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Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

A Typical Goon posted:

what’s your guys favourite Chinese characteristic of socialism mines probably all the capitalism

the characteristic where I call brutal state ran capitalism "socialism" and western left-wingers who don't know poo poo about china perform amazing feats of mental gymnastics to support the billionaires in charge of the country

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
I'm the communist country with no universal healthcare or welfare system for people without jobs

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

gradenko_2000 posted:

Hey what the gently caress the PRC doesn't have universal healthcare? What's next, the Soviet Union didn't either?

trivia: in Communist countries you get some free flu shots and that qualifies as "universal healthcare" in propaganda

well, it's true if you think about it, we are giving everyone healthcare univesally

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



The USSR definitely had UHC

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
Typo sounds like a common wrecker imo

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Epic High Five posted:

The USSR definitely had UHC

yep

the post-wwii european economies went for uhc so that they wouldn't look bad amidst their eastern neighbors who just beat the nazis. otherwise the war would have made all of europe go communist via accelerationism

Hilario Baldness
Feb 10, 2005

:buddy:



Grimey Drawer
I remember in The Communist Manifesto where Marx endorsed universal healthcare and said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Hilario Baldness posted:

I remember in The Communist Manifesto where Marx endorsed universal healthcare and said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

Not many people know this about Marx, but he was a Kenyan Muslim

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/relevantorgans/status/923636616672960512

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

Top City Homo posted:

Huckabee and his rotund human being sons

and yet they're not the fattest, dumbest person in the state




:razorfront:

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004




I'm so Trumped up now that I expected this to be the real account

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981


do u guys think this is really him

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Karl Barks posted:

do u guys think this is really him
it is

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

That's funny, I was gonna post the same basic thing earlier.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Karl Barks posted:

do u guys think this is really him

https://twitter.com/damiendamien/status/923744332099698689

somebody did

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Hilario Baldness posted:

I remember in The Communist Manifesto where Marx endorsed universal healthcare and said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

You didn't build that means of production, the proletariat helped you

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

Epic High Five posted:

I'm so Trumped up now that I expected this to be the real account

same

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
I'd be willing to pretend China is communist if their leader called Trump "lil homie gay rear end"

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

R. Guyovich posted:

the colonialism of loans at below market rates

also wages at foxconn (a taiwanese company and a place where the suicide scandals happened almost 10 years ago) have tripled, along with wages for the rest of the country

but please, everyone, continue to pretend like you're following any news about china besides whatever garbage flits by your social media screens. it's not like the western media picks up stories when there's something negative to spin or cover, deliberately

taiwan #1
china #4

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
the guardian is training it’s sucking off skills

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/27/china-donald-trump-xi-jinping

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

with 1.8 bil chinese people on planet earth you’d think some of them would study chinese coins instead of leaving the task to two westerners as the only world specialists

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
:siren: new thread title!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_xh7xIabk

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

C. Everett Koop posted:

and yet they're not the fattest, dumbest person in the state




:razorfront:

who is this and how is that possible?

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


on the other hand, every news story their beijing bureau chief puts out seems to be seo optimized for yellow peril tropes

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Jeb! Repetition posted:

That's a genuinely uncool accusation to make.

god forbid i accuse the guy who lets racists run wild in d&d of being racist

Yinlock has issued a correction as of 10:45 on Oct 27, 2017

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
i'm no fan of joke explainer but that's a stupid take yinlock

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
home ex, I hope you enjoy your time in china, and continue to provide us your quality exotic posts, which will bankrupt the forums somehow or somwthing, i dunno

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
the press offensive has to be seen in light of Trump fumbling around in the world stage, so it's not hard to see Xi trying to take advantage of that

I think future historians are gonna look back on these time, right now, as the fall of the American Empire, because it makes for a real good story, but also because the damage from the Trump presidency has been more...subtle. Hard to notice, until it's gone. You can't maintain an aura of hegemony under an giant manbaby idiot. and once the crack forms, it takes on a life of its own.

And conversely, they're going to speak really highly of Xi

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

rudatron posted:

but also because the damage from the Trump presidency has been more...subtle.

it absolutely has not

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Yinlock posted:

it absolutely has not

The damage is deeper than the poo poo smeared on the skin.

Laphroaig
Feb 6, 2004

Drinking Smoke
Dinosaur Gum

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

with 1.8 bil chinese people on planet earth you’d think some of them would study chinese coins instead of leaving the task to two westerners as the only world specialists

too busy being communist and earning billions of dollars to spend on a lovely Ru ware brush washing bowl

lol

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

rudatron posted:

the press offensive has to be seen in light of Trump fumbling around in the world stage, so it's not hard to see Xi trying to take advantage of that

I think future historians are gonna look back on these time, right now, as the fall of the American Empire, because it makes for a real good story, but also because the damage from the Trump presidency has been more...subtle. Hard to notice, until it's gone. You can't maintain an aura of hegemony under an giant manbaby idiot. and once the crack forms, it takes on a life of its own.

And conversely, they're going to speak really highly of Xi
fast forward ten years later
xi dies of lung disease, china falls apart because he axed the succession mechanism

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m91zBt94Ll0

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
my favorite chinese characteristic of socialism is where cuckburg kow-tows in front of the chinese communist party hoping his lovely social media website gets legalized there even though chinese people have already moved on

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

fast forward ten years later
xi dies of lung disease, china falls apart because he axed the succession mechanism

I don't think that's gonna happen but that's certainly within the realm of possibility

more likely xi pulls a jiang zemin, resigns presidency/general secretaryship but retains chairman of the central military commission and rules from behind the scenes

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We

Typo posted:

I don't think that's gonna happen but that's certainly within the realm of possibility

more likely xi pulls a jiang zemin, resigns presidency/general secretaryship but retains chairman of the central military commission and rules from behind the scenes

of course it’s not going to happen in ten years but eventually everybody dies and if xi continues to consolidate power under him officially and informally eventually china and the rest of the world as well will have to endure major rear end

an established and working succession mechanism was one of the only good things about the chinese communist party

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

R. Guyovich posted:

on the other hand, every news story their beijing bureau chief puts out seems to be seo optimized for yellow peril tropes

wow the guy who thinks ‘russophobia’ is a real thing interprets any criticism of the government of China as racism, who would have thought

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
russophobia is very real if you decide to accept the epistemological universe proposed by russian nationalists as the whole truth about the world

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
i prefer to play as morgan most of the time

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Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes
yang is almost always the most powerful a.i

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