pills and a yellow and blue tablet, with a small cup of water, telling me, "It's time for your medication." Most likely this is due to the Cuban mind control device implanted inside my brain which I constantly fight against.

The end to this story is history, as you all know. Read any textbook and you will find my immortal exploits championed and heralded.

[Maas]

A little story about their culture: in 1991 I had to visit China to review some business with them and also visit some production centers in Hebei. I decided to make my business card in Chinese as simple and unpretentious as I could, so it only read S. Critic, Senior Engineer. When I first gave my business card to my senior host in Hebei he sighed then smiled and told me: "finally, they sent somebody I can talk to". My translator explained they reserved the title for tough alpha male dogs who knew the business and could close deals. We had been sending Harvard types and lawyers with Vice President titles who knew PowerPoint, but the Chinese needed somebody to discuss gears and bolts.

That doesn't sound plausable at all.
Those people aint stupid. If they want an engineer to tell them things they don't know than they will rent that person with a slight disregard to the price. And if it all works out, they will show up at your hotel eventually with a proposal to hire you permanently.

[Demosthenes]

The end to this story is history, as you all know. Read any textbook and you will find my immortal exploits championed and heralded.

The end is never the end when it comes to Bulaba Jones, its just the waiting period before the newest beginning...

*Curtain closes as the audience begins anticipating Bulaba Jones 5- The Search For Ethereal Life*

[Demosthenes]

Yes, and this would kill hundreds of thousands, impoverish the entire country, destabilize the economic redevelopment of the region.... and just so that a gang of spoiled douchebags can return and live off everyone else's suffering for a few years.

Ah Qatz, fair and good loving Qatz, of course you are correct. However, we must be clear that none of Social_Critic's personal adventuring, nor its murderous results are actually relevant since as a result of his actions, no White people (That is no British, German, French, or lesser miscegenated offspring) shall be harmed in his modern day Filibustering.

[QatzelOk]

Demo, thanks for pretending not to notice that I obviously missed the turning point when this thread became really ninja-centric.

Now, I "get" it.

[voxlashi]

"Venezuela is not a democracy"

Imagine my surprise when I saw who the OP was.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

The title was originally something like "Asteroid hits Venezuela" hence all the asteroid stuff in the first page.

[Social_Critic]

That doesn't sound plausable at all.
Those people aint stupid. If they want an engineer to tell them things they don't know than they will rent that person with a slight disregard to the price. And if it all works out, they will show up at your hotel eventually with a proposal to hire you permanently.

That's not the way it was in 1991. Back in those days they were groping around, and the same applied to foreign corporations interested in investing in China. I guess you may not realize thus fact, but starting in 1979 they began to open up in a realistic way. But China was so big, and we foreigners were kept mostly on the coast and usually in the south. I think I was a member of the first group to travel north into Inner Mongolia, to cities in what had been Manchuria, and later to Hebei. Also it seems to me you don't understand that if a deal is discussed to carry out a joint activity or joint venture we senior engineers do have to discuss real life nuts and bolts.

To be honest, I never felt the communist party could be undermined in China, but we were doing real good killing the soviets, so I stopped activities in China and focused on the former Soviet Union for quite a while.

[KurtFF8]

Ah yes, this reminds me of my time in the Paris Commune. We knew that our project might just not make it, but we had to keep pressing. I know that you were on the other side of the conflict, Social_Critic, but I know that folks like yourself had at least some admiration for us communards (based on my experiences with the occupying army and what happened after)

[Social_Critic]

. OMG do tell!

Check this out


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-21455080

http://www.nature.com/news/isotopes-hin ... est-1.9972

http://www.powerandpolicy.com/2013/02/1 ... d-uranium/

Wikipedia article about test in 2006

At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov stated that "the power of the tests carried out was 5 to 15 kilotons",[22] though this early estimate is much higher than any other international estimate. An early report by the Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources of South Korea said the blast was equivalent to an earthquake registering 3.58 on the Richter scale,[23] which corresponds to the explosion of 100 tons of TNT. This was later revised to at least 800 tons,[24] corresponding to a blast wave of 4.2. The U.S. Geological Survey also estimates the blast wave at 4.2.[25] (Note that 4.2 is considerably more powerful than 3.58 because the Richter scale is a logarithmic scale.)

Designing an extremely low yield nuclear bomb is an art very few have developed. The combination of conflicting yields, the vague isotope detection reports and the lack of a clear seismic wavelet analysis publication tells me the nk bomb is a fake. The superpowers go along to let the North Koreans think they think they have a weapon but the truth seems to be the bomb op is just a bunch of chemical explosives deposited in a cave and set off to detonate as simultaneously as possible. I suggest you look up something like "Pakistan mini nuke bomb capability" or read "the curve of binding energy".