• SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    Chen Weihua is still cancelled after he said something anti-LGBT right

      • Gamer_time [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I thought he meant it in the "great work" killing those monkeys, can't wait for you do to do "great work" on human test subjects. A ironic back-handed compliment. But maybe I am wrong and he genuinely loves brain chips :shrux:

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      To quote chairman Mao: 80% good, 20% bad :shrug-outta-hecks:

        • kristina [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Which was a reference to Mao's assessment of Stalin's 7 out of 10

          • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Stalin definitely should get a slightly higher score than Mao. Mao was a great revolutionary, but he fumbled a lot as leader and his foreign policy was absolute dogshit

            • kristina [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              Stalin really really bungled his support of the Communists in China. He later rectified this when they were on the ascendency towards the end of WW2 but what was done was done.

              Mao did a diplomatic mission to the USSR and he referred to it as a lot of 'Sitting, shitting, eating, and waiting.' While a war was happening and said it was a huge waste of his time.

                • kristina [she/her]
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                  2 years ago

                  Honestly Mao should have retired way earlier, got dull in his late age. CPC put limits on age for this reason. He also keeled over by the time they took power in Cambodia and therefore did not invade Vietnam, that was :denguin:

                  • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    CPC put limits on age for this reason.

                    Where can I read more about this? God damn, that wouldn't fix everything, we'd still have capitalism but it would be a massive step up from :biden-the-thing: :trump-moist:

                    • kristina [she/her]
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                      2 years ago

                      Its called the 'Seven Up, Eight Down rule'

                      Reference on wiki:

                      'This has been known as the rule of qi-shang, ba-xia (七上八下; lit. "seven up, eight down"), referring to the fact that if a PSC member is 68 or older at the time of a party congress, he must retire, but if he is 67 or younger, he may still enter the committee.'

                      Its probably likely Xi will retire at his next review. This thing is just a general non-written rule that happens, the vast majority of people retire around age 67-70 for the CPC. They are then usually used in supportive roles to advise people in their seat on what was done in the past. I think they generally just eyeball it, if someone seems to have issues with functioning in their role they suggest retirement.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          If Mao had died in his 50s, he would have been the undisputed greatest revolutionary and statesman who ever lived. Alas, he lived to be 80.

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Basically called out Western paternalism, but it was in the context of Qatar banning LGBTQ+ pride flag-themed clothing at the World Cup

        • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I mean westoid radlibs do be paternalist chauvinists who use social Justice and human rights issues (even somewhat legitimate ones) as bludgeons to justify their continued domination and need to control the world, and selectively ignore the worse offenses committed by their own governments that they have slightly more ability to control without calling for war.

          Qatar is a US military base though, so shitting on them is fine IMO. US isn’t going to be invading them anytime soon.

  • Fishroot [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Lol where is the lie.

    Gordon is literally the “friend” in the sentence “I’m not racism, i have a x friend”

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    Chen Weihua gets his own chapter in the Black Book of Communism for burning people to death on Twitter

  • plov_mix [comrade/them]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    Wait. Wait. Wait.

    Is Gordon Chang ... Chinese? (don't judge me — for very long I thought Walter Ong was Chinese before seeing his pic so I no longer trust last names)

    I've seen numerous Chinese faces since I was born and that face doesn't look Chinese to me lol ... unless he's tried everything he could to look as white as possible, in which case, who hurt him?

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Weihua isn't even involved in this, it's a Kiwi expat YouTuber that makes videos about China

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I'm pretty sure it's saying Weihua is the one saying he should "edit his genes" because he "doesn't deserve to look Chinese"

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              For sure reason reason when I saw the propaganda line I assumed they were taking about the "state actor" at least they call him a propagandist?

              • PROMIS_ring [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                The "propagandist" in the title is :weihua: but the article text is all talking about boreham

                • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Which is why I'm so confused, if they're gonna call them both propagandists, why are they even reporting on this?

                  Also I think we're both wrong and Andy is someone else who sided with Chen. They call the other guy Chang, so I think there are 3 people in this story

                  So it's Andy Boreham and Chen Weihua vs Gordon Chang. They'll never call their own guy a propagandist

                    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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                      2 years ago

                      It's pretty clear now, I was reading this outside on a smoke break at work while 3 people were trying to talk to me so I was definitely thrown off lol