"haha, i welcome invocations of my kind, humble nature, criticism and debate are rather good! also, we'll be opening disney beijing in 2025!"
From what I understand, it was trigger happy censures and just kinda became a meme to fuck with the censures. Then the west took it to the extreme that Winnie the Pooh was banned in China, leading to confounded Westerners seeing him at Disney Shanghai.
winnie the pooh is still banned on social media, and they banned christopher robin
if i was at disney shanghai and saw the pooh rides, i'd think, "fuck me, capitalism is winning"
The Chinese policy of obligating foreign businesses to share IP and partner with domestic entrepreneurs isn't FALGSC, but it's a huge improvement over the traditional western colonialist approach of foreign ownership, white executive management, colored lower management, domestic grunt workforce.
Winnie-the-Pooh is capitalist Pastiche. I'd be far more interested in hearing the labor rights of Disney Shanghai workforce relative to, say, Florida or California where employees are paid in coupons and treated as entirely disposable.
those are two very concise and poignant points that gloss over the fact that winnie the pooh is still banned on social media and china has embraced capitalism
china has embraced capitalism
China's following the Marx playbook of capitalism as transitional state. It continues to make national five year plans, oppose colonial exploitation, and keep a tight political grip on business in a way Americans have never done.
You can argue how, exactly, we count a public-private conglomeration operating under a nationalist agenda. But this isn't American-style Capitalism.
Going to completely own the executive leader of a global superpower by comparing him to a beloved childhood cartoon character.
I think it would be really, really interesting to make visible the up/downbears on this post.
lol this is like the ultimate shitpost, it would definitely reveal if this site is an op
though i have conspiracy brainworms and assume everything is an op :stalin-smokin:
If this site is an op, is it CCP like some anarchists allege, or a CIA honeypot?
could be any of em. if anyone remembers /cth around the time it got quarantined... holy shit, it was a veritable wild west of influence from every ideology, from wreckers to trolls to libs to foreign influence
at the end of the day, leftists are free thinkers, and by extension, free agents
A good way to tell is by checking the comment/upbear ratio. This one seems to be alright for the most part.
I mean this is pretty funny: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/84b60992d857bccf54c384e4ebeb0ea7f207246b/37_0_752_451/master/752.jpg?width=605&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=e89009d159daf9746f2d20f5e6824f06
Does anyone have that image of pooh without Xi? I have a collection of pooh images I cycle through for Discord avatars and stuff.
