"Communism is impossible, what we need is some kind of controlled capitalism."
"So a mode of production where the capitalists are subserviant to the government?"
"Yes, exactly!"
"So like China then?"
"NO CHINA IS EVIL"
From the same guy:
"Xi Jinping can't leave China because he'll be assassinated. There's a low-level civil war happening in China right now between Xi and Hu Jintao. Xi controls the police, but Hu controls the military."
And my favorite:
"Chinese billionaires buy their way into the military in honorary titles."
“Xi Jinping can’t leave China because he’ll be assassinated. There’s a low-level civil war happening in China right now between Xi and Hu Jintao. Xi controls the police, but Hu controls the military.”
If you want to be extremely generous maybe they heard about Xi's anti-corruption campaign from someone who was framing that as a huge change to the party implying it was an actual real world civil war and not at best a power struggle against the more :brainworms: members of the party.
But Xi decidedly won that "struggle" anyway and it was years ago already.
"Communism is impossible, what we need is some kind of controlled capitalism."
"So a mode of production where the capitalists are subserviant to the government?"
"Yes, exactly!"
"So like China then?"
"NO CHINA IS EVIL"
From the same guy: "Xi Jinping can't leave China because he'll be assassinated. There's a low-level civil war happening in China right now between Xi and Hu Jintao. Xi controls the police, but Hu controls the military."
And my favorite:
"Chinese billionaires buy their way into the military in honorary titles."
"Huh, interesting, do you have any examples?"
"No, but they all do it!" :so-true:
If you want to be extremely generous maybe they heard about Xi's anti-corruption campaign from someone who was framing that as a huge change to the party implying it was an actual real world civil war and not at best a power struggle against the more :brainworms: members of the party.
But Xi decidedly won that "struggle" anyway and it was years ago already.