Struggle sesh time

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Reminds me of the "what headline, if it was true, would cause the biggest struggle session?"

    My answer is now is "At his tearful visit to the National Jeffery Epstein Memorial in London, Xi Declares Epstein 'Final Victim of Communism,' Balkanizes China"

    • familiar [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      lol as soon as I saw it, I knew I had to post it.

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I for one am shocked that a nation open for foreign investment would have a leader be polite to a prominent businessman.

    I expect a nationstate to be just as radical as me a person on the internet and the Chinese decision to not obey my whims as a person who does not live in or have any stake in the success of China is deeply disappointing

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

    Not sure why people are surprised. China has been reaching out to American business interests for... a while now. So this is nothing new.

    Now, whether or not it's just the CPC being sincere and abandoning international class struggle or if it's simply meant to be a pragmatic policy to sow division within the American ruling class and to kick the can of economic decoupling down the line is where the actual struggle sesh would be. I myself have been leaning towards the latter nowadays but I'm still not over the fence.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Chuds lighting their computers on fire in defiance of the See See Pee would be pretty funny.

      • dumpster_dove [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This is bullshit. I will destroy my Steve Balmer dakimakura so help me god

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Can't switch to Apple, they're even more lib than Microsoft.

        Soon there will be explicitly chud Linux distros.

        edit: oh shit I should make that and charge for it. Should I call it MAGAOS, or QOS?

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          I think QOS has legs, particularly if you can find a way to work in enough Easter eggs

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        "First you strike against Apple Daily and now Apple? This is why communism no food!"

    • GaveUp [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      China has been de-windowfying their country for a little bit now

      Probably trying to please Gates so he doesn't feel threatened until he's no longer needed

    • familiar [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      whether or not it’s just the CPC being sincere and abandoning international class struggle or if it’s simply meant to be a pragmatic policy to sow division within the American ruling class and to kick the can of economic decoupling down the line is where the actual struggle sesh would be.

      The thing is that it's not clear cut either way, the party has many factions with in it, and it's certainly arguable that genuine communists are a minority within it in the modern day (among the elected, from what I understand, dedicated and educated communists are very rare among the membership).

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

        That's close to what I believe. The minority of CPC-Left is likely compromised of many of the Old Guard and an increasing number of younger idealistic Communists, so while they do have some degree of influence which has grown since Deng's tenure, they're still subservient to the party at large.

        Xi himself and his faction within the center that currently holds the reins are harder to pinpoint. They've made decent strides in preparing China for an actual transition to a socialist economy should they mean it (poverty alleviation, developmentalism, weathering the decline of the Imperial Core, the immense world economic leverage, disenfranchisement of the Bourgeoisie, etc) but whether or not it's sincere in the long run and not simply just a solidification of a new technocratic system won't really be clear for a while. I don't begrudge other comrades for being skeptical but I've been frequently asking myself how a Communist Party should act alternatively in an age of suffocating unipolar hegemony and been having a hard time coming up with something concrete.

        Regardless, conditions for international socialism to take root have looked brighter today than since the collapse of the USSR. The US, while still the entrenched world power, can no longer act with the same impunity that it did before China's ascension.

  • DashEightMate [any]
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    2 years ago

    Tfw xi meets creator of Microsoft instead of creator of Arch linux

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I mean he has called Kissinger an old friend too. China is just full of contradictions ever since the Sino-Soviet split.

  • solaranus
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    1 year ago

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