"haha, i welcome invocations of my kind, humble nature, criticism and debate are rather good! also, we'll be opening disney beijing in 2025!"

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      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.

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        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"

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          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.

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            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

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              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.

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      tbf that pot 'o honey might contain baby organs