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I read the title as Chino blocks Bandcamp and wondered if he was getting sick of the amount of new bands coming through with a classic Deftones vibe lol

Sputnik has a news team!

yes. we are very mighty!

@Shemson i have zero morals or principles, but giving deftones extra publicity on this site is still beneath me :]

lmao

Big if true.

will the successor project to nightmare puppy be called xi jingping's pathetic micropenis and if so what platforms will it be available on

it will be a experimental cross-media venture. i'm (uh) sounding out potential channels of transmission

nuke china[2]

>Sputnikmusic's news team is currently investigating the matter.

Phew I was getting worried there

leaks say slex was an undercover chinese spy trying to dismantle dying online music forums one at a time

“ This has been viewed as economically viable by many, since the UK fishing industry is predicted to reach its full peak at approximately the same time as the country's arts scene will be declared dead”

lol

Thank you honorable chairman 中华人民共和国万岁

free Hong Kong @winnie the pooh

The UK not securing visas is a cock up - China vetting what their citizens can access to such a stringent degree would appear to be a longer term policy. Ominous.

it’s not looking good over there

I mean they also banned BBC but this feels like the start

BBC was previously only viewable in some diplomatic centres and hotels apparently, and the recent 'full' ban was in response to UK gov banning an effective Chinese state propaganda channel, but yeah the scene is a bleak one.

small if true

Uighurs are being killed and rounded up en masse bummer about Bandcamp tho

This kind of castration coming out of dictatorships (whether leftist or rightist) is proof that we still have a long way to go.

Never underestimate human stupidity.

what's the sussex end why is my county relevant please explain mr weeb language teacher

Sussex
Sus
Amogus

i had a similar query sint, a similar query indeed

That's a bummer, man.

fwiw UK Gov tried to get artists visa exceptions and the EU said no

but also lol china

sussex has south somewhere in its etymology i think and in this scenario south is bad, but i probs should have used suffolk instead tbh

shart harder

dumfuk commies strike again

tl;dr but memorized the title thanks

The bends is a decent record but like half the songs are ballads and the track list is all out of wack

China's such a bullshit country. Enslaving Uyghur Muslims, purchasing large swaths of land in Africa, buying properties in the US, influencing US professors and stealing technological 'secrets', encroaching on Taiwan, getting in the pockets of our fucking president, and recently Eric Swalwell. Yeah China is a son of a bitch

>influencing US professors

?

and don't forget the China virus

>influencing US professors

?

[2]

"don't forget the China virus"

okay, woah there

Hoping that was meant to be ironic, but idk anything about that user.

Damn it sounds like Wretched hates america

""don't forget the China virus"

okay, woah there"

Irony - Sput : 1 - 0

good irony !

yeah lol what's a strain of thinking that has put vast numbers of western Asians including some of my friends on the receiving end of boneheaded racist abuse if you can't be ambiguously ironic about it on an otherwise (mostly) justifiably anti-China thread, good 1 very classic take that sputnik

sorry to flip but maybe pick a better trumpism to riff over next time, yea?

"Damn it sounds like Wretched hates america"

Same

this website is going to give me an aneurysm, well-written article though

-- Curiously, China's Bandcamp ban comes not long after the finalisation of a collaboration between Bandcamp and the Chinese Taihe Music Group

The label is based in Hong Kong, so...

Now we just need it banned in Japan too so the staff review section can have albums that aren’t just v-tuber laugh compilations

"Sputnikmusic's news team is currently investigating the matter."

This sentence makes me inexplicably happy.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/heroes-and-villians/images/8/83/Winnie_the_Pooh.png/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20191229203055

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWCCnOkODok

Best article ever written for this site haha

>”influencing US professors”

“?”

He’s sharing his conspiracy theory that universities are spreading socialist/communist ideas with China’s direct influence as an excuse to explain why so many university students have left leaning beliefs

In other words WretchedCocophany is full of shit and speaks in half truths

China isn’t even communist, it’s literally the most ruthless capitalist country in the world.

of course they would

When you get an education you realize that China is the best country

Yeah a re-education lol

yea

"yeah lol what's a strain of thinking that has put vast numbers of western Asians including some of my friends on the receiving end of boneheaded racist abuse if you can't be ambiguously ironic about it on an otherwise (mostly) justifiably anti-China thread, good 1 very classic take that sputnik
sorry to flip but maybe pick a better trumpism to riff over next time, yea?"
Gee, you gone and overreacted. It was a trumpism alright, and I meant it as an add-on to Wretched's preceding anti-China rant that sounded grotesquely comical in much the same vein. And you know said Trumpism was directed primarily at the Chinese government in the context of trade wars, right? Containing insinuations of state terrorism etc. rather than derived stereotypical conceptions of Asians spreading Covid around the world. Anyway, can't believe I feel compelled to explain and defend myself over this. I'll riff along over any old trumpism I choose, thank you

Johnny you write well. I enjoy your content

This is bad news for the Chinese metal band ghost bath.

"China's such a bullshit country. Enslaving Uyghur Muslims, purchasing large swaths of land in Africa, buying properties in the US, influencing US professors and stealing technological 'secrets', encroaching on Taiwan, getting in the pockets of our fucking president, and recently Eric Swalwell. Yeah China is a son of a bitch"

Yeah i thought only the US could get away with those things damn

China is trash, agreed

I wonder how tankies will try to spin this one

Johnny for news mod tbh, this is ur calling

When I heard they banned winnie the pooh in China I thought for sure it was a shitpost. Even after seeing a few sources report on it I still thought it had to be satire. They are all the way out of their damn minds

Also yes to Johnny being news mod. These articles are hilarious

Do the Chinese have workarounds though? VPNs and stuff?

@Treb either ignore it or celebrate it as "rejecting Western Imperialist Capitalism™"

this is best news article I've ever seen here.

CCP strikes again.

tianamen square massacre 1989

Beijing Biden bout to end this mans whole career

China should become more active in other countries. I bet they could solve some conflicts in the middle east.

"China isn’t even communist, it’s literally the most ruthless capitalist country in the world."

the Government is literally called the chinese communist party lol

my nan is called susan it doesn't mean she is susan




ykno

My therapist keeps telling me they're not "the rapist" yet it's right there in the name.

Why are you allowed to write news articles

for real though you're pre dumb if you think china is run like a pure communist country

JOHNNY? I'VE GOT CINCINNATI ON LINE 1

no country is a 'pure communist country' in 2021. but they are further on the side of communism than capitalism, the market is not free and the state owns and is involved with the majority of major corporations.

it is amusing when westerners think they know more about what communism is and isnt than the literal chinese govnt tho

i wasn't arguing for china being capitalist (tho,,)

n dumb i have literally got 8 copies of Das Kapital in every room of the house so ??

"the Government is literally called the chinese communist party lol"

so? simply allowing other countries to exploit you for cheap labor is 100% the opposite of communism

btw if you did your research you'd know the CPUSA is also not a communist party but literally just a cringeworthy extension of the democratic party

speaking of which i hope to see the fall of NAFTA sometime in my lifetime

https://youtu.be/8fwgVUfW_O4

"n dumb i have literally got 8 copies of Das Kapital in every room of the house so ??"
damn i only got 6 so you got me there


"simply allowing other countries to exploit you for cheap labor is 100% the opposite of communism"
well its them who are exploiting their own labour force so.....

but i guess you must know more about communism than the people literally born and raised and running the system

There’s a reason the Democratic republic of Congo doesn’t call themselves the collector of children’s body parts, and the ccp doesn’t call themselves Uighur genocide.

Thankfully we will soon reach the end of that discussion and agree on the best economic system.

No no we shall leave behind personal grudges and let science lead us to the optimal society.

oh they were banned

Dong Hai

"well its them who are exploiting their own labour force so....."

[citation needed]

"China isn’t even communist, it’s literally the most ruthless capitalist country in the world."

You're right. Its a capitalist dictatorship with no Catholic culture - which is even worse

"the Government is literally called the chinese communist party lol"

I take it you believe the democratic republic of north korea is a democratic republic then?

Frankly it's not just your understanding of communism that becomes questionable when you say this stupid shit, it's also your understanding of capitalism. You clearly know jackshit about either.

sorry guess youre right, ill tell big Xi to come to the sputnik comments section if he wants to learn from a real communist

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/shock-move-facebook-blocks-news-055801381.html

Rowan is fucking heated

dear leftists if censorship of free speech is so GOOD then why do i get ads for hot singles in my area????

The Nazi's were called the National Socialist German Worker's Party.

They were neither Socialist nor Pro-worker lmao

It's true insofar as they appealed to workers and socialists with populist rhetoric but yeah of course once they came to power they dropped all pretense of being pro-worker.

"And you know said Trumpism was directed primarily at the Chinese government in the context of trade wars, right"

sorry, trump branding covid as a chinese export for cheap political scapegoat points somehow absolves his words of any wider, individually-directed public impact? Wretched's points were full of shit and have been rightly called out as such, so i guess full grotesque comedy points for you, kiddo. gotta catch em all!

"I'll riff along over any old trumpism I choose, thank you"

best of luck with that !

Seeing people talk about communism and socialism on the internet has been so cringe, its like they all got their definitions from CNN and Fox.

CCP gonna CCP.

"You're right. Its a capitalist dictatorship with no Catholic culture - which is even worse"

China is not capitalist. They literally have a social credit score defined by governmentthat determines whether or not people can get car and home loans, etc, which is basically the most anti-capitalist thing I can think of short of robbing the citizenry at gunpoint.

Maybe if you whine on Twitter about it, the chinese government might unblock Bandcamp!

congrats to jotw for somehow having an even worse thread than my Lush Rimbaugh dumpster fire article, truly, give this man moderation power

"basically the most anti-capitalist thing I can think of short of robbing the citizenry at gunpoint."

capitalists do that literally every single day

also car and home loans are literally only a thing in capitalist countries

god I love hearing people bitch about china

Lmao glad the the Sput Bleak-Satire hour is going strong sweet write up

China is not capitalist. They literally have a social credit score defined by governmentthat determines whether or not people can get car and home loans, etc, which is basically the most anti-capitalist thing I can think of short of robbing the citizenry at gunpoint.

you're describing authoritarianism, which isn't mutually exclusive to capitalism. And I don't know if that credit score thing was ever confirmed to be a really real thing by actual Chinese people. Most writers about it are westerners or anti-china propagandists.

This is OMG! grade material : ]

Yeah people that say China isn't capitalist are the same people saying that "um actually Hitler was a socialist"

The Chinese government is shit and always has been, but if you use that as an excuse to spew hatred towards the zillions of Chinese people across the globe, I would love to tear out the middle part of your nose giving you a single nostril.

“I’m not spewing hatred, I’m looking out for my best interests!” K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBjx45D3qw&ab_channel=SupercatStudios

"if you use that as an excuse to spew hatred towards the zillions of Chinese people across the globe, I would love to tear out the middle part of your nose giving you a single nostril"

preach it

more like ban-camp amirite?

based.

Fuck this. I'm losing more and more ways to share music with my friends over in China.

doesn't like everyone in china use zpn's anyway

lol at people who even think communism is a real thing

"Yeah people that say China isn't capitalist are the same people saying that "um actually Hitler was a socialist""

Sounds like you don't know what capitalism is. Quick primer: if government is involved, it's not capitalism.

only trve laissez faire metal here m/

true m/

pwn3d

"And I don't know if that credit score thing was ever confirmed to be a really real thing by actual Chinese people. Most writers about it are westerners or anti-china propagandists."

I lived there for 4 and a half years, can confirm it's real (I am not Chinese, though, and therefore don't have firsthand experience of it)

"If you want to see the violence inherent in the system, stop paying your rent."

only trve laissez faire metal here m/ [2}

""And you know said Trumpism was directed primarily at the Chinese government in the context of trade wars, right"

sorry, trump branding covid as a chinese export for cheap political scapegoat points somehow absolves his words of any wider, individually-directed public impact? Wretched's points were full of shit and have been rightly called out as such, so i guess full grotesque comedy points for you, kiddo. gotta catch em all!

"I'll riff along over any old trumpism I choose, thank you"

best of luck with that !"

You're doing a good job in making it seem like any use of trumpism in context is somehow inherently apologetic of all its possible meanings and connotations independent of situation and speaker. Sput comments sections are not exactly world famous for their purely referential and denotational nature, as I'm sure you are aware of yourself. And dude (or should I say: kiddo), if your article is replete with irony and sarcastic mockery itself (and why shouldn't it be - it's written for Sput after all), why would the comment section be radically different?
So best of luck in granting users that comment on each other's comments on what you wrote, the benefit of irony in the future.
Good article btw, keep it up.
P.S.: in case there's any doubt left, I like Asians.

Darius's activision blizzard account just got permabanned, no refunds

"Sounds like you don't know what capitalism is. Quick primer: if government is involved, it's not capitalism."

was this supposed to be ironic?

But how will Ghost Bath distribute their music to their countrymen

This is one of the funniest Sputnik posts.

xi jinping looks down at penis, indeed I do

Not to change the topic at hand...but can someone tell bandcamp to get a new UI like jesus the site drives me up a wall sometimes on how clunky and bad the site works.

"And dude (or should I say: kiddo)"

"P.S.: in case there's any doubt left, I like Asians."

Cringe and lol what, respectively.

This thread definitely didn't disappoint. Also the guy above that said america has completely and extremely only gone to the right and then follows that up by saying only people to the right of biden speak in half truths has to be a troll

The line between troll and american is getting blurry

ameritard

"the Government is literally called the chinese communist party lol"

wait till this guys finds out about buffalo wings

lmaoooo

when u skim wikipedia before ur presentation

What's the closest a country has come to achieve communism?

Uuuuhhhhh... Cuba? I think... maybe... probably not.

ussr during stalin's reign, clearly

Jack I thought you were gonna nail this question

Dude how the fuck would I know I majored in English not geo-politics

I'll disregard your input then

Wonder what the cool label pest productions is gonna do.

"I'll disregard your input then"

That would be wise

"The People's Republic of China" HAH!! Nothing about China is republic OR for the people. Should be renamed "the greedy domain of fear and lies"

I fucking hate Ji Xinping so much. Dude is a cunt

For the past 3 years and to this day, it has been known to the UN that China are committing genocidal war crimes akin to the horrific acts of the Nazi party. But we won't do anything because of economic repurcussions (a situation our respective countries leaders have put us in for the sake of greed).

based china tbh bc promotes waaay too much gay stuff on the main page

"I fucking hate Winnie the Pooh so much. Dude is a cunt"

FTFY

Every time a Danish politician is being interviewed about China it's very cringe.

They have to somehow balance moral standards with trade demands. And pandas. And it's not pretty.

But what can they actually do?

Every time a Danish politician is being interviewed about China it's very cringe.

They have to somehow balance moral standards with trade demands. And pandas. And it's not pretty.

But what can they actually do?


Lie to them on the surface but enact deep sanctions in private and divest from them business-wise.

America should be sinking Chinese oil tankers in Iran. We have a treaty in place banning the practice, but Iran are a bunch of shitstains that break the treaties.

Banning Chinese fentanyl would be a good idea too. Something like 100 deaths every day. Its equivalent to chemical warfare.

Not sure a right-wing American should hope for justice. That stuff can really backfire.

"but Iran are a bunch of shitstains that break the treaties."

Yeah hmm i wonder why they dont take the very trustworthy USA's treaties seriously.

for that you'd have to actually know about american history tho

America and Iran. Two of the most untrustworthy nations forming a treaty with each other based on mutual trust.

You really can't make this shit up.

Yeah hmm i wonder why they dont take the very trustworthy USA's treaties seriously.

Because fundamental Islam is stone age retardation that thinks that women don't have souls.

wow islam sounding kinna based now...

oh i missed this huh

P.S.: in case there's any doubt left, I like Asians.

@death youre gonna have to make a new pasta list for all the bullshit in this thread jfc

"Banning Chinese fentanyl would be a good idea"

yea i agree with this. although i wonder what proportion of it is coming over legally for pharmaceutical purposes. regardless, the prescribing of fentanyl is honestly criminal

"P.S.: in case there's any doubt left, I like Asians." [2]

based and asianpilled

They didnt keep the treaty because islam, very intelligent and nuanced take from meridiu (its latin), as usual.

the revolution will NOT be televised, fyi

Because fundamental Islam is stone age retardation that thinks that women don't have souls.

that was christianity until like five minutes ago but i doubt we're counting that

Islam is a religion of peace.

What y'all are really talking about is Wahhabism.

It will be much easier to get rid of islam if we get rid of christianity first

Got to set a good example.

Why don't you keep the "internet atheist" personality in 2012 where it belongs.

This comment section is a shitshow even by Sptunik standards

Can't wait to hear which year 'Christian' belongs to. Afaik Paul thought Jesus would be back during his life, so I guess 50 AD.

Not really, this was pretty normal for sputnik.

jeez eg stfu

wonder if theres a way to get passed it for citizens, i knew of some black metal bands from China who were on Bandcamp

pretty sure everyone uses VPNs in china

"China Blocks" would be a sick band name