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honestly was looking for a jordan peterson equivilant of "clean your room" and workout sort of rhetoric - but coming from communists

something along the lines of theory/ logical thinking that would state how required it was to work out and develop discipline - this was all rhetoric spurred after reading roderic day

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    • Barx [none/use name]
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      4 months ago

      Mao was an excellent swimmer.

      One of the reasons he invited Kruschev to hang out with him at the pool while he made fun of him.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Yeah, Mao did some propaganda thing at one point where he swam across a river to i guess show people he was still healthy, and apparently it was a big deal? I don't remember all the details.

        • Barx [none/use name]
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          4 months ago

          He swam across a bunch of rivers. His most famous swim was just going down the Yangtze when he was old and out of his official position of power. They reported an impossibly fast swim for that one, lol.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 months ago

      He was big when he was old, but dude kind of earned that after decades of slogging around China starving to death and being harried by Nationalist and Japanese armies. Like have you seen how many communists died on the long march? It's terrifying.