"We had the entire country by the balls via holding a monopoly over a very specific and useful foodstuff and they just TOOK that from us and forced us to live like PEASANTS"
by the balls
Poland fact: most popular word for "balls" is "jaja" which means literally "eggs" too. So Mao destroying egg monopoly sounds even funnier.
I love this tweet. Egg monopoly in all of China is just such an insane concept
Right? And it's not like a manufactured good or a limited resource you can control either. They're eggs! All you need is a hen!
It's not that insane when you consider it not as monopoly in modern capitalist sense, but as kind of traditional regale or tax lease, which did happened in pre-PRC China all the time (and in feudalism elswhere too) - it wasn't somebody literally handling all the eggs, nor anything to do with egg production for the own needs of producers, but partial or entire tax from all the dedicated production and distribution (or maybe some form of relevant property tax in general) of the particular commodity being leased or given to person or family.
That said, eggs are rather unusual for a regale, and a China-wide monopoly for it was likely horrible exaggeration, but it could happen locally. What's more doubtful is that why it was liquidated only in the cultural revolution?
Most likely what that post really is about is just some local landlord starving peasants.
Sounds fucking awesome. Thank you communism for destroying egg monopoly. Please do it more often.
Her sister
learned to code at 26yo, charged $100/hr doing contract web dev for 2yrs, saved enough $$ to start a solo business, self-funded #WITBragDay
https://twitter.com/lynnetye/status/896175362006163456
It's a real tweet by a person with brainworms who most probably misunderstood the actual situation
Her sister
learned to code at 26yo, charged $100/hr doing contract web dev for 2yrs, saved enough $$ to start a solo business, self-funded #WITBragDay
https://twitter.com/lynnetye/status/896175362006163456
Her sister
learned to code at 26yo, charged $100/hr doing contract web dev for 2yrs, saved enough $$ to start a solo business, self-funded #WITBragDay
https://twitter.com/lynnetye/status/896175362006163456
That woman cannot be more than 40, right? In that time, pretty sure the only time China “takes” property is when you do criminal shit (so no different from any country). I’m guessing “her” property refers to the fact that her great grandpa or something was a landlord, so instead of living a normal working life she thinks she’s entitled to just sit around and collect rent from peasants on “her” property.
I knew a guy claimed to have had a multi billion dollar landlording portfolio seized by the Chinese state for no reason. Which I maintain was a hilarious prank
I feel like the fact that property is so high up there kind of makes for bad optics
Above family, justice, and human rights. I'm surprised this lib actually thought of their father before property lol
Jesus christ she use to wear human tights. That's disgusting
This mfer out there wearing tights in size giraffe
wow i am sure this one single woman protesting xi jinping with vague slogans written in English is definitely a real protestor and not an actor in any way shape or form
oh but the media is all about it... the local state media ran at least 3 or 4stories about the anti-china protests going on, eve giving time for the people to struggle greatly with explaining what exactly the problem was... they don't even bother interviewing anti-genocide protesters.. they just cut to stories about some israeli family with the most minor and fake grievances you've ever heard..
but state media is gonna be state media..can't expect anything different
Xi please take her back to China with you where people have rights and the rich go to jail when they commit crimes.
Boba shitlib can't even use her mother tongue, she's too busy using her own to polish biden's shoes.
She can't hold up a sign in Chinese while Xi is coming to visit because she knows she'll get hate crimed.
That's the world she's defending.
