"Something we haven't experienced in centuries, is that the greatest power in the world does not share our values. This is the world we're heading towards as China grows in power."

:xi-gun: :sicko-yes:

translated from his speech at the Nordic Council today btw

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      One one episode of Radio War Nerd, John took issue with some natsec stinkpiece referring to China as uncivilized. He was like "Uncivilized? They literally invented books!"

    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Most of human history did not have a world power. A state being able to exert influence on a global scale is a very new thing.

    • Vanjones [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      China had a long history of being powerful and than completely falling into chaos. Rinse repeat

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Something we haven’t experienced in centuries, is that the greatest power in the world does not share our values.

    Centuries? Dog, what the hell are your values?

      • JosipBRUHTito [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Neo-Vikingism with nukes

        They have plundered and rampaged across the world for centuries

        Now, ONE GIANT NATION STANDS IN THEIR WAY

        Starring Harrison Ford as Xi Jinping, Matt Damon as NATO

        • anaesidemus [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Viking is correct, it was just something you did, calling the old norse people Vikings is actually a common misnomer.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      毛主义反地主起义是历史上规模最大、最全面的无产阶级革命,导致农民几乎完全平等地重新分配土地

  • uzi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    started from the bottom now we way up :deng-smile:

    • please_dont [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      thw you realize that Deng "short king" Xiaoping played you and the antire imperialist west like a damn fiddle

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsNr2bIFKoQ

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Gonna make this channel even lower effort by letting yall make the memes for me.

        I don't have an account there guys. Source is someone called dodecaweasel.

        Honestly that site scares me.

        lol

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    world we're headed towards? we're already there, but you can continue to serve up that delicious cope if you like

    • Blottergrass [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      American boomers are a miracle economy born into a historical jackpot: post-WWII. If you compare China and the US and ignore both country's boomers and just compare the under 40s, China has clearly already won. They own homes, their jobs pay enough for them to live, they're better off than their parents were, they're on track to retire in their 50s, their infrastructure is developing rather than crumbling, all the numbers are up up up.

        • Wheaties [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          The US government as it exists today wouldn't do that. Even as conditions crumble on the periphery, the ruling class is still sitting pretty. However, if it balkanized and the nuclear arsenal is splintered into the hands of various regional figures and generals... :yikes-1:

  • Tommasi [she/her]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Official translation of the speech just dropped on NATO's website for any nerds interested in what's going on in the heads of imperialist ghouls. I'd rather not provide a link to the NATO website for obvious reasons, but you can find it pretty easily with google.

    They just wrote "China is a growing superpower that does not share our values" in the shortened, transcribed version, but you can hear the more accurate translation at around the 11 minute mark of the audio version.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Oh no! It is going to be so horrible when the world's greatest power doesn't share our values of fucking up brown people and stealing their stuff.

  • winterchillie [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    :deng-smile: Deng really had the last laugh, I consider him largely vindicated

      • please_dont [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        He wasnt, but he was still really cool in practice too as a revolutionary. Participated in the long march and was in important positions in the cpc pre revolution in a lot of chinese civil war epic communist shit. Mao actualy had to jump in and tell him to chill cause he was too brutal during the Anti-rightist campaign later in the 50s

          • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I always did think he had the winning smile of someone constantly remembering the time they merked a bunch of reactionaries.

            • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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              3 years ago

              "Alleged counter revolutionaries"

              If one had read only lib sources, one could be forgiven for thinking that actual counter revolutionaries aren't a thing, or are some type of incredibly rare cryptid.

              • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Revolutions are believable, but people trying to prevent a revolution is not. Counter revolutionaries must be a made up excuse the revolutionaries use to engage in violence! Yeah that makes more sense :yea:

    • Tommasi [she/her]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I 'm slowly coming around to that point of view too.

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I'm seeing him in a better light than I used to but I still think a lot of things could have gone wrong since his reforms. Maybe I should read up on it a bit more.

      • please_dont [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Well he himself did expect and was content with future generations seeing him as a "not clearly correct and good" figure

        I would be quite content if I myself could be rated 50/50 in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn’t make mistakes.

    • please_dont [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We are still far from the historical point of him being clearly vindicated from a socialist perspective but chances only seem to slowly get better with time .So if that ends up being the case Deng would have in retrospect played the greatest hand in human history