/lit/ - Literature

>/lit/erases
/lit/erates* autocorrect mistake.

>>7797907
La bondojito

>>7797910
Are you Mexican? I love your food.

>I'm from Turkey/Antalya.

FOH DE EMPRAH!

>>7797912
I'm not Tayyiplover or Ottomanfag.

>>7797916

If you say so, sweetie.

>>7797907
Syracuse -- New York, that is.
I like to think of myself as Greek though.

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>>7797907

istanbul

en iyi sehri baskenti olmayan bir turkiye bir de avustralya

>>7797964
suh dude

Hmm looking for western bf fatima, I'm not like hornyturks

>>7797942
Whoa Delhi here m8

>>7797907
Recommend turkish lit?

>>7797964
Istanbul is my favorite city in the world. I dream of it the way most writers dream of Paris.

It doesn't hurt that it's Orhan Pamuk's city, and he's one of my favorite modern authors.

Los Angeles

Is this a scientific poll?

>>7797964
Güney Afrika da öyle (Cape Town başkent değil ama en iyi şehir diye biliyorum)

>>7797985
Of course! We have awesome writers.

>>7798023
Can you give a short walk through? I'm especially interested in post-ottoman stuff

Oulu, Finland

I feel like young Joyce in Dublin except I don't have the talent to express my feelings

>>7797958
Lmao literally shittiest city in the country

>>7797907
greatest city on Earth

New Zealand

>>7797907
Reporting from Bucharest, Gipsyland.

>>7797958
Woah no way im from Adelaide too.

>portland
>everything is going to shit
>can't wait to move

Vancouver canada

From Liverpool, UK, but I live in Guangzhou in China. My life is drinking and writing. One day I will mess all this up.

>>7798167
Ce mai zici, mothafucka? You a camwhore?

>>7798256
Why do you live in China? Sounds absolutely disgusting.

Israel

Dorset

Aus Serbien

>>7798266
diff anon but china is a cool place

>>7798272
>Dorset

What happens here?

>>7798277
Go to bed, Tao.

China is a literal third world shithole. It has zero culture and is populated by zombie drones.

Romania. I have come to pickpocket other countries good lit because ours sucks balls.

Zurich, Switzerland

>>7797912

cringe

>>7798286
>>7798256 here, you're really pretty mistaken. Are you Americans? Americans tend to really hate China for some reason.

>>7798324
*an American

>>7798286
>China is a literal third world shithole. It has zero culture and is populated by zombie drones.

step out of your cultural bubble senpai

sounds like guardian comments section in here, youre hopelessly ignorant

>>7798347
>>7798324
Wow CIDF out in full force today. China is objectively shit-tier. Enjoy dying in the street while your comrades walk around you senpai.

>>7798357
sigh

and I thought we had a potential opening for a discussion of china's culture and its course in internal and international politics because it's a fascinating subject

pls read at least these(not that you will, but someone lurking might)

http://www.amazon.com/On-China-Henry-Kissinger/dp/0143121316
http://www.amazon.com/Reform-Legitimacy-Dilemmas-Politics-Society/dp/981024441X

>>7798357
kek

>>7798347
they react against the wu mao infestation
what do you you expect

>>7798375
>Kissinger

Wow, literally grasping for straws there I see. China is absolutely disgusting. Its history is at least interesting with the various dynasties, but since collectivization and the subsequent shift into a capitalist society it is literally just a beehive. Only beta cucks move to China from the West. What do you do? Teach English or some lame shit like that?

>>7798380
yeah because the west definitely doesn't engage in the exact same thing

Born in and raised in UK, lived in NZ with my family since 2007.

thanks kiwis

>>7798388
Im not the anon who lives in china

personally I prefer the west to china but I think its a fascinating society and one that will be a very major international player in the future so it's better to understand it than to kneejerk "muh communist robot chinks"

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I live in a rich area in the Netherlands about 25 minutes from Amsterdam.

Where are my Paris bros ?

Antwerp yo

>>7798397
>major international player

*vapes in your direction*

China is already a world power. It's pretty much colonized Africa already. But the fact is it has a corrupt political system, a disgusting backwards pseudo-Western culture, a brutal legal system and no aesthetic standards at all. It's one giant Kowloon Walled City. Observing China from space is like watching flies reproduce on a piece of dog feces. I'm sure it's fun walking around Guangzhou in your leather trenchcoat, black sports shades and pinstriped fedora while the hunchbacked peasants clack and hurry around your slow-moving gait, but in reality the only reason you enjoy it is because you enjoy a sense of superiority there that you know you will never experience anywhere else as a result of your autism and lack of social grace. Who cares if it's going to be a "major international player"? All that means is that a bunch of figures will change on official government documents. Regardless of muh GDP or muh exports you will still be living as the only semi self-aware human being in a sea of callous clones. But, hey. Who am I to judge right? I mean I'm sure you enjoy taking financially desperate girls who were lucky not to be aborted (forcefull or otherwise) back to your cube-like apartment where you can eat your gutter oil-based food and watch a Chinese imitation of Rush Hour 2 with a Uyghur playing Chris Rock's character. I'm sure it's great wheezing through the smog each morning to teach a bunch of kids who look like anime burn victims how to say "good afternoon!" and "my parents wanted a son!". I wouldn't be at all surprised if your face bears a wide and expressive smile as you stand at your window at night and watch the diesel-guzzling trucks spewing black smoke as they and other vehicles traverse a street lined with the bodies of deceased children. I mean why wouldn't you enjoy the prospect of dressing in your favorite imitation Armani tshirts sewed by some eight year old in Shenzhen and then stepping into an elevator knowing that today may very well be the day it plummets all fifty stories of your poorly engineered apartment building or traps you inside its doors, leaving you to starve as a nation of consumers squat near their bulky televisions and eat rice with chopsticks while watching a reality TV show in which your death inside the aforementioned elevator provides the entertainment. Well good luck buddy, to you and your Samsung wife and your pudgy, asthmatic son who you really didn't expect to look like that.

Poland B.

>>7797931
Why is he shouting about Mercury?

>>7797907
Iowa. Don't come here.

>>7798426
former parisbro here

>>7798434
Do you buy books at De Slegte?

>>7798478
Why don't you want people to visit Iowa? I live in Iowa City and live a life which is superior to the lives of everyone on this board.

>>7798402
this desu

>>7798510
Where do you live!?

>>7798540
Toronto ;)

>>7798553
*blushes*

>>7798489
Shut up you'll ruin everything by telling them how nice it is.

>>7798557
I won't shut up okay so back the eff off. Look kid, the fact is I live in a detached bungalow and pay rent so low that I almost feel bad for the landlord. My cute half-Russian girlfriend lives here with me and we both study literature at Iowa State, me having earned a three-year paid scholarship in the MFA program and her earning a degree to teach elementary school. I mean I come on this board and see people from Estonia, from New York and from places where their lives for whatever reason, usually economic and romantic, are so depressing that it makes me almost bad for them. I'm almost done editing a 67k word novel a year early, meaning that once its's published by Coffee House Press next Winter I'll have an entire year to promote it and to otherwise spend my time here in Iowa City writing short stories for the weekly class and just enjoying my life. Do you even comprehend the notion of enjoying your life any more kiddo? I thought not. There are people on this board working thirty, forty sometimes fifty hours a week while harboring ambitions of "making it" in literature. Meanwhile I spend my days waking at ten am, eating warm muffins and drinking cups of black coffee on the small wooden red-and-white oilcloth-covered table with my cute, Amelie-esque girlfriend who sits grinning and sipping her cinnamon tea as we discuss our plans for the week or some aspect of our course the other person expresses an interest in learning more about. I own a second-hand Volvo which looks beat up in a way that suggests the exact kind of poverty I'm looking to associate with my "brand" (every contemporary writer needs a brand) and I use it to drive to the library each day where I sit in a thick flannel shirt and sit at a table illuminated by a horizontal rectangular lamp while propping up my forehead with fingers placed to project my studiousness and complexity to others, only to drive home in the evening feeling a calm ease towards my life and walking up the three concrete steps and stepping through the screen door and then the wooden front door to find my qt gf baking in the kitchen with an apron on and a little flour on her cheeks which I rub off as she grins and asks me about my day. What do you have in your life that equates to this? Huh? I'm waiting for an answer...That's what I thought. Literary fame will be mine before the year is through. Meanwhile the rest of your year, and the rest of your life after that, will consist of a slow decline towards an obscure death remarked upon by nobody. I am literally and unironically eating a warm McDonalds cheesburger as I type this, the onions and mustard and tomato ketchup causing me to experience an overwhelming rush of pleasure as I continue to chew and swallow and digest my second meal of the day after a breakfast cooked by an individual to whom I am the love of their life.

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>>7798451
lay off the distilled coffee famiglia anon

>>7797907
>>7797964
Fucking Turks. Don't you have some genocides to cover up? Maybe you need to clean that Kurdish blood off your shiny new boots?

My God I love Istanbul and Turkey so much why does Erdogan have to be such a shitbag.

>>7798587
The funny thing about your perspective (and your existence) is that you seem to be under the impression that genius is only achievable to those who consume drugs, illicit or otherwise, in order to scale the heights of their own intellectual talent. The fact is I haven't drunk coffee in two years. I don't drink alcohol. I don't consume any sort of drugs. I eat a vegan diet and I only drink soda when the torture of my alienation becomes so intense that eating junk food provides the only recourse. Do you know what it feels like to be pure? I mean you probably can't even recall the period of your life during which your mind and body were unsullied by erotic desire, poor nutrition and a faulty perspective of internal and external reality.

>>7798577

you are truly a master of your craft senpai

>>7798596
m8 I'm the /fit/test person on this entire board

I have a confirmed 215kg x3 deadlift, 160kg x5 squat, 120kg x5 bench, I have cleaned 120kg, I can run 10km in under 40 minutes and I subsist on a diet of fish and vegetables. I have not been under a strong influence of drugs in 5 years nor do have I used any kind of medication. My blood sugar, triglycerides, hormone values and blood pressure are all flawless. My teeth are pearly white without a cavity or plaque buildup. I can outlift, outrun, outfight and outlive you, anon. The question is, DYEL?

King's Landing, Croatia

Portugal. Shit.

>>7798610
I knew a girl from Dubrovnik. She had a big nose and a big ass. Are you her?

>>7798616
n-no, what makes you think i have a big nose?

PARIS - FRANCE

>>7798604
>outlive

Hehe, you almost had me going there for a second buddy. You're good, but not good enough. Fact is as you gain physical muscle and invest more in your physical presence in the world I gain intellectually and internally. But wait, let's say we do meet in the real world and enter into a physical contest. Fact is for all your size and weight I am in comparison faster, more stealthy, and more nimble in my movements. Remember that old tale about David and Goliath? You won't be so cocky when you're lying on the sidewalk with cartoon birds circling your skull will ya? Hehe. I can picture you flailing those big arms of yours with your nostrils dilating and your eyes wild with confusion as I dodge and dart around you, entertaining the short Chinese exchange students in their oversized navy hooded sweatshirts purchased from the store on campus as they giggle behind their pale hands and exchange glances to communicate how cute I am and how attracted they both are to me. I can see you like a trapped animal beating against the reinforced glass at the zoo as I, the wise zookeeper, flirt with tourists who ask to have their photo taken with me while you, bruised and exhausted, stand panting in the background in your allotted space. I am lithe. I am aesthetic. I would even describe myself "svelte" if I knew what it meant. I have zero physical flaws and my so-called mental flaws (judged so by a society which thrives on mediocrity) only enhance my genius and potential. And as for outliving me, that word that made me guffaw rather sinisterly while I sit wearing my brown cord pants with my legs crossed in a way that would appear effeminate should I not possess every external signifier which qualifies a man as being a representation of the masculinity native to his sex, I will not only outlive your mortal existence, my name will outlive yours once we have shed our respective existential coils. In two-hundred years kids will be lining up at their local library to ask if my books are in stock yet while a mere three months after your death your own mother, the only person who will care about you when you do eventually part ways with consciousness, will struggle to accurately recall your appearance.

>>7798485
T'habitais où dans Paris ? C'était quoi ta librairie préférée ?

>>7798632

Your big round ass ;)

>>7797907
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>>7798540
Sutton.

>>7798663
>Sutton
>London

Pick one, scrub.

>>7798658
Where abouts?

Southwark here. Any plans for the weekend?

>>7798486
Only very, very rarely do they have something I'm interested in. Usually it's just tonnes of bad women's/YA lit. Their 2nd-hand offers can be interesting, but I only go there once every two months or so because they don't update their stocks very often.

I usually buy books when de Markies does its sales (twice/thrice a year), or at de Groene Waterman if I have some money to burn.

>>7798670
>Pick one, scrub.
Yeah fuck Sutton desu. I'm moving to Eltham soon...

>>7798451
Where did the strange China touch you?

Philly master race here

>>7798683
Why would you move to Eltham?

If you are a British citizen and don't live within an hour's walk away from the Houses of Parliament you may as well end your life due to how irrelevant it is.

>>7797907
New Zealand, but mostly been living in Turkey since I finished my studies. Feel like I'm from Turkey at this point.

>>7798692
It's affordable (for me) and the property prices quadrupled in the past decade and will continue to rise thanks to the planned rail developments. I don't really care where I live provided it has an offie and an internet connection.

>>7798698
Where do you work?

How old are you?

Please post a lengthy synopsis of your life thus far and I promise I will read it and add the information to my vast internal archive providing it is no longer than a single post.

>>7798001
He's not modern, he's postmodern. You probably meant "contemporary" anyway.

>>7798702
Well now I'm not saying shit.

>>7798707
*looks at you contemplatively*

>>7798710
Do a fucking barrel roll dickhead.

Sydneysider here.

>>7797907
From Turkey, Istanbul.

Bu yaz Kırmızı Armut'un Kederi diye kitabım çıkacak inşaallah, okursanız "ulan bu adamı kaç kere gördüm /lit/'te acaba" diye meraklanır, eğlenirsiniz.

>>7798451
Nice pasta m8

Lima, Perú

Buenos Aires, Argentina

>>7798451
>I mean I'm sure you enjoy taking financially desperate girls who were lucky not to be aborted (forcefull or otherwise) back to your cube-like apartment where you can eat your gutter oil-based food and watch a Chinese imitation of Rush Hour 2 with a Uyghur playing Chris Rock's character.

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The Land o' Lincoln

All of you fuck off to /int/

>>7799025
Miraflores, bro. Qué tal?

Santa Catarina, Brazil.

From the land of tequila, Guadalajara

>>7798478
WH40k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-glHAzXi_M

>>7798643
KeK

>>7798256
senpai lives there. It's cool. Untraveled basement dwellers pls fuck off.

>>7798553
>tfw Scarberia
>tfw don't even live in Agincourt

Miami, FL. Florida is the dumbest state in America. Instead of dumb hicks, we have dumb Latinos.

>>7799244
you have both

>>7798451
based

>>7799244
and they have you, you dumb fuck.

Sao Paulo, Brazil

>>7797907
Beautiful El Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico. it's a real shithole t b h

>>7798262
No, but my neighbours from downstairs actually are. The sounds they make sometimes, late at night when I'm shitting and reading on the toilet, are downright disturbing. To top it off they're this young couple of yokels -- they don't seem to be over twenty -- who appear to have popped in the city straight from Goatfucksville down by the Danube swamplands. Ugly as a donkey, both of them; she's actually more repulsive that him. I wouldn't be too amazed if they were siblings or something. The one who appears to be the male stands for hours on end in front of the apartment building, regardless of weather or season, in a pair of Adidas tracksuit shorts, white socks (Adidas, of course) and black plastic slippers (need I say it?), downing sunflower seeds (a staple snack food in these parts), expertly spitting out the husks from the corner of his mouth as he talks on the phone, while his half-Pekingese half-opossum mongrel has a shit in the middle of the alley or begs food from passers-by (I don't think they ever feed it). The guy just sits there, either eyeing the prime grade cuties from the nearby junior high or thumbing through his facebook feed. The female I have bumped into a few times on the stairs, each time hunched over two bags of groceries. To my surprise she greeted me politely each time in a subdued voice. The first time I was too amazed to answer -- does she think I'm the crude oaf? While her concubine is out ostensibly walking the dog, I imagine she is either slaving above the stove making use of those groceries or camwhoring solo. They blast peasant music day and night and they deep fry fish that smells as if had succumbed of natural causes long before being pulled out of the sewers.
Yesterday I hear that their poorly fed dog -- who is no larger than a well fed cat -- bit the eight year old neighbours' boy -- a meek and rather feeble-minded creature whose good nature is being constantly abused by his impish three year old sister who loves to steal whatever material possession he holds dear and to smack the living shit out of him -- seriously, I've seen her bitchslap him over the kidneys (she can't reach the face yet) so hard that he went reeling. I can't think of anybody else I'd be sorry for, but this kid getting bit by that wretched half-bred beast is an injustice which I hope to repay as soon as Fluffy (a faithful translation of its name) gets within range of my kids, which is also the range of my good foot (I sprained a knee last year, but Fluffy doesn't know which one, now does he?)
As I'm sure everybody on /lit/ is interested in future developments, I'll make sure to keep you posted.

>>7798300
Wow, two of us! Also, checked.

>>7799207
Damn right it's cool. Thanks, anon. I don't get the China shitposters in this thread. There's far worse countries to live in, and people here are actually pretty friendly and interesting.

>>7799515
It's just like in the Slavic books I love!
Enjoyable read, desu.

>>7798612

At least the nature's fine.

Me From glorious state of New Jersey :^)

Sunderland, England.

:'(

>>7798402
where do you live in Donod

>>7798451
whew
saved for future rustling

i'm in seattle, born in canada. i spent six years in nyc.

>>7798195
How's it going to shit? Yuppie invasion or something?

>>7798577
>Estonia

That's me. I'm from Estonia. Picture related: me in the military service.

Savannah, Georgia, USA

>>7798397
>will be a very major international player
dude. it's already a huge international player. listen to the news sometime.

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>>7798195
i used to live in oregon. hate to break it to you but portland is already shit.

Belgium - Leuven

>>7797907
I've been there a couple of times, and it seemed that every turk I saw in the tourist bazaars was a complete subhuman trash with ridiculously bad hygiene

how do you live with yourself

>>7799527

It's all true, I swear, down to the dog's name.

I admit the camwhoring is just a rumour...for now. But how do you explain the following?


* They don't work. Both of them are always around the building or inside the house (I know this because I don't work either and they keep the door to their apartment half open whenever they're in, which is always)


*I refuse to even entertain the idea that those two are enrolled in any form of education.

* They don't seem to have anyone else to support them, like parents. They only receive visits from other like-minded and like-clothed individuals.


* The sex sounds seem simulated. Nothing sounds like that other than wildly overwrought orgasms or animal cruelty. I still hope its the former.


* The lady on the ground floor said so (she said "video-chat" and all but winked). She knows every thing. She sees more than the all-seeing eye of god and knows almost as much as the devil. She is watching, watching. She says she will never die.

>>7799969
you know you could write something like a diary about your neighbors and it would read well
are you a camwhore too?

>>7799877
Is Estonia any different really from Finland, including the anti-Russian paranoia (perfectly justified, of course)?

>>7799981
I wish. I'm a middle aged, hairy, bearded, chubby male. My ugliness is the best defence of my dignity. Thanks for reading my camwhorey story though.

>>7798143
I just got back from there a couple days ago. Not bad desu.

A lot of hookers though.

>>7798610
Fuck off Lorenzo

From here. I live a bit farther downriver than the image shows though.

>>7799983
its poorer and far more paranoid about russia because it got fucked by soviets far worse and for a far longer period of time than finland

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

>>7798610
Ae prika galebovi

Also from Croatia

>Turkey
remove kebab

Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü'nü yeni bitirdim.

Maybe there can be some recommended Turkish literature added to /lit/'s wiki?

>>Ah, are we in the infamous /lit/ angry commie hour the other boards warned me about?

>It's called "American Power Hour" and it manifests itself differently on each board. Despite it's name, it actually lasts two to three hours.

>On /lit/, APH consists of a quadrupling in posts, a massive influx of left-wing communist propaganda coupled with borderline fundamental Christianity, a surge in posts about brimmed hats, and the average post drops to a single, badly constructed sentence, invariably ending with the word 'autism' or 'faggot'.

>I presume it's when the American kids get home from school and have a few hours to kill before dinner. After this, I believe they spend the rest of the evening watching an animated Korean soap opera.

>>7800102
Harekete geçelim o zaman da, ne zaman? Bir de, meme üçlüsü de seçmek lazım. Ulysses yerine Tutunamayanlar öneriyorum da diğerleri zorlar.

>>7800102
I'd love to read something Turkish, any recommendations? Preferably something depressing or existential.

>>7800153
I'm not that anon, but I'll reply anyway.

Best novel ever written in Turkish is Tutunamayanlar. Here are two articles that'll help you get the idea of it:
https://theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/the-great-untranslated-tutunamayanlar-by-oguz-atay/
http://www.literatuuruitturkije.nl/english/language-is-the-mirror-of-our-lives-oguz-atays-novel-tutunamayanlar-and-its-dutch-translation/

Sadly, translation barrier can prove painful, as it's a book unique to the Turkish culture and Turkish language (in an intertwined fashion) in many ways.

>>7799869
yeah, that's part of it. too many street kids too. i don't know, just not really feeling it anymore. it's probably more of a me thing anyways, just need a change of scenery.

nebraska

>>7800160
Damn, so the translation was completed in 2008, but is still not published? That's a shame.

So based on the description, would you say it's like a Turkish "Ulysses"?

Sweden, Stockholm.

Am I the only Irish bro here?

>>7800211
Of course it's not a perfect equivalent. But there's nothing else that comes close to the title "Turkish Ulysses", so, I agree with that endorsement.

It's more like Atay is like Turkish Nabakov+Joyce+Camus all in once, plus some of his individual qualities that come with some distinctly Turkish characteristics perhaps only identifiable by the children of that culture (and I mean myself by that).

>>7800268
Also some obligatory Beckett.

ayyy

>>7800257
Hopefully

>>7797907
I'm from Ankara. Sa hocam.

>>7800043
I envy you

>>7799969
I wasn't doubting the authenticity, it's interesting and written well.

>>7800055
Me too, bud.

Gdynia, Poland.

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>>7800233
Var det du som la upp bokhyllan med flera/samma ex av Räddaren i nöden för ett tag sedan?

>>7797907

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Olympia, Washington.

>>7798689
What's the best place to get a philly cheesesteak?

>>7797964
That's a funny way of spelling Constantinople.

Vancouver Island, Canada. I live in one of the small towns on the Island so not saying which one.

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>>7799358

I'm from Paraíba, the land of the greatest brazilian poet.

kill me

Lexington, ky. USA
We feed the NBA #1 draft picks

Wales, live about 10min walk from dylan thomas' house

Hey, do you think this chart is appropriate? What could be added or removed?

Sizce olmuş mu? Ne eklenebilir, ne çıkarılabilir?

>inb4 Sabahattin Ali

>>7798577
stfu farm boy. we get it, your corn grows tall. oh iowa oh iowa. there are a multitude of u.s. states that offer the exact same luxuries you claim AND boast incredible sceneries of mountains, lakes, rivers, deserts, and valleys. iowa is flat. iowa is dull. iowa is where corn grows tall.

>>7801149
Wow, I attached the wrong picture (due to a mistake you'll most likely understand).

Ulan yanlış resmi eklemişim, pardon.

>>7797907
>So, where are you /lit/erases from?
Nazi Germany

>>7800802
>What's the best place to get a philly cheesesteak?
Russo's Steaks in Wildwood, New Jersey

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>>7800015

Dear god, the autists. Sorry to everyone who responded to Chinahatefag, Iowafag, and Deadliftfag.

Also, what about this thread attracted the self hating beardos projecting their insecurities on Chinese peasants? The talking about yourself bit?

>>7799905
I'm talking superpower big famiglia. Credible counterweight to US hegemony-big. What Putin wishes to be but can't, because Russia doesn't have enough people or strong enough economy or smart enough scientists

>>7801444
This is the kind of discussion I wish /pol/ were civilized enough for.

>>7801476
china is already "super power big" they have the second largest economy in the world and one of the biggest standing armies, just because they don't make a habit of randomly bombing muslims doesn't mean they aren't "superpower big", but on the other hand russia actually has superior scientists, if u look at the best cryptography and computer science papers, more comes from russia than china, so in fact this "civilized" poster doesn't know shit! i'd rather have someone pepper there posts with faggot this and jew that, than come with some civilized yet wrong shit.

>>7801494
Not one of the world's, it's actually the biggest, almost twice as big as the USA's.

They can't do much with it though.

>>7801501
I think the US may not even have one of the top five biggest armies in the world. However, there's a reason they kick so much ass. Conscripts vs volunteers makes all the difference.

>>7801501
what exactly would they want to do with it? orientalists should stop projecting western imperial desires onto people who aren't westerners, not everyone wants to march into every oil field and banana farm on the planet

>>7801508
I really don't know.

I don't want to think about WW3 either. I've read over 2k books, and now that I think about it, almost all of it was bullshit.

I am scared, and regret having no answers to console anyone.

>>7800912
I know a similar feel. LA here.

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.

>>7801494
>china is already "super power big

It's not, not in the way US is, it can't project power like US can(it may not have the ambition to, either) nor can it dictate international policy like US can. It's a major player in east asia but elsewhere it's like Russia in many way. It has to accommodate to the international policies in a way that the US doesn't have to.

>one of the biggest standing armies

Yeah in terms of manpower, because the main task of the army is maintaining internal stability. That's it. They don't have carrier groups(of which the US has 10) that can project the power of a mid-sized army nearly anywhere on the world, they don't have stealth bombers that can bomb pretty much anything without getting caught, they don't have the tactics or the material the US has, they don't have stealth jets, the list goes on and on. It's hilarious how OP US is in terms of military power, compared to the rest of the world. And that gives the US immense leverage.

China doesn't even consider an attack against US viable in any sort of way and their defence strategy against possible US attack is based on asymmetric warfare(read, they wouldn't engage US power head on because they know they'd get destroyed, instead they'd go taliban. Far more competent and technologically advanced than Taliban with far more options at their disposal).

>but on the other hand russia actually has superior scientists if u look at the best cryptography and computer science papers

IDK if this is true, even if it is, it's not that relevant. US sets the pace in pretty much every important field, it soaks up genious scientists from all over the world, it spends more money on research and development than anyone.

>>7801555
>their defence strategy against possible US attack is based on asymmetric warfare

that's their tactic because that is a proven way to defeat the united states, the united states couldn't win vietnam or afghanistan, you think they would have any chance in a country the size of china? the united states doesn't even have the balls to fight iran, a regional power a fraction the size of china

>>7801571
I hate to sound like a Republican, but the US didn't win in Vietnam and Afghanistan because its mission parameters were compromised. Vietnam was the birth of the "limited war" idea in American military thought. It was about trying to kill some portions of a population while supporting and befriending others. This doesn't work.

If you're going to subjugate a native population the British have the right idea. Go in and kill every able-bodied male. Negotiate with the women and the children and the elders. Then when the children grow up, kill them all over again.

If you're not prepared to soak an entire country in blood, war isn't worth it. Find another way.

>>7801555
>US sets the pace in pretty much every important field, it soaks up genious scientists from all over the world, it spends more money on research and development than anyone.

this is classic american hubris, assuming everyone else is stupid because they are poor...the united states doesn't have a monoply on aryan bloodl, in fact the percentage of whites in america keeps dropping, i can't remember any chicacanos or indians winning the fields medal or turing award...really if u look at when america was the most dominant in terms of science and engineering it was right after world war two when they told all the german engineers they could either get executed in a show trial or come to america and work for nasa....sure we import a lot of second rate programmers and mediocre engineers from china, but unless we can get germany to give us another 2000 of their best scientists we just gonna keep falling back

sorry to be so blatantly racial but lets be realpolitik about it, if mexicans had what it takes to be a scientific powerhouse mexico would be germany not mexico

>>7801604
>exterminate all the brutes

slave morality says strong people shouldn't do that, and in the jewish century that sort of thing is frowned upon, lest the blonde beast turn an eye to god's chosen people a second time