Found that pretty interesting. "Line go up" appears to be a universal calling card.

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    they also slapped down Jack Ma's IPO because he was trying to do an end run around monetary policy, and executed 14 billionaires in the last 8 years

    productive forces can go brrrrrrrr a little bit, as a treat

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      Yes, and the US (presumably) murdered Jeffrey Epstein, and they're set to prosecute Ghislaine Maxwell. If China is leading the way on billionaires, it stands to reason the US is at the forefront of the war on child sex trafficking. I love circular logic!

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        (presumably)

        yes what a good comparison, extrajudicial murder by presumable state actors is just the same as a judicial process leading to execution

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          Well, can't say I've ever witnessed an appeal to the US's dog and pony pageantry of a court system as a defense of China's, but here we are.

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        If you skip the part where Epstein was killed to stop him from squealing on all the other pedo billionaires, and the Chinese prosecutions were widely understood as a a pointed warning to private capital , then yes. Those two things are exactly alike.

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        Lol. These fools see a tiny amount of intra-bourgeoisie infighting in a country they've decided is the "good guy" and all of a sudden it's part of Xi's three dimensional chess gambit to make communism happen by 2080.

        The U.S. filed anti-trust suits against Facebook, U.S. actually existing socialism confirmed!

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          Have you also heard of Kenneth Lay and Bernie Madoff? I'm gobsmacked these rich elites were prosecuted! I guess the right-wing fascists must have it right that we're doing a Communism!

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            Kenneth Lay died of natural causes before sentencing and his conviction was overturned

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      and can massively exploit the population a little bit as a fake necessity.

      party leaders must also necessarily be rich as fuck.