https://twitter.com/WillisWho/status/1440905269299621891?s=19
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have you guys heard of this 'maoist uprising against the landlords'? from what I'm gathering, it seems like may have been one of the most total redistributions of wealth in history? is that true?
I can no longer be bought and sold like cattle, but now I can't compare Xi Jinping to a cartoon stuffed bear on the internet so who's to say which was better
“President Xi, the westerners are filling the Internet with pictures comparing you to Winnie the Pooh”
“Okay? I don’t understand why this matters”
“They are invariably accompanied by pro-Taiwan propaganda”
“So one of the simplest ways to protect against western propaganda on the internet is to ban pictures of a cartoon bear?”
“Yes, sir”
:xinternet:
I mean you can do it. Even in Chinese internet. Do people even here think that Winnie the Pooh memes (or winnie the pooh in any capacity) are banned in China
One of my favorite ones was a report where they had B-roll of China while talking about how Pooh was banned and you can clearly see an entire large store with all the Pooh characters on the sign...
Also if people in the west are so free to express themselves go tell your boss to go fuck themself
Oh yeah? Show me one slaveowner who violated private property rights. I'm waiting. Yeah, thought so.
That thread caused me serious psychic damage and I demand restitution.
The people of china demanded restitution against the bourgeoisie and received repayment in blood.
:mao-aggro-shining:
:xi-lib-tears: : ”why do you think we have all our own tech companies?”
Waiting for the day American tech companies are destroyed and the GFW comes down, releasing millions of highly experienced Chinese shitposters into American Digital Waters like :sicko-hexbear: :yes-hahaha-yes-l:
I think (vulgar) anti communism is funny because they can never explicitly point to any actual crime committed. People always says that Hugo Chavez and Maduro are/were br00tal dictators but they never specify what the fuck they did. Mass starvation for fun? I don't know.
I guess that's the deal with CHYYYYNA. Mass Starvation for fun.
The conception is there's a big pile of power and stuff. In capitalism the power and stuff is distributed in little tiny piles to everyone who wants to work for it. In evil scary socialism the big mean dictator hoards the pile and no one gets anything.
In capitalism the power and stuff is distributed in little tiny piles to everyone who wants to work for it.
It's honestly fucking incredible anyone falls for this crap rofl
A lot of individual "forward progress" under capitalism is largely illusory when viewed in the greater scheme of society. You might go from a well off office drone to managing well off office drones but you're never, ever, EVER going to approach the wealth and influence of even smaller families like the ones that run state politics, let alone old money European families or freaks like Epstein.
I guess when you're comfortable like that there's no problem, but as someone who lives in California it's increasingly obvious to anyone with even a modicum of critical thinking that capitalism doesn't even work as promised. Why do so many people voluntarily chose to live on the streets or out of their car? If little tiny pile is there, why didn't they work for it?
The average person seems to have an entirely skewed view of just how wealthy and powerful billionaires are. Much less how powerful they are when they congregate on islands or at Bohemian Grove to plot their rulership. "Rich person" means your dentist with the nice truck and the $900k house. For too many people, that's the supposed promise of capitalism. A nice suburban house and a big car. It's being a small to medium business owner. CEOs of international corporations is such an unimaginable quality that it may as well not exist. Instead, they can only imagine capitalism offering relatively staggered income distributions that all seem fair.
People seem perfectly capable of understanding socialism as some kind of entirely horizontal poverty though. I guess they're able to imagine losing everything because some evil scary commie took it all. They have a hard time understanding the difference in stature between themselves and the ruling classes because it's so invisible and unimaginably vast. It's not so vast to be a middle management dork and imagine becoming broke.
I like to put it like this, because this is one of the things that helped radicalize me: If you gave the earliest ancestor of homo sapiens (TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING THOUSAND YEARS AGO) the median American salary according to census.gov (68,000~) and they did NOT ever spend a cent, they would still fall short a fair chunk of Bezos accumulated wealth. If I'm figuring this right (given an average lifespan of 70ish years) in less than a few decades Bezos has accumulated more wealth than someone in over 3500 lifetimes could do if they did EVERYTHING perfectly.
It's fucking craaay-zeee :liz-society:
No no once someone says "gommunism killed 100 million people", you're supposed to be so ashamed of that number that you concede. You're not supposed to question it or ask if it's legitimate.
That number counts Nazis as victims, pointing that out can help with some audiences.
I haven't used Twitter for a while. They've really giga-fucked their UI, huh?
turning a big dial taht says "User Experience" on it and constantly looking back at the KPIs for approval like a contestant on the price is right
:dril:
In the future Rob will not be allowed to shit in peace, ever
Dictatorship of the proletariat :mao-aggro-shining: :lenin-shining:
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
