This is the best thing they've done since they named me person of the year 2006

  • PointAndClique [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    xi-peel

    My Mum Wasn't Actually Really Gone - She Was There Throughout the Whole Game of Peekaboo

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Wow China really is falling apart their paramilitary cops don't even have as machine guns and armor! Even our regular cops have that!

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      They only had 2 fatalities in the Hong Kong colour revolution in 2019. Those are rookie numbers. Chinese cops have barely shot any pet dogs at all! A country in decline

  • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Hypernormalization: when the country was a success of capitalism - wow, look at the Tiger economies. When they have become a threat through that very same process of modernization. Goddamn look at these evil commies.

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      The script flipped once China started restricting foreign investment from buying up capital in China.

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    https://archive.md/YAcVM

    archived article if you're curious, I haven't gotten to it, its probably shit

    • Parzivus [any]
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      9 months ago

      Not gonna lie, the John Foster Dulles name-drop made me do a spit take. This author has gotta be one of those old as fuck Kissinger types. Let's check his Wikipedia:

      In Patient Zero (2003) and Narcotic Culture (2004), Dikötter posits that the impact of the prohibition of opium on the Chinese people led to greater harm than the effects of the drug itself.

      what-the-hell

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Wasn't a bad read. It's full of drum beating about china being authoritarian and how they're preventing "ordinary people" from changing the country (ordinary to Time Magazine means millionaires and billionaires), but aside from those two issues it essentially reads as a description anyone here would make of China's reform and opening up being a clever trick that used capitalist power in socialist hands.

      It's basically the ML take on China except with anti-china framing to make it palatable for liberal ears.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        9 months ago

        It's actually been very odd how many normies I've explained this to at work or whatever and the response been 'ohhhh, that makes sense. Good for them, they really bamboozled these guys'

  • oregoncom [he/him]
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    9 months ago

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    This is what I think of every time I see one of these goofy ass photos on western articles.