It’s so lazy. Just Google “Mao-Nixon meet in color” and all the images show a graying Mao. How does this shot get passed an editor.
How does this shot get passed an editor.
It's not their job to spread truths.
Deng Xiaoping also famously had salt-and-pepper hair.
And Asian men dying their hair is pretty common, like it's so easy to dye hair black. Like a lot of people do it until they retire.
There's a 50/50 shot this whole article was generated by a chatbot.
Xi drinks a glass of water, smiles at somebody, and immediately some WSJ columnist is writing a column titled "China's Xi Jinping is taking direct aim at US interests".
I once saw an article talking about how Xi drinking tea during a long speech meant that he may be terminally ill lmao
Damn I wonder what my water bottle, la croix, coffee, white claw, and glass of whiskey I’m drinking simultaneously mean
The water in that glass was from the dying Colorado river as a sign that China's coming after America's clean water.
no they weren't they have just lived decades since then of having every bad impulse imediately granted which doesn't make you a better person
read emperor to citizen it has a really interesting account of how this happens written by PuYi after he was reeducated
there literally was a :cheeto-man: in the white house! what did that mean??
I think it's extremely charitable to say they developmentally got as far as adolescence
Xi letting himself go. Shame. Xi was spotted eating 6 egg rolls - 2 at a time - last week and when grilled about it by brave western journalist all he could say was "mhmmhshfmfmfhmhsghgshsghsUygherfmmsmsmmshmmfffsm."
skill issue
two is just too many, there is no room left to juggle them in your mouth for when the eggroll insides inevitably turn out way the fuck hotter than the outsides
Ive never considered eating two eggrolls at once but I bet the mouthfeel would be incredible
Xi was spotted eating 6 egg rolls
I've defended Xi through thick and thin but I draw the line at enjoying Americanized Chinese "food".
Let the man go gray
I mean, I've had a shock of gray hair since high school and it's a pain trying to dye my hair, so I don't bother
gray is distinguished as fuck anyway
my man may be looking tired but his hair looks great :shrug-outta-hecks:
Holding my big Jigglypuff stuffie
Yes, I am quite distinguished
Yeah but I'm AFAB which means that according to society I am now an old hag unless I dye my hair
i feel this, i'm not afab but i transitioned right around the age where society largely agrees women and people who look like women should start quietly becoming invisible
flakes has got a point imo: we know this society and its standards are all shit. that's part of why we're communists! though of course that doesn't make getting treated like garbage any more tolerable, i think it's good, maybe even healthy, to remember that society is fucking wrong about most things. and idk about you homie, but i never respect people or institutions that are wrong about almost everything.
I'm 36 and my beard is streaked with gray already, probably from stress
I spotted my first gray hair in the bathroom mirror at work. Yanked it out so as to rage against the dying of the light.
Truth be told, I might kinda dig the prospect of having a streak of gray up front.
Like Hercules attempting to slay the hydra you have simply ensured that two more will now turn gray in its place
pushing the boulder up the hill: WE'RE BACK
watching it fall back down: IT'S OVER
I feel like beard hair is an anomaly. I get red hairs poking through in there sometimes, it's weird.
Probably gonna go gray soon then. I got those for a while and now they're gray.
I got my first grey hairs at 23.
I'm guessing it's millennial stress
"Too soft to deal with the real world." would be their excuse, I'm guessing
Next week: Why is Xi Jinping so WRINKLY? During the Confucian mystic era of China, emperors would look like babies, yet today Xi looks like a fucking 500 year OLD MAN. Is this communist symbolism? Is he trying to reference Karl Marx?
since ancient times
How long has hair dye been commonly available? I'm picturing some Han dynasty emperor holding a squid up to his head
I just don't believe that every Chinese leader has died their hair. Especially since I have watched Chinese tv which depicts powerful grey haired men in ancient China
the Chinese emperor probably could have always accessed makeup as makeup is from the stone age but that does not mean they have
that whole bit has such settler-colonial vibes "this ancient culture bases leadership on silly things, like hair color, not like us civilized whites"
"Anyway, good health to the King and his god-given right to rule."
doesn't need to be common for the emperor or his ministers to have it , i'm sure you could do something with charcoal and oil though
At least since the 15th century in the West. Catherine De Medici's cosmetics books have a recipe.
Is he the first to be old and not dye his hair or something? If so that's cool
never believe the china hater is unaware of the absurdity of their reasoning
He is going Grey because he studied dialectical materialism as opposed to the cultivating his chi. He may only attain the 3rd level of the outer house of spiritual refinement at this rate.
The deranged China watching always reminds me of Metternich's quote on the death of the arch schemer Talleyrand. "What did he mean by that?"
